Keddy Ann Outlaw: Caladan Gallery Collage Show

ALTARPIECE 34: GODDESS LOUNGING: Mixed Media Collage

Longtime contributor, fellow librarian and long distance friend, Keddy Ann Outlaw, has a brand new online exhibition of her magnificent collage art at the Calladan Gallery of Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The above piece is one of 15 currently on display at the website.

I've published Keddy's art and poetry both in Lilliput over the years.  She hails from the Houston, Texas, and we connected up through Albert Huffstickler.  Keddy has two fine sites of her own: The Speed of Light blog and a group discussion forum, Creative Intentions, hosted by the here women talk social network.

You can see two of her covers she did for Lillie on older posts here and here 

the goddess of spring's
child, come out too!
summer moon

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

- Don

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Donald Ray Pollock and Keddy Ann Outlaw

Congratulations go out to Donald Ray Pollock on the publication and largely positive reception of his book of linked short stories, Knockemstiff. Typical reviews have appeared in the L.A. Times and the N.Y. Times. Pollock published three poems in Lilliput back in the late 90's: "Knockemstiff Tattoo #1" in issue #91, "Knockemstiff Tattoo #5" in #94, and "the patriarchs of garage" in #98. All three issues are still in print and available. From #94:


the patriarchs of garage

argue clutch, talk flywheel, question
carburetor. they scratch loose nuts,
pass another pint. they sand, weld
wrench; dig deep into wrinkled packs
of red man, five brothers. they worry
rust, prime and paint. They squat like
kids on cracked concrete and agree with
my father that memory is grease is oil
is water is gasoline is
fading.

Donald Ray Pollock

A shout out also goes to Keddy Ann Outlaw, whose beautiful, atmospheric photos are featured in one of the two new issues of Lillie (#161). She has mounted one of the photos on her excellent library blog, Speed of Light. Congrats particularly for her recent excellent article in Library Journal, entitled "Born Together: the Literature of Twins."

This week's feature issue is #150, a broadside of the moving, resonant tanka of Pamela Miller Ness, originally published in July 2006. This selection from that 11 tanka set is one of characteristically deep emotion and beauty:




Night
of thunder, thunder
in the dream
I fold laundry
with my dead mother.




A bud
of the red anemone
ready to burst . . .
the child
she never bore.




Kandinsky’s
Impression No. 3:
floating
above a yellow field
the piano’s soul.




Indian summer ~
still my daughter
carries
unripe huckleberries
in her burden basket.




Issues 161 and 162 continue to ship as the flu gradually recedes in my rear view mirror. Best, till next time.

Don