When I arrived in Berlin for my 2019 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency, my father told me that he had been in Berlin, in the winter of 1986. Then I happened to spot my father on Glienicker Brücke via YouTube. As when I spotted my father in the photo of the 1961 martial law declaration at the old Seoul City Hall (see "DMZ Colony"), I knew immediately that finding my father on the bridge between Berlin and Potsdam was the unfolding of "Mirror Nation."Don Mee Choi on "BERLIN 28.6.2019" |
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"William Shakespeare: History, Performances, and Documentaries"
"The exact chronology of his plays is unknown and still debated by historians today, but it is generally accepted that the works were written between 1590 and 1613. The writer also published a poetry collection in 1609 consisting of 154 sonnets, including "Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" though they are debated to have been written in the 1590s."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ariana Benson on "Dear Moses Grandy, ...Love, The Great Dismal Swamp"
"The first time the land spoke to me through poetry, its message arrived in the form of a letter, not addressed to me, but from one lover to another. In “Dear Moses Grandy, …Love, the Great Dismal Swamp,” the murky, forested, ever-shrinking land of Southeastern Virginia (that was the backdrop of much of my childhood) writes to and commemorates her first lover: Moses Grandy, an enslaved man, who, in his single-person boat and with his rustic, handmade tools, carved canals out of the murk and morass that had scared many intrepid explorers away for good." |
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