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Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. The Muriel Rukeyser Website
3. DC Writers' Homes
4. The Mom Egg
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. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter, by Antonia Fraser
2. Two essays by WomPos have appeared on the Muriel Rukeyser Website: murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org.
- Alicia Ostriker's "Muriel Rukeyser: Learning to Breathe Under Water" (http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/welcome/rukeyser-symposium-2013/alicia-ostrikers-keynote-speech/)
- Charlotte Mandel's "Muriel Rukeyser's Akiba Inheritance" (http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/essay/muriel-rukeysers-rabbi-akiba-inheritance/)
3. We've made a huge update to DC Writers' Homes! Dan Vera and Kim Roberts are proud to announce that we've added 87 new homes to the free web exhibit, nearly doubling in size the number of authors' homes we've documented in the greater Washington, DC region.
DC Writers' Homes continues to garner praise from residents, scholars, students, and (yes) real estate agents. With this major addition, we highlight more DC writers both famous and forgotten.
Well-known writers included in the latest update: Tallulah Bankhead, Art Buchwald, Katherine Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
More recent literary losses we document include: Maxine Combs, Carlos Fuentes, Larry L. King, Anne Truitt, Gore Vidal, and Reed Whittemore.
Follow our blog and our Facebook page in the coming months as we highlight some of our favorite writers. We will cover the war of the society hostesses, our personal awards for best facial hair, and our favorite left-handed authors. (OK, maybe not left-handed authors. Too difficult to research.)
We have also added some new categories to make your wanderings on the website easier and more fun. We have categories for writers who were also: diplomats, musicians and composers, translators, spies, and visual artists. And for those who want to set up their own personal walking tours to explore these homes in person, we have new categories for the DC neighborhoods where ten or more writers lived in close proximity (although not necessarily in the same time period). Look for new categories for: Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill, Columbia Heights/Mount Pleasant, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Lafayette Square, Shaw/Logan Circle, and U Street/Striver's Section.
With this update, DC Writers' Homes now brings our total to an astounding 203 writers living in 228 different residences. As always, our writers must be dead but their houses must still be alive (that is, still standing) in order to qualify. We include novelists, poets, playwrights, and memoirists whose work is of literary or historical merit.
Visit DC Writers' Homes at: www.dcwriters.org.
4. The Mom Egg is seeking a few good book reviewers, primarily for poetry books. If interested, please email Marjorie at themomegg@gmail.com with BOOK REVIEWER in the subject line; please include a link to a writing sample if possible.
New on The Mom Egg website, http://www.themomegg.com:
In the Vox Mom column, the work of individual writers, on such subjects as creativity, the writing process, and Mother Tongue, is featured. This week, three compelling poems and one fiction piece. Read and enjoy!
Paint by Ellen W. Kaplan
"Mommy!"
"Don't step in the paint!"
"Mommy, look - look!"
"Shhhh. I'm working."
.... right in the middle... Lost the line, color's mud. "Alright, what?" Ow, too sharp!
"Never mind."
"Whoa. OK. Where's Margie, isn't she taking care of you? "
(Got to find another sitter, no, never.. what am I gonna do?")
(read more)
Portrait of a Poet Slicing Onions by Rosalie Calabrese
In the midst of slicing onions, the poet
Receives a message from her Kitchen Witch
In almost-iambic-pentameter.
(read more)
Selfishness Isn't a Word for Mothers (good) by Sarah Antine
Have breasts? you were made to give,
sexy -
or turn into a leafy tree branching inward.
(read more)
Jacaranda by Kate Bolton Bonnici
Summer already and too hot, time for movement, blowing
left or right even, if forward is too much to ask,
hips shifting, knees flexed like basketball players,
ankle-breakers, fast and then gone, a going somewhere
(read more)
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
- Ronald Colman and A Tale of Two Cities:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/ronald-colman-a-tale-of-two-cities/
- For scripts and voice-over commentary: The Haunted & Downton Abbey
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/from-the-scripts-and-voice-over-commentary-downton-abbey/
- A visit to the surgeon:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/a-visit-to-the-surgeon/
- Jumping the Queue, just a little:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/jumping-the-queue-just-a-little/
- Some notes towards Smith's Ethelinde: an Anna Karenina, undermining stereotypical masculinity:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/smiths-ethelinde-into-volume-3-an-anna-karenina-undermining-stereotypical-masculinity/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. The Muriel Rukeyser Website
3. DC Writers' Homes
4. The Mom Egg
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. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter, by Antonia Fraser
2. Two essays by WomPos have appeared on the Muriel Rukeyser Website: murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org.
