From “Leonora Carrington: A Retrospective Exhibition” (1975) – excerpts from Introduction by Edward James: “Leonora’s work is no pastiche of the 16th century. Its similarity is rather due to the fact that Leonora Carrington was endowed from birth with the versatility of a Renaissance man [Women’s Lib having not yet reared its head]. The fact…
Beloved daughter of Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, sister to Felix Bernstein Funeral will be on Wednesday, Dec. 31 at 10:30 am at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel 630 Amsterdam Ave (at 91st Street) New York ~~~ Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma Emma’s photographs Feminist Art Across the Generations (Brooklyn Museum) Feminist Art: A Reassessment GirlDrive…
Farewell, David Foster Wallace WORTH IT above – Wallace on Charlie Rose. Let it load and go to the 23 minute mark or read the transcript here. Wallace speaks on the conflict between teaching and the department’s demand for publishing, his philosopher father (James Donald Wallace), being on set with and his love for David…
The first ‘coming out’ book I ever read was Audre Lorde’s ZAMI: A New Spelling of My Name, billed as a “Biomythography,” a new genre created by Lorde. I read this book, checked out from a library, long before I ever encountered the more often rotated among young lesbians Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.…
Anne Sexton’s reading of “All My Pretty Ones” mixed with Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street – For Anne Sexton” (song link contains lyrics and lots of commentary) from the 1989 album “So”.
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz July 10 – August 22, 2008 P * P * O * W Pilkington – Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc. 555 W. 25th Street – New York, NY 10001 Artists Participating: Sadie Benning Michael Bilsborough Shannon Ebner Mike Estabrook Brendan Fowler William E. Jones Lovett/Codagnone Keith…
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California’s Top Court Legalizes Gay Marriage SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation’s biggest state can marry — a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony. “Essentially, this boils down…
Irena Sendler Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker with the city’s welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, launching World War II. Warsaw’s Jews were forced into a walled-off ghetto. Seeking to save the ghetto’s children, Sendler masterminded risky rescue operations. Under the pretext of inspecting sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, she…
Yes, I want to help children and families in Myanmar. Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals’ names State media say 23,335 people died and 37,019 are missing from Cyclone Nargis, which submerged entire villages in the Irrawaddy delta. International aid organizations say the death toll could climb to more than 100,000 as conditions…
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“We used to go over to the railroad track and play,” she said. “We’d take straight pins, lay them on the railroad track and make little alphabets out of them. We’d know just about the time when the train was either coming or going, and the train would run over the pins and mash them…
The Associated Press – Thursday, April 17, 2008 PARIS: The esteemed Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire, a leading figure in the movement for black consciousness, died Thursday, the French president’s office and a hospital said. He was 94. Césaire was involved in the fight for French West Indian rights, and he also served as…
My genius friend and jazz scholar, among other things, Michael Steinman, first taught me that “Louie” was a publicly-assigned nickname and that the legend actually went by LouiS. I’m guessing other scholars will catch up. And now Mr. Steinman has a blog by which he will inform us all of the happenings in New York…
Daisy Fried on Poetry: * I’ve never found an explanation for why poetry, apparently alone among the art forms, is asked to do more than be itself. * But poetry’s the High Art which is also democratic: inexpensive, portable, reproducible, quickly consumed (except for epic and very difficult poetry), requiring only literacy to participate. So…
Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere Billy is pleased to announce that BloggingPoet.com will again host the Poet Laureate Of The Blogosphere Election for the 4th year in a row with nominations beginning April 1, 2008. The Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere is the only laureateship chosen by readers.Previous winners are 2007…
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A little Sufjan Stevens to shoot you up, “For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti.” Press play, please.~~ But seriously, when was the last time you thought someone or something was beautiful? Just wonderin’ … This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 7 Responses to “[ . . . .…
“I don’t classify myself–I let other do that. If you sing all the roles put in front of you, you are a tenor [as compared to a lyrice tenor or a light lyric tenor]. Punto [period.] If you are also an actor, or a good driver of your voice, if you have personality and a…
I love her stories, which I still teach in my classes, and her pacifist activism was an absolute inspiration. Peace to Grace Paley and much gratitude. ~~ Interview at Salon. Another interview at Salon. NY Times on Paley’s books. Listen to Paley read and a conversation at UPENN. ~~ “Let us go forth with fear…
The U.S. entered Iraq with bombs ablaze on March 18, 2003 — nearly five years ago. Many Iraqi citizens, living their lives much like we do, were killed in the middle of the night, and for months to come. Until that night, America was at peace with Iraq, and neither country had attacked the other.…
AMY KING 