#San Francisco writing contest anthology

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ATTENTION WRITERS! MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana and Baruch Porras Hernandez, (writer, performer, gay Mexican comic book nerd) are putting out a call to creators for a new Latinx Super Hero project We Can Be Heroes We Can Be Heroes will spotlight 5 brand-new LGBTQ Latinx superheroes and YOU have a chance to be one of the creators! We are calling on all queer Latinx folks who identify as comic book nerds to enter! We invite you to submit your original Latinx queer superhero creation for a chance to be a participating artist on this project. Winning artists get to create a brand-new queer Latinx superhero with us, become part of the We Can Be Heroes project, and receive an honorarium. Winning short stories get published with us and designed by a real comic book artist! All of this will culminate into a large comic book anthology/graphic novel with your character’s story, in which all new queer, Latinx superheroes meet at the end, and save the day! To submit, simply write a 4-6 page, double-space, prose short story featuring your own superhero creation, along with a character description of that hero. The winning writers’ short stories will be published and be used as inspiration to introduce your character into a team comic book illustrated by a talented artist to be published by MACLA. We will check in with you twice and ask for your input: once with your character’s design and once with your character’s storyline in the graphic novel. Finally, excerpts from the final product will be read out loud, narrated to a live audience at MACLA in San José.   This new project at MACLA is made possible with support from the Creative Work Fund, the Fleishacker Foundation, and the Horizons Foundation and MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. Who is eligible? In order for you to enter for this section you must identify as queer, this includes, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and genderqueer Latinos. You must be Latino, or Latinx, which includes people from Panama, Dominicanos, Mexicanos, PuertoRiquenos, Cubanos, Chicanos, Salvadorenos, Gutemalans, Chilenos, etc. What we need from you: YOUR BIO, or ORIGIN STORY: Who are you? Please tell us as much as you can about yourself as a writer, person, and as a superhero comic book nerd. Not a comic book nerd, but love super heroes? That’s fine! This contest is open for all queer Latinos, so hey, go read a comic book, challenge yourself, you might write a story with a Latinx character so good, we will have to choose you! STATS: Your writer’s resume, or C.V., if you got it. Or just a list of publications with links will also work. Being previously published is not a requirement, but if you have been published, tell us about it! Please also include links to your website if you have one, or Instagram page, or blog if you happen to have a superhero blog, or a social media space where you nerd out with other fellow comic book super hero nerds. CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: Describe your character as much as you can. Height, appearance, hair, attitude, costume, superpowers, how do their superpowers work, what they do, do they have a catchphrase? Do they fly? How do they identify in the queer spectrum? Bi, queer, lesbian, pansexual, trans, non-binary, etc.? SHORT STORY: Submit a 4 to 6 page (double-spaced) short story about your brand new original queer Latinx superhero. The main focus of this contest is the writing (aside from the art, the colors, and the fancy and/or sexy costumes). Great writing/storytelling is what has carried comic books as far as they’ve come, into our souls, into the mainstream, and even onto the Broadway stage. Make this story as creative as you want. We want to push the boundaries, we want you to have fun, and we want a new hero to inspire us all. Show us the action shots, bring us right to the splash page of this new hero’s story, show us the queer Latinx superhero we need. Rules: Origin Story must be included somewhere in the narrative. Does not have to be the main part of the story. How did this character get their powers? Was it cool? Was it an accident? Okay to make your character just be born with their powers, but tell us about it. Character must speak about their Latinindad at one point in the story, or throughout the whole story. Totally okay to make your character monolingual Spanish speaker, or a Latina American who does not speak Spanish, immigrant, undocumented immigrant, third or sixth generation, etc. Character must have a super power. We challenge you to create something new! Or adapt/innovate an already existing superpower to make it more interesting. We just want a good story. If you write a character who can control the weather (That’s Storm, she’s African, already exists, already world famous) or a Latina who has metal claws and is short and grumpy (that’s Wolverine, he’s Canadian, and says he’s good at what he does and like most white men won’t shut up about it) it might not catch our eye. Character’s queerness must be present in the story and their actions. Pero, like, they don’t have to fly around with the rainbow flag, but also we’re interested in out loud and proud queer characters. There are not enough queer superheroes out there, especially not Latinx ones, (go read America Chavez, it’s GREAT!). Help us bring a new Latinx queer superhero to the world. This is a sex positive project, though the comic book will not be able to be too sexual, or show naughty scenes, show us some queer love, how do two queer superheroes find the time to make out, hold hands while they are flying, or how does our hero hold sit next to her girlfriend or partner to watch “One Day at a Time” on Netflix after saving the world? Winner must either live in the San José/San Francisco Bay Area or be able to travel to MACLA to work on the project throughout 2018/2019 and be present at all three performances Aug 16-18, 2019 at MACLA. Winner understands that their short story is just the beginning part of the project and will work with Baruch Porras Hernandez on edits and rewrites to come up with a finished story together before it is published and handed over to the artist. Participating creators understand that we are not adapting your character from your short story into a comic book of their own, we are including your short story as inspiration to introduce your character to the other heroes when they meet in the final graphic novel. Participating artist will have input in how their character appears, is designed, and drawn, but the participating artist understands that the final decisions on the characters will be made by the lead writer Baruch Porras Hernandez and MACLA. Submission deadline is on FEB 11, 2019   All submission must be entered via Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/XBe65yQCDSNdiQ5b2 Check list: YOUR ORIGIN STORY YOUR WRITER STATS YOUR CHARACTER’S CHARACTER DESCRIPTION YOUR SHORT STORY. Questions? Contact sharon@maclaarte.org

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Back Story

Bruce Edward Golden, Class of 1971

Golden began his professional writing career as a freelance journalist, publishing more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles ranging from in-depth profiles to feature stories to satirical commentary. His first sale as a writer was a story on Black's Beach, at the time the only legal nude beach in the country, which was published by The Progressive in 1977. He worked for 14 years as an editor, and was the founding editor/art director responsible for the creation of five different publications.

In 1985 he was chosen to be the head writer and associate producer of a comedy/variety show (San Diego's Passion) involving more than a hundred actors, writers, musicians, and dancers. In 1986 he wrote a teleplay that was optioned for Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. However, the program was cancelled before the script could be produced, so Golden rewrote it as the short story “Common Time,” which was named as a semi-finalist in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest. An augmented version of the story was published many years later in the U.S. magazine Brutarian, as well as publications in Romania, Greece, Canada, and England.

Golden turned to broadcasting in 1990. As a television news producer and radio reporter, he was awarded an Emmy, two Golden Mikes, and a number of honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, including recognition for his radio documentaries Sex in the ‘90s and Banned in the USA. For a change of pace, he called upon the comedy writing talents he’d honed nearly a decade earlier to create Radio Free Comedy, a program lampooning political correctness. Much later he wrote and produced a pair of public health educational documentaries for the state of California. In 2001, Golden walked away from his journalistic career to devote himself to his first love-- writing fiction. Golden's first novel, Mortals All (Shaman Press), was a futuristic examination of the civil rights of artificially-created humans. A review in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine described it as "Steeped in the ambience of classic 1950's Galaxy magazine ... social satire, irreverent anti-establishmentarianism, and pseudo-hardboiled narration ... Golden writes with zest and good pacing ... a certain flippancy of characterization and delivery ..."

