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Featured Poetry

Siddhi Soman – Nurture

December 24, 2023December 14, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Siddhi Soman escorts readers to her childhood in rural India, evoking sorrow about what's been left to decay with her poem "Nurture".

Tagged childhood, grief, India, loss, memory, nostalgia, nurture, Poem, poet, Poetry, sorrow, wistfulnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Dimitri Papadopoulos – burgundy and oak

July 23, 2023December 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Dimitri Papadopoulos returns us to innocence, nostalgia, and inspiration with his touching poem "burgundy and oak".

Tagged earth, innocence, Inspiration, muses, mythology, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, return, youth1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal

February 26, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories

Tagged memories, memory, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, Portugal, Travel, vacationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

February 20, 2022February 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.

Tagged childhood, friendship, nature, nature writing, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, wilderness, wildness, youth2 Comments
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Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience2 Comments
Micro Gallery

Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his collaged paintings, Jacob Lehmann explores the relationships between isolation and nostalgia, in connection to childhood.

Tagged childhood, collage, isolation, landscape, nostalgia, painting1 Comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
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  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Lily Tobias – Fennel
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  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
  • Roderick Wilson – Practicing Resurrection
    New York poet Roderick Wilson wipes the snow from the threadbare conclusion of wintertime, on the cusp of transition.
 

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