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Poetry Dinner Night – A Quarantine Scene

by mylinhshattan | Apr 25, 2020 | On Education, On Life, On Literature, Poetry for Emergencies, Stories

Does she or doesn’t she? Do you recognize this from the 1956 ad campaign? Does it elicit unsavory thoughts? This Hall-of-Fame advertising slogan was used for Clairol’s Hair Color and within six years seventy percent of women were dying their hair. Maybe you remember...
Piano and Poetry: a Primer on How to Critique Music

Piano and Poetry: a Primer on How to Critique Music

by mylinhshattan | Feb 28, 2015 | On Education, On Life

Here are my late night texts to my husband on how to critique piano music. Can you hear Caroline playing? Listen for clean articulation of each note, even tho it’s fast A musician must be heard and given feedback. It’s stunted when she doesn’t get...

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