Dream Architecture: Outside/In
Dream Architecture: Outside/In Part 4 of the Dream Geographies collaboration between poet Judith Serin and visual artist Masami Inoue. Herbert and I are in a large room, sleeping in separate beds. A weed with prickly leaves and purple yarrow-like flowers grows next to the foot of mine. I’m afraid the prickles...
Share This Poem: “Pretty Moon” By Lisa Dordal
Pretty moon, everyone said. Before the noise, before the fire. Two cars and the cornfields idle… From time to time, we re-present work that has been first been published elsewhere. This heartrending poem about nature’s imperviousness to human sorrow is worth more than one reading, and we are pleased to feature it as a Web extra…....
Dream Architecture: New Views
Part 3 of the Dream Geographies collaboration between poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. My husband–an unfamiliar dream husband—has bought us a large white stucco house. At first I think it’s dull. But outside along a wall of round dark stones I discover a path to a beach. There’s hardly any sand—perhaps the tide is high—and people...
From the Vault to the Page: Harvard’s Pigment Library
Jenny Stenger, © President and Fellows of Harvard College When you hear the word “library,” old books and wooden shelves come to mind, and the sense-memory of that distinct aroma released while flipping through the aged pages. However, at Harvard University, the shelves of one library are filled with something different — colors. Pigments of every...
From Our Pages: “Kipaw-paw-pish!” – The Art of Beatboxing, by Charlotte Simmonds.
Our bud Toki is a beat-boxer. Beat-boxing is when you make the noise of a drum machine with your mouth and voice. Toki is the national beat-boxing champion. This means he is better at beat-boxing than everyone else in New Zealand. Maybe there are people who are better than he is and are too shy...
