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June 16 June 16 is Bloomsday (also Blooms Day) in Dublin, but it’s not a spring or solstice festival and it has nothing to do with Irish wildflowers. Irish wildflowers © Jenny Seawright No, Bloomsday honours Leopold Bloom, who spent a day traipsing through the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904—in James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses. Each year on Bloomsday, Joyce lovers retrace the steps of the fictional characters Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Many old landmarks remain, …Read more 
February 8
When all the nations stand before the judgment seat and are asked to explain how they used their basic talents…the small Slovenian nation will dare without fear to present a thin book with title Prešeren’s Poems alongside the others. – Josip Stritar Don’t mess with the Slovenes when it comes to their national poet, France Prešeren. He gets, not one, but two days in his honor on the …Read more 
February 6 “I don’t have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black…Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.” – Bob Marley
There’s a scene in L’auberge espagnole where the main character witnesses a guitar-playing American woo a European girl with his very …Read more 
February 6
How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look? Some say it’s just a part of it: Read more 
December 30 Polyglot: 1. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages. 2. A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the the same text in different languages. 3. A mixture or confusion of languages.
Today the people of the Philippines mourn the death and celebrate the life of their national hero Jose Rizal. “I die without seeing the sun rise on my country. You who are to see the …Read more 
December 17 Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.” December 17 is …Read more 
October 27 …I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. After all I am alive only by accident. I would have killed myself gladly that time any possible way… from A Birthday Present, Sylvia Plath, 1962 There’s nothing like the poetry of Sylvia Plath to brighten up a birthday celebration. Today, October 27, is Sylvia Plath Day in Northampton, Massachusetts, where Plath attended Smith College. She was born on this …Read more 
July 10 7/11 might be a more appropriate day to extol the virtues of poetry, but as it is, we’ll celebrate on 7/10, the birthday of poet, journalist, and author Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who created the most venerated form of poetry in all the English language: the Clerihew. Edmund Clerihew Bentley The Clerihew is a four-line verse where the end of the first line, or more often the full first line, is the subject’s name. Clerihews have …Read more |
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