Susan Howe’s book, My Emily Dickinson, was my choice for Week 1, so that I would at last read it. It’s been on my bookshelf since ModPo 2015, my second season of ModPo. Suffice it to say that Howe’s Emily Dickinson has changed my Emily Dickinson. I had read a book about her life
Summer came so soon. I have been caught in the complexities of my own life and have barely read. All spring I have been attempting to read this book but have been hindered so here is one I plan to complete. It is the One book for my college this semester. I actually voted for it from a selection of four based only on brief descriptions and have already given a copy
I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing nonstop since early spring, and I’m finally ready to settle down for a bit, sink into a lawn chair out in the sunlight of these long lingering Western New York late afternoons, and get started reading again. This book, The Ensemble, came to me in Gambier, Ohio at the Kenyon
I was ambitious when I reached out to the group and had thought I might be able to get a reading list from people around me. That never happened! I have no stack- I am just diving into this reading session with zero planning. I picked up this book when I visited the Berkeley Art
Hi everyone, I usually start my reading challenge off with a stack of books (which I have been re-organizing for a couple of weeks now). But, I am just not sure exactly where my summer is going to lead me. So, I decided that my first post would be the first book that I plan
Here we are, at the starting gate for ten weeks of summer reading. I’ve ordered up a short stack of books, and they are at the ready. My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe, 138 pages (20 per day). Though this book has been on my shelves since I learned about it in ModPo, I confess
I don’t get to listen to much of my music anymore. My days are accompanied by the sounds of a five-year old’s obsession. Occasionally he interrupts my silent thoughts to show me something he finds amusing. Rarely, he shares with me a song, sung sheepishly along with the video it is on. When we drive,
Along with continuing to read (just finished Annie Proulx’s Barkskins), I’ve just happened to start using my hands to do more than hold a book, write, and type on a keyboard. It started with short workshops held by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas to augment one’s experience of their various exhibitions. There, I made
I crawled through the second book after Mr Mercedes. With the travel and the home buying and Peace & Justice, well, sorry Mr King. I did enjoy Finders Keepers now that I’ve had the chance to read it! Thank goodness no one else at the library was itching to read this, since I renewed it 3
When I go to the grocery store, I try to let the price of produce / seasonality drive my choices. I am not perfect– I like a winter basket of Chilean grown blueberries like any sane person, but I try. Cilantro was 4 bunches for 1$ – that is where the story begins. I can’t
Seasonal Reading 