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For people who read and enjoy good literature--literary classics or literary contemporary and like to make art about it. Using literature as inspiration for our art. Also for people interested in writing letters about literature. This is also a meeting place for The New Arzamas Literary Circle, which is dedicated to writing creative letters on literary topics.

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Handmade Ezra Pound (Ezruckus Poundamonium) paper doll for a series of skits in which E.P is the main star. --Theresa Williams

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Automatic writing by Nancy Bell Scott.

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One of a set of cards made while contemplating the poet Theodore Roethke. On November 12, Roethke suffered the first of what was to be many mental episodes. It happened in the cold Michigan woods, and he described the experience as having a "secret" revealed to him, which he said was the secret of "Nijinsky." Nijinsky was a famous ballet dancer who was institutionalized for schizophrenia. With your permission, I'd like to post your artwork at my blog: The Letter Project. I'm also looking for letters about literature and creativity. All works from the blog have gone through the postal system.

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gentili Signori poeti e artisti visivi, sono felice di far parte di questo gruppo.Ecco il perchè.Da sempre il mio lavoro cammina tra immagine e parola.Testo e materia visiva.Poesia e carta dipinta…Continue

Started by Alfonso Filieri. Last reply by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams Jul 12, 2011.

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Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 15, 2011 at 7:51pm

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 15, 2011 at 3:16pm: Agreeing with Catherine, Vaida. It's a fine piece and does belong here.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 15, 2011 at 2:40pm: Well, I lied. I wasn't IN those little old library desks but rather AT them, and sometimes draped exhaustedly OVER them.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 15, 2011 at 2:21pm: Your essay in Talking Writing takes one on such a meaningful ride in such a short time. I love your writing, Theresa. You swept me right up, and gave me chills. You also brought back my own memories of great solitary hours in the little old desks among the stacks in my old college library. They were on the second story, at the end of very short stacks overlooking the main library room, atrium-style. Emotions ran the gamut in those spaces for me, from crying over Molly's soliloquy in Ulysses to laughing my guts out looking at Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera, pulled randomly from a shelf next to me.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 15, 2011 at 2:12pm: Both very nice works, Skybridge, thanks for posting.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 14, 2011 at 11:15pm: Here are scans (also posted on blog) of Theresa's folding card to me today, the first showing both the front and back (including Leonardo having a most interesting look-see out), and the second showing her postcard collage inside the card along with an amazing childhood memory of Leonardo's. Imagine.

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 14, 2011 at 9:40pm: i use firefox, it automatically adjusts the image to fill the browser, and you can click for the full size. firefox = "!!!", as Mister Guido would say!

i sleep from ~8pm until 5am sharp, most every day.

i get plenty of sleep! ;-D

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 14, 2011 at 9:18pm: Well, I will be lucky to receive to your Rilke card, Theresa. Your Leonardo-related mail-art arrived just now, and I love it! And such a lyrical memory of Leonardo's in his quote inside your card. Tonight I will post it here and on the blog. Thank you ~

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 14, 2011 at 8:43pm: "Regularly" can mean anything, superhero. I'm guessing 3 hours once every five nights.

Wow, it's not even the whole image. It filled my screen like nothing else has yet.

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 14, 2011 at 8:22pm: i get sleep regulary. <-- can-t you tell? ;-D

the image isn't even the full size, since the full size won't upload on ning!!

i'll have to pay for more storage on picasa one of these days. :-/

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