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A little pre-spring poetry | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. On Thinking About Polar Bears. 30 Days of Poetry – Karen Rile’s April Poem-a-Day Project →. A little pre-spring poetry. February 28, 2014. That flinch hovering by the yew–. What’s in his beak, a dot or a dash? A black dog, or a dot, is sleeping on the glass. The first robbers of spring: they’re. Flatter, more bloodthirsty than last year. All over the wet lawn, pulling up apostrophes. Desiccating on the flagstone. Poor Y...
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Cleaver Magazine Issue 2 – coming tomorrow! | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Choose Your Own Ending. The Violin Addiction →. Cleaver Magazine Issue 2 – coming tomorrow! June 4, 2013. We’ve been working overtime behind the scenes getting Issue No. 2 of Cleaver Magazine. Ready for tis June 5th launch. And that’s tonight at midnight! The illustration you see here is one of 8 potential covers that made it to our finalist list– the actual cover will be revealed tonight when the issue goes live. Afict...
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Little Free Library! | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Violinist.com Parenting Columns. Busking in Chestnut HIll →. August 12, 2014. We’d been reading about Little Free Libraries. This year and we just loved the idea who wouldn’t? Earlier this summer, while on an evening walk, we came across one. Come by and visit! Violinist.com Parenting Columns. Busking in Chestnut HIll →. 8212; 1 Comment. Pingback: Little Free Kids’ Library now open for business! 30 Days of Poetry, 2016.
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RileSmith Arts | the intersection of art & life | Page 2
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. 30 Days of Poetry, 2016. April 30, 2016. One a day, added throughout April. Woodpecker at the chimney,. Tapping: April Fools. 1/30. In a cloud-lit room 2/30. They’re flying off their branches. In this spendthrift wind. 3/30. The red baseball cap. Flying off the bald man’s head. The squirrels are chuckling. 4/30. The Callery pear,. Doesn’t know it stinks. 5/30. The last snowfall of April,. Gone by 10 am?
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Choose Your Own Ending | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Cleaver Magazine Issue 2 – coming tomorrow! Choose Your Own Ending. April 24, 2013. Every spring I teach a 14-week undergraduate writing workshop at my university. My students are riveted by the contests. One of the reasons we do these contests is that I want them to understand the way artistic work is adjudicated by committees. Yesterday, our last class of the semester, we tackled Endings. Now defunct. Perfect. Cleaver...
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TREE HARMONICS | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A populist plea for classical music. Choose Your Own Ending →. April 14, 2013. For Calla on her 19th birthday. A modulation in the wind. Foreshadows the new harmonics. A modulation in color:. Cherry petals resolve towards green,. Yellow-green, as if liquid light. Were puddling in those thin leaf-cups. We are now in the key of e-flat. I’d forgotten this would happen,. As while you were growing I forgot. Do What Scares You.
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Talent Loves Company | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Zino & Beck. In The Bleak Midwinter →. January 13, 2014. This essay originally appeared on Violinist.com. I’ve said that a lot over the years: This is my best class ever! I always mean it sincerely, but you’ve got to wonder if I’m just temporarily blinded by my enthusiasm for the writers I’m spending so much time with. Or is it actually possible that the students at my university are getting better and better? You may h...
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Poor Yorick and the Viola: Melissa Dunphy’s iHamlet opens at the Philly Fringe | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Busking in Chestnut HIll. Little Free Kids’ Library now open for business! Poor Yorick and the Viola: Melissa Dunphy’s iHamlet opens at the Philly Fringe. September 5, 2014. This article originally appeared on Violinist.com. Melissa Dunphy stars in iHamlet, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre. Philadelphia’s resident all-arts phenom, in the title role as Hamlet. One of our city’s finest Shakespearian actors, is also a.
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A populist plea for classical music | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. TREE HARMONICS →. A populist plea for classical music. March 25, 2013. Forcing her to listen to it over and over. It might take a while, but I’m certain that she would emerge, blinking in the light, metamorphosed.” — Caeli Smith. During her spring break, Caeli. Wrote an essay about what it takes to love classical music. It was originally for her blog, The Sound Post. TREE HARMONICS →. Rile Smith Arts Blog: Recent Stories.
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Busking in Chestnut HIll | RileSmith Arts
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The intersection of art and life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Poor Yorick and the Viola: Melissa Dunphy’s iHamlet opens at the Philly Fringe →. Busking in Chestnut HIll. August 26, 2014. Early this afternoon I came across this woman busking in front of Kilian Hardware. Poor Yorick and the Viola: Melissa Dunphy’s iHamlet opens at the Philly Fringe →. Busking in Chestnut HIll. 8212; 4 Comments. 08/26/2014 at 6:13 pm. 08/27/2014 at 10:23 pm. This is a poignant, beautiful portrait....
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