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…