Showing posts with label Fanny Howe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fanny Howe. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Random Photos

It has been a long while since I've posted random photos. Here's a small sampling, from this past spring.

The Commons at the Atlantic Center for the Arts,
Stetson University MFA of the Americas 
Kameelah Janan Rasheed reading
at home field school day 2018,
MoMA PS1
The audience at the home field
school day reading 2018,
MoMA PS1 
home field school day 2018,
MoMA PS1 
home field school day 2018,
MoMA PS1
Poet Mai Der Vang, Rutgers-Newark
MFA Reading Series, February 2018
Marcus Samuelsson's B&P
Restaurant, Newark  
Portland, during my visit to Reed
College and Portland State University 
At Portland State
Near Portland State University
Spring in downtown Jersey City 
Irène Mathieu and Desiree Cooper at
the Jack Jones gathering, AWP
Fence-stallation, Jersey City 
Modeling, Warehouse Cafe,
Jersey City
Robert E. Lee's (yes, that one!) former bedroom,
where I participated in an interview with students
at Washington & Lee University; the aura
was almost unearthly, but the visit
was a wonderful one
The chapel housing Robert E. Lee's tomb,
Washington & Lee University (a site
of pilgrimage, as you can imagine, for
pro-Confederates); it was closed when I was there 
Washington state, Washington & Lee University
At South Station, Boston
On the street, Newark
Birds gathering, Penn Station, Newark 
Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
Tercentary Theater, Harvard Yard 
Before the reading with Fanny Howe &
Eden McCutcheon Tirl, at Harvard 
Before the reading with Fanny Howe &
Eden McCutcheon Tirl, at the Woodberry
Poetry Room, Harvard University
(the great Jamaica Kincaid is in the far back, at right)
Fanny Howe, Vocarium Reading Series
at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard 
Eden McCutcheon Tirl, Vocarium Reading
Series at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard 
Fanny Howe (at right), with her grandson
Tree-cutting, Jersey City
Tribeca Film Festival, New York 
At the Tribeca Film Festival, New York
Heading towards the George Washington Bridge
At Arthur Jafa's show opening,
Gavin Brown's experience, Harlem
At Arthur Jafa's show opening,
Gavin Brown's experience, Harlem
Swizz Beatz, outside Arthur Jafa's
opening, Gavin Brown's experience, Harlem
Irises in bloom, Jersey City
Waiting for the PATH train, Newark
Changing the announcement chalk
board, Jersey City

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Cross-Posting: Song of Myself (Linda Norton)


Below is a reply that author, blogger and educator Linda Norton sent back in January 2018 via the FRSGA Yahoo account, in response to one of the vouchers I posted in December, which Karen Cantrell had previously responded to. The card read:



Here is her full response (note the references to an array of artists):

Song of Myself

Filmmaker, star, a doctor examining the culture—me on a walk. On the pavement, I notice an electric-blue Post-It from that batch I stole when I quit my job: “taylor * negritude * milk and you” – My dirty to-do list. I must have walked this way last week and dropped it.

In December sun, I hurry past the cathedral like it might get me. Then I saunter, Thoreau-like, sans-terre in California, and again I’m everything—the spinsters Thoreau disparaged, the turtles he saw copulating and tried to separate, the mother who saves him from civilization. Open to alms. My loneliness is like a poem by Fanny.

By this time my parka is off. In the co-op bakery when I get to the counter, the cashier is dazzled for a minute. “You look like Elizabeth Taylor.” But then he wonders if he’s right not to offer me the senior discount yet. “That’s right. Not yet.”

--Linda Norton; a response to a prompt on John Keene’s “Emotional Outreach” blog, 12/2017

Many thanks to Linda for her collaboration, and I will post most responses as they come in. Any readers of this blog should feel free to respond to the instructions above, and write a response along the lines of Linda's and forward it directly to fieldresearchgroup[AT]yahoo.com, or center your QR reader app and utilize the QR code below.


"Song of Myself," Copyright © Linda Norton, shared by permission with the Emotional Outreach/FRSGA blog, 2018.