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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 De Villo Sloan on April 28, 2012 at 9:27pm: Delmore Schwartz taught at Syracuse University near me when I was a little kid. Lou Reed was one of his prize students. Lou aimed a gun at a an ROTC Officer to get out of being sent to the Vietnam War. He got kicked out of school too and went and started the Velvet Undergound. Delmore was a big influence on him - he even wrote a song about it.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 28, 2012 at 9:22pm: My long life friend Simonne visited me the last 3 days and gave me all the books of Patchen and Schwartz she purchased in Oregon. I FEEL BLESSED!

Love, which includes poetry, is to science as the free and beautiful catchings of a child are to the vile and unreturning throes of the hangman (Kenneth P;

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 28, 2012 at 5:10pm: I like your poem very much, Guido.

In case anyone doesn't know, the USPS issued 20th-century poets stamps on April 21 and you can buy them here . Brodsky, Brooks, Williams, Hayden, Plath, Bishop, Stevens, Levertov, Cummings, and Roethke:

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 26, 2012 at 11:27pm: Small things

I can hear the blues of a tree

I can hear the dying juice

and the squirell committing suicide

in the giant redwood I can’t see.

Comment by Stephen Boyling on April 22, 2012 at 11:10pm: Looking forward to sending/receiving contributions ....Looking forward to sending and receiving ....

Comment by yves maraux on April 22, 2012 at 12:37pm: le bulletin de vote : name dropping

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 20, 2012 at 5:26pm: I agree; it is like looking into a mirror and then ask serious questions about what you see!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 19, 2012 at 4:27pm: There are many mind blowing sentences in this text, another one I adore:

THE POET WALKS WITH POETS (and again no escape possible!)

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 19, 2012 at 1:37am: That's exactly the line that struck me most too, Theresa. Also, his handwriting is so beautiful. It's distracting, in an appealing way.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 18, 2012 at 5:20pm: Letter on poets, poetry and how this relates to a city as London, from Simon Warren, UK

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