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October 30, 2019February 25, 2020 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Selections from Mental Aviary

By Ewa Chrusciel     Long-wattled umbrella bird — Grandiosity Your wattle darkened the whole room. How grand it was;…

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

“The blood jet is poetry, / There is no stopping it.”

  Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath!   “[L]et me live, love, and say it well in good sentences…”   “[E]verything in…

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October 21, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

  Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer.   “To learn which questions are…

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October 18, 2019January 21, 2020 - Archives, Interview, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

The Poetics of Readiness: An Interview with Benjamin Aleshire

By Rodrigo Toscano   Rodrigo Toscano: Something I find fascinating about your practice of street poetics is its implicit reception…

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October 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.”

  Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the writer.   “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”  …

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October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”

  Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer.   “There is nothing for it but for all…

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October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

  Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher.   “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

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October 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?”

  Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian.   “I am no doubt not…

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October 15, 2019October 19, 2020 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Blackcap, by Arthur Sze

  V  E  R  G  E: she sets type by hand and loves how the spaces between letters and between…

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October 14, 2019 - Birthday, Books, News, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Writing the innovative enables us to think about inventing languages that might help us think beyond who, what, and when we are.”

  Happy birthday, Lance Olsen, literary giant, small press hero, acclaimed professor, and great friend! Innovative artist par excellence, Lance’s…

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