“Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty,” at the Dallas Museum of Art
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Tx. April 15, 2016 – August 14, 2016 (now closed) Exhibition website Lingeri...
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Seamus Heaney, “A Hagging Match”
A Hagging Match (from The New Yorker) Seamus Heaney Axe-thumps outside like wave-hits through a night ferry: you whom I cleave to, hew to, splitting firewood. C...
Kay Ryan, “Fatal Flaw”
Fatal Flaw (from Erratic Facts) Kay Ryan The fatal flaw works through the body like a needle, just a stitch now and then, again and again missing the heart. Mos...
Xenophon, “Apology of Socrates”
Xenophon, Apology of Socrates for Glen Thurow, whose civility & graciousness I still marvel at, and for Peter Lund, who understands how personal the love of...
Walt Whitman, “The Runner”
The Runner Walt Whitman ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner; He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs; He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as h...