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Shiva's ArmsShiva's ArmsAn author's blog about Cheryl Snell's new novel, Shiva's Arms, a multi-cultural story about identity, reconciliation, and the meaning of home. 
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Prisoner's Dilemma, expanded edition
2009-06-23 19:04:00 CLICK THIS and you will find the new revised and expanded edition of my sister's and my book, PRISONER'S DILEMMA. Someone called it "part art object and part extended metaphor," and that's a drawing from it, above. More About: Dilemma , Edition
New Pages
2009-06-22 23:49:00 I'm happy to see that this blog made this list. Thank you, New Pages !
New Work
2009-06-18 21:18:00 Open publication - Free publishing - More snell sisters More About: Work
Fish on Sid's Vincati
2009-06-17 16:24:00 Here we have an article by Stanley Fish on Matthew Biberman's new book.Dig the connection to Pirsig's classic Zen!
New Works Review
2009-06-03 15:20:00 I've got new work in New Works Review . Thanks to the editors, and as for y'all, check out the lemon pickle poem---it goes with the theme of this blog.
Kiddie Lit in India
2009-06-01 22:56:00 Here's a link to a WaPost article about children's lit in India . "For a long time, the sole advocate of children's books in India was the government-run Children's Book Trust, which sold titles like "The Raja's Moustache" and a popular comic series on ancient tales called the "Amar Chitra Katha."Here's a taste.
New Review
2009-05-30 23:57:00 Thanks to Grady Harp for this lovely review of MULTIVERSE. Far More Than A Poetic Experiment MULTIVERSE by Cheryl Snell is a short collection of poignant poems that edge the idea of a MULTIple universe replacing the concept of a simple UNIverse. But lest the reader be afraid that the scientific aspect of this premise is prevalent in this collection, it must be pointed out that despite the original 'idea' of the title, the poems in this collection are immediately accessible, very beautiful works indeed. The flow and meaningful content of this book of poems by a seasoned writer is made even more seductive by the addition of expressionistic paintings by Janet Snell. Rarely have poems been so well 'illustrated' or at least so integrated as they are by the two Snells working in tandem. At the heart of these poems and art is a sense of home, of the sounds of and sense of night, and the radiant meanderings of on seasonal strokes. And yet Snell knows how to bring all of na... More About: Review
The Van Cliburn
2009-05-29 15:31:00 For Classical Friday, I give you the next best thing to being there. Enjoy!
Twitter Poets in OCHO #24
2009-05-28 00:56:00 Open publication - Free publishing - More mipoesiasThanks to Didi Menendez and Collin Kelley for this! More About: Twitter , Poets
Ever Feel Like This?
2009-05-20 15:59:00 For your viewing pleasure, Billy Collins reads "Today" More About: Feel
Twenty Questions
2009-05-16 16:57:00 We are pleased to have with us Shiva,also known as Amma, from Cheryl Snell's first novel, Shiva's Arms, in the cyberspacious studio. Let's get right to it!1.What is the name of the book where we meet you?Shiva’s Arms by Cheryl Snell2. What do you think of the author? You can tell us the truth.She is soft like Alice, my daughter-in-law, but she is like me also. We know what is best for our children. We make them, they belong to us.3. Tell us a little about yourself. How would you describe your appearance? That's more than just really cute or drop dead gorgeous. Give us enough detail to get a clear idea of how you look. I am not yet five feet tall. My hair is half my size. It is gray with years. I wear the widow’s white sari only, for my husband’s sake.4. What character are you in the book? Are you the hero, the best friend, the side kick, the hero and heroine's child or someone else?We are always the hero in our own stories, correct? Correct! I am the mother of Ramesh. He... More About: Questions , Twenty
Walking Tour with Kim Roberts
2009-05-15 20:16:00 Here's a message from DC's Kim Roberts --There are still a few slots available for my guided walking tour tomorrow, Saturday, May 16, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. The tour, "New Deal Washington," takes us back to the 1930s, when President Roosevelt's New Deal programs were transforming the American economy--but many of the tour's themes resonate strongly today. The tour is free, offered as part of the Big Read DC. To reserve your spot, please contact the Humanities Council of Washington at (202) 387-8391. The tour runs rain or shine, and starts in front of DAR Constitution Hall, 311 18th St. NW, and ends at the St. Regis Hotel on 16th Street (Farragut Square neighborhood). Please join me if you can! Highlights of the tour include the Department of the Interior, Lafayette Square, the former locations of the Bellasco Theater and the New Deal Art Program offices. Advance registration is required: you can sign up as late as midnight tonight.ALSO:Do plan to join me at the Arts Cl... More About: Tour , Walking
Thought for today
2009-05-14 23:15:00 Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. - Mahatma Gandhi More About: Today , Thought
ISO Book Reviewers
2009-05-13 23:16:00 This summer, Accents radio show will be expanding to include several (no more than four) 5-7 minute book reviews, preferably of new books by emerging authors. Previously published reviews are fine. A book reviewer will call in or be physically present in the Lexington studio. The host will ask about the book (title, year and publisher), information about the author (30 sec. - 1 min. of biographical data), then a brief synopsis (about 1 min.), the review itself (3 - 4 min.), and then a reading from the book (1 - 2 min.). Reviewers who contribute to the show may also be interested in submitting the same reviews to the international multimedia journal Public Republic, where Katerina Stoykova-Klemer serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Public Republic is an international online magazine with sites in three languages - English, Bulgarian and German. For more info, click here or here or send an email to katerina.klemer@gmail.com More About: Book
Jam not Slam
2009-05-13 15:49:00 WaPost reports on last night's poetry jam at the White House. For the uninitiated---"Technically, it was not a "poetry slam," which is a competition among poets -- a form of contest that began in the 1980s in Obama's home town of Chicago. A slam pits poet against poet as they stand before a crowd that provides instant, not-always-supportive judgment. That, of course, would not befit proper White House decorum." More About: Slam
Mother's Day
2009-05-10 17:20:00 "As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, loves and protects her child, so let a man cultivate love without measure toward the whole world."--Buddha
Two in Snakeskin
2009-05-07 22:13:00 Check out the May Snakeskin. The editor, George Simmers, graciously accepted two of my poems for it. Thanks, George!
