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...
Zhen Shan Ren Exhibition Opens in England (Video) The Society October 26, 2012 Art https://vimeo.com/51403347 Above is a video of the opening of The Art of Zhen Shan Ren Exhibition at The Poly in Falmouth. The Art of Zhen,...
The Contemporary Artist The Society October 26, 2012 Poetry By Damian Robin In view, he made a start. Filling up his cart, He flogged his horse apart And made a mess-age: "art." With few horse hairs...
‘Bells’ by Edgar Allan Poe (First Stanza) The Society October 25, 2012 Poetry HEAR the sledges with the bells -- Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy...
A Half Finished Verse on the Mountain of Sacrifice The Society October 24, 2012 Poetry By Xuanzang (Translated by Lan Hua) After unstinting effort Of the human frame To reach this mountain shelter Where a few words Suddenly...
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...