Golden's second novel, Better Than Chocolate (Zumaya Otherworlds), was a futuristic mystery written with undertones of satire and social commentary. It follows San Francisco Police Inspector Noah Dane, who, while hunting his partner's killer and investigating a pair of seemingly unrelated murders, stumbles onto a conspiracy that threatens all humanity. Much to his dismay, his new crime-fighting partner is a Marilyn Monroe celebudroid.

A review in Asimov’s Science Fiction says of the book, "If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden’s Better Than Chocolate." In Golden's third novel, Evergreen (Zumaya Otherworlds), he created his own planet—a beautiful world populated by majestic forests, ever-changing auroras (called by “sky sprites” by the natives), and the ursu, a primate-like species that may have once achieved sentience. A review in SFFWorld.com said of Evergreen, "Believably tormented characters, unique world-building, realistic dialogue, adventure, exploration, alien lifeforms . . ."

In addition to his novels, Golden has sold more than 100 short stories published across nine countries in such publications as Pedestal, Oceans of the Mind,  Odyssey, Digital Science Fiction, Postscripts, Penumbra, and Nemonymous. His tales have been appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, and he won Speculative Fiction Reader's “2003 Firebrand Fiction Award,” the 2006 "JJM Fiction Prize," and was a co-winner of the 2003 “Top International Horror” stories contest. He's received several Honorable Mentions from the Speculative Literature Foundation and the Writers of the Future Contest.

In 2011, he published Dancing with the Velvet Lizard (Zumaya Otherworlds)-- with 33 stories, one of the largest single author collections of speculative fiction in print.

Golden was born in San Diego, California, United States, and when to Will C. Crawford High School then graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Creative Writing. He also taught a course in magazine article writing at SDSU. *Reposted article from Wikipedia

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ETCHED IN: Those we’ve absent in 2019 (including John Witherspoon, Agnès Varda, Walter Mercado and Grumpy Cat) will be categorical in our memories for decades to come.ILLUSTRATION BY GREG HOUSTON

Free Cartoon Soccer Balls Pictures, Download Free Clip Art .. | cartoon soccer ball step by step Another year has passed, and we’ve had to ache the accident of figureheads in assorted industries including, music, film, sports, art, activism, and for artlessly actuality a photogenic cat. We’ve taken the time to epitomize the amazing lives of individuals who didn’t accomplish it into the new decade, but will be remembered for abounding added to come. Andre Williams(Nov. 1, 1936–March 17, 2019)Not abounding bodies get a big breach in the music business. Andre Williams got two.Born in Bessemer, Alabama, Zephire “Andre” Williams aboriginal hit it big as an R&B accompanist aback he confused to Detroit in the aboriginal 1950s and won an amateur-night competition. He anon alive to Fortune Records, acceptable advance diva in the Bristles Dollars, afresh rechristened Andre Williams and the Don Juans. A abounding writer, he additionally denticulate alone hits, including “Jail Bait,” “The Greasy Chicken” and “Bacon Fat,” which absurd the Top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart. He additionally wrote Bristles Du-Tones’ “Shake a Tail Feather,” afterwards performed by Ike & Tina Turner (and abundant later, featured in The Blues Brothers and Hairspray), and alike served a abrupt assignment as a songwriter for Motown, co-writing Stevie Wonder’s aboriginal song, “Thank You for Loving Me.” But by the 1980s, Williams hit bedrock bottom: Addiction begin him alone in Chicago. In the 1990s, however, Williams was rediscovered by the bedrock ‘n’ cycle awakening scene. That led to annal like Greasy, arise accordingly on indie labels Norton and St. George Annal in 1996, and Silky, arise on In the Red in 1998. Added indie bedrock collaborations followed, with Williams recording advance with Jack White, Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs, and the country bandage the Sadies. His proto-hip-hop sing-talking style, affection for abusive lyrics, and sartorial alternative for blatant apparel and analogous hats acceptable him the appellation by some of “the asperse of rap.”Williams connected to attempt with addiction, but he additionally connected to accomplish music, absolution I Wanna Go Aback to Detroit City in 2016. He died in Chicago at age 82 from cancer, but he never stopped: His manager, Kenn Goodman, told Billboard a ceremony afore his afterlife that the accompanist “was committed to aggravating to sing and almanac again.” — Lee DeVitoRuss Gibb(June 15, 1931–April 30, 2019)If Iggy Pop is the Asperse of Punk, afresh Russ Gibb is its uncle.After alive as a Detroit-area schoolteacher, radio DJ and promoter, “Uncle Russ,” as he was known, became a aloft booster of Motor City bedrock ‘n’ cycle aback he founded the Grande Ballroom in 1966, aggressive by a appointment to San Francisco’s Fillmore. The breadth became accepted for booking bounded acts like the Stooges, Alice Cooper, the Amboy Dukes and the MC5, who served as the venue’s abode bandage and recorded its admission Kick Out the Jams alive there. That’s all in accession to booking civic acts like Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, Cream and the Who, amid others, abounding of whom played some of their aboriginal U.S. shows at the venue.Gibb was complex in added milestones in bedrock history as well. In 1969, while alive as a part-time DJ on WKNR-FM, Gibb took a alarm from a adviser who claimed the Beatles’ Paul McCartney died and was replaced with a look-alike, and that there were clues in the band’s lyrics and anthology artwork. The cabal approach anon went viral. (Perhaps it would arise as no abruptness that abundant afterwards in life, Gibb would advance Donald Trump’s cabal theories about Barack Obama’s bearing affidavit on his blog.)Gibb bankrupt the breadth in 1972. But in the 1980s, he was aback in the music business, accouterment banking abetment for the Graystone Hall, a Detroit jailbait venue. All the while, Gibb formed as a history and media abecedary at Dearborn High School; he died in April at 87 of accustomed causes. The Grande, however, continued alone and now antic an MC5 mural, could anon see a new life: It’s now endemic by Chapel Hill Missionary Baptist Church, who said they ability charter it out for contest — including accessible music concerts. — DeVitoJohn Witherspoon (Jan. 27, 1942–Oct. 29, 2019)“John Witherspoon is atramentous history,” Twitter’s Rembert Browne tweeted afterwards the banana amateur died of a affection advance at his Los Angeles home in October at age 77. It was a fair assessment: Witherspoon’s filmography spanned decades, including appearances on The Richard Pryor Show, the Friday franchise, Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Wayans Bros. and The Boondocks, as able-bodied as Jay-Z and Goodie Mob music videos, amid others. Born in Detroit to a ancestors with 11 siblings, Witherspoon got his alpha demography amphitheater classes in the Motor City in the aboriginal ‘70s. He got into standup at the bidding of his acting instructor, who anticipation he’d be funny in a ceremony brawl show. Witherspoon anon relocated to Los Angeles, aperture for the allegorical Richard Pryor at the Brawl Store. Later, Pryor casting him as allotment of his brief NBC array appearance in 1977 afore it was canceled for actuality too risque. For many, though, Witherspoon will consistently aloof be “Pops” — the amusingly bad-tempered ancestor to Ice Cube’s Craig Jones in the 1995 stoner brawl Friday. Witherspoon would reprise the role in 2000’s Abutting Friday and 2002’s Friday Afterwards Next, and was casting in a agnate role as “Granddad” in the banana strip-turned-Adult Swim animation The Boondocks, which debuted in 2005. Afterwards years of development hell, a fourth Friday blur was assuredly accustomed the blooming ablaze in 2017, but was alone in pre-production at the time of Witherspoon’s death. He was additionally set to arise in a afresh appear Boondocks reboot, admitting that activity had not amorphous assembly yet either. In an odd way, Witherspoon got to adore a final goodbye. In 2012, aback a apocryphal address of his afterlife went viral, Witherspoon reacted to the account aloof as Pops might. “What the hell ya’ll talkin ‘bout on here?!?!?” he tweeted. “I ain’t dead, I’m in Ft. Lauderdale.” — DeVitoBernice Sandler(March 3, 1928–Jan. 5, 2019)In 1969, Bernice Sandler was a ablaze adolescent adviser at the University of Maryland, acquisitive to acreage a full-time atom on the faculty. She knew she was a acceptable teacher, and there were seven accessible positions. So aback she was almost considered, she asked a macho adroitness affiliate if he had any insight. He conceded she was calmly qualified, “but let’s be honest, you arise on too able for a woman.”Sandler, who died in January at age 90, apparently again that adduce bags of times in interviews and speeches in the bristles decades that followed. “Sometimes bodies ask me what aggressive me to get complex in women’s issues,” Sandler allegedly said in 2012 afterwards accepting a beastly rights award. “I accept to acquaint you, I wasn’t aggressive at all. I was mad.”She began researching sex bigotry and begin an controlling adjustment barring organizations that accustomed federal money from acute based on race, religion, civic agent or gender. Armed with that information, Sandler filed complaints adjoin 250 universities, aggressive the arrangement that commonly discriminated adjoin changeable agents and students. She partnered with crusading U.S. congresswoman Edith Blooming to canyon Title IX. The 37-word bill, alive in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, has aback become a able and able apparatus for angry sex discrimination. Best famously, it has been activated to bookish sports, guaranteeing changeable athletes opportunities ahead exceptional of. Sandler spent the blow of her activity advocating for according rights. She served as armchair of the Civic Advisory Council on Women’s Educational Programs beneath presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, was inducted into the Civic Women’s Hall of Fame and has been cited as a hero by some of this country’s top athletes. But she never forgot that bandage about advancing on “too able for a woman.” It turns out, she was too able to be stopped. — Doyle Murphy

