Marly Youmans's Blog, page 51
January 28, 2015
Questions for Thaliad
Mercer, 2012Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Fr. Augustine Wetta's class at St. Louis Priory School (MO) is reading through a sequence of Homer, Virgil, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Carroll, and Youmans! I love being the little red caboose on that artful train. The students are reading Thaliad, and the wonderful Fr. Augustine a.k.a. Fr. Dude has allowed them to ask me two
Fr. Augustine Wetta's class at St. Louis Priory School (MO) is reading through a sequence of Homer, Virgil, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Carroll, and Youmans! I love being the little red caboose on that artful train. The students are reading Thaliad, and the wonderful Fr. Augustine a.k.a. Fr. Dude has allowed them to ask me two
January 24, 2015
This is just to say
that I absolutely love this piece about Glimmerglass. It's by writer Scott G. F. Bailey.
January 23, 2015
Expectations and the Arts
Out of obstinacy, I shall deck
this post with my recent books...
Art: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Sure, I promised that I wouldn't be back until February, but that was before I came down with The Great Crud, The Very Great and Imaginative Crud. Here I am, day 13, hacking and sneezing and lolling in bed to report on the day's reading, despite the hijacking of my brain by little green men. Well, part of
this post with my recent books...
Art: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Sure, I promised that I wouldn't be back until February, but that was before I came down with The Great Crud, The Very Great and Imaginative Crud. Here I am, day 13, hacking and sneezing and lolling in bed to report on the day's reading, despite the hijacking of my brain by little green men. Well, part of
January 20, 2015
Glimmerglass, Mons Nubifer retreat, and more
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Clip from a new review of Glimmerglass
This is the tale of a woman's journey and the courage required to live a creative life, or any life, to its fullest. Ghosts and "wizened creatures" are just a few of the obstacles for a late bloomer on the verge of giving up on life's dreams. If she is to make a home here, if she is to salvage a family for herself, she will
Clip from a new review of Glimmerglass
This is the tale of a woman's journey and the courage required to live a creative life, or any life, to its fullest. Ghosts and "wizened creatures" are just a few of the obstacles for a late bloomer on the verge of giving up on life's dreams. If she is to make a home here, if she is to salvage a family for herself, she will
January 8, 2015
crik-crak!
Hello, friends and passers-by: I am taking a break from the blog and Facebook in order to deal with visits and deadlines. And I also have need for some time to reflect on work accomplished, and whether I will continue in the same modes as in the past. (I will, however, answer notes left anywhere on the blog.) Keep warm.
Lady Liberty has a pen
Tomi Ungerer, marvelous illustrator-writer
on the Charlie Hebdo massacre. See more cartoons here.
And here. And here.
Let all free people and all kindred of the pen say,
#jesuisCharlie.
on the Charlie Hebdo massacre. See more cartoons here.
And here. And here.
Let all free people and all kindred of the pen say,
#jesuisCharlie.
January 4, 2015
The Book of the Red King on the 11th day of Christmas
iPhone photo by Rebecca Beatrice Miller
A royal sunset on Main Street, Cooperstown
I've finally gotten back to working on The Book of the Red King, long written and finally, now, revised for a final time (and another and another and so on. But it's good to think of it as a final polish. Final polishes are always more complicated than they seemed at the start.) Like Thaliad, it tells a tale in
A royal sunset on Main Street, Cooperstown
I've finally gotten back to working on The Book of the Red King, long written and finally, now, revised for a final time (and another and another and so on. But it's good to think of it as a final polish. Final polishes are always more complicated than they seemed at the start.) Like Thaliad, it tells a tale in
January 1, 2015
Glimmering New Year
Here's a little Pinterest board I made on New Year's Day. It's composed of pictures I found on the web (on blogs and twitter and Facebook), all of Glimmerglass at various people's houses. If you send me a link to a picture, I'll put yours up as well.
Follow Marly's board Glimmerglass at home on Pinterest.
And here's a #tbt picture for New Year's
Follow Marly's board Glimmerglass at home on Pinterest.
And here's a #tbt picture for New Year's
December 31, 2014
At Life and Legends
Issue two
Thank you to poet Jennifer Reeser for soliciting poems for Life and Legends. As I am a wee bit lazy about sending out, it is helpful to be asked. Here is a link to my poems in the issue, and a glimpse of the start of each:
Sangréal
Bird the color of rose,
Sanguinary dove,
and
The Rain Doves at Birkenau
The little white house in a field,
The little red house in a field,
and
Thank you to poet Jennifer Reeser for soliciting poems for Life and Legends. As I am a wee bit lazy about sending out, it is helpful to be asked. Here is a link to my poems in the issue, and a glimpse of the start of each:
Sangréal
Bird the color of rose,
Sanguinary dove,
and
The Rain Doves at Birkenau
The little white house in a field,
The little red house in a field,
and
December 30, 2014
Blues and resolves
Under the tree for Canadian artist Marja-Leena Rathje!
Love being on Christmas (or any time) wish lists...
It's the 6th day of Christmas, and I am feeling a wee bit, just a tad depressed. Maybe I need to spend less or more narrowly focused time on the internet because I am heartily sick of bumping into language focused on creative entrepreneurship for artists, on how every artist has to be a
Love being on Christmas (or any time) wish lists...
It's the 6th day of Christmas, and I am feeling a wee bit, just a tad depressed. Maybe I need to spend less or more narrowly focused time on the internet because I am heartily sick of bumping into language focused on creative entrepreneurship for artists, on how every artist has to be a
