Marly Youmans's Blog, page 46
May 29, 2015
At the Build-Fix-Grow Festival, Hanford Mills
I'll be reading/signing/yacking at the Build-Fix-Grow Festival at Hanford Mills this Saturday... It's good that regional museums have begun to take an interest in their area writers. Before Christmas, there was a fun event at the Fenimore Museum--now that's convenient to me!--and I recently talked to and lunched with the staff of the Fenimore Museum and Farmers Museum bookstores.
excerpt from
excerpt from
May 28, 2015
Story power
Sovanna Soeung
I am very taken with the mother's storytelling at the beginning of this Washington Post article (reprinted by the Independent in the UK) by the accomplished Cambodian-born SreyRam Kuy. The real life salvation by story is like a piece of the Arabian Night, or a fairy story. If you don't believe that stories have power, this one just might convert you. (How a folk tale saved is
I am very taken with the mother's storytelling at the beginning of this Washington Post article (reprinted by the Independent in the UK) by the accomplished Cambodian-born SreyRam Kuy. The real life salvation by story is like a piece of the Arabian Night, or a fairy story. If you don't believe that stories have power, this one just might convert you. (How a folk tale saved is
May 23, 2015
The unguessable current
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for Glimmerglass
Three days in Vermont for the graduation at The Center for Cartoon Studies, lots of long track meets in far-off places, deadlines, an Antioch Midwest independent study, a month jammed with events for a high school senior... I've been busy and off in the wilds. And I suppose that was good because I was a little weary of the online world. All that flogging of
for Glimmerglass
Three days in Vermont for the graduation at The Center for Cartoon Studies, lots of long track meets in far-off places, deadlines, an Antioch Midwest independent study, a month jammed with events for a high school senior... I've been busy and off in the wilds. And I suppose that was good because I was a little weary of the online world. All that flogging of
May 12, 2015
The argument for culture care--
"Ki-Seki"
© 2014 Makoto Fujimura
Mineral Pigments, Sumi ink, silver, and gold on Kumohada paper
60.25 x 45.25 x 1.25 in
Private CollectionPrints are available - click here.Frontispiece to Culture Care.
Though I've been and am still awash in away track meets, graduation ceremonies, awards nights, prom, and other festivities that pop up toward the end of a school year, I'll leave a little
© 2014 Makoto Fujimura
Mineral Pigments, Sumi ink, silver, and gold on Kumohada paper
60.25 x 45.25 x 1.25 in
Private CollectionPrints are available - click here.Frontispiece to Culture Care.
Though I've been and am still awash in away track meets, graduation ceremonies, awards nights, prom, and other festivities that pop up toward the end of a school year, I'll leave a little
May 3, 2015
Pause
detail, jacket image for Maze of Blood. Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
I'm on my second round of the second pass galleys of Maze of Blood. Meanwhile, everything else in my life seems to be hopping up and down, demanding attention. Two children are heading toward graduation (one from high school, one from The Center for Cartoon Studies), with all the frenetic events and activity that precede such
I'm on my second round of the second pass galleys of Maze of Blood. Meanwhile, everything else in my life seems to be hopping up and down, demanding attention. Two children are heading toward graduation (one from high school, one from The Center for Cartoon Studies), with all the frenetic events and activity that precede such
April 29, 2015
Desire in a time of chaos:
To be whole and make whole art in the midst of a broken culture.
Makoto Fujimura, Golden Fire II
Mineral Pigments, Gold on Kumohada 89x132"
"Fujimura continues the theme of "Fires of destruction and sanctification" that he began with Water Flames."
Makoto Fujimura, Golden Fire II
Mineral Pigments, Gold on Kumohada 89x132"
"Fujimura continues the theme of "Fires of destruction and sanctification" that he began with Water Flames."
April 27, 2015
NPM6: I give you the fool
"The King and the Fool" by Mary Bullington
April, national poetry month, no. 6
The poem below is from The Book of the Red King, and was originally published here in Mezzo Cammin, along with some others from the series. The king and fool poems are very many, and some day they will be a beautiful hardcover book and a paperback and maybe something else, all with art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. We
April, national poetry month, no. 6
The poem below is from The Book of the Red King, and was originally published here in Mezzo Cammin, along with some others from the series. The king and fool poems are very many, and some day they will be a beautiful hardcover book and a paperback and maybe something else, all with art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. We
April 25, 2015
NPM5: I give you sphinx and snow cats--
April, national poetry month, no. 5
Here's one I may have posted before--certainly I have posted Paul Digby's video of the poem earlier. It's an iambic tetrameter poem in couplets, so it resolutely rejoices in rhythm and rhyme. I thought of this one because I read it at the Fenimore Art Museum on Monday, and somehow people always think it very funny that a poem should reprove a popular poet
Here's one I may have posted before--certainly I have posted Paul Digby's video of the poem earlier. It's an iambic tetrameter poem in couplets, so it resolutely rejoices in rhythm and rhyme. I thought of this one because I read it at the Fenimore Art Museum on Monday, and somehow people always think it very funny that a poem should reprove a popular poet
April 24, 2015
NPM4: I give you water-devil whirligigs--
April, national poetry month, no. 4
Image by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
from the back of The Foliate Head
"I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters,"
The Foliate Head (hardcover from Stanza Press, 2012)
*
I like bigness in a poem, and this one started with a phrase that has a cosmic largeness to it. I also like mystery in a poem, and don't think all that much of a poem that exhausts
Image by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
from the back of The Foliate Head
"I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters,"
The Foliate Head (hardcover from Stanza Press, 2012)
*
I like bigness in a poem, and this one started with a phrase that has a cosmic largeness to it. I also like mystery in a poem, and don't think all that much of a poem that exhausts
April 23, 2015
NPR3: I give you the feathered snake--
Jacket art, detail from Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt
April, national poetry month, 3
Here's a blank verse passage from the title poem of The Throne of Psyche (Mercer, 2011.) We've had harpies and grief for April-the-cruelest-month in the first two selections; here is Eros bedding Psyche, love and the soul forcibly entwined.
Available in hardcover and paperback.
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt
April, national poetry month, 3
Here's a blank verse passage from the title poem of The Throne of Psyche (Mercer, 2011.) We've had harpies and grief for April-the-cruelest-month in the first two selections; here is Eros bedding Psyche, love and the soul forcibly entwined.
Available in hardcover and paperback.
