Our terrific sister-in-law Mapey is a mosaics artist. Are you thinking about holiday gifts? Here's the place to go:
http://mapesmosaics.com/default.aspx
Our terrific sister-in-law Mapey is a mosaics artist. Are you thinking about holiday gifts? Here's the place to go:
http://mapesmosaics.com/default.aspx
On the sunnymoms list-serve someone put a call out to borrow leftover halloween claws.
AP News reports this:
OH woman sentenced in skimpy Easter outfit killing
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman who police say shot a relative to death amid a dispute over a skimpy Easter outfit has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.
Evelyn Burgess, 42, of Columbus, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of murder in the April 4 death of her 19-year-old cousin, Danielle Pickens.
Pickens was fatally shot in a car on Easter Sunday outside Burgess' house.
Prosecutors said Burgess got into a fight with Pickens over the outfit Pickens wore to Burgess' home for Easter dinner - jean shorts and a green T-shirt tied up around her midriff.
Burgess "thought the shorts that Danielle was wearing were too short," Assistant Prosecutor Laurie Arsenault said. "She was upset when she thought that her husband was looking at them."
Meanwhile, the Beast has her first two syllable word: "I Pod".
Well we were bombing Yemen before they were exporting explosives to us. So, there. For the high holidays, the Beast will be a Butterfly. A sunny day in Sunnyside, with toddler yoga this morning and the beginning of the up-and-running neighborhood babycare cooperative tomorrow. We found out through the grapevine that a "huge" childcare cooperative already exists in the neighborhood but no one told us about it because it's a secret society along the lines of a stepford wives masonic cult. That's just what we heard. Also the neighborhood moms want to put up an electric fence around their private playground to keep out the shrub-rocketeers. Pedos, I mean. So, welcome to America little doggies. The other news is that pumpkin recycling will be happening at the Queens farmers markets the next couple of Saturdays. If you have a deceased pumpkin, be sure to recycle it. We'll be back next week with news of this and that. Peace out.
We've been blue, it's true. But it was a sunny day in Sunnyside and the Beast ran wild at the Queens Botanical Garden. We owe calls and emails to Zoe, Whit, Chris in Australia, Evan, and Evy. ASAP, yes.
Yesterday, a great reading by Alex Cuff and David Henderson at the Center for Book Arts. This weekend we'll be teaching down at Poets House — a two-day workshop on Basic Elements of Poesie.
Parenthood continues to be filled with the wonderment of what it means to be a parent in a world of insanity. Finally perhaps our child-care collective is coming together. Meanwhile, we're surrounded by cars, plastic, cell phones, and miscellaneous noise. How can this be good for humans large or small? Why do most people not seem to notice the consumer capitalist chaos that surrounds us? The Beast notices everything. She hears a dog barking two blocks away and she shouts "Dog". We'd like to be that observant.
At least some pleasure is on the horizon: the New York City Marathon happens on November 7th. We'll run in the marathon warm-up on October 31st (a 5 mile race in Central Park).
Does anyone have a solar-powered lap-top? Is anyone using Bruxton panels? How well do they work? We have a small panel for cell phone charging but would like to invest in a large panel for computer battery charging. Please let us know of your experience.
And peace.
