Escape Into Life, online arts journal, pushes the boundaries of visual art and literature, blending the two together until they become a work of Visual Poetry.
Chicago, IL
Joined July 2008
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"I let each woman tell her story through my hands." Check out these gorgeous sculptures by Nancy Pirri in our new #Artist Watch column by @Doallas: escapeintolife.com/artist-wa…
#sculpture #art
Amanda Gorman: Regardless whether you stay to watch either the game or the ads, definitely a reason to turn on the TV for the pre-game show: cnn.com/2021/02/04/us/amanda… #SuperBowl2021 #poetry #poetry #Poetrycommunity
Poet @djvorreyer discusses death, grief, and how they come together in her upcoming book:
sundressblog.com/2021/01/25/…
#poetry #poetrycommunity
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If I die before you
which is all but certain
then in the moment
before you will see me
become someone dead
in a transformation [...]
I will cross over into you
and ask you to carry
not only your own memories
but mine too until you
Too lie down and erase us
—Galway Kinnell
Lovely! #painting #portraits
"Having overcome historic obstacles, (Biden) was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the investiture of the nation’s poetry-lover-in-chief."
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… #poetry #teachpoetry
With Trump now out of office, what can he expect? EIL media critic Nancy Heather Brown summarizes some of the allegations that await him in court. Quite a list!
escapeintolife.com/televisio… #Trump #LifeInTheBox
In all the excitement of #Inauguration - and sheer joy of watching @TheAmandaGorman deliver that beautiful poem, we forgot to share the #InaugurationDay comic that culminates our countdown. Phil Maish says bye-bye to #DonaldTrump - escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/… #comics #cartoons
"... For while we have our eyes on the future,
History has its eyes on us. ... "
Thank you, @TheAmandaGorman, for this beautiful inaugural poem.
#InaugurationDay #Inauguration2021 #inauguralpoetry
opb.org/article/2021/01/19/h…
Day 24 - with just one day to go: Lions and tigers and bears - oh my!
escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/… #countdown2021 #InaugurationDay #comics #cartoons
"Like King Midas, with a crucial difference: call him King Merde-as. Anybody here know French?" Day 23 of our countdown calendar:
escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/… #Inauguration2021 #2MoreDays #comics #cartoons
We're keeping an eye on the White House as Moving Day approaches. (Does he really own a bust of Abraham Lincoln?) escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/… #InaugurationDay2021 #countdown2021 #3MoreDays
Amanda Gorman discusses & reads her July4 #poem Believer's Hymn for the Republic: youtube.com/watch?v=9cZUl3hR… - Biden's #Inauguration2021 poet
"...And while we cannot shake or cast aside our past,
Every day we write the future. Together we sign it,
Together we declare it, we share it,..."
Full text: cbsnews.com/news/amanda-gorm…