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ReBirth: The Pursuit of Porsha

Reconnecting with The Darkness in the Light

Day: May 4, 2018

Do you recognize this famous dead guy?

Originally posted on The Plein Air Experience:
I’ll give you a hint. He did a lot of self portraits. I need practice on portraits. At Norfolk Botanical they have a sculpture garden with 11 statues of artists. I’ll try to get a likeness of some of the other artists, then do a finished drawing of…

2018-05-04 thefirstdark

Can you name this famous dead guy? part two

Originally posted on The Plein Air Experience:
This one is hard to guess. I never knew what he looked like until I saw his name on the statue. I’ll give you a clue in the photo below. It’s easier to get a likeness drawing from a statue than from a live model. I’m kind of…

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Can you name this famous dead guy part three, and story of strange bird encounter

Originally posted on The Plein Air Experience:
This guy is harder to name. I had to look him up, but if you study art history you might know him. I’ll give you a hint. He’s been dead over 2000 years. This is one of his masterpieces. Well, it’s not the original. That one was destroyed.…

2018-05-04 thefirstdark

See, D.C. [Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis]

Originally posted on The CDC Poetry Project:
Not the animals disassembled into discardable or valuable parts. The old ivories of no piano unable to make that dirge sing for me. Piece by piece, there’s no harmony, no reckoning. Don’t give them your science, based on no God, take the stars, cheap string-lights of our consolation.…

2018-05-04 thefirstdark

“We Like Stories That Bother Us.” A Chat with Jen Michalski, Editor-in-Chief of JMWW at The Review Review

Originally posted on JMWW:
? We were psyched that novelist Bryan Furuness talked with editor in chief Jen Michalski about the origins of jmww and what draws us to submissions. Thanks to The Review Review for publishing this informative piece! Regardless of the story that the author is trying to tell, we want words that…

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Facing Her Fears: An Interview with Chelsey Clammer (interviewed by Jen Michalski)

Originally posted on JMWW:
Chelsey Clammer is the essays editor at The Nervous Breakdown, and as an essayist, she has examined her own life in surprising and unnerving ways. Now, she’s hoping to help other women writers find a voice and face their own fears. Through the website Wow! Women on Writing, Chelsey’s created an…

2018-05-04 thefirstdark

ORIGINS Rewind: “Do You Have a Place for Me?” by Roxane Gay

Originally posted on JMWW:
We’re reopening submissions for our “Origins” series, where authors talk about the origin of a story, essay, or poem. The story, poem, or essay must not be self-published or in progress but appearing in a literary journal and accessible to our readership through the web (please include a link of the…

2018-05-04 thefirstdark

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