A Reader's Advisory, readalike and new book blog. From Long Island with a Brentwood slant.
Opportunity Alert: Seeking women writers under 30 in the NYC region. Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive a modest honorarium and give a reading in New York City. The award was established in 1995 by Paula Trachtman and Edward Butscher of East Hampton, New York, in memory of Ms. Trachtman’s daughter, Amy Rothholz, an actor and poet.
Song in a Minor Key by Dorothy Parker
There’s a place I know where the birds swing low,And wayward vines go roaming,Where the lilacs nod, and a marble godIs pale, in scented gloaming.And at sunset there comes a lady fairWhose eyes are deep with yearning.By an old, old gate…
Pick up the Portable Dorothy Parker @ Brentwood Library. Click here to view the link.
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
-Lord Byron <3
Day Job of Poets.
As we approach the final days of National Poetry Month, remain optimistic (or SMH at the fact that these wonderful, timeless poets had day jobs to begin with) with the Day Jobs of the Poets.
Today’s Call number of the day is: 811
SLJ’s Shelley Diaz came by my desk with a surprise!
