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The plugin below demos how to integrate DropzoneJS with WordPress. BTW, I've written a similar plugin that uses the WP REST API for file upload.
Install and activate the plugin, and use the `[dropzonejs]` shortcode to display the drop zone.
Here's a sample customize_dropzonejs.js, the options are documented at dropzonejs.com#configuration-options.


Employee health and wellbeing has become one of the key challenges to modern organisations. In the UK no less than 45% of the employers indicate that health and wellbeing will be included in their company goals within three years' time. Drivers for this trend are the continuous competition for talent and the acknowledgement that stress is the no. one cause for employee absence.
With 55% of European insurers expecting medical insurance costs to be higher or significantly higher over the next three years, it is perhaps not surprising that 50% of those UK employers surveyed see rising benefit programme costs as a key challenge for the next three years (Figure 1).
Such predictions are acting as a catalyst to the nearly 70% of employers who say they will revise strategies to manage costs and drive desired employee behaviours.
The need for redesign is confirmed by the fact that 40% of employers in the UK do not know how much they spend on benefits and that there is a discrepancy in employee and employer perception: employers overestimate the employee understanding of the benefit packages 69% compared to 51% of employees (Figure 2).
While consistency and tailorability to specific needs are key drivers, competitor benchmarking is the most important factor when designing a benefits programmes (Figure 3).
Yet only 6% of employers currently go above and beyond, actively differentiating their health and well-being programmes from their competitors (Figure 4). Significant change in this area is afoot, however, with 76% planning to make their health and well-being provision a key competitive advantage over the next three years.
To increase employee engagement, the plans need to be more flexible and need to offer more choice. The survey shows that more than double the number of employees value their benefits if they are offered a choice (Figure 5).
App and portal technology looks set to play an increasingly important role in helping organisations to encourage healthier employee lifestyles and track results (Figure 6).
Technology is gaining traction among employees and current employer programmes have received only a lukewarm reception. Now 41% say they want to create a digital engagement strategy for their benefits programmes.
Evaluation (Figure 7) will become a new watchword - 76% of employers are planning to use organisational analytics to test the effectiveness of programmes in the next three years. Measurement also features in the top four priorities for health and wellbeing (Figure 8).
Companies have a broad set of priorities for their health and wellbeing programmes. One of the priorities is communication. Nearly three quarters (74%) of the employers say that they need to increase employee engagement in health and wellbeing. The top priority is to improve the workforce's health: 65% of employers say they want to identify and effectively manage population health risks and chronic conditions across the workforce (Figure 8) alongside chronic condition management and better employee engagement.


