Escape Into Life

"I let each woman tell her story through my hands." Check out these gorgeous sculptures by Nancy Pirri in our new #Artist Watch column by @Doallas: escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/n… #sculpture #art

Friday fun - what's making us smile today...

Amanda Gorman: Regardless whether you stay to watch either the game or the ads, definitely a reason to turn on the TV for the pre-game show: cnn.com/2021/02/04/us/… #SuperBowl2021 #poetry #poetry #Poetrycommunity

Poet @djvorreyer discusses death, grief, and how they come together in her upcoming book: sundressblog.com/2021/01/25/int… #poetry #poetrycommunity

If I die before you which is all but certain then in the moment before you will see me become someone dead in a transformation [...] I will cross over into you and ask you to carry not only your own memories but mine too until you Too lie down and erase us —Galway Kinnell

Lovely! #painting #portraits

Just because Saturday. lithub.com/10-pictures-of… #readingcommunity #reading

"Having overcome historic obstacles, (Biden) was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the investiture of the nation’s poetry-lover-in-chief." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… #poetry #teachpoetry

With Trump now out of office, what can he expect? EIL media critic Nancy Heather Brown summarizes some of the allegations that await him in court. Quite a list! escapeintolife.com/television/lif… #Trump #LifeInTheBox

In all the excitement of #Inauguration - and sheer joy of watching @TheAmandaGorman deliver that beautiful poem, we forgot to share the #InaugurationDay comic that culminates our countdown. Phil Maish says bye-bye to #DonaldTrump - escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/toon-… #comics #cartoons

"... For while we have our eyes on the future, History has its eyes on us. ... " Thank you, @TheAmandaGorman, for this beautiful inaugural poem. #InaugurationDay #Inauguration2021 #inauguralpoetry opb.org/article/2021/0…

Day 24 - with just one day to go: Lions and tigers and bears - oh my! escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/toon-… #countdown2021 #InaugurationDay #comics #cartoons

"Like King Midas, with a crucial difference: call him King Merde-as. Anybody here know French?" Day 23 of our countdown calendar: escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/toon-… #Inauguration2021 #2MoreDays #comics #cartoons

#comics #cartoons

We're keeping an eye on the White House as Moving Day approaches. (Does he really own a bust of Abraham Lincoln?) escapeintolife.com/blog-2-2/toon-… #InaugurationDay2021 #countdown2021 #3MoreDays

Also this: "...For it's not just in a declaration of independence But the everyday declaration of its descendants That make a people equal...."

"...And while we cannot shake or cast aside our past, Every day we write the future. Together we sign it, Together we declare it, we share it,..." Full text: cbsnews.com/news/amanda-go…

Amanda Gorman discusses & reads her July4 #poem Believer's Hymn for the Republic: youtube.com/watch?v=9cZUl3… - Biden's #Inauguration2021 poet

Lovely