James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1877one of my favorites
Happy Easter by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam
“A Poem of Poets”
Beloved Enrico made this for me and Grant and it’s so beautiful I cried. I’m lucky to count these artists and poets as my friends, and I really do hope that we tell these poems and stories together in a garden (virtual reality or “real life”) when we’re old.
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In Peril - John Atkinson Grimshaw
I have been having a recurring dream that looks just like this, and I throw myself into the sea.
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Dead Calm
Animation made from video shot with a prepared FinePix s9000 donated by Adam Ferriss.
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To breathe and stretch one’s arms again
to breathe through the mouth to breathe to
breathe through the mouth to utter in
the most quiet way not to whisper not to whisper
to breathe through the mouth in the most quiet way to
breathe to sing to breathe to sing to breathe
to sing the most quiet way.To sing to light the most quiet light in darkness
radiantia radiantia
singing light in darkness.To sing as the host sings in his house…
— John Taggart, from “Slow Song for Mark Rothko”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s painting Ezra Pound: I Have Beaten Out My Exile (2009, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 in.) appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of Poetry. City Lights has an interview with Ferlinghetti about “his life as a poet, artist and activist.”
