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10 Dec Poets’ Corner: Feela on Mandela
Freedom fighter, prisoner, moral compass, South Africa’s symbol of the struggle against racial oppression, an icon of equality and in the words of our President “the last great liberator of the 20th century.” Nelson Mandela died last Thursday, December 5. Joyous South African and dozens of...
27 Nov Poets’ Corner: Feela on Turkeys & Happy Thanksgiving All
“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” Erma Bombeck In a letter to his daughter, Ben Franklin proposed the turkey for the...
01 Sep Poets’ Corner: Feela Marks the End of Summer
Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. The man is, as you will see, quirky and funny. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore. The...
03 Jul Poet’s Corner: Feela for the Fourth
Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. The man is, as you will see, quirky and funny. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available...
15 Jun Poets’ Corner: Feela for Father’s Day
Perusing the Internet for what to say about Father’s Day, I came upon some interesting though relatively obscure facts about the holiday. During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’...
11 May POETS’ CORNER: 2 FROM FEELA FOR MOTHER’S DAY
Editor’s note: My Internet research came up with the history of Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana...
30 Dec POETS’ CORNER: FEELA PREVIEWS THE NEW YEAR
Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is, like Wordwoman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. And like Rosemerry, is brilliant and very very quirky. Witness his riff on 2013, a tip of the hat to Voltaire and a...
21 Nov POETS’ CORNER: FEELA FOR THANKSGIVING
Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is, like Wordwoman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. And like Rosemerry, is brilliant and very very quirky. Witness his contribution for Thanksgiving, not a Feela original – though David certainly is....