Thursday, September 26, 2013

Interview by Lynn Alexander at PRATE with Novelist, Poet, Small Press Publisher, Editor Leah Angstman

"Leah Angstman has been at this for years, producing books and spaces and relationships between writers and artists. Some of the answers cover things you know, and some might just surprise you. We threw Leah a few curve balls here because we knew that she would rise to the challenge and we knew that she would bring her independent spirit to the process and we weren’t disappointed. Interviewed by Lynn Alexander, for Full Of Crow, December 2012. 
LA: I’m sure many people want to know, in your words: Why do you want to be part of the small press?..." 

Read the rest of the interview at

http://www.fullofcrow.com/prate/2012/12/leah-angstman/

Monday, September 23, 2013

"This date in science: Pablo Neruda and the beauty of the universe" from EARTH SKY




"September 23, 1973. Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Michael West, Director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory, sent this image. He wrote:
Astronomical imagery often figured in Neruda’s poetry, for example one of his poems begins: Every day you play with the light of the universe. Another poem titled “The Future is Space” describes black space with room for many dreams.
In the attached composite image (made from photos I took in Chile) I’ve included a portion of Neruda’s poem titled “La Poesia” in which the Nobel Prize winner described the feeling of discovering poetry as a youth, comparing it to the beauty of the universe."
 Read the rest

http://earthsky.org/space/poet-pablo-neruda-and-the-beauty-of-the-universe?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=9ca9a884ac-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-9ca9a884ac-393817421

Sunday, September 15, 2013

9/16/13 If You Enjoy Reading Short Stories, Check This Site Out! Go Read Your Lunch. Today's Story If Only Her Husband was a Member of The Brotherhood of Flying Things- by Elizabeth P. Glixman


"Go Read Your Lunch  is an online journal of excellent, kick-ass, thought-provoking, tear-jerking, hernia-inducing, side-splitting, gruesome, wholesome, inspiring, heartbreaking literature by various authors, delivered lovingly to you every Monday, at just the perfect length to last you your twenty-to-thirty-minute lunch period. We want to make your lunchtime meaningful and put some feeling into your weekday mastication! Check back with us every Monday for a new piece."

http://goreadyourlunch.blogspot.com/2013/09/ifonlyherhusbandwereamemberofthebrotherhoodofflyingthings.html