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December 1, 2011
Advent of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
I just realized that a page for A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage has been up at Mercer University Press... O dummy me! There's an image of the jacket (I was told that there will be a seal for The Ferrol Sams Award but that they were deciding where to put it--I guess they're still pondering!) as well as ordering information and flap copy.
The Burt & Burt design team does all the
The Burt & Burt design team does all the
November 30, 2011
Collaboration frolics
Fujimura with "Charis"
Wednesday is always mightily busy, but today I have an interesting extra thing to work on. I've been asked for a book proposal on the collaborative project I did several years ago with artist Makoto Fujimura. ( Makoto Fujimura
is a nihongan painter who has been on the NEA board and founded
International Arts Movement--he is an active culture-builder as well as
artist
Wednesday is always mightily busy, but today I have an interesting extra thing to work on. I've been asked for a book proposal on the collaborative project I did several years ago with artist Makoto Fujimura. ( Makoto Fujimura
is a nihongan painter who has been on the NEA board and founded
International Arts Movement--he is an active culture-builder as well as
artist
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
