Category:Guest Artists

Music in Islamic Philosophy

Peter Adamson

Guest Artists Music
Despite his importance as the first Muslim intellectual to make use of ideas from the Greek philosophical tradition, we don’t know much about the life of al-Kindi. We do know roughly when he lived (the ninth century CE), that he…

4 New Poems

Charles Simic, Former U.S. Poet Laureate

Guest Artists Poetry
The hush of a summer morning
Bathed in the light of sunrise
Drew me to the open window
And the astounding beauty
Of every flower and tree in my yard ...

Five Poems

Brenda Miller

Guest Artists Poetry
Stake

as in burned at
for heresy or misunderstanding—

martyrdom or taken
in error, mistaken ...

Excerpts from “Alva and the Beast”

L.S. McKee

Guest Artists Poetry
These poems are excerpted from a series in progress currently titled “Alva and the Beast.” This project, through its central character Alva, explores tropes of passion, longing, loss, and mortality through the lens of nature and technology—and how these two…

ALLAMERICAN

Margo Davis

Guest Artists Photography
Photographic projects, like life, have journeys of their very own. They grow organically, sometimes with purposeful direction, sometimes randomly. They have an arc of development which can be synchronous with the trajectory of one’s life. In my photographic work, my current project ALLAMERICAN has evolved from all the influences of my life’s journey from childhood until now.