Maureen E. Doallas's Blog – August 2011 Archive (30)

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts

This post profiles the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon. Its mission is to provide opportunities for Native Americans to develop their artistic gifts. It produces an array of wonderful prints.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/crows-shadow-institute-of-arts.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 31, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

What Happens When ~ A Sestina

"What Happens When" is one of a series of sestinas written in the last several months. Audio is included.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-happens-when-sestina-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 30, 2011 at 5:22am — No Comments

Monday Muse: Roy McBride, 'People's Poet'

Monday Muse offers a brief homage to spoken word poet Roy McBride who died in July.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/monday-muse-roy-mcbride-peoples-poet.html

You'll find below that post:

Thought for the Day, comprising an excerpt from a Robert Bly poem:…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 29, 2011 at 6:29am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Today's is an eclectic edition. You'll find links to a noisy zoo of letters, a digitized Yeats manuscript, a site paying homage to Mahmoud Darwish, a map of counties using different terms to describe carbonated beverages, a call for virtual volunteers at Smithsonian Gardens, and Adam Ryder's architectural atlas. I've also posted a video of a collaboration to produce an e-book using highly developed HTML and Java Script.…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 27, 2011 at 7:20am — No Comments

Weathering It (Poem)

A poem that traces the history of hurricanes in New York City, where my son lives:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/weathering-it-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 27, 2011 at 7:17am — No Comments

All Art Friday

Today's new edition of All Art Friday offers two video spotlights, one about artist Brandon Baldonado and the other about the Golden Spider silk textile at Chicago's Art Institute. The round-up features exhibitions of the work of Op artists (Cleveland), Hopper, Sargent, and other watercolorists (Amon Carter in Texas), and Fujinuma Noboru (Chicago).…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 26, 2011 at 6:23am — No Comments

A Rose Not Stone ~ A 'Backward' Sonnet

My poem "A Rose Not Stone" is the result of taking up a prompt from Donna Vorreyer. It uses the sonnet form but puts the rhyme at the beginning instead of end of lines.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/rose-not-stone-backward-sonnet.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 25, 2011 at 5:45am — No Comments

Sam Gilliam's Mosaic of Light

Washington, D.C., claims Sam Gilliam its own beloved artist, and now one of our Metro stations boasts a marvelous mosaic mural, "From a Model to a Rainbow".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/sam-gilliams-mosaic-of-light.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 24, 2011 at 6:33am — No Comments

Fault the Light (Poem)

I've posted a new poem, "Fault the Light". (Note: I recorded the poem but the SoundCloud site is down so you might have to return to listen to the reading. Thank you.)

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/fault-light-poem.html

I'm also participating in the One Word Blog Carnival, the prompt for which is "childhood":…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 23, 2011 at 8:07am — No Comments

Monday Muse: The Endangered Poem Project

Monday Muse looks at Tim Brookes's effort to "draw attention to the world's vanishing scripts" through his Endangered Poem Project and its relative Endangered Alphabets.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/monday-muse-endangered-poem-project.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 22, 2011 at 6:43am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing

Today's new edition of Saturday Sharing provides links to the PBS Arts series "Off Book"; the ONandOnScreen site offering "a conversation between moving words and moving images"; poets who write about medicinal plants and herbs; The Found Poetry Review; NASA's "ART: 50 Years of Exploration" (a video); and the POV documentary "The Donkey Library".…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 20, 2011 at 8:02am — No Comments

All Art Friday

Today's edition spotlights a How to Draw a Simple Bird (a video), the work of Polish artist Goshka Macuga, the Sacker-Freer Galleries "squeeze" collection, and marshmallow art. The round-up features a Makoto Fujimura exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art (plus video), Edinburgh International Festival, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts exhibition "Reflections of the Buddha", Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos, 50 worksfrom the Dorothy and Herbert…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 19, 2011 at 5:45am — No Comments

How You Look Back (Poem)

I'm offering a new sonnet, "How You Look Back", for the Random Acts of Poetry prompt:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-you-look-back-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 18, 2011 at 6:37am — No Comments

Wednesday Wonder: Meskimen on Shakespeare

Today's Wednesday Wonder is Jim Meskimen, who performs Clarence's speech from Richard III like no other impressionist can.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/wednesday-wonder-meskimen-on.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 17, 2011 at 5:54am — No Comments

A Naked Eye Turned Inward (Poem)

I've posted the text and audio for a new poem, a sonnet titled "A Naked Eye Turned Inward":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/naked-eye-turned-inward-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 16, 2011 at 5:29am — No Comments

Monday Muse on the 'One Hundred' Poems

Today's post is an essay on the meaning of two poems, both titled "One Hundred", in John Siddique's collection "Full Blood". The essay was prompted by a statement Siddique made to me about reciting one of the poems aloud.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/monday-muse-on-one-hundred-poems.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 15, 2011 at 5:54am — No Comments

Mother's In Step ~ A Sonnet

We're trying our hands at sonnet writing this month. Here's mine for the "Glass Slipper Series" begun at TweetSpeakPoetry:

"A Mother's In Step".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/mothers-in-step-sonnet.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 14, 2011 at 8:18am — No Comments

Thought for the Day

Today's quote is from Frederick Seidel:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/thought-for-day_14.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 14, 2011 at 8:16am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

This week Saturday Sharing gives you the links to indulge in nature sounds, visual thinking, music-making, an art-making. Take in online the exhibition "Real Venice", too.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/saturday-sharing-my-finds-are-yours_13.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 13, 2011 at 6:55am — No Comments

All Art Friday

This week's edition spotlights a marvelous video essay by Noah Saterstrom, "Return to Absence: Empty Houses"; and information about a new book and exhibition about Carl Andre, husband of Ana Medieta. In the round-up are exhibitions of work by Alison Sigethy for the 9/11 Arts Project; Arden Bendler Browning, Dufala Brothers, Ben Peterson, and Amy Walsh at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; masters of photography at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; and Kate Eric at Schneider Museum of Art…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on August 12, 2011 at 5:41am — No Comments