I have a ton of updates for ya’ll so let’s get right to it:
AML Awards + Annual Meeting: Here’s a link to the AML Awards for 2009, including the award citations; Tyler has write ups of several sessions at chasing the long white cloud. I’ll reserve my take on this year’s awards for the comments [...]
February is a big month on AMV’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone. First, in honor of Valentine’s Day, all month long we’ll be soliciting poetry, essays, blocks of fiction, art, music (mp3s) or other media that address the subject of love while including references to nature. Also, we’re interested in works about nature that include [...]
In celebration not only of the coolest holiday season but also of the arrival of the winter solstice on Monday, December 21st, A Motley Vision’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone has launched a haiku chain, an open thread whereon haiku-ers might skip and dance together in 17-syllable jigs.
My American Heritage Dictionary tells me that “haiku” [...]
The intertwining of spirituality with images, metaphors, analogies, parables and other language containing strong veins of agrarian- and wilderness-oriented content is part of what gives scripture its power. Along with a large proportion of the rest of this Bible-reading country, as Mormons increasingly move inside and explore via the electronic frontier, scripture becomes one of [...]
I’ve got a bunch of cool stuff piled up to share. Some of it’s fresh and new; some of it has aged a few weeks or even months. But it’s all good, and if you are looking for some good reading, right click on all the links below and open them up in new tabs [...]
Guest blogger danithew has invited Times & Seasons participants to post poems they have written. As usual I have contributed no actual creative work, choosing instead to play the critic. But seriously, it’s a fun thread. Thanks for veering into arts and culture territory, dani.
In other news: “Reputations ride on the success of this film,” [...]
Update 12/23/04: If you are looking for details on “The Fireside Song,” see below or click here.
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Braden Bell has an interesting post over at To Speak of Many Things on Deseret Book’s Time Out for Women progam. I discussed the book club part of the program back in July. Braden’s post is on the event [...]
Update 9.24.04: Merrill’s column prompted such a volume of reader mail, that Meridian has asked readers to stop writing in about it. Merrill excerpts and reacts to reader mail in Tempest in a Teacup, Take II: The Broth Boileth Over.
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Remember when I paranthetically remarked that Kieth Merrill’s recent Meridian Magazine article on Mormon film was [...]