[ad_1] January 25, 2021– In the first weeks of last year’s pandemic, “NPR asked listeners to respond to the art with a poem, a style of poetry called ekphrastic. For inspiration, NPR-resident poet Kwame Alexander selected two paintings: Heatwave by Kadir Nelson and Salvador Dalí’s Young Woman at a Window. Both show women inside looking…

[ad_1] January 24, 2021– “When I was a child, my father worked for a United Nations agency. His work meant that I was raised as a nomad, and I moved to a different country every so often: Tanzania, Italy, Ethiopia, Uganda and England. Annually, to my father was granted what the UN calls “leave at…

[ad_1] January 23, 2021– Chadwick talks about his struggle to keep his San Francisco gallery afloat during the pandemic. By emailing her list, she began pairing poems with paintings by her artists. “With the first one, I combined Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem” So Much Happiness “with a great painting by John DiPaolo. I did it…

[ad_1] January 22, 2021– “Science meets inspiration in this story of nature’s greatest hidden innovation: soil. ‘The Soil Story, by Kiss the Ground, is a five-minute film that shares the importance of healthy soil for a healthy planet Learn how you can “sequester” (store) carbon from our atmosphere, where it is harmful, and return it…

[ad_1] January 21, 2021– Amanda Gorman has achieved many firsts, including the first National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States at age 19. On January 20, 2021, Gorman, 22, read at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. What follows is a video of her reciting “The Morning Miracle,” a poem written several years ago…

[ad_1] January 20, 2021– “We are currently living in the midst of a planetary climate emergency, a global pandemic, uprisings against state violence against black, brown and indigenous peoples, and an economic system in crisis around the world. Pandemic lockdowns have forced major changes in lifestyle: changes in consumer habits, realizing how deeply connected we…

[ad_1] January 19, 2021– “As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests berries along with the birds, he considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, he asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reinvent coins? exchange?” (10 readings) Read full story To take actionDo something today…

[ad_1] January 18, 2021– “In some recent discussions with friends who are also creative, I have heard a variety of responses to the question, ‘How has Covid-19 affected your creativity?’. Some have been inspired to create new jobs. Others have talked about a Fallow year. It’s a term we rarely hear in a culture dedicated…

[ad_1] “Fragility clings to everything alive like the silent dampness of the morning dew in this global pandemic as a doctor I see this fragility Threatening to swallow so much of what we love like a big red blanket that covers a small bed and I can’t stop seeing it. “ Thus begins this powerful…

[ad_1] January 16, 2021– “In 2015, Barry and I were invited to have a conversation on stage at the Key West Literary Seminars. We loved the idea, but hated the title given, and we ended up talking on the phone for over an hour, trying to get there At a word that sounded like home…