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Christmas Is a Time for Justice
Why 'In Bruges' Should Be a New Holiday Classic
By B. D. McClay
Jan Baptist van Mennixhove, The Square in Bruges, 1696
Every year in the lead-up to Christmas we are treated to arguments about Christmas movies, and every year a contingent of wise guys declare that the best of them is Die Hard. (One might call them the try-hards.) I have never seen Die Hard but I don't really need to have seen it to dispute this claim. Nor—if you're playing this game—is the best Christmas movie Eyes Wide Shut, the Stanley Kubrick film in which Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman try to cheat on each other but never seem to manage it. And it certainly isn't Elle, the Dutch drama about a woman who is blasé about her own rape.
Yes, these movies take place at Christmas; yes, they are good movies; Eyes Wide Shut, yes, has some Christmas overtones. But even if you were to call them "Christmas movies," they would not be the best Christmas movie, because the best Christmas movie is In Bruges. At this point I fear that the perhaps whimsical tone of this piece will lead some readers to believe I'm joking. I am not joking.
In Bruges is the story of two hitmen who are instructed to hide out in, well, Bruges after a hit goes wrong. It turns out one of the hitmen, Ray (played by a very winning Colin Farrell) was sent to kill a priest but accidentally also killed a child with a stray bullet. There Ray and his mentor-slash-handler Ken (Brendan Gleeson) await a call from their boss, Harry (Ralph Fiennes). Incidentally, it's also Christmas. It turns out that they're in Bruges because Harry wanted to do one nice thing for Ray before he had him killed. "If I had killed a little kid," Harry tells Ken, "accidentally or otherwise, I wouldn't have thought twice. I'd have killed myself on the fucking spot."
So maybe this isn't a movie you will want to watch with your family. It's violent and often crude. Christmas is practically never referenced, though it's ever-present in the background (they do stay in an inn run by a pregnant woman) and the death of the child will make any religiously literate viewer remember the Holy Innocents.
But what makes In Bruges a Christmas movie is that it is a careful examination of justice. Everything done in the first half of the movie returns in the second. The tourist who Ray treats rudely in the first half does him a bad turn in the second, and so on.
Christmas marks the time when accounts begin to be called in.
All these various actions and reactions echo and reinforce the single big act of violence that can't really be made right. The movie builds up Ray as a sympathetic person without ever really letting you forget that he did kill a child, that that child isn't coming back, and that whatever happens—if Ray dies or doesn't die—the child will stay dead. Furthermore, the person in the movie most aware of this is Ray himself, who tells Ken at one point that he wants to die and who is clearly incapacitated by his guilt. Killing Ray might be necessary or just, but because death is involved, it can't, and won't, make anything right. And yet somebody has to be on the hook for this.
I'm not going to go into the ins and outs of what happens in the movie, or how it resolves—or does not resolve—this problem of justice. But, like Christmas, In Bruges gestures explicitly toward the end of the world and the last judgment; and, like Christmas, the question it poses is what it might take for this world to be redeemed, for justice to be satisfied without giving up on mercy or repentance. What we see in the movie suggests that a world only of righteous consequences doesn't end well, even if a world without them might be even worse. Above all, it's a movie that takes sin and love seriously.
This is what Christmas art does, or at any rate should do. Most of the great Christmas carols focus not only on the downward motion of the incarnation, but the upward motion of man to God. In "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," the angels proclaim "God and sinners reconciled," while Christ, who is "pleased, as man, with men to dwell" mildly "lays his glory by / born that man no more may die." "A Virgin Unspotted," meanwhile, lays it all out pretty bluntly:
A Virgin unspotted, the prophet foretold,
Should bring forth a Savior, which now we behold.
To be our Redeemer from death, hell, and sin,
Which Adam's transgression had wrapped us in.
Christmas is an incomplete moment in the larger structure of salvation, which is part of why its mood is so apocalyptic. As with every Christian holiday except Easter, no joy is undarkened by sorrow, no sorrow is without its joy, and so Christmas music can be triumphant and yet mournful. A carol like "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" is joyful and sung in a minor key. Christmas looks backward to everything that has led up to this moment and forward to all the suffering yet to come. Every promise is going to be fulfilled, even if the fulfillment of that promise is not what we expect or even exactly desire. We give gifts at Christmas, in part because God's love is freely given. But Christmas also marks the time that accounts begin to be called in.
In Bruges pivots around a moment in which Ken, knowing Ray to be under a death sentence, nonetheless stops him from killing himself out of guilt. "I'm allowed to!" protests Ray, to which Ken barks back "No, you're not." Submitting to justice might mean something more painful and more unexpected, like putting down the gun and going on living, than the punishment we'd select for ourselves. But whatever justice looks like in this world—a question perhaps particularly fraught for the church at this time—the beginning of it looks like Christmas: choosing light over darkness, joy over sorrow, and life over death.
B. D. McClay is senior editor of the Hedgehog Review, and a contributing writer to Commonweal. She lives in New York.
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Olga Loizon's famed Olga bread was a favorite among metro Detroiters. Here's how you can make it at home.
News of Olga Loizon's passing has many metro Detroiters thinking about their Olga's restaurant favorites. Loizon died Monday at age 92.
There are the sandwiches, snackers with almond cheese, salads with crisp red onion, olives and feta cheese, and soups.
But it's Olga's pita-style bread that had so many people swooning, including me. Several years ago, we published a version of the bread from our archives. It was from 1985. I retested the recipe on Monday and made a few tweaks.
It turned out very close to what the restaurant serves. Many staffers told me it wasn't as sweet or as thick as the restaurant's version.
What's important to note in the recipe is that once the bread gets a brief skillet fry (minus any oil), you transfer them to a plastic bag. By placing them in the bag, they continue to steam and stay pliable.
I also used some of the bread to make those tasty snackers. The recipe is below. On the menu, they list two seasonings, a garden-herb, and their signature blend. I winged it and guessed on the signature seasoning as I remembered it, and they turned out well. A staffer passed along a post that recommended sprinkling the snackers with Salad Supreme seasoning, which is commonly used in spaghetti salad recipes.
Another favorite with those snackers was the almond cheese spread. There are several versions online and I've included one that appears to be the closest.
The creamy and tangy Olga Sauce that topped their sandwiches also is a favorite. Several versions of the sauce describe its favor as akin to tzatziki. Some describe it as a mix of sour cream and yogurt. A friend's sister worked at an Olga's mall location many years ago. I asked her about the special sauce on the sandwich. She assured me it was simply plain yogurt. Whatever it is, it's a good match for the famed Olga bread that had a slightly sweet taste to it.
Here are the recipes. The dough comes together easily. Only the skillet frying of the bread is a bit tedious, but once you get a system down of rolling out the dough and transferring to a skillet, it goes by quickly.
In a small saucepan scald the milk and remove to large bowl. Stir in the honey, margarine and salt to milk until margarine has melted. Set aside to cool until lukewarm.
In small cup or bowl, combine the yeast, warm water and sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved and set aside until milk mixture is cooled. The mixture will form bubbles.
Add 1 ½ cups of the flour to lukewarm milk mixture and stir well. Beat in the egg and yeast mixture until thoroughly combined. Add remaining 2 ½ cups flour, a little at a time, until a sticky dough is formed. Turn out on a floured surface and knead about two minutes.
The dough still will be sticky, but don't add more flour. Place dough in oiled bowl, turning once to oil whole surface of dough. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand in warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour or more.
Punch down dough and remove to working surface; divide into 16 equal pieces. Roll out each piece to a rough circle about eight to 10 inches in diameter. Don't worry if the circles aren't perfect but they must be no thicker than one-eighth inch.
Heat a large dry skillet over medium-high heat; do not use any oil or grease. Bake each circle 15 seconds, flip and bake about 10 seconds on other side, until mottled brown spots appear. Do not overcook. Bread should be flexible.
Remove with spatula, cool about 1 minute and transfer to a plastic bag. Repeat with remaining dough. Seal bags tightly to retain moisture and use at once, refrigerate or freeze. Bread may be reheated on cookie sheet in hot oven for a few minutes.
Cut the bread into triangles and place on a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Brush bread triangles lightly with olive oil or coat with cooking spray. Sprinkle with dried oregano, paprika, garlic salt and a small about of crushed red pepper flakes for a little heat if you like. Bake about 10 minutes or until they get a bit more browned. They should still be somewhat soft.
From the Detroit Free Press recipe archives.


