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Steffi Graf and Mark Rothko

Post author By David Linebarger
Post date April 28, 2022
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Check out my latest book, Tennis Players as Works of Art, now available on Amazon. Called “madly ambitious” and named one its 5 featured books of 2024 in the category of Art/Imagination/Creativity by Publisher’s Weekly Booklife, Tennis Players as Works of Art has also been named “One of the Best Books we Read in 2024” […]

Tags Mark Rothko, Painting, Poetry, Prose, Steffi Graf

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The Czech, Jan Kodes, Hears Whispers: “Beat the Russian. Please, Beat the Russian.”

Post author By David Linebarger
Post date April 7, 2022
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With Soviet Union Forever! the propoganda posters shout. Propaganda Posters = Truth, the truth of propaganda posters. Jan Kodes the “son of an independent businessman—reject application to Secondary education!” Eventually the Czechs soften their communist principles. Kodes witnessed the result outside his window in August, 1968: a parking lot full of Russian tanks. Kodes one of […]

Tags Poetry, Prose, Russia, Wimbledon

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Helen of California

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Elina Svitolina’s Tear

Picture from Tweet by Elina Monfils @ElinaSvitolina·Feb 24 "My heart is bleeding… Another sleepless and terrifying night for Ukrainian people.. PLEASE HELP US TO STOP THE WAR" 🙏🏼🇺🇦💙💛 #nowarinukraine #ukraine

Shadow Puppets Our doors kicked in to see what’s there. Sometimes bread,sometimes vodka,their rifles bobbingin makeshift chairs. Sometimes a sheeton the basement wall,our fingers dancing,shadow puppetsto a soldier’s flashlight. I did not have words,but I understoodwhen women leftfor another room. Mother refused.She held us closein her iron arms.I begged her to goand save us. She […]