League of Inveterate Poets

Mark Traphagen | November 30, 2009

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes. Barabara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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Mark Traphagen | November 6, 2009

Thought it was a good time for something a little lighter here… Although my wonder years were all over the Midwest, I’ve always called New Jersey (or just “Jersey” to us natives) as my home state. It’s the place where I went through my adolesence and met my sweet wife. In a fit of sudden [...]

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Mark Traphagen | November 4, 2009

The web has book review blogs by the score, but every so often one comes along that promises to be something special and different. Welcome The Discarded Image. From the “About” page: “This blog is an exploration of my changing model and those images which I have discarded, for good or bad (that will be [...]

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Mark Traphagen | November 3, 2009

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better. – J. K. Rowling (http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html – quoted in Harry Potter and Imagination: The Way Between Worlds by Travis Prinzi, p. iv.)

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Mark Traphagen | November 2, 2009

Exultation is the going Of an island soul to sea, Past the houses– Past the headlands–into deep Eternity– Bred as we, among the mountains, Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land? – Emily Dickinson

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