Posts by: Miroslav Ladan
You will not write about the beekeeper, but if you do you will study bees obsessively, you will learn all the rules of the trade. You will know that Apis mellifera is the scientific name of the honey bee typically found in America. You will learn how the queen gets fertilized, how bees [...]
The first time I heard Aase’s Death by Eduard Grieg, I had just moved back to my father’s house and the war was starting. Ned called and said his friend Tomas wanted to sell his old record player. The price was good if I was interested. Ned knew about music players. He gave [...]
James Joyce said that every story must have an “epiphany”. In the dictionary, epiphany is defined as ‘a manifestation of a divine or supernatural being’, or a ‘moment of sudden revelation.’ The reader’s world is changed through this revelation, and the change is permanent.
What’s true for stories is also true for poetry.
It is not [...]
My son has grown
And is now asking questions
About Bosnia
He wants to know who he is
And what the country he was born in
Was really like
During the time of war
Above all
He wants to know why
Serbs, Croats, and Muslims
Started [...]
You know the day is coming
When you will have to go to these events
Because your son is a high school junior
And he is talking about college more frequently
Than in the past
So you go one evening
To a MEFA presentation
You are given a brochure [...]
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