February 2013
9 posts
“It’s hard to say if the music of poetry creates the emotion in a poem, or if it...”
– Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry (via litverve)
O GREAT LIGHT
( O Great Light/we be beastin’ and feastin’/while the gunman lines them up our rulers gather in toxic shadow/knit more wool over blinded eyes/their hands in our pockets stealing essence they slither insanely under rock/morning has come and the light will find them/Great Light i vow i will not fuck these men) 1. Great Light this morning i wake to choirs of illuminated angels ...
Watchhomotography:
Dimitri Kleioris of the Royal New Zealand Ballet by Mat Baker
Watchflamchen:
Eotchan- from Flam Chen on Vimeo.
January 2013
176 posts
KEVIN CARNES | the place for Broun Fellinis, UAF,... →
the Broun Fellinis! brilliance incarnate!
KEVIN CARNES | the place for Broun Fellinis, UAF,... →
based in the Bay Area,these gentlemen,as a group,have withstood the test of time.few ensembles remain as one for decades. they have,and you can hear it in every note!
theeastjazzhealingsociety:
His horn talks.
miguu:
there are three lives in a poem.
the first is in the writers fingers, voice,
the poets warm willing house
the second is lived in the ear, the land shift, the waist of the reader
and
the third
comes
when
someone
remembers.
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor...”
– Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” WORLD TOMORROW, 1928
(via artismyhustle)
eruptionsanddisasters:
Church Party by Ursula...
iblamecolin:
rainbowballz:
why aren’t cloaks popular
I would wear the fuck out of cloaks man
you could just swish dramatically out of boring conversations
“A real writer shouldn’t need a cup of tea at his side or a cabin with a view of...”
– In this beautiful essay for The Millions, Kevin Hartnett echoes Tchaikovsky, Jack White, Chuck Close, and David Carr.
E. B. White put it even better: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”
(via explore-blog)
Poetry for Presidents
newyorker:
Ian Crouch looks at a brief history of Inaugural poems, from Robert Frost to Elizabeth Alexander, and tells us what we should listen for when Richard Blanco reads his poem on Monday: http://nyr.kr/13MvxHv
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic/Getty.
Watchkambui:
I’ve been a bit slow in posting a few things that have been on my dig list, and Waberi Jordan making a soundtrack power move through recording her take on “Feeling Good” as the opening sequence for the Equalaris film “Cordially Invited” is one of them…
miguu:
i want to know the culture of the stars i have always wanted to know all the things that happen when i sleep.
miguu:
i sit at the kitchen table and dream words into food. this is my magic. this is how i feed myself.
