Helene Cardona's Blog, page 9
September 12, 2014
Poetry & Art this Saturday Sept 13, 6:30 to 8 PM at Building Bridges Art Foundation, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Poetry & Art Saturday Sept 13
With great pleasure we invite you to join us this Saturday from 6:30 to 8 PM
at Building Bridges Art Foundation
2525 Michigan Ave Suite F2, Santa Monica, California 90404
for a Poetry reading featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Hélène Cardona, and John Fitzgerald
See more at: http://redhen.org/events/rhp- at-building-bridges/
Join us & Red Hen Press for a special collaboration of poetry and contemporary art at the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Established in 2005, Building Bridges Art Exchange is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists, providing a variety of international art exchanges, artist residencies and workshop programs.
http://redhen.org/events/rhp-at-build...
http://redhen.org
http://www.imdb.me/ helenecardona
http://www.helenecardona.com
With great pleasure we invite you to join us this Saturday from 6:30 to 8 PM
at Building Bridges Art Foundation2525 Michigan Ave Suite F2, Santa Monica, California 90404
for a Poetry reading featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Hélène Cardona, and John Fitzgerald
See more at: http://redhen.org/events/rhp- at-building-bridges/
Join us & Red Hen Press for a special collaboration of poetry and contemporary art at the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Established in 2005, Building Bridges Art Exchange is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists, providing a variety of international art exchanges, artist residencies and workshop programs.
http://redhen.org/events/rhp-at-build...
http://redhen.org
http://www.imdb.me/ helenecardona
http://www.helenecardona.com
September 3, 2014
Readings at POETS HOUSE Sept 6 @ 1 PM and at CAFFE REGGIO Sept 8 @ 6:30 pm
I'm reading in NYC, Sept 6th @ 1pm at POETS HOUSE and Sept 8th @ 6:30 pm at CAFFE REGGIO.
With
Rodica Draghincescu, Leah Maines, Sherri Felt Dratfield, Rose Auslander, John FitzGerald, Frank Messina & more.
Sponsored by the Poets House Literary Partners Program and Finishing Line Press.
With
Rodica Draghincescu, Leah Maines, Sherri Felt Dratfield, Rose Auslander, John FitzGerald, Frank Messina & more. Sponsored by the Poets House Literary Partners Program and Finishing Line Press.
August 31, 2014
Fantastic review by Amélie Frank of The Mind By John Fitzgerald
Fantastic review by Amélie Frank of The Mind By John Fitzgerald:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
f I were still working with John FitzGerald (in the interest of full disclosure, we worked together at Red Hen Press), I would nudge him and say of his book THE MIND, "Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
My sense of John is that he has been aware of himself for a long time, but not in a solipsistic or narcissistic way at all. He is a keen observer, a consumer of origins, fine distinctions, continua, grand schemes, and minute details. He likely began observing and contemplating information from the moment he experienced the glare of light in the delivery room, and he has never stopped.
Interestingly, while THE MIND is about the remarkable way John thinks, it speaks to the larger questions of how we all think, how we came to be sapient in the first place, and how we develop as thinking souls in space and time. Keeping the language of his prose-like tercets basic, unadorned, and free-flowing, he accomplishes poetry of significance and elemental beauty. Left brain contemplation of structure and systems aligns itself with right brain wonder and whimsy, but neither hemisphere dominates in the work, so the reader can only expect the unexpected. And the rewards are great: poems of curiosity, orientation with the universe, sorrow, finding center, and surprising hilarity. (Only John can make the idea of rocks funny.)
If I were teaching from John's book, I would encourage poetry students to examine his masterful skill with personification. I would encourage philosophy students to wrestle with his experiences of phenomena. I would ask psychology and neuro-biology candidates to experience the brain from inside-out. I would ask physics students to explore how we process space and time in an era when such concepts are continually challenged and updated. I would ask divinity students to consider creation from the point of view of the created. THE MIND weighs so many approaches to thinking and being that you won't devour it in one or two sittings. Read it as you would the Book of Genesis, or Hawking, or an introduction to meditation. You will not think the same way ever again after reading it.
Amélie Frank
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
f I were still working with John FitzGerald (in the interest of full disclosure, we worked together at Red Hen Press), I would nudge him and say of his book THE MIND, "Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
My sense of John is that he has been aware of himself for a long time, but not in a solipsistic or narcissistic way at all. He is a keen observer, a consumer of origins, fine distinctions, continua, grand schemes, and minute details. He likely began observing and contemplating information from the moment he experienced the glare of light in the delivery room, and he has never stopped.
Interestingly, while THE MIND is about the remarkable way John thinks, it speaks to the larger questions of how we all think, how we came to be sapient in the first place, and how we develop as thinking souls in space and time. Keeping the language of his prose-like tercets basic, unadorned, and free-flowing, he accomplishes poetry of significance and elemental beauty. Left brain contemplation of structure and systems aligns itself with right brain wonder and whimsy, but neither hemisphere dominates in the work, so the reader can only expect the unexpected. And the rewards are great: poems of curiosity, orientation with the universe, sorrow, finding center, and surprising hilarity. (Only John can make the idea of rocks funny.)
