Category: Arts
Wednesday Poem: Unveiling the Facade
Beneath the layers, a mask I wore,Hiding truths I couldn’t ignore.In public’s eye, I played…
A Mystery in the Shape of a Book
Philip Graham in The Millions: On a gravel road outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, I stood…
Monday Poem: Sophie Reece Poetry
Life is a string of wishes,that reality misses,Love is a bruiseTime only heals parts of…
What Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Can Teach Us About Creativity
by Tracy Caldor in Cupoty Newsletter: Back in the 1980s I borrowed a Fighting Fantasy…
Friday Poem: I Don’t Like Poetry
I don’t like similes.Every time I try to think of onemy brain feels like a…
Tuesday Poem: Enriching the Earth
To enrich the earth I have sowed clover and grassto grow and die. I have…
The Great French Painter Who Had No Time For France
Describing himself as the ‘savage from Peru’, Paul Gauguin avoided French society when he could, returning to Polynesia in 1895, where he spent his final years…
Monday Poem: Premise of Wise Fools
Sudden commotion inside premise of wise foolssilent gestures, whispering voices, hands raiseda la desperation gathering…
Sunday Poem: A Poetry By Pablo Neruda
And it was at that age… Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don’t know, I…
Saturday Poem: Money Ghazal
Easy new habits—gain weight, lose money.Mamma said, Don’t wed for love. Choose money. Life is…
Wednesday Poems: 3 By the Great Italian Poet, Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale, born in 1896 in Genoa, Italy, emerged as one of the 20th century’s foremost Italian poets, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.