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Like diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in ukraine have come up short. During talks in london between us secretary of state john kerry and russias foreign minister sergei laptop. The two could not bridge their differences kerry was trying to put the brakes on a possible annexation of ukraines Crimean Peninsula residents are set to vote on sunday on whether to leave ukraine and become part of Russia Washington and europe say they will not recognize the outcome of that referendum and the thr...

Most of us will see a dry day and actually sunshine a little more than what we saw yesterday. As we break down today, 9 00 a. M. It will be mostly cloudy. Pretty much what we have been saying every single day. By noon time we should have partial clearing. By 3 00 p. M. We are looking for a hike in land either the south bay or the east bay. Lows 60s and may be upper 60s. North bay shower and then tomorrow well all see it. I will talk more about this coming up. We continue to monitor a hot spot fr...

Border Crossings presents issue 164 on Art & Poetics.

This is what I think: that one feels nothing while writing a poem and only sort of thinks. It’s a high-wire act. Maybe. And the feelings associated with a poem, long or short, are entities from before and after the writing of the poem—which may well contain them—but one doesn’t, even cannot, experience them while writing.

UNIVERSALIZING HISTORIANS have given the newspaper comic strip a distinguished pedigree as the twentieth-century descendant of sacred Egyptian hieroglyphics. True or not, no classic strip was better suited to embellish the inner sanctum of Pharaoh Tut’s tomb than Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running tot saga Nancy. 

On the morning of New Year’s Day, along the sleepy streets of the East Village in Manhattan, scarf-bundled crowds trickled into St. Mark’s C

Martha Diamond, a painter’s painter who captured the endlessly changing face of New York’s buildings, streets and light-filled vistas with d

Painter Martha Diamond, an artist’s artist who late in life gained fame for her blurry, glowing New York City skylines, died in New York on December 30, 2023, at the age of seventy-nine, following a long illness.

On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon for the last half-century.

Her work, at the border of representation and abstraction, cast a strong influence over younger painters but did not gain broad public recognition until late in her life.