So many voices running through my tired brain. Somewhere there's a poem, but it's hidden, I'm afraid. There are voices I can't hear anymore. Maybe they're still speaking, but they sound like grey water running down the drain. I hold unreasonable grudges. I don't drink enough. I won't forgive the church woman who taught 5000 people one weekend that women and men have different hierarchies of needs, that a woman's highest need is love, but a man's highest need is respect. Well, it did piss me off. I'm growing into an unreasonable woman. It occurs to me that I very well might grow old and die alone. This thought doesn't have the strong deterrent effect that it should. Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe I should drink more.
On Monday I take my turn leading and (hopefully) inspiring discussion in Sally Smits' Women & Spirituality class. So I'm brainstorming today. The book is Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and the theory text is Carter Heyward's "Sexuality, Love, and Justice." Happily for me, Women & Spirituality involves quite a bit of sex. See what you're missing! Here's some quotes from the theory I'm mulling over:
If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see. I read and understand this to be our common vocation.
...there is one fundamental category that can be appropriately descriptive, even definitive, of who we are -- of what we are here to do in the world -- it is that of lover.
What does it mean to be a lover?
What does it mean -- to love?
Lovers re-create the world.
Love is justice.
We act our way into feeling.
The act is love, the act is justice. Good feelings about love and justice come later.
Sexuality is expressed not only between lovers in personal relationship, but also in the work of an artist who loves her painting or her poetry, a father who loves his children, a revolutionary who loves her people.
Our passion as lovers is what fuels both our rage at injustice and our compassion...
To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.
Certainly there should be some discussion there, plenty of stuff to argue about. I think we're going to have fun and I haven't even gotten to the discussion topics on the book yet.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Writers' News
How was the Rappleye reading? It was fine, fine, fine. Greg, you don't need Jackson. There are other countries, other lands...
So we all had a good time last night. It was too short, as usual, to listen long enough to all the voices I love. Check the Talia, Naoko and IUSB blog links on the left if you want to see pics.
And of course everyone is inspired and ready to workshop again, so...
Workshop - Next Friday, March 7, 4:00 p.m. at the Chicory.
So we all had a good time last night. It was too short, as usual, to listen long enough to all the voices I love. Check the Talia, Naoko and IUSB blog links on the left if you want to see pics.
And of course everyone is inspired and ready to workshop again, so...
Workshop - Next Friday, March 7, 4:00 p.m. at the Chicory.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Another Talia Tag
Talia tagged me again a few days ago, and while I didn't quite have time to respond at that precise moment, I did make note of where I was sitting at the time I first became tagged and what book was nearest by, so I couldn't be said to be cheating. Here's the rules of the game:
From World Class Poetry Blog
How to play:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences. ( was a little unclear whether I was to start with sentence 5 or 6, but I doubt that the world will end because of my unclarity.)
5. Tag five people.
My nearest book: Legitimate Dangers, an anthology of poems edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin
Page 123, lines 5-7, from the poem Subway by Miranda Field:
burns. There is war. There always is. And words
go missing from the messages
that line these walls, signs papered over signs...
So now I have to tag five people. Okay. I tag Jesus, Jennifer, Vince, Neil and Ryan.
From World Class Poetry Blog
How to play:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences. ( was a little unclear whether I was to start with sentence 5 or 6, but I doubt that the world will end because of my unclarity.)
5. Tag five people.
My nearest book: Legitimate Dangers, an anthology of poems edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin
Page 123, lines 5-7, from the poem Subway by Miranda Field:
burns. There is war. There always is. And words
go missing from the messages
that line these walls, signs papered over signs...
So now I have to tag five people. Okay. I tag Jesus, Jennifer, Vince, Neil and Ryan.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
P4 and The Greenhouse Show
(I thought I would give a long explanation, but decided instead just to copy the e-mail into this post and maybe you'll get the general idea. A couple folks you know will be reading, so it might be fun to check it out. And, to give credit where credit is due, we all can thank Mr. Neil Kelly for all this info!)
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ SHOW DETAILS ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 7pm
4 Excellent Bands:
A Tundra
Pet Coffins
Kill & Eat
Templeton
P4.35 Community Journal
(P4 Submission Instructions Below)
Potawatomi Greenhouse
2105 Mishawaka Avenue
574-235-9442
http://www.myspace.com/potawatomimusic
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ SHOW DETAILS ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
Howdy folks-
Once again, we manage to defy midwestern midwinter rustbelt enui to bring you the best in aural botanical entertainment. Don't pin your visions of distant vernal release on the caprice of some neurotic and heliophobic rodent with a great PR network.... come get a lungfull of deep green right now in your very own civic botanical conservatory, all the while enjoying the live musical stylings of this line up:
A TUNDRA ( http://www.myspace.com/atundra )
from Chicago. This is what the Chicago Reader has to say:
"This four-piece fakes you out almost constantly: a typical song might start with cascading noise-damaged blues, then morph improbably into cold and atonal piano pop, then split the difference with a surprise ending in which precision rock showboating meets those chilly ivories uptown. A Tundra's debut, Man or Woman, Laughing or Crying (Staticstation), is haunted by the busy, muscular sounds of Chicago math past but puts a sassy, very contemporary obtuseness up front: the singing is arch and literary, the keys are unadorned and fluid, and both sound purposely misplaced. At times it sounds like each player is clinging hard to his or her own vision, and though the results can be confusing, the band is better for it." —Jessica Hopper, The Chicago Reader
PET COFFINS ( http://www.myspace.com/petcoffins )
hometown kids make good! Even if I wasn't totally blown away by the beautiful music that these PEPTO recording artists carefully craft (and I am blown away), the simple fact that they cite their influences as the following : tree's, bugs, birds, plants, 4 year old's, 40 hour+ work week, the sun, rain, snow, leaves changing
color, swimming pools in the summer.... makes them a sure bet for
the greenhouse.
KILL AND EAT ( http://www.killandeat.com/ )
from everywhere. Here's what they say:
Who? Clarke Joyner, drums, synthesizer, saxophone, trumpet; Caleb Vogel, piano, keyboards, vocals, trumpet (a trumpet duo?! whoa!) What? Well . . . we have always called Kill and Eat pop music, but "pop" is a tainted word. Of course, depending on who is reading this, every single one of these words could be tainted.
TEMPLETON. ( http://www.myspace.com/templetonband )
SB afro q-tech. kinda jazzy too. These guys arm wrestle music school drop-outs.... and win!
For a copy of the flyer go to:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=262522370&albumID=848470&imageID=6455813
If all those fine bands aren't enough to convince you to come out on a frosty Friday night in February to enjoy the sonic verdure, then how about this: anyone that shows up can also pick up their very own copy of the P4.35! What, you humbly ask, is the P4? Why, it's Paisley Parsley's Parcel Post, of course! Issue 35 of South Bends most elusive analog community journal can not be made without you however!
The quality of the P4 is a direct result of the quality of the submissions that I get. So..... Dig out that poem you wrote earlier in the winter, take the kid's best drawing off the fridge, send me your great grandma's favorite health food recipe. Other suggestions in a convenient list format include:
ART
Letters to the 'editor'
Photos of anything interesting and perhaps an explanatory note.
Short Fiction
Dream journal pages
Humorous humor
Term paper excerpts
and really anything else... I'm looking for community engagement first and foremost. Here's how to get it to me.
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ P4 Submission Instructions ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
If it is digital you can email it to me at this email address as an attachment by no later than the evening of WED. FEB. 20th.
(sooner the better though)
If you have any physical hard copy materials (I like it like that) , you can either:
a) Drop it by my house at
320 Howard St. near Stanfield
by no later than the evening of WED. FEB. 20th.
b) Post it to
TEK
320 Howard St.
SB, IN. 46617-1241
c) Drop it off at the Potawatomi Greenhouse, 2105 Mishawaka Ave., by no later than the end of the 10:30 yoga class on Saturday, February 15th held in the greenhouse. The class is over by noon. (Good opportunity to join the drop in yoga in the greenhouse, too!)
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ P4 Submission Instructions ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
Take Care and See You There-
TeK
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ SHOW DETAILS ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 7pm
4 Excellent Bands:
A Tundra
Pet Coffins
Kill & Eat
Templeton
P4.35 Community Journal
(P4 Submission Instructions Below)
Potawatomi Greenhouse
2105 Mishawaka Avenue
574-235-9442
http://www.myspace.com/potawatomimusic
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ SHOW DETAILS ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
Howdy folks-
Once again, we manage to defy midwestern midwinter rustbelt enui to bring you the best in aural botanical entertainment. Don't pin your visions of distant vernal release on the caprice of some neurotic and heliophobic rodent with a great PR network.... come get a lungfull of deep green right now in your very own civic botanical conservatory, all the while enjoying the live musical stylings of this line up:
A TUNDRA ( http://www.myspace.com/atundra )
from Chicago. This is what the Chicago Reader has to say:
"This four-piece fakes you out almost constantly: a typical song might start with cascading noise-damaged blues, then morph improbably into cold and atonal piano pop, then split the difference with a surprise ending in which precision rock showboating meets those chilly ivories uptown. A Tundra's debut, Man or Woman, Laughing or Crying (Staticstation), is haunted by the busy, muscular sounds of Chicago math past but puts a sassy, very contemporary obtuseness up front: the singing is arch and literary, the keys are unadorned and fluid, and both sound purposely misplaced. At times it sounds like each player is clinging hard to his or her own vision, and though the results can be confusing, the band is better for it." —Jessica Hopper, The Chicago Reader
PET COFFINS ( http://www.myspace.com/petcoffins )
hometown kids make good! Even if I wasn't totally blown away by the beautiful music that these PEPTO recording artists carefully craft (and I am blown away), the simple fact that they cite their influences as the following : tree's, bugs, birds, plants, 4 year old's, 40 hour+ work week, the sun, rain, snow, leaves changing
color, swimming pools in the summer.... makes them a sure bet for
the greenhouse.
KILL AND EAT ( http://www.killandeat.com/ )
from everywhere. Here's what they say:
Who? Clarke Joyner, drums, synthesizer, saxophone, trumpet; Caleb Vogel, piano, keyboards, vocals, trumpet (a trumpet duo?! whoa!) What? Well . . . we have always called Kill and Eat pop music, but "pop" is a tainted word. Of course, depending on who is reading this, every single one of these words could be tainted.
TEMPLETON. ( http://www.myspace.com/templetonband )
SB afro q-tech. kinda jazzy too. These guys arm wrestle music school drop-outs.... and win!
For a copy of the flyer go to:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=262522370&albumID=848470&imageID=6455813
If all those fine bands aren't enough to convince you to come out on a frosty Friday night in February to enjoy the sonic verdure, then how about this: anyone that shows up can also pick up their very own copy of the P4.35! What, you humbly ask, is the P4? Why, it's Paisley Parsley's Parcel Post, of course! Issue 35 of South Bends most elusive analog community journal can not be made without you however!
The quality of the P4 is a direct result of the quality of the submissions that I get. So..... Dig out that poem you wrote earlier in the winter, take the kid's best drawing off the fridge, send me your great grandma's favorite health food recipe. Other suggestions in a convenient list format include:
ART
Letters to the 'editor'
Photos of anything interesting and perhaps an explanatory note.
Short Fiction
Dream journal pages
Humorous humor
Term paper excerpts
and really anything else... I'm looking for community engagement first and foremost. Here's how to get it to me.
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ P4 Submission Instructions ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
If it is digital you can email it to me at this email address as an attachment by no later than the evening of WED. FEB. 20th.
(sooner the better though)
If you have any physical hard copy materials (I like it like that) , you can either:
a) Drop it by my house at
320 Howard St. near Stanfield
by no later than the evening of WED. FEB. 20th.
b) Post it to
TEK
320 Howard St.
SB, IN. 46617-1241
c) Drop it off at the Potawatomi Greenhouse, 2105 Mishawaka Ave., by no later than the end of the 10:30 yoga class on Saturday, February 15th held in the greenhouse. The class is over by noon. (Good opportunity to join the drop in yoga in the greenhouse, too!)
~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ P4 Submission Instructions ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
Take Care and See You There-
TeK
Michiana Monologues
Yes, I am going on Saturday night to check the Monologues out. Here's a clip with an intro from Sally Smits, in case you didn't catch it on NPR today: Michiana Monologues.
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