{this dress}

. . . by Roksanda Ilincic

{will & kate}

. . . one year ago, today

{london}

. . . at {this is glamorous} : a guide to london


***

{spring things}

[***]

Alan Summers wins the New York based World Monuments Fund organisation's 2012 Haiku Contest

World Monuments Fund is the leading independent organization dedicated to saving the world’s most treasured places: 
http://www.wmf.org/content/about-us

I was delighted to hear that I had won this competition as place names hold such potency in poetry, and in particular, haiku.

The winning haiku by me was about Battersea Power Station

 Please read below about copyright information on this photograph.

Results of the names of the winners are now up, and the haiku will go up alongside images and biographies in early May:
http://www.wmf.org/get-involved/haiku-contest

Awards

First Prize, $100; Second Prize, $75; Third Prize, $50, and three semi-finalists. All six winning haiku to be published on the World Monuments Fund web site.

Winners

First Prize: Alan Summers
Second Prize: Mark Ynys-Mon
Third Prize: Elizabeth Brewster Thomas

Semifinalists:
Jennifer Burd
John Tiong ChungHoo
Janet Kirchheimer

Adjudication

Annie Finch has published numerous books of poetry, including Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003, The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt Publishing, 2008), Among the Goddesses (Red Hen Press, 2010), Eve (Storyline Press, 1997), and Spells: Selected Poetry, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. Her poetic collaborations with music, visual art, opera, and theater have been produced at Poets House, Chicago Art Institute, Carnegie Hall, American Opera Projects, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Finch’s books about poetry include The Body of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005), A Formal Feeling Comes (New Edition, Word Tech Editions, 2008), An Exaltation of Forms (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and, most recently, co-edited with Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Villanelles (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2012), as well as the poetry-writing textbook, A Poet’s Craft (University of Michigan Press, 2010). She is Director of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.

In an interview in FULCRUM Magazine, Finch notes: “Like architecture, poetry is an art that creates habitable structures within uninhabitable expanses through the use of repetition, proportion, and pattern. The poet, like the architect, is joyfully and painfully aware of both the provisional nature, and the complete necessity, of such habitable structures." Read her poem "On Poetry and Architecture".


image copyright information

Description	Battersea Power Station, which when completed will have a capacity of about 240,000 kilowatts. The first part was in operation in January 1934. Approximate date of photograph: 1934
Date	1938
Source	Scan from Foreword by E. Royston Pike (1938) Our Generation London: Waverley Book Company
Author	Andy Dingley (scanner)

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{palest pink}

one /// two

{miu miu}

[decade via {this is glamorous}]

{gold dust}

[blue jeans, white shirt]

{heels}

[***]

{sequins}

[once wed]

{the new york times x confetti systyem}

[t magazine]

fox dreams... and haiku by Alan Summers

virgin snow
a fox makes prints
for the morning
 



thunder snow
the wind-shifting scent
of fox

artwork by Dru Marland 



fox dreams  

edited by Aubrie Cox

fox dreams is a project from Yay Words! Poets were invited to submit short form poetry and artwork about foxes and/or dreams to celebrate the Inari Matsuri festival. Each poet who submitted was guaranteed at least one poem into the collection.

All poems and artwork copyright of their authors.

Dreams and foxes both charm and allude us. They appear in the corner of our eyes, only to vanish the moment we consciously register their presence. Foxes, while they run rampant in folklore and mythology, are difficult to keep on the page—they’d rather be devious! Dreams present the challenge of anchoring the abstract within the concrete. With each prompt I give on Yay Words! it’s my goal to challenge and inspire. I try to select two themes that are a little unusual, complementary, and would make, in my humble opinion, for good poems.

Every time, I always secretly worry that perhaps I’ve chosen something too difficult, or uninteresting. But, of course, so many of you rose to the challenge fearlessly with beautiful words and imagery. Thank you for continuing to wow and inspire me.

May you all keep dreaming fantastic things.

Aubrie Cox
22 April, 2012

You'll find my 3rd haiku in the pdf, it's rather dreamy.  

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fox dreams 
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{suede bows}

[valentino]

Busana Terbaru Musim Ini!

Setelah kemarin colour blocking mendominasi tren busana musim panas kemarin. Kini pada musim gugur para desainer sudah menetapkan 5 tren busana terbaru yang akan menjadi the next big thing in fashion.

Tren busana terbaru bisa dimulai dari perubahan siluet, neckline, panjang rok, tren evening wear yang tergantikan oleh celana dan tidak ketinggalan tren makeup dan hairdo hingga aksesori. Gaya busana terbaru sudah keluar dan inilah 5 tren busana terbaru yang sudah kami rangkumkan khusus untuk para pecinta fashion di luar sana.

Tren Busana Terbaru1: Jumpsuit

Jumpsuit adalah tren busana terbaru pertama yang ingin kami bahas.
Jumpsuit dulu pernah menjadi popular di tahun 90an. Kini dengan kembalinya jumpsuit menjadi tren busana terbaru, dan meningkatnya kepopuleran item ini para desainer pun memberikan pilihan variety yang beragam.
Selebriti yang memiliki sense of fashion yang tinggi sudah terlihat lebih dulu mengenakan busana terbaru ini.
Liv Tyler, Vanessa Traina dan Rachel Zoe memilih jumpsuit bermaterian silk dan satin untuk acara red carpet.
Tambahkan juga blazer hingga tren busana terbaru ini tetap terlihat elegan dan put together.

