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Marilyn Kallet's Blog
July 1, 2009
- The Asheville Poetry Review, founded and edited by Keith Flynn, is a vital, energetic, intercultural review, publishing new writers alongside Baudelaire and Antonin Artaud. The editor is non-stuffy, friendly, a rock star (literally, a rock star). He's open-minded, and loyal to his contributors and friends. A non-academic, he lacks the timidity of those who live in the ivory tower. He's ...
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June 30, 2009
- I tell my writer friends that Red Room is a supportive environment (and I have lots of examples from my own life and work), and that the site lets me go into depth in ways that I can't do on Facebook or Twitter. I would not have signed on for those if I hadn't first had a good experience with Red Room. How can we encourage more people to look at the authors' websites? I'd be interested also ...
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June 25, 2009
- Just back from France and I'm preparing for my next residency at Red Cinder Creativity Center, on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I'm trying to make the most of my teaching leave, which ends mid-August. So I'm going for a two-week writing residency at a dream house provided for artists and writers, on the southern side of Mauna Loa. It's only 25 dollars a day, food is another 25 dollars for ...
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June 22, 2009
- I'm home from France, more tired than alive, but happy to have had the time to write every day, to deepen my friendships with the Auvillaraise, and to practice speaking that delicious language. As soon as I've rested up, I will post some new photos. I wanted to say thanks to my Red Roomies, for support, encouragement, laughter, and prayers. More soon. Amities (that means friendly ...
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June 5, 2009
- My daughter and I fled our fleabag hotel in Toulouse for a modern hotel, "Les Bains Douces," listed as numero uno in the New York Times on 36 hours in Barcelona. All art deco, clean, bright. But our room door didn't lock. The hotel treated it as if it was our problem. And, in effect, it was our problem. We had a great meal though at a little restaurant across the street from ...
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June 2, 2009
- Back from Paris, more tired than alive, for a couple of nights in Auvillar. There's a composers' workshop in the main house now, so I have moved to the office apartment for a few days. The composers are outside eating dinner, and I am not invited. I went out to pull my clothes off the line, and we all pretended like I wasn't there.I don't like it. It's like being a ghost. Perspective: ...
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May 29, 2009
- Tomorrow morning I set out for Paris! I'll drive to Toulouse, and God willing, find the airport, and parking, and then Easy-jet to Paris. Once I'm on land again, I'll breathe a sigh of relief. My hotel is in the Latin Quarter--a nice change for me. I'll visit with my wonderful poet-friend Chantal Bizzini on Sunday. She translates my poetry and I translate hers (mine sounds much better ...
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May 24, 2009
- My first night in Auvillar I saw a man in my room. To be more accurate, two men--first a white man, very briefly, then a black man, leaning over my bed. His image had more permanence. I was disoriented, in a new place, exhausted, jet lagged. I had a moment of acknowledging that the black man was very beautiful and looked like someone I knew. I had a second moment of making a decision: ...
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May 10, 2009
- I'm in Deep France and miss talking with my daughter and my husband. Can't reach them on Skype (both are offline), and can't figure out how to use the damn cell phone. I'm a techno-idiot!This morning there was folkdancing in the town square, and my husband is one of the best and liveliest dancers in the world. I sent him oodles of photos. How I wished he was there! The musical ...
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May 6, 2009
- I'm sitting on the patio next door to my studio, where I can get wi fi access. Today was a perfect day, and it's not half over. I wrote all morning, a poem that may hold up under scrutiny--"What Would Baudelaire Do?" A love poem, of course, filled with perfume. Ate some good crusty bread with cheese, black olives, goat and cow's milk cheese, and proscuitto. Took a nap. Then ...
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May 3, 2009
- The light is golden. The wine is cheap and velvety (2007 Bordeaux, oak casked). I'm using the office computer since wi fi isn't up yet. Soon as it is, I'll post some photos. I'm the only writer in residence until tomorrow, when two more fellows arrive here in Auvillar. They are painters. It will be nice to have other artists in the house. Well, sort of. I like having the country ...
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April 28, 2009
- Within minutes of asking Rabbi Beth Schwartz for a travel blessing, she responded with this beautiful prayer. I will tuck it in my bag:Yehi ratson milfanecha, Adonai. May it be your will, Eternal our God, and God of our ancesters who traveled so many paths, to guide Marilyn in peace. May her journey be safe and smooth, and may she arrive happy and content. Protect her from every danger ...
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April 28, 2009
- Thursday I'm off on the sky road to Toulouse, then, God and the GPS willing, to Auvillar. The phrase my new student Robert offered was "Je vais ficher le camp!" That either means, "I'm hitting the road," or, more literally, "I am going to screw the entire regiment." I won't say it at the office until I know for sure!Are there songs for safe travel? There ...
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April 26, 2009
- I missed Lou's phone call from La Selva, Costa Rica, where he is working at the ecology station in the rain forest. My cell phone rang just as I was getting into my car in the parking lot of Sitar, where I had met Kali for dinner. I didn't recognize the caller number, so I blew it off. Then got home to find Lou's email message, that he had called both of my numbers on Skype.Argh. I fell ...
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April 26, 2009
- My letter to the Times came out in today's book review. I wrote protesting the absence of women writers in Jim Holt's "Got Poetry?" essay a couple weeks ago. I did mention at least one Red Roomer who is a "find" for me, and I hope for other readers--Evie ...
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