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Stage Door: February House

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Arts, Poets, Writers, W.H. Auden, Literature, Carson McCullers, February House, The Public Theater, NY Around Town, Public Theater, Arts News

The trials and tribulations, both artistic and personal, of this singular crew would make a compelling story. However, the characters of February House are drawn in brushstrokes; there isn't enough at stake.

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Of Odes and Oms

Tamsin Smith | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Yoga, W.H. Auden, Rainer Maria Rilke, Writing, Poetry, Craig Arnold, Mark Morford, Yoga Poetry, Arts News

This Sunday -- day of rest for the restless - I'm signed up to take a yoga class for writers. I love the idea of unleashing my imagination while aligning my spine.

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The Absurdity Of Christmas

David Lose | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Gospel of Matthew, Atheism, W.H. Auden, Christmas, Christmas Story, Christina Rosetti, Gospel of Luke, Tertullian, Marcion, Origins of Christmas, Atheist-Christmas-Billboard, Birth of Jesus, Christianity, Atheist Billboard, Religion News

I've been struck by the ads and billboards atheists have purchased this year suggesting that Christmas is a myth. Struck. Not offended or angered. Just struck. And they may be right.

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Portraits Of Authors In Their Own Words

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, Word Portraits, John Sokol, Song of Solomon, Author Drawings, Flannery O?Connor, Charles Baudelaire, Author Portraits, Portraits of Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, War and Peace, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Books News

People say that the lines in your face are representative of the life you’ve led – as in, love your laugh lines because clearly you’ve had a goo...

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'A Thousand Twangling Instruments'

Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: W.H. Auden, Dystopia, Brave New World, William Butler Yeats, Aldous Huxley, Shakespeare, Utopia, Poetry, Happiness, Happiness Advice, Being Happy, Finding Happiness, Happiness Tips, Healthy Living News

Suffering is not the opposite of joy -- they are foreground and background. One unfolds and magnifies the other. When a smile can be forged from anguish, then it's a thing of beauty and truth.

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The Ten Best Love Poems Ever Written In Honor Of Valentine's Day 2011

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together? Come on, just this once.

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The Annunciation Of Mary: Ambiguity, Perplexity And Truth

Scott Cairns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scripture, Scripture Analysis, Advent, Midrashim, W.H. Auden, Judaism, John Romanides, Christianity, Scripture Commentary, Annunciation, Religion News

Confessing our uncertainties in the face of complex circumstances may prove finally to be a very good thing, even something of a gift. They bring us face to face with the limit where human understanding fails.

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A Necessary Poet

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

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W.H. Auden, in his wonderful book of essays, The Dyer's Hand, imagined a "College for Bards", a cheerfully eccentric institution offering a refreshi...

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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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The Failure of Filters -- Why We're Getting Dumber by the Hour

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bertelsmann, Book Clubs, Scouts, Oprah, Filters, W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, Book Reviews, Finland, Oprah's Book Club, Lionel Trilling, Readers' Subscription, Stravinsky, Media News

The expectation that most of the audience would rush out and purchase the book, as Oprah's audience does today, was not there. With a good book reviewer, you didn't need to do any page turning yourself.

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September 1, 2099

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: W.H. Auden, World War II, Politics News

Of all days this one was the worst, '39, September 1st, when hell began to hit the fan, resuscitating ancient hate to undermine the status quo like ancient walls of Jericho.

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The Uses of Poetry

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Berryville, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Bookseller, David Zimmerman, Poetry, Arkansas, Healthy Living News

Fifty years after I found myself begging in London, I continue to find poetry useful.

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Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.17.2011

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If you deprive people of the solace of a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselves, you aren't just stripping away window dressing, but demolishing the supporting structure of a happy life

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Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Anais Nin, Beat Generation, W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Hotel Nirvana, City Lights, Healthy Living News

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

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Tales of the Real-Life Sex Workers Part II; Or, Wherein Our Prediction About Xaviera Hollander Was Affirmed

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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We wrote last week of the Eliot Spitzer scandal side media trend of examining the lives of actual prostitutes and the phenomenon of prostitution in ge...

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