Paired: Sinclair + Tate

Fourth of July #2, Independence, Missouri a 20×200 edition by Mike Sinclair

The Motorcyclists

My cuticles are a mess. Oh honey, by the way,
did you like my new negligee? It’s a replica
of one Kim Novak wore in some movie or other.
I wish I had a foot-long chili dog right

...read on

Paired: Listfield + Tate

It’s a Question of Simian Survival by Scott Listfield

Fuck the Astronauts

I

Eventually we must combine nightmares
an angel smoking a cigarette on the steps
of the last national bank, said to me.
I put her out with my thumb. I don’t need that
cheap talk I’ve got my own problems.
It

...read on

Paired: Porter + O’Hara

July (1971) by Fairfield Porter | oil on canvas, 100 x 80 inches

Goodbye to Great Spruce Head Island by Frank O’Hara | view larger
From the papers of Fairfield Porter

...read on

Paired: Colombo + Skurnick

iSketch 104 by Jorge Colombo.
The cover of this week’s issue of The New Yorker features another iPhone sketch by Jorge. Read all about it.
View all Jorge’s 20×200 editions.

Grand Central, Track 23

I forgot to tell you it’s almost time to go.
The sun has distilled its particular worn essence
And the glittering trout is flipped on the bow.

A man

...read on

Paired: Plumb + Whitman

Sleeping Lion by Colleen Plumb from her series Animals are Outside Today. Several prints from this series are
available on 20×200: Tiger Rug, Cabrini Green, Field Museum Sue and Amish Horses.

from Leaves of Grass

32
I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self contain’d,
I stand and look

...read on

Two Things I Love

Elephants and Jason Polan.

...read on

Paired: Thompson + Strand

Self-portrait, pasture, Neponset, Il, (July 2003) by Peter Haakon Thompson | Slideshow on TMN

Keeping Things Whole

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

—Mark Strand

...read on