Natural Instincts: Cover Art Chosen

No surprise here. It's the original first crab that I painted. Emily sent off the materials to the publisher on Friday. Now the plans are being laid for a show featuring the new chapbook and some of my artwork. We're looking for a venue. The show will probably be in October, 2008.

Hell's Bells! She's at it again

I've started painting crabs in watercolor now. This takes some adjustment from the fluid acrylics. Here's my first pass at an entirely "nother different fiddler crab in watercolor. It needs to be done over. Better. But I plan to spend the next week working on crabs in this medium. The treat will be doing one of them in greytone for the back of the book, which is a black and white piece. But on and on I go.

ps. the best thing is that Emily and I agree that the first one is the best so I'm not anxious. Just lovin' it. And if you haven't had your fill of this nonsense, you can see it all on my art website blog. http://www.jeannelafferty.com/dataviewer.asp?keyvalue=5572&page=Blog

Lo! And Behold!

Emily Scudder (does she ever sleep?) has a poem on line at the site below.
http://www.seastories.org/hibernal08/entries/scudder.html

And if that's not enough. she blogging now with great pictures and poems. It's a treat and it's at http://www.emilyscudder.net/

I'm Working on Emily's Book Cover

Oh, let's hope I'm not the cause of this being her last published book. You can follow my progress (if that's what it is) on the blog on my art website.

http://www.jeannelafferty.com/blog/

Meanwhile here's where I am tonight. Text, or explanation is on the blog, plus the original pen and ink.

Emily Scudder's Back with Audio This Time

The link will take you directly to Emily's two poems. Click the sound button and you can hear her read. Worth it!

http://www.2river.org/2RView/12_2/poems/scudder.html

http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2007/scudder.html

Kirk(Us) sends this link.


Our own Emily Scudder is featured on Agni online. Take a look. See why there's picture of a fiddler crab here.

Round Robin Poetry Rocks

Some of us went to the reading at the Porter Bookstore last Wednesday and had a swell time. The last poetry reading I went to was at Borders downtown where Emily Scudder had been asked to read along with--it seemed-- a hundred and twenty writers of verse, most of whom should have stayed home. It was a night to remember for all the wrong reasons.

Wednesday night's cast of "local" talent was of the highest caliber. The local part is about where the poets live and work, but some are known more widely. It was lively, sometimes very funny and always accessible. It felt rich and dense in the sense that there was so much to the readings. I found myself thinking about what a pleasure good, unpretentious poetry is.



Our good friends, Jim Henle(right), Iron Man of the Arts, and Emily Scudder(above), a nationally recognized poet, were on the bill; we are big fans.


Please take a look at Emily's Website listed in the Links. It's a great place to spend a rainy afternoon.

Oblique Strategy

Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place

click on the blog title to see one of the oblique strategy websites.

I got this very nice poster in the snail mail today from Emily Scudder. So get on over to the Porter Square Bookstore on Wednesday, October 17th. That's at 7pm. Lots of friends doing great things this month. There's Tom Swetland"s art show in Greenfield (blog posted below) and Heather Stewart has a two-woman art show at Harvard Neighbors--reception on October 16th. I'll see if I can get more info from Heather and post it up here.

Poetry

Our very own HUCTW Writes! poets, Jim Henle and Emily Scudder will be at Porter Square Books on Wednesday, October 17th, 7pm. I'll be there. Let me know if you want come along and cheer them on. More info at link below.

http://www.portersquarebooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=358083

And be sure to visit Emily's website. It's a lalapaloozer.http://home.mindspring.com/~escudder/index.html