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Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

July 5, 2024 · 6 Comments

Gertrude Stein: Two Poems

All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling.

January 19, 2024 · 12 Comments

GEORGE YANCY: How Can Philosophy Speak to a World in Crisis? The Answer May Lie in Our Bodies

Whether we are ill, depressed, anxious, suffering from injustice, a refugee, incarcerated — having contact with beauty can lift our spirits, rehumanizing us.

January 15, 2024 · 6 Comments

Michael Simms: Rhythm Benders | The Musicality of American Poetry

A poem is rooted in the rhythms of pulse, breath and movement.

October 6, 2023 · 10 Comments

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