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Debbie Strange is a widely published Canadian short form poet, haiga artist, and photographer. Her first collection, Warp and Weft, Tanka Threads, is available through atlaspoetica.org. She invites you to visit her archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca.
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Marianne Paul is a Canadian novelist and poet. In recent years, she has become fascinated with minimalist poetry, studying haiku, tanka, haiga, and haibun. Her work has been published in many contemporary journals, both online and in print. Learn more about Marianne’s writing at literarykayak.com and on twitter @mariannpaul.
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Marianne Paul is a Canadian novelist and poet. In recent years, she has become fascinated with minimalist poetry, studying haiku, tanka, haiga, and haibun. Her work has been published in many contemporary journals, both online and in print. Learn more about Marianne’s writing at literarykayak.com and on twitter @mariannpaul.
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Debbie Strange is a widely published Canadian short form poet, haiga artist, and photographer. Her first collection, Warp and Weft, Tanka Threads, is available through atlaspoetica.org. She invites you to visit her archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca.
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Olivier Schopfer lives in Geneva, Switzerland, the city with the huge lake water fountain. He likes capturing the moment in haiku and photography. His work has appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2014 as well as in numerous online and print journals. He also writes articles in French about etymology and everyday expressions at Olivier Schopfer raconte les mots.
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Michele S. Cornelius follows her lens to natural places throughout Alaska attempting to discover the meaning of life, reinterpreting it at her whim. Her website can be viewed at michelescornelius.com
There was an Old Man who supposed
That the street door was partially closed;
But some very large Rats ate his coats and his hats,
While that futile Old Gentleman dozed.
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Edward Lear used to illustrate his limericks with drawings. My answer is the photograph of graffiti street art I took in London, UK.
—Olivier Schopfer
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Olivier Schopfer lives in Geneva, Switzerland, the city with the huge lake water fountain. He likes capturing the moment in haiku and photography. His work has appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2014 as well as in numerous online and print journals. He also writes articles in French about etymology and everyday expressions at Olivier Schopfer raconte les mots.
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Debbie Strange is a short form poet and an avid photographer. Her first tanka collection, Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads, is available on Amazon, and she invites you to visit an archive of her published work.
Mural with Matching Sky
On the corner by the pub car park is a new mural
after van Dyck’s Venetia Lady Digby on her Deathbed.
Let me count the ways this work inspired by a portrait
of a dead woman paradoxically fills me with happiness.
Huge and bright and apart from the rose mostly blue,
it’s by the German artist Claudia Walde, aka MadC,
a woman of bold vision and talent and about the age
Venetia Digby was when she died in her sleep in 1633.
What Claudia did here is such a surprise: a nifty project,
these “old master murals” by street artists talking back
to their chosen works in the gallery have flashed up
on blank walls and gable ends all over Dulwich, but
none has taken my breath, none makes me stop and
smile and ponder each time I see it the way this does –
a mistressful meeting of past and present, private and
public art, death and unrestrained but not unthinking life.
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Links: Venetia Lady Digby on her Deathbed by Anthony van Dyck | MadC | Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Jean Morris lives in Dulwich, south-east London, UK, where she writes, edits, translates from French and Spanish and takes photos. For the past six months she’s been contributing to the Via Negativa
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Fabrice Poussin is assistant professor of French and English at Shorter University, Rome, Georgia. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in France at La Pensee Universelle, and in the United States in Kestrel and Symposium. His photographic work has also been published in Kestrel, and is scheduled for upcoming publications as well.
