Post by moira on Dec 13, 2012 12:51:06 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Martina Robinson: using writing to advance activism
3. Ellen Moody's blogs
4. Tinfish Press
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Purity of Blood, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
2. Martina Robinson is a Massachusetts based poet and activist who believes in using writing to advance activism. She had a broken leg that limited her participation in 30 poems in November, a fundraiser in her area where poets aim to write 30 poems in 30 days to fund a local non-profit called the Center for New Americans that helps immigrants gain literacy skills.
Now that she's up and around, she has decided to try to redo the event on her own in December. She has perks including a free book at the end of the event. To read more go here.
http://http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/martina-robinson/31poemsindecember
Thanks for reading.
3. Ellen Moody's blogs
3.1 Wright and Stoppard's Anna Karenina, with a little help from Keira Knightley -- powerful great
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/joe-wright-and-tom-stoppards-anna-karenina-an-theatrical-inward-triumph/
3.2 Men & women in cyberspace: alone with others (Part 2):
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/thoughts-on-men-and-women-in-cyberspace-getting-at-the-experience-itself-apart-from-physical-local-space/
3.3 Christmas is all around us (Love Actually; Bill Nighy's song):
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/112762.html
4. Tinfish Press is pleased to announce publication of Ya-Wen Ho's first book of poetry, _Last edited [insert time here]_
We are in the middle of a website switch, but go here and you should find information, either on the old or on the new sites:
tinfishpress.com
Here are some details:
Ya-Wen Ho's poetry sits on the (pointed, unsturdy) edge of the spoken and the digitized word. In last edited [insert time here], she
presents performance texts based on Google searches, drawing out
accidents that occur when words crack and blend together. In his work on Shakespeare, Garrett Stewart termed this process “lexical bucklings and permutations.” Hence, for Ho, “18 is XVII- / '(aye)_-da'
translated into English means 'to take a / sound / beating_two eggs
and a wife together,” or “anger / 'issues'_rhymes with 'tissues,'
which can either refer to / a class of soft, absorbent, disposable
papers or / an ensemble_of jazz musicians played at his mother's /
funeral_home directors earn on average...” This short book is a romp through contemporary life, mining the spot where virtual and actual cannot be wrenched apart, except between the syllables of quickly streaming words.
Lyz Soto, author of Eulogies, Co-Executive Director of Youth Speaks
Hawaiʻi, and Co-Founder of Pacific Tongues, writes of Ya-wen Ho's
work, "Ya-Wen Ho's last edited [insert time here] sits in a complex place, and how fortunate for us that this poet negotiates these intricacies with smooth turns between playful, intelligent, and funny. Ya-Wen Ho's poetry stream of conscious word play rushes us through everything from pop culture to population control in China to PhDs driving taxis asking us to try and not "detonate the sleeping dog" and have a fabulous time while (not) doing it."
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Martina Robinson: using writing to advance activism
3. Ellen Moody's blogs
4. Tinfish Press
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Purity of Blood, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
2. Martina Robinson is a Massachusetts based poet and activist who believes in using writing to advance activism. She had a broken leg that limited her participation in 30 poems in November, a fundraiser in her area where poets aim to write 30 poems in 30 days to fund a local non-profit called the Center for New Americans that helps immigrants gain literacy skills.
Now that she's up and around, she has decided to try to redo the event on her own in December. She has perks including a free book at the end of the event. To read more go here.
http://http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/martina-robinson/31poemsindecember
Thanks for reading.
3. Ellen Moody's blogs
3.1 Wright and Stoppard's Anna Karenina, with a little help from Keira Knightley -- powerful great
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/joe-wright-and-tom-stoppards-anna-karenina-an-theatrical-inward-triumph/
3.2 Men & women in cyberspace: alone with others (Part 2):
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/thoughts-on-men-and-women-in-cyberspace-getting-at-the-experience-itself-apart-from-physical-local-space/
3.3 Christmas is all around us (Love Actually; Bill Nighy's song):
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/112762.html
4. Tinfish Press is pleased to announce publication of Ya-Wen Ho's first book of poetry, _Last edited [insert time here]_
We are in the middle of a website switch, but go here and you should find information, either on the old or on the new sites:
tinfishpress.com
Here are some details:
Ya-Wen Ho's poetry sits on the (pointed, unsturdy) edge of the spoken and the digitized word. In last edited [insert time here], she
presents performance texts based on Google searches, drawing out
accidents that occur when words crack and blend together. In his work on Shakespeare, Garrett Stewart termed this process “lexical bucklings and permutations.” Hence, for Ho, “18 is XVII- / '(aye)_-da'
translated into English means 'to take a / sound / beating_two eggs
and a wife together,” or “anger / 'issues'_rhymes with 'tissues,'
which can either refer to / a class of soft, absorbent, disposable
papers or / an ensemble_of jazz musicians played at his mother's /
funeral_home directors earn on average...” This short book is a romp through contemporary life, mining the spot where virtual and actual cannot be wrenched apart, except between the syllables of quickly streaming words.
Lyz Soto, author of Eulogies, Co-Executive Director of Youth Speaks
Hawaiʻi, and Co-Founder of Pacific Tongues, writes of Ya-wen Ho's
work, "Ya-Wen Ho's last edited [insert time here] sits in a complex place, and how fortunate for us that this poet negotiates these intricacies with smooth turns between playful, intelligent, and funny. Ya-Wen Ho's poetry stream of conscious word play rushes us through everything from pop culture to population control in China to PhDs driving taxis asking us to try and not "detonate the sleeping dog" and have a fabulous time while (not) doing it."