Category: Arts
‘Life with Picasso’ & ‘La Collectionneuse’
Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico at Commonweal: We’re publishing these exchanges just about every two…
Tuesday Poem: A Life Spent Reading
There is no shortage of good days.It is good lives that are hard to come…
Monday Poetic Expression: A Night Alone in the Wilderness
By Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: I march on. The soil is soft and sandy…
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…”
What a Courtroom Sketch Artist Sees
Tina Jordan at The New York Times Book Review: The sketch above appears in 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…
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.
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.”
Finding Beauty in Biological Spaces
Shelby Bradford in The Scientist: Beata Mierzwa studies cell division as a postdoctoral researcher at the University…
Wednesday Poem: Independence
My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity. Ye princes, keep…
Tuesday Poem: The Sum of Life
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes to keep one from going nude. Nothing to breathe but air…