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APRIL, FAMOUSLY THE cruelest month, at least according to poet T.S. Eliot and those writing big checks to the IRS today, is also the most poetical. Today marks the midpoint of National Poetry Month, and here on TSP, we loves us some poems. Distract yourself from taxation–we’ve got sisterly sonnets (and free verse, and haiku, and sestinas…) [click to continue…]
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DO YOU KNOW that today is Poem in Your Pocket Day? Celebrate verse and its authors today by carrying and sharing a poem you especially treasure. Our Sister Paige has some sisterly poems to suggest.
SISTER PAIGE DISCOVERED THIS POEM by Lucille Clifton, on a recent afternoon spent soaking in literature procrastinating at the incredible Academy of American Poets website, poetry.org. It’s a poem that makes Paige want to cry, laugh and sing. Read it now and join in her emotion.
WE’VE TRAVERSED A LONG list of subjects and stories on how to live with a sister (and as a sister), but one of the most poignant topics that keeps emerging from the narrative of TSP is how do live when a sister is lost. A reader and member of our growing TSP family, Gabi Coatsworth, shared a poem with us in a comment, a poem about struggling to reconcile the death of her sister. We’d like to share it with you: [click to continue…]
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IN THE GALLERIES: Chick art by Sloane Tanen.
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
