Category: books
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NaPoWriMo Draft 9.
Vincent could be & has been worse, but darling boy is still unwell. In between the interludes of obvious illness, he is variously rambunctious and lethargic. Irony of ironies: Nature has chosen this Week of the Influenza Outbreak to spring into Full Spring with gusto. * The moving-on-now-revise-later aspect of NaPoWriMo does not come naturally…
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Andrea Cohen & Memorious
I’m now 4 poems behind — haven’t managed to write another poem since finishing the Pleiades poems — but I’m trying not to get too worked up about it. I’ve really enjoyed being so poetry-centric, and I’m happy with what I have written, but I have to say, between a full-time job, Vincent, poetry readings,…
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Collected Poets Series.
To celebrate National Poetry Month, the Collected Poets Series has not one but two spectacular events planned for this week: On Thursday, April 3rd, at 7:30pm, Annie Boutelle, founder of the Poetry Center at Smith College and author of three collections of poems, and New Jersey performance poet, Jack Wiler, will read from their most…
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Free Book from Sarabande!
I was looking up Gabriel Fried’s book of poems, Making the New Lamb Take (Sarabande Books, 2007) (he’s coming to read at Amherst College on April 22), and stumbled on this tidbit from Sarabande Books’ blog: April is National Poetry Month, and Sarabande is celebrating by offering a free book for sharing your favorite poem…
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NaPoWriMo 2.
I stopped by Arts & Letters Daily and my head almost exploded. Seriously. Have you ever been there? All that text…my brain is bleeding. * Now that I’ve decided to trail along behind the NaPoWriMo bandwagon in my own little red wheelbarrow, I’m, well, dare I admit, feeling excited, like I’m catching a wave(let) on…
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Ham & Okra & Joanna Klink
A great Easter! Everyone was there, even my dad, in the guise of a bunch of old pictures my cousin had passed on to my eldest brother, who then fashioned them into two framed collages to present to Mum. And Mum not only cooked a ham and the usual fare, but she also fried up…
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Black Eye of Night.
For the past month or so, I’ve been working on weaning Vincent — he’s 2, it’s well past time. When he was born I thought he’d have been weaned many moons ago, but this last year has been full of changes, which he’s been a really good sport about, so it just wasn’t going to…
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billet-doux.
Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine books were the first, I think, to grant us the voyeuristic thrill of opening and reading other people’s letters. Many books have built upon the concept since, creating innovations of their own, notably Candlewick Press’ -Ology Series, but for the first time that I know of (please tell me if…
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Le Bossu Quartre.
I’m sorry, it’s a full-blown obsession now. It’s a shame I can’t actually read or speak French, because there are boatloads of Paul Féval novels available in his native tongue. But there are no English editions available that I can find, just this: Brougham, John, 1810-1880. The duke’s daughter, or, The hunchback of Paris :…
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Le Bossu et Tim Mayo.
Labor Day weekend in 1998 I was in Montreal. As it happens, that’s also the weekend that they have a film festival every year, which I discovered accidentally walking down Elizabeth St. in the evening: a film was being shown against a building, just beginning, actually, and people were sitting all over. So I sat…
Marie Gauthier 