Nashville Arts Magazine » LITERATURE http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:07:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Publisher’s Note http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/29/publisher%e2%80%99s-note/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/29/publisher%e2%80%99s-note/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:06:42 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5789 A year ago . . . We launched the new Nashville Arts Magazine. Like any start-up, we worried about our new endeavor, wondering if Nashville would embrace and support our effort. We had a million “What ifs” with which to…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/29/publisher%e2%80%99s-note/feed/ 0 Beyond Words… http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/beyond-words%e2%80%a6/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/beyond-words%e2%80%a6/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:08:51 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5837 A week ago (June 6), I happened to be sitting in the back seat of a Ford Expedition barreling down a cobblestone highway in north central Mexico at speeds hovering around a hundred miles per hour. This…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/beyond-words%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 So to Speak http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/so-to-speak/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/so-to-speak/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:07:00 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5839 Throughout history, the beauty of words has been celebrated. From the writings of the Japanese haiku poets to the writings of Shakespeare to the popular lyrics of Lennon and McCartney, many who have expressed the beauty…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/so-to-speak/feed/ 0 Poetry | “Summer Thirst” http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/poetry-%e2%80%9csummer-thirst%e2%80%9d/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/poetry-%e2%80%9csummer-thirst%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:55:36 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5844 Several times

I’ve gone to God

About our love

And what to make of it.

The response is always the same . . . let him love you!

Seems irreverently invalid,

For a…

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we saw you soar and dive

We wished that we could be more like you,

more alive

We love you,

I hope you know we love you

We saw you circling -

sometimes we’d call…

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I was writing verse by the time I could read and was singing it even before then—from TV jingles to Nat King Cole. A Texas girl, I left home at 18 and began performing my…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/04/27/spring-fever/feed/ 0 Jennie Fields | “The Age of Ecstasy” http://nashvillearts.com/2010/04/23/jennie-fields-the-age-of-ecstasy/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/04/23/jennie-fields-the-age-of-ecstasy/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:44:23 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=4680 Jennie Fields was in Paris walking in the historic Faubourg Saint-Germain on the street where her favorite writer, Edith Wharton, had once lived. During that walk she had no idea that the life of Wharton would consume her own for…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/04/23/jennie-fields-the-age-of-ecstasy/feed/ 0 Spotlight | “Andrew Jackson and the Young in Heart” http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-andrew-jackson-and-the-young-in-heart/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-andrew-jackson-and-the-young-in-heart/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=3815

When Andrew Jackson, newly elected as the seventh president of the United States, moved on horseback from his Nashville home, the Hermitage, to the White House in Washington, it was with an immense sense of loneliness, following the recent death of his…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-andrew-jackson-and-the-young-in-heart/feed/ 0 Spotlight | “Painting Tennessee” http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-painting-tennessee/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-painting-tennessee/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:00:27 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=3802 Painting Tennessee is a wonderful portrait of our state by three local artists, Tom Moore, Joel Knapp, and Jennifer Simpkins. These three oil painters traveled to and painted portraits of all ninety-five counties of Tennessee in the plein-air method—painting in the outdoors in the…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-painting-tennessee/feed/ 0 My Hummingbirds http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/01/my-hummingbirds/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/01/my-hummingbirds/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:00:42 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=3976 by Kevin Chopson

I will write one thousand poems about hummingbirds.

I will take them to Japan and study origami.

Each poem will become a cut and folded replica of a childhood memory.

Flashing, fitful, fanciful moments that I am…

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