I’ve had this blog since 2017 and have been blogging regularly since 2018. Those who read the blog know I don’t do product promotions or ask for readers to donate as a practice. …
Source: Oil & Water Don’t Mix — Help Stop Enbridge from building a pipeline under the Great Lakes – Tao Talk
Beth Orton Elizabeth Caroline Orton (b. 12/14/70) is an English musician, known for her “folktronica” sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica.…
Source: Women Music March 2024 – Day 25 – Beth Orton – Tao Talk
Ronnie Gilbert 2006 Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. — said at the age of 10, after hearing Paul Robeson sing for the first time …
Source: Women Music March 2024 – Day 30 – Ronnie Gilbert – Tao Talk
earth day
the knell
of cherry blossoms
by Donna Fleischer (USA)
Honourable Mention
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational , 2013
Source: Daily Haiku: April 7, 2024 | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
From 2015, Margaret Talbot on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt,” which turned an erotic obsession into literary art.
Source: Patricia Highsmith’s Forbidden Love | The New Yorker
Fonfara and Betts in Clay Arsenal Neighborhood
The bill focuses on place, puts the state “on the clock” to solve the problem, and promotes community-driven and community-owned development.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (American, born 1951), Roy, ‘in his 20s,’ Los Angeles, California, $50, 1990-92. Chromogenic print; ed. 12/20. Alexander A. Goldfarb Contemporary Art Acquistion Fund, 2017.20.1
Highlights from the Collection February 29–November 17, 2024 Highlights from the museum’s collection of contemporary photography hang in Avery Court. Featuring recent gifts alongside familiar collection works, the installation surveys diverse approaches to portraiture and landscape by some of the leading artists of the past four decades, including Nan Goldin, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Ellen Carey.
Source: Contemporary Photography | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Poetry Reading with Trace Peterson and m. mick powell
Thursday, April 11 @ 4:00 PM
UConn Hartford
Hartford Times Building, 2nd Floor Landing
Front St, Hartford, CT
Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Her poetry book Since I Moved In was republished by Chax Press in 2019 in a revised edition. She is co-editor of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax) and of the ground-breaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Peterson is the Editor/Publisher of EOAGH, a literary journal and small press that has won two Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UConn, Storrs.
m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica. Their debut full-length collection, DEAD GIRL CAMEO, is forthcoming from Random House in Summer 2025. An assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UConn Stamford, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love. Keep up with them at www.mickpowellpoet.com .