Could not stop thinking of this painting–Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose–today. It’s one I love. It’s one we all love. I mean, come on! You love it, right? I saw it up close and personal at the MFA in Boston a few years ago at the John Singer Sargent exhibit and my love expanded like the universe. It’s on my mind, probably, because June is … Read More read it
Please check out this very cool project brought to you in part by the excellent Joe Young–Baltimore Interview, a blog dedicated to profiling arts people in the Baltimore area.
If you are planning on being in or around Cambridge on July 7th, you’ll want to check out The Night Train Release party. Here’s the blurb from Rusty‘s blog: Come hear Nadine Darling, Issue VI; Xujun Eberlein, Issue V; Jim Nichols, Issue VI,read at the Dire Literary Series on July 7th, 2006. The event will be held at the Out of the Blue Art … Read More Night Train Release Party–July 7th
Got this announcement from my dear friend, Jordan Rosenfeld: Rebecca Lawton and I are teaching a series of online classes based on our forthcoming book: Creating Space: The Law of Attraction for Writers & Other Inspired Souls (Summer, 2007). The first 4-week session begins in September, but we are taking sign-ups now through the Creating Space blog.People who participate in the online classes will … Read More The Law of Attraction for Writers
So I had been hearing about myspace from lots of folks who told me it was a great place for writers to find a community, promote their work, etc. I was skeptical because I’d heard all of the same news stories the rest of you have heard about pedophiles and teenyboppers, etc. etc. But I’m willing to admit I may have been wrong and … Read More can I sit with you?
So, I’m going to the Tin House workshop (Dorothy Allison is my workshop leader. I heart her!) this summer and was just on the web site and noticed they updated the seminar and lecture schedule. Looks like it’s going to be great. Am most excited. Look at those readings, those lectures! And I see that Gil Dennis is going to be there speaking about … Read More Tin House workshop Seminar and Lecture schedule
Ellen Meister, whose debut novel will be released in two months, has just released her gorgeous new website: http://www.ellenmeister.com. Take a look and make sure you sign up for her newsletter.
Author Jim Tomlinson is back from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth tour of the Mountaintop Removal sites. Please visit his journal and read about his experience: The view from space only suggests the irreparable damage done to forests, valley streams, and the mountains themselves, its malignant spread more extensive now than in this somewhat outdated photograph. Driving through the faux-lunar landscape now is incredibly painful … Read More Jim Tomlinson reports on Mountaintop Removal
I could be bitter that it is raining again and again and again, but instead I decided to take some photos, because the plants are loving it. So, here they are. One of my glorious hostas, with some snow-on-the-mountain and pachysandra off to the side. another beautiful hosta. I’m a huge fan of ferns. Another variety. A bunch o’ ferns. When we moved in … Read More green plants in rain
I believe I am borderline OCD and have been all my life, because of this and other parts of my anxiety riddled brain, I’m addicted to such things as horoscopes and tarot readings. In times of high anxiety, I read my horoscope every day (in several different sources) and sometimes will get out my tarot cards do reading after reading after reading. I liken … Read More he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not
Thanks to my pal, Robin, I learned that there’s a new Per Contra online featuring work from many talented writers, including: Inertia, by Alicia Gifford Dumpsites: On Flash Narrative, by Randall Brown Sister Gwendolyn, by Antonios Maltezos
This story in today’s paper delighted me–He keeps a haven of poetry alive: When he bought the venerable Grolier Poetry Book Shop in April, poet and professor Ifeanyi Menkiti took a leap of faith. It will take a lot of that to make the store succeed in a publishing world where poetry inhabits a tiny corner. Menkiti is undaunted. “I have a strong sense … Read More “I have a strong sense of hope and belief that poetry can help our world,"
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