Miriam’s Well is in hiatus May 16-25.
On our return, we will be looking for new work to publish. Do send your haiku, flash fiction, arts announcements, land arts, poetry, reviews, essays, requests for interviews, and any musing on the blog’s themes to msagan1035@aol.com.
“He stole your lawn?” she said.
may 24 – june 22
Opening Reception Fri May 24 5-8pm
THE LAND/ gallery
419 Granite NW • 505-242-1501
hours by appointment
THE LAND/an art gallery presents a reflection of, and on, unsanctioned Albuquerque Art. 3′crows cast shadows on reinterpreted street maps. A wall of documentary photographs leaves the impression of an image, behind the peculiar story of a lawn on the lam. Through photography, sculpture, collage, painting and the word, a group of Albuquerque-based artists tour us through the local-as small, strange spectacle.
biking burque
KATHY CHILTON, LANCE CHILTON, MARSHALL KOVITZ
how i see it
RAY GRAHAM III: THE ARTISTE
he stole your lawn?
ADAM RUBINSTEIN
a block & 1/2
THOMAS CATES
breathing
MARY LAMBERT
crows
YEI EHEKATL
Tres Chicas Books
Next to veteran publisher John Crawford of West End Press
Marilyn Stablein’s artist books catch the eye
Collaborative writing team Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl
A glorious Santa Fe day, and even though it is the end of the semester with lots of grading due I decided to take Saturday and enjoy my urban/suburban life here on the Westside.
Even laundry and dry cleaning give satisfaction, but the best was a visit to the nursery. A Moorish garden by definition is walled, and has big blue pots, and roses, as well as an evergreen. I had everything but the last. Now have a dwarf spruce in one of those pots.
Popped in to Lannan Foundation to see the show AGAIN: Repetition, Obsession and Meditation. Agnes Martin grids, and more of the like. Never ceases to intrigue me–visual artists seem to not be afraid of repeating themselves, while writers are. Both have obsessions, but as a poet I tend to try and prune out redundancies–but why?
Here is a piece I love by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson–lighthouses in Iceland, I believe. I wonder if I’ll get to go back–I’m scheming too. Something I long to repeat.
The poet, Jane Vincent Taylor, will host a writing seminar during Creative Arts Week ( July 29-Aug 4) at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu. Where Truth is Told: The Art of Letter Writing will use letters to discover new pathways into creative writing.
Contact Jane at janevincenttaylor.blogspot.com or through Ghostranch.org.
Muse Times Two presents the last reading of the Spring 2013 series
At Collected Works Bookstore
Benjamin Saenz
winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award
Miriam Sagan
winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
read their poetry
Sunday, April 14, 4pm
Benjamin Saenz, poet, novelist, essayist, and children’s book author, grew up on a cotton farm in New Mexico speaking only Spanish until he started elementary school. Although his education eventually took him to Denver, Belgium, Iowa, and California, Sáenz settled in the border region between Texas and New Mexico — an area that remains central to his writing. Saenz’s work has received the American Book Award, a Lannan Foundation Poetry Fellowship, and numerous notices for his books for children and teens. His poetry collections include Dreaming the End of War (Copper Canyon Press, 2006) and The Book of What Remains (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). He teaches at UT El Paso.
Profile on Saenz: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_22823132/el-paso-author-benjamin-alire-saenz-honored-his-border-stories
Poems: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={40C90009-B148-44E6-AB02-693462BDE00A}
Miriam Sagan is the author of over 25 books, including Love & Death: Greatest Hits, a collaboration between Sagan, Renée Gregorio, and Joan Logghe, all founders of Tres Chicas Books. Love & Death: Greatest Hits was a winner of a 2011 New Mexico Book Award in Poetry; it aims to “create not just a book but a sense of community.” Sagan founded and runs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. In 2010, she was awarded the Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. She blogs at Miriam’s Well. http://miriamswell.wordpress.com/
Poems by Sagan: http://connotationpress.com/poetry/1677-miriam-sagan-poetry
Muse Times Two brings new or under-known poetic voices from around the nation to Santa Fe to present their original works. Out-of-town headliners are paired with local poets from New Mexico to enhance both our local and national literary communities. Through such poetic cross pollination, the rich literary heritage of New Mexico meets the national heritage for a vibrant literary experience.
For more information on the Spring 2013 readings, the featured readers, or Muse Times Two in general, please contact Dana Levin at danalevin65@gmail.com.Muse Times Two is a project of Lore of the Land, Inc., a nonprofit 501c3 organization. Donations in support of this poetry program are tax-deductible under the IRS Code.
Poetry month is almost here! In April, I will be reblogging at least a week’s worth of “meetings with remarkable poets” written by myself and others.
If you feel like adding a reminiscence about a poet who was important in your life–a living or dead one–please send it to the blog!
Best email for Miriam’s Well is msagan1035@aol.com
Last night, Edie Tsong’s marvelous project was lit up all over town. I’m honored to have my poem at the Community Gallery at the Convention Center.
“My obsession with huipiles began years ago in Mexico City, with an old woman in a blouse of the most intricate and dynamic weaving my eyes had ever seen. Though I didn’t know it at the time, it was then that I became a huipilista. Since that day, I have loved, collected and worn huipiles, travelled to find them, traded to acquire them, because they speak to me in the language of art, and of heart.
In 2004, I felt the next step, as an artist, was to create huipiles not meant to be worn. I began to think imaginally about the process; I was not a weaver and probably would never be. But stitching I do know. Paper, canvas and thread are the materials; themes of women’s issues, equality, truth and history are the voice. Often I combine incongruent materials such as cornhusks, rose petals, plastic, milagros and found objects as a way of weaving together ideas. Letters or poems often show up, honoring the relationship between the words text, textile and texture.
The central theme that runs through this work is that the traditional huipil is a “cover up,” hiding vital parts of a woman’s body: the breasts and the belly. My aim is to expose rather than conceal the essence of a woman’s story, uncovering and revisioning, defining and illuminating.” -Lena Bartula, 2013
