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The Gossips

She never!            She did! Well blow me            A right carry-on What a palaver  …

5 years ago

The Art of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Two Sundays, two documentaries and two very satisfactory movie experiences. The first was Maiden at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY.…

5 years ago

Night Fog

Some left over words from another post and borrowed words not exactly put to music. Boundaries blur. The streetlamp a…

5 years ago

New York City Through the Window: Art

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights…

5 years ago

For When It Snows Part Two

Rain is no respecter of persons the snow doesn't give a soft white damn Whom it touches -e.e. cummings, Viva,…

6 years ago

Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston Together

I mostly associate the artist Saul Steinberg with the work he did for The New Yorker and the last time…

6 years ago

Lament in December

Lament In December December’s come and all is dead; Weep, woods, for summer far has sped And leaves rot in…

6 years ago

An Invitation

What use is poetry? .... We have poetry  So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…

6 years ago

The United States Welcomes You

We're happier when we chat to strangers, but our instinct is to ignore them https://t.co/ExmL3GSCWw via @researchdigest — Tina Seelig…

6 years ago

The Need to Make

Not bird not badger not beaver not bee Many creatures must make, but only one must seek within itself what…

6 years ago

Artistic Pretensions

When I was ten or eleven my primary school class was taken on a trip to Blenheim Palace. Big excitement…

6 years ago

Valentine for Ernest Mann

Valentine for Ernest Mann You can’t order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say,…

7 years ago

The Road Ahead

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. Before the advent of motorways in the UK (first section of…

7 years ago

Women Artists of WW1: Mary Riter Hamilton

This post was updated on March 9th 2019 with the addition of a postscript: A film about Hamilton's life and…

7 years ago

Women Artists of WW1: Norah Neilson Gray

When Norah Neilson Gray (1882 -1931) taught at St. Columba's School for Girls in Kilmacolm her students called her "Purple…

7 years ago