If I were teaching from John's book, I would encourage poetry students to examine his masterful skill with personification. I would encourage philosophy students to wrestle with his experiences of phenomena. I would ask psychology and neuro-biology candidates to experience the brain from inside-out. I would ask physics students to explore how we process space and time in an era when such concepts are continually challenged and updated. I would ask divinity students to consider creation from the point of view of the created. THE MIND weighs so many approaches to thinking and being that you won't devour it in one or two sittings. Read it as you would the Book of Genesis, or Hawking, or an introduction to meditation. You will not think the same way ever again after reading it.
Amélie Frank
August 22, 2014
Fourth Sundays: Poetry at the Claremont Library with Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald
The Friends of the Claremont Library proudly present a reading by Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald, reading from their new books, Dreaming my Animal Selves and Favorite Bedtime Stories, respectively.
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Light snacks will be provided, and poets will have copies of their books available for purchase.
August 24, 2014 @ 2 PM
The Claremont Public Library
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Light snacks will be provided, and poets will have copies of their books available for purchase.
August 24, 2014 @ 2 PM
The Claremont Public Library
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
July 28, 2014
Three poems in Issue 9 of Levure Littéraire: THE DESTINY OF THE ARTIST
Levure littéraire 9
invites you to discover the creations of its 160 international artists.
THEME FOR DISCUSSION:
THE DESTINY OF THE ARTIST. Between the « why, » the « because » and the « I don’t know » – creators / artists wend their ways.
http://levurelitteraire.com/helene-ca...
http://levurelitteraire.com/word-of-w...
Intended as a ethical and aesthetic ferment, Levure is a space for creative initiatives and thoughts, without financial support, without hegemonic pretences, which favours the quality and originality of the constructive Act of Culture. In these times of economic crisis, and particularly of extreme moral crisis, when Peace, Education and Culture are being marginalized, since it is no longer in fashion to cultivate humanism, Levure persists in seeking with you the path to a secret bridge, toward a peaceful place conducive to meditation, beyond the barbarity and vulgarity of everyday life. With the intention of remaining in the tradition of the universal spirit of the Enlightenment!
invites you to discover the creations of its 160 international artists.
THEME FOR DISCUSSION:
THE DESTINY OF THE ARTIST. Between the « why, » the « because » and the « I don’t know » – creators / artists wend their ways.
http://levurelitteraire.com/helene-ca...
http://levurelitteraire.com/word-of-w...
Intended as a ethical and aesthetic ferment, Levure is a space for creative initiatives and thoughts, without financial support, without hegemonic pretences, which favours the quality and originality of the constructive Act of Culture. In these times of economic crisis, and particularly of extreme moral crisis, when Peace, Education and Culture are being marginalized, since it is no longer in fashion to cultivate humanism, Levure persists in seeking with you the path to a secret bridge, toward a peaceful place conducive to meditation, beyond the barbarity and vulgarity of everyday life. With the intention of remaining in the tradition of the universal spirit of the Enlightenment!
July 17, 2014
The new issue of One, by Jacar Press, is out! It's a beauty! Delighted to be included in such great company: Claudia Emerson, Rachel Jamison Webster, Joan Colby, Jim Daniels, Alison Stone, Linda Parsons Marion, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Walt Whitman
The new issue of One, by Jacar Press, is out!
It's a beauty!
http://one.jacarpress.com
Delighted to be included. All my gratitude to
Richard Krawiec. In fabulous company with Claudia Emerson, Rachel Jamison Webster, Joan Colby, Jim Daniels,
Alison Stone, Linda Parsons Marion, Sally Rosen Kindred, Kelly Michels, Mary Barbara Moore, Kelli Russell Agodon, Grace Mattern, Kathleen Kirk, Laura Shovan, Noel Crook, Tim Peeler, Jaki Shelton Green, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Lola Haskins, Michael McFee, and Michael Chitwood.
Plus, in Second Look, poems by Walt Whitman and Joseph Millar undergo critical scrutiny by Dorianne Laux.
And a wonderful cover paining by Francesco Lombardo.
http://one.jacarpress.com/
It's a beauty!
http://one.jacarpress.com
Delighted to be included. All my gratitude to
Richard Krawiec. In fabulous company with Claudia Emerson, Rachel Jamison Webster, Joan Colby, Jim Daniels,
Alison Stone, Linda Parsons Marion, Sally Rosen Kindred, Kelly Michels, Mary Barbara Moore, Kelli Russell Agodon, Grace Mattern, Kathleen Kirk, Laura Shovan, Noel Crook, Tim Peeler, Jaki Shelton Green, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Lola Haskins, Michael McFee, and Michael Chitwood.Plus, in Second Look, poems by Walt Whitman and Joseph Millar undergo critical scrutiny by Dorianne Laux.
