Ariel Gordon's Blog, page 97

SPORED: Anna Swanson, pt. 2

Anna Swanson and her Pass Creek Tower: Solstice, from The Nights Also (Tightrope Books, 2010).

SPORED: Jonathan Ball, pt. 2

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Jonathan Ball and his poem [61:], from Ex Machina (BookThug, 2009).

SPORED: Barbara Nickel, pt. 2

Barbara Nickel and her poem Annular, from Domain (House of Anansi Press, 2007).

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Another attempt at spore printing, another failure. So I left the mushrooms on the pages, in the hopes that they would at least rot interestingly. And then, instead of decomposing, they dried.

So I left them on the windowsill in the hopes that I'd figure it out.

And then, when my daughter was painting, I had an idea. Potato printing! Except with a mushroom!

But only one of them was stiff enough to survive paintin...

Hands on: the butterfly edition

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I swore I wouldn't shoot my own hands for the Hands-on Project.

I'm breaking that rule because I wanted to show you the handiwork of the past few weeks: five monarch butterfly chrysalises.

There's a sixth hanging from one of our dining room chairs, from before I wised up and confined them. The seventh and final specimen is a day or two away from its own chrysalis.

Caring for these caterpillars has meant work every day, principally in sourcing milkweed leaves, the only food they'll accept....

Keywords: McNally Robinson, literary, chat, tea, coffee, discussion, reading

So I'm going to doing two events as part of THIN AIR, Winnipeg International Writers Festival...

...in addition to my role as HOT AIR blogatrix...in addition my job as events coordinator Aqua, where a handful of THIN AIR events will be held.

I've just discovered that one of these events will be fall under the aegis of the Culture Days weekend.

It should go without saying that I'm honoured to be included in THIN AIR. This just makes it a two-fer.

Fun!

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Culture Days
Celebrating Arts + Culture f...

Reprint: Prairie BOOKS now

From the Summer 2010, no. 53, issue of Prairie BOOKS now:



I've spent most of my writing life in this city reading the profiles in PBN and so it was an honour to be article-d, especially given how few poetry titles they're able to include.

It was a further honour that my profile was assigned to Polly Washburn, former writing group member and producer/PM extraordinaire!

Reprint: Matrix

From the Summer 2010, Issue 86 issue of Montreal-based lit mag Matrix:



I'm quite sure the fact that this was called The Drinking Issue has nothing to do with the judgments on offer in the review...heh.

Butterfly hangover...

On July 18, M and Aa and I spent the afternoon at the Living Prairie Museum's Monarch Butterfly Festival.

Whilst there, I signed up for a membership with the friends of the LPM. This membership came with a silver pot dubbed 'the prairie in a pot.' It contained four representative plants that would be found on the tallgrass prairie.

Given that this was a monarch festival, it was no surprise that there was a small swamp milkweed seedling in the pot.

What WAS a surprise was that there was a monarc...

SPORED: Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson and her The smell of heat, from The Nights Also (Tightrope Books, 2010).

SPORED: Jonathan Ball

Jonathan Ball and his poem [57:], from Ex Machina (BookThug, 2009).