Art Predator has been on a whirlwind ride promoting my new poetry book, Middle of the Night Poems from Daughter to Mother which collects poems from the 3:15 experiment from 2002-2010 and which came out on 3/15 with a featured reading at the Ventura Artists Union, then a book launch with Danika Dinsmore and art opening at the El Jardin Courtyard on St Patrick’s Day with a mini-reading, then the drizzly Ojai WordFest on Saturday March 19 where I also read. This week will be busy too with more readings and adventures! I hope to see you at one of these readings but if you can’t, you can always order my book directly from en theos press!
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a bit on why & how to attend workshops & readings
Writing is the best way to improve your writing. But attending and participating in workshops and readings will also make your writing better. Read on to find out how to find readings and workshops and to see who will be reading in the coming months at the Artists Union Gallery, Ventura.
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Friday August 1, 2003
it’s 315 time again
i go to lie on my side to write
but the baby is there
i can’t lie on the baby
it’s like lying on a watermelon
large and hard
the baby sleeps right now
no movement–i’m awkward
trying to find a way
to comfortably write i’m strained
as constrained as the baby at 29 weeks
we are alike today in that way
both trying to get comfortable
to get some sleep
the baby can see light
a red glow seeps through my belly
can hear sound but probably not
the crickets outside or
daddy making his going to sleep sigh
hmm mmm mmmm he says
the notebook too is pregnant
uncomfortable it doesn’t
want to open to bend back
to receive anymore
it too is slightly bent
out of shape its spirals
damaged well traveled but
empty of much writing
as i slide down scoot down
slip down off my pillows
losing my great grip on my place
the angle of the pen
the lightness of the ink
indicates betrays its discomfort
the pen is pregnant too
pregnant with poems with desire
to be a useful tool
yet more than a tool of transmission
a tool of transformation
i too am that tool
one of transmission of transformation
the baby in my belly
the pen in my hand
This is one of the poems I read last Tuesday March 15, 2011 at 7:30pm in the Artists Union Gallery for the first reading from my new poetry collection Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son (en theos press 2011). I’ll be posting links to all the poems I read next Monday so you can experience a “virtual” reading if you weren’t able to be there in person!
Pictured above is the broadside that was published in ArtLife Limited Editions in November 2003; it’s also on the inside cover of Middle of the Night. The original painting of my pregnant belly by Alan Sailer (with some manipulation by me) is a recurring motif in the book (it’s pictured in color on the back of the book too).
After Alan painted the clock, my belly was photographed by Tim Timmermans and I then used an ink printer in blue then copied the poem on top in black. Broadsides were signed and numbered and published in ArtLife Limited Editions in November 2003. I still have some for sale if you are interested. If you click on the image, it will enlarge and you can see more detail.
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Happy St Paddy’s Day! en theos press invites you to a book launch & party at El Jardin
For St Patrick’s Day, how about something a little different?
Instead of or before you hit your local pub, join us in the El Jardin Courtyard (451 E. Main downtown Ventura) for authentic Irish music and more by “Irish Ethos” aka John and Sally McNally.
It’s an en theos press book launch party for my new poetry collection Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother::Mother to Son and for Danika Dinsmore’s tween fantasy novel Brigitta of the White Forest.
Plus refreshments of course!! And Borbala Arvai is bringing some of her wonderful BoriDolls. And more! You never know, there might even be a reading or two.
Also in the El Jardin courtyard, you can go upstairs to Kama Sutra’s Closet (18 and over only) and you’ll find my art opening for “impressions” which are actual impressions of my (naked!) body on fabric, Many of the paintings go with poems, like this one pictured which is in the show. I am also selling poetry broadsides, many inspired by the body paintings in the show. And you can buy my book there too! Plus upstairs is where you’ll find the wine!
What: St Patrick’s Day Party Thursday March 17
“Irish Ethos” featuring the talents of John & Sally McNally!
New books from en theos press authors
Danika Dinsmore & Gwendolyn Alley
El Jardin Courtyard
451 E. Main, downtown Ventura
thewhiteforest.com entheospress.com
So exciting! Today, March 15 (3/15!) I get my new poetry collection Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother out today from en theos press and I have a featured reading tonight at 7:30pm at the Artists Union Gallery! Today I’m also picking up Danika Dinsmore at the Burbank airport–she’s the one who started the 3:15 Experiment back in 1993 and invited me to join the fun in 2001. I’ve asked her to open my reading with one of hers and I will be inviting her to join me on the last poem I plan to read. I’ll post the links when I get a chance so you’ll be able to attend a virtual reading! I’m also planning on posting some recordings, doing a youtube or two, and a cd!
Hope to see you at the Artists Union Gallery tonight or at one of my upcoming book launch events!
