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The 2015 Spring Commencement at the University of Michigan Big House in Ann Arbor, MI on May , 2015.
Photo: Joseph Xu
In Dylan Thomas’ centenary year, this is a full-size recreation of his writing shed that was outside Town Hall Square as part of the Essar Chester Literature Festival.
For more information about the Essar Chester Literature Festival and the events over the next few weeks see:
www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/
For more information about Chester Performs see:
If I scan an embossed old photo, the scan can't present it's relief - so I photographed some of my 1870s embossed old cartes de visites and their backs.
Ha beszkennelem a régi domborított vizitkártyáimat, a scan nem tudja megmutatni a domborúságát. Ezért lefényképeztem néhány darabot (az 1870-es évekből).
4. Midsummer Night’s Dream Wenlock
Trees, flowers and fairies. I like to watch an outdoor performance of one of my favourite plays.
Green Trail 3.7km
Discover one of London's most famous green spaces, the beautiful Regent's Park.
27 July - 9 September
Take a stroll along some of London’s most scenic streets with our free Discovery Trails. We’ve put together six unique colour-coded walking routes across the historic city centre that will take you on a journey of discovery to the greatest sights and sounds of London. Keep an eye out for official Games mascots Mandeville and Wenlock, who’ll be bringing the trails to life and highlighting some great photo opportunities. Each will be individually designed, animating the routes in a unique way that captures the spirit of London. Why not try all of the trails and see if you can get a snapshot on camera?
The 84 official Wenlock and Mandeville sculptures will be in place for two months from mid July to the end of the Paralympics and are part of the Mayor of London Presents programs of free cultural events and attractions being staged across the capital to celebrate the Games.
Mounted on concrete plinths, each fibreglass figure will be 2.3 metres high and weigh one tonne. They have been decorated by 22 designers to reflect their surroundings.
The £490,000 scheme is being promoted by Mayor Boris Johnson, who has overseen similar public art events, including life-sized baby elephants and Fabergé eggs mounted on plinths around the capital.
day 22
lately i've been watching shows like the buried life and departures (and i should mention here that i absolutely LOVE both of them) that are both about going after things that they wanted to do before they die.
the buried life in particular asks the question "what do you want to do before you die?" it's such a simple but loaded question that i think everyone needs to ask themselves whether you're 21 years old or 82 years young.
the show has inspired me in many ways. one of my long-term goals is to be able to travel and to not only see the world, but to experience it. it's a big one, but i'll get it done somehow.
and i so i extend the question to all of you: what do you want to do before you die?
leave it in the comments! =)
I try to make every page interesting to look at, especially when my writing might not be the most interesting to read.
Margaret Kirkland Avison (Section )
April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007
An Officer of the Order of Canada, two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Margaret Avison is one of Canada’s most profoundly influential poets, known for the exploration of Christian themes in her work.
Margaret Avison, OC, poet (born 23 April 1918 in Galt [Cambridge], ON; died 31 July 2007 in Toronto, ON). An Officer of the Order of Canada, two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Margaret Avison is one of Canada’s most profoundly influential poets, known for the exploration of Christian themes in her work.
Education and Early Career
Educated at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where she studied English literature, Margaret Avison began her career publishing poems in student literary journals in the early 1930s, and then with a poem in the Canadian Poetry Magazine in 1939. Her early poetry was also included in A.J.M. Smith's landmark 1943 anthology The Book of Canadian Poetry. At Northrop Frye's urging, she applied for, and won, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1956 to study poetry at the University of Chicago. Avison taught English at Scarborough College, and did social work at the Presbyterian Church Mission in Toronto and, for many years, volunteered for the Mustard Seed Mission. She also studied creative writing at the University of Indiana, and was a writer in residence at University of Western Ontario.
In addition to her nine volumes of poetry, Avison's many publications include the middle-school textbook History of Ontario (1951), a medical biography, several translations from Hungarian — including eight poems appearing in The Plough and the Pen: Writings from Hungary 1930-1956 (1963) and co-translating Jozef Lengyel's Acta Sanctorum and Other Tales along with Ilona Duczynska — and a collection of her lectures titled A Kind of Perseverance (1994). But it is for her richly dense and demanding poetry that she is best known and most celebrated.
Margaret Avison won the Governor General's Literary Award for her first collection of poetry, Winter Sun (1960). With this work, Avison established herself as a difficult and introspective poet, given to private images and subtle shadings of emotion that challenge and frustrate the reader. These complexities in her writing conceal a deeply religious and vulnerable sensibility. Avison’s early poetry, nonetheless, is decidedly secular, her vision of the world often bleak; the only source of redemption is the poetic imagination. This aligns her with great British Romantic poets like William Wordsworth and heirs to Romanticism like American 20th century poet Wallace Stevens. One of the best-known poems from Winter Sun, “Snow,” opens with the lines: “Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes. / The optic heart must venture: a jail break / and re-creation.” Avison seems to be suggesting here that the real substance of the external world is the creation of the individual, subjective heart or imagination. The world is not a given; in order to create it, the imagination must break free.
