An Artist’s Fascination With the Mystery of the Human Form

I’ve spent my whole life looking at other people’s bodies,” says the painter Emil Sands. “I’m trying to work out why they’re ...
Rome Sentinel

ROUNDING THIRD: Don't let the snow bury the positives about living in New York

Sometimes in the depth of a winter such as the one we’re having, we tend to forget what a beautiful area surrounds us. I know we put up with a ...

London’s Poems on the Underground celebrates 40 years of bringing verses to commuters

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world.
The New Yorker

“The Sunset Branch”

the films that played the long-gone Surf, far out the Avenues, farther out the Sunset than my library. In row eight, next to me, Mifune sulks and grunts. Outside, the fog straps street lamps and the ...
The Santa Barbara Independent

Poetry Connection: Connecting with Poetry, Art, and Neighbors in Need of a Repair

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of ...