Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates convicted of capital crimes. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work. The inmates emerge not as beasts or heroes but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings.
"Upheaval," "violence," "chasm"and "split." Such words describe San Francisco's Great Earthquake of 1906, and other temblors on the San Andreas Fault where the Pacific and North American Plates slide and grind. "Stress," "displacement," "turbulence," "rupture": these words also describe the lives of many contemporary youth who live along the ...
For the past decade, Providence, RI, has been the site of a radical underground art scene, giving rise to a multi-faceted, unbridled aesthetic that is as distinct as it is influential. As a celebration of the movement, The Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design is presenting the exhibition Wunderground. The companion publication, ...
Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates convicted of capital crimes. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work. The inmates emerge not as beasts or heroes but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings.
Masterfully conceived and crafted, the eleven pairs of objects designed by Jonathan Bonner to fit into an individual's trouser pockets are also completely preposterous in their functionality. Graphite and glass pocket balls pop out awkwardly from the leg, circular pocket magnets provide a novel way of carrying scissors, wrenches, and screwdrivers. ...
No longer the Muzak of the decorative arts world, wallpaper has lately fallen back into fashion. Though once derided by Modernists and Minimalists alike for its loud co-option of architectural space, the potential of wallpaper as an environmental medium can now be appreciated again. (One might speculate on the influence that a certain lifestyle ...
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