Archive for January, 2022
Brian Lucas, Devotion, 2017
Excerpts from Whit Griffin’s forthcoming “The Ones Who Listen” featuring artworks by Gwyllm Llwydd, Roberto Harrison, and Brian Lucas.
Source: From “The Ones Who Listen” by Whit Griffin — Caesura
. . . Rilke provides the most extraordinarily direct instructions for how to write a poem:
“As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. … Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty — describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember.”
from Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet”
Literature’s changing … Joelle Taylor. Photograph: Roman Manfredi
She’s been marginalised and slapped in the street – but Taylor’s passionate and nostalgic poems about butch lesbian subculture just won the TS Eliot prize. Can they also heal the divisions over gender identity?
‘It is important that we preserve our history’ … Joelle Taylor. Photograph: The TS Eliot Prize/Roman Manfredi
Judges praise the former UK slam champion’s ‘vivid’ collection, exploring author’s experience of being a butch lesbian
goldfinches
in the white pine
corn kernels pop
Donna Fleischer
still lake
clouds
miles deep
Owen Bullock
distant hills beyond the gate winter stillness
Clive Bennett
blossoms drift
into this universe
you and me
Chen-ou Liu
The Wales Haiku Journal publishes the finest international haiku and a range of special features related to the form.
Source: WINTER 2022 | home
Helen Levitt, “New York” (1980) (© Film Documents LLC. Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne)
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
Source: A Photographer’s Portrait of the Theater of the Streets
Simone Leigh, “Sentinel (Mami Wata)” (2020-21) (photo by Alex Marks; courtesy Cultural Counsel)
Unveiled as a part of the Prospect.5 triennial, the bronze is one of five new works that suggest new approaches to public statuary.
Source: Simone Leigh Sculpture Replaces a Confederate Monument In New Orleans
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