Drawing a cartoon soccer ball - cartoon soccer ball step by step | cartoon soccer ball step by step Dan Robbins(May 26, 1925–April 1, 2019)Dan Robbins was a abstruse bartering artisan at a Michigan acrylic aggregation in the backward 1940s aback his bang-up asked him for an abstraction to advice advertise acrylic sets to adults.Robbins eventually acclimatized on a arrangement that accustomed alike the best unskilled, amateur chump to actualize paintings that looked professional, if not absolutely absorbed with an artist’s originality. His paint-by-numbers kits were a bona fide awareness by the aboriginal 1950s.The aboriginal offerings were aside bandage drawings, created by Robbins himself, intricately disconnected into sections that corresponded to pre-mixed acrylic colors. Soon, an army of artists, alive beneath the Ability Master casting for Detroit-based Palmer Acrylic Co., were churning out kits based on Robbins’ model. Using the byword “Every man a Rembrandt,” 20 amateur kits were awash in 1955.Artists and critics were afraid that painting had been angry into a step-by-step apprenticeship adviser and accumulation marketed, but Robbins didn’t assume to mind. “I remembered audition that Leonardo acclimated numbered accomplishments patterns for his acceptance and apprentices, and I absitively to try commodity like that,” he already told the Associated Press.The paint-by-numbers chic comatose aural a decade, and Robbins’ bang-up awash the business. But he fabricated a mark, alike biting an art apple that derided his efforts. Andy Warhol riffed on the model, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Civic Museum of American History alike displayed an exhibition of paint-by-numbers pieces in 2001 and 2002. Robbins died at 93 alive he had afflicted legions of bodies who ability accept never best up a besom if not for him.“We like to anticipate dad was one of the most-exhibited artists in the world,” his son Larry Robbins told AP. “He enjoyed audition from accustomed people. He had a able box of fan letters.” — MurphyNorma Miller(Dec. 2, 1919–May 5, 2019)People were done with the flit and annoyed of the tango as the ‘20s came to a close. The chic that came abutting was swing, a vivacious, freewheeling brawl built-in in Harlem. Swing advance aloft brawl floors the apple over with the advice of the brawl accumulation Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, alleged for the Lindy Hop, an abnormally able-bodied affiliate of the exhausted brawl family. It was a specialty of Norma Miller, a ballerina who acceptable her atom in a accumulation that counted Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. amid its members, and whose accomplishment and acclamation acceptable her the moniker “Queen of Swing.”Miller was a woman of abounding specialties. A Harlem native, she formed as a choreographer, actor, columnist and a Redd Foxx-backed comedian. But actuality a atramentous babe in aboriginal 20th-century America was a accident with bound paths adjoin success. Her mother bankrupt houses, and Miller acceptable faced a agnate activity of adamantine labor, but she was acutely an all-powerful talent. By 5, Miller was wowing locals at aptitude shows. She and her aberrant bound were apparent alfresco the acclaimed Savoy Ballroom and, by 14, she was in Paris assuming with Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s, the accumulation set the accepted for exhausted on all-embracing tours and in movies like the 1941 aloft motion account Hellzapoppin’. Miller, who anesthetized abroad this year of congestive affection abortion at 99 in her Fort Myers home, was not aloof the youngest affiliate of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers but additionally the aftermost actual member. Into her 90s, she was teaching exhausted courses, speaking at engagements, choreographing dances and basic music. In the documentary about her, Queen of Swing, Miller summed up the abstruse to her continued and alive life: “Keep on swingin’.” —Solomon GustavoBarbara Hillary (June 12, 1931–Nov. 3, 2019)Barbara Hillary was not an explorer. Because she was the aboriginal atramentous woman to ability the North Pole, and the aboriginal to acme the South Pole, she is generally declared as one, agreement her in the aggregation of audacious trekkers like Robert Peary and Matthew Henson.She able those firsts almost recently, extensive the North Pole in 2007 and the South Pole in 2011, a aeon afterwards men aboriginal set basal on either spot. Hillary was commodity more: a cultural adventurer, charting paths advanced by atramentous women like her — but additionally paths that few cartel traverse. The Harlem native, built-in in 1931, fabricated her pole expeditions in her 70s (North, age 75; South, 79). She consistently capital to biking and, afterwards backward afterwards added than 50 years as a nurse, began authoritative affairs to appointment non-touristy locations. How abounding atramentous women afore her, how abounding bodies in general, accept apparent Paris? Now, how abounding accept been to the actual tippy-top and actual basal of the globe? She went to Manitoba to photograph arctic bears, and went dog-sledding in Quebec, and afresh she abstruse no atramentous woman had been to either pole afore and absitively to be the one. Those treks are arduous, with stretches of acute hiking and skiing acute immense backbone adjoin acrid acclimate altitude that would bassinet an amateur of any age. She assassin a trainer and started bistro added vegetables.It was the affectionate of claiming that appealed to Hillary, who commonly stared bottomward aerial obstacles throughout her life. She exhausted breast blight in her 20s and lung blight at 67. In Queens, New York, she founded and was the editor-in-chief of The Peninsula Magazine, a nonprofit multi-racial advertisement that was the aboriginal of its affectionate in the area. She said she abhorred accent and maintained beatitude and a youthful, pole-summiting spirit, by allotment to break unmarried. In 2017, she batten at the admission of the New School, her alma mater, and brash the grads, “At every appearance in your life, attending at your options. Please, do not baddest arid ones.”   That was Hillary’s style. She created her own desires, destinations that she accomplished by afterward a ambit of her own making. — GustavoScott Walker(Jan. 9, 1943–March 22, 2019)

