A new poem for Halloween, in sestina form: "Mary Shelley Writes in Her Bedroom". The post also includes video of "Frankenstein" with woodcuts by Lynd Ward.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/mary-shelley-writes-in-her-bedroom.html

A quote from Kukai is the Thought for the Day.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/thought-for-day_30.html

"Dehairing", a new poem for the T.S. Poetry Press Cashmere Writing Project:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/dehairing-poem.html

Halloween is nearing but don't let today's edition of Saturday Sharing scare you. Still, I hope something here jumps out at you. If you're game, surely you can find your way through the interactive hyperromance, listen to a video about doodling's benefits, watch a real-time data dump, select your choice of free stock video and stock footage for your next project, listen to a Book of Voices from e-Poets Network, or site on the edge of your seat through a showing of the animated short…

Today's new edition spotlights the film "Doc", phenomenal photographer Joel Meyerowitz, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and a video overview of an Edvard Munch exhibition in Paris. The roundup features exhibitions in Joplin, Missouri (art by those affected by the May 2011 tornado); Milwaukee (Impressionists), Philadelphia (prints, drawings, and photographs), Portland, Maine (a Shaker collection), and Atlanta, Georgia (sculpture of Grainger McKoy + video).…

Ever wonder what it takes to make, buy, and sell art? Sotheby's, the international art cataloguer and auction house, has created an online series Your Art World, comprising four short films intended to demystify or at least offer some insights into the creative process and collecting, buying, and selling art. Read more about the series here:…

Tired of art biennials and looking for what he says he wasn't getting from them, Shea Hembrey came up with an idea to stage his own international art show. Eventually, he scratched that idea, deciding instead to create - and become - 100 international artists. Today's Wednesday Wonder post features the TED Talk he gave on how his made that idea a reality.…

I've posted a new poem, "The Bad Cook":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/bad-cook-poem.html

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

If nippy temperatures are keeping you indoors (it's very chilly here in the D.C. area today), take heart and explore Saturday Sharing. You'll find links to the first computer-written book, a site dedicated to J.D. Salinger, the Woody Guthrie Archives, blogs of the Library of Congress, a site for teaching American history, and some Edison Companies' downloadable films.…

Today's edition spotlights an arts investment model, ArtPlace; the Radev Collection; and a Gerhard Richter documentary (video trailer included). The round-up features exhibitions of the work by Ronnie Jolles, Alexandre Arrechea, Xu Bing (video included), Jane Hammond, Josepha Gasch-Muche, and a benefit show, Sitka Center's "The Ecology of Art".…

Today's post features a brief video of the new Linn Meyers wall drawing at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/linn-meyers-at-hammer.html

Do you knit? You don't have to be a knitter to enjoy this wonderful new book from Peggy Rosenthal, Knit One, Purl a Prayer: A Spirituality of Knitting. 

My post of the book is here:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/peggy-rosenthals-knit-one-purl-prayer.html

A new poem, "Snow and Ice", is posted.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/snow-and-ice-poem.html

Today's post profiles award-winning artist Alison Clifford, who is deeply involved in creating interactive new media projects in which literature, including poetry, combines wih sound to highly imaginative, often engrossing visual effect. One of her projects uses an E.E. Cummings poem and another an Addie Tsai poem. Try them out yourself!…

A quote from poet Adam Zagajewski is today's Thought for the Day.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/thought-for-day_16.html

In this edition of Saturday Sharing, learn where at some thrown-out objects get a second, if virtual, life; experience the engrossing Pine Point Revisited site; check out a new e-magazine about all things collage; browse the new online journal Poecology; and view a wonderful animation of John Siddique's poem "Vine Moon - Fire".…

Today's All Art Friday is resource-rich. The spotlights are on an online exhibition of the work of justly celebrated printmaker and sculpture Werner Pfeiffer, a show of the marbled page from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and a new book by Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas. The round-up showcases exhibitions at the University of Texas/Austin (banned books), Ft. Worth's Modern Art Museum (Richard Diebenkorn), Orange County, Calif.'s Museum of Art (two generations of collaborating…

"Where Soldiers Come From" is a new documentary by Heather Courtney that is opening around the U.S. A coming-of-age story, the film follows the lives of a group of teenagers who join the Michigan National Guard after high school and find themselves on active duty in Afghanistan, where their job is to uncover IEDs. Learn more about the film and see the trailer here:…

Eugene, Oregon, resident Ken Standhardt takes his inspiration from nature to create functional hand-thrown and decorative stoneware. A brief profile and video feature about the artist are here:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/ceramist-ken-standhardt.html