Persephone & Haiti: Pulitzer News

A very deserved congratulations goes out to Patrick Farrell--one of our own, a Miami Heralder--who just won the Pulitzer for Photography. This photo, after reviewing Giotto for art history, was particularly moving. The full article can be accessed here. I also cannot wait to read Merwin's poetry, as well as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge, which, based on the title alone, cannot help but conjure up a mental picture of a feminist Dickens' Twist.

In Other News:

Also, isn't the Twitter boom astonishing? I mean, the very fact that I just dedicated a sentence in my blog to it acts as further evidence to the phenomenon. Okay, okay, I got one. Eek. I like it for NYTimes updates and keeping track with Music whereabouts, as well as certain lit mags. And somehow I feel the need to redeem myself..

APs are coming up.. thus, delays are in store.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo
-T.S. Eliot

however, currently, "Michelangelo" can be substituted with the very appropriate "prom", which I am missing for a trip to Vermont... mixed feelings.

Hope you all have a particularly frustration-less week!
(as a counterbalance to mine)

Robert Whitman

Postmodernist performer--Robert Whitman:

Watch this:
American Moon

I was absolutely mesmerized, wrote a song for two hours after.
New Collab Project idea? Ask artists to write music for/from that. Listen to result.

Unfortunately, Whitman, due to the temporary nature of the medium, has been pretty much wiped off the art history radar for even the more cultured drama/art-fiends.

Resurrection in store? I wouldn't be surprised.

Avril, April!

Firstly, happy national poetry month.

L. S. P. 23, Deborah Luster

I recently read a fascinating article about the Deborah Luster (photographer) and C.D. Wright (poet) collaboration at P O E T R Y's website:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/one-big-self-finding-the-noble-vernacular-cd-wright-deborah-luster/#more-1874

More: Wright/Luster
http://jacketmagazine.com/15/cdwright-iv.html

Here is an video interview with Luster:
http://blog.nola.com/dougmaccash/2008/01/photos_of_louisiana_prisoners.html

Here are more of Luster's photos:
http://www.edelmangallery.com/luster.htm
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/hand&eyeobs.html


From "Dear Dying Town"

"Mack trapped a spider
Kept in a pepper jar
He named her Iris
Caught roaches to feed her
He loved Iris
When Iris died
He wrote her a letter."

--Wright



Is it truth mangled with words, and the rest of its burned flesh?
Set to decay, what personable qualities of slow boiling, and how our thoughts move in this heat.