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Ultraviolet rays shine new light on masterpieces by 14th century artist Giotto di Bondone, considered one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

US refuses to cancel Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a view of a ruined church in Port-au-Prince 13 days after the earthquake

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Egypt announces find of 2,000-year-old ancient Bastet (cat goddess) temple

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "The More Loving One" by W. H. Auden

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:40 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city; pylon once stood at the entrance to temple of Isis

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Two poems by Margaret Atwood: "The Moment" and "Night Poem"

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 5:09 PM | Add Comment

Exceptional artist Pär Strömberg: check out his blog and a wonderful interview. Pär will be featured in the Spring Issue of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal... 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:42 PM | Add Comment

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Quote from the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a Sadhu (Hindu holy man) rests on the stairs leading to the banks of the River Ganges

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: crowds celebrate Loy Krathong festival at Wat Mahathat, one of the most spectacular temples in Thailand's first capital of Suhkothai

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:37 AM | Add Comment

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: children look for coins and other reusable material amid fancy boats offered by devotees at the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "By Candlelight" by Sylvia Plath

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2009 6:52 AM | Add Comment

"Miracle" baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body "verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days," gives hope in Russian Muslim south

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2009 9:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Churches denounce African children as "witches" -- one child pleads, "Please stop the pastors who hurt us... I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch"

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 1:54 AM | Add Comment

Movie: Natasha Arthy's film "Fighter" (2007, Denmark). I really liked this film! I think the descriptions do not reveal the depth of the rich character/culture relations in this movie. Great action as well.

Posted by kluciole at 10/17/2009 5:12 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: Albania Asks India for Mother Teresa's Remains

Posted by kluciole at 10/16/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Archaeology: "A 4,000 year old Leper’s Tale." Following the Vedic tradition, lepers were buried alive in some parts of India

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 1:15 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Nothing Stays Put" by Amy Clampitt

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 9:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Indian artists dressed as Hindu gods Rama and Laxman look on from a tableau during a Dussehra festival procession

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 2:54 PM | Add Comment

Quotes from John Muir

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 1:18 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Excerpt from a short story by Jeanette Winterson, in response to the climate crisis

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "By The Arno" (Oscar Wilde)

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:32 AM | Add Comment

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Artwork in Vienna gets onlookers asking - will he jump? ... (installation by Austrian artist Ronald Koldritsch)

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Young" by Anne Sexton

Posted by kluciole at 9/5/2009 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Machine" by Michael Donaghy

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: "For the sake of the H1N1 virus/swine flu, don't kiss the saint"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:18 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Lower Klamath tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:38 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:11 PM | Add Comment

A fantastic poem from Julie Hill Alger: "Lesson 1"

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2009 3:05 PM | Add Comment

2 articles: "Wednesday's solar eclipse pits superstition against science" and "China gears up for longest solar eclipse of the century (6 minutes and 39 seconds of darkness)"

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2009 11:27 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Anne Sexton, "Admonitions To A Special Person"

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2009 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: evening view of the 1,000-year-old Potala Palace - the world's highest - in Lhasa, Tibet

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Willa Cather's "The Hawthorn Tree"

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

Frank McCourt (author of Angele'a Ashes) is gravely ill with meningitis, brother says

Posted by kluciole at 7/16/2009 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Wadsworth Church built on faith, freedom, poetry

Posted by kluciole at 7/11/2009 12:27 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Article on previously featured and much loved poet Mary Oliver: "The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown"

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Two poems by New England poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "The Giver of Stars" and "At Night"

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:26 AM | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "Love Compared"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2009 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2009 3:01 AM | Add Comment

I have just received the new chap from Rose of Sharon Press (publisher S.A. Griffin): "Let Everybody Come In" by Scott Wannberg. I love it very much!

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:22 PM | Add Comment

Photos: hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in revolt-torn Kashmir each year to reach the holy cave of Lord Shiva in Amarnath

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Delmira Agustini: "El Nudo" ("The Knot")

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Louise Bogan, "The Crossed Apple"

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:40 AM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole Press friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "fire down below"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 7:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam" -- Obama

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Excellent new poem from Scott Wannberg: "the best man steps out for the evening"

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2009 6:10 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Bliss Carman, "Earth Voices"

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Scott Wannberg, "the heart is a mad country"

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 4:13 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Delmira Agustini, "I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown"

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Margaret Atwood: "Night Poem"

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Margaret Atwood, "Siren Song" (plus the painting "The Siren" by John William Waterhouse )

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 5:38 AM | Add Comment

Legend of English vampire laid to rest in Peruvian village: the history of Sarah Roberts, and how some have come to see her as a saint (or boost for tourism)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: art installation "Rack with Madonnas" by German artist Fritsch in the new Brandhorst modern art museum in Munich

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2009 10:21 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: "Song Of Proserpine" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, plus the mythology and art of Persephone (the Greek equivalent of Proserpine... I vigorously studied and loved the Greek myths as a child)

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2009 10:48 PM | Add Comment

My cat's second favorite poem by Pablo Neruda: "Cat's Dream"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2009 4:08 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Henry Miller

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2009 10:55 AM | Add Comment

More on one of my favorite poets, previously featured Rosalía de Castro: book excerpt about her work, another bio, and poem "Margarita" (Spanish version and best English translation I can find)

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 9:08 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Gabriela Mistral, "The Rose"

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Photos: South Korean dancers perform a traditional dance - "Palilmu" - during a memorial service called Jongmyo Jerye

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 9:58 PM | Add Comment

Gabriela Mistral: first Chilean and first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; here is a bio and two of her poems -- "I am Not Alone" and "The Stranger"

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Videos: Brendan Perry's "Utopia", using rich imagery from the movie "The Fountain" (whose trailer appears below)

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Video: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sheherazade"

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 11:04 AM | Add Comment

New work from poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's favourite women poets (here are Alice Oswald, Ruth Padel, and Jo Shapcott)

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 3:18 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Juan Ramón Jiménez, "I Am Not I"

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2009 2:14 AM | Add Comment

Poem by previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "When I love"

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Hafiz, "The Days Of Spring"

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Wallace Stevens, "The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain"

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 12:08 AM | Add Comment

From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"..... "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a view of a mosque in Cairo during sunset April 14

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:17 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "A Glass of Wine" by Andrew Motion

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2009 8:13 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Kalidasa, "Look to this Day"

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Tibetan Buddhist monks are seen through prayer flags at Bodhnath Buddhist Stupa, in Kathmandu, Nepal

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:23 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Japanese man holds a giant firework as an offering to the Gods during a ceremony in Matsudaira village

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:01 PM | Add Comment

Egypt discovers dozens of well-preserved mummies in 4,000-year-old necropolis in Fayoum

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:30 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Excerpt from "Lullaby of the Onion" by Miguel Hernández

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 12:35 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Mircea Eliade, and photo of Antelope Canyon in Arizona

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2009 2:41 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole Press Contributor/friend Melanie Dorsey, some of her photos

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Poem: St. Francis of Asissi, "The Tree of Love"

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Rumi: excerpt from "If A Tree Could Wander"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Poem: William Blake, "Earth's Answer"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Painting: William Blake's "Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:37 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Between Going And Coming" by Octavio Paz

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2009 9:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Video: "Love Theme" from "The Dark Crystal" (with scenes from the film)

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "storyteller purgatory"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Christian nuns during the Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem's Old City

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 11:40 AM | Add Comment

The 61st Annual Conference on World Affairs will be this coming week, at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 7:59 AM | Add Comment
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