A VISUAL COMPILATION OF THINGS THAT INSPIRE ME.

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Mexico travel poster issued by the Mexican Tourist Association (1945). Artwork by Alfonso X. Peña.

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Ruth and James McCrea, Cover design for Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway. Oil paint on board

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Wild West, 1920, M.C. Escher

Medium: woodcut

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unknown

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Notebook affirmations of #OctaviaButler

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Poetry is a merciless craft: it is notoriously undervalued (especially compared to other forms of art or writing), is made to seem hyper-sophisticated/esoteric and inaccessible, is often trapped in the ivory tower, and is bound to come with lots of rejection. It is easy to get bogged down by low slam scores or numerous rejections for publications or various opportunities. And it is difficult to find sustainable employment as a writer or teacher or poetry. So what keeps me going are two-fold: the way poems always seem to nourish me, and the way poetry communities ardently support each other.

Aerik Francis, interviewed for Shoutout Colorado (via bostonpoetryslam)

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Morocco.Neighbourhood of Mouassine. Wool dyers.1977

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'Housetop' quilts from the Gee's Bend Quiltmakers

Mary Lee Bendolph, 1980 // Nancy Pettway, n.d. // Rebecca Myles Jones, 1950s // Lucy T. Pettway, c.1970 // Katie Mae Pettway, 2002 // Lucy Mingo, 2008

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Anna May Wong

Motion Picture vol. XLII no. 3, October 1931

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Circle Limit with Butterflies, 1950, M.C. Escher

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Dan Tribe   Ivory Coast    National Geographic July 1982     Michael and Aubine Kirtley

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ITALY. Rome. Trastevere. Via della Lungarina. View from a window: Dance of the Dresses. 1953.

© Herbert List/Magnum Photos

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Female Nude I, 1920, M.C. Escher

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Zbigniew Herbert, as quoted by Ilya Kaminsky in ‘Of Strangeness That Wakes Us’

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Shalom Harlow and Mark Vanderloo for Versace by Bruce Weber

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