A personal record of events, experiences, and observations in which figures, stuffed wildlife, or other objects are arranged in a naturalistic setting against a painted background.
The Lesser of Two Equals has a really sharp review of My Zorba. Whoo!
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posted by Danielle at 3:12 AM
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I am all for spreading the good word about Great Books by Women that Publisher's Weekly Missed in 2009, but for some reason Guerrilla Girls on Tour (not to be confused with Guerrilla Girls) published the open-edit WILLA wiki list as their own. And sans link, so readers don't know they can add their own titles. W-e-i-r-d. They tell us they'll give WILLA a shout out tomorrow, but in the meantime, I thought I'd repost all the fine titles here on my blog.
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posted by Danielle at 11:50 PM
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Think Publishers Weekly missed something on their top ten list? Add to The WILLA list Great Books by Women that Publishers Weekly Missed in 2009!
Why Weren’t Any Women Invited To Publishers Weekly’s Weenie Roast?
Publishers Weekly recently announced their Best Books Of 2009 list. In their top ten, chosen by editorial staff, no books written by women were included. Quoted in The Huffington Post, PW confidently admitted that they're “not the most politically correct" choices. This statement comes in a year in which new books appeared by writers such as Lorrie Moore, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Rita Dove, Heather McHugh and Alicia Ostriker.
“The absence made me nearly speechless.” said writer Cate Marvin, cofounder of the newly launched national literary organization WILLA (Women In Letters And Literary Arts), which, since August, has attracted close to 5400 members on their Facebook web page, including many major and emerging women writers. “It continues to surprise me that literary editors are so comfortable with their bias toward male writing, despite the great and obvious contributions that women authors make to our contemporary literary culture.”
WILLA’s other cofounder, Erin Belieu, Director Of The Creative Writing Program at Florida State University, asked, “So is the flipside here that including women authors on the list would just have been an empty, politically correct gesture? When PW’s editors tell us they’re not worried about ‘political correctness,’ that’s code for ‘your concerns as a feminist aren’t legitimate.’ They know they’re being blatantly sexist, but it looks like they feel good about that. I, on the other hand, have heard from a whole lot of people—writers and readers--who don’t feel good about it at all.”
PW also did a Top 100 list and, of the authors included, only 29 were women. The WILLA Advisory Board is in the process of putting together a list titled “Great Books Published By Women In 2009.” This will be posted to the organization’s Facebook page and website. A WILLA Wiki has also been started for people to share their nominations for Great Books By Women in 2009. Press release to follow.
WILLA was founded to bring increased attention to women’s literary accomplishments and to question the American literary establishment’s historical slow-footedness in recognizing and rewarding women writers' achievements. WILLA is about to launch their website and is in the process of planning their first national conference to be held next year.
(Note: until recently, WILLA went under the acronym WILA, with one “L.” If you’re interested in the organization, please Google WILA with one “L” to see background on how this group was originally formed.)
posted by Danielle at 1:18 AM
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Delirious Hem's third poetics forum is up, and each day this week you will find new responses.
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posted by Danielle at 4:31 PM
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You can read another piece of "The Desire Spectrum is Dead to Me Now" here at Cara Benson's very own animal 3ssue of Sous Rature
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posted by Danielle at 1:15 PM
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The new issue of Saltgrass is out, starring these awesome poets & writers:
Laura Solomon, G.C. Waldrep, Cecily Iddings, Anne Boyer, Ben Mirov, Ish Klein, Claire Hero, Hugh Merwin, Jason Bredle, Karla Kelsey, Lisa Ciccarello, Danielle Pafunda, Brett Price, Genya Turovskaya, Maureen Thorson, Ron Rash
For only $5, you can purchase a copy of this issue here: http://www.saltgrassjournal.blogspot.com, where sample poems are also available for your viewing.
Please kindly snag a copy and/or pass on the word.
Also, we are now open to submissions for issue 5.
Thanks,
Julia Cohen, Poetry Editor
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posted by Danielle at 3:08 AM
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Please check out this week's collaborative feature at Delirious Hem, Jennifer Karmin & Bernadette Mayer with poems on neutrinos (and thensome!). And stay tuned for our October forum This is What a (Pro)Feminist [Man Poet] Looks Like!
Poetry and science. The etymology of the clitoris. The unnameable. The undefinable. We read our newly finished poems in the living room to Philip Good and Hector the dog. Phil took a picture.
-- Jennifer Karmin
The most difficult poetry assignment I ever envisioned is to write a 10-line poem about neutrinos with alternating lines containing a metaphor and a gerund. Here are Jennifer Karmin’s & my, Bernadette Mayer’s groundbreaking neutrino poems.
-- Bernadette Mayer
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posted by Danielle at 3:05 AM
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In the hot new issue of GlitterPony, some poems out of my series "The Desire Spectrum is Dead to Me Now" (from Manhater, and cheery news on that, soon!).
posted by Danielle at 5:51 PM
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Nonverbal Reviews and Adaptations of Women's Poetry
What book, chapbook, performance, or poem by a woman poet published/presented in the last year or two has left you speechless? How might that speechlessness manifest itself visually, sonically, or through another nonverbal medium?
Please create a response to this piece; your response can act like a review, adaptation, homage, investigation, companion piece, Frankenstein, child, or any mash-up of the aforementioned. In August, all responses submitted will be featured as part of a forum here on Delirious Hem.
Curated by K. Lorraine Graham and Becca Klaver.
FAQ
Are all words banned?
Although the projects should not be text-based, words are not banned.
I want to create a response to a poem published in 2007. Is this too early?
Nope. We mean "published in the last year or two" loosely.
Can I create a response to a book written by:
a) a man?
b) a biological male who identifies as a woman?
c) a drag queen?
a) No. b) Yes. c) Yes, if they self-identify as a woman.
Can non-Pussipo members participate?
Yes. If you'd like to forward this call, feel free.
Can men participate?
Yes.
What file formats can you accept?
For videos, Blogger can accept AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media, 100 MB maximum size. For images, jpg, gif, bmp and png images, 8 MB maximum size.
Responses might include videos, songs, performances, photographs, or photographs of visual pieces, but are not limited to these, so please query if you're not sure if Blogger can support your format.
Please email your submission and a bio to K. Lorraine Graham (klorraine[at]gmail[dot]com) and Becca Klaver (beccavista[at]yahoo[dot]com).
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posted by Danielle at 1:26 AM
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posted by Danielle at 5:00 PM
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Danielle Pafunda lives and writes in Wyoming. She is a curator at Delirious Hem and co-editor of the online journal La Petite Zine from 2002 until 2009.