| The Center for Book Arts' Broadsides Reading Series produces 12 limited-edition letterpress-printed broadsides each year, featuring the poetry of New York-based writers of diverse backgrounds. Each reading pairs an emerging poet with a more established poet, with whom their work shares an affinity. Poets are chosen by an invited Guest Curator, and artists at the Center produce broadsides of poems by both artists. Please join us for the first reading of the Center for Book Arts' 2010 Fall Broadside Reading Series, featuring poets Alex Cuff and David Henderson. Limited edition, letterpress printed broadsides featuring the poems of both readers will be available after the reading. About the Poets: Alex Cuff was born in Brooklyn where she currently lives and teaches high school students. She co-edits No, Dear, a print journal featuring New York poets. Her poems and collage appear regularly in mailboxes all over the world. David Henderson, poet and writer, was a founding member of the Umbra Poets, an influential collective of poets and writers who were central to the Black Arts Movement. His books include De Mayor of Harlem and Neo-California. A new edition of Henderson's biography of Jimi Hendrix, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child, was published last year. He has also written extensively on the African-American Beat poet Bob Kaufman. He has been widely published in anthologies and magazines, including The Def Jam Poetry Reader, The Paris Review, and Essence, and has read from his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. Born in Harlem and raised in Harlem and the Bronx, Henderson now lives in the East Village in New York City. Guest Curator Lisa Jarnot, poet, biographer, and performance artist,was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967. She has edited two small magazines (No Trees, 1987-1990, and Troubled Surfer, 1991-1992) as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New (American) Poetry (Talisman House Publishers, 1997). Between 1993 and 2004 she was a member of the performance group Vole, a folk-rock-poetry band she co-founded alongside musician and sociologist David Michalski. She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001 and Salt Publishers, 2003), Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003) and Night Scenes (Flood Editions, 2008). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming in 2011. Upcoming Reading: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 6:30 p.m. Where: The Center for Book Arts 28 W. 27th Street, 3rd floor between Broadway and 6th Avenue New York, NY 10001 Suggested admission: $10/$5 members Support for the Center for Book Arts' Literary Programs is provided in part by Poets & Writers, The New York State Council on the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. For more information and for photo credits, please contact Louise Barry at lbarry@centerforbookarts.org or 212-481-0295. |
ABOUT THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS The Center for Book Arts is committed to exploring and cultivating contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object, while invigorating traditional artistic practices of the art of the book. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary art and literature through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting. Founded in 1974, the Center for Book Arts was the first organization of its kind in the nation. |
some circumstances have brought us back to the internet for more than an hour a week. new york city with all its people and its poetry scene breeds isolation. it's a make-your-name kind of place, and after 15 years of it, we've had enough. add a baby to the mix and it seems ultimately brutal. it seems not possible to sustain friendships on the internet, but at least possible to make contact in small ways. so we will, perhaps five hours a week or so. and we have reserved a facebook page for friends who are friends rather than head counts. we're also buying a solar panel for computer charging. it's pricey ($650), but it makes sense as a step toward offsetting a footprint. peace.
Just across the equinox and we're looking forward to the festival of harvest called Samhain also known as Halloween. Let the unschooling begin! The Beast has recently become a fully interactive block-stacking, cat-food-can-arranging, drawing-on-the-walls, doer-of-things. So, we'll head out to the Queens County Farm Museum on Samhain weekend to check out the pumpkins and ponder the beginning of the darker side of the year.
And the darkness does surround us, especially in Virginia where yesterday Teresa Lewis was executed. Shame on America and especially shame on Obama and crew for not overturning our archaic state sanctioned murder machine. So much for civilization.
Our compost goes to the sunnyside green market on saturdays and from there it goes to the brooklyn grange farm which is not in brooklyn but in queens, on the roof of a building on northern boulevard and 39th street. here's their website:
http://brooklyngrangefarm.com/
we say more urban farms! fewer import foods! and as always, ban the car! hurray.
Welcome to Lisablog 9/11, and Peace. We support the creation of all kinds of cultural centers on and around the WTC site.
Meanwhile, recycling: green markets in NYC accept compost. You must, NYC-ers, freeze your veg and fruit and coffee scraps and take them down to the green market. It's easy and helps to lessen the clog of landfills.
Number one waste product in NYC water supply? Paper. Why? How about all those Starbucks cups? They can be washed and recycled in paper waste. Just do it, duh.
Number 5 plastics? Take them to the customer service center at Whole Foods. Yogurt containers, deli/olive containers, and some businessy plastics (our old floppy disk organizing case is a number 5). Lazy? Don't be. Can't afford it. Earth is failing.
Cars? Why? If you can walk on two legs you should not have a car. Cars are evil. That's what we tell the Beast every day. Cars are evil, Jesus is weird, and Santa Claus is pretty iffy.
Bottle caps? This is for the teachers out there. Aveda has a bottle cap recycling program for schools. They recycle rigid plastic caps (water bottles, ketchup bottles, peanut butter jars). If you are a teacher and want to enroll your school in their program, go to: http://www.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.tmpl.
Sunnyside? It's cool and sunny in Sunnyside. We'll be back next week with news from the Catskills where we will be this week to pick apples and harvest acorns. Peace out.
