I suppose I should have some sympathy for my replacement at Saint Rose for the coming year. She’s going to spend the year staring at the Dead Man poster on the back of my office door (not to mention the Mark E. Smith Stop Mithering! picture as well). The thing with the Depp poster is…
Category: William Blake
Things to Celebrate
UPDATE: I’ll be reading as the narrator for the College of Saint Rose Women’s Initiative’s presentation of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues Saturday night at 7pm. The show plays on Sunday at 3pm with my fabulous colleague and friend Angela Ledford as narrator. Tickets benefit Equinox. Girls Next Door will be performing at the interval….
BitchBuzz: Jane Austen Writes
My BB column this week revisits the Jane Austen exhibit at the Morgan which I enjoyed so much last week (and yes, the William Blake exhibit is still on for a few more weeks). It’s such a delight to see Jane’s own handwriting and little pieces of her life gathered together for this exhibit, which…
Bill, Lenny & Bob
I headed down Thursday to Bard for a talk about Blake’s quiet years that promised to fill in the missing details. I had been surprised to hear about an event at Bard before the actual day of the event, a rarity. However, when I got there and found the room, I also found a note…
To Spring
O thou with dewy locks, who lookest downThro’ the clear windows of the morning, turnThine angel eyes upon our western isle,Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listeningValleys hear; all our longing eyes are turnedUp to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,And let thy holy feet visit…
Which British Romantic Poet are You?
Well, duh! What British Romantic Poet are You? Your Result: You are William Blake! Like Blake, you believe in the union of opposites: “Without Contraries, there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.” You are John Keats! You are George Gordon, Lord Byron!…
Happy Natal Day, Mr. Blake
I still have my WWWBD? page with the red dragon pinned to my bulletin board. It’s good to remember how filled with pain and rejection his life was, yet he soldiered on, confident in his vision. My co-editor and I have finally received a thumbs down on our Old English charms volume from the publisher…
K. A. Laity 