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Month: March 2018

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Ode to a Bright Idea

Posted on March 31, 2018April 4, 2018 Mel Johnson

A common household annoyance begins with a flash and a small puff of smoke. It’s time to change a light bulb. However, imagine if you had a light bulb that never burned out. My mother has one of those in our family home. She says it’s an original carbon filament

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Greer County’s Dizzying Colonial History

Posted on March 21, 2018April 6, 2018 Mel Johnson

By Kevin Hudson Ryan Clark’s experimental form for his poems, in which he dismantles his source material and rearranges it using homophonic translation, in some ways mirrors the history of the towns he chose to portray. Whereas today’s Greer County is contained within Oklahoma, Frazer and Navajoe are part of

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Excerpts from ‘Old Greer County’

Posted on March 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Mel Johnson

These two poems are part of Ryan Clark’s series exploring the history of the part of southwest Oklahoma that was once Greer County, Texas. … Continue readingExcerpts from ‘Old Greer County’

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The Conjurer

Posted on March 3, 2018October 29, 2018 Mel Johnson

This poem by Susan J. Cronin implores of the reader the same thing painter Hieronymus Bosch, who died in 1516, did of his audience: Look again. … Continue readingThe Conjurer

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Bosch’s Works: Not What They Seem

Posted on March 3, 2018March 11, 2018 Mel Johnson

By Gina DiGiovancarlo Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjurer is a genre painting, set in a daily situation rather than a strictly religious one, which depicts a street magician entertaining a crowd. What appears to be a benign scene upon first glance, like many of Bosch’s paintings, is actually a visual representation

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