Tren Busana Terbaru2: Kinky Fashion
Klise atau tidak “sex sells” dan tren busana terbaru dari panggung runway F/W 2011 mengukuhkan ini.
Pada show Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs menawarkan aksesori nakal seperti whip, high waisted leather belt dan gelang dengn bentuk borgol. Lain dengan Givenchy, mereka mendefinisikan kinky dengan topi bulu menyerupai telinga kucing dan juga koleksi transparannya.

Busana terbaru ini juga diikuti oleh Gucci dengan melansir koleksi boots setinggi paha yang dipadukan dengan hanya sepotong coat. Butuh kepercayaan diri memang mengenakan gaya busana terbaru ini, tapi sesekali boleh dong berpenampilan “liar”

Tren Busana Terbaru 3: Peter Pan Collar

Peter Pan collar is back dan tentunya dengan versi updated terbaru yang fresh dan stylish. Marc Jacobs memasukan unsur polka dot pada kerah Peter Pan ini, dan Miu Miu memilih memberikan detail kristal dan payet untuk memberikan ekstra glammor pada gaya busana terbaru ini.
Tips untuk memakai tren busana terbaru ini adalah biarkan kerah ini menjadi fokal point pada saat berpakaian, dan pilih warna yang kontras dari total tampilan.
Terakhir bisa menguncir rambut hingga kerah peter pan ini semakin menonjol, dan kamu siap beraksi memamerkan tren busana terbaru ini.

Tren Busana Terbaru 4: Tomboy Look

Gaya androgyny memang bukan hal baru di dunia fashion, wanita yang terlihat mengenakan busana pria memang terlihat sangat sexy.
Tren busana terbaru ini biasa bisa terlihat seperti mengenakan kemeja putih, blazer atau celana jeans pria dengan siluet yang lebih loose yang lebih nyaman dikenakan. Roberto Cavalli, Yves Saint Laurent dan Celine melansir gaya busana terbaru yang terinspirasi dari gaya pria dengan sentuhan warna yang lebih feminim dan juga siluet yang lebih flattering.
Aksentuasi seperti bow tie, dasi, atau sepatu oxford yang kerap terlihat di runway bisa memperkuat gaya androgyny dan kamupun siap mengaplikasikan tren busana terbaru ini.

Tren Busana Terbaru 5: Socks & Heels

Oscar Wilde pernah berkata, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months”.
Agar terlihat terkini kamu bisa mencoba gaya busana terbaru dengan mengenakan kaos kaki dengan heels. Gaya busana terbaru ini memang dipopulerkan oleh para fashionista yang tetap ingin mengenakan platform sandals, atau peep toe heels mereka ketika musim dingin. Kaki pun tetap terlindungi dari udara dingin dan kaos kaki akan memberikan rasa nyaman.
Menurut kami ini adalah solusi untuk kamu yang ingin mengenakan alas kaki yang terbuka dan belum sempat pedicure, selain itu ini juga memberikan kesan edgy dan juga fashion forward bagi yang mengenakannya.
Inilah beberapa tips penting yang bisa kamu aplikasikan sebelum mencoba tren busana terbaru ini, pilih kaos kaki dengan bahan yang tipis dan halus sehingga tidak terlihat kusut jika dikenakan bersama heels kamu.
Pilih warna yang kontras antara sepatu dan kaos kaki kamu, hindari penggunaan ankle socks jika kamu memiliki pergelangan kaki yang besar. Lalu yang terakhir gaya busana terbaru ini lebih cocok dipadukan dengan celana dengan siluet yang tapered atau skinny.

Special Guest Speaker announced for the ekphrastic haiku course event at Quest Gallery

The Haiku Event at The Royal Crescent Hotel with Tom Lowenstein and Alan Summers

Wednesday 27 June starting 8pm

For information and to book
contact Sarah Jenkins, Projects Coordinator at Quest Gallery
email:  sarah@questgallery.co.uk
Tel.        01225 444142


The Royal Crescent Hotel:
http://www.royalcrescent.co.uk

Condé Nast Traveller Gold List 2012:
http://www.cntraveller.com/awards/the-gold-list/gold-list-2012/the-royal-crescent-hotel-bath


But do come to the Quest Gallery's Private View just before too!
Quest Gallery Location and map: http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=6

I'm pleased that Tom Lowenstein has been able to confirm the guest speaker appearance at the Haiku Reading event where the course participants have an opportunity to read haiku they've written during the course.  The event will have the obligatory wine and nibbles. 

FFI on the course, enquiries, or booking regarding the Ekphrastic Haiku Sessions at Quest Gallery:

http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=489

• Tom Lowenstein will give a talk on the origins of haiku.
• Alan Summers will give a short introduction to Modern, and Contemporary Haiku both in Japan, and in the West. 

Tom Lowenstein is well known for his books including:

Classic Haiku: The Greatest Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Their Followers  Ed. Tom Lowenstein Publisher: Duncan Baird (2007)

Haiku Inspirations: Poems and Meditations on Nature and Beauty

Ed. Tom Lowenstein and Victoria James Publisher: Duncan Baird (2006)

“Tom Lowenstein is an original among young British poets—quite exceptionally gifted...” 
Ted Hughes wrote in 1980.

"Your writing is unlike anything else—very new and alive, very strange and memorable." 

—Ted Hughes.

Tom Lowenstein is widely published in his own right in poetry magazines such as: Poetry Review; PN Review; The New Cambridge Review; London