Post by moira on May 31, 2012 11:54:30 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. Lesley Wheeler blogs
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
3. JoAnne Growney’s blog
4. Lost Roads Press
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Lesley Wheeler blogs about Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars, family crisis, and the future tense at thecavethehive.wordpress.com
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Free Enterprise, by Michelle Cliff
3. JoAnne Growney’s blog, “Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics” (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com ) -- featured “Crocheted Hyperbolic Plane” by Charlotte Henderson on May 26, 2012 , at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/05/crocheting-mathematics.html .
4. Lost Roads Press Announces the:
BESMILR BRIGHAM WOMEN WRITERS AWARD Commemorating Brigham's (an outsider writer who shirked well-trodden paths) work and memory, this contest will publish a book of poems by a woman writer living away from the largest of urban centers. The winner will receive $500 and publication.
ELIGIBILITY: Manuscripts accepted May 1-June 30. Women living in rural areas or off the coasts in smallish cities (less than 1 million people) are eligible (outside the U.S. please query).
DETAILS: lostroads.org
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
5.1 Cindy Sherman's magnificent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Arts (with some remarks on Lena Dunham's Girls):
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/cindy-shermans-magnificent-retrospective-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-talk-about-damning-with-faint-praise/
5.2 Art-o-matic: Susan La Monte
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/85182.html
5.3 Paula Modersohn-Becker: "To sleep among my paintings is beautiful"
www.jimandellen.org/feministblog/342.html
5.4 Good Jane Austen sequels:
5.4.1 Margaret Drabble's Dowerhouse at Kellynch:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/austen-sequels-margaret-drabbles-the-dowerhouse-at-kellynch/
5.4.2 Catherine Anne Austen Hubback's The Younger Sister
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/catherine-anne-austen-hubbacks-the-younger-sister-a-fine-telling-sequel-to-jane-austens-the-watsons/
5.5 My essay on Trollope film adaptations is published! I respond to a reviewer of _Victorian Literature & Film Adaptation:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/greatly-chuffed-my-essay-on-film-adaptations-of-trollopes-novels-is-published/
5.6 On re-rereading, re-rewatching, recurring characters. The naivete of spoiler alerts:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/why-i-re-read/
News this week:
1. Lesley Wheeler blogs
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
3. JoAnne Growney’s blog
4. Lost Roads Press
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Lesley Wheeler blogs about Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars, family crisis, and the future tense at thecavethehive.wordpress.com
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Free Enterprise, by Michelle Cliff
3. JoAnne Growney’s blog, “Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics” (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com ) -- featured “Crocheted Hyperbolic Plane” by Charlotte Henderson on May 26, 2012 , at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/05/crocheting-mathematics.html .
4. Lost Roads Press Announces the:
BESMILR BRIGHAM WOMEN WRITERS AWARD Commemorating Brigham's (an outsider writer who shirked well-trodden paths) work and memory, this contest will publish a book of poems by a woman writer living away from the largest of urban centers. The winner will receive $500 and publication.
ELIGIBILITY: Manuscripts accepted May 1-June 30. Women living in rural areas or off the coasts in smallish cities (less than 1 million people) are eligible (outside the U.S. please query).
DETAILS: lostroads.org
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
5.1 Cindy Sherman's magnificent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Arts (with some remarks on Lena Dunham's Girls):
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/cindy-shermans-magnificent-retrospective-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-talk-about-damning-with-faint-praise/
5.2 Art-o-matic: Susan La Monte
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/85182.html
5.3 Paula Modersohn-Becker: "To sleep among my paintings is beautiful"
www.jimandellen.org/feministblog/342.html
5.4 Good Jane Austen sequels:
5.4.1 Margaret Drabble's Dowerhouse at Kellynch:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/austen-sequels-margaret-drabbles-the-dowerhouse-at-kellynch/
5.4.2 Catherine Anne Austen Hubback's The Younger Sister
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/catherine-anne-austen-hubbacks-the-younger-sister-a-fine-telling-sequel-to-jane-austens-the-watsons/
5.5 My essay on Trollope film adaptations is published! I respond to a reviewer of _Victorian Literature & Film Adaptation:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/greatly-chuffed-my-essay-on-film-adaptations-of-trollopes-novels-is-published/
5.6 On re-rereading, re-rewatching, recurring characters. The naivete of spoiler alerts:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/why-i-re-read/