Gotta love serendipity! I had been missing Jessica Wilson’s poetry book club (it’s been a while, I know) and now Dana Guthrie Martin just kicked off a Poetry x 12 reading project for 2010. Dana has a specific theme for every month, but readers self-select the poetry they want to read. January — Read a [...]
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banned book week
I saw this on a facilities tour I took not long ago. Great poster! Learn more about Banned Book Week at the ALA. How many banned books have you read?
An Exaltation of Larks
I believe it is in Chris Chester’s amazing book, “Providence of a Sparrow,” in which he mentions James Lipton’s book An Exaltation of Larks. Chester refers to the book as a listing of “the names of pluralities” of things- a parliament of owls, a smack of jellyfish, a pride of lions, a host of angels, [...]
a (one) reading list for the next 13 months
My reading-for-writers group met earlier this week and made our selections for the next year (one book per month starting in July). I am excited by the breadth of the list , which was purposeful — we wanted to expand our reading to include all kinds of genres thinking, why not? why not mix it [...]
Valentine’s Day: Celebrate Love (for Freedom to Marry)
I’m not one for Valentine’s Day. There too much pressure to have some love, visible. Buy cards, flowers, chocolates, dinner out. It’s not news that it’s a manufactured holiday, overblown. It’s not sustainable, it’s not real, it’s a business. But I am for love. And the freedom to pursue happiness. To have equal rights under [...]
Sometimes a sentence is all I got
It’s shadows that make shape & form, tell the story, give secrets away. * * * {I know “it’s” not good English. What can one do, when the context sounds better wrong than right?} * * * What can one do, when context sounds right yet it’s clearly wrong on the page? * * * [...]
it should be hard to complain (a confession)
I need a new laptop. My audio-recording ability has evaporated, just in time to complicate Christine and my collaboration for a qarrtsiluni submission. I’ll ask my friend & neighbor Libbi if I can use her computer (I am guessing she has all the bells & whistles and that they work). The plan had been to [...]
what I’ve been up to (kinda sorta confessional)
I finished this hat last Friday and mailed it. You can see the goofs (twisted yarn cause a funny thing in the rib) but I am pleased with it. I took Mark’s photo with it, too. But he looks like a ruffian in it (he says this style doesn’t look good on him) so I [...]
Sport and his girlfriend, Coulaine
Sport got to see his best buddy today, a bright and lively Belgian Terveran who is only a few weeks younger than he is. They played hard, chasing and sliming each other (that’s why his fur is funny looking around his neck), chased a ball, wrestled (using their legs like boxers) and just had a [...]
listening to Maya Angelou talk about gratitude
This morning, on my way into work – driving because I have an after-work appointment, I got to listen to a portion of Diane Rehm’s interview with Maya Angelou. I came into it a little late, and had to get out of the car before it was over, but what I heard was tremendously interesting [...]
