Thomas Wyatt: The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar / Petrarch:...
.Petrarch: Canzoniere and Trionfi: Italian miniaturist, manuscript (Plut. 141.1), c. 1463 (Medicea Laurenziana, Florence)The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar ...and in myn herte doeth kepe...
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.Kristen and @maddieziegler: image via sia @Sia, 9 February 2015 Kristen Wiig and @maddieziegler giving TOTAL BOSSNESS: image via sia @Sia, 8 February 2015Kristen Wiig and Maddie Ziegler perform with...
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.my name is yusor my husnand is deah my sister is razan we were killed by a terrorist called craig #ChapelHillShooting: image via @Elbhaery, 12 February 2015The Face of American Terror87% of U.S. mass...
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.What do we need? #MCFC #CTID #FallingDown: image via MCFC Nashville @MCFCNashville, 11 February 2015North Carolina triple murderer Craig Stephen Hicks' first wife says he was obsessed with the 1993...
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.Six months after crushing war, Gaza: "Scenes of misery are one of the few things in abundance": image via Kenneth Roth @KenRoth, 14 February 2015I DesolationThe storm lashed several countries in the...
View ArticleCamilo José Vergara: When Everything Fails (Repurposing Salvation in...
.Former Werth's Appliance Center, State Street, Hammond, Indiana, 2000La fascinación por ahondar en los contrastes urbanos de Camilo José Vergara nace de su experiencia personal antes que de su interés...
View ArticleRumi: The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
.Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273 CE): The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty (translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne et al, in The Essential Rumi, 1996): A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer, from Nora...
View ArticleCarl Sandburg: I Am the People, the Mob (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
.Carl Sandburg (1878-1967): I Am the People, the Mob (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer), from Nora Sawyer, 5 February 2015 I Am the People, the Mob first appeared in Chicago Poems (1916)
View ArticleA Voice from Troy
.Chapeau. MT @Pray4Pal: Despite not receiving his salary for months, this cop continues to help. #Gaza #Palestine: image via Asem Khalil @Asem Khalil, 19 February 2015Balancing on the pivot point,...
View ArticleMon brillant hiver sur le magnifique lac Érié
.I've flown over #LakeErie into @CLE countless times, but I've never seen such solid ice cover: image via Aaron Kraus @AaronKraus, 13 February 2015Winter in Cleveland -- ah, the gelid memories!Solitary...
View ArticlePoetry and Extreme Weather Events: William McGonagall: The Tay Bridge Disaster
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View ArticleMovie of the Year: Leviathan: In the Belly of the Beast
.A brilliant reflection of corruption in modern #Russia. Really, really worth watching #Leviathan: image via Natasa Vidakovic @navidakovic, 7 February 2015Vodka goes to... #Leviathan: image via...
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View ArticleWilliam Carlos Williams / Dorothea Lange: The Descent
.Untitled (garden steps. Berkeley): photo by Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), c. 1957 (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California)The descent beckons .............as the ascent...
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.Watching time go by @unionstationTO #BlackAndWhite #Org1: photo via Dré @OrganizedNoise1, 18 February 2015 Untitled (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 10 June 2013 This is Santa Cruz (Santa...
View ArticleBertolt Brecht: Parade of the Old New
.A very grey day on the very Grey Lady of #Nantucket: image via Michael West @ACKstronomy, 22 February 2015I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.Off Season #14,...
View ArticleBertolt Brecht: Die Musen / The Muses
#SkiptheSpeech gains traction as #Netanyahu Continues to Insult America @jvplive: image via Carbonated.TV @CarbonatedTV, 27 February 2012Wenn der Eiserne sie prügeltSingen die Musen lauter.Aus...
View ArticleWislawa Szymborska: Some like poetry
. Zawiercie, Poland: photo by Koos Fernhout, 6 January 2013Some -- therefore not all. Not even a majority just a minority. Not counting schools where they have to, and the poets themselves, that's...
View ArticleMinnie: Safely Home
.Nobody looked like they were having more fun #RIPMinnie: image via Matt Rodewald @MattRodewald, 1 March 2015 Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta. He was the best ballplayer I ever got to see up...
View ArticleWhere Is the House of the Friend?
...and another photo of me! Not taken by me, still pretty handsome! #fly #crow #three #sepehri: image via Black Crow @FartingCrow, 12 January 2015 In the false-dawn twilighta rider enquired of a...
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