Category: literature
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World-class Musicians Honor Turkey’s Long Relationship with Jazz (part 1) – Music in the Global Community
The “Genius of Soul” Ray Charles with Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun (photo by Fred Prouser and Reuters) “God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that…
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A Special World Book Day Present – Bright Skylark Literary Productions
Cover of forthcoming title Journey through the Power of Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Out of Poetry. “Sometimes the words came like ecstatic utterances, sometimes like songs whispered from another time, like actual angelic possessions, or like mental files that had been downloaded while I slept and then printed via…
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On Gratitude and the Poets Who Re-Empowered My Pen – Bright Skylark Literary Productions
(Digital art graphic courtesy of Bright Skylark Literary Productions) One of the greatest triumphs of the human spirit is the ability to exercise gratitude in the face of grievous…
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Sensualized transcendence: Editorial and poem on the art of Jaanika Talts (pt 2) – National African-American Art | Examiner.com
Image detail from video for “Be Still My Heart” by Paul F. Xaiver with art by Jaanika Talts. “The Universe said, ‘let me show your soul something beautiful.’” ––Aberjhani (from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love) If emergent expressionism lends chromatic form and…
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