Archive for July, 2012

PEN.org » Blog Archive Poetry Roundup: Po-blog is dead, long live the Po-blog! – PEN.org

PEN.org » Blog Archive Poetry Roundup: Po-blog is dead, long live the Po-blog! – PEN.org.

Ring of Bone / HTMLGIANT

Ring of Bone | HTMLGIANT.

Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness / Wired Science / Wired.com

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Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness | Wired Science | Wired.com.

“Schizophrenia doubles your odds of becoming violent, but being a man multiplies your risk by a factor of nine. Yet we don’t stigmatize or reject men for this “risk factor”; similarly, we shouldn’t treat the mentally ill that way either. To prevent future catastrophes, we need to understand the range of cultural, social and medical factors that affect us all.” ~  Maia SzalavitzMass murder and mental illness: The Interplay of stigma, culture and disease / Time.com

poor as I am, by Karma Tenzing Wangchuk

poor as I am,
I can still brew a pot
of pine-needle tea

Karma Tenzing Wangchuk
from  Shelter / Street (2010)

Surrealism in Text and Image: A Conversation / Meta-Talon » Talonbooks

‘No.3’, My Linear Heart Series, © Stasja Voluti 2012, self-portrait, digital c-print

Surrealism in Text and Image: A Conversation » Meta-Talon » Talonbooks.

Activists infiltrate Y-12’s high-security zone, hang banners, splash blood / Knoxville News Sentinel

Activists infiltrate Y-12’s high-security zone, hang banners, splash blood » Knoxville News Sentinel.

Marilyn Monroe’s Unpublished Poems: The Complex Private Person Behind the Simplified Public Persona / Brain Pickings

Marilyn Monroe’s Unpublished Poems: The Complex Private Person Behind the Simplified Public Persona | Brain Pickings.

Denying the Bird Within, by Amy King

Reading by Amy King
Art by digital poet Mary Ann Sullivan

Wolfman Librarian and the Trembling Pair of Actor Hands, by Filip Marinovich / EOAGH

Wolfman Librarian and the Trembling Pair of Actor Hands, by Filip Marinovich | EOAGH.

blue earth, a haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy / Simply Haiku Summer 2012

blue earth –
a robot on
the moon

Pravat Kumar Padhy
from Simply Haiku Summer 2012