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Bears RT Massie (knee) might miss a month: report
NFL: Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears
Chicago Bears right tackle Bobby Massie could miss a month with a knee injury he sustained in Monday night's loss to the New Orleans Saints, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Massie, 31, left the game after just four offensive snaps after getting rolled up on at the end of a running play adid not return. Bears center Cody Whitehair (calf) also missed the game.
Massie had played 100 percent of the snaps in the Bears' first seven games. He has started every game he has played in for the Bears since joining the team in 2016. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft by Arizona, playing in 54 games (46 starts) for the Cardinals in four seasons.
Jason Spriggs replaced Massie on Monday night.
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Supermarine Spitfire MkIa (G-CFGJ)
• Aircraft Type: Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia
• Operator: Imperial War Museums
• Year of Manufacture: 1939
• Powered by: Rolls Royce Merlin III
• Colour Scheme: 19 Squadron RAF
Built at the Supermarine factory at Southampton, N3200 made its first flight on 29th November 1939 and after storage, was delivered to 19 Squadron at Duxford on 19th April 1940. When flying from RAF Hornchurch in the hands of Sqn. Ldr. G D Stephenson, it was shot down and made a wheels up landing on the beach near Sangatte, France on 25th May 1940. Covered by the sea and sand, the wreck was forgotten until discovered and recovered in 1986. Acquired by the current owner in 2000 the Spitfire was brought to Duxford and rebuilt by Historic Flying Ltd. It made its first flight on 26th March 2014 in the hands of John Romain.
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L'Alouette monotone (Mirafra passerina) est une espèce d'oiseaux. Comme toutes les alouettes, elle appartient à la famille des Alaudidae.

Description
Cet oiseau mesure  pour une masse de 21 à .

Alimentation
Cette espèce se nourrit au sol d'insectes, d'araignées et de graines.

Liens externes

Bibliographie
 del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D. (2004) Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 9, Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails. BirdLife International, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 863 p.

Alaudidae

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The Arkansas Gymnastics team came into the season with high hopes of winning the program's first ever National Championship. Those goals were put on the back burner after the squad got off to a rough start. The team lost five of their first six meets and needed to turn things around in order to have a chance of achieving their goals.
"This year has been a roller coaster," said senior Kelci Lewis. "It started out kind of rough for us, but we definitely hit our strides around Alabama and took off. Now we are ending this year in and amazing way and I'm really excited."
After tying Alabama, who was ranked fourth nationally at the time, the team began to steadily improve their scores every meet. The team improved enough and qualified for the NCAA Regional Tournament. They received a three seed in the Oregon State NCAA Regional Meet. They went into the meet hoping to shock everyone and get a chance to attend the program's sixth straight National Meet.
"We looked at the scores and we knew we had made it for sure," said Junior Katherine Grable. "I started crying and it was such a relief to have such a rough season yet go this far."
As the team gets ready to head to UCLA for the National Meet they have one goal in mind and that's to make it to the Super Six for the second straight year. They know it's not going to be an easy task and that they are going to have to do the little things right in order to achieve there goal.
We need to hit our handstands, stick our dismounts and have really clean routines in order to make it to the Super Six," said Co-Head Coach Rene Lyst.
"We have been working on all the little details and getting everyone pumped," said Lewis. "I think the most important thing is staying positive and going out there and performing our best gymnastics."


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Q: Running execute_script with variable inside in Python via Selenium I'm trying to execute a little Python script which runs a function via selenium in a firefox browser.
Now I use:
pageurl = 'https://www.google.com'
driver.get(pageurl)
driver.execute_script("alert('hi')")

Which indeed runs the alert box on in firefox, and shows 'hi'.
I want to be able to let alert output/run a variable.
So like this:
pageurl = 'https://www.google.com'
driver.get(pageurl)
keyy = 'blabla'
driver.execute_script("alert(keyy)")

But instead of running the alert command, I get an error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Jeroen\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\test.py", line 29, in <module>
    driver.execute_script("alert(keyy)")
  File "C:\Users\Jeroen\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 636, in execute_script
    'args': converted_args})['value']
  File "C:\Users\Jeroen\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\Jeroen\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.JavascriptException: Message: ReferenceError: keyy is not defined

How should I be writing driver.execute_script("alert(keyy)") ?

A: you can use string formatting to put the value inside your string:
script = "alert('{}')".format(keyy)
driver.execute_script(script)

