Category: Art
Posts about the visual and language arts.
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Letter from The Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin
A Visit to the Long Room A little over a week ago, we were in Ireland, and my husband and I visited The Old Library at Dublin’s Trinity College, one of the oldest and most impressive libraries in the world. The main gallery of the Old Library is the Long Room, which is approx.…
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A Late Letter from Umbria:Poetry & Piero della Francesca Workshop
In March I had the chance to participate in a short workshop in the region of Umbria in Italy — under the auspices of Civitella Rainieri—with poet Mark Wunderlich and art historian Dana Prescott. It was remarkable to travel with a small group of artists and writers to see frescoes and altarpieces in small museums,…
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Full Circle for The Daughter’s Almanac
Manuscripts in progress are laid out on the desk. Moleskine journal is being filled. The first blog entry in over a year attempted. Today I brought my new book, The Daughter’s Almanac, as a gift for the library at La Muse — a singular event in my life– because I wrote some of the poems…
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The Creative Process–The Writing Process–Blog Tour 2014
Susan Rich invited me to be part of this blog tour, which is focusing on writers in all different genres. You can read the answers to her four questions right here on her blog, The Alchemist’s Kitchen. Susan was among the first poet friends that I made in Seattle, and her support and friendship has…
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The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
The angels on the grand entry to the Cathedrale of Ste.-Cecile have never flown with their burdens. (French sentence).
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The Saint with a Book
In the village of books, Montolieu, Can you imagine–a village of books! Montolieu village du livre,bouquinistes, librairie,livres d …
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L’ Oeuf Magnifique
Today we drove up the mountain north of St. Julien to do LAND ART with the artist Christophe Eppe. Homer couldn’t come with us. He would have been in the way. Two of our sculptures began as spheres and then collapsed. It was a little discouraging. On the left, Christophe checks out our ultimately successful rock…
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Petit Oeuf
Homer the dog couldn’t come with us up the mountain to build LAND ART with Christophe Eppe. We drove north of St. Julien to an open area Christophe had picked out.