Marly Youmans's Blog, page 68
April 1, 2014
Up in the writing room--
Mary Boxley Bullington, Avian Adventures over a Barbarous Land. Acrylic and mixed media collage, 22" x 22 1/2". Available.If you don't know her work, go find her
on facebook. Mary's work is fluent and powered.
by a great sluice of passion. I recommend it!
Labyrinthine tangles, or what's coming up in the writing room--
Although I have had Maze of Blood at the publishers for a year or two,
on facebook. Mary's work is fluent and powered.
by a great sluice of passion. I recommend it!
Labyrinthine tangles, or what's coming up in the writing room--
Although I have had Maze of Blood at the publishers for a year or two,
March 31, 2014
Richard Nester on "Buffalo Laughter"
Cover art by Lavina Blossom
Hemet, California: Kelsay Books, 2014
Buffalo Laughter
Every year the buffalo get
together like a bunch of old actors.
There are only enough of them
left to make a movie.
The head buffalo plans something,
but the old times and the new times
are one time now, and it never quite happens.
There's a buffet--grass mostly and some water.
For a couple of hours the
Hemet, California: Kelsay Books, 2014
Buffalo Laughter
Every year the buffalo get
together like a bunch of old actors.
There are only enough of them
left to make a movie.
The head buffalo plans something,
but the old times and the new times
are one time now, and it never quite happens.
There's a buffet--grass mostly and some water.
For a couple of hours the
March 28, 2014
Lady Word of Mouth
New at Lady Word of Mouth:
MaryAnn Corbett, Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter
poetry
Gary Dietz, Dads of Disability
essays, memoir, and a smattering of poetry
and a new edition of
Scott G. F. Bailey's The Astrologer
novel
MaryAnn Corbett, Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter
poetry
Gary Dietz, Dads of Disability
essays, memoir, and a smattering of poetry
and a new edition of
Scott G. F. Bailey's The Astrologer
novel
March 26, 2014
New book on fathers and disabled children--
Dads of Disability--"stories for, by, and about fathers of children who experience disability (and the women who love them!)" by Gary Dietz is up at Lady Word of Mouth. It's not just a book for fathers of disabled children but a book for all of us who live in a world that contains fathers and children.
March 24, 2014
Bright Hill reading on Thursday
Interior vignette by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for Glimmerglass (forthcoming in September)
Reading and Q/A
Sarah Dohrmann and Marly Youmans
--preceded by open mic--
Thursday, March 27
7:00 p.m.
Bright Hill Literary Center
94 Church St.
Treadwell, NY 13846
(in the Catskills south of Oneonta)
Women's History Month
Special Edition of Word Thursdays
for Glimmerglass (forthcoming in September)
Reading and Q/A
Sarah Dohrmann and Marly Youmans
--preceded by open mic--
Thursday, March 27
7:00 p.m.
Bright Hill Literary Center
94 Church St.
Treadwell, NY 13846
(in the Catskills south of Oneonta)
Women's History Month
Special Edition of Word Thursdays
March 23, 2014
Borges, Blake, Christ, and art
Public domain image; see Wikipedia citation.
Best reproduction is here. www.blakearchive.org
Here's a post for a Sunday, a post for Lent... Reading a Borges interview made me think of that singular visionary, William Blake, sitting with his wife in the garden at Felpham, or glimpsing angels among haymakers, and or spying them up in a tree, the bright wings spangling the branches like stars.
Best reproduction is here. www.blakearchive.org
Here's a post for a Sunday, a post for Lent... Reading a Borges interview made me think of that singular visionary, William Blake, sitting with his wife in the garden at Felpham, or glimpsing angels among haymakers, and or spying them up in a tree, the bright wings spangling the branches like stars.
March 22, 2014
Updatery, with owl
Clive Hicks-Jenkins vignette,
a sweet owl for Glimmerglass
I posted this one last week and then took it down after half an hour, dithering over whether it was too much about my books, my books, my books. But I've decided that if you come here, you know I write books. So now the post is up again for the weekend. If that does not please you, fly on to posts about writing and music, the passing
a sweet owl for Glimmerglass
I posted this one last week and then took it down after half an hour, dithering over whether it was too much about my books, my books, my books. But I've decided that if you come here, you know I write books. So now the post is up again for the weekend. If that does not please you, fly on to posts about writing and music, the passing
March 21, 2014
Music while writing--and while not writing--
follower of Hieronymus Bosch, "Concert in the egg."
Wikipedia Commons, from Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Q: What sort of music do you listen to while writing, and how does it vary? (The question is from Sienna Latham of the fascinating Hindsight, located at the intersection of art and museum on the web. Have a question of your very own? Leave on in comments.)
A: Perhaps I am a bit strange
Wikipedia Commons, from Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Q: What sort of music do you listen to while writing, and how does it vary? (The question is from Sienna Latham of the fascinating Hindsight, located at the intersection of art and museum on the web. Have a question of your very own? Leave on in comments.)
A: Perhaps I am a bit strange
March 19, 2014
Lucius Shephard, 1947-2014
Novelist and story writer and poet Lucius Shepard has died. He was a great, colorful character who lived an adventurous life, more than most writers. He wrote both speculative and mainstream fiction and bagged a lot of awards along the way. We were e-banter friends, I suppose you could say. Several years ago we chatted a good deal about his Virginia roots--someone he cared about in the family
Green men go to church--
Maddy Aldis-Evans photograph,
Exeter Cathedral, Somerset
The placement of leafy heads of green men (and the rare green woman) on cathedrals and parish churches has become what is called a "vexed subject." No document tells us precisely why a medieval sculptor would do such a thing, and writers on the subject tend to think it a wonder and mystery, though they often point to ideas of rebirth and
Exeter Cathedral, Somerset
The placement of leafy heads of green men (and the rare green woman) on cathedrals and parish churches has become what is called a "vexed subject." No document tells us precisely why a medieval sculptor would do such a thing, and writers on the subject tend to think it a wonder and mystery, though they often point to ideas of rebirth and
