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Year's End

(CC by 2.0, Tim Reckmann at Wikipedia via flicker) Indulgent feast with progeny save the one stranded in Montreal, much champagne, a game of Catan, and much pot-beating to chase away the annus horribilis! Happy new year, friends, and have a marvelous trip around the sun in 2021.Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins***Lists at Year's EndDappled Things"What we read (and loved) this past year"30 December

Christmas, Charis, Willows

And it's Christmas Eve day! Here's stellar Fra Angelico, dreaming the Madonna and naked infant Christ with embodied angels, Peter of Verona, Thomas Aquinas, Barnabas, Dominic. Detail, Fiesole altarpiece, 1422, Convent of San Dominico. Public domain CC wikipedia.Some bits of news:Short version, Englewood Review of Books"Twelve Important Fiction Books of 2020" https://www.goodreads.com/.../156371.

Charis; Willows Wept

Short version, Englewood Review of Books"Twelve Important Fiction Books of 2020" https://www.goodreads.com/.../156371.... version of the Charis in the World of Wonders page... https://englewoodreview.org/twelve-im... Changes," "The Ruined Garden," and "Come to the Selvage of the Sea" kick off issue 19 Winter  2021 of Willows Wept: https://

Night, village, snow

Home Sweet HomeSanta's Cottage in tiny Farkle Parknext to the 1802 Tunnicliff Inn Kiosk in Farkle Parkwith clever snow-shedding roof.Baseball Hall of FameRanking board at the Baseball Hall of FameVillage LibraryMain St. houseClark Foundation offices,Main Street by Cooper Park Night-walk pictures by Michael, my husband

Charis, Cáer, Ghosts

CHARISContinuing to have Covid-era supply chain problems with indies and sometimes with Amazon, so if you planned to read Charis in the World of Wonders, please don't let that dissuade you but support the book even if it takes a bit longer to arrive than you or I would like....CÁERHere's a poem of mine up at First Things this morning. It's about Cáer Ibormeith--Aengus fell in love with her in a

What's-in-print list; Pushcart nom

What's available and where...Charis in the World of Wonders: French flaps paperback from Ignatius, and of course it can be ordered directly from them. It keeps moving rapidly in and out of stock at Amazon, and the arrival dates keep changing. Indies may have best luck ordering directly via the publisher. Interior and exterior art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. 2020.The Book of the Red King: Hardcover or

Thanksgiving, 2020...

Here's a dream of peace and health and gratitude for Thanksgiving. "The Peaceable Kingdom" by Edward Hicks, folk painter and Quaker minister. "Love one another." (Edward Hicks - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection.)Amazon, indies, Ignatius... Finally! I've been disheartened by how few ways there are to purchase Charis in the World of Wonders, thanks to Covid-era

Reading with the Plague Papers

Reading a poem live Tuesday, November 17 at 5:00 EST with The Plague Papers (anthology of ekphrastic poems based on pieces from museum collections) cohort! For a link to the event, please RSVP by email to poemeleon@gmail.com OR message me privately on twitter or facebook. Hosted by Robbi Nester and Cati Porter.

Tonight at Easton Book Festival

Marly at Easton Book Festival***Hosted by editor and book critic John Wilson7:00 p.m. EST November 15Easton Book Festival event release:  "Marly Youmans is one of today’s masters of language and imagination. Her poetry and fiction blend fantastic, historical, and everyday elements that have delighted readers for decades. In this program, book critic and editor John Wilson introduces a series of

Gratitude!

I'm still in house quarantine after returning from North Carolina (the state now has a shorter and more lenient version, but I don't qualify for that, having left under the old rules), so my life has not been too exciting of late. However, I'm expecting something wonderful about my books at the online Easton Book Festival, I have some other e-events coming up, I have a long interview coming out