Revolution My old President sits While his people die My old President sits While his people die There’s no mercy in his heart: I am going to send him home. I am going to shut down his office Chain his door with my people’s intestines I am going to shut down his office Chain his …
An architect designs a toy house that, like a transformer, can morph into a boat, a theater, a space ship, an amusement park and dozens of other settings. A visual artist provides artwork for the toy house and collaborates with a writer on a related story book while the business manager massages the commercial launch …
When I met Ann in our early twenties, she was studying architecture, doing good work in the estimation of my young eyes, and I asked her what it was about architecture that moved her. She told me that it didn’t move her. She told me that she had said to the people in her life …
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A ten-day encore in two, drive-in dance moves to film, a collective consideration of what is valuable, what choreographers can teach, plus encore streaming, where to submit dance videos, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. This Week An encore “Re-Quest” In early October, Heidi Duckler Dance celebrated its 35th …
Among the many movie actors and directors I interviewed in my long career as a film journalist, a personal favorite is Jeff Bridges, a talented actor, a humanitarian and a devoted family man. I interviewed Jeff numerous times from 1982 to 2018, and I wrote several articles about his work for Italian magazines like Ciak, …
If you apply pressure to a shaky foundation, everything will collapse. Conversely, if you add pressure on to a solid foundation it will hold. You will be steady, safe and secure. You’ve heard that adage, pressure bust pipes. This is true. There’s also a saying that pressure makes diamonds. Everything in life is a double-edged …
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, …
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one day we heard about this intelligence test for dogs…you put a cloth or a blanket or some other kind of a covering over your dog and the faster he or she got out from under it, the smarter he or she was. well, one day we took a throw from off the couch and …
We are all told from a young age that we need to save money so we can retire one day. While that is a smart idea, many of us just don’t make the effort to make that a reality. In fact, almost 50% of Americans have less than $100K saved for their retirement. This could …
About ten or so years ago I was teaching an introduction to writing poetry course. One of the requirements was that students had to present the work of a living poet not on the syllabus who had published at least two books or the equivalent and that this poet should be someone they really thought …
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