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Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and all the other International Bestselling Novels recently made into movies that have a mystery at the heart of the story, all have one thing in common: They offer a scavenger hunt, a game the reader plays on the journey to guess the ending.
And women LOVE piecing together clues and snippets of information to solve a mystery. I'm not sure where the information is to prove this, but men love Thrillers (customarily…where the killer is revealed early) and women love mysteries (guessing the ending.) The prize at the end can be as simple as why did the couple divorce or how will she get out of this conundrum, or a theme as dark as who is killing women and leaving them in fields.
The game is always the same…
You begin the book with information about the playing pieces--the characters, and as the story line deepens, a good writer will offer clues hidden inside the story and dialogue for the reader to file as part of the big picture that will eventually include the solved mystery. The reader will start guessing early-on based on the clues given. As more clues are added and red herrings are detected, the readers' guess can change several times before the big reveal.
As an author of suspense, I used to be disappointed when reviewers would write that they guessed the ending back in chapter three, but lately I've learned to take their bragging as a compliment. It shows they were playing the game and were tickled they won the game early. When that happens, it's exciting, even if you won't know you're correct until the verification at the end.
Guessing early might be the fault of the author to not fool absolutely everyone all the time, or it could simply be a lucky guess. But I can't fault a few people for coming to an early conclusion. Especially if they continue reading to see if they are right! I love reviews that state "I did NOT see that coming!" That's like getting a large tip, for a writer.
Women enjoy this brain-teasing process, this mental game of elimination and puzzle-solving. And whether they are surprised by the ending or guess it early on, the journey along the way must be satisfying enough to keep the reader engaged to turn pages until the end.
Writing a mystery adds an extra layer to a story, an additional process of planning that isn't needed for other types of fiction. A mystery needs more plotting, careful leakage of clues, deeper character reveals, and much more thought given to the final product to prevent the reader from being dissatisfied with the ending. Of course, the ending is everything in a mystery and all loose ends must be tied up sufficiently to give the reader a sense of supreme satisfaction, even if a part of that satisfaction is guessing the ending.
Women have always been fascinated by this guessing game. I think it's because as a gender, we are problem-solvers, wired to sort out the trouble and make sense of it all. While the men go out hunting to bring home dinner, we do all the mental-sorting and planning and organization. And that involves being a good guesser.
As a reader and a writer, I love the game and am thrilled to see that the trend toward this Mystery/Thriller Whodunits and Suspense/Mysteries are on a steep curve upward. And that these novels with women protagonists are getting movie deals.
Long live the Mystery Novel!
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'Nip it in the butt' or 'Nip it in the bud'? Some people have an idolatrous worship of money. The time that ambry introduces from Europe is not long because mistake of this a lot of consumer is quality of homebred ambry brand did not assure and idolatrous foreign brand: 22. idolatrous definition is - of or relating to idolatry. Idolatrous definition, worshiping idols. The grossly idolatrous practices, however, still so largely prevalent in the Dravidian South, show how superficial, after all, that influence has been in those parts of India where the admixture of Aryan blood has been so slight as to have practically had no effect on the racial characteristics of the people. Those tuning in late will need to know that Jephtha has been recalled from exile to lead the Israelites into battle against the harassing, A month later, some Mosul residents said that the militants rigged the 50-yard-high Hadba with explosives as part of a campaign to destroy anything that may be considered, Just a month after Baghdadi gave his speech, some Mosul residents said that the militants rigged the 50-yard-high Hadba with explosives as part of their campaign to destroy anything that may be considered, Palmyra, parts of it already destroyed by the Islamists who deemed these monuments, Post the Definition of idolatrous to Facebook, Share the Definition of idolatrous on Twitter. whether they do or do not, or will or will not, encourage or lead to idolatrous or superstitious worship in the place where they are, or are to be put " (Lindley, L. mg.; obtained by inserting n above the consonantal text in the Hebrew) is apparently intended to suggest that he was the son of that idolatrous king. idolatry example sentences. (8) `Abodah Zarah (" idolatrous worship "), regulations in reference to heathen idolatry (useful edition with Germ. Idolatrous definition: of, or having the nature of, idolatry | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples This coincides with the Hebrew use of the term as idolatrous priests, Hos. Meaning: Blindly or excessively devoted or adoring. The time that ambry introduces from Europe is not long because mistake of this a lot of consumer is quality of homebred ambry brand did not assure and idolatrous foreign brand: 22. idolatrous definition is - of or relating to idolatry. 'Folk Songs respected its sources, but it was not idolatrous of them.' 'Plans and strategies for growth can become idolatrous and result in questionable distortions of the gospel.' 'It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.' Similar: loving (feeling or showing love and affection) What does idolatrous mean? Idolatrous cults repose so largely on make-believe and credulity that the priests who administered them, perhaps oftener than we know, fell into the kind of imposture and trickery of which the legend of Bel and the dragon represents a classical example. You destroyed idolatrous polytheism and Godless error by Christ's power. Test your knowledge - and maybe learn something along the way. " whether they do or do not, or will or will not, encourage or lead to idolatrous or superstitious worship in the place where they are, or are to be put " (Lindley, L. 2 1 mg.; obtained by inserting n above the consonantal text in the Hebrew) is apparently intended to suggest that … Of, constituting, or having to do with the worship of idols or false gods. See more. Meaning of idolatrous. 2 In the composite work Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah (dating after the post-exilic Levitical legislation) a peculiar interest is taken in the Levites, more particularly in the singers, and certain passages even reveal With this development in Israelite religion, observe that Judaean cult included the worship of a brazen serpent, the institution of which was ascribed to Moses, and that, according to the compiler of Kings, Hezekiah was the first to destroy it when he suppressed idolatrous worship in Judah (2 Kings xviii. All Rights Reserved. He is described as a wicked and idolatrous king, and was slain by Jehu, son of Nimshi. Erich Fromm: Idolatry definition, the religious worship of idols. The word idol can also refer to the deity or god that is being worshipped. At an age when the high places were regarded as idolatrous it was considered only natural that the good kings should not have tolerated them. EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB He gave them a parliament, made them give up their idolatrous customs. 