Category: Arts
‘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…
Friday Poem: ‘Grasshopper’ – by Irshad Salim
when lilies in pond diesnakes move inwhen snakes swirl outrats move inthe house withrodents micesants…