BIBLIOTHECA INVISIBILIS ISN'T INVISIBLE!

BIBLIOTHECA INVISIBILIS now has over 50 citations/entries into its library!  It's interesting to see some of the poets/artists from the mid-20th century start to appear with their Conceptual/Minimalist Art.  


And a Housekeeping Note: There's something awry with my "Nalanda10@aol.com" email addy.  For now, please use "GalateaTen@aol.com" to communicate with me.


We continue to be open to your participation!

SPRING IS SPRING-ING

so that, later, spring will have sprung!

LITERARY ACTIVISM

VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA is being used for activism beyond the literary, as it was meant to be!  Coming up, poems in VTY apparently are being used in De Anza College's “Unnatural Disaster: Typhoon Haiyan” -- a cross-disciplinary curriculum project involving faculty participants from the English, Women’s Studies, Political Science and Environmental Studies departments.  The project will include a teach-in, a research project, an action project and a Spring 2014 Benefit Concert. 

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As part of this project, I will be presenting VTY and doing a reading with Michelle Bautista and Aileen Ibardaloza at their May 31 benefit -- more deets to come closer to the date!

And recently, I had to stuff myself for desserts for the good cause of raising funds for Typhoon Haiyan (known as "Yolanda" in the Philippines) survivors.  We raised funds for another good cause, the Yellow Boat Foundation and the Panay-Bukidnon tribes.  The Yellow Boat Foundation helps fishermen who lost their boats during the typhoon.  More info HERE with pictures of me and my cakes!

A long way to go with fundraising, folks!  Official government estimates are looking at a minimum three years required to help the population overcome the effects of Haiyan.  I hope you can help!

POEM FROM A TRUE STORY (#7)

While seeing the lovely “Shun Li and the Poet" as part of my Netfllx Binge, I was moved to interrupt the movie to write

I forgot how 

the wind brought 

me to you 

you to me 

though an ocean 

is relentless 

between us

I'm stuck in the "I forgot" structure, as inspired by the "I forgot" poem in Tom Beckett's Diptstick(Dyptych)... whose launch you should attend in New York City this Friday!

I BUY POETRY! (2014, #2)

Woot!  Someone just placed a single, 15-book order of VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA! 

Extremely heartening given the continued drop in overall poetry book sales (for example, HERE and HERE).  Which is why I also try to ensure I continue to buy poetry books even as my To-Read stacks continue to grow.  Here’s an update on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry:

MEMORY HOLES by Erin Virgil  

THE FEEL TRIO by Fred Moten

THE NOTHING THAT IS by John Olson

AMULET by Jason Bayani

THE CASTING OF BELLS by Jaroslav Seifert, Trans. From the Czech by Paul Jagasich & Tom O’Grady

HOROSCOPES FOR THE DEAD by Billy Collins (It was on extreme sale :)

147 MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML) by Eileen R. Tabios

VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A STORM OF FILIPINO POETS (edited by yours truly; if I buy my own books I include on this list)


My list of purchased books is skewed as much of what interests me is given to me for free.  But I try, and click HERE for other poetry or poetry-related books I've purchased in the past.

INVISIBLE AND NOT

Since my last Recently Relished W(h)ine List update, I've even read some invisible books!

Entonces, here’s moi latest List below.  As ever, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for GalateaResurrects!  More info on that HERE.

PUBLICATIONS

*  DIPSTICK (DIPTYCH), poems by Tom Beckett (fabulous.  “I Forgot” is a classic. LinkedIn Poetry Recommendation (LPR) #109)

*  MUTTER—BABEL, poetry by Christine Wertheim (fascinating and lovely word clouds.  LPR #110)

FAUN FOR A NOON, poems by Edric Mesmer (smart, fresh and lyrical)

3 LETTERS, correspondence/prose poetry by Brian Morse (clever and charming chapette from the Buffalo Ochre Papers)

*  MOONBOOK AND SUNBOOK, poems by Willie Barnstone (a lovely intelligence. LPR #111)

THE LEDGE, poems by Michael Collier (stellar)

SIX PORTRAITS, poems by Julie Danho with art by E.V. Day (fine and wise)

*  BEFORE THE ALPHABET, poems by Paula Bonnell (pleasantly joyous)

*  ONE HUNDRED POEMS OF AESTHESIA, poems by G.I. Sheriff

*  A PRINCESS MAGIC PRESTO SPELL, poems by Lisa Jarnot and art by Emilie Clark

AMULET, poems by Jason Bayani

THE FEEL TRIO, poems by Fred Moten

*  THE DUSTBOWL, poems by Jim Goar

STARGAZERS, WE, poems by Mary Kohler

*  ALL MOVIES LOVE THE MOON: PROSE POEMS ON SILENT FILM, poetry/art by Gregory Robinson

*  HERE, poems by Maxine Chernoff

*  ON TACT, & THE MADE UP WORLD, poems by Michele Glazer

*  BLACK BIRDS: BLUE HORSES, AN ELEGY, poems by Natalie Peeterse

*  SAY THAT, poems by Felecia Caton Garcia

*  HEART FIRST INTO THE FOREST, poems by Stacy Gnall

*  JUNE, poems by Daniel Brenner

*  A MAP PREDETERMINED AND CHANCE, poems by Laura Weatherington

*  QUEER PHYLACTERY, poems by j/j hastain

*  A HERON IN BUENOS AIRES: SELECTED POEMS by Luis Benitez, with an essay by Carmen Vasco

*  BOTTOMLAND, poems by Laressa Dickey

HONEYBEE, poems and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye

THAT LITTLE SOMETHING, poems by Charles Simic

*  HOUSE ORGAN, Spring 2014, literary/arts zine edited by Kenneth Warren

GOLDEN HANDCUFFS REVIEW, Spring-Summer, 2014, edited by Lou Rowan

THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER, April/May 2014

BIBLIOTHECA INVISIBILIS BOOKS are invisible; but here are the ones I managed to read:

BLANK SUITE by Tom Beckett

THE OUGHT BOOK by Gregory Betts

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: THEATERS:DETAILS (VOLUME 1) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

HERE GOES NOTHING by Lemonodo

ERASED SPACED by Lemonodo

THE INVISIBLE BOOK by Elisabeth Tonnard

THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE, essays by Ann Patchett (simply: BEAUTIFUL)

SURVIVAL LESSON, advice by Alice Hoffman

THE $1,000 CHALLENGE: HOW ONE FAMILY SLASHED ITS BUDGET WITHOUT MOVING UNDER A BRIDGE OR LIVING ON GOVERNMENT CHEESE by Brian J. O’Connor

WINES

2010 Frank Family cabernet

2010 David Arthur  cabernet NV

2001 Ch. La Vieille Cure Fronsac

2010 Tarima Hill (Spain)

BORN TO READ!

Michelle and Gabriela read a kiddie book I published viz Meritage Press: BEAUTIFUL EYES!

What I like about this angle of the shot below is how Gabriela looks like a critic.  Develop that critical eye, early, why not!

By the way, of course I gave her that "Born to Read" onesie (click on first shot to enlarge).  Of course Moi did!