1. He is described as a wicked and idolatrous king, and was slain by Jehu, son of Nimshi. idolatrous definition: 1. relating to the religious practice of praying to a picture or object: 2. showing very great…. idolatrousness noun Examples of idolatrous in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Once the Protestant Reformation took hold in the 1500s, the celebration of saints was seen as idolatrous and … Examples of Idolatry in a sentence It is sad how many people exhibit idolatry towards celebrities. Idolatrous definition: of, or having the nature of, idolatry | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples idolatrous image on Judean coins being used in their temple! Israel adopted, shall go back to the Assyrians, her teachers in idolatry, as the hire or fee for having … Delivered to your inbox! idolatrous religion of Canaan and Transjordan at the time, you can suspect anything. Cookies help us deliver our services. idolatrous translation in English-Hungarian dictionary. They were to be left for all time coming to their own traditional idolatrous notions and practices. " 23. idolatrous Doubtless such a reform met with strong resistance from the disestablished and vested interests, but it was firmly supported by royal influence and by the Jerusalem priesthood as well as by the true prophets of Yahweh who had protested against the idolatrous usages and corruptions of the high places. Of, constituting, or having to do with the worship of idols or false gods. Copyright © 2020 LoveToKnow. Information and translations of idolatrous in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. What does idolatrous mean? They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com. What does idolatry mean? Definition of idolatrous in the Definitions.net dictionary. idolatrous worship of ego that currently fuels the art world. Pertainym: idolatry (the worship of idols; the worship of physical objects or images as gods). As late as 1230 human sacrifices were still being offered up in Prussia and Lithuania, and, in spite of all the efforts of the Teutonic Knights, idolatrous practices still lingered amongst the people, while amongst the Lapps, though successful missions had been inaugurated as early as 1335, Christianity cannot be said to have become the dominant religion till at least two centuries later. Information and translations of idolatrous in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Synonyms of 'idolatrous' What made you want to look up idolatrous? : Worshipping the true God is an authentic act of resistance to all forms of idolatry. Sense 2. "Idolatrous." Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idolatrous. Idolatrous quotes from YourDictionary: Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Learn more. A later development, however, by which certain lights themselves came to be regarded as objects of worship and to have other lights burned before them, was condemned as idolatrous by the synod of Noyon in 1344.10 The passion for symbolism extracted ever new meanings out of the candles and their use. Their affection for her soon increased almost to idolatry. Pele in idolatrous … Which of the following refers to thin, bending ice, or to the act of running over such ice. In a letter home he described Rome as "the most wonderful place on earth," but the Roman Catholic religion as "polytheistic, degrading and idolatrous.". Leviticus 26:30 - I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing]. How To Use Idolatrous In A Sentence? 'All Intensive Purposes' or 'All Intents and Purposes'? Sentence Examples for idolatry. ; remnant implies a date after Josiah's reforms) and of the idolatrous priests will be cut off, together with them that worship the " host of heaven " (condemned later than 620 in Jer. ), the other describing the fate of Zedekiah (xvii.). Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! And though there was positive gain in the removal of idolatrous and corrupt modes of worship, there was also positive loss in the disappearance of this old genial phase of Hebrew social life and worship. This idolatrous crowd postulates an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is perfectly understandable. What does idolatrous mean? Check the meaning of idolatry. The Levites who had been idolatrous are punished by exclusion from the proper priestly work, and take the subordinate offices which the uncircumcised and polluted foreigners had formerly filled, while the sons of Zadok, who had remained faithful, are henceforth the legitimate priests, the only descendants of Levi who are allowed to minister unto Yahweh (Ezek. God send some miscreant hath not taken the marble slab … Therefore they are either fickle fools or idolatrous items. Certain priests of idolatrous Judean shrines (distinguished by him as " Levites ") he deprives of priestly functions, degrading them to the rank of temple menials; and he takes from the civil ruler all authority over public religion, permitting him merely to furnish material for sacrifices. By the recognition of this law the church was constituted as an ordered community, essentially distinct from the State; the distinction between the two was emphasized by the withdrawal of the early Christians from civic life, to avoid the performance of idolatrous ceremonies imposed as official expressions of loyalty, and by the persecutions which they had to endure, when the spread of an association apparently so hostile to the framework of ancient society had at length alarmed the imperial government. Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). What does idolatrous mean? How to use idolatrous in a sentence. 2. Define idolatrous. Pronunciation of idolatrous with 1 audio pronunciation, 4 synonyms, 13 translations, 2 sentences and more for idolatrous. We wish her disenthralment from the deep superstition and idolatry in which she is sunk. It involved a vast difference to many a Judaean village when the festival pilgrimage was no longer made to the familiar local sanctuary with its hoary associations of ancient heroic or patriarchal story, but to a distant and comparatively unfamiliar city with its stately shrine and priesthood. What symbol do you use to remove a word out of a sentence? Because I was running late to the meeting, I asked my assistant to behave in a dilatory manner so I would have time to arrive. Accessed 19 Jan. 2021. Pure and austere, it enjoined the strictest morals in the midst of corruption, and the most dignified self-respect in face of idolatrous servility. Idolatrous quotes from YourDictionary: Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Idolatrous definition is - of or relating to idolatry. adj. Learn more. The authorities contended that they were idolatrous and insulting to Islam. Idolatrous is used to describe someone who worships an idol or idols—objects or images, such as statues, that are worshipped as the representations of deities or gods.. AnswerThe present religious practices of worshiping statues as gods is an idolatry"Idolatry" is a noun defined as the worship of idols. Find more ways to say idolatrous, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. Even granting the reasonableness of the triple manifestation of the Divine Spirit, how is one to reconcile all these idolatrous practices, this worship of countless gods and godlings, demons and spirits indwelling in every imaginable object round about us, with the pantheistic doctrine of the Ekam Advitiyam," the One without a Second "? These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'idolatrous.' Many were torn up as idolatrous or for their metal content - their ' brass' is roughly 75 per cent copper. The miser's idolatry centered on the gold coins he kept hidden from his family. Sentence Examples As it has done on four prior occasions, the Senate should shelve this most dangerous and idolatrous assault on our civil and religious liberties. Traducir idolatrous de Inglés a español. But in the 4th century this puritanic zeal gave way; and this and other pagan feasts were taken over by the Church; a century earlier in Asia Minor Gregory the Thaumaturge was actively transforming into shrines and cult of martyrs the temples and idolatrous rites of heroes and demigods. Idolatrous is used to describe someone who worships an idol or idols—objects or images, such as statues, that are worshipped as the representations of deities or gods. Erich Fromm: Derivation: idolatry (the worship of idols; the worship of physical objects or images as gods). 