Sherry Chandler

Received this in an e-mail today:

We need your art!!

Visual and performing artists needed to contribute work relating to issues of sexual violence.

Your work will be featured Friday, February 18, 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at Third Street Stuff Coffee as part of Break the Silence , an event addressing sexual violence through visual art and the spoken word.

This event coincides with Gallery Hop, so you are guaranteed visibility!

We can transport pieces, can display the pieces anonymously, can read any written work should the author prefer us to do so, and will be displaying the pieces from 5 pm to midnight on Friday. Any performances of written work will take place starting at 7 pm.

To clarify the subject matter we are looking for: Any pieces dealing with issues surrounding sexual violence–and by the term “sexual violence,” we are referring to sexual discrimination, harassment, abuse, assault, etc.

For more information:

Contact Transylvania University SGC (Sexual Grievance Committee) at sgc@transy.edu or Ali Murray at (859) 229-5311 or amurray@transy.edu by Friday afternoon.

This event hosted by Transylvania University SGC and sponsored by Third Street Stuff, Lexington, Kentucky.

and my 60th birthday, I turn to Horace. Like him, I am content enough with my little farm out in the country, beyond the ministrations of boys in goat skins. Here is Ode 1.11:

Please don’t ask to scry the unspoken, Leuconoe,
What end the gods may send,
Not to me, nor to you,
And don’t contend with Babel’s own numbers.
Better thus: Whatever is to be, let be.
If there remain many winters or if
Jupiter now lets forth the last,
Which spends its waves’ force on Etruscan rocks
Opposing. Be wise: strain wine,
Resect long plans for short days.
As we speak, a jealous age has fled.
Pluck the day at hand, it’s as well as may be
Not to trust the one that’s coming.

Translation and bowl by TR Williams. Thanks to Nedda K. Hughes for the birthday roses.

You will find the original Latin and a prose translation here.