Posts Tagged ‘The Beautiful Work’

A little old school hxc for ya 5 days ago by outlawpoet. “If we just look, inside each of us a thousand rebellions sleep.” -From “Chorus of One” by Richmond, VA’s own Strike Anywhere


Words To Remember Over The Holidays 1 hour ago by alexodom. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain


Photos to Words

26Oct08

From Photos to Words “The way I understand it, a photographer’s relationship to his medium is responsible for his relationship to the world is responsible for his relationship to his medium.” —–Garry Winogrand


From Farley “Wise readers know that all stories follow two paths: The Stranger Comes to Town or The Journey. My life in motion suggested both.” –from “Life in Motion”, by Nicole Lamy


From Glints of Light Rescue by Jason Shinder When the doctor inserts his two fingers into my mother rectum, the pupils of her eyes move like blue-fish under the ice in a bucket before they are carried away. I am climbing out of a well and offering her some water. I am picking up her […]


From Glints of Light “See the cat? See the cradle?” 2 Again, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle: Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everything must have a purpose?” asked God. “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away.


From Not Without Dust and Heat from Beryl Markham’s West With the Night There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, […]


From the Outlaw Poet “Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.” -Mick Jagger


From Metatraveller Peter Straub “Since my fantasy job is identical to the job I have, I have to answer that question in this way: Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that […]


~Creative Writing at Longwood University~ An Education for the Working Writer The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake a sense of wonder in the world. G.K. Chesterton The Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University, situated in the beautiful rolling piedmont of Virginia, offers an undergraduate concentration and […]