Author’s note: The dates next to each definition are the Oxford English Dictionary’s first known recording of that particular definition’s use (in English). The purpose of this is to showcase…
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MARRIAGE SEASON Wind came on the tails of eighty degree days, when clouds broke open and a thick snow fell. I realized, then, these hills are called black for a…
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Author’s note: The date and definition of each word is only the Oxford English Dictionary’s first known recording of the word’s use (in English). The purpose of this is to…
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Birdwolf is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online epic poem written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different…
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, we asked Entropy writers to share with us one of the first poems they ever read that got them excited…
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Author’s note: The date and definition of each word is only the Oxford English Dictionary’s first known recording of the word’s use (in English). The purpose of this is to…
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Each and every December, as Christmas music glazes over the airwaves and decorated pine trees pop up in the windows of stores and homes, my desire to shop transforms from…
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While it was not my intention to solely focus on European and North American holiday traditions, the Oxford English Dictionary includes very few entries (or few entries with more than…
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first celebration of Thanksgiving “was held by the Plymouth colony in 1621, in thankfulness for their first harvest in America after a year of…
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When Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands sauntered into my life, day-dreamy and ghost-like, I had been listening to Dylan for nearly a year and, of course, considered myself something…
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In an effort to explore the relationship between English’s development and our present use of it, I’ve compiled a list of October-themed etymologies. Each of the words I researched was…
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Re-thinking the Marriage Plot Course Objective: Marriage plots are rarely associated with anything beyond supposedly frivolous, Jane Austen-esque “romances”, however our society’s fixation on matrimony continues to permeate art,…
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In, My Poets, Maureen McClane writes (in the beginning of a lovely essay on Bishop and Stein) that, “Depression is much worse in the summer, the sun gloats.” A few…