Click Here to Read: What the Russian Revolution meant for modern art and culture By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on February 28, 2018.
Soviet leaders Red Square, Moscow, USSR celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution. Photo: L.Y. Leonidov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: 37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography: In a time of bald-faced white supremacy and discrimination, the Nebraska exhibition Monarchs feels vitally relevant by Jillian Steinhauer on the HyperAllergic website on February 14, 2018.
Native American Basket Weavers. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Kalpana Asok
Namaste, everyone, as you look at this beautiful picture of our February poet, who has been in this country for thirty-one years. Her country of origin was India and her native language Tamil, but her primary language is English. The greeting, as many of you know, is given with the hands pressed together and a small bow, meaning the recognition of the divine in another person.
What better time could there be to recognize the soul in every human being than this, when the world is talking and thinking about immigration and when much of that talk has been less than generous and even hostile? But here, with Kalpana Asok, we have someone who is kind and grateful, as we will see from her poems and the story of her life. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2018
