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Today’s Hempsonian Feature: “Telephone” By Caryl Pagel
A new poem by Caryl Pagel in the latest issue [..]
My High School Music Director Turns 80
BOB BURTON TURNS EIGHTY An Acrostic Poem for my High School Choir Director Believe it or not [..]
Today’s Hempsonian Feature: Modern Love
Arresting and lovely piece by my friend and colleague Lisa Schlesinger.
Today’s Hempsonian Feature: Two Paragraphs
“Practice” a lovely flash-nonfiction essay by novelist, playwright, and director Sands Hall.
Midnight Sun: Thoughts on Unending Light
LOFOTEN ISLANDS Last night Ole and I rented a little red fisherman’s hut –a “Rorbu”— for the night. Food and lodging is wildly expensive in Norway, but if [..]
Scrolls: Vikings or Peace Brokers? by Christine Hemp
If I hold up a toothbrush next to a pencil, a fire hydrant to a tennis shoe – or a Viking ship to a musical instrument, I [..]
Native Tongue: Thoughts on Language
NATIVE TONGUE Language is a “way to see,” my husband Ole says. He speaks two languages well and a couple passably. He slips into a new skin, though, [..]
Thoughts recorded on a Hike in Stavern, Norway June 4th, 2012
When we travel we always seem to think about what others have seen or said about a place. The picture postcards of the past or the blogs of [..]
In the Poet’s House
Click image to hear what the Wright Brothers are dreaming about…