Category: Arts
The War on Genius: Literature and Its Systems
What is a novel, or any work of art, but the product of its time, of commerce? What is it but another colorful consumer unit…
Tuesday Poem: Sparrow’s Flight
A breeze slowed sparrow’s flightday was saying goodbye. sparrow took refuge…night knelt behind the yews….
Monday Poem: Please
Please be kindHave patience with othersThey may not be like you Please listenTake time to…
Sunday Poem: Six Steps to Becoming a Fossil
by Maddie Malone (age 14): through steam rising in the kitchen. Thank you. I mutter, swimming into a cloud of dew.
Till Death Do Us Part
by Mark Seal at Air Mail: It is a case that shocked the seemingly unshockable…
Saturday Poem: The End of Childhood is Not Maturity
“Here; just stick the end of this hose in yer muzzle—guzzlethe cold ones we’ll pour…
Two Gravity-Defying Performances Play With the Physics of Life on Earth
From Psyche Magazine: The French performance artist Bastien Dausse built the ‘contemporary circus company’ Compagnie…
Friday Poem: Pythagoras and Me
I could be up all nightwithout a single line to write;………………………I might be ass-in-chair till…
Wednesday Poem: Cut Into Two
Cut into twolike a cake andblown away so swiftlyas candles blown. my thoughts though weptwater…
Tuesday Poem: Still I Rise
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in…
Edward Abbey: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Who was Edward Abbey? Edward Abbey was a firebrand of a writer, a renegade desert rat with an anarchist’s heart, a part-time
Aftab Rizvi’s Recital of ‘Baap Aur Beta’ by Poet Panchhi
Aftab Rizvi, Toronto-based motivational speaker, writer and satirist reads poet Vineet Panchhi’s poem Baap aur…