Pat Perrin's Blog, page 3
July 23, 2022
How long does it take to make an artwork?
A lifetime at least. More than that because so much is double-timed, images and words running parallel to every ordinary day, fading in and out of the corners of the mind while everything else goes on—a lifetime of double-timing between those moments of sharp intensity while the focus is entirely on the work. Whether a […]
April 20, 2022
Poetry Happens …
A new poem of mine just appeared on the front page of Open Arts Forum. An appropriate sentiment, I hope, for poetry month. Poetry Happenswhen words set us free from language …
February 8, 2022
The Hoax Principle …
“… that fictional ideas, like placebos, can attain an astounding level of reality through sheer persuasive force.” Who would have believed that fictional characters would simply refuse to be remaindered along with physical books? After The Jamais Vu Papers was published by Harmony Books in 1991, it sold a few thousand copies and then seemed […]
December 23, 2021
“The Mad Scene” — prologue to Wim’s new play
Here is the prologue to my latest full-length play, The Mad Scene, which has been aptly described as “an Our Town about the Reign of Terror.” I’ve been developing it during the last year or so with amazingly brilliant members of the Yorick Theatre Company, the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, and Theatre at St. John’s, as […]
September 21, 2021
Ecclesiastes (poem)
From I.O.U., Wim’s new book of poems, available at Amazon.com. (Upon reading “Mind at the End of Its Tether” by H.G. Wells) Saith the Sage,there is no Shape of Things to Come;there is only the Coming of Shapelessness.Maps crumple—yea, and also the landscapes they signify—into dimensionless wads of nothing;the clock’s hands are blurred the whole […]
July 17, 2021
World’s Oldest String Found at French Neanderthal Site (poem)
Given the ongoing revelations of Neanderthal art and technology, it is difficult to see how we can regard Neanderthals as anything other than the cognitive equals of modern humans. —Hardy, B.L., Moncel, M., Kerfant, C. et al. Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications. Sci Rep 10, 4889 (2020). Ask the young treewhen the day […]
June 17, 2021
The Cave of Euripides on Salamis Island (poem)
From I.O.U., Wim’s new book of poems, available at Amazon.com. written for the dedication of the William S.E. Coleman Studio Theatre, June 18, 2016 But were you ever really here? Did you sit here brooding upon this cave’s sullen lip gazing over the bay of doves, a shrouded exile from lies and war and treachery, […]
May 21, 2021
Q. & A. with Wim Coleman
Interview with Adelaide Books about Wim’s new book of poetry, I.O.U.: Tell us a bit about yourself – something that we will not find in an official author’s bio? My father was a theater professor, director, playwright, and actor, so my very earliest memories are of attending rehearsals of plays he directed. In primal sort […]
May 10, 2021
Amid the Ashes of the House of Commons — London, May 1941
From I.O.U., Wim’s new book of poems, available at Amazon.com. To mark the end of the London Blitz 80 years ago this month (and also the end of the Trump presidency): And Churchill wept as he saw his beloved House in ruins. —Vernon Bartlett Deliverance wears thus a mocking face, the last bomb of the last raid stabbing […]
April 25, 2021
Coming up on April 27 …
“Page 158 Books is pleased to present a digital event in partnership with Adelaide Books featuring three authors from the North Carolina Writers’ Network. Join us for a conversation with Wim Coleman, L. C. Fiore, and Judy Hogan. Please note that this is a digital author event and will be hosted on our Crowdcast channel.” […]