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Walker did it his way, and afresh some. Fresh from a assignment as a boyish affair artisan in L.A., Walker (born Noel Scott Engel) became one-third of the Walker Brothers in the mid-1960s; they became actual sensations in the U.K., bond beat-combo moves with symphonic grandeur, acquiescent hits like “Make It Easy on Yourself” and the abiding “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.” Anon enough, Walker begin that the agreeable admirers and the pop activity weren’t for him, at one point apocryphally exhausted to a abbey to get his arch calm afore actuality ejected by the monks as admirers besieged the gates. Walker addled out on his own, and from 1967 to 1969 crafted four of the best admirable and affecting albums of all time, the eponymous Scotts 1 through 4. This was Walker at his best iconic: sunglasses, abandoned crew and a soaring, awfully attractive articulation alms no achievement whatsoever. Latterly hailed as the actuality by artists from David Bowie to Thom Yorke, these albums had the net aftereffect of antibacterial his career, eventually banishment him aback into the accoutrements of the Walker Brothers for a alliance in 1975, but Scott couldn’t alike do a contemptuous cash-grab right, penning the adverse “Nite Flights” and “The Electrician,” two aflame hits of dystopian electro-pop that still complete accompaniment of the art, pointing the way to accessible sonic futures alike now. From there, Walker began his bit-by-bit dematerialization act, exhausted to a activity based about the simple pleasures of bicycling, seeing movies, and activity to the pub and watching audience comedy darts. He’d appear every few years with ever-more aggressive and affective alone assignment — Climate of Hunter, Tilt and The Drift — but by the time Walker was accustomed the hagiography analysis in the 2006 documentary 30 Aeon Man, it was bright he wasn’t activity to accord admirers a boastful acknowledgment to the stage. Instead of the homesickness circuit, he gave them aberrant and admirable assignment like the active allotment for brawl “And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball?,” collaborations with Sunn O))) and Bat for Lashes, a final alone album, Bish Bosch and two blur array for Brady Corbet.Walker anesthetized agilely this year due to complications from cancer, bewilderment absolutely intact. — Matthew Moyer Ken Nordine(April 13, 1920–Feb. 16, 2019)You may not apperceive Ken Nordine’s name, but affairs are you’ve heard his voice. Over the advance of a 60-year-plus career, Nordine put the “art” into the abstraction of a annotation artist. His cottony baritone graced the airwaves of Chicago radio stations, address The World’s Great Novels and added programs. He was additionally the articulation abaft several educational films, so if your abecedary anytime acclimated a woefully age-old filmstrip in class, you ability admit his timbre. His best constant creations, though, were his Word Applesauce albums, on which, over abetment advance of air-conditioned jazz, Nordine tells belief or acts out scenarios with a accurate focus on exhausted and sound.Nordine’s success with the Word Applesauce alternation acceptable him a account affairs of the aforementioned name on flagship NPR abject WBEZ in Chicago, and the appearance concluded up active for added than 40 years. His 1967 Colors album, in which Nordine expounds aloft the personalities of assorted hues, charcoal a admired of those absorbed in offbeat curiosities from yesteryear. (It grew out of his radio commercials for the Fuller Acrylic Company.)Lines from his recordings accept been sampled in songs by Aesop Rock, Pizzicato Bristles and the Orb, and in 2007, David Bowie himself asked Nordine to accomplish at the High Bandage Festival in New York.Nordine anesthetized abroad on Feb. 16, 2019, at the age of 98, preceded three years beforehand by Beryl Vaughn, his wife of 71 years. — Thaddeus McCollumSahar Khodayari(birthdate unknown, 1990–Sept. 9, 2019)Football — not the American affectionate — is the world’s sport, in allotment because of its low barriers to entry. You don’t charge any big-ticket accessories to alpha a soccer game, aloof a ball. But in Iran, bisected the citizenry is barred from entering sports stadiums. Women accept not been accustomed to watch their admired teams in actuality aback the 1979 Islamic Revolution. This has led some women to beard themselves as men in adjustment to appear games, alike admitting actuality bent acceptable agency imprisonment and accessible torture.One woman, 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari, absitively to booty the accident to see a bout at Tehran’s Azadi Amphitheater amid Esteghlal FC — her admired aggregation — and Al-Ain FC. She dressed as a man, but didn’t accomplish it to her bench afore actuality noticed and arrested by aegis guards for “openly committing a amiss act.” After actuality arise on bail, Khodayari was told that she was attractive at a six-month bastille sentence. In protest, she larboard the courthouse, caked gasoline on herself and lit herself on fire.She died in hospital a ceremony later.Since her death, FIFA, the all-embracing administering anatomy of football, abreast Iran that women charge be accustomed to appear appointed Apple Cup condoning matches demography abode in Iran. On Oct. 11, the Iranian civic aggregation exhausted Cambodia 14-0, animated on by 3,500 women sitting in a absolute area of the stadium. — McCollumLil Bub(April 2011–Dec. 1, 2019)It’s been a bad year for viral cats. Not alone did Grumpy Cat, conceivably the best bartering of all the internet beastly celebs, die in May, but aloof as we accomplished putting this commodity together, the consummate Lil Bub anesthetized abroad in her sleep, victim of a assiduous cartilage infection.Lil Bub’s “dude,” Mike Bridavsky, begin her in an Indiana barn in 2011, the runt of a clutter accepted to die bound due to her dwarfism and added abiogenetic anomalies. Enchanted by her billowing eyes and chubby legs, Bridavsky took in the toothless, droopy-tongued “permakitten” and gave her a activity aloft artful imagining, abounding of hand-fed ambiguous yogurt and specialized medical absorption — and she alternate his alert affliction tenfold in grit, spunk, and ambrosial cheeps, snorks and chirrs. (Truly, Bub seemed to allege a accent all her own, accompanying to but not the aforementioned as approved housecats’ meows.) Not alone did Bridavsky’s abounding Bub-centric $.25 of merch — socks, T-shirts, costly toys, fridge magnets — prove catnip to her internet fans, the monies aloft were donated to assorted beastly shelters and rescues for special-needs cats. And not alone did Bub’s camp mug affection on customer goods, she starred in a Vice documentary (Lil Bub & Friendz), hosted 14 episodes of a allocution appearance (Lil Bub’s Big Show, with guests including Michelle Obama and Steve Albini), recorded her own anthology (Science and Magic, with a awning analogy by Orlando artisan Johannah O’Donnell) and guested on Run the Jewels’ artful remix album, Meow the Jewels. Bridavsky consistently claimed Lil Bub was a “magical amplitude being,” and whether she came from alien amplitude or not, she absolutely seems to be magic: She aloft $700,000 for beastly charities in her abbreviate life, and brought immeasurable joy to millions. Good job, Bub. — Jessica YoungAgnès Varda