Biting into a gala apple
fresh from the farmers market
mountain grown he said
evening of the fall equinox
I taste crisp sweet sharp
sudden memories of the
second weekend of that love.
Driving into San Francisco from Reno
many years ago now this week
chauffeured by my estranged spouse
he leaves me on your curb to find
taped to the mailbox keys
to your studio in an envelope
marked “Pingie” my baby name.
Letting myself inside for greetings by
lilies dahlias merlot galas
the presence and absence of you
I inhale this welcome and settle
shower off the residue of
my husband apply clarifying
mask and deep conditioner.
Soaking the barbs away at home
in your tub reading Love Medicine
you surprise me in this state
join me in showering away
conditioning masks pollutants
finding it unnecessary to
cover any nakedness.
Dawning Monday to being in love
I am advised of the dangers
of falling too far too fast
and no I didn’t heed the warning
and yes gravity strikes hard
Newton’s Law of Loving
still bruises galas this autumn.
This is a broadside based on one of the paintings hanging in my current show up now at Kama Sutra’s Closet in the El Jardin Courtyard in Ventura. The opening is Thursday and YOU are cordially invited! We will also be celebrating the launch of my new book, Middle of the Night Poems from Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son which comes out tomorrow from en theos press.
The body painting uses apples impressed in the fabric as well as my body which I painted in the golden fall colors and mottled bark of a sycamore tree, then wrote the poem alongside; for an October group show at Ventura’s Art City, it hung above an accompanying installation of apples, fall dried flowers, sycamore branches and leaves. For the ArtLife broadside which was published in the October 1996 issue and was the second one I did, I photographed the painting, used white out to cover the now illegible words I had written on it, printed the painting using brown ink and then the text in blue. The broadsides are signed and numbered and available as is one of the two original paintings I did at the same time.
If you click on the image, it will enlarge and you can see more detail. I’ll try to post an image of it hanging at the show soon (subscribe so you won’t miss it!)
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Upcoming Book Launch Events
As you can see from the flyer, the next two weeks will be very exciting for me!
Here’s the schedule for March 2011:
featured reading
Tues. 3/15 7:30p
with Danika Dinsmore; open mic follows; bring 3:15s!
Artists Union Gallery, 330 So California, Ventura, CA
free but they pass the hat!
“impressions” art show, broadsides, books
Thurs. 3/17 5-7p
en theos press St Patrick’s Day Party Read more…
This is not an eyeball.
Instead, this is the eye of the Pacific Ocean after the 8.9 earthquake in Japan on Friday March 11, 2011.
It does look a bit bloodshot. But those red lines show the intensity of the tsunami that rocked and rolled the coastlines around the Pacific Rim all day today. Read more…
The San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle & Social Club invites you to join us in the St Patrick’s Day Parade tomorrow, Saturday March 12. Meet us on Santa Clara between Ventura Avenue and Figueroa by 9:30 am in your tweedy leprechaun best!
Keep reading for more details about the St Pat’s Day Parade Ride and other cycling news and to see photos from last Friday’s ArtRide.
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Please join me Tuesday March 15, 2011 at 7:30pm in the Artists Union Gallery for the first reading from my new poetry collection Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son (en theos press 2011). This is the paperback book edition of the chapbook I produced for the 2010 Women’s Conference.
Pictured is a broadside that was published in ArtLife Limited Editions in November 2003; it’s also on the inside cover of Middle of the Night. The original painting of my pregnant belly by Alan Sailer (with some manipulation by me) is a recurring motif in the book; it’s pictured in color on the back of the book (see below).
After Alan painted the clock, my belly was photographed by Tim Timmermans and I then used an ink printer in blue then copied the poem on top in black. Broadsides were signed and numbered and published in ArtLife Limited Editions in November 2003. I still have some for sale if you are interested.
The shooting star photograph we used for the cover of Middle of the Night is also by Alan Sailer. (Search for him by name on this site to see some of his other amazing photographs!)
As these are poems I wrote for the 3:15 Experiment from 2002-2010, I am excited to share the night with Danika Dinsmore, who began the 3:15 Experiment in 1993. She and I co-edited between sleeps the collection of 3:15 poetry by 24 international participants from the years 1993-2005 (en theos press 2006). I am also excited to hear work from other 3:15 poets in the open mic after my featured reading.
I look forward to seeing you for the reading at the AUG or at one of the other events around my book launch: St Patrick’s Day party at El Jardin Courtyard on Main in downtown Ventura March 17, Ojai WordFest Book Fair March 19 on Matilija Street, and the Ojai Wordfest Well Red event March 25 at Los Caporales outdoor patio by Libbey Park.
The following is from the new revised back cover of Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son: Read more…
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