Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
End Of Winter, Beginning Of Spring
It's the end of winter and the beginning of spring on the farm. I took these photos last week.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Photos: Readings, Events Since April
I managed one post, I think, if even that, from the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Denver before I had to shift to intermittent blogging, but I have been snapping photos of lots of events since then, so here are some photos from the last few months. The AWP photos will appear in a separate posting.
Jennifer Karmin introducing the Red Rover Series Experiment #36 event, "Textual Ecologies & Contaminations," featuring Jennifer Scappettone and Asimina Chremos
Jennifer Scappettone setting up her performance of Exit 43
Jennifer and part of her chorus performing her piece, Exit 43
One of Jennifer Scappettone's really beautiful, complex "stills," a pop-up from/within Exit 43
Asimina Chremos, introducing her piece, a collage text with performances (one via Skype)
The Red Rover loft audience, between sets
Kathleen Duffy, Jennifer Karmin, and Chris Glomski, performing a quarto from Jennifer's new book, Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Film Forum, 2010), at its launch
Kathleen Duffy, opening the program
Krista Franklin, at Jennifer Karmin's book launch (Krista, Chris Glomski, Kathleen Duffy, Laura Goldstein, Joel Craig, Lisa Janssen, and I all participated/collaborated in this event)
M. NourbeSe Philip, at the Poetry and Poetics Working Group workshop, at the university, in May
My distinguished colleague Sandra Richards, and M. NourbeSe Philip, after Philip's superlative reading from Zong!, in May
The hosts of the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, Tim Jones-Yelvington and Megan Milks, in May
The incomparable Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens), reading from The Sorrow and the Fast of It at the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, in May
Reader Trish Bendix, reading from her short story at the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, in May
Kareem Khubchandani, reading from her short story at the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, in May
Douglas Ewart and Company, with Duriel Harris (at far right), at the Velvet Lounge, in April
Joanne Beard, reading at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Frank Bidart, reading at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
George Saunders, leading his master class, at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
George Saunders, reading at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Cristina Henríquez, reading at the alumni reading, at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Joshua Weiner, reading at the alumni reading, at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Jennifer Karmin introducing the Red Rover Series Experiment #36 event, "Textual Ecologies & Contaminations," featuring Jennifer Scappettone and Asimina Chremos
Jennifer Scappettone setting up her performance of Exit 43
Jennifer and part of her chorus performing her piece, Exit 43
One of Jennifer Scappettone's really beautiful, complex "stills," a pop-up from/within Exit 43
Asimina Chremos, introducing her piece, a collage text with performances (one via Skype)
The Red Rover loft audience, between sets
Kathleen Duffy, Jennifer Karmin, and Chris Glomski, performing a quarto from Jennifer's new book, Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Film Forum, 2010), at its launch
Kathleen Duffy, opening the program
Krista Franklin, at Jennifer Karmin's book launch (Krista, Chris Glomski, Kathleen Duffy, Laura Goldstein, Joel Craig, Lisa Janssen, and I all participated/collaborated in this event)
M. NourbeSe Philip, at the Poetry and Poetics Working Group workshop, at the university, in May
My distinguished colleague Sandra Richards, and M. NourbeSe Philip, after Philip's superlative reading from Zong!, in May
The hosts of the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, Tim Jones-Yelvington and Megan Milks, in May
The incomparable Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens), reading from The Sorrow and the Fast of It at the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, in May
Reader Trish Bendix, reading from her short story at the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, in May
Kareem Khubchandani, reading from her short story at the Uncalled For Readings Series at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, in May
Douglas Ewart and Company, with Duriel Harris (at far right), at the Velvet Lounge, in April
Joanne Beard, reading at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Frank Bidart, reading at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
George Saunders, leading his master class, at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
George Saunders, reading at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Cristina Henríquez, reading at the alumni reading, at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Joshua Weiner, reading at the alumni reading, at the English Major in Writing's annual Writers Festival, in April
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Getting Ready For Spring
I'm so ready for Spring! We live in SC so it's about this time that we begin to call it early Spring. We start to see crocuses and hyacinths.
Then we see the forsythias bloom!
Followed by the tulips and daffodils.
And the azaleas and dogwoods end our "early" Spring. After that we are into late Spring and then Summer.
With the brighter colors, the bright greens of budding trees and bushes, the new grass, pastels of flowers and baby birds and animals we get our palette of Spring.
I've often wondered if God knew we needed brightening up and encouraging after the Winter so he gave us the baby birds and animals and the colors of newness. Or do we just respond to these stimuli because it's the way it's always been. What if Spring brought the colors that we relate to Fall. We wouldn't know the difference so oranges, gold, red and rust would quicken our hearts and make us look forward to warm weather. Either way, we respond to the Spring colors, the babies and the newness of life. It's the reason that we dye Easter eggs (symbol of new life), we buy our children baby ducklings and baby peeps to teach them about baby birds. It's why we start thinking of warm days and picnics. It's why we decorate for Spring.
Let's make a list of things that we relate to early Spring:
The above mentioned flowers
Easter eggs, baskets, rabbits, ducklings, lambs, peeps, Easter grass
Baby birds
Nests with eggs (which crack to birth the baby birds)
Gardening (we begin to plant flowers, early vegetables, cleaning up after Winter, enjoying being outside again)
Going on picnics
Going to public gardens and trails for day trips to see the new flowers and bushes
Cooler clothes
Pastels
New grass, budding trees
Our risen Lord
I'm sure there are others. But you get my drift. How do we translate these ideas into decorating our homes. You don't have to do a front to back changeover every season. (You can if you want!) But just adding a few touches can brighten us up and give our children memories. Here are some ideas I saw on the Internet:
Then we see the forsythias bloom!
Followed by the tulips and daffodils.
And the azaleas and dogwoods end our "early" Spring. After that we are into late Spring and then Summer.
With the brighter colors, the bright greens of budding trees and bushes, the new grass, pastels of flowers and baby birds and animals we get our palette of Spring.
I've often wondered if God knew we needed brightening up and encouraging after the Winter so he gave us the baby birds and animals and the colors of newness. Or do we just respond to these stimuli because it's the way it's always been. What if Spring brought the colors that we relate to Fall. We wouldn't know the difference so oranges, gold, red and rust would quicken our hearts and make us look forward to warm weather. Either way, we respond to the Spring colors, the babies and the newness of life. It's the reason that we dye Easter eggs (symbol of new life), we buy our children baby ducklings and baby peeps to teach them about baby birds. It's why we start thinking of warm days and picnics. It's why we decorate for Spring.
Let's make a list of things that we relate to early Spring:
The above mentioned flowers
Easter eggs, baskets, rabbits, ducklings, lambs, peeps, Easter grass
Baby birds
Nests with eggs (which crack to birth the baby birds)
Gardening (we begin to plant flowers, early vegetables, cleaning up after Winter, enjoying being outside again)
Going on picnics
Going to public gardens and trails for day trips to see the new flowers and bushes
Cooler clothes
Pastels
New grass, budding trees
Our risen Lord
I'm sure there are others. But you get my drift. How do we translate these ideas into decorating our homes. You don't have to do a front to back changeover every season. (You can if you want!) But just adding a few touches can brighten us up and give our children memories. Here are some ideas I saw on the Internet:
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