Happy birthday to E.E. Cummings, born on 14 October 1894. He once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn

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Heat Dome

(in the style of ee cummings)

h
e
a
t
sits
like a lid
on the
city
96degrees&
children
drink
fountains
while
a
s
p
h
a
l
t
melts
& we wait
for thursday's
broken
fever

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In celebration of Loving Day, we're sharing "New Hope" by Corita Kent. This serigraph from 1966 is dedicated to Mildred and Richard Loving. At that time the Lovings were plaintiffs in the midst of the Supreme Court case that ultimately struck down states’ bans on interracial marriage the following year on June 12. 1/2

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