Category: Arts
Tuesday Poem: Going to Africa
“I am not the prodigal son,” I saidto my mother who had cometo take me…
Lament for the Declining Art of Editing
Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: Journalists have a name for an article written…
Daniel Dennett, a Deep Thinker About What it is to Be Human. R.I.P.
The world has sadly just lost one of its most provocative and inspirational thinkers and…
Monday Poem: Terra Incognita by D.H. Lawrence
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed ofvast ranges of experience, like the humming…
Black and White Photography Isn’t Old School For Same Old Stories
B&W photography goes back to the fundamentals of what photography has always been. Take color…
Lord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord…
Sunday Poem: Some Things Last
by Ahmad Almallah These windows, these panes, at the beginning of lightlooking where they look,…
A Poem has Secrets that the Poet Knows Nothing Of
at Poetic Outlaws: Stanley Kunitz received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize…
Saturday Poem: Desperate Measures
there are so many ways to fallso many ways to crack down the middle andvanishso…
Guide to Reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
At Daily Stoic: So many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…and…
Friday Poem: Reflections by Javed Ansari
Droplets of meditation brim forth,the cauldron boils perpetually —through the tedium of life.The etched screen…
An Essay: Nero’s Violin
By Judson Vereen at Poetic Outlaws: It was sometime in the evening and I was…