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It's harder than ever to make it as a creative. Here's an idea that might help.
Natalie Axton
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December 2022

Joe Koch on late style and staying present with impermanence.

November 2022

E.R. Zarevich. Posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, Amy Lowell was a self-educated poet who favored Imagism and rejected "safe…
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October 2022

Dian Parker on the timelessness of Jean Giono. "Sharing these fraught times with Jean Giono’s wisdom and genius buoys me."
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John McMahon on the power of Winslow Homer's work. "It’s as if Homer, a big mustachioed man, whipped these canvases up in a frenzy of paint to match the…
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September 2022

by John McMahon. The Romantic Realist, little remembered today, had a unique approach to watercolor landscape painting.
Sherry Shahan on Chelsea Girls. "An artist is somebody that produces things people don’t need to have." - Andy Warhol
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August 2022

by E.R. Zarevich. Best known for her novel 'Nightwood,' Djuna Barnes is regarded by the LGBTQ community as a writer who dared.
Winshen Liu on taking the time to pause. "And in taking the time to pause, to really see, I am gifted with hearing their voices shout the joy and…

July 2022

N.T. McQueen on having the strength to accept mystery.

June 2022

Alexander Sapien on Walt Whitman and staying true to one's self.
by Janna Grace. A century after the publication of her first volume, Aline Murray Kilmer’s brief Wikipedia page introduces her with the fact that…
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