Tag: Art

  • Cowboy Poet – Who Knew?

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    Keith Ward performing an original poem at The Pizza Shop and Dry County Brewing Company’s Open Mic Night in Spruce Pine, NC on January 19th, 2013. Ward has been writing poetry since childhood, and he attended his first open mic poetry gathering in 2008.  Since then, Ward has continued writing and performing.  “My only connection…

  • Photo of the Day

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    Billie Holiday, 1938 The “Lady Sings the Blues” myth was strictly for people who don’t get the music and don’t care to, part of a pervasive worship of tragic artists who die young, for the sake of the bad habits, not the art. Billie Holiday’s force of personality comes through on the records regardless, and…

  • Mystic Monday

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    I imagine I should call today Mystic Monday as everything I’ve posted so far has to do with art, poetry and mysticism.  Don’ t worry, I’ll get back on track.  I had wanted to focus on this yesterday in keeping with our religious tradition of setting Sunday aside for prayer and reflection.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t…

  • Micro-art and Mysticism

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    Influenced by his native Istanbul, Hassan Kale creates works he calls “micro-art.”  The natural world is his canvas –  bugs, flowers, beans and seeds.  Asked how he learned to paint on such a small scale and what his influences were, Kale responded: It all started with a challenge.  I wanted to test myself and determine…

  • Literary Quote for the Day

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    “The great artist looks beneath the flux of everyday reality and sees eternal, unchanging symbols…he takes ephemeral events and relocates them in an undying atmosphere…This is why not only the sculptors but all the great artists of classical Greece, wishing to ensure the perpetuation of every contemporary memorial to victory, relocated history in the elevated…

  • Robert Bly and Poetry

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    Related articles New Books on the Shelf (senzingzen.com) 2013 Poetry Month – Solitude Late at Night in the Woods (senzingzen.com) In the Month of May, Poem by Robert Bly (silverbirchpress.wordpress.com) Robert Bly: By the Book (3quarksdaily.com)