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May 31, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable…”

  Happy 200th birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing. “This is what you shall do: Love…

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May 31, 2019July 22, 2019 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Seven Poems, by Gary Sloboda

  Memory Is Pagan the body makes us spiritual, living in its wreckage lets us breathe as the veil falls…

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May 30, 2019 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You have to invent life.”

Happy birthday, Agnès Varda! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “I was free always.” “Memory is like sand in…

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May 30, 2019July 22, 2019 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by Jefferson Hansen

  Leveraged a Meadow for Cece You unfolded from forms of careful guesses placed in a time where discussion lacked…

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May 29, 2019April 17, 2020 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Terese Svoboda

  Ark-Shaped Plus Neck She walks the shore, kempt and clipped, just-so wings, a lion’s glance across the blue savannah,…

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May 28, 2019July 24, 2021 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Elaine Equi

I Don’t Wish to Be a Vampire With centuries of memory stored in a youthful body. It is – or…

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May 27, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gray’s Anatomy

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

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May 27, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“In art as in lovemaking heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”

  Happy birthday, John Barth! 89, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

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May 26, 2019 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”

  Happy birthday, Miles Davis! Here are some quotes from the musician. “I’ll play it and tell you what it…

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May 25, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Neither dogmatize yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism.”

  Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”…

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