Poetry from Kentucky: Dear Blue Hill’s Stars The Society October 23, 2012 Poetry By Billy Cosby Tonight, whoever watered your fresh sky set the nozzle wide and the evening’s cheeks wear a dark blush with glimmering...
On Investing and Collecting Fine Art The Society October 22, 2012 Poetry (Epoch Times) - Torkom Demirjian is the president and founder of Ariadne Galleries on the Upper East Side. He has been a dealer of ancient art since...
Hirst’s 9,000 Dead Butterflies: A Modern Art Abomination The Society October 19, 2012 Poetry NEW YORK—News broke this week that Damien Hirst killed 9,000 butterflies to create his latest piece of warped modern art at the Tate Modern in...
Poetry from Kentucky: The Good Earth is Frozen Over, Dogs The Society October 18, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Billy Cosby The Good Earth is frozen over, dogs, but you two are scalding kilns with glassy stares that beam out in stripes, striking Earth’s...
Kadir Nelson’s Skilled Paintings Tell African-American Story The Society October 17, 2012 Art By Christine Lin NEW YORK—Painter and children’s book illustrator Kadir Nelson has long created images of the African-American experience. But...
On a Wind-brushed Night The Society October 15, 2012 Poetry By Damian Robin On a night-lit street, an empty pizza box Staggers against a wall like thrown-off knickers. Its flat and grey insides have...
Innocence’s Beauty: ‘Le rouge-gorge’ by Marina Dieul The Society October 11, 2012 Art Marina Dieul will have a show and sale at the Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ Nov. 8-11. Dieul was born in France. She showed great interest in...
A Basketball Poem: Free Time The Society October 10, 2012 Poetry By Catherine Tufariello Their shrieks careening dizzily between Delight and outrage, the students in the yard Are playing hard, Though they...
Photos Track Medieval Icelandic Sagas The Society October 8, 2012 Art NEW YORK—The English-speaking world has the tales of King Arthur. The Arab world has “One Thousand and One Nights.” The Scandinavian people of...
Superior Aesthetics: Save Big Bird Without Subsidies The Society October 5, 2012 Poetry By Evan Mantyk Gov. Mitt Romney was absolutely correct when he declared that government subsidies to PBS should be cut. But he wasn’t right...
I’m Sorry The Society October 5, 2012 Poetry By Aubrey Henderson The sweet silence evades me these long days, When I can close my eyes and hear God speak, Without words, He dissipates the...
Flash Point for New Renaissance The Society October 4, 2012 Art By Evan Mantyk NEW YORK—A new vigor for classical arts, like another Renaissance, was in the air at the Institute of Classical Architecture and...
Summer Houses in Winter The Society October 3, 2012 Poetry By Michael T. Young Ice is the past tense of water, is verb condensed to noun, pure speed contracted to a stasis of glitter, a brief foam...
Coming of Falun Holy King The Society October 2, 2012 Art "Coming of Falun Holy King" Oil on Canvas (42 x 156 inches) 2007, Kunlun Zhang, Xiaoping Chen. From the pinnacle of the cosmos descends the Holy...
The Goddess of Night The Society October 1, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Dan Skorbach The tired eyes have earned their time for resting The mind won't think and feet will move no more, And when the smallest pillow...
Why Poetry Should be Metered The Society October 1, 2012 Essays, Featured, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Forms 5 Comments Poetry should be metered, because metered poetry is, quite simply, better than free verse. This is for the same reason that realist art trumps...
Why Realist Art Matters The Society September 28, 2012 Art, Essays 1 Comment By Kara Lysandra Ross I was in Epcot Center in Disney World last year, and in the Innovations Center they had a computerized survey,...
Tang Poetry: The Gan Yu The Society September 27, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Chen Z'iang (Translated by Lan Hua) The orchids birthed Through spring And summer both Such luxuriant growth How can leaf Be so...
Refreshing Realism: Shaun Downey The Society September 26, 2012 Art "Shaun Downey strives to breathe fresh life into realist painting by combining classical ideals within the context of his own life and surroundings....
