✍️ Poetry

• 🏔️How Petrarch's Mont Ventoux Climb (Sort of) Pioneered Modern Mountaineering

  Petrarch's 1336 ascent of Mont Ventoux in Provence was a foundational moment for recreational mountaineering and spiritual self-discovery.

• 🤪Limerickipedia

  I built this — an online encyclopedia where every entry is a limerick. And it's all generated on the fly by LLMs, of course.

• 🪞Polishing the Mirror

  Explore how Rumi's poetic mirrors reflect the soulful journey of Sufism, blending divine love with psychological insights.

• 🌳The Road Less Traveled

  Journey back to August 1915 as Robert Frost publishes "The Road Not Taken," forever changing American poetry with its famous diverging roads.

• 🧤We don't believe because we don't recall

  A reflection on how our interactions with memories and artifacts shape our experience of beauty and loss, inspired by Proust's poignant insights.

• 🎨Calligraphy by Ahmed Shahnawaz Alam

  Exploring the timeless beauty of poetry through the artistry of calligraphy.

• ❄️To Winter, by William Blake

  A reflection on William Blake's evocative poem "To Winter," which captures the essence of the season and the power of nature.

• 🎨Untitled, by Joseph Cornell

  A reflection on the art of Joseph Cornell through the lens of Octavio Paz's poetry.

• 🎨Whitman sampler

  A delightful exploration of Walt Whitman's influence on poetry and art, featuring a discussion with three diverse poets.

• ✍️Speechless and renewed

  A reflection on the dual nature of poetry's impact, highlighting both its limitations and its profound significance.

• 🗽Hallelujah for the Walt Whitman Rest Stop, by Maria Kalman

  A glimpse into the cultural reflections captured by Maira Kalman during an inauguration-day trip down to Washington, inspired by Whitman's spirit.

• 🎨Good bad art

  Reflecting on Ogden Nash and Orwell's appreciation for "good bad" art.

• 🔄Accept, fuse, rehabilitate

  Quoting Walt Whitman.

• 🍃Turf-cutting

  A reflection on the contrasts between the art of turf-cutting and its poetic representation in Seamus Heaney's work.

• 🔥“Blacksmith Shop”, by Czeslaw Milosz

  A reflection on how childhood can connect us to our life's callings, as illustrated in Czeslaw Milosz's evocative poem, "Blacksmith Shop."