Category Archives: art
If Not Talking Back to the Muse, At Least Listening to Her a Little More
I’ve been reading a lot lately, and realizing how much in the last year since Chris and I have lived together that that hasn’t been the case. When I was single, I read about hour before bed every night–it could … Continue reading
When Good Poems Go Bad
I’ve been working on this poem that just isn’t going well. Going well? Try, not going at all. Well, let me back up. As I said in my last post, this poem, called “The Art of Loss,” was to … Continue reading
Filed under art, Contests, Writing in General
About My Painting, I Guess You Could Say I’m a Decent Poet
NuNu, Acryic on panel, 6″ x 6″ I painted that for Chris. It is not, what you’d call, a “good likeness.” (Of NuNu, that is, not Chris. If it were a painting of Chris, it would be horrid. Being as … Continue reading
This & That
This morning, twenty to seven, there was a huge crack of thunder which woke me up, and somehow the first thing my mind started thinking about was Neil Sedaka’s “Laughter in the Rain.“ Chris and I sometimes joke about Neil … Continue reading
Got Poem? Not Really
You know that old saw that the path to Hell is paved with good intentions? That’s actually a mistake. There is no path to Hell, only a lot of detours and wrong turns. Which is what I was doing today. … Continue reading
Art, Poems, and Art-Poems
On Saturdays, I really need to get out of the house for a few hours, otherwise I begin to root to the couch, and get all depressive. So today my husband Chris and I went to lunch at Desi Spice, one … Continue reading
The Procrastinatrix
That would be me. I have been crazy-busy at work the last several days with registration and panicky students who send 8 e-mails when 1 or 2 would suffice–so crazy, in fact, that when I came home yesterday I made … Continue reading
Damn that Caravaggio
I spent a lot of this evening trying (unsuccessfully–there’s a big surprise) to write a poem about Caravaggio’s Victorious Amor. When that didn’t happen, I turned alternately to The School of Fountainebleau’s Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters (c. 1595), … Continue reading
Of Course, Of Course
Yesterday’s poem which I wrote tonight is called “Of a Different Color,” based on Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s 1912 painting The Bathing of the Red Horse (the picture at the link is not nearly as vibrant and startling as the print on … Continue reading
Filed under art, Poetry, Publication
