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Featuring: Artists in Queens

by Donna Tallent on June 4, 2021June 4, 2021

As a resident of Queens, I adore the fact this sweet piece of movable, transitory art exists as a way to bring writers together.

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art, books, nyc subway and bus, performance art

New Essay

by Donna Tallent on September 4, 2020May 30, 2021

A lyric essay I wrote about art and quilting and grief and hope and love featured in Michigan Quarterly Review.

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art, writing

What’s so hard about writing?

by Donna Tallent on August 14, 2020October 14, 2020

Writing is work. I write despite the fear of being judged, of making a mistake, of losing a loved one. I write despite deciding there’s nothing new left to say, that it’s all been said before.

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art, conservation, illustration, introvert thoughts, painting, revisions, writing

Writing Mood Board

by Donna Tallent on May 26, 2020October 14, 2020

My writing mood board full of quotes, color symbolism, and textile art collected over several years

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art, illustration, writing

Interview! Figurative Expressionist and Portrait Artist Betty Southerland

by Donna Tallent on April 20, 2020October 14, 2020

“I think of happiness and joy as the ultimate rebellious act. Art makes joy and joy makes art.”

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art, conservation, illustration, introvert thoughts, painting, performance art

Author Joe Moran on Good Sentences

by Donna Tallent on August 30, 2019October 14, 2020

“Skilled writers…see the sentence as the ur-unit, the granular element that must be got right or nothing will be right.”

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art, books, revisions, writing

Interview! Cabaret Performer, Monologist, and Storyteller Katherine Rose Turbes!

by Donna Tallent on May 17, 2019October 14, 2020

“I strive to be ‘excruciatingly authentic’ as some have put it. I speak openly about topics that hurt me, in the hope that voicing my experiences might make life easier in some way for others in similar circumstances.”

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art, cabaret, performance art, writing

Interview! Pop-Culture Based Artist and Illustrator Margarita Garza

by Donna Tallent on April 15, 2019October 14, 2020

“I have a cozy studio that I slowly put together over time. I love the smell of it, too—I think all of the accumulated art products have created the distinct smell. My studio smells like paper to me.”

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art, introvert thoughts

Collage

by Donna Tallent on March 3, 2019October 14, 2020

These pieces by @ingrid_elzinga and @mattchalk make me very happy.

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art, introvert thoughts

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