'Folk Songs respected its sources, but it was not idolatrous of them.' 'Plans and strategies for growth can become idolatrous and result in questionable distortions of the gospel.' 'It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.' And then we have become subtly idolatrous, because we aspire to be lords over God's word. 2 After a comparison of Israel to a worthless wild vine (xv.) The religious superiority of Jerusalem over the idolatrous north and over the " high places " is the main theme, and with it is the supremacy of the native Zadokite priests of Jerusalem over others (e.g. Once the Protestant Reformation took hold in the 1500s, the celebration of saints was seen as, But, beginning in the 1500s, the Protestant Reformation swept away the cult of Christian saints, denouncing them as unbiblical and. He pointed out that God "before all temples prefers the upright heart and pure," and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth, and not with the idolatrous accessories of incense, sandal-wood and burnt-offerings. You can use an underscore to remove a word out of a sentence. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. come two allegories, one portraying idolatrous Jerusalem as the unfaithful spouse of Yahweh (xvi. How to use idolatrous in a sentence. Sentences Menu. Learn more in the Cambridge English-Chinese simplified Dictionary. Within the Catholic body itself there was even at this time a more or less pronounced anti-Roman movement, a reflection of the Gallican and Febronian tendencies on the continent of Europe, and the " Catholic Committee," consisting for the most part of influential laymen, which had been formed to negotiate with the government, was prepared to go a long 1 This declaration, which denounced the mass as " idolatrous and superstitious," was taken by all office-bearers, including bishops on taking their seats in the House of Lords, until the Relief Act of 1829. 3. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He called such acts idolatrous. It is also the idolatrous descriptions of corporations and advertising icons. (noun) To this petition Ambrose replied in a letter to Valentinian, arguing that the devoted worshippers of idols had often been forsaken by their deities; that the native valour of the Roman soldiers had gained their victories, and not the pretended influence of pagan priests; that these idolatrous worshippers requested for themselves what they refused to Christians; that voluntary was more honourable than constrained virginity; that as the Christian ministers declined to receive temporal emoluments, they should also be denied to pagan priests; that it was absurd to suppose that God would inflict a famine upon the empire for neglecting to support a religious system contrary to His will as revealed in the Scriptures; that the whole process of nature encouraged innovations, and that all nations had permitted them, even in religion; that heathen sacrifices were offensive to Christians; and that it was the duty of a Christian prince to suppress pagan ceremonies. How to use idolatrous in a sentence. Other canons treat of intercourse with heretics, admission of penitent heretics, baptism, fasts, Lent, angel-worship (forbidden as idolatrous) and the canonical books, from which the Apocrypha and Revelation are wanting. 8 6 This may be accounted the keystone of the fabric of Brahmanism, which accepts and even encourages the rudest forms of idolatry, explaining everything by giving it a higher meaning. How to say idolatrous in English? elsewhere) by the absence of all that was immoral or idolatrous, and that it was only very slowly and timidly that any distinctly religious representations were introduced. Excessive devotion to or reverence for some person or thing. Idolatry in a sentence 1. : When Paul was 14, Stan joined the Navy, and the hero worship of a younger brother began to border on idolatry. 2. Nglish: Translation of idolatrous for Spanish Speakers. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website, including to provide targeted advertising and track usage. See more. Sentences Mobile What he describes is idolatrous, lustful and promiscuous sexual behavior. idolatrous definition: 1. relating to the religious practice of praying to a picture or object: 2. showing very great…. 2. stopped it for its "idolatrous" character, but this act was one of the cahses of the Brabant revolution of 1789. 'Folk Songs respected its sources, but it was not idolatrous of them.' 'Plans and strategies for growth can become idolatrous and result in questionable distortions of the gospel.' 'It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.' The rise of Protestantism in the 16th century led to increasing disapproval of maypoles and other May Day practices from various Protestants who viewed them as idolatry and therefore immoral. Translate idolatrous into Spanish. Examples of Dilatory in a sentence Unhappy with her job, the secretary performed every task at a dilatory speed. The name of Baal (so LXX. However, when the name Baal was exclusively appropriated to idolatrous worship (cf. idolatrous synonyms, idolatrous pronunciation, idolatrous translation, English dictionary definition of idolatrous. According to the scripture, God punished the greedy man for his idolatry to precious metals. Definition of idolatrous in the Definitions.net dictionary. Context example: idolatrous worship. Example sentences with the word idolatry. This notion was never entirely extinguished even among the idolatrous worshipers. Idolatrous in a sentence 1. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. You talk of idolatrous nations sunk in vice. Dictionary ... to idolatrous uses, - and " idolatry" was the worst of blasphemies to the re-discoverers of the Old Testament. It is sad how many people exhibit idolatry towards celebrities. 1. Examples of 'idolatrous' in a sentence idolatrous. The idolatrous reaction in the reign of Manasseh appears to have restored all the evils of the past and added to them. Sentence Examples This coincides with the Hebrew use of the term as idolatrous priests, Hos. How to use idolatry in a sentence is shown in this page. In his first year abroad he consulted Calvin and Bullinger as to the right of the civil "authority" to prescribe religion to his subjects - in particular, whether the godly should obey "a magistrate who enforces idolatry and condemns true religion," and whom should they join "in the case of a religious nobility resisting an idolatrous sovereign.". Definition of idolatrous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Another word for idolatrous. Pele in idolatrous times was the dreaded goddess of Kilauea. circa 1500, in the meaning defined at sense 1. 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Dana Isokawa
Every year since 2005 we have highlighted a group of writers who have published their first full-length poetry collections in the prior twelve months. We ask the poets to describe what set their books in motion, what keeps them returning to the page, and how they live as writers. When we inquire how long it took to write their books, every year several reply, "My whole life." And this makes sense—a book is not the work of a moment or simply a product of the time the poet was setting down words on the page. Many of the poets have been writing poems—or the poems that helped them get to the ones in their books—for decades. Many have been fashioning their relationship to language, their manner of responding and speaking through and about their concerns, their entire lives. They have been going through, as poet Taylor Johnson says, "the process of articulation and learning my own language." Or, to use Chad Bennett's words, the "eccentric, vitalizing process" that makes up "a life in poetry."
Clockwise from top left: Anthony Cody, Taylor Johnson, Leila Chatti, Destiny O. Birdsong, Chad Bennett, Roy G. Guzmán, Tommye Blount, Chessy Normile, torrin a. greathouse, and Claire Meuschke. (Credit: Eugene Smith)
