9/26/2016
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”– T.E. Lawrence
Make art about dangerous dreamers.
This week’s Must Read is Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of When the Wanderers Come Home( 2016), Where the Road Turns (2010), The River Is Rising (2007), Crab Orchard Series in Poetry–winner Becoming Ebony (2003), and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (1998),
Patricia was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and raised there and in her father’s home village of Tugbakeh, where she learned to speak Grebo in addition to English, the national language. In 1991, Wesley immigrated with her family to southern Michigan to escape the Liberian civil war. She earned a BA at the University of Liberia, an MS at Indiana University, and a PhD at Western Michigan University.Her poems have also been featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”
Vulnerable in their combination of grief and levity, Wesley’s poems deal with family, community, and war. “What I try to do in my poetry is to show that the artist does not exist in isolation from his surroundings,” Wesley has stated in interviews.
Patricia teaches as an Associate Professor at Penn State University.
Visit Patricia’s Wesbites:
Author Website:
Poetry for Peace
http://poetryforpeace.wordpress.com
Buy Patricia’s Beautiful Books!
When the Wanderers Come Home
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/When-the-Wanderers-Come-Home,677245.aspx
Where the Road Turns
http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/where-the-road-turns-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
The River Is Rising
Becoming Ebony
http://www.siupress.com/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=104&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Before the Palm Could Bloom
Read More from Patricia Online!
http://www.pjabbeh.com/faq-home.htm
http://www.pjabbeh.com/exile.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54801
http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/two-poems-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://homeslicemag.com/poetry-woman-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/19/wesley19.html
http://www.nathanielturner.com/patriciajabbehwesleytable.htm
Interviews
https://wpsu.psu.edu/tv/programs/conversations/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://radio.wpsu.org/post/take-note-poet-patricia-jabbeh-wesley-surviving-liberian-civil-war
Hear Patricia Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZeb8b4qVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc9BPgH3UE
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
9/20/2016
It’s my oldest son’s birthday today. I never could have know, twenty-eight years ago, that I wasn’t just having a baby: I was meeting one of my best ever friends.
Make art about adult children. Or about best friends.
With my oldest son J, early 1989
9/21/2016
Make art about lighting a candle for someone you Love.
9/22/2016
Been thinking all day about living in other times. I would have made a terrible Victorian woman 🙂
Make art imagining yourself in another time, another era.
9/23/2016
Love is a Verb.
Make art about Love in action in unexpected ways.
This week, meet Karenne Wood, a poet and linguistic anthropologist who grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She earned an MFA at George Mason University and a PhD in anthropology at the University of Virginia, where she was a Ford Fellow. Wood is the author of the poetry collection Markings on Earth (2001), which won a Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her work was included in the anthologies Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers in Community (2002) and The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (2010). In her poems, she often explores themes of identity, cultural practice, and language within portraits of historical and contemporary Virginia Indians.
An enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, Wood serves on the Monacan Tribal Council and directs the Virginia Indian Programs at the Virginia Center for the Humanities. She has served as the repatriation director for the Association on American Indian Affairs and as a researcher for the National Museum of the American Indian. Wood curated Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present, exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. She has served as chair of the Virginia Council on Indians and as a member of the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission.
Get Karenne’s Beautiful Books!
Weaving the Boundary
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2592.htm
Markings on Earth
Read More from Karenne Online
http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-spring/selections/karenne-wood-763879/
http://www.mudcityjournal.com/karennewood/
http://virginiahumanities.org/2013/11/a-conversation-with-karenne-wood/
https://news.virginia.edu/content/anthropologist-karenne-wood-researches-language-her-monacan-tribe
http://uvamagazine.org/articles/required_reading_karenne_wood
Great Conversation with Karenne
Acts of optimism: Karenne Wood on language, silence, and healing
http://www.jmu.edu/stories/fightandfiddle/2016/interview-karenne-wood.shtml
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
23 August 2016
I’m getting ready for a week’s worth of travel, so it’s all about making lists this morning.
Make a list (to do, shopping, wishes), then use the list as inspiration. Try to include most of the things you put on the list into what you write.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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