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December 12, 2012
D. G. Myers and A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
Literary critic D. G. Myers has posted a long, insightful review of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage on A Commonplace Blog. The essay is beautiful; I hope you will read it.
If you have a comment, please post it there. Comments off.
If you have a comment, please post it there. Comments off.
December 11, 2012
The Next Big Thing - author meme
Lovely poet friend Luisa Igloria invited me to join the self-interview experiment called The Next Big Thing. Writers
participating get to answer 8-10 questions, and then tag five other writer friends to post their own “next
big thing” the following Wednesday. I'll add a list of the writers later.
1. What is the working title of your book?
In
2012, my ninth, tenth, and eleventh books
participating get to answer 8-10 questions, and then tag five other writer friends to post their own “next
big thing” the following Wednesday. I'll add a list of the writers later.
1. What is the working title of your book?
In
2012, my ninth, tenth, and eleventh books
December 10, 2012
Home.Clive.Pinned
HOME
I'm posting from beautiful Cullowhee, North Carolina, where the clouds have bedded down on the mountains, and those in turn have gone a lovely fawn color while the eldest trees (clothed in lichen) are a luminous pale green in the rain. Everything is soft and waiting, with little birds flying to and from the feeders. It has a lovely Advent sort of feeling.
CLIVE
Clive Hicks-Jenkins has
I'm posting from beautiful Cullowhee, North Carolina, where the clouds have bedded down on the mountains, and those in turn have gone a lovely fawn color while the eldest trees (clothed in lichen) are a luminous pale green in the rain. Everything is soft and waiting, with little birds flying to and from the feeders. It has a lovely Advent sort of feeling.
CLIVE
Clive Hicks-Jenkins has
December 9, 2012
Mercer Frolics in Atlanta
I'm back in Cullowhee, North Carolina after two days in Atlanta with the 23rd annual Mercer Authors Luncheon. You might think that a luncheon would be a luncheon, but in this case it is a reception and dinner for 65 dear friends of Mercer University Press and some authors, and then some more events the next day, primarily book signings and a fancy luncheon for a much large number. It was quite
December 7, 2012
Idle thoughts on the road--
On the road... Zipping from western North Carolina to Atlanta today. If you are insanely curious, you may go to the Events page and see why. Otherwise, I shall report tomorrow night.
Last night I was watching Stephen Colbert and laughing heartily (though still not regretting my longtime lack of television--and after all, I can see him with Peter Jackson or the late Maurice Sendak on the web),
Last night I was watching Stephen Colbert and laughing heartily (though still not regretting my longtime lack of television--and after all, I can see him with Peter Jackson or the late Maurice Sendak on the web),
December 5, 2012
Tumbleweed
I have abandoned the family in New York and gone rambling down South--last night I was in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and tonight I will be in Cullowhee, NC. On the 7th I'll be going to a dinner with Mercer University Press and their supporters in Atlanta, and the next day I'll be doing a book-signing for my 2012 novel, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, and The Throne of Psyche (2011 poetry
December 3, 2012
Sweet collaborations--
Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins and poet and Aberystwyth University professor (now department head and Rendel Professor) Damian Walford Davies talk about poetry, painting, collaboration, and more here. Various poets come in for a mention, sometimes obliquely, and Damian reads some of his poems inspired by Clive's paintings. I'm glad Clive also read a poem by his dear friend Catriona Urquhart, who
To the poets--
Thoughts after reading some contemporary poetry... They might be in place of a few reviews, or maybe they're reminders to me about things I knew but felt like jotting down.
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If you are [insert sex or color], please love the world's people in your poetry. All. No matter what color and sex. To put it another way: give the people in your poems your full and fair attention, even if their
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If you are [insert sex or color], please love the world's people in your poetry. All. No matter what color and sex. To put it another way: give the people in your poems your full and fair attention, even if their
December 2, 2012
Small horn toot for Catherwood--
Trala, Catherwood is coming! (The novel was originally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1996, and afterward by the Bard imprint and in French, Spanish, and German translation. And Braille...) I was just writing some materials and packaging up review clips and so on for Mercer. I am so glad. It's always a good sign when publishers want to bring one's out-of-print books back into print. I've
December 1, 2012
Thaliad, etc.
Marly-mama
After nine hours to and fro and in Bug Tussle, New York for a wrestling meet, I slept briefly and rose to roust the youngest for another day of it. As I must go sing some Benjamin Britten and Handel, I escaped my wrestling-mom duties...
Thaliad thank you
I want to thank everybody who ordered Thaliad on launch day. Much appreciated! It's not your average Jill and Joe who are up for an
After nine hours to and fro and in Bug Tussle, New York for a wrestling meet, I slept briefly and rose to roust the youngest for another day of it. As I must go sing some Benjamin Britten and Handel, I escaped my wrestling-mom duties...
Thaliad thank you
I want to thank everybody who ordered Thaliad on launch day. Much appreciated! It's not your average Jill and Joe who are up for an
