Being and Writing (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Being single is starting to feel a little dicey during the impending holidays. My birthday falls on Thanksgiving this year, which is intensifying the "something missing" feeling. (And to add to the intensity: My father's birthday would have been November 22. He's been gone over two years... Then there was Mom's birthday November 9. She's so diminished...another aspect of loss.) Loneliness...
bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Memoirs can be wonderful. To hear the writing voice of someone you know for something else, acting or politics, and to see what it is they choose to show of themselves can be very revealing. Alec Guiness has written a couple of wonderful volumes about himself, as has writer...
Bernadette Geyer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I'm currently reading A Celebration of Poets , edited by Don Cameron Allen , which is a collection of essays by nine poets. In May Sarton's essay, "The School of Babylon," she tackles the common question "When is a poem finished?" The answer is, I think, when all the tensions it has posited are perfectly equilibrated, when the change of a single syllable would so affect the structure...
What's the story in Dalamory? (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I have probably quoted this before; it comes from May Sarton’s “At Seventy: A Journal”. However it is well worth repeating. Author Linda S Leonard refers to Heidegger whom she calls her spiritual father. Time is like an ever-moving spiral, he suggests. The future continually comes toward us but it meets us with our past at [...]
Gathering Around the Table (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
"Women's work is always toward wholeness."- May Sarton Recently I gathered around the table with a group of women ( and Rodney, our male leader) for a celebration and gratitude dinner for our friend Brenda (above with a glimpse of Sherry). A group of us serves on a leadership team for the Northwest Inland Writing Project and we wanted to show our appreciation to Brenda for all she has done...
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Sylvia Plath began working for Mademoiselle prior to the June 1, 1953 start of her guest editorship. On May 26, Plath went to the Cambridge, Massachusetts home of the writer May Sarton. It was there, at 14 Wright Street (pictured), that she interviewed Elizabeth Bowen for a profile in the August issue. For the profile, Plath was photographed with Bowen. The article ran on page 282. The Sylvia Plath...
AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Earlier this week, sassymonkey posted a blog in the Books section of BlogHer: “Who is on your auto-buy list'” I had such a good time thinking about it and looking up some of her readers’ favorites (which you can find here ) that I thought I’d ask you the same question. First, an explanation, also from sassymonkey. An “auto-buy” is an author whose books you’ve...
Hecate (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
It is time for the invocation: Kali, be with us. Violence, destruction, receive our homage. Help us to bring darkness into the light, To lift out the pain, the anger, Where it can be seen for what it is— The balance-wheel for our vulnerable, aching love. Put the wild hunger where it belongs, Within the act of creation, Crude power that forges a balance Between hate and love. Help us to be the...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Go away. Why are you still here? Don't you have somewhere better to be, something responsible to do, someone less... me to bother? Go on, now. You can skip off this mountainside easily, right? Let me see the back of you. I'm pretty sure the back of you lacks that great honkin' schnozz. Turn it around, now.... why aren't you gone? You came here for something. Right. I didn't see that coming, did I,...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
LGBT people born today: 1943 – Reinaldo Arenas – Cuban / US Poet / Playwright / Activist / Author – Died 7th December 1990 1956 – Tony Kushner – US Playwright 1961 – Tony Ayres – Australian Screenwriter / Director 1962 – Dan Smith – US Presenter 1964 – Alicia Monet – US Porn 1980 – Jesse Jane – US Porn 1980 – Justine...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
"Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, "hurry, you will be dead before -----" (What? Before you reach the morning? or the end of the poem, is clear? Or love safe in the walled city') Now to stand still, to be here, Feel my own weight and...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Dina Zaman just sent me this link to an inspiring piece on writer/illustrator Keri Smith's blog . Smith talks about how at times when she feels low, she finds herself drawn to inspiring books, mainly biographies : ...that speak of survival, triumph over adversity, and the need to create through all else. She mentions the journals of women writers including May Sarton, Annie Dillard, Natalie Goldberg,...
Dragoncave (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
looking down the long hill towards Nelson Commons This small town in south central New Hampshire was poet and novelist May Sarton's adopted home, and where she is laid to rest. I've written before about May Sarton, in appreciation of her writings. When I began to realize that this roadtrip to Maine and back was more of an arts pilgrimage than a photography trip, I also realized that I would be passing...
Positive Attitude Quotes (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. May Sarton Photo by mandj98
What's the story in Dalamory? (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
This is one of those gems that May Sarton comes up with. …… I have come to see that the past is always changing, is never static, never “placed” forever like a book on a shelf. As we grow and change, we understand things and the people who have influence us in new ways.
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