So this year, like every year, we want to spotlight ten debut collections and the ten lives in poetry that led to those books. We want to celebrate Anthony Cody's inventive, visually sprawling Borderland Apocrypha and his practice of writing lines in a phone book. To celebrate Chessy Normile's humorous, vulnerable Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, and the four friends who read her manuscript and urged her to see it for what it was. To celebrate the taut and visceral poems in Tommye Blount's Fantasia for the Man in Blue and his habit of sitting by Walled Lake near Novi, Michigan, to write. To recognize the books of the poets featured here who write while balancing multiple gigs, who write while contending with trauma, illness, and great change.
In their replies the poets offer a broad range of advice for writing through impasses and publishing a collection. Common ideas surface: Many recommend writers take their time and take ownership over their work, like Destiny O. Birdsong, who says, "Time made it better because I got better at being myself as a poet, at hearing my own voice and following my own instincts." Several suggest focusing not on public recognition, but on sharing your book with your community and, as Claire Meuschke says, "leaning toward the select few who enjoy your work." And threading through all the poets' replies is a sense of how joyful and how hard writing can be. "You are doing difficult, vulnerable work," says Leila Chatti. "Language is such a complex and unwieldy technology, capable of profound softness and unfathomable violence," says torrin a. greathouse.
Many authors and publishers have noted that 2020 has been an unusually difficult year to release a book, especially a debut. "You're going to face challenges beyond your control," Roy G. Guzmán says. Public health precautions have precluded many in-person book gatherings, and many writers have likely found releasing a book to be removed from, or secondary to, the demands of caring for themselves, their families, and their communities. So in a year when it might have felt strange for anyone to draw attention to their debuts, we are glad to fete these poets a little, these authors whose books have emerged from a committed and sustained engagement with poetry.
Anthony Cody, Taylor Johnson
Leila Chatti, Destiny O. Birdsong
Chad Bennett, Claire Meuschke
torrin a. greathouse, Chessy Normile
Tommye Blount, Roy G. Guzmán
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Anthony Cody
Borderland Apocrypha
Omnidawn Publishing
(Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Contest)
To narrow a body, excise.
—from "Bracero(s) & The Ice Car"
How it began: I was preparing to leave the country on a trip and had to take a passport photograph at a local drugstore. While I was in line an older white man stood uncomfortably in my personal space and made a joke—in reality a microaggression—asking me if I was afraid of the current president and trying to flee the country. Perhaps it was milliseconds, perhaps it was minutes, but in that provocation all the scenarios of what could happen next played out in my mind. Would I confront him? Would I laugh it off? Would I say anything? Ultimately I took a half step toward him and looked into his eyes without expression. He backed away and left. This moment sat with me for months, and I ended up writing a poem about the event. As time went on I began making more connections between that poem, which would become the opening poem of Borderland Apocrypha; the archival research around the period the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed; and the subtle, and not so subtle, histories that had built up to the moment.
Inspiration: Being in community with other poets, writers, and artists. The act of writing feels like a meditation in loneliness and often a study in rejection, so community feels vital. To talk, collaborate, share your work, manifest, dream, and support one another in the struggle helps keep me grounded and focused. The Hmong American Writers' Circle, CantoMundo, El Taller Latino Americano, and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio are very specific sources of inspiration in my life. Within these communities, I have encountered others whom I have learned from and created alongside. They have nourished me, and I approach every day trying to put that cariño and energy back into the universe.
Influences: One day Juan Felipe Herrera said to me, "Abandon the left margin." It was a new liberation to my practice and process. He is also the author of Akrilica (Alcatraz Editions, 1989), a collection that after almost three decades still reaches into the imagination of the possibilities of Latinx poetics. Even to this day, he still gathers others, dreams, and seeks. Witnessing him in action now, and throughout my life, reminds me to stay working toward honoring him as both a mentor and friend in everything I do.
To read a collection from M. NourbeSe Philip is to feel as though I am being invited into the sacred. A space I must read and enter with a care over the next several weeks. Her work re-synapses my understanding of language and navigation of the field in a way that requires me to turn off all other distractions and devote my full attention to her writing.
When I opened The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), my life changed. Douglas Kearney's ability to have a multiplicity of voices, textures, and histories—all within a visual deconstruction layered in complexity—created something that was new to me. This book made me realize I had to start over and ask more from my writing.
I return to Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (Covici Friede, 1938) year after year. More than a primer in docupoetics, her collection delves into the experimental and grounds me with a deeper understanding of how a poem and a collection can be both a reckoning and a path toward truth.
So much of my life involves community that my list could go on and on. Bernardo Palombo, the founder of El Taller Latino Americano, has helped expand my mind. I spent nearly three years in New York City learning about language, art, music, and literature from the entirety of the Americas from Bernardo, an educator, an artist, as well as a songwriter and musician of the Nueva Canción movement. His passion to make space for others; his attention to languages, sounds, and voices; and his ability to scheme and dream against all obstacles astounds me and makes me a better person and poet.
Writer's block remedy: I walk away. The internet, the algorithm, and capitalism want us to go as hard as we can until we are spent, only to start over again. If I can't push a project any further, I change mediums or do something else entirely. I write inside a phone book. I break down cardboard and sketch and build. I read and read and read or dive into the internet and research or obsess over a song that I loop and dissolve into for days. Writing is often more about listening than it is about the act of writing, so if the writing ceases, I know it is time I stop what I am attempting, listen more, and reimagine the path.
Advice: Poetry is not a competition or a race. For many years I did not write regularly. I worked. I read. I wandered. For much of my twenties, and even a portion of my thirties, I engaged in a variety of creative projects all while working at nonprofits, as well as at a wastewater reclamation and recycling plant. I did everything except write poems. All those friendships, experiences, and time gave me a chance to slowly understand the book I wanted to write into this world. So feel urgency, but do not confuse that urgency with the need to rush into publishing your first book before it is at a place that you can accept.
The other piece of advice: Find yourself two or three friends, poets or not, you can text a poem to at 3 AM and who will unflinchingly tell you the truth: "Nope" or "This is good, keep grinding" or even "You've lost your way." All the aforementioned replies have helped save me from myself. Without those people in my life, I am unsure what kind of book Borderland Apocrypha would have become, or if it would have even become a reality.
