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The opening poem of David Sanders’ latest collection, "Bread of the Moment," suggests ways to look deeply at what meets the eye. “Watching a train go by behind/ the barren

WOUB Digital · David Sanders meditates on time, memory, and The Beatles in 'Bread of the Moment'We are always in the present.It’s a mysterious state. We are forever bookended by what we thi

The Ghosts of Athens County: Enchanted Ground [and] The Spirit Room of Jonathan Koons

Award-winning choreographer Deborah Hay has established her archive at the a href= https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ target= _blank Harry Ransom Center /

Photographers sometimes use special techniques to improve their images. But when do they cross the line between enhancement and fabrication? The distinction resonates in Mary Dixie Carter’s début novel, “The Photographer” (Minotaur, $27.99, 304 pages). Professional photographer Delta Dawn of New York City specializes in shooting children’s birthday parties, which rarely consist of unblemished delight. So she might replace a frown with a smile or remove incipient tears an...

在任何季节中阅读都别有滋味,春天明媚、秋季闲适、冬日慵懒,而喝着冷饮听着蝉鸣,在午后雷阵雨的释放中感悟文字的力量,也是这个火热时节里的独特体验 阳光、雨水与蝉鸣,令人憧憬的暑假又来临了。孩子们终于可以从学业中暂时松一口气,投入各种新奇的活动体验中去。当然,如果不想出门,炎炎夏日,也正是读书的好时节,毕竟一本好书陪伴度过的夏日午后,充实与愉悦,并不会...

Novelist Charles Dodd White: Virtual Reading & Craft Talk Community Event Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 12:00pm to Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 12:00pm A recorded talk on "Art as Political Activism" followed by a reading from the new novel HOW FIRE RUNS. (45 minutes total). Charles Dodd White is the author of four novels, including two from Ohio University Press/Swallow Press: How Fire Runs and In the House of Wilderness. He has received the Appalachian Book of the Year Award and the Chaffi...

Art by Matt Chase. The law of imitative representation, aka mimesis, reigned supreme in Western art for so long that its resistors sometimes found it hard to stop battling it, even when and where it had lost its grip. Consider, for example, some responses to so-called concrete poetry on the part of advocates of so-called conceptual art. The writer and critic Lucy Lippard differentiates between concrete poetry’s naive strategies of linguistic resemblance “wher...