Featuring photo slideshows and photography articles by Dan Murano and poetry by Maryland's 10th Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri, who also presents poets from around the world.
CATHY HAILEY's reverence for poetry makes every experience significant--bright and burnished by sight.Her poems memorialize not only family, but nature and literature-- all with the devotion of an acolyte tending a flame. —Grace Cavalieri
2017: Pride parade.
This second Pride Picks slideshow has some photos from the 90s, but most are from the 2000s and beyond.
Slideshows will now start in autoplay mode, 6 seconds per photo. UNFORTUNATELY, users on mobile devices will still have to navigate by tapping the photos.
There is a Pause / Start button on the bottom-left of the photo frame if you want more time to read captions or wish to further examine the photos.
HIram Larew captured all the stars, sunbeams, and clouds and alchemied them into poetry. Then he filled the mix with Humanity and sent them sailing. —Grace Cavalieri
Apologies if you encountered any issues leaving comments. I still haven't figured out what was causing it, but commenting should be working again. Please bear with it while I continue tweaking things on that end.
DOGE - "Hands Off" protest
"Hands Off!" Slideshow. The April 5, 2025 protest drew tens of thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington.
Apologies for any site weirdness. I was experimenting with different types of photography content displays, but with so many configuration options, things quickly got out of hand. I will continue with occasional tweaks, but will basically leave those few affected articles as they are and move forward using the structure I had originally designed. I don't like cluttered pages, so new photo content will no longer show a page filled with thumbnails. —Dan
Brian Gilmore is a native of Washington DC, a poet, public interest lawyer, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland in the Law and Society Program. He is the author of four collections of poetry including 'come see about me marvin,' (Wayne State University Press) a 2020 Michigan Notable Book Award Recipient.
The eye of time: A slideshow of twenty-five color and back & white photos from the 1980s to the near present.
Red paint job.
Color plays such an integral part in our lives that we sometimes forget the psychological and emotional impact it can have on us.
Barry Humphries backstage.
A nod to Australian actor Barry Humphries, AKA megastar and suburban housewife Dame Edna Everage.
Nin Andrews is a farmgirl who loves and holds her animals close-- and whose poetry is an exemplar --craft, vulnerability, and skill--whose humor is worthy of the Mark Twain award ...—Grace Cavalieri
