‘Rapture’ by Barry Carter The Society December 15, 2012 Poetry My Grandfather-mining it made him blind and mystery of music almost gave him sight he would play by candle light and demand rapture as eloquent as...
‘Learning to Flourish’ and Other Poems by Alan Nordstrom The Society December 14, 2012 Poetry 3 Comments Learning to Flourish for Dan DeNicola Are we humans half empty or half full? A race of oxymorons, we’re wise fools Or doltish sages, subject...
‘Child’s Play’ by James Cronin The Society December 13, 2012 Poetry Imagine a childhood as tragic premiere. Unwashed, bruised, soiled clothing, still she’s a star. The cops and the guy passed out in the...
Artist Susan Fox Paints Genghis Khan’s Mongolia The Society December 12, 2012 Art 1 Comment American oil painter Susan Fox has traveled the world on wildlife expeditions, photographing and painting her way through the pristine wilds of Kenya...
‘Dust, a Sestina’ by Sally Carter The Society December 11, 2012 Poetry, Sestina 5 Comments The village school is cold and still. Its entrance gate is rusted shut, the playground overwhelmed by sounds of loaded lorries, hissing past, no...
‘The Painter’ and Other Poetry by Dawn Munro The Society December 10, 2012 Art, Poetry 1 Comment The Painter Transfixed, I bow before art’s magic splendour, enraptured by the glory of such hues, enchanted, charmed beyond all human...
‘No Pastor (To Ghosts)’ by Evan Lockwood The Society December 7, 2012 Poetry There are so many different ways to behave And yet we often behave in just one. There are so many different types of “depraved” but the most...
‘The Returning’ The Society December 6, 2012 Poetry 2 Comments A Squinting gaze through the fog and the haze A glimpse at a shimmer while in a daze Brief yet bright, its beauty light is luring Something has...
‘Mycenae’ and Other Poetry by Toni La Ree Bennett The Society December 5, 2012 Poetry Mycenae Passing through the lion-headed gate, years fall from her shoulders like heaps of old rags. Even in the innocent daylight, she clearly...
Hudson River School Reborn in Artist Erik Koeppel The Society December 3, 2012 Art 1 Comment Relatively young artist Erik Koeppel walks in the footsteps of giants from the Hudson River School. The below is from his latest blog entry on his...
Shen Yun Tickets: The Greatest Aesthetics Money Can Buy The Society December 1, 2012 From the Society NEW YORK—Shen Yun Performing Arts will begin its 2013 seasons in Buenos Aires, Agentina, on Dec. 13, bringing with it the true beauty engendered by...
‘Argument from Design’ and Other Poetry by Graal Braun The Society November 30, 2012 Poetry Argument from Design God’s antelopes have eyes placed far to side And horizontal pupils, features they Employ to see wide spans and speed...
Poetry by Mary V. Williams of Shropshire, England The Society November 29, 2012 Poetry 2 Comments Sonnet If I could choose to quietly slip away and make my exit while your backs are turned I'd do it now, why waste another day, after my time...
Stone Roberts: An Eye for Light and Detail The Society November 28, 2012 Art NEW YORK—As a fine arts painter, Stone Roberts had all the right conditions growing up, including severe myopia as a child. This may seem ironic,...
‘The Colour of Dying’ (a Sestina) by Maroula Blades The Society November 27, 2012 Poetry, Sestina 2 Comments The purple snail (Purpura patula pansa) is found in the Mixtec villages of the Oaxacan Coast in Mexico. The inhabitants carefully bleed the snails...
‘The River Villanelle’ and Other Poems by Samuel East The Society November 26, 2012 Poetry, Villanelle The Playground The playground stands beside itself In grey, and waits upon the hill. The books are stones upon the shelf, Their spines are...
‘Why Beauty Matters’: BBC Documentary The Society November 24, 2012 Art Famous British writer, philosopher, and composer Roger Scruton reaches an above average level of aesthetic clarity here in this inspiring...
‘Ballade for Trains’ and Other Poems by John J. Brugaletta The Society November 23, 2012 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 9 Comments Ballade for Trains They are no more, the whistles’ longing wails, Retreating like a stately, mournful queen. Where are the smokestacks that...
‘At Rainbow’s End’ and Other Poems by Jack Horne The Society November 22, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment At Rainbow's End At rainbow’s end, I looked for gold; And still I search, Alone and cold: The rainbow’s gone And now I’m...
