Monthly Archives: March 2011

Basketball Courts. Dalai Lama. New York. 3.30.11

Inspired by the NCAA basketball games, I wrote quick basketball haiku last weekend and posted five on my blog. This week I’m taking one, using the last line as a start sentence and typing out a free-write post. Here’s the Read More

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Basketball Haiku. New York. March Madness. 3. 27.11

Since UNC is playing for the East Regional Finals tonight, I decided to sit down and write five basketball haiku quickly and post them immediately on Twitter. When I was a kid and teenager in NC, I played a lot Read More

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David Morris Cunningham. Solo Show. Woodstock. 3.17.11

The photographer David Morris Cunningham‘s solo show, Remembrance of Things Present, opened at the Woodstock Artists Association Museum last weekend, filling one of the galleries with beautifully toned images of the artist’s favorite possessions. The photographs are simple, yet textured, Read More

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Spring. Free Writing. Memory. 3.12.11

This is going to be a short post, just a moment taken from my notebook, and an example of how I use free writing. Sitting in a cafe, I began with the start line “tomatoes” and put pen to paper Read More

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David Hammons. L&M Arts. Upper East Side. NYC. 3.4.11

A couple of years ago, I was roaming around MoMA, not really going anywhere, just looking, and I turned a corner and saw a basketball hoop on an outrageously-tall pole leaning against the stark white of cavernous gallery wall. The Read More

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