The Hazel Wood Review

This book does something we do as we read all on our own. It's grants a wish of sorts, a wish anyone in love with their favorite book has surely made. I would like to believe that everyone understands that feeling of building a relationship with the characters in the book you are reading. This …

Writers Block

You need to write. You want to write. You sit down to write, and nothing happens. You know its time, either because you have a deadline or a muse whispering in your ear, telling you that there is an urge to purge words, but nothing comes out. So what do you do? What if you …

Tablets VS. Real Books

I had always been an advocate for real books, and as much as that sounds as though I no longer am, that's not entirely so. I love physically holding a book, seeing it exist, waiting to be read. Books are worth having if only as to keep all of those bookmarks warm and cuddly, but …

Shakespeare Discussion

This last week, we covered Poetry in my English 102 course. I think that my favorite aspect of our reading was being able to compare William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, to the Modified Sonnet by Howard Moss, Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day? I didn't think comparing these two poems, and their opposition would …

Prose about Poetry

I sat down, early enough in the night, after my two small boys had been put to sleep for the evening, and set out in search of words. I was in search of any words that might grip me for use in a poem at a later date. Initially intending to account for the ones …