MAPL E |    Robert Frost Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...

                               What the earth bequeathed us                                  This is what was bequeathed us:       ...

A couple of days ago, I stumbled on the site of ' The Open Ears Project ':  ' Part mix tape, part sonic love-letter, the Open Ea...

"Interestingly, women make up the majority of art restorers in Florence.  This professional dominance can be traced back to the mid-6...

“ I will not surrender my heart, ” the tenderly ferocious poet ire’ne lara silva has said. “I will not surrender my art. My poems and my ...

          All this           Winter beach, desolate. Wind-whipped, exhilarated, salt           air stings our faces. Sand, marshmallow...

"[A person] does not think  with  [her] hands, but the intellect of a painter certainly thinks  in  [her] hands, so much so that, i...

          Tonight I want to say something wonderful           for the sleepwalkers who have so much faith           in their legs, so much...

Some years ago, I  was Artist-in-Resident for a week in the Caselberg Trust's cottage on the Otago Peninsula. In the kitchen c...

Artist Unknown                      BIRD                      It was passed from one bird to another,                     ...

                                     I SAW HER DANCING                                       Nothing moves in a straight line,       ...

                                             EARTH                                               Let the day grow on you upward    ...