Saturday Good Reads

Giving money away in New Orleans. William Carlos Williams on marketing communications. Katdish on multi-tasking. Taking a journey on Easter snow. A cartoon on a poet writing (again). Lots of good things on line this week.

Prose

“The Joy That Accompanies Empty Pockets” by Shawn Smucker.

“Pulling weeds” by Harriett Gillham at The Other Side of the Mountain.

“The Confident Writer” by Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today.

“Go On, St. Thomas,” art review by Robbie Pruitt.

“What Does Happy Look Like?” by David Rupert at Red-Letter Believers.

“Long After We Are Gone” by Caleb McNary.

“Somewhere Among Hermits & Zombies” by Jake Lee at Very Much Later.

“The Red Wheelbarrow of Marketing Communications” by David Murray for McMurray Content Marketing Blog.

“Broken in the Making” by Travis Thrasher at The Journey is Everything.

“2.5 billion beats of joy” by Duane Scott at Scribing the Journey.

“Multi-tasking and the death of manners” by Kathy Richards at Katdish.

“Virtual Community” by Seth Haines.

Poetry

“Conspearacy Theory” and “Is He Dead Yet?” by Tony Maude at Rumours of Rhyme.

“Beady-Eyed” and “Monday Muse: The Animated Billy Collins” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

“Nicholas Samaras” by D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

“The fullness of new” by B. K. McKenzie at Signed…BKM.

“The chase” by Chris Galford at The Waking Den.

“The Index of Refraction is Greater Than One” by Monica Sharman at Know-Love-Obey God.

“Riddles to Answers & Riddles” by Brian Miller at WayStationOne.

Paintings and Photographs

“Sundown at the Base of the Mountain,” oil on canvas paper, and “Winter Aspen,” oil on canvas,  by Randall David Tipton at A Painter’s Process.

“Purity: A Journey on Snow” by Emily Wierenga at Imperfect Prose.

“First” by Davis Rosback at A Little Somethin’.

“Daffodowndilly” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.

Cartoons

“The Poet – Writing Again” by Sara Barkat for TweetSpeak Poetry.

Short Stories

“From the Dreamscape” by Chris Galford at The Waking Den.

Videos

“A Divine Mistress” by Thomas Carew, read by Tom O’Bedlam at Spoken Verse.

Photograph: Landscape in Spring by Jiri Dokoupil via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.