Reasons to stay
Category: art
AG2025_1167249a or the necessity of noncompliance with pressures
The Poetics of Disobedience, Alice Notley, 1998.
For a long time I’ve seen my job as bound up with the necessity of noncompliance with pressures, dictates, atmospheres of, variously, poetic factions, society at large, my own past practices as well.
[…]
I recently completed a very long poem called Disobedience but I didn’t realize that disobeying was what I was doing, what perhaps I’d always been doing until the beginning of the end of it, though the tone throughout was one of rejection of everything I was supposed to be or to affirm, all the poetries all the groups the clothes the gangs the governments the feelings and reasons.
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When through the village lurking
Nought gives them check or fright,
No watch dog dares to bellow,
The Wolves, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, translated from the Russian by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
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And there ain’t
gonna be
any more
sad parties
between us two
because I’m
gonna forget
what I want
till I see
what I want
is you.
Those Everlasting Blues, Alfred Kreymborg
185-0631 or having spent my greediness
I am full having spent my greediness in a ritual of joy.
Wanda Coleman
villégiature
(italien villeggiatura, de villeggiare, aller à la campagne)
- Séjour à la campagne, à la mer, etc., pendant la belle saison, pour se reposer, prendre des vacances : Aller en villégiature sur la côte basque.
- Être en villégiature. (verbe intransitif)
AG2025_1167323a or newfound revenues
Sant’Andrea de Scaphis on Cowboys.
Miami-Dade’s 2025-26 budget proposal,
“The budget … calls for a cut of 52 percent (almost $13 million) in county financial support for arts organizations in Miami-Dade County. On Monday the chair of the County Commission, Anthony Rodriguez, released a memo calling for restoring $6.25 million of the cultural cuts by using newfound revenues from the independent Tax Collector’s office.” via Miami Herald.
How do we find $5 million more?
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“If you already do the Sunday crossword puzzle and it’s not challenging, pick up something new, find that exercise regimen that you’ll adhere to,” she says, “and if you can do it around people, that’s even better.”
Langbaum notes that socializing is one of the best ways to keep your brain young. (NPR)
