Category: Arts

Music Just Changed Forever

James O’Malley at Persuasion: Imagine if after Oppenheimer successfully detonated the first atomic bomb, the…

Sunday Poem: A Litany For Survival

For those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial…

‘In Two Minds’: Callie Siskel Reflects on the Ghost of Her Famous Father

By J. Howard Rosier at Poetry Foundation: The legacy of the deceased may truncate one’s…

The Life and Death of Hollywood

Daniel Bessner at Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena…

Saturday Poem: To an Unread Poet

I used to read your poemsbut lately you don’t writeyou’re silent and aloofyou know that…

“Silence for Gaza” by Mahmoud Darwish

Khaled Beydoun at Pen > Sword: These are the words of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian…

Friday Poem: I under stand!

Legs locked,shoulders set,eyes ahead straight,  mouth firmly wavering,range bound, betweena back n’ forth,from grimaceto smile resolute,…

A Deep Dive Into New York’s Subways With Ed Hotchkiss

Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: Ed Hotchkiss was born in Denver in 1956 and remained thereabouts…

Thursday Poem: Do You Know Why Men Cry in the Bathroom?

Why Men Cry in the Bathroom For so many reasons.I will tell you the why.I…

Cartoons Today: June 12, 2024

Expectation vs reality; Rule of law; Glass half empty; Fauci; Gaza; Refresh, and More…

Wednesday Poem: “Give-and-Take Ghazal”

I would like to give more than I takein this world of takers. I forgive…

Tolstoy’s Grave

By Stefan Zweig at Poetic Outlaws: For I saw nothing more magnificent, nothing more moving…