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Louise Glück
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Revered by many as one of America’s most gifted contemporary poets, Glück was best known for her poetry’s sensitivity, technical precision, and insight into family relationships, loneliness, divorce, and death.
Louise Glück | Photo credit: © Katherine Wolkoff
Ocean Vuong
Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections, Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.
Ocean Vuong | Photo credit: Tom Hines
Carl Gustav Jung is one of the most influential figures in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
His work and exploration of the human psyche, the archetypes, and the collective unconscious are, to this day, immensely insightful pointers for understanding our true nature.
Jung’s analytical psychology has forever changed our views on behavioural science and the true meaning of spirituality in modern society.
Both a great scientist and an open-minded philosopher, he recognized the importance of embracing the multitudes of the individual human experience, and the vast collective unconscious that we inevitably inherit and pass on to future generations.
Carl Gustav Jung | photo credit: KEDEM AUCTION HOUSE
Photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni © Maya Gorgoni
"I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them."
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
I love Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Not because he used those striking shades of blue in his paintings that make me think of clear skies and open oceans, nor because of his dichotomic poetical compositions and immediate, musical way of creating - those are obvious, and perhaps, easier reasons to love him, for which, I certainly do.
I love Jean-Michel Basquiat, however, predominantly because of his humanity - referred to, here, as a way of observing the world and making a conscious choice how to be a part of it.
Basquiat lived, though terribly shortly, with a fervent conviction of being an artist, and a romantic notion of deserving to become famous for it.
Inwardly, he knew exactly who he was. Outwardly, he became precisely that.
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