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Words Plus Images

October 1, 2020 Tagged With: poetry, Washington Street Artists Cooperative

Looking down the beach shoreline on a partly cloudy day. painting.

The idea of soliciting poems to combine with art seemed to fit perfectly with he Washington Street Artists’ Cooperative's goals of expanding participation in art. Read the Full Story >>

Rick Taylor: on Cemeteries, Battlefields, and Tragic Lovers

July 25, 2018 Tagged With: book review, poetry

Rick Taylor’s poems can’t be pigeonholed. In his first book, Never Alone in a Cemetery, his words burst out in multiple directions, although the general theme could probably be defined as endings. There are cemeteries, bloody battlefields, suicides, massacres, lovers’ tragic deaths, and musings on aging. But he also looks at life—family, relationships, animals, birds, and even insects. Read the Full Story >>

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