Six Reasons Why Artists Should Avoid Politics
The artist has access to a certain truth, a truth that is less about morality than it is about . . . what, exactly? … Continue readingSix Reasons Why Artists Should Avoid Politics
‘Life with Picasso’ & ‘La Collectionneuse’
Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico at Commonweal: We’re publishing these exchanges just about every two weeks—a compressed timeline that somehow seems like an eternity amid this summer’s news cycles. Thankfully,
Tuesday Poem: A Life Spent Reading
There is no shortage of good days.It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the sensesis not enough. The life of
Monday Poetic Expression: A Night Alone in the Wilderness
By Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: I march on. The soil is soft and sandy beneath my feet. I walk along beneath the ancient oaks that stand with dignity as
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Sunday Poem: War and Peace
“These are “poems” I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme…” … Continue readingSunday Poem: War and Peace
Saturday Poem: Some Day
Some day I will tell you I love yousome day you will tell me, do you?Some day my gaze will invade youwith flock of arrows like migrantredbreasted sapsuckers do thecherry
What a Courtroom Sketch Artist Sees
Tina Jordan at The New York Times Book Review: The sketch above appears in a recent book I find particularly fascinating: Jane Rosenberg’s DRAWN TESTIMONY: My Four Decades as a
A Passage From “The Killers”
“The Killers” is a short story by Charles Bukowski in his 1973 collection, South of No North. Bukowski, greatly influenced by Hemingway… … Continue readingA Passage From “The Killers”
Friday Poem: Adolescence
I sit to see shadows play with dolls of darkness that is light. I sit to think past has passed childhood has lost its ribbon. … Continue readingFriday Poem: Adolescence
Thursday Poem: In the House of God
“Karan Kapoor introduced me to the form of the ghazal …I immediately took to the form and started practicing it.” … Continue readingThursday Poem: In the House of God
Finding Beauty in Biological Spaces
Shelby Bradford in The Scientist: Beata Mierzwa studies cell division as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego. In 2013, she founded Beata Science Art, a science art brand where
Wednesday Poem: Independence
My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity. Ye princes, keep your realms And circumscribèd power,Not wide as are my dreams, Nor rich as is