And a wonderful cover paining by Francesco Lombardo.
http://one.jacarpress.com/
July 14, 2014
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. And this is not just the great ontological question of why we are here at all, for which religions and philosophies have tried to answer conclusively for various peoples at various times, and science tentatively attempts dazzling bits of explantation we are perhaps going to die out in our millennia, like dinosaurs, without having developed the necessary comprehension to understand as a whole.
Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster.
With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life - observable reality - and the faculty of the imagination - the power of projection into the hidden - to make stories.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
~ Nadine Gordimer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. And this is not just the great ontological question of why we are here at all, for which religions and philosophies have tried to answer conclusively for various peoples at various times, and science tentatively attempts dazzling bits of explantation we are perhaps going to die out in our millennia, like dinosaurs, without having developed the necessary comprehension to understand as a whole.
Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster.
With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life - observable reality - and the faculty of the imagination - the power of projection into the hidden - to make stories.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
July 5, 2014
"Artists provide the contemporary metaphors that allow us to realize the transcendent, infinite, and abundant nature of being as it is."
"Artists provide the contemporary metaphors that allow us to realize the transcendent, infinite, and abundant nature of being as it is."
~ Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
June 28, 2014
Two poems by my father José Manuel Cardona in Waxwing Magazine
Two poems by my father José Manuel Cardona, in Spanish, from the Birnam Wood (El bosque de Birnam) with my English translations in Waxwing's stunning Summer Issue:
http://waxwingmag.org/writing.php?ite...
"This is the mystery,/ a name, a word, a blaze,/ a little geography." -- "Ibiza," from the selection of poems by José Manuel Cardona in Waxwing Issue 3, translated by Helene Cardona.
http://waxwingmag.org/writing.php?ite...
"This is the mystery,/ a name, a word, a blaze,/ a little geography." -- "Ibiza," from the selection of poems by José Manuel Cardona in Waxwing Issue 3, translated by Helene Cardona.
June 14, 2014
The Inaugural Issue of Life and Legends is up!
The Inaugural Issue of Life and Legends is up!
www.lifeandlegends.com
Delighted to have been invited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis as Contributing Editor
& to participate in this issue as well as present:
Jenny Factor, Robert Pinsky, David Mason, Christopher Merrill, Jennifer Reeser, Kim Dower,
Dennis Maloney, Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac: translation by Hélène Cardona, Marie Lecrivain,
Miguel Barnet, translation by George Henson, Erna R. Cooper, Margaret Saine, Charles Harper Webb, Kate Gale, Lee Upton,
Mariano Zaro, Sarah Maclay, Marc Vincenz,
Ralph Angel, Diann Blakely,
Laurel Ann Bogen, Sonnet Mondal, Willis Barnstone, John FitzGerald, Michelle Bitting, James Ragan,
Rodica Draghincescu: translation by Howard Scott. With Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay,
Yahia Lababidi, Khursheed Hayat, Michelle Chung,
Abrar Ahmed: translation by Salma Jilani,
Satyapal Anand,
Sarojini Sahoo: translation by Jagadish Mohanty, Dean Pasch,
William O'Daly, Thích Nhất Hạnh,
Hareprakash Upadhyay: translation by
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Naseer Ahmed Nasir: translation by Dr. Bina Biswas, Rumi
& many more.
Book reviews: John Fitzgerald's Favorite Bedtime Stories (Salmon Poetry) by Erna Cooper, and Marc Vincenz's Mao's Mole (Neo Poiesis Press) by Hélène Cardona.
www.lifeandlegends.com
Delighted to have been invited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis as Contributing Editor
& to participate in this issue as well as present:
Jenny Factor, Robert Pinsky, David Mason, Christopher Merrill, Jennifer Reeser, Kim Dower,
Dennis Maloney, Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac: translation by Hélène Cardona, Marie Lecrivain,
Miguel Barnet, translation by George Henson, Erna R. Cooper, Margaret Saine, Charles Harper Webb, Kate Gale, Lee Upton,
Mariano Zaro, Sarah Maclay, Marc Vincenz,
Ralph Angel, Diann Blakely,
Laurel Ann Bogen, Sonnet Mondal, Willis Barnstone, John FitzGerald, Michelle Bitting, James Ragan,
Rodica Draghincescu: translation by Howard Scott. With Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay,
Yahia Lababidi, Khursheed Hayat, Michelle Chung,
Abrar Ahmed: translation by Salma Jilani,
Satyapal Anand,
Sarojini Sahoo: translation by Jagadish Mohanty, Dean Pasch,
William O'Daly, Thích Nhất Hạnh,
Hareprakash Upadhyay: translation by
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Naseer Ahmed Nasir: translation by Dr. Bina Biswas, Rumi
& many more. Book reviews: John Fitzgerald's Favorite Bedtime Stories (Salmon Poetry) by Erna Cooper, and Marc Vincenz's Mao's Mole (Neo Poiesis Press) by Hélène Cardona.
