James Salter has left us, but this video is a good introduction to him in his last years.
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One of the classic love songs, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and sung by one of the great singers of torch songs in the modern era, Diana Krall.
Read more →Edgar Yipsel “Yip” Harburg, April 8, 1896-March 5, 1981, was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics for such classics as “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,” “April in Paris,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” and the Broadway show, Finnan’s Rainbow, …
Read more →A lovely video from Motionpoems of a poem written and read by Robert Bly.
Read more →Rachel Carson warned us of the dangers of pesticides and insecticides in our environment back in the early 1960s. I remember being fogged by clouds of insecticide sprayed from the bed of a pickup truck as it wove its way between rows …
Read more →This is a beautiful example of the wonderful videos of poetry created by Motionpoems, a project co-founded by local and nationally-renowned poet, Todd Boss, and animator/producer Angella Kassube. This poem is read superbly by Linnea Mohn, a professional voice actor, also from …
Read more →On 23 September 2014, 26 year old poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, from the Marshall Islands, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit. Kathy was selected from among over 500 civil society candidates in an open, global nomination process …
Read more →I didn’t f**k it up. Okay, so maybe I did, a little, but I want to be an unf**ker.
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