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An American Sonnet: "I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook

In The Department of Poetic Justice i(with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

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A Sonnet Sequence for Edna St Vincent Millay

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook

On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

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The Falcon Teaches World Democracies about Intervening in Ukraine: An American Sonnet

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook

The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

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Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook

On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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Three Poems for Hard Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook

"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

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Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

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On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

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Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

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The Mass Shooting Sequence: In Memoriam

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

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70 Years of Godzilla, the World’s Favorite Monster

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

In the pantheon of cinematic monsters, Godzilla reigns supreme as the world’s favorite, a title earned through a rich tapestry of symbolism, cultur...

Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

David Brooks on Why America Needs to Love Thy Neighbor

From: Mateo Schimpf

Meet me in the middle

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To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook

Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

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How Einstein Understood E=mc Squared

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

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A Sonnet for the Quantum Mechanics of Poetry

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "...to a wider grasp...", Credit: Susan J Cook

Poetry best helps us grasp the Quantum Mechanics topic of the latest Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Einstein's Sonnet: Love Is Relativity

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing:American Sonnets on Bookshop.org + at Gulf Maine Books, Credit: Susan Cook

On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...

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Three Poems for These Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook

Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

Sonnet for Looking for China

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook

From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem on the intricacies of grieving.

An American Sonnet for The Woman Who Is a Journalist

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: From a buddhist center "...the cellular call, compassion..., Credit: Susan Cook

During National Poetry Month, an American Sonnet to bring us to know better the women journalists of Ukraine.

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TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Ed King & Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd [1 of 2]

From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me

On this episode, it's the first of a two-part edition from our occasional series TALK MUSIC WITH ME. We dig back a few decades into our files to un...

Deval Patrick Talks Governing: These Not So United States (MA Part One)

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick talks about polarization in the U.S. and his improbable American journey.

Revisiting GOP Party Dynamics: The Decline of Moderates & Rise of Populism

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment

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