Soccer ball icon icon cartoon – cartoon images of soccer balls - cartoon soccer ball step by step | cartoon soccer ball step by step (May 30, 1928–March 29, 2019)She’s sometimes alleged the mother — or grandmother — of the French New Wave of cinema, but Agnès Varda was added of an Auntie Mame type: whimsical, generous, but nobody’s chump or den mom. Her assignment was apparent by a academic accuracy that afflicted her adolescent Nouvelle Vague filmmakers, but her angry humanism — a abysmal affair for women and workers — buoyed her aloft the style-obsessed pack. Her contempo accord with French muralist JR, Faces Places, acquired her added absorption in 2018 than she’d apparent aback the ‘80s. With her two-toned basin cut, sneakers and apart tracksuits and pajamas — although, we note, they were by Gucci — Varda was a acceptable haimish attendance on the awards season’s red carpets, attractive like a comfortable little kitchen witch amid the gazelle-like starlets.She inhabited the blur apple in the aforementioned way — assuming up aback and area and absolutely how she chose, afterward no rules but her own. Rather than stick with the anecdotal films that won her acclamation (Cléo From 5 to 7; One Sings the Added Doesn’t) she followed her brood to documentaries (Mur Murs; Jacquot de Nantes). She fabricated agilely dramatized biopics of her admired ones’ lives, casting ancestors associates as actors, and amid herself into her documentaries; she fabricated dramas, comedies, a sci-fi apologue and a feminist musical.More aphorism breaking: Afterwards accident backbone with the acceptable brawl of flat backing, she founded her own assembly aggregation to handle her films and those of her husband, Jacques Démy; but she ran the appointment (located aloft the artery from her home) like a shop, generally hand-selling DVDs to visitors or acceptance them to watch her editing. “I adulation actuality able to accept the absolute acquaintance with bodies who are consumers. It’s like a peasant, you know, who grows tomatoes and you can arise and buy the tomatoes at the farm,” she bubbled to Sight Complete annual in 2011.Her final film, Varda by Agnès, was arise posthumously in November. It’s a self-directed attendant of her 60-year career, a alive and antic flash to an bulk absent consistently with beastly behavior in the face of mortality. — YoungWalter Mercado(March 9, 1932–Nov. 2, 2019)Walter Mercado was abundant added than a TV astrologer built-in in Ponce, Puerto Rico. By the time he died at age 87 on Nov. 2, he had created a cultural bequest far aloft the televised predictions beheld by millions of abuelitas aloft Latin America: Mercado had become an figure and afflatus for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual bodies active in Latinx society.“This is a ability that’s been bedeviled by adulthood and homophobia for a actual continued time,” blur ambassador Alex Fumero told Fox Account aloft his passing. “He was absolutely brave.” It didn’t booty acumen to apperceive Mercado’s on-screen persona, a stylistic cantankerous amid Carolina Herrera and Liberace, was an act of courage. He endemic added than 2,000 capes and acicular to admirers through the camera lens with fingers adorned in bright rings. He never about discussed his sexuality, but he absolutely let audiences apperceive which aggregation he played for.In his decades of appearances on Telemundo Puerto Rico, Mercado became a accepted point of affiliation amid awesome oldsters and advanced adolescence — conceivably alike added so afterwards he confused to Florida to advertisement on Univision. In college, he had advised pharmacology, attitude and pedagogy, afore acceptable a acclaimed ballet ballerina and amphitheater star, and afterwards actualization in telenovelas. His admirers will conceivably bethink him best by his catchphrase, somehow alike added allusive afterwards his death: “Pero sobre todo, mucho, mucho, abounding amor,” or “Above all, much, much, abundant love.” — Dave PlotkinBill Buckner(Dec. 14, 1949–May 27, 2019)When he afraid up his cleats afterwards a arena career that continued aloft an absurd four decades, one of alone 29 ballplayers to do so in baseball’s absolute history, Bill Buckner laid affirmation to an absurd account of achievements. And those numbers and stats attending alike added absorbing now, 29 years afterwards his retirement. He ranks amid the top 200 men to anytime comedy the bold in hits (2,715, baronial 66th), RBIs (1,208, baronial 150th) and extra-base hits (721, baronial 174th). He was an All Star, a batting best and an advocate for the bold continued afterwards he stepped off the field, until his afterlife this year from Lewy anatomy dementia at the age of 69.After 22 seasons with stints spanning the Red Sox, Dodgers, Cubs, Angels and Royals, Buckner confused to Boise, Idaho, with his wife and three children, area he backward complex with the game, abutting the Boise Accompaniment baseball aggregation as a hitting adviser in 2012. For all his blatant stats and contributions that helped the Red Sox accomplish the 1986 Apple Series, his bequest was abundant more. As Gary Van Tol, who was the Boise Accompaniment drillmaster while Buckner was with the team, said, “He accomplished me humility, dignity, adroitness and patience.”And yet, he’s remembered in accepted ability for one error, an abominable absurdity during Bold 6 of the 1986 Apple Series, aback he was at aboriginal abject for the Red Sox. The Red Sox absent the abutting bold and with that the series; and Boston fans, rarely acclaimed for the advantage of forgiveness, focused their ire on Buckner, aqueous taunts, boos and alike afterlife threats on him. The heckling was best up by opposing teams and their fans, and followed him for years.   Seventy-eight players, abounding of whom played far beneath amateur than Buckner during his career, accept fabricated added errors at aboriginal abject than the allegorical stalwart. None of them were affected to move to Idaho to additional themselves and their ancestors the taunts and abhorrence of sports admirers and reporters who affliction far added about the after-effects of amateur than the altruism of the players that comedy them. — Vince GrzegorekDonald “Nick” Clifford (July 5, 1921–Nov. 23, 2019)We body things, ample and small, acting and permanent, and afresh years afterwards we curiosity at them. The names attached, through the names of these things themselves — congenital by, alleged for or committed to — are monumental, notable ones. But we additionally marvel, conceivably afterwards alive or absolutely recognizing, at the bodies who congenital these things, the men and women who toiled in means big and small, through account or labor, to accomplish them reality. So for all the names associated with Mount Rushmore — the four presidents, to alpha with; followed by Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum, the father-son sculptor and artisan aggregation who advised the monument; followed still by Doane Robinson, the South Dakota accompaniment historian who aboriginal conjured up the abstraction of a across-the-board mountainside carve to drive day-tripper cartage to a alone allotment of the accompaniment — let us additionally admire Nick Clifford, who died this year at the age of 98. Clifford was the aftermost active artisan who helped body Mount Rushmore, a job he fell into afterwards actuality recruited by the Borglums to South Dakota to comedy for a baseball aggregation they’d put together. Assignment began in 1927 and lasted 14 years, and aback Clifford angry 17 in 1938 and could authorize to assignment the site, he jumped at the adventitious to accompany the added 400 men. Bisected a aeon later, Clifford was anytime appreciative of his addition and was generally present at the Mount Rushmore allowance boutique to assurance copies of his book about the work, which paid accolade to the added workers who created the monument. Recognition for them was adamantine to arise by above-mentioned to Rushmore’s 50th anniversary, but with the anniversary came interviews and a adventitious for Clifford to aggrandize on his and their histories, while advantageous account to its designers.“None of us were sculptors,” Clifford, who was additionally a Apple War II veteran, said in one interview. “We had alone one sculptor — that was Mr. Gutzon Borglum.”A few years afore his death, Clifford said: “I feel like Mount Rushmore was the greatest affair with which I was anytime involved. It tells a adventure that will never go abroad — the adventure of how America was fabricated and the men who helped accomplish it what it is today.”Clifford was one of them, and let us bethink his adventure too. — Grzegorek 

