Archive for May, 2008
Writing Secrets: write when there’s no time to write—by Erwin A. Thompson
Erwin A. Thompson, author of Thompson Western Series and Folk Treasure I will share my secret of being able to write when there is no time for writing. When I am in a boring job that only requires my presence, when I wake up at night and tend to remember all of the dirty deals [...]
All Mothers Day—for mothers and others—the truth of interconnection
Happy ALL MOTHERS DAY, you mothers and others. This is a good day to recognize the truth of Tibetan Buddhism: that every being was at one time my own mother…your own mother. Hey! that means you were mine and I was yours. Taking it into present time….you are mine and I am yours. We nurture, [...]
Donation Sustains Music Program: Erwin A. Thompson in the news
At the Writers Club Reception this week Pop said, “If I’d have to choose between music and writing, I’d be hard put to choose.” With this set of articles in The Telegraph this week, looks like he doesn’t have to. Pop’s a newsmaker! At 92 he’s on a roll! On May 8, 2008 at 11:08PM [...]
Thompson’s Literary Legacy honored at AHS: Writing His World—from 1932 to tomorrow!
Erwin A. Thompson & Janet Grace Riehl, father-daugther writing team Click here to read article “The Write Stuff: Writers’ Club Co-Founder speaks to students” by Stephanie Kiszczak in The Telegraph online. At the AHS Writers Club end of year celebration yesterday the past met the present and moved right on into the future. Faculty, students, [...]
Dempsey’s Tuanortsa previews “Two Candles”
My Man in Pakistan, Ernest Dempsey (aka Karim Khan)—a Man of Letters who is an author, editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer—responded to May Garsson’s challenge to write a poem in the experimental Tuanortsa form. Ernest Dempsey is a moving force with World Audience. He is President of World Audience, a publishing consortium, and editor-in-chief [...]
VE Day: 1945—Edward R. Murrow reporting
The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE – GERMANY SURRENDERS! Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”. Go to [...]
Botswana’s Bessie Head: A Meeting with Barbara Bamberger Scott
A refugee is a person whose heart has been broken. “My daughter, who was 11 at the time, also loves Bessie’s books and was deeply influenced by living for two years in Botswana. One of my favorite expressions from there is Ke moto fela – “I’m just a person.”–Barbara Bamberg Scott (Read her impressive bio [...]
“Tunanortsa”—poetry call for Clive Matson’s “Crazy Child Scribbler”
Hello poets! May Garsson (maygarsson@yahoo.com) is collecting submissions for Clive Matson’s publication Crazy Child Scribbler using a new form called “tuanortsa” (astronaut spelled backward). This is a simple form, a poetic palindrome that reads more or less the same from top to bottom as from bottom to top. Here’s an example May gives (taken from [...]
“Second Love,” new poem by Erwin A. Thompson
Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary Second Love by Erwin A. Thompson For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006 My first love was like a pansy, brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass. A late frost took its vicious toll. That love was never meant to [...]
Happy May Day…Happy Mothers Day…My Mother’s Second Anniversary…We’ll be Stepping Out
Flora, Goddess of Flowers May first. May Day is a many-splendored thing with more official holiday designations than perhaps any other day of the year. I recall as a child weaving May Day wreaths from spirea branches cut from our bushes and hanging them on our neighbors door. I especially liked hanging my wreath on [...]
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