Here we are, May 2025, and the world feels upside down and sideways. Despite all this, poets are going to poet, and artist are going to art. Creative people will continue to do their part…I’m thankful to live in a country where freedom of expression is still available to its citizens.
Author Archives: Shannon Laws
Corridor Zine: Submit Your Art and Poetry Today!
Calling all poets and artists along the I-5 Corridor! The zine “Corridor” needs you. The submission deadline is the 15th of each month. See below for details, FAQs, and other mind-blowing information.
Found Art: A Journey Through Connection and Creativity
Found art is modest, magical, and mysterious. A conversation started and completed by two bodies and minds that do not know each other in a traditional way, yet connect in the area of the abstract. Art does that. Sometimes holding a conversation over decades.
World Poetry Day: Reflecting on East Coker by T.S. Eliot
Today, March 21, 2025, is World Poetry Day. People everywhere are encouraged to share, read, or write a poem. I would like to share a poem with you, by T.S. Eliot, called “East Coker.”
This poem came to me, discovered me or perhaps I discovered it, just at the right time. I was approaching 50 and doing that thing many of us do — trying to understand life, and my purpose in it. Poetry to the rescue!
Crafting Poetry from Everyday Moments
So you go home, jot down the first impressions in a free-form editor-off moment. Then the craft of poetry begins. Revisit that moment. I imagine a poet going at the rough draft like a sculptor chisels away at a block of marble. Of course not every poem is a master piece, however, I would argue that every poem is worth the experience of attempting to craft one.
Celebrating 25 Volumes of Corridor: A Tribute to Tom Robbins
The March edition of Corridor hits a milestone: Volume 25! So young, so innocent, and ready to take on the world. This month’s Corridor’s cover is by me, Shannon Laws, titled “Roadside Distractions Appear Along a Foggy Corridor.” It seems fitting given the current political environment in the U.S..
The Intersection of AI and Poetry: Thoughts on Creativity
Do you have an opinion about A.I. in the creative world? I enjoyed listening to my poems as songs. It was easy to generate, took less than 2 minutes and it was free. Is it low-hanging fruit, another tool in the toolbox, or just pure creative laziness?
Heartfelt Contributions: February’s Corridor Highlights
This months Corridor takes a deeper dive into Febraury. Gives up some heart shaped food for thought on a paper platter. Here is the cover, below are the contributors. Keep your heartlight lit and your eyes searching for this piece of found art around town. Copies go out starting the first two weeks of February. Coffee shops, book stores, Little Free Libaries and the like.
Transform Your Workday with Motivational Songs (aka: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
I want some internet at American speed
A mocha steak with a side of potatoes
TV that takes me from Tuesday to need
and a two hour flight to Moscow
Meet the Creative Minds Behind Corridor Vol. 23
Volume 23 of Corridor will be printed and distributed in the first two weeks of January. Here is the cover. Keep your eyes out for it! Copies are always available at the breezeway between Village Books and the Colophon Cafe. Copies go fast!
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