Category Archives: Art

Morning Open Thread – Verbatim: Follow the Chicken

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day, hobby and fun things, what you did on your vacation, and your local weather phenomena. From The New York Times: In this dramatization of transcripts … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DELIGHT

Posted on April 22, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare! Tradition says Shakespeare was born April 23. While Shakespeare (1564-1616) is best remembered  for his plays, his sonnets are what first brought him fame. There’s been much speculation about just who inspired them. Most … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Officer Clemmons and Mister Rogers

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day, hobby and fun things, what you did on your vacation, and your local weather phenomena. There will be several hosts, each host being responsible for … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Rescuing historical photos from WWII

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Today is the first day of a new feature series on Flowers for Socrates. Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day, hobby and fun things, what you did on your vacation, and … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: UNORDINARY

Posted on April 15, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud The rarest, most daunting kind of poetry to write well is obvious yet original, and funny but profound, all at the same time. Typically, young poets start out writing poetry steeped in angst and tortured imagery, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: INCURSION

Posted on April 8, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud In an interview in the Kenyon Review in 2103,  the poet Solmaz Sharif  was asked: What have you learned about the writing process in the last five years? “…I’m surprised to find that in addition to … Continue reading →

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Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

        By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: OUT-OF-FASHION

Posted on April 1, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud Popular interest is a fickle thing. This year’s critically acclaimed, best-selling novel may be completely forgotten five years from now, and then re-discovered a couple of decades after that when Hollywood finally makes a movie out  … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: BREATH

Posted on March 25, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud The element most essential to human life is air. If we can’t breathe, we die. Life outside the womb begins with a first inhale of air, and ends with a last exhale. We must have air … Continue reading →

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World Poetry Day: Celebration

Posted on March 21, 2016 by wordcloud9

In honor of World Poetry Day, this poem from Denise Levertov (1923-1997): Celebration … Brilliant, this day – a young virtuoso of a day. Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors, deft hands. And every prodigy of green – whether it’s ferns … Continue reading →

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