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Remembrance Day 2012: “War is like a flower…”: poems of War world-wide
. Louise Glück “The Red Poppy” . The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of...
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Norval Morrisseau: “María”, Madre de Jesús
ZP_Mary_by Norval Morrisseau ᐅᓴᐘᐱᑯᐱᓀᓯ born Beardmore Ontario 1932, died Toronto 2007_ Canada’s greatest painter of the twentieth century_Norval Morrisseau fue el gran pintor canadiense del siglo XX
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ZP_Mamie Smith, 1883 to 1946, vaudevillian and Blues singer who was the first black woman to cut a Blues record. In 1920, in New York City, she recorded the first million-seller by a black singer – two...
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Josephine Baker, née Freda Josephine McDonald, was born in St. Louis in 1906. In 1921 she ventured to New York City, danced at The Plantation Club in Harlem, and became a popular and well-paid chorus...
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Vintage valentine_ French postcard, early 20th century_Friendship is a flower that never dies. Valentine cards were not ONLY about romantic love. One gave them to children, parents, friends and...
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What to do on the coldest day in February? Toboggan, of course!
What to do on the coldest day in February? Go tobogganing, of course! That was fun…I think? Well, at least it got me out of the house!
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At a studied glance: Native-American / First Nations, Métis and Inuit...
Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane_portrait of David Kininnook of Saxman, Alaska_1907 Benjamin Haldane_Little boy with toy pistol Richard Throssel (Creek/Crow)_Smoking Cigarette_1910 Richard...
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Zócalo Poets…Volveremos en junio de 2013 / ZP will return June 2013
Zócalo Poets – ¡qué reunamos aquí en la gran plaza de poemas! Zócalo Poets – meet us in the Square! ¡Mándanos tus poemas – en cualquier idioma! Send us your poems – in any language!...
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Rita Letendre: “La lumière, depuis le premier choc à la naissance, jusqu’au...
Rita Letendre in Montréal during the early 1970s Rita Letendre_Incandescense_oil on canvas_1968 Rita Letendre_Sunrise_a mural on the side of Neill Wycik Residence, Gerrard Street East in Toronto_1971...
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Hoy, Zócalo Poets llegan a las 100 mil visitas…Today we reach our 100...
Hoy llegamos a las 100 mil visitas…Today we reach our 100 thousandth visitor at ZP… . Hoy, Zócalo Poets llegan a las cien mil visitas de nuestras páginas de web – desde mayo de 2011. Les agradecemos...
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Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso: African...
Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960, Durban, South Africa) photographed pre-adolescent and teenage boys in KwaZulu-Natal in 2010. The boys are adherents to the doctrines of a branch of the charismatic Shembe...
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Got muscle – got spirit! Christopher Senyonjo to Vanessa Brown – Justin...
ZP_Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, born 1932_In 2002 he was stripped of his bishopric by the Archbishop of The Church of Uganda (Anglican) for his LGBT rights sympathies. This heterosexual Man of...
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LGBT Pride celebrations: Toronto, Canada – June 30th, 2013
ZP_Volunteers for Africans in Partnership Against AIDS ZP_Brazilian visitor to Toronto ZP_Brothers workin’ it – one heterosexual, the other gay
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Toronto flora of “high summer”: The Sunflower
Sunflower – dawn, high noon or dusk hour – Why – for me – do you have such power? You: my glad grown-up face when I’m open to joy, not anger’s toy; when I’m frank with feeling, not secretly reeling....
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Toronto flora of “high summer”: The Lily
Lily – my childhood flower. I learned to walk among your stalks. And your ancient sophistication is part of me now; your beauty beholds me / I behold you, and The World is good glimpsed from your...
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Zócalo Poets…Volveremos en octubre de 2013 / ZP will return October 2013
Zócalo Poets – ¡qué reunamos aquí en la gran plaza de poemas! ZP – meet us in the Square! ¡Mándanos tus poemas – en cualquier idioma! Send us your poems – in any language! zocalopoets@hotmail.com Hielo...
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Pumpkin-carving in Toronto / Hallowe’en’s origins in Samhain
Hallowe’en, in its contemporary North-American manifestation, owes as much to pop-culture notions of corpses, cannibals and zombies in B-movies – and to Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video for his...
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“Lest We Forget…”
. Just above: Two flags hand-drawn by citizens during 1964 as part of designing a New Canada Flag to replace the old Canada Red Ensign. The submission immediately above included the following note:...
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