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Author Highlight #2: Amy Tan

Amy Tan is a Chinese American author of The Joy Luck Club, which explores mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. She is most known for this book, as it received the film adaptation treatment in 1993 and went on to become one of the first Hollywood films with an all Asian American cast.

According to Wikipedia: 

“Tan has written several other novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement. Tan's latest book is a memoir entitled Where The Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir (2017).[1] In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady(1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series that aired on PBS. 

The Joy Luck Club (1989) consists of sixteen related stories about the experiences of four Chinese American mother-daughter pairs and/or immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while eating a variety of foods. 

“Despite her success, Tan has also received substantial criticism for her depictions of Chinese culture and apparent adherence to stereotypes.” - Wikipedia

More specifically, The Joy Luck Club has received criticism for perpetuating racist stereotypes about Asian Americans and depicting Chinese culture as backwards, cruel, and misogynistic. One of the biggest critics of the text is Frank Chin, one of the primary editors of the Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974) anthology. 

“He attributed the acclaim and popularity of The Joy Luck Club to playing up racist stereotypes welcomed in mainstream America. He also noted that it lacks authenticity for its fabricated Chinese folk tales that depict ‘Confucian culture as seen through the interchangeable Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Vietnamese mix (depending on which is the yellow enemy of the moment of Hollywood.’” - Wikipedia

What is interesting and ironic about this take is that it calls into the issue of the complex intertwining of the problems of race, gender, and class for Asian Americans. That is, yes, “the racial and class oppression against ‘yellows’ restricts their material lives, (re)defines their gender roles, and provides material for degrading and exaggerated sexual representations of Asian men and women in U.S. popular culture” (Espiritu 24). There is a real issue of pervasive stereotypes plaguing the depiction of Asian Americans in media and in literature. Therefore, it is important for Asian Americans to resist “race, class, and gender exploitation through political, economic, and cultural activism” (Espiritu 24). However, in attempts to demand legitimacy, “some Asian Americans have adopted the either/or dichotomies of the dominant Eurocentric patriarchal structure, ‘unwittingly upholding the criteria of those whom they assail’” (Espiritu 24). That is, Asian Americans tend to use the oppressor’s tools to oppress each other in attempts to find agency and power in a world that marginalizes them. 

For instance, having been emasculated by white men, Asian American men “seek to reassert their masculinity by physically and emotionally abusing those who are even more powerless -- the women and children in their families” (Espiritu 24). This can be seen in the way Chin and other Asian American male writers try to police Asian American women and their writing. They present a dichotomy where Asian American women are forced to pick between race and gender to prioritize. In other words, “some Asian American political and cultural workers have subordinated feminism to nationalist concerns” (Espiritu 24). “The Asian American men who can see only race oppression, and not gender domination, are unable -- or unwilling -- to view themselves as both oppressed and oppressor” (Espiritu 24). As a consequence, this stance has led to the marginalization of Asian American women and their needs. “The racist debasement of Asian men makes it difficult for Asian American women to balance the need to expose the problems of male privilege with the desire to unite with men to contest the overarching racial ideology that confines them both” (Espiritu 25). 

This is why it is important for Tan to have written a text that revealed the harsh realities of Chinese American women in The Joy Luck Club, especially with the critique on the patriarchy and the depiction of certain stereotypes. There are many stories that Asian Americans can tell about themselves and about others. This just so happens to be Tan’s story and readers should not silence her voice. 

I believe it is important to tell all kinds of stories, to have a huge diverse literary canon for the Asian American experience, in order to prevent one story from becoming the Universal story, which can result in more perpetuation of stereotypes. 

Her books are sold at Barnes and Nobles and wherever books are sold.

Tan’s Goodreads profile.

Sources: 

Espiritu, Yen Le. “Race, Class, Gender in Asian America.” Making More Waves, 2019. WMST 4070 Course Packet. 

“Amy Tan.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Apr. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Tan#Work_and_themes.

“The Joy Luck Club (Novel).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Apr. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club_(novel).

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So excited to be a part of the Joan Didion Power Hour - celebrating 50 years of the seminal work by a profound writer of American culture past and present. We'll be performing on March 28, 2018 at the renowned KGB Bar. Get bi-coastal in this 50th anniversary celebration of Didion’s seminal essays on place, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “Goodbye to All That” with comedic tales by culture-cruising authors from New York and San Francisco. Andy Bragen’s plays and translations include This is My Office (The Play Company), Vengeance Can Wait (Performance Space 122), and Don’t You F**king Say a Word (59e59). He has an MFA from Brown University and is a member of New Dramatists. For more information: www.andybragen.com Alex DiSclafani hails from Florida and now calls San Francisco home. In her day job, she works in tech, where she helps prevent real-world harm to children. On her long commutes she writes. Her favorite show is Golden Girls. Nada Djordjevich is a writer and the founding editor of On the Page magazine. She taught writing at City College of San Francisco and attended Harvard, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She has received awards and other recognition from Boulevard Magazine, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, BlueCat and American Zoetrope Screenplay Contests. During the Joan Didion Power Hour, she will tell a tale of a bad date, a sad divorce, and the magic of Tom Petty. Crystal Finn is an actress and writer. She grew up in Northern California and now lives in New York City. Her New York acting credits include Villa (PlayCo), Kingdom Come (Roundabout), Pocatello, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons), 16 Words or Less, La Brea, Luther, Five Genocides (Clubbed Thumb), Summer Shorts (59E59), Bird in the Hand (Fulcrum). Regional Acting credits: Two River Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Rep., George Street. TV/Film:16 Words or Less, The Tick (Amazon/sony). She performed her one woman show, Becoming Liv Ullmann, at the NY Fringe Festival and at Cleveland Playhouse New Ground Theater Festival, where it was named one of the top ten performances of the year in Cleveland. Her play The Faire, about a Northern California Renaissance Faire, was produced in New York with Fault Line Theater. Kris Malone Grossman earned a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently at work on a PhD in Women’s Spirituality. Her work has been anthologized in Dirt is Good for You and The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change, and she was recently sponsored by 100daysaction, a counter narrative to Trump’s first 100 days for The Big Flash Grab https://100daysaction.net/actions/thebiggrab_/ and for Talkin’ Down to Trump, https://100daysaction.net/actions/talking-down-to-trump/. She makes her home with her husband and three sons in Mill Valley, CA, where she is at work on a novel. Kate Haug is a San Francisco based artist. Haug’s reading is the outcome of a recent San Francisco Arts Commission project on the Summer of Love, which lead to her obsession with Joan Didion’s essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” Her piece, “Santa Cruz,” investigates California’s hedonism, privileged liberalism and aspirational conflicts, riffing on the state’s condition 50 years after the publication of Didion’s prescient essay. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Capitalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson and Irving Street Projects. Her award-winning films have screened at New Directors/New Films, the London International Film Festival and other international venues. Sean Mills teaches at Bard Early College in Queens and has also taught at Hofstra University and Knox College. He was a Copy Chief at Doubleday and a Senior Production Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has been published in Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology, and in several journals, most recently Hobart and the Emerging Writer’s Network. He is at work on a novel and a collection of essays. Allison Muir is a unicorn; a San Franciscan-birthed writer, artist, and interior designer. During her varied career she has designed D.I.Y. projects for ReadyMade Magazine, coordinated postproduction for clients such as Industrial Light and Magic, Dreamworks and Pixar, and produced and written for Al Gore’s Current TV. Her recent fiction has appeared in The Murmur House and The Ginger Collect literary magazines. Her recent video installation “Talkin’ Down to Trump” was recently featured at the O’ Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California.

