Whether you'd find a playlist like this on Spotify, I can't say. This one is from the History of Western Music curriculum. It's a curated...

Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me. (An Unquiet Mind, p. 97) Kay Redfield Jamison is one...

When depression and anxiety co-exist, and they take turns messing with your mind, it can be particularly challenging. These mixed...

I've been sharing recently about my mental health journey. Below those posts you'll find one called "Renewal and Healing," which speaks...

(I started calling this mental health awareness blog, Memoirs of My Madness. Not sure about that title now, but this is the next post.)...

Memoirs of my very own madness, Part 2: Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend [*This is the second in a series of memoir-essays on mental...

Memoirs of my journeys with mental illness across the Commonwealth and beyond, beginning when I was not yet 14… The summer of 1985...

This article by David Antrim affected me so powerfully when I read it last night, and so paralleled some of my own experiences (I wept...

My title refers to a MoMA COVID-era "playlist" in a recent Artforum feature on a new book about the surrealist feminist artist: The...

Check out the announcement below for more on a special "Listening to Paintings"! Collective Euphonia presents: Listening to Paintings:...

Below is a draft of a new poem which honors a vital modern poet, one of the most difficult and urgent lyric voices of the 20th century....

Below are the notes on the recital I'll be sharing via WLU's Livestream, Saturday Nov 7 at 8 pm (ET). I hope you can tune in to this...

Like me, do you find yourself interested in how creatives responded to the global pandemic 100 years ago during the Spanish Flu of...

After posting on FB about the presentation I shared in Romania this past December, I realized I hadn't shared its contents here, for...

(Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable at the Taubman Museum of Art, in "Pop Power" one of his last exhibits.) Memorial Poems and a Mixtape for Patrick...

"Great art has dreadful manners." So begins Simon Schama's Art (Vintage). "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you... Merciless...

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Children, sculpture group, Muzeul de Arte, Timisoara (10.19) #MuzeuldeArte, Timisoara (10.19) Pop Up | Magdalena...

After a self-guided walking tour of a pair of the city's squares or Piața (like Piazza in Italian), I'm glad I stopped in the Art Museum...

So excited and grateful after the debut residency of @CollectiveEuphonia, a new flexible ensemble of performing and creative artists for...

The "Cento" or "found" poem below is inspired by Cy Twombly's paintings, and the poetry scribbled, scrawled, scratched, painted over and...