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Paula Boyland wrote a new post, Where Are My Words? by Pamela Potter 1 day ago
All my life, I’ve processed joy and sorrow, confusion and diatribe, in writing. I have a book of hand written poems working through the tragedies and angst of a teenage mindscape. I have notebooks journaling my c […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, Portraiture and Man's Man, 2 poems by Arnie Yasinski 4 days ago
PORTRAITURE
Our dinner ends with watching Portrait
Artist of the Year. For Adele likeness is all,
while I focus on the how of its attainment.Beginnings proliferate and lead on to
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Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 6 days, 17 hours ago
Thanks, Erika. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 1 week ago
Thank you, Lynda, for reading and for your comment. So glad you found it moving. One of the profound experiences of my life.
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Erika Raskin commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 1 week ago
What a lovely essay and heart-breaking piece!
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Sunday Afternoons by Sean Grogan 1 week, 1 day ago
I was walking our dog this evening, around six o’clock, when I heard the low rumble of an approaching train. I live in Silver Spring, Md., a few blocks from where the tracks cross over Georgia Ave.
When […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 1 week, 3 days ago
Ten years after graduation, at seven a.m., Sunday morning, I round the corner to my office and nearly stumble into a distraught family in prayer. Six adults, seated with their heads bowed, listen as a Catholic […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, Escalation by Claire Scott 1 week, 3 days ago
I am so sick of walking past the cute little signs that say
please clean up after your dog. really? do we want our ivy,
our pachysandra, our Vinca covered in pee and poop?
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Collection Day Winton Place 1995 by Rachel Lippolis 1 week, 3 days ago
Sylvia wished she saw anything but houses when she looked out her bedroom window. A field, a lake, or the foggy moors of Wuthering Heights. Or if there must be houses, let them be stately. Like Pemberley or […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic Russ Warren Shows at Le Yeux du Monde in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits 1 week, 5 days ago
Russ Warren, The Disciple, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40″
Russ Warren: The Disciple March 6 – May 16, 2021 at Les Yeux du Monde
an opening reception with the artist on Saturday, March 6 from 3- 5 p.m
This show features a series of large vertical diptychs that pay homage to other artists Warren …[Read more] -
Paula Boyland wrote a new post, It’s the Month of Self-Love: National Self-Check Month by Annis Cassells 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Among other national celebrations like Black History Month, Great American Pies Month and National Library Lover’s Month, February is also National Self-Check Month. Turns out, there’s a whole yearly calendar of […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, A Chisel and a Rock and Losing Control, 2 poems by Annie Breitenbucher 2 weeks, 3 days ago
A Chisel and a Rock
They say He created heaven, earth, and mystery:
The jungle lion’s guttural roar
The celestial twinkling of starsTell me
Where is your soul? And
does it move with you like the mo […] -
Emily Littlewood wrote a new post, Shopping in Pandemic Times by Nick Barta 3 weeks ago
It was late December, and I was heading to downtown Vienna during a pandemic. As I reflected on the task ahead of me, buying Christmas presents for my mother and grandmother, the mayhem inherent in completing that […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic 25 black artists showing at McGuffey Arts Center in the forum Site-Wide Activity 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Water: The Agony & Ecstasy of the Black Experience
Friday, February 5 – March 28, 2021
A multi-medium group exhibition curated by the Charlottesville Black Arts Collective
This multi-medium group exhibition featuring the work of 25 Black artists from Virginia, will be on display on all floors of the McGuffey Art Center in…[Read more] -
Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post, Tender by Sara Dovre Wudali 3 weeks, 3 days ago
My friend looks like he stands tall and straight.
But for fifty years, he’s lived in his brain.
He can’t bear you to know
he can’t bear his body.
Hidden inside, a fiddlehead,
curled to protect a ten […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, My Air Force Shrine by Miles Fowler 4 weeks ago
My study may be a mess, but, on one wall, I have meticulously created a shrine of sorts. My “Air Force Wall” is—like my connections to its theme—a mixture of the authentic and inauthentic. The shrine came togethe […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post, Bullfrogs and San Juan Island, 2 poems by Brooke Dwojak Lehmann 1 month ago
Bullfrogs
Always in discord, they are
summer’s yellow-throated singers,so deep in distress, I cannot tell
if the voice is mine or theirscannot even tell if it is fright
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Snow Day by Ari McGuirk 1 month ago
Marinara stains blotted my white hoodie’s waist hem like blood droplets. Posters of fighter jets lined the grey walls of the recruiter’s office. A Dodgers baseball cap squeezed straight brown hair over my ears and […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post, Finding Photographs by Brian Michael Barbeito 1 month ago
Primarily a poet and writer, I came to photography by accident. I was on a summer nature walk in southern Ontario, Canada, when I got lost. It was incredibly hot and I had forgotten my water. My wife had […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, Eden by Marty Carlock 1 month, 1 week ago
In truth there was never a snake or an apple;
and they knew already about lust, had known forever
what creature didn’tIt was that they lived long
saw the wolf and the tiger grow old and die
saw the t […] - Load More