alley filled with public creative expression
ever-evolving
ever-powerful
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“i’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places,
on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins.
i’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an mfa program.”
-billy collins
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ann arbor, michigan, usa
summer 2021
thank you sarah freligh, for your beautiful poem
in this national poetry month and every month.
“poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them”
– dennis gabor
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photo credit: vermont garden journal
3 am is the hour of writers,
painters, poets, musicians, silence seekers,
over-thinkers, and creative people.
We know who you are,
We can see your light on.
Keep on keeping on.
-author unknown
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image credit: pinterest – vintage
take a moment out of your day to be moved by this very short film
20-year-old filmmaker wins award for powerful 1-minute film about marriage
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credits: aleteia, barr pictures, open hands open hearts
October breathed poetry —
beautiful and glowing.
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~Terri Guillemets, “Tenth verse,” 2018,
blackout poetry created from
Octave Mirbeau, The Diary of a Chambermaid, 1891
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painting credit: ‘autumn tree’, deborah mcgee, watercolor on paper
make way on the path
stepping creeping lime grows close
foot of goliath
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in honor of international haiku poem day
why not take a stab at it?
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“poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.”
-czeslaw milosz
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scio woods, ann arbor, michigan, usa – spring 2020
I didn't have my glasses on.... 