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November 29, 2011
The Lydian Stones, 2
The second installment of The Lydian Stones is up, featuring Welsh artist Philippa Robbins. She chooses a poem by Ruary O'Siochain.
November 28, 2011
Waving
Yesterday: all day singing and filming (with a little wreath-making tossed in.) Today: all day ferrying. Tomorrow: all day baaaack! See you then.
November 25, 2011
Haiku VIII
As you are writing
The ink grows less
The sea increases. --George Seferis, trans. Rex Warner
The ink grows less
The sea increases. --George Seferis, trans. Rex Warner
November 24, 2011
Thanksgiving, 2011
Detail from "Still and Green Moon" by Yolanda Sharpe. Photograph by Gilda Snowden.
Did I say that I have joined a choir?
We have been diligently working on "Lessons and Carols," and more and more I think that a choir is a fantabulous subject for a comic novel. We have the usual mad people and eccentrics and quirks and characters that one finds in a good-sized group devoted to the arts, and
Did I say that I have joined a choir?
We have been diligently working on "Lessons and Carols," and more and more I think that a choir is a fantabulous subject for a comic novel. We have the usual mad people and eccentrics and quirks and characters that one finds in a good-sized group devoted to the arts, and
November 22, 2011
The Lydian Stones
Inaugural post featuring Paul Digby on The Lydian Stones here.
November 19, 2011
Frolics and News
Graham Ward, "King of Finisterre,"
1. My husband is back from Morocco and Egypt, trala, where he did have many curious adventures. And he has brought home interesting loot, of course. Curly shoes and bazaar jewelry and fezes (fezi? fezzes? fezzies? fuzzies?) and paintings on papyrus and chunks of indigo and shawls and so on. Who knew that there was such a strange, sweet-smelling thing as
1. My husband is back from Morocco and Egypt, trala, where he did have many curious adventures. And he has brought home interesting loot, of course. Curly shoes and bazaar jewelry and fezes (fezi? fezzes? fezzies? fuzzies?) and paintings on papyrus and chunks of indigo and shawls and so on. Who knew that there was such a strange, sweet-smelling thing as
November 18, 2011
At the Mythopoeic Society
A review of The Throne of Psyche by Randy Hoyt is up at the Mythprint website (The Mythopoeic Society.) It was previously published in the September issue of the magazine (48:9, #350.) It's the first review where the title poem is compared to other uses of the Psyche story.
Here's a clip to entice:
Even though many of the creatures and
characters have been gathered from various traditions,
Here's a clip to entice:
Even though many of the creatures and
characters have been gathered from various traditions,
November 16, 2011
"I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters"
New poem up at qarrtsiluni, brainchild of Dave Bonta and Beth Adams--this issue is edited by newlyweds Fiona Robyn and Kaspalita Thompson. I suppose if editing q-looniness didn't throw them off, nothing will! If you want to leave a comment, please leave it there, as I would rather qarrtsiluni receive the attention. Having edited an issue with Ivy Alvarez, I know it's a fair bit of labor to
The Lydian Stones
I have been working on The Lydian Stones this morning. The first five posts are formatted, and I am working on permissions for some of the work included... New posts will go up on a weekly basis. Take a peep! The link is:
www.thelydianstones.blogspot.com.
www.thelydianstones.blogspot.com.
November 15, 2011
A little bit of Thanksgiving
Thanks to Christopher Winters for doing a public reading from The Throne of Psyche. I love that he did it--and plans to do it again, the madman! I'm very glad that he got a good response, and hope anybody else who does such an outrageous thing will drop me a line and let me know how it went.
It takes a whole tribe of people these days to go on the march and get the word out about a book of
It takes a whole tribe of people these days to go on the march and get the word out about a book of
