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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On Weather: Drought
by Meriwether Clarke September 18, 2016MARRIAGE 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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The Etymology of Summer
by Meriwether Clarke July 27, 2016Author’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 XVI
by Meriwether Clarke April 19, 2016Birdwolf 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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National Poetry Month: Meriwether Clarke
by Meriwether Clarke April 7, 2016In 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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The Etymology of Love
by Meriwether Clarke February 12, 2016Author’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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Mall Confessions
by Meriwether Clarke December 22, 2015Each 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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Edible Etymologies: Holiday Edition
by Meriwether Clarke December 15, 2015While 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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Edible Etymologies: Thanksgiving Edition
by Meriwether Clarke November 25, 2015According 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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Variations on a Theme: Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
by Meriwether Clarke November 16, 2015When 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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October Etymologies
by Meriwether Clarke October 20, 2015In 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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Mini-Syllabus: Marriage Plots
by Meriwether Clarke September 29, 2015Re-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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On Heatwaves
by Meriwether Clarke September 17, 2015In, 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…