Categories
Photography Writing

The Negro speaks of rivers

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the […]

Categories
Just Shelley

Women’s Early art

As I was continuing my research into the mysteries of poetry for Poetry Finder, I stumbled on to an incredible site that I had to provide a link to — the Women’s Early Art network. There is no explanation to the site, no wordy “why we’re here”. All you’ll find at the site is art, elegantly presented, in […]

Categories
Just Shelley

Women’s Early art

As I was continuing my research into the mysteries of poetry for Poetry Finder, I stumbled on to an incredible site that I had to provide a link to — the Women’s Early Art network. There is no explanation to the site, no wordy “why we’re here”. All you’ll find at the site is art, elegantly presented, in […]

Categories
Writing

What is it?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I took my car in for its long overdue oil and filter change this afternoon. The place I use is right next to a Border’s (a book store) so I looked around there while waiting. I don’t know if other authors do this or not, but every time I go […]

Categories
Just Shelley

Hide the sparkle

I was surprised when I wrote the post You are how you write? that no one seemed to notice the irony in the page. In particular the paragraph: Of course, once I wrote this, I thought of Jonathon’s previous writing on Linguistic Imperialism, and the impact that political correctness is having on what we say. This all followed my […]