I’m want to start today with a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published in 1896. It’s about the Civil War, but the words elegize all those who gave their lives in service to the United ...
From where I sit, I am southwest of you but there is that moon. To it, we may as well be together. The moon does not see the some 200km between us. In that beautiful lunar eye we are side by side. I ...
Well, the music industry serves the audience after all, and back in the ’90s I loved rolling off the tour bus and meeting my ...
Go ahead,” Jorie Graham says in “Killing Spree,” her 16th collection of poetry. “Try to posit/the future.” This challenge is ...
Make That Movie is a television programme for thrill-seekers and people who like ogling the IMDB trivia section after they watch a flick. It’s about a group of film-makers who scour the land looking ...
Since my appointment as Calgary’s poet laureate, I have heard versions of this question more than once. Invoking taxpayer outrage is a familiar way of questioning public support for the arts. When ...
There is a great scene in a recent episode of the HBO Max comedy Hacks, in which comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), takes a meeting with a Tech Bro who wants her to train an LLM (large language ...
My latest $2 splurge at a recent yard sale was “The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America.” Written as a “this day in history,” it prompted me to go […] ...
She hopes the collection will encourage more people to join the stem cell register and raise awareness of the urgent need for ...
FotoFocus launched in 2010 in Cincinnati with a mission of championing photography and lens-based art through exhibitions and ...
Many people pay thousands of dollars for a face-lift to improve their appearance. A smile improves your looks instantly and takes years off your appearance.