Category: Arts
Friday Poem: You Must Never Ignore Self
It may be in the sky, in sand, in dream you’ll find your Self.For some,…
‘The Chilean Forest’ by Pablo Neruda
Under the volcanoes, beside the snow-capped mountains, among the huge lakes, the fragrant, the silent,…
Jim Harrison: Why I Write
I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the…
Thursday Poem: When the Sun Settles
I only write at nightThe dark seems to illuminateThoughts not given the time of day…
Wednesday Poem: Ghazal For Brevity
A mantra sets in with just one word.A dream can end with just one word….
Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River…
How ‘Classical’ Music Was Revolutionary
by Joel Sandelson at Aeon: We habitually associate literary realism with things like down-to-earth subject…
Monday Poem: “The Not Knowing Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-Lopez
7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in Border Patrol custody is identified… Each day I open…
Writing is a Monologue With the Self; There is Nothing Between the Person and the Page.
by Rafia Zakaria at Dawn: ONE of the best gifts an artist — in this…
Sunday Poem: We Have Said So Many Goodbyes
by Annika Ziff Glueck (age 12): for my grandmother lost to Alzheimer’s Today we remember…
Saturday Poem: Dear Future Self
If I should ever forget you,this is my love note to you You were lovedYou…