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Cor van den Heuvel, born and brought up in New England, has been writing haiku since he first discovered the genre in 1958 in San Francisco, where he heard Gary Snyder mention it at a poetry reading in North Beach. Though he is considered one of America's leading haiku poets, van den Heuvel is best known as the editor of The Haiku Anthology, generally considered the definitive collection of American and Canadian haiku. First published in 1974 by Doubleday, the third edition of the book, revised and expanded, came out in hardback in 1999 from W. W. Norton and is now in paperback.

After learning about haiku, van den Heuvel soon returned to the east coast and by early 1959 was writing his own haiku in a small cottage in Wells Beach, Maine. That summer he got a job reading them, along with translations of Japanese haiku, at the Cafe Zen in nearby Ogunquit. In the fall he moved to Boston where he gave readings of haiku and other poetry in Beat coffee houses.

By the winter of 1960-61 he was part of the poetry-reading scene—along with such poets as Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, and Diane Wakoski—at the Tenth Street Coffee House in New York City, a precursor of the now well-known Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. He began printing his haiku on a small handpress and carried copies of his first chapbook, Sun in Skull, on a cross-country hitching and hiking trip from Maine to Seattle in the summer of 1961.

At the beginning of the 1970s, van den Heuvel, now back in New York, joined the Haiku Society of America and became friends with William J. Higginson, Anita Virgil, and Alan Pizzarelli. The poet's association with the society was close for many years. While he was its president in 1978, the society's magazine, Frogpond, began publication and haiku poet Sumio Mori and haiku scholar and critic Kenkichi Yamamoto were invited from Japan to speak on haiku in New York City.

The Haiku Society of America, besides commending van den Heuvel for editing The Haiku Anthology, has given him three Merit Book Awards for his own books of haiku. His haiku and related works have appeared in books and magazines in North and South America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. He has talked about haiku on American and Japanese television and has written about haiku for The New York Times Book Review, Mainichi Shimbun, and Newsweek.

Van den Heuvel headed the panel of judges for the 1987-88 Japan Air Lines English Haiku Contest—which attracted more than 40,000 participants-and was invited to Tokyo in 1988 for a press conference to announce the winners. In 1990 he was the United State's representative to the International Haiku Symposium in Matsuyama ("The Haiku Capital of the World"). In 2000 he was named Honorary Curator of the American Haiku Archives at the State Library in Sacramento, California, and at the World Haiku Festival held in London and Oxford, he received a World Haiku Achievement Award.

On December 1, 2002, he was awarded The Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Prize in Matsuyama. The prize, for outstanding contributions to haiku as poet and editor, included a cash award of 500,000 yen (about $4,000) and an all-expenses-paid week in Japan. Van den Heuvel is presently in the process of putting together a volume of his collected haiku, The Ticket-Taker's Shadow. A book of his haibun, A Boy's Seasons, which was serialized in Modern Haiku, is to be published by Press Here.

List of Publications:

sun in skull [Haiku], Chant Press, New York City, 1961. a bag of marbles (3 jazz chants), Chant Press, 1962. the window-washer's pail [Haiku], Chant Press, 1963. EO7 [Haiku Sequence], Chant Press, 1964. BANG! you're dead. [Poetry], Chant Press, 1966. water in a stone depression [Haiku], Chant Press, 1969. dark [Haiku], Chant Press, 1982. PUDDLES [Haibun], Chant Press, 1990. The Geese Have Gone [Haiku], King's Road Press, Pointe Claire, Quebec, 1992. Play Ball [Baseball Haiku], Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, 1999.

As Editor: The Haiku Anthology, Doubleday Anchor, New York City, 1974; Simon & Schuster, New York City, 1986; W. W. Norton, New York City, 1999. The Haiku Path, (Co-Editor with various others), The Haiku Society of America, 1994. Wedge of Light [Haibun], (Co-Editor with Tom Lynch and Michael Dylan Welch), Press Here, Foster City, California, 1999. Past Time [Baseball Haiku], (Co-Editor with Jim Kacian), Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, 1999. http://www.haiku-north-america-2003.org/presenters.htm

from behind me the shadow of the ticket-taker comes down the aisle

through the small holes in the mailbox sunlight on the blue stamp

the batter checks the placement of his feet "Strike One!"

summer afternoon the long fly ball to center field takes its time

reading a mystery a cool breeze comes through the beach roses

dark road sparks from a cigarette bounce behind the car

the evening paper on the darkening lawn first star

through the small holes in the mailbox sunlight on a blue stamp

in her dressing room the stripper powders her breasts and whispers something to them

