Take a walking tour with Maureen Doallas through the grounds of the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Tattoos as art, trading guns for art, pigs writing poetry, and taking poetry into outer space. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Image-ine: Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen
Maureen Doallas pairs her poem ‘A Ladder Our Boat’ with Holly Friesen’s ‘Warrior Canoe’ in our latest Image-ine feature.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Give and Take: The Paradoxical Function of Art
It has been my peculiar experience as a poet to explain to people what they are seeing, albeit through what can feel like an added layer of obscurity. L.L. Barkat on the explanation of art, more or less.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The right way to teach writing, according to Pooh. A poster you have to soil your hands to appreciate. Alabama’s new poet laureate on Damned Ugly Children. The poetic losses of 2012. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.
The Poetry of Injury: Inside Down Syndrome & Kimani
Kimani is a four-year-old girl with Down syndrome and a brain injury. She is visually impaired, wildly impulsive, and very cute. In this collection, she paints herself from the inside out.
This Year’s Top 10 Top 10 Poetic Picks
The editors have culled our very favorite links from our weekly Top 10 Poetic Picks from 2012.
Leaving Art Behind
Charity Singleton explores the risks inherent in creating art, and leaving art behind.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Poetry on the cubicle farm, books from birdhouses and vending machines, and making rejection make you better. Will Willingham has our Top Ten Poetic Picks for this week.
Happy Gifts for Poetry Lovers
Great gifts for poetry and book lovers. Mugs, journals, t-shirts, and totes featuring fine art and photography.
Can Art Make Workers Happier?
Some businesses are tuned in to art as an important corporate value, expressed with bold colors and plentiful displays of art gracing the walls. J.B. Wood challenges workers to “get your art on.”
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Efrat Ben Zur and her new album, what’s Emily Dickinson got to do with it, our favorite writers. It’s this month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks!
In the Midst of Tragedy, Art Heals: Interview with Lisa Wayman
Registered nurse Lisa Wayman is board-certified in advanced holistic nursing, which, in simplest terms, is a relationship-based way to care for the ill that is grounded in the philosophy that a patient becomes well when the whole person — body, mind, spirit — is treated and healed. In practice, a holistic nurse “partners” with a […]
Transitions: Life and the Art Museum
Horror, repulsion, bafflement. These were strange emotions for me in a place that normally signified beauty and order and peace. I had walked right into the same art museum I had visited a hundred times. Usually, I would go up the stairs one level, pass by the front desk, and head directly into the European […]
image-ine: tribes
tribes save me from the little tribes the us and them tribes that say who can’t marry who that make you take up a gun to defend them give me those sisters and brothers in the bigger family to link arms with to cluck and strut together to head off somewhere not knowing precisely where […]
Art’s Uncommon Environments: Interview with Evy Lareau
Figurative painter Evy Lareau is an art instructor at a correctional facility. She got the job after responding to a help-wanted ad. She’s worked as an art therapist (she has a master’s degree in art therapy), case manager, and art teacher in residential treatment centers and specialized schools, as well as public schools, around the […]
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Will Willingham 1 Art What would you do if a mystery artist left exquisite sculptures on literary doorsteps all over your city? Well, if you’re Edinburgh, City of Literature, you put them all on display in a national tour. Last year, an unknown artist crafted […]
The Occasional Painter
Seeing the tubes and bottles of paint brought a smile to my face. I was packing a bag to take to a friend’s house for the day, and among the things I was bringing were the paints, a jar filled with brushes of all sizes, and a couple of fresh white canvases. Sarah, an artist […]