An Abandoned Garden The Society September 25, 2012 Poetry By Robert Crawford By August I noticed the lack of care, And now in September I feel the despair; The rusting tools, the vanished rows, Reveal...
The Red Dragon Slayer The Society September 23, 2012 Art, Poetry In the picture above, a Chinese citizen writes the words "Tui Dang" (literally "Quit Party") signifying his resignation from the Chinese Communist...
At Night in the Mountain Temple The Society September 21, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Li Bai (Translated by Lan Hua) In the rickety tower A hundred feet high My hands could pluck The stars from the sky I dare not...
Journey The Society September 20, 2012 Poetry 2 Comments By Dan Skorbach If I could talk to trees and meet with mighty lions, If I could ride the winds and gain the moon’s advice, I’d ask how they...
Meredith Bergmann: Beauty and Irony in Sculpture The Society September 19, 2012 Art By Christine Lin NEW YORK—Walking along an avenue or through a city park, one is likely to encounter sculptures. They are permanent or...
New Works of Classic Byzantine Iconography The Society September 14, 2012 Art By Tim Gebhart In a little studio in Madison, Wis., Drazen Dupor carries on a tradition that flourished in the sixth century—the art of...
9/11 Poem: No Cheeks Turn The Society September 13, 2012 Poetry By Aubrey Henderson Reluctantly I emerged from natures Soothing womb; forsaking the assuagement Of community, for the dark lament Emanating...
Prayer Flags The Society September 12, 2012 Poetry By Aubrey Henderson You battle with our demons in the dark. You wake up screaming from your troubled dreams. Memories of the dark day you...
9/11 Poem: Two Streams The Society September 11, 2012 Poetry By Evan Mantyk There is a dark and forceful urge to blame The nine-eleven terrorist attacks On religion, on security gone slack, On our...
Meredith Bergmann’s ‘September 11th’ The Society September 10, 2012 Art A moving sculpture that vividly depicts a woman with two airplanes crashing into her forearms, Meredith Bergmann's monumental bronze sculpture...
Play: An Iliad for Our Generation (Act II) The Society September 7, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment In this refashioned version of Homer’s Iliad, the mystical hero Achilles’ clashes with the doubting King Agamemnon over a woman, throwing the...
Reverence The Society September 7, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Joshua Philipp So deep grown were our rings of sin, lost hope had humankind, lost hope for sight of spring again, our fates could not...
Writing Classical Poetry Is Easy (at Least to Begin With) The Society September 7, 2012 Education, Essays, From the Society, Poetry Forms 3 Comments . Writing Classical Poetry Is Easy(at Least to Begin With) by Evan Mantyk There is very little difficulty behind writing classical poetry from a...
Resources for Educators The Society September 7, 2012 Education, Poetry Lesson Plans, Readings with Questions, and Sample Essays: Lesson on the Poetry of Bruce Dale Wise (Society of Classical Poets Competition...
Patricia Watwood: Art That Reaffirms Value in Human Life The Society September 6, 2012 Art NEW YORK—Patricia Watwood and two other artists came together in June at the Forbes Galleries, where she held an exhibition to espouse the virtues...
Poetry The Society September 6, 2012 Poetry 3 Comments By Tom Zart God has always had his poets Who He watches with love from space. But Satan has his poets too Who try to lead us from our...
Germany Resurrecting Baroque Palace by Popular Demand The Society September 5, 2012 Art By Christian Watjen BERLIN—Standing in a green field in the cultural heart of the German capital, an Italian tourist desperately looks around,...
Satirical Poems on Modern Chinese Society The Society September 5, 2012 Poetry Translated by Gary Pansey Ridiculing Social Status In Their Proper Places First come officials And then of course their boss, Next come the...
‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ by Samuel Johnson The Society September 4, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of...
The Watercolors of Jeffrey L. Benson The Society September 1, 2012 Art 1 Comment Jeffrey L. Benson, an artist living in Orland Park, Ill., paints landscapes with architectural elements, in part to preserve the history of old...
The God of This World to his Prophet The Society September 1, 2012 Poetry By Bill Coyle Go to the prosperous city, for I have taken pity on its inhabitants, who drink and feast and dance all night in...