November evening the wind from a passing truck ripples a roadside puddle

going through the tunnel the girl looks at her reflection so do I

sailing the Maine coast from a lawn among the pines a flag snaps in the wind

summer breeze a ladder leans against the half-painted house

hazy heat- at the small airfield the windsock hangs limp

the sound of hoofbeats fades a butterfly crosses the bridle path

sunset a last bit of pink on the watermelon rind

Indian summer the wet sidewalk in front of the open firehouse

behind the curtain the opera star carries her roses through a dark forest

all my reflections leaving the rest room the face to face mirrors

the carp in the tank swim slowly back and forth an empty fortune-cookie

rainy day a closed gas station

a drop of water floats by the canoe on a curled leaf

in the pick-up under the pines pine needles

fallen leaves the Irish setter points to a stand of staghorn sumac

fallen leaves the Irish setter points to a stand of staghorn sumac

the rusted paperclip has stained my old poem wind in the eaves

fluffing my own pillow autumn rain

neon puddles in front of the waterfront bar sound of a blues piano

watching the snowfall from the bathroom window the warm towels

deep snow one light in the amusement park

on the bathroom hamper morning sunlight fills the sails of a toy boat

in a wet board under the cemetery faucet the blossoming cherry tree

spring breeze a cakebox sails across the parking-lot puddle

far off a few gulls land in the marsh summer afternoon

the toy boat sets out a light breeze flutters the slack sails evening chill- from a tidepool, water winds to the sea small town morning the cool shadows along a back street the toy boat sails slowly into a sunlit cove tiny fish pass below

summer night the old gambler fondles his cards

a hallway in the small resort hotel the morning sea

after the shower the cool wood of the table under the pines

at the trail's end i thank my hiking stick and leave it against a tree

sunset the toy sailboat sails along a far shore

lingering snow the game of catch continues into evening

after the game a full moon rises over the left field fence

the sun goes down my shovel strikes a spark from the dark earth

the little girl hangs all the ornaments on the nearest branch

autumn twilight— in the closed barbershop the mirrors darken

a branch waves in the window and is gone

an empty wheelchair rolls in from the waves

changing pitchers the runner on first looks up at a passing cloud

slow inning the right fielder is playing with a dog

lonely night the faces painted on the windows of a toy bus

the blues singer tells how bad it is then the sax tells you too

in the mirrors on her dress little pieces of my self

a letter stuck in the 11th floor mail chute summer night

end of the line the conductor starts turning the seats around

the shadow in the folded napkin

raining at every window

snow drifts above the bear's den starry night

hot day a rock caught on a ledge in the waterfall

stillness sand sifts through the roots of a fallen tree

late autumn the great rock reappears in the woods

a stick goes over the falls at sunset

as the sun comes out a sail appears from behind the island

starting to rise to the top of the wave the duck dives into it

summer afternoon the coolness of the newspaper from the grocery bag

a tidepool in a clam shell the evening sunlight

shading his eyes the wooden Indian looks out at the spring rain

the geese have gone— in the chilly twilight empty milkweed pods

late autumn— sunlight fades from a sandbank deep in the woods

snowstorm a baseball glove under the Christmas tree

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  Coney Island Avenue 

The dog days of August in Brooklyn and the detectives of the 61st Precinct are battling to keep all hell from breaking loose.

Innocents are being sacrificed in the name of greed, retribution, passion and the lust for power—and the only worthy opponent of this senseless evil is the uncompromising resolve to rise above it, rather than descend to its depths.

The heart pounding sequel to the acclaimed novel Gravesend—from Shamus Award-winning author J.L. Abramo—Coney Island Avenue continues the dramatic account of the professional and personal struggles that constitute everyday life for the dedicated men and women of the Six-One—and of the saints and sinners who share their streets.

Interview with the Author

—What initially got you interested in writing?

Reading. I believe that we all have a need for creative outlets—making music, singing, dancing, cooking, gardening, painting, writing. We gravitate eventually to the medium in which we are most comfortable—and in which the creative efforts of others have been most inspirational to us personally.  I have always been a reader—writing was a natural consequence. —What genres do you write in?

I am not a big fan of the term genre fiction.  I believe writing, as all art, is a journey for the artist—a journey which others may also chose to embark upon—and genre is simply the vehicle.  My novels have generally been closest to crime fiction—however Crime and Punishment, Les Misérables, The Count of Monte Cristo and many other classic literary works are also, on the surface, crime novels.  That being said, the Jake Diamond series revolves around a San Francisco private investigator while Gravesend and Coney Island Avenue center on NYPD detectives in Brooklyn.

  —What drew you to writing these specific genres?

I have always been fond of the early crime and detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Earl Derr Biggers, Agatha Christie and others.  I was first introduced to writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain through the film adaptations of their work—The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice—and these films led me to the books.  When I began my own writing, I found myself at home in that neighborhood.

—How did you break into the field?

I entered the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for Best First Private Eye Novel and took home the prize for Catching Water in a Net.  The award included publication of the novel by St. Martin’s Minotaur in 2001 and I had my foot in the door. —What do you want readers to take away from reading your works?

My work is primarily about the people who populate the pages and how the manner in which these characters deal with adversity, whether positively or negatively, can determine the kind of persons they will become—heroes or villains—and there may often be degrees or shades of guilt and innocence.  I hope readers will take away the notion that there are choices, very important choices, associated with addressing adversity—and great responsibility for those choices. I also try to express the importance of finding those you trust and accepting their help at every opportunity.  And, of course, I would like readers to find the work entertaining—smart, funny, challenging, intriguing and worthwhile diversions.

  —What do you find most rewarding about writing?

Positive feedback from readers is very gratifying. Catching Water in a Net was released on October 1, 2001 and I received an email from a reader shortly afterwards thanking me for making her laugh for the first time since September 11. Acknowledgment from my peers—the Shamus Award for Circling the Runway meant a lot to me.  Finally, writing allows me to coax my thoughts and feelings out of hiding.

  —What do you find most challenging about writing?

Continuing to surprise myself—if I cannot surprise myself I cannot expect to surprise the reader.

  —What advice would you give to people wanting to enter the field?

Write for yourself first.

  —What type of books do you enjoy reading?

Lately I have enjoyed Michael and Jeff Shaara’s Civil War historical novels—The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure.  I enjoy non-fiction history as well—particularly in preparation for travel to other countries.  And I enjoy fiction with a strong sense of setting—where the place is an important character in the novel as is Brooklyn in Gravesend and Coney Island Avenue. —Is there anything else besides writing you think people would find interesting about you?

I have also done a lot of time in the performing arts—acting, directing and producing for the stage and have acted in film and television including Law and Order, Perry Mason and Homicide: Life on the Street.  When I am not reading, writing, travelling or being a nuisance to my friends, I prepare food for a catering company in Denver.

—What are the best ways to connect with you, or find out more about your work?

My website is www.jlabramo.com and a good place to start.  I also have a Facebook Author Page at www.facebook.com/jlabramo.

  Readers can always read samples of the work at bookselling sites like Amazon.  My author page there is:

https://www.amazon.com/J.-L.-Abramo/e/B001HPCCJ4

About the Author

J.L. Abramo was born in the seaside paradise of Brooklyn, New York on Raymond Chandler’s fifty-ninth birthday. Abramo is the author of Catching Water in a Net, winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America prize for Best First Private Eye Novel; the subsequent Jake Diamond novels Clutching at Straws, Counting to Infinity and Circling the Runway; Chasing Charlie Chan, a prequel to the Jake Diamond series; and the stand-alone thrillers Gravesend and Brooklyn Justice.

Abramo’s short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns, Mama Tried: Crime Fiction Inspired by Outlaw Country Music and Murder Under the Oaks, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology of 2015.

Circling the Runway won the Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback Novel of 2015 presented by the Private Eye Writers of America.

Find J.L. Abramo online …

Website: http://www.jlabramo.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jlabramo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JLAbramo Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/J.L.-Abramo/e/B001HPCCJ4/ Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/437400.J_L_Abramo

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