Mid-Week Libation: We Are What We Are
Enjoy a glass of crisp frizzante Langhe, a world-changing R&R playlist, an Imagist poem by Leonora Speyer, the exquisite photography of Naima Green & a showstopping ballad from Trevor Ashley!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: John Inman (June 28, 1935 – March 8, 2007)
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Ceretto Langhe D.O.C. Arneis Blangé (Piedmont, Italy)
R&R’s Mid-Week Playlist: I’d Love to Change the World
The Photography of Naima Green
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Official Site of Naima Green / Instagram / Works for Sale (via Artsy)
Pride Spotlight: Photographer Naima Green Is Documenting the Afro-Queer Present (via Observer)
Naima Green’s Intimate Scenes of Pleasure and Play (via Blind Magazine)
Poem of the Week: “Swallows” by Leonora Speyer (1872-1956)
Swallows
by Leonora Speyer
They dip their wings in the sunset,
They dash against the air
As if to break themselves upon its stillness:
In every movement, too swift to count,
Is a revelry of indecision,
A furtive delight in trees they do not desire
And in grasses that shall not know their weight.
They hover and lean toward the meadow
With little edged cries;
And then,
As if frightened at the earth’s nearness,
They seek the high austerity of evening sky
And swirl into its depth.Drag Performance of the Week: Trevor Ashley Sings “The Rose”
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Artists Born Today: June 28th
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Today is the birthday of Peter Paul Rubens, Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Amy Ella Blanchard, Hanuš Schwaiger, Luigi Pirandello, Anne Goldthwaite, Aloïse Corbaz, Esther Forbes, Adrian Feint, Cicely Mary Barker, Florence Henri, Richard Rodgers, Ross Nichols, George Padmore, Jimmy Mundy, Norman Lewis, Eric Ambler, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, George Booth, Mel Brooks, Jack Gold, Pat Morita, Georges Wolinski, John Inman, Raul Seixas, Türkan Şoray, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Gilda Radner, Kathy Bates, Pope.L, Achy Obejas, Meralda Warren, Peeter Allik, Ha Seong-nan, Aimee Bender, Mike White and Florian Zeller!
Where are you finding inspiration today?