Accents
2009-05-06 19:06:00 Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will read my poem Closing Mother Down on her radio program Accents this Friday, May 8, at 2pm. Turn your dial to 88.1, FM, Lexington, or stream live from http://wrfl.fm. That's what I'm going to do.Finishing Line Press publishers Leah Maines and Kevin Maines will be the guests on this week's edition. Leah was the editor for my first book of poetry, Flower Half Blown.
Thrissur Pooram
2009-05-03 13:05:00 Circle TheoryWe can’t understand an animal who mulls over the bones of its dead with a trunk sensitive as fingers. Who could? It’s no use trying to get insidethe elephant mind. Yet when we see the sides of the great head streaked with emotion, we think ‘tears,’ and our own eyes fill. Children, eager to ride the beasts, expect no complaint when their feet slap the wrinkled flesh. Caparisoned in gold, elephants are compliantin the three ring circus; unlike Ganesh, the elephant god, circumnavigatingthe universe with a long slow lumber around his parents. Now look down at your bracelet of elephant hair. Everything is a circle.
Prisoner's Dilemma
2009-05-02 16:43:00 Here is the updated cover for the new poetry/art book, Prisoner's Dilemma . It's at the printers now! If you'd like a preview, or to order a copy,click this. If you'd like an autographed copy, send your postal address to prisonersdilemma2@gmail.com
Free E Books!
2009-05-01 14:42:00 Rick Lupert, who runs Poetry Super Highway, is hosting his annual Great Poetry Free - For- All today. Download any or all 65 books at until midnightI've got a little sumsum listed. Check out Left Brain Love Song while you're there. More About: Books , E-books
A NewTwitterzine
2009-04-28 00:43:00 This was composed in the box in my twitter account. From the 'about' section:"Nanoism is a new online publication dedicated to twitter-fiction: fiction of up to 140 characters. Shorter then traditional flash fiction, it’s both a challenge to write and quick as a blink to read. It’s the perfect art form for the bleeding edge of the internet revolution."Too cool.
The Second Coming
2009-04-26 14:39:00 Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon can not hear the falconer.Things fall apart; the center can not hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: Somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stormy sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, it's time come at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?---Yeats
Vasanthi Rama Rau
2009-04-24 16:13:00 Vasanthi Rama Rau, a writer who adapted Forster's "A Passage to India", has died at 86. She once said, “Our job — those of us lucky to have lived in these two countries — is to interpret them to one another,” she said in an interview with The Wichita Beacon in Kansas after the publication of “This Is India.” “If we can make ourselves — the Indians — real people to the Americans, we shall have done more than our politicians are able to do.”
Public Republic, take two
2009-04-23 16:46:00 My poem Signing Sympathy is up now at Public Republic , the magazine I recently told you about. The art the editors choose for the poems is so evocative, don't you think?
Bhel Puri
2009-04-22 16:06:00 The WaPost has some interesting fusion recipes in the food section today. Aruna Jain brings up a good point."Fusion or not, that sense of place and purpose is captured in the opening scene of Jhumpa Lahiri's best-selling immigrant novel, "The Namesake." In it, a pregnant Indian woman in Boston named Ashima longs for a specific snack from the old country. Lacking the right ingredients, she improvises using Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts to create a rough approximation of bhel puri, a popular Indian street food."Now it's even easier to make the real thing. Packages of bhel puri mix are available at any Indian grocery, and if you mix in some onion, tomato, and the chutney of your choice (tamarind is great), you're all set.
Some Light from Peony Moon
2009-04-18 14:19:00 Poet Michele McGrane has lent space on her very fine blog for my talking portrait,above, painted by my sister Janet, and animated by JJ Webb. Thanks, Michele!To learn more about Michele, click this. More About: Moon , Light
Happy Vishu, Happy New Year
More articles from this author:2009-04-13 20:12:00 VishuShe bends over daffodils, clippers glinting in moonlight. Bells harvested, she blots dew in a wad of nightgown, slides back into the house like a thief.Her ponytail pantomimes a question,but she already knows the answer—the whole year’s luck depends on her.She arranges silver rupees, an oil lamp, the scripture on a mirror. The heater cuts on and she jumps, holds her breath until his evens.Her palms slide down her throat to her wedding necklace. She touches the carved vermillion Ganesh. Upstairs, an alarm goes off. Pulling the chain over her head, she kisses it like a Catholic and drapes it on the mirror. --from my book, SAMSARA More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year , Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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