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- Selling Up | The Pack | Carnival | Poems by John GreySELLING UP Never thought your last hours in this house would be as keeper of the basement, with the old furnace and boxes of musty papers, your father’s tools, the webs with their dark, secret spiders. You never imagined you could ever bear to sell this house but now you find it’s like those blouses, … Read more
- In memoriam Jim Dunlap American Poet 1945-2024 presented by Richard Vallance
A fond farewell to Jim Dunlap (1945-2024) and celebration of his life, his memorable poetry and sonnets by Richard Vallance Jim Dunlap (Jan. 9, 1945 – Dec. 5, 2024), a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, had his first work published in 1970. Since then his work has appeared in over 90 publications, … Read more - E.M. Schorb reads from 1st poetry collection, “The Poor Boy”Biography E. M. Schorb attended New York University, where he fell in with a group of actors and became a professional actor. During this time, he attended several top-ranking drama schools, which led to industrial films and eventually into sales and business. He has remained in business on and off ever since, but started … Read more
- Strangers and Trees | Poem by David Michael JacksonThe Old Men Walk and want to run again To run again. I walk my three miles because I’m glad I can walk There are others like me. I pass them. One walks briskly and says little. He doesn’t have to. I see him walking his walk so resolute as if he sees his last … Read more
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- In memoriam Jim Dunlap American Poet 1945-2024 presented by Richard Vallance
A fond farewell to Jim Dunlap (1945-2024) and celebration of his life, his memorable poetry and sonnets by Richard Vallance Jim Dunlap (Jan. 9, 1945 – Dec. 5, 2024), a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, had his first work published in 1970. Since then his work has appeared in over 90 publications, … Read more - E.M. Schorb reads from 1st poetry collection, “The Poor Boy”Biography E. M. Schorb attended New York University, where he fell in with a group of actors and became a professional actor. During this time, he attended several top-ranking drama schools, which led to industrial films and eventually into sales and business. He has remained in business on and off ever since, but started … Read more
- Barbara Crooker: poems from Slow Wreckage
THEN The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner Oak leaves stamped against a chicory skyswirled with clouds, like a marble I once hadand lost. It’s probably still there, caught in a drypuddle, a tree root, or one of those cracked pavements of childhood that we walkedon going to school. We roamed … Read more - Hollywood Woman A Poem by Sara L Russell 18th March 2023She has had an illustrious lifestyleand many well-earned accolades;donates to some causes quite worthwhileshe has gongs and awards now, in spades. Her mansion’s been featured in Tatlerin Mode Avantgarde and OK;She’s been called a trooper and a battlerand she always has plenty to say. But her face is a bone of contentionit is fixed in … Read more
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- Hollywood Woman A Poem by Sara L Russell 18th March 2023She has had an illustrious lifestyleand many well-earned accolades;donates to some causes quite worthwhileshe has gongs and awards now, in spades. Her mansion’s been featured in Tatlerin Mode Avantgarde and OK;She’s been called a trooper and a battlerand she always has plenty to say. But her face is a bone of contentionit is fixed in … Read more
- Unraveling the Intricacies of Law in Shakespearean Plays: Insights, Themes, and Analysis
- How to Use Chromatic Black in Oil PaintingHow to Make Chromatic Black For Painting | Artist #shorts How To Mix Your Own Black Oil Paint – Chromatic Black Color Mixing Oil Paint | How I Paint Realistic Skin Tones REALISTIC PAINTING – FUR TECHNIQUES, GRASS AND FOLIAGE, GLOWING SKY, BIGHORN SHEEP How to mix black with primary colours: Part 2 Chromatic black … Read more
- Ekphrastic Poem Peace and Motion by Shakiba (Yorkshire Arts) and Tony Martin Woods
Shakiba (a Persian word for a patient, tolerant and gentle person) is an artist based in Leeds, Yorkshire, since 2014. She is self-taught and works with Acrylic Pouring Techniques. Painting helped her to overcome the stress of her PhD thesis in a scientific discipline, which she completed in 2020. Editor’s note: for further viewing … Read more