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Nevermore

Nevermore, originally uploaded by Aleksandra Radonić.

 

Janet H Does Emily D

1862.46 (426-429)

I gave Myself to

The solemn

       

                Vision

              

                in the

     subtle            lie —

       
       

Some

       

 

 

       

                predicted

       

                  them

       

     do          us

       

                       wrong

              

We

              

    witness

              

A Moment

              

         fit our Vision to the Dark

       

And meet the

              

           larger — Darkness

 

       

 

       

The Bravest

       

               hit

       

Directly

      

 

       

 

       

                          know 'tis

       

    Glory —

       

 

       

    Glory

       

 

       

                        and

       

 

       

               Might

       

Assert themselves —

by Janet Holmes

published in Coconut 11

Art by my Daughter

Where Ellsworth Kelly and my Coffee Table Collide

In preparation for my upcoming trip to NYC, I've been researching what's happening  in the art world.  This piece by Ellsworth Kelly looks a lot like my coffee table.  If I go to the MOMA, I'll be able to check it out in earnest.

Sculpting with Pencils

Artist Jennifer Maestre forgoes the marble, bronze, and clay routine.  She creates her masterpieces with pencils.  A writer's delight, right? This piece is called Aurora (via Wooster Collective).

Mood and Color (a Virtual Playground)

IMG_8465, originally uploaded by independentman via flickr

It's cold and dreary here today.  But you can have fun playing in the ambient at Get ColorCalm.  Change the color of your sky.

The Porch by Julia Cohen

Sparklers burning the barn down and it’s all smoky on my arm

We piggyback ten kids across the lawn to water the plants and rearrange attachments

We’ve never found a four-leaf clover so keep looking for slave toys near the graveyard

Bury your beard on the porch where first I found it

I admit I wanted you dead so I could mourn properly

There’s a mannequin on the neighbor’s roof and helicopters are mosquitoes

that will never save its life

Please bury me in the beehive it’s hot in here and I’m useless and used to it

The miscellaneous mash of moonshine with the reluctant

Bullfrogs burp the alphabet close by and these are the sacks of insects hatching

Plants and the kids that watch them place larva on the grindstone

Keep saving allowance for the carnival that comes in spring

The fire trees ring the crops and pitchforks stake out like-minded mountains

Bury your beard on the porch where first I found it

What slips through the screen door does not even touch the entrapment

by Julia Cohen, published in H_NGM_N #7

 

Open 33: Quijote

(Quijote, originally uploaded by JuliusTheCat onto flickr)

Your next poem is inside this photo.  I promise you--it is right here!  All  you have to do is be its scribe.

Move Into Your iPod

u+a + neil m. denari architects: useful + agreeable house

(via a daily dose of architecture)

New at Giant Robot 2

Check out "Incidental Nature."  A reception for this show will be held tomorrow, January 19, at Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles.

(story from VLU, Viewers Like You)

The Ruthful by Cat Jones

The figure x shows a deepening sky.   
A map of peerage.

A dying star pulses, and is resolved.

Who is righteous overmuch.  There were   
plenty of years. Was said to be tractable,   
if the tractability condition was fulfilled.

A little blood, in the ocean.

One can make out, in black, the escorts   
of a pilgrim caravan. Then the faithful.   
Then the moment when the road brightens   
and takes flight.

The wind of this world, our turning.

Little baron, spreading, softening.

by Cat Jones

published in Diagram

 

Note: This poem is an assemblage of very large and very small things, and I suppose conveys a feeling, as when looking at maps, of being in the sky.

NYC, Anyone?

Who's going to AWP?  Please let me know.

 

Note:  This art = "New York is my Oyster" by Kay Rosen

The Artist - Her Notebook

moleskine0001_060802, originally uploaded by Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel.

Longtime readers of Big Window know how much I dig artist's journals.  Check out this great project by Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel on flickr.

Borges and Wii

This article by Noam Cohen published in the  New York Times suggests that Borges' fiction foreshadowed (if you will) the brave new world of the web. Cohen refers us to “Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds” by Perla Sassón-Henry, which I haven't read yet, but the idea sounds right to me.  I like it.

(photo by fuksija via flickr)

Ah, Squares

The MiPo journal is best known for "poesisas," but the art issue (December 2007) makes for a fun e-visit.  It is dedicated to art that has some relationship (although not necessarily a visible one) to poetry.  This painting of squares and rectangles is by Toni Simon.  Her art has been used on the covers of a number of different poetry books and literary journals.

Free Fall 2 is a collage made by her husband, the poet Nick Piombino. 

This issue of MiPo features the work of eight different artists, including their indefatigable  publisher, Didi Menendez.