Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 16
April 7, 2011
Great News!
Paul Guest, one of my favorite people as well as one of my favorite poets, is a 2011 Guggenhiem Fellow! ♥
March 31, 2011
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I know it's not easy being an artist. I know the gulf between creation and commerce is so tremendously wide that it's sometimes impossible not to feel annihilated by it. A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance
March 28, 2011
Anti- Feature #61
Charles Jensen with three selections from NANOPEDIA.*
March 25, 2011
Live
My review of Simmons Buntin's wonderful new collection Bloom, appears in the current issue of Terrain~**
March 24, 2011
March 23, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor
Playing a doe-eyed heiress in A Place in the Sun or a hysterical alcoholic harpie in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Taylor possessed enormous talent, one thing so many current "celebrities" lack. They may have Taylor's beauty or penchant for personal drama, but few have the ability to tear up a screen like Dame Elizabeth. Over the course of her eight decades, Taylor showed us what it means to
March 21, 2011
March 19, 2011
Tonight!
...a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.*
March 18, 2011
Can I get a witness?!
There are skeptics, of course, including some parents, many preschool teachers, and even a few policy-makers. Shouldn't very young children be allowed to explore, inquire, play, and discover, they ask? Perhaps direct instruction can help children learn specific facts and skills, but what about curiosity and creativity—abilities that are even more important for learning in the long run? Two
