Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 22
October 25, 2010
October 24, 2010
Anti- Featured Poet #53
Matthew Cooperman*
October 23, 2010
Good Stuff
We cannot stop bullying by decrying the bullies. We must change our relationship to the value of difference. We must teach our children to be self-reflective, but also to love themselves first. ___Women and Bird in The Moonlight___A short essay by Harriet Monroe that addresses the issue of gender parity in poetry and publishing. Monroe reports reading an article by an "enemy-friend" (!) who
October 21, 2010
October 19, 2010
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"The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will."— First Lady Michelle Obama
The President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Today, Tuesday, October 19, at 2:15 p.m. EDT, the White House is holding a live chat with leaders from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities (PCAH). Tune in live or watch the archive afterward. You can also submit questions to be answered by the participants via the White House Facebook page. Participants in this first-of-its-kind live online chat will include: Chuck Close, PCAH
Art is for Everyone
Just in case anyone thinks otherwise._____
October 18, 2010
Craigslist and the Muse
Simone Lueck's Photographs Take Portraiture To A New Level*
October 17, 2010
Girl on a Bridge Reviewed in the Miami Herald!
A Sampling of Collections by Latinos, by Emma TrellasEmma Trelles reviews poetry collections by Adrian Castro, Francisco Aragón, Brenda Cárdenas, John Murillo and yours truly in The Miami Herald.• Girl on a Bridge. Suzanne Frischkorn. Main Street Rag. 57 pages. $14 in paper.While the title of this collection might imply despair, the poems are filled with a fierce wit and rueful sort of grace.
October 16, 2010
Steepletop
When poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen Boissevain, bought their farmstead in Austerlitz, N.Y., in 1925, Millay was 33 and already a Pulitzer Prize winner, opera librettist, political activist, literary celebrity, and symbol of unfettered feminism. Millay and Boissevain christened the property "Steepletop" after steeplebush, a flowering shrub that flourished in the area.
