Day 22: Enjoy this searingly funny satire of modern “sensibility” by Alex Lemon. This is Beautification Campaign. Who knows what might happen if people began to look past what advertising …
Maps gave them control over their surroundings, for the first time ever. It showed how to get from one place to another. It sounds simple now, but a thousand years …
Day 21: Our poem is Shaking the Grass by Janice N. Harrington. It relates a simple experience of laying in the grass. Experiences that we take for granted, that don’t …
I speak to maps. And sometimes they say something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the …
40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel. This is a poem that I wrote a few years ago. It seems all the more pertinent now …
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, …
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. —Robert Henri, “The Art …
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot …
Our poem today is one of my favorite classics, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. It’s about bonding together in love to find strength in a world that, beautiful and exciting …
When your fight has purpose–to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent–it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling–when it is …
