Tag: Art
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Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Poetry, Prose and Mental Health
Why, in this day and age do mental health issues still carry a stigma? We know so much more now about the physiological workings of the brain and the environmental causes of stress that I find it astounding how uncomfortable people can be talking about it. We talk readily about our aches and pains, our…
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Creative Genius and a Few Words from William Stafford
So let’s get back to that topic from a few days ago about where creative genius comes from. I was conflicted a bit by the message in Elizabeth Gilbert’s presentation. I like the idea of the artist going outside of himself a bit, getting away from all of the arrogance and self-absorption to find what…
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Going Outside of Ourselves for Genius; Who is the Muse?
“I’m listening to my muse;” or after being complimented for a stroke of genius in her work, a poet has sometimes been known to say something like this, “It just came to me from somewhere; the poem almost wrote itself.” Are these ideas contradictory to the spirit of this modern age of enlightenment we find ourselves…
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Poetry Under the Paintings with Annn Keeler Evans
I’ve told you about the little gathering of local poets and poetry enthusiasts that have been meeting on first Thursdays since May. We call it Poetry Under the Paintings, and it’s held at Faustina’s Gallery in Lewisburg. The first one you can read about here, and the June edition, here. The July gathering was every…
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Upcoming Readings and Cedar Waxwings
This is one of those hodge podge posts with odds and ends and ends and odds. It’s a rare day that the restaurant is closed and I get to have the day to myself. Happy fourth to those who celebrate it. I am not sure we understand that much about the holiday anymore here in…
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London Got Bombed at Dusk–by Poetry
See on Scoop.it – Poetry On the Sidewalk London was bombed last night, by helicopter, right along the south bank of the Thames. Nobody was hurt, thank heaven, or thank the muses, because it was not explosives, but poems that rained down on the city. Read the whole story in the attached article from the…