Finding time to write: I have learned that I cannot physically force myself to write, so setting time aside does not necessarily help me write more. Instead, I am often scribbling, sifting through the internet, listening to music, or sitting with an idea, a line, an image, or a concept. As a result, I may not be "writing" while doing a variety of other jobs and things, but I feel I am always mentally drafting and constructing in preparation to write.
Putting the book together: The second and third sections that center the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the subsequent lynchings, hate crimes, and traumas against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the southwest United States are predominantly in chronological order. The series that begins the collection became the opening section after I realized I was writing a group of poems that created a divergence of pathways, both personal and not, related to my research. Initially I believed I was drafting two separate manuscripts. For the closing of the manuscript, I had at first titled all the poems with the ending clause "as Borderland Apocrypha." While this maneuver did not make the final manuscript, the dissonance between the title and the subject matter of the poems did help me understand that the poems were steadily drifting from the harms of the past and present, beyond survival, and toward resistance.
What's next: Immediately after finishing the final draft of Borderland Apocrypha, I returned to the MFA program at Fresno State—I had deferred the last two years of the program. Rather than use the book as my thesis, I made the decision to dive into my paternal grandparents' experience in the Dust Bowl; make sculptures, both tangible and sonic; create mural-sized poems and scrolls; and assemble a new body of cross-disciplinary work that examines the Dust Bowl, climate change, complicities of whiteness, and annihilation.
I am grateful that this current work is steadily appearing in the world, and the best way I can describe the new work is as an escalation into the borderless aesthetic that I am exploring in Borderland Apocrypha.
Age: 39.
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Residence: Fresno, California.
Job: I am currently shifting from my MFA in creative writing at Fresno State to looking for a full-time job. In the meantime I serve on the volunteer communications staff for CantoMundo and as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press.
Time spent writing the book: Outside of research that began several years ago, the majority of the collection was physically written and revised over thirteen consecutive months. This was an intense period of time during which I simultaneously researched, drafted, drew, constructed, and built poems at all hours of the day and night.
Time spent finding a home for it: It was about a year between when I first thought I was finished with the manuscript but continued tightening the collection to when I heard I had won the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize.
Recommendations for debut poetry collections from this year: Each year poetry gives us a staggering number of debut voices. Some of the collections that left me in awe to share a debut year with include Tommye Blount's Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books), Monica Sok's A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press), Alan Pelaez Lopez's Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System), Benjamin Garcia's Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions), Michael Torres's An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press), Jihyun Yun's Some Are Always Hungry (University of Nebraska Press), and Ricardo Maldonado's The Life Assignment (Four Way Books).
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Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody
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Alice James Books
No name in the city of undoing
I lengthen beyond what I know
—from "self/hood"
How it began: I don't know if I was thinking about the poems I was writing as something that would be a book. The poems in Inheritance were formed while I walked around D.C. or had conversations with friends and lovers, or as a response to a theoretical framework I was trying to understand. Each poem has its own sense of time and reality, and I wasn't considering other poems that I'd written when I was in the process of writing a new one; I let the sounds emerge as their own. Ultimately the compulsion was to respond.
Inspiration: Riding public transportation in D.C., walking Georgia Avenue, walking Fourteenth Street, laughter, the Greyhound bus, The Poetics of Space (Presses Universitaires de France, 1958) by Gaston Bachelard, Fred Moten's consent not to be a single being trilogy, go-go music, Roland Barthes's essay "The Grain of the Voice."
Influences: Christopher Gilbert's Across the Mutual Landscape (Graywolf Press, 1984) found me in a used bookstore in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and when I read it, it seemed as if we'd always been in conversation.
When I was twenty-one I was fading out of school and I found Fred Moten's In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and his collaboration with Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013). Both texts changed how I understood critique, which is adoration, and study, which is connection.
I first applied to Cave Canem when I was sixteen after reading Dawn Lundy Martin's poem "Negrotizing in Five or How to Write a Black Poem." In the moment, the poem reached me where I was, which was inside the process of articulation and learning my own language—"phonemic struggle," as Martin says in the poem.
Writer's block remedy: Lately, listening to Keith Jarrett's concert in Köln, Germany, has kept me going. I'm moved by his vocalizations and foot-stomping in the first part of the improvisation. If I'm at an impasse it means I'm stopping myself. When I stop myself it's because I've reached an emotional impasse, for which I take a walk to try and work it out. Sometimes if I'm at an impasse in writing, I'll watch a film; it's been Cléo From 5 to 7 these days.
Advice: I think it's important to find silence and to be periodically defamiliarized with your voice and your sense of saying things.
Finding time to write: I write everyday, usually notes that may become a poem, or some other thought that expands into maybe a drawing or an idea for something more physical.
Putting the book together: I listened to John Coltrane and his quartet playing "India" live at the Village Vanguard in 1961. I listened to the poems I had and realized that I had a series of consistent sounds throughout. At the time of putting the manuscript together, I was in Paris and would walk around the Jardin du Luxembourg saying the poems to myself and figuring out the kinetic sense that I wanted to convey with the poems.
What's next: Right now I'm looking for two telephones booths to work out an idea I have. I'm interested in experiences with art that are immersive and require the participant to step into a new reality in some way.
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Residence: New Orleans.
Job: I engage my mind for a living. I write poems and have begun exploring creating installations and expanding my sense of a poem into something physical and immersive.
Time spent writing the book: Four years.
Time spent finding a home for it: I didn't try to find a publisher. I felt that when I was ready to share the poems, there would be someone who would want to collaborate with me on that project of sharing. I took about three months to decide on whom I wanted to collaborate with.
Recommendations for debut poetry collections from this year: Semiotics by Chekwube Danladi (University of Georgia Press), Horsepower by Joy Priest (University of Pittsburgh Press), and A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press) by Monica Sok.
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Inheritance by Taylor Johnson
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