Filling the Well: William Shakespeare, Marc Colagiovanni, and Peter H. Reynolds

 

"Dissociation" by Layne.

 

This above all: to thine own self be true.

 

– William Shakespeare, from Hamlet

 

 

"The Reflection in ME"

Written by Marc Colagiovanni, Art by Peter H. Reynolds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9OOXCu5XMg

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

April 19: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

April 20: Shannon L. Alder, Randy Hilliker, and Marina and the Diamonds

April 21: Hayao Miyazaki and Huang Yi

April 22: Emily Dickinson and Louie Schwartzberg (Earth Day)

 

Filling the Well: Emily Dickinson and Louie Schwartzberg (Earth Day)

 

Joshua Mayer

 

Amherst College Digital Collections

 

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

One clover, and a bee,

And revery.

The revery alone will do,

If bees are few.

 

– Emily Dickinson

 

 

Read Emily Dickinson's advice on prairie restoration at WingraSprings.

 

 

 "The Beauty of Pollination" 

Moving Art by Louie Schwartzberg

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiszdkOwuU

 

 

Meet the artist who is painting 50,000 bees to raise awareness of their plight HERE.

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

April 19: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

April 20: Shannon L. Alder, Randy Hilliker, and Marina and the Diamonds

April 21: Hayao Miyazaki and Huang Yi

 

 

The Progressive Poem is a crowd favorite during National Poetry Month. Today it's making its 22nd stop at Reflections on the Teche, where Margaret Simon is also hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup. 

 

You'll find the National Poetry Month kidlit events roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup.

 

Filling the Well: Hayao Miyazaki and Huang Yi

 

cocoparisienne

But remember this, Japanese boy, airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

 

– Hayao Miyazaki, from The Wind Rises

 

 

 

Huang Yi and KUKA 

A human-robot dance duet

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-sK-s_TzN0

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

April 19: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

April 20: Shannon L. Alder, Randy Hilliker, and Marina and the Diamonds

 

 

Filling the Well: Shannon L. Alder, Randy Hilliker, and Marina and the Diamonds

 

"Don't Ask Me How I Am Doing" by Randy J. Hilliker.  Featured at Broken Light Collective.

 

There is no perfection, 

only beautiful versions of brokenness.

 

– Shannon L. Alder

 

 

Marina and the Diamonds

"Happy" from Froot

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6AHxF0s764

Turn on closed captions while viewing or read the lyrics HERE.

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

April 19: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

 

 

Filling the Well: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

 

Violette Heymann (1910) by Odilon Redon, The Cleveland Museum of Art

 

The soul becomes dyed 

with the color of its thoughts.

 

– Marcus Aurelius

 

Van Gogh's Starry Night painted on dark water by Garip Ay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eS3ChsQAM

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

 

 

Filling the Well: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

 

"Snowy mountain and spring Milky Way Niigata" by Koichi Hayakawa

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

 

– Yasunari Kawabata, from Snow Country

 

 

"Milky Way"

A handpan meditation by Alexander Mercks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf36kl9UQLM

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

 

 

Filling the Well: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

 

Дмитрий Бирюков

did you pop up
with the matsutake mushrooms?
mountain rabbit

 

 

.松茸にむされて立つか山兎
matsutake ni musarete tatsu ka yama usagi

 

– Kobayashi Issa

 

 

Find your perfect haiku to celebrate International Haiku Poetry Day at David G. Lanoue's Haiku of Kobayashi Issa archive.

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah