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Marge Piercy is a distinguished poet who lives in Massachusetts. Her most recent book of poems is Made in Detroit, (Knopf, 2015).
Arts & Life
LAKEPORT, Calif. – This month’s Third Friday Live dance party features Andre Williams at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Soper Reese Theatre.
The long-running TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” starring Jim Parsons as Caltech physicist Sheldon Cooper, has now spawned a new prequel series that focuses on the socially awkward scientist in his formative high school period in “Young Sheldon.”
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – It’s November, which means set your clocks back Saturday night and be on time for the Fiddlers Jam held in the barn at Ely Stage Stop & Country Museum on Sunday, Nov. 5.
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Explore the intriguing technique of cyanotype, as part of Photographing Resilience at Middletown Art Center or MAC.
The class will take place Sunday, Nov. 5, from noon to 5 p.m.
The cost is just $5 and open to adults and teens 12 and up, whether new to art making or professionals.
“This class will be very different, very hands-on, and everyone will leave with at least one beautiful piece of hand-made art and plenty of ideas for more,” said MAC photography instructor Shane Powers.
Cyanotypes, also known as the “sun print” or “blue print,” are achieved using safe and simple chemicals activated by ultraviolet light and “developed” with water.
One of the very first photographic printing processes, cyanotypes were discovered in the mid-1800s.
Architects’ line drawings were easily copied into architectural blueprints. Naturalists used the technique to “photocopy” field notes to create accurate illustrations of plants. Quilters, dressmakers and artists have applied the process in many forms.
“Participants will make ‘digital negatives’ using transparencies from photographic images or drawings, or they can use mementos and natural objects to create compositions,” explained Powers. “This is a very versatile process that can be applied to a variety of surfaces. The possibilities are endless and inspiring not only for photographers, but for artists of all kinds and other curious creatives. So come to class and bring a friend.”
Please reserve your spot at www.middletownartcenter.org/resilience, email
Space is limited. To increase creative options, bring a camera, phone or thumb drive with your digital images and/or bring mementos and objects from home.
The Resilience Project was initiated to increase access to the arts throughout Lake County.
The project also focuses on nature’s resilience as a mirror for our own recovery post-fire. Resilience classes provide a safe space for community members to learn, share, and hone skills that give form and artistic voice to their creativity while having a great time making art.
The project will culminate in exhibitions countywide, and a chapbook of poetry and images created by participants.
Resilience was made possible through a Local Impact Grant from the California Arts Council with support from Adventist Health.
Join the folks at MAC this weekend or any first through fourth weekend of the month until May 2018 for Resilience Project classes in photography, creative writing, painting and printmaking.
Please note that there are some changes to the regular schedule during November and December due to holidays, so please check the Website.
MAC is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29 in Middletown.
Visit www.middletownartcenter.org to learn more about MAC and the Resilience Project.
I was deeply moved by this week's poem, which shows us the courage of a person struggling with a disability, one that threatens the way in which she wishes to present herself.
It illustrates the fierce dignity that many of us have observed in elderly people.
Wesley McNair served five years as poet laureate of Maine, and his most recent book is “The Unfastening,” published by David R. Godine.
My Mother's Penmanship Lessons
In her last notes, when her hand began
to tremble, my mother tried to teach it
the penmanship she was known for,
how to make the slanted stems
of the p's and d's, the descending
roundness of the capital m's, the long
loops of the f's crossed at the center,
sending it back again and again
until each message was the same:
a record of her insistence that the hand
return her to the way she was before,
and of all the ways the hand had disobeyed.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 by Wesley McNair, “My Mother's Penmanship Lessons,” from The Unfastening, (David R. Godine, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Wesley McNair and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
It illustrates the fierce dignity that many of us have observed in elderly people.
Wesley McNair served five years as poet laureate of Maine, and his most recent book is “The Unfastening,” published by David R. Godine.
My Mother's Penmanship Lessons
In her last notes, when her hand began
to tremble, my mother tried to teach it
the penmanship she was known for,
how to make the slanted stems
of the p's and d's, the descending
roundness of the capital m's, the long
loops of the f's crossed at the center,
sending it back again and again
until each message was the same:
a record of her insistence that the hand
return her to the way she was before,
and of all the ways the hand had disobeyed.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 by Wesley McNair, “My Mother's Penmanship Lessons,” from The Unfastening, (David R. Godine, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Wesley McNair and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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