Pretzels & Bullfights ~ Langston Hughes

March 11, 2013

When I first read the poetry of Langston Hughes, I felt the rhythm of life as he knew it. It …

Pretzels & Bullfights ~ W. H. Auden

February 11, 2013

Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England in 1907, moved to the United States during his childhood and was …

January 14, 2013

“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.” …

December 17, 2012

“He mixed the vastness of cosmos and creation with the rootedness of self and place and then put it into …

November 19, 2012

Welcome to Pretzels & Bullfights. I’m Beth Winter and today I am featuring American poet Alan Dugan. Mr. Dugan’s first …