‘The Atheist Scientist’ by Damian Robin The Society November 21, 2012 Poetry She swings huge plates and spins colliders, Shoots particles at stars to drown, (Slides coins from ears and tax providers Which wane and wax from...
Poetry by James Ph. Kotsybar of Lompoc, California The Society November 21, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Tipping Point In our millenium's first dozen years, they say we’re headed for a tipping point -- a disastrous sum of many fears when Nature...
Sonnet Sequence: On Cinderella The Society November 20, 2012 Poetry 5 Comments By Julie Catherine Vigna Sonnet III: Beginnings In bare and dusty feet she wields her broom With none save cat, and creatures of the...
Carrying a Torch for Rhyme and Other Poems by Mary Embree The Society November 19, 2012 Poetry Carrying a Torch for Rhyme Rhyming is out, some poets say You can’t express yourself that way For when you try for perfect rhyme With metered...
Virginity and Other Poems by Loetta Meister The Society November 16, 2012 Poetry By Loetta Meister Virginity Tender petals Tightly curled Make a rosebud Not unfurled Tender hearted Little girl Petals...
‘Enough’ and Other Poems by Felton Craig The Society November 15, 2012 Poetry 6 Comments Enough There is a God sized hole within the innermost regions of every soul. Its dark, and it is deep, its shadows are weeping with the...
The modern art market wears no clothes! The Society November 14, 2012 Art 7 Comments I’ve heard it said more than once now about today’s art market and it’s worth repeating: the emperor has no clothes! The classic Hans...
Poetry by Allison Ellison of Chapman, Kansas The Society November 13, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Chasing the Devil I’m losing sight of what I want. I’ve lost the things I need. Danger one step ahead of me, I can’t help but...
Response to ‘Payment’ by Ferdinand Keller The Society November 12, 2012 Art, Poetry By Neal Whitman The reckoning at end of day. Upon a bench two minstrels meet to split the payment equally. The reckoning at end of day. Some...
Poetry by Kevan Duer of Mount Ephraim, New Jersey The Society November 9, 2012 Poetry A Cold Truth If Love can move mountains I could move the Earth My Heart as a fountain We would never thirst If your Heart were the Sun I'd...
Poetry by Wayne Lee of Santa Fe, New Mexico The Society November 8, 2012 Poetry Seed Pot Seed corn, broodmare, hen: Half the earth is green, half brown. Man must plan for planting in spring to live off the...
Excerpts from The Art of Travel, by Brad Whitehurst The Society November 8, 2012 Poetry Postcard Gallery Thumbing through glossies gleaned from countless trips – Old Master paintings, drawings, and prints reduced to four-by-six...
Lord Byron’s Romantic Ode to the Ocean The Society November 7, 2012 Beauty, Education, Poetry, The Environment Below is an excerpt of the last ten stanzas of Lord Byron's ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ published originally in the 1810s. It may be read as...
Poetry by Robert Walton of King City, California The Society November 6, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Dawn Drums They march again to war, Sniffling, shuffling, voices muffled, Through dawn's uncertain door Youth and man, rich and...
Poetry by Neal Whitman of Pacific Grove, California The Society November 5, 2012 Poetry 3 Comments Villanelle Vows All that is in this delightful garden grows, Should happy be, and have immortal bliss. Edmund Spenser, Faerie...
Poetry by Robert Covelli of Santa Fe, New Mexico The Society November 2, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Street Idyll Calm is she who sits in white Because the source of her delight, Wherein the street relucts to sound Its violence, is so...
Poetry by Don Shook of Fort Worth, Texas The Society November 1, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Poetry For The Common Man No wonder poetry won’t sell, Since authors write it for themselves; And most of it would fare as well On dark and...
Poetry by Leland James of Bellaire, Michigan The Society October 31, 2012 Poetry 5 Comments Into The Mist This shadow life passing away, mute requiem of falling snow, a prayer to end the mortal day; then to a far sweet place I...
Living Master: Jeremy Lipking The Society October 30, 2012 Art 3 Comments By Michael Zakian In a remarkably short period of time, Jeremy Lipking has emerged as one of the country’s premier realist artists. His talent,...
Dance Ballerina Dance The Society October 29, 2012 Poetry 2 Comments By A. Michaelle Yarbrough The music of the crescendo plays so sweet As she moves across the floor so gracefully To a soothing gentle blossoming...
Rothko Painting Defaced: Of Course It Was The Society October 27, 2012 From the Society NEW YORK—Earlier this month, a man walked into the Tate Modern, in London. He walked up to a painting by modern artist Mark Rothko. The painting...
