Weaving a New Eden
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- sherry: Oh Gary, I can get there, like running down to the package store, but I still won’t be there.
- sherry: Thank you, Vada. I almost didn’t put this up, having decided it was really sort of silly. Now I’m glad I did because here you are making a comment. I love it! The story is meant...
- Vada Johnson: Sherry, I enjoyed reading this beginning. The dialogue flows very naturally, in fact much like a movie/TV script. I can see Buck clearly and imagine Odella in her role as a woman...
- Gary Greer: Sherry, Regarding “there,” is that something you can get? As, for example, I am going to get there before long. And if it is, is long, too, something you can get, especially...
- Yousei Hime: Thank you for the mention. I’ve really enjoyed being a part of Couplets. I’ll look around here before I go too.
- sherry: And I will be there who has never been there, Gary. Thanks for knowing my poem.
- Gary Greer: The images of “Evening Song” are surprisingly apt for E. 4th St. between Aves. A and B. two blocks north of what used to be “there” for me. And there was plenty...
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Tag Archives: qarrtsiluni
Miscellany
From the Kentucky Arts Council: FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Arts Council has been awarded a $12,000 grant to produce statewide activities promoting careers in the arts for artists with disabilities. The arts council will partner with other statewide organizations … Continue reading
I am proud to announce
Kestrel has nominated my poem “Why I Don’t Write Lyrics about the Frontier” for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. I am very grateful. The editors of Kestrel, Donna Long, Elizabeth Savage, and Suzanne Heagy have been very generous in publishing my … Continue reading
Posted in Magazines, Poets, Reviews
Tagged Elaine Fowler Palencia, Green River Writers, Kestrel, Pushcart Prizes, qarrtsiluni, Sally Rosen Kindred, Sherry's poetry, Umbrella, YB Poetry
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Nashville Skyline
Just home from Nashville, the Southern Festival of Books , where I signed Weaving a New Eden under the aegis of this rather pert pair of buns: Here we are busily signing — copies of our books that we gave … Continue reading
Habits
Just in time for National Poetry Month, my interview, The Habitual Poet: Sherry Chandler, is posted at the poemeleon blog. The Habitual Poet is a generous feature of poemeleon, offered to all their contributors. In this interview, I answer this … Continue reading
Posted in Magazines
Tagged Dave Bonta, National Poetry Month, poemeleon, qarrtsiluni
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You may have noticed that my method here uses what I think of as negative space, which is to say that I box my words in little cages like prisoners at Guantanamo, though today I’ve tried to give them little … Continue reading
Pushcart nomination!
Hooray! I am just as pleased as punch to announce that qarrtsiluni has nominated my poem “Relics” for a Pushcart! Thanks, Beth and Dave. Many are nominated and few are winners, I know. But this is my first nomination and … Continue reading
Day of the dead
I thought I’d re-post this retrospectively (you can go back in time if you have a blog) for Day of the Dead: The poem is mine; the artwork is by my son Tom C. Williams. The drawing hung at the … Continue reading
Posted in Magazines, The Arts
Tagged Festival Del Dia De Los Muertos, Living Arts and Science Center, qarrtsiluni
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