Tag: poetry

  • Nanni Balestrini Political Art Retrospective Exhibition Includes Early Computer Works

    Nanni Balestrini Political Art Retrospective Exhibition Includes Early Computer Works

    CENTER FOR ITALIAN ART ANNOUNCES NEW EXHIBITION: NANNI BALESTRINI: ART AS POLITICAL ACTION ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOICES ON VIEW NOW UNTIL- JUNE 22, 2024 Nanni Balestrini, Cavallo, 1963. Collage on paper. Private collection, courtesy Frittelli arte contemporanea, Florence (New York, February/March, 2024) – The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) has launched its new exhibition, NANNI BALESTRINI: ART AS…

  • AI Induced Shifting Subtexts- What Is And What Isn’t Art?

    AI Induced Shifting Subtexts- What Is And What Isn’t Art?

    Let’s go back to 2016 and re-consider how the works highlighted below are more relevant today than ever when asking “What is and isn’t art?”.  The recent surge in AI and chatbot produced ‘art’ has created new challenges in recognition, interpretation and validation. Or has it? [J.Barker Content Producer for The Silo]   It became immediately…

  • Being In Canada 54 Years And Involved In Social Change

    Being In Canada 54 Years And Involved In Social Change

    This year, I have been in Canada 54 years. It is difficult to define what I need to do but I have to be more active, more involved in positive social change…….The state of Trumpism gnaws at me.   A few years ago, during March 2017, about 40 of my photographs (1967 – 1974) of…

  • Yoga Legend Offers 7 Ways To Make Morning Time Your Favorite

    Yoga Legend Offers 7 Ways To Make Morning Time Your Favorite

    Most people dread the moment the alarm clock goes off having to fight their way out of bed to start the day.  But what if you could turn morning time into your favorite time of the day, where waking up is actually easy and more enjoyable? Yoga legend Aadil Palkhivala, known across the world as…

  • Art Meets Politics Via China Pirate Video Underground

    Art Meets Politics Via China Pirate Video Underground

    Ukrainian music the world needs to hear Recent Ukrainian laws requiring that one in four songs on the radio be Ukrainian, not Russian or any other language, have met resistance from DJ’s  who claim there is just not enough local talent. Ukrainian linguist and music lover Vira Vyrśka says there is plenty to choose from and…

  • Vision Quest Poetry Inspired By Spirit And Landscape Of Scotland

    Vision Quest Poetry Inspired By Spirit And Landscape Of Scotland

    In her youth, Wendy E. Slater found her greatest gift of expression in poetry- and then went dormant. Years later, on a trip to Scotland, the fount reopened. She had been through a crucible of chronic illness that forever changed her, launching Slater on a quest for meaning and life reexamination. That quest opened a…

  • Seven Years War Story Behind Our Civic Holiday

    Seven Years War Story Behind Our Civic Holiday

    As the civic holiday some refer to as Simcoe Day approaches, I wish to shine light on Upper Canada’s first lieutenant-governor. Born Feb. 25, 1752, in England, John Graves Simcoe, although best known as lieutenant-governor, was also a member of British Parliament, colonial administrator, army officer, and commander of the Queen’s Rangers during the Revolutionary…

  • Poetic Grace Gesture Is Needed In All Art Work

    Poetic Grace Gesture Is Needed In All Art Work

    Dear Reader, it is difficult to deny that a side of art making is fatally concerned with the poetic grace of the gesture – it is expected that a work should exude a cosmic and ineffable air. Regardless of your medium, I hope this glance into the minds of two established poets from very different…

  • Words A Spoken Word Poem

    Words A Spoken Word Poem

    “Words”. Thoughtful contemporary poetry from Allen Minor.   Allen Minor is From Utica, New York and lives in Daytona Beach, Florida @allen_minor (Twitter) allen minor (YouTube) allen-minor (Tumblr) allen_minor (Instagram) Website  http://Amazon.com/author/asminor

  • Through Mediums of Painting and Written Narrative, FLY shares Tales of Tremendous Strength and Courage

    Through Mediums of Painting and Written Narrative, FLY shares Tales of Tremendous Strength and Courage

    Los Angeles, USA – FLY has launched a one-of-a-kind artistic-inspirational campaign on Kickstarter, presenting the world’s first ‘pen & ink’ art book, solely designed to inspire and uplift its readers. Using pen and ink portraits and written narrative, FLY tells the stories of known and unknown human beings who dazzled the world against all odds,…

  • Touching Is Our First Form Of Communication

    Touching Is Our First Form Of Communication

      The moment we become parents we use our sense of touch to communicate with our brand new baby.  I will never forget that first moment in my each of my babies lives, when they started to experience and explore the world completely independently of me.  The first thing I did was reach out to…

  • Fish Quill Poetry Boat tour returns to the Grand River

    Fish Quill Poetry Boat tour returns to the Grand River

                     Toronto, ON – A group of artists is setting out on a ten-day poetry and music tour by canoe down the Grand River in southwestern Ontario. For the fourth year running, the group, calling itself Fish Quill Poetry Boat, will be paddling from Elora to the Six…

  • Remembering The Children Of Terezin

    Remembering The Children Of Terezin

    The first thing I noticed was the pebbles. There had to be a hundred. Maybe more. All perched lovingly atop the unmarked grave. I took a deep breath and went closer. Each step taken with respect. To those underneath the pebbles, their families, their communities, their lives. Time stopped. I knelt. My hand reached out.…