Category Archives: Art

Daily Haiku: March 20, 2023

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

art studio a full day’s work under my nails by Annette Makino (USA) Editor’s Choices The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XXIII, No. 2,  June 2021

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Daily Double Haiku: July 16, 2022

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

museum terrace . . . i observe the flight of starlings     by petro c.k. (USA)

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 29, 2021

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

drips and droplets trickling across my canvas summer rain       by Rick Daddario (USA) https://19planets.wordpress.com/    

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Free Verse about Art

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Madame Matisse’s Hat by Sally Hewitt     He didn’t like Madame Matisse’s Hat pointed his Picasso nose in the air, harrumphing, and made the hand gesture for time-out, thus I had to break my concentration, my absorption in form … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: July 17, 2020

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

cool cave in France paintings of bulls and deer older than God       by Howard Lee Kilby (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, Fall, 1995

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Book Review: New Poetry Collection by Michael Escoubas

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

In Steve Henderson in Poetry and Paint, by Poet Michael Escoubas, we are offered an exceptional collection of ekphrastic poems complementing the art pieces of Henderson, a nationally-known painter. Escoubas’ poems are inspired by thirty-two of Henderson’s pieces, the latter … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: June 29, 2020

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

alpine lake an artist paints his melancholy by Eufemia Griffo (Italy) Haiku Dialogue, Jan. 30, 2019

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Ekphrastic Poem by Michael Escoubas

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Woman with a Parasol After a creation by Claude Monet painted in 1875 She seems to blend in with the wind with the clouds with the sky and the swing and sway of grasses and flowers— the green underside of … Continue reading →

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Racial Barriers Are Broken Down with Music, Art, and Poetry

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Spending so much time at home during this pandemic, I’m listening to more music. When I was growing up in the 60s, Motown, a record company with black singers in Detroit, Michigan, took off. It was music that touched the … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: June 4, 2020

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

plank by plank the bridge carries mount fuji home     (Japanese print with Roberta Beary’s haiku on exhibit at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in the UK)  

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