Religious Poetry
On 4 January 1963, while reading the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John, upon reading the phrase “You believe in God, believe also in Me,” Margaret Avison had a spiritual epiphany and committed herself to Christianity. In an unpublished essay, Avison later reflected back on her earlier self, writing, “how grievously I cut off his way by honouring the artist”; by giving priority to the imagination, Avison believed, she had obstructed the path of Christ. Inspired both by her readings of the Gospels and of great English religious poets like George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Avison’s later work is devotional in spirit. Metaphysical and religious in concern, these poems eschew the personal and subjective character of her earlier work and that of her peers in Canada and the United States.
In 1966, Avison published The Dumbfounding, a more accessible record of spiritual discovery, and a more revealing account of the unmasked, narrative “I.” The title poem of The Dumbfounding is quite explicitly about Christ. The poem begins, “When you walked here, / took skin, muscle, hair, / eyes, larynx, we / withheld all honor: ‘His house is clay, / how can he tell us of his far country?’” The poem suggests that the very idea of the divine manifesting itself in ordinary, mortal human flesh challenged belief and understanding; it is literally dumbfounding. By the end of the poem, we begin to understand that the path of Christ she thought her earlier conception of poetry obstructed actually required the divine to be supremely humble and close to the ground. “The Dumbfounding” concludes: “lead through the garden to / trash, rubble, hill, / where, the outcast’s outcast, you / sound dark’s uttermost, strangely light-brimming, until / time be full.” These themes were further developed in Sunblue (1978), a combination of social concern and moral values fused by religious conviction and a continuing restatement of personal faith. Here, again, Avison is acutely aware of the great difficulty of receiving the revelation faith offers. In “Stone’s Secret,” from Sunblue, she writes, “Word has arrived that / peace will brim up, will come / ‘like a river and the / glory…like a flowing stream’”, but she acknowledges that there are still those who will hesitate and wait.
In addition to the three volumes of her collected works published in 2003, 2004 and 2005, Avison brought out a collection of new poems in 2006, a year before her death, titled Momentary Dark. Her autobiography, I Am Here and Not Not-There, was prepared for publication posthumously by critic and longtime friend Stan Dragland, and published in 2009.
Honours
Governor General’s Award for Poetry for Winter Sun (1960)
Officer of the Order of Canada (1984)
Governor General’s Award for No Time (1990)
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)
Griffin Poetry Prize for Concrete and Wild Carrot (2003)
Leslie K. Tarr Award (2005)
Members of the Happiness Club decorate the Menlo School quad with messages of encouragement. Photo by Carolina Guevara.
Local accession number: 13_05_000722
Title: Mary F. Scott Siddons [back]
Statement of responsibility: Emile Tourtin, peinture & photographie d'art, 128 Bd. De Starsbourg, Havre, Rampe Bouvreuil, 34, Rouen, 8 Bd des Italiens, 8, Paris.
Genre: Photographs; Cartes de visite; Portraits
Date created: 1859-1870 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)
General notes: Title from item or from accompanying material.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Actresses; Scott-Siddons, Mary Frances, 1844-1896
Collection: Cartes de Visite Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
I live in a world of fantasy
so keep your reality away from me.
I see what I want,
I want what I see,
and that is all okay by me.
(Itzah C. Kret)
on the side of the Japanese built Multratug 5
ype : Z-peller tug, azimuth stern drive
Length over all : 32,50m
Beam : 11,40m
Draught : 3.40m
Gross registered tonnage : 394
Deadweight : 255
Flag : UK
Built : 2005
Yard : Kanagawa Shipbuilding, Kobe – Japan
Engine : 2 x Niigata 6L28HX
Propulsion : 2 x Niigate ZP-31 azimuth
Bollard pull : 65 tons
Owner : J.P. Knight Group Ltd. – London
Operator : Mutraship Towage & Salvage – Terneuzen, Netherlands
Ex : Fuji Maru (until 3 june 2007), Kindeace (until 11 Sept. 2008)
February 15, 2010--Technically taken an hour late, but part of me is thinking in PST right now, so that's my excuse. That, and I've been wrapped up working (sort of) on a net neutrality policy memo for a class. (You can see and probably read part of it on the screen. But you probably don't want to.) So here's a one-off picture of my current workspace, which will probably make a lot of people cringe. Yes, I write most of my papers while sitting on the couch. In my defense, this couch is much more comfortable than the futon I sat on while writing my undergraduate thesis.
i like my swirly writing AND my bold rainbow effect... i'm just not sure they are great TOGETHER. ah well. that's the great thing about doing this EVERY DAY, there is always another shot tomorrow!!!
EIU Writing Center in Coleman Hall on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on January 19, 2022. (Abbey Marsmaker)
Cover for an unwritten book
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