- Alicia Ostriker's "Muriel Rukeyser: Learning to Breathe Under Water" (http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/welcome/rukeyser-symposium-2013/alicia-ostrikers-keynote-speech/)
- Charlotte Mandel's "Muriel Rukeyser's Akiba Inheritance" (http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/essay/muriel-rukeysers-rabbi-akiba-inheritance/)
3. We've made a huge update to DC Writers' Homes! Dan Vera and Kim Roberts are proud to announce that we've added 87 new homes to the free web exhibit, nearly doubling in size the number of authors' homes we've documented in the greater Washington, DC region.
DC Writers' Homes continues to garner praise from residents, scholars, students, and (yes) real estate agents. With this major addition, we highlight more DC writers both famous and forgotten.
Well-known writers included in the latest update: Tallulah Bankhead, Art Buchwald, Katherine Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
More recent literary losses we document include: Maxine Combs, Carlos Fuentes, Larry L. King, Anne Truitt, Gore Vidal, and Reed Whittemore.
Follow our blog and our Facebook page in the coming months as we highlight some of our favorite writers. We will cover the war of the society hostesses, our personal awards for best facial hair, and our favorite left-handed authors. (OK, maybe not left-handed authors. Too difficult to research.)
We have also added some new categories to make your wanderings on the website easier and more fun. We have categories for writers who were also: diplomats, musicians and composers, translators, spies, and visual artists. And for those who want to set up their own personal walking tours to explore these homes in person, we have new categories for the DC neighborhoods where ten or more writers lived in close proximity (although not necessarily in the same time period). Look for new categories for: Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill, Columbia Heights/Mount Pleasant, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Lafayette Square, Shaw/Logan Circle, and U Street/Striver's Section.
With this update, DC Writers' Homes now brings our total to an astounding 203 writers living in 228 different residences. As always, our writers must be dead but their houses must still be alive (that is, still standing) in order to qualify. We include novelists, poets, playwrights, and memoirists whose work is of literary or historical merit.
Visit DC Writers' Homes at: www.dcwriters.org.
4. The Mom Egg is seeking a few good book reviewers, primarily for poetry books. If interested, please email Marjorie at themomegg@gmail.com with BOOK REVIEWER in the subject line; please include a link to a writing sample if possible.
New on The Mom Egg website, http://www.themomegg.com:
In the Vox Mom column, the work of individual writers, on such subjects as creativity, the writing process, and Mother Tongue, is featured. This week, three compelling poems and one fiction piece. Read and enjoy!
Paint by Ellen W. Kaplan
"Mommy!"
"Don't step in the paint!"
"Mommy, look - look!"
"Shhhh. I'm working."
.... right in the middle... Lost the line, color's mud. "Alright, what?" Ow, too sharp!
"Never mind."
"Whoa. OK. Where's Margie, isn't she taking care of you? "
(Got to find another sitter, no, never.. what am I gonna do?")
(read more)
Portrait of a Poet Slicing Onions by Rosalie Calabrese
In the midst of slicing onions, the poet
Receives a message from her Kitchen Witch
In almost-iambic-pentameter.
(read more)
Selfishness Isn't a Word for Mothers (good) by Sarah Antine
Have breasts? you were made to give,
sexy -
or turn into a leafy tree branching inward.
(read more)
Jacaranda by Kate Bolton Bonnici
Summer already and too hot, time for movement, blowing
left or right even, if forward is too much to ask,
hips shifting, knees flexed like basketball players,
ankle-breakers, fast and then gone, a going somewhere
(read more)
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
- Ronald Colman and A Tale of Two Cities:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/ronald-colman-a-tale-of-two-cities/
- For scripts and voice-over commentary: The Haunted & Downton Abbey
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/from-the-scripts-and-voice-over-commentary-downton-abbey/
- A visit to the surgeon:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/a-visit-to-the-surgeon/
- Jumping the Queue, just a little:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/jumping-the-queue-just-a-little/
- Some notes towards Smith's Ethelinde: an Anna Karenina, undermining stereotypical masculinity:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/smiths-ethelinde-into-volume-3-an-anna-karenina-undermining-stereotypical-masculinity/