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April 5, 2011
Alice, Peg, and Marly at the Cooperstown Village Library
VisitingCooperstown.com
On the 7th, Thursday, at the Cooperstown Village Library: come by a chance to yack with novelists Alice Lichtenstein and Peggy Leon. The three of us are going to dinner beforehand, it seems. And then we are to talk about whatever you like--I posted that piece of news on facebook about a minute ago and already have requests: Julie says "paisley"; David says "what
VisitingCooperstown.com
On the 7th, Thursday, at the Cooperstown Village Library: come by a chance to yack with novelists Alice Lichtenstein and Peggy Leon. The three of us are going to dinner beforehand, it seems. And then we are to talk about whatever you like--I posted that piece of news on facebook about a minute ago and already have requests: Julie says "paisley"; David says "what
The House of Words (no. 11): One writer's lessons
"Buying a book," courtesy of photographer Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and sxc.hu.
Doing What You Want to Do, continued
Question for the day: Is there something to be learned from one writer's experience?
At this juncture, I am fairly confident that I will continue to be able to publish the books I want to write. I'm not promising where I will publish. I have three books of
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and sxc.hu.
Doing What You Want to Do, continued
Question for the day: Is there something to be learned from one writer's experience?
At this juncture, I am fairly confident that I will continue to be able to publish the books I want to write. I'm not promising where I will publish. I have three books of
April 4, 2011
The House of Words (no. 10): Doing what you want to do, 2
Why is The Throne of Psyche today's illustration? No good reason except that books shipped from the mill on the 25th and so pub date approaches. And that I am just as cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof antsy as any other writer with a new book of poetry, worried whether her paper progeny will ever find good homes and readers. Also, I suppose that we can class this publication as one of those alternative
April 3, 2011
Curled up, Sunday afternoon...
BLOOM/Korach
It's easy for womento identify with Korach.Why should all the powerReside in one set of hands?
Why shouldn't webe able to speak to Godon our time, lightingour own smudge-sticks hearts?
Why should our bodiesneed concealment, likefaces of the Holy Blessed Onehidden from creation?
Sometimes when we say thisthe earth swallows us wholelike Persephone, eaterof pomegranate seeds.
Sometimes
It's easy for womento identify with Korach.Why should all the powerReside in one set of hands?
Why shouldn't webe able to speak to Godon our time, lightingour own smudge-sticks hearts?
Why should our bodiesneed concealment, likefaces of the Holy Blessed Onehidden from creation?
Sometimes when we say thisthe earth swallows us wholelike Persephone, eaterof pomegranate seeds.
Sometimes
April 1, 2011
With Paul Digby and "The Birthday Roses" on youtube
I promised a surprise to my facebook friends, and I promised it by midnight. I hope they'll forgive me for the slowness of uploads. I meant it as a bit of a salute to April Fool's Day, but the Day is tricksy and shook me into the 2nd.
So here's the Fool from my ongoing project, The Book of the Red King. And it's all thanks to the composing and photography and video-making of that lovely man,
So here's the Fool from my ongoing project, The Book of the Red King. And it's all thanks to the composing and photography and video-making of that lovely man,
The House of Words (no. 9) Zephyrus side note to 8:1
Photograph of spaghetti courtesy of sxc.hu
and Marcin Jochimczyk, Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland.
zephyr said...
i wonder:
how many writers were successful enough to not need a job in the era when editors could focus on art and publishing houses were individual, home owned entities? Perhaps more novelists, poets, essayists were published but how well did all those books sell? How many were
and Marcin Jochimczyk, Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland.
zephyr said...
i wonder:
how many writers were successful enough to not need a job in the era when editors could focus on art and publishing houses were individual, home owned entities? Perhaps more novelists, poets, essayists were published but how well did all those books sell? How many were
Zephyrus side note to The House of Words (no. 8), first part
Photograph of spaghetti courtesy of sxc.hu
and Marcin Jochimczyk, Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland.
zephyr said...
i wonder:
how many writers were successful enough to not need a job in the era when editors could focus on art and publishing houses were individual, home owned entities? Perhaps more novelists, poets, essayists were published but how well did all those books sell? How many were
and Marcin Jochimczyk, Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland.
zephyr said...
i wonder:
how many writers were successful enough to not need a job in the era when editors could focus on art and publishing houses were individual, home owned entities? Perhaps more novelists, poets, essayists were published but how well did all those books sell? How many were
March 31, 2011
The House of Words (no. 8): Doing what you want to do, 1
8. Doing what you want to do
"Late 19th-century bookseller's sign
in one of three languages on the Rokin, Amsterdam."
Courtesy of Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and sxc.hu.
Is there been a cost to doing what you want to do? Yes, there is a price, particularly if you pursue your own path, and even more particularly if your path takes you down various windings--in my case,
"Late 19th-century bookseller's sign
in one of three languages on the Rokin, Amsterdam."
Courtesy of Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and sxc.hu.
Is there been a cost to doing what you want to do? Yes, there is a price, particularly if you pursue your own path, and even more particularly if your path takes you down various windings--in my case,
The House of Words (no. 8)
8. Doing what you want to do
"Late 19th-century bookseller's sign
in one of three languages on the Rokin, Amsterdam."
Courtesy of Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and sxc.hu.
Is there been a cost to doing what you want to do? Yes, there is a price, particularly if you pursue your own path, and even more particularly if your path takes you down various windings--in my
"Late 19th-century bookseller's sign
in one of three languages on the Rokin, Amsterdam."
Courtesy of Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and sxc.hu.
Is there been a cost to doing what you want to do? Yes, there is a price, particularly if you pursue your own path, and even more particularly if your path takes you down various windings--in my
March 30, 2011
The House of Words (no. 7): Luck (Marjorie Hudson)
5 birds, 3 eggs: Press 53
Cover artist Emma Skurnick
A Novello Literary Award Finalist
7. More on luck
Marjorie Hudson's second book, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas: Stories about Yankees Moving South, is forthcoming on May 15 from Press 53. Doris Betts says "Hudson's prose is pure as birdsong." Visit her website here. Click on the title to sail onto her page at Press 53.
I e-met Marjorie
Cover artist Emma Skurnick
A Novello Literary Award Finalist
7. More on luck
Marjorie Hudson's second book, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas: Stories about Yankees Moving South, is forthcoming on May 15 from Press 53. Doris Betts says "Hudson's prose is pure as birdsong." Visit her website here. Click on the title to sail onto her page at Press 53.
I e-met Marjorie
