Category: Arts
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200
Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent…
Monday Poem: Ghazal For Grandmother
My grandmother kept a suitcase, hard & roundedlike a deep pink shell. I used to…
Breaking Free from the Cultural Neurosis
By Dr. Alexander Lowen at Poetic Outlaws: We want to be more alive and feel…
Murder in Hollywood
In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who alleged that Cary Grant fathered her…
Sunday Poem: Great Expectations
If I give you lovewhat will I get in return?will it be acknowledged?or will it…
Saturday Poem: To Make Living Itself the Highest Art
Rising out the world, you and I,a finite flame among the infinite darknessof two nebulous…
Friday Poem: At a Party On Ellis Island Watching Fireworks
The man next to me sings God Bless America even thoughhe knows the Statue of…
Thursday Poem: “This Too Shall Pass” by Rohan Buettel
The flame that burns so bright, this too shall passHowever strong the light, this too…
Wednesday Poem: To an Unread Poet
I used to read your poemsbut lately you don’t writeyou’re silent and aloofyou know that…
Tuesday Poem: An Argument Against Cynicism
What surprises me more than a newmillipede species was discovered this weekin Los Angeles County…
On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s “Einstein’s Dreams”
Alizah Holstein at Literary Hub: I first read Einstein’s Dreams in 1993, very shortly after it was…
Culture, Digested: The PhD in Creativity
Jessa Crispin in The Culture We Deserve: One of the more interesting asides in the extensive…