"This Madness" by Saima Afreen

In "Solstice,” Ruth Williams is inspired a friend’s off-grid life, the polar opposite of her own.

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"Solstice” by Ruth Williams

Rochelle Hurt’s “Alice Neel—Andy Warhol (1970),” a prose poem about portraiture, responds to Alice Neel's portrait of Andy Warhol, painted as he was still recovering from an attempted assassination.

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“Alice Neel—Andy Warhol (1970)” by Rochelle Hurt

In Rochelle Hurt’s “Beth Lipman—Bride (2010),” the poet responds to a Beth Lipman piece at the North Carolina Museum of Art that is comprised of many small glass sculptures arranged in the shape of an enormous wedding cake.

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“Beth Lipman—Bride (2010)” by Rochelle Hurt

Rochell Hurt’s “Greer Lankton—It’s All About ME, Not You (1996)” responds to the last installation made by Greer Lankton at the Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh.

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“Greer Lankton—It’s All About ME, Not You (1996)” by Rochelle Hurt - Greer Lankton

A trip to John Adams’s opera with a friend in New York is recalled in Ciaran Berry’s “Doctor Atomic.”  Unfortunately, he forgot his glasses, and so missed a lot of what was happening on stage. A recording of a performance on the Met’s website filled in the gaps.

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“Doctor Atomic” by Ciaran Berry

Shara McCallum’s “Parable” is an allegory of motherhood, the nature of the self and selflessness, and faith.

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“Parable” by Shara McCallum

Shara McCallum’s ekphrastic sonnet, “The Storm” engages memory, bringing the past and future together through the image of the storm.

“The Storm” by Shara McCallum

Consider how the image permits us to look, slantwise, at the things we fear most in Shara McCallum’s “When the Night Comes in Its Dark Clothes.”

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"This Madness" by Saima Afreen

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