watch this space for an idiosyncratic review of Scorcese's Shine a Light
Coming Soon!

Ida Hammershøi
Vilhelm Hammershøi is pretty much my favorite painter

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Poem

...a clumsy
paraphrase of something the woman I love,
who isn't a corporate lawyer, said to me
& messed me up with, which she does often & which
is one of the too many reasons I'm falling apart
with happiness. Her name, or one of them, is
Cecilia—strange, no? I'm terribly sorry...

Nico Alvarado-Greenwood
Verse Daily

a testament to the risks of speaking out or thinking originally in a society ruled by a repressive regime

Geronimo
whom Gen. Miles named the "Human Tiger" detail

Gisele

Elizabeth Shippen Green
loc

She's not real
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This is not related to the Amanda Shaw post below.
Amanda Shaw's about as real as it's possible to get.

Amanda Shaw

poetry here is generally quoted in enticing snippets
rather than whole cloth
Voisine's poem is longer, more complete,
can be read entire at the link
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Unfinished Letter to Death

In the ring, most boxers

Vodka itself is not so terrible if

The tobacco industry has systematically

You see, if I had only been ten minutes earlier,

The toaster and the hairdryer are indeed flawed appliances but

It only took one despot, a painting by Degas, and an angry mistress to

War, to many of us here in the United States, seems a bit

Please, think of the How much would it take to

From now on, I promise to

I can guarantee, not only Geronimo and his ghost...

Connie Voisine
Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
Language Corner
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via Poetry Daily

high speed battle pram

no title given
Patrick Shanahan
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via wood s lot

"We're moving beyond the music space," says Mayers. "We want to use Superfly as the umbrella company to build our brand. Real estate, restaurants, hotels, resorts--we're open to everything."

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Outside Lands

Carolyn Drake photography

The national anthem of the United States of America (link to mp3)
MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT

Damien Hirst said, 'I am delighted to be able to support Survival International and their work for threatened tribal peoples around the world – who are too often the ‘forgotten’ peoples.'

As his centenary approaches, oligarchs and arms dealers compete for possession of paintings in which feral, rutting men and mutant women reel through life in a mood of what Bacon thought of as tragic gaiety

Fed By Birds is crowing

nineteen shillings for an unmarked grave,
the body nine feet down,
stacked on top of three others,
and eventually
followed by four more