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thursday i went to a museum and watched paint being splattered over a poster-sized blow-up of vogue magazine.  I took pictures of photos of rockstars on a wall that were half of patty smith's nose, iggy pop's beard, and jimmy page's curly hair. and then I tapped my shoe to Al Green's "let's stay together" that was playing above a black mantel made of soap with his album cover dead and center on it.  next. water balloons.  lots of them.  blown up halfway, some blown up all over the others and…

thursday i went to a museum and watched paint being splattered over a poster-sized blow-up of vogue magazine.  I took pictures of photos of rockstars on a wall that were half of patty smith's nose, iggy pop's beard, and jimmy page's curly hair. and then I tapped my shoe to Al Green's "let's stay together" that was playing above a black mantel made of soap with his album cover dead and center on it.  next. water balloons.  lots of them.  blown up halfway, some blown up all over the others and…

Today I’m excited to welcome Roni Loren as part of the Literary Genres Blog Series. She’s giving a glimpse into what its like to write in a genre with one of the biggest stigmas and what the genre is actually all about. …

Hi everyone... I hope your Monday is off to a great start.  Today: Starting the editing process on another novel today. Finished Sarah's Journey and uploaded it on Saturday, yes! Goal is to complete Samantha's Cravings this week... lofty, but really just tie-ups ... gonna give it a shot.

Interesting stats:  “Women…

Burroughs Publishing Group is a publisher to watch.  Granted, it’s e-only but we all know what’s happening in the e-world today, don’t we?  They are selling by the cyber-truckloads.  One of the first books in their romance line is a book titled Nobody’s…

Today's new edition of All Art Fridaay spotlights the online Painters' Table; new research about artists and arts workers in the U.S., and Carolee Schneemann's talk about her inspiration for and process of creating "Up to and Including Her Limits", a piece from the 1970s. 

The roundup features an exhibition about Sandra Day O'Connor at the National Cowgirl Museum; art of the American '20s at the Brooklyn Museum; Joan Brown paintings at the San Jose Museum of Art; prints, from…

Copper Canyon Press has published a bilingual anthology, Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China, comprising more than 100 poems by 49 poets born after 1945. It's a wonderful anthology. Here's a look at some of what it offers.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/monday-muse-new-chinese-poetry.html

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