Today’s guest blog is by sisters: Solace in So Many Words contributor Joan Corwin and Nancy Megan Corwin who is a jewelry artist/metalsmith from the Seattle area. Each year since 2004, Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle puts on Signs of Life, a contemporary jewelry art show and companion jewelry art catalog/literary journal. The show features work by nine artists. The catalog/literary journal pairs these jewelry artists with ten writers in a unique publication. This … [Read more...]
Still growing solace
Solace in So Many Words is two years old, and I am trying to build some new interest in the book. After all we know that its subject matter is timely so the collection is still relevant. When I read about soldiers returning home from Afghanistan, I think of Dave Lachance's "Nagasaki Shadows.' Whenever I hear about Texas I think of Buck Odom and wonder how he's doing ever since I read J. Scott's Smith's compelling "Heartbeat," which renders Buck so well that I think of him … [Read more...]
Exploring the unexplained phenomenon of solace
In 1984 Scott Colborn developed and began to host the Exploring Unexplained Phenomena radio show. The program became a reality largely due to his long-time interest in all things paranormal--which can be traced back to his childhood. Over the years, he has interviewed hundreds of guests covering a wide range of topics including extraterrestrials, big foot, spirituality, and ghosts . . . to name just a few. He recently interviewed Carol Brody Fleet about her book on … [Read more...]
What’s new? Mahan, Kirk, Donahoo, Hilbert, Bottiglieri, Antler, Meno, Corwin and a contest too!
As usual contributors to Solace in So Many Words have been busy writing and publishing. Susan Mahan has two poems "Voiceover" and "Cabbage Days" in U.M.Ph! Since May, two of her poems with Boston themes have been hanging in Boston City Hall --- they are "Mayday" and "Getting Lucky." Susan's poem "On the Lower Left Quadrant" is included in the online journal Poetry Porch; the theme was bridges. Kathleen Kirk also has a poem ("Last Step") in that issue. Fathers was the … [Read more...]
All in a row
Printers Row Lit Fest was hot and fun. Weighed Words had record sales for a bookfair, and we got to talk with lots of cool people. Stopping by on Saturday was Chicago writer Sharon Solwitz. She's the author of Blood Mary and Blood and Milk (Sarabande) and teaches at Purdue Univeristy and was on hand for the "Neither Fish nor Fowl" reading put on by Northwestern MA/MFA faculty. Sharon Fiffer (friend to Solace in So Many Words) stopped by after her panel on the cozy … [Read more...]
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