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Ongoing, 7 artists from Artists Connect have a group show at Burlap Coffee, 511 40th St. Oakland, Ca. Please patronize Burlap Coffee during these challenging times. Regular hours: M-Sat 8:00 am. -6:00 pm. Sun. 8:00 am. -5:00 pm. In April , Artists Connect meeting. An informal, open gathering of East Bay artists to connect and support each other. Stayed tuned for location, date and time. It's always inspiring to exchange ideas, resources and encouragement. At Artists Connect during a discussion of making a living doing art: "My first goal is to pay for my habit" Janis Anton
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Past and Present Media is a platform for arts, culture and history of the East Bay and beyond. Treat this website as you would a gallery. Meander through it and see what pulls you in. Come back later and see what's new. If you like an artist visit their site. Support these artists by buying their art or going to an event. Support us supporting local artists by making a contribution, however small, to Past and Present Media.
**New Poem from James Cagney's "Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory." **
Vigil For Vespers - Opus No. 38 what if each star were a flame fountaining beneath an onyx teepee elder tongues in a whisper of moth wings licking the flames with stories the endless equations calibrated on nights chalkboard the pulse point of planets scattered along the topographical map of the sky’s arachnid body spinning out combinations of constellations a tarot of planets unlocking red flaked memories abandoned and rusting beneath the sweet drizzle of attention bet the coins between corpses teeth all the hoaxes of love dissolve to moon dust back home the milky way is here because i am here and it is well worth crying over my offering in a rising swarm of tears ghostly embers of dead stars i am less a crumb on the lip of the lake how its tongue sleepwalks a language night often mistranslates in dreams the harmonic choir of cutthroat trout sounds cribbed from the pages of Rachmaninoff’s lost rhapsody -- a tragedy of silence lulling me into this all-night vigil for vespers and its uneasy correspondence with gravity its hard to lie quietly in the unmade bed of a prehistoric crater with its sweet sheets of sage brush and not consider love’s offices bankrupt and ridiculed back home |
Valeria Brown Troutt- "The Blues Wore a Church Dress", Mixed Media, See Valerie's profile on the Artists Page
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