WHITE UMBRELLAS AND RED DRESSES – Andre Kohn, the Impressionist painter who seeks the extraordinary in the ordinary

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ANDRE KOHN 1/3 – He was born in Stalingrad, raised by an artistically gifted family (his mother was a symphony…

BABY PICTURE – Poetry, by Anne Gray Harvey

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At the age of 46 – in 1974 – she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Anne Gray Harvey was…

BURNING ONESELF OUT – Poetry, by Adrienne Rich

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She is best known as a key figure in feminist poetry. For she, transformation goes beyond the act of writing,…

PURITY – Novel, by Jonathan Franzen

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He was born in Illinois, and is an American novelist and essayist. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981 and…

WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – Take me home, Country Road / John Denver

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TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD > Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older…

TO BE NOBODY – Poetry, by Edward Estlin Cummings

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Love poems and descriptive nature poems, would always be his favoured forms. Edward Estlin Cummings (1894/1962), he was born in…

DASHING OF CHARCOAL PORTRAIT SKETCHES – John Singer Sargent inside Edwardian era luxury

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JOHN SINGER SARGENT 1/3 – American origins, but Italian election, John Singer Sargent remained throughout his life tied to Italy,…

FOR HIM I SING – Poetry, by Walt Whitman

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On the West Hills of Long Island (New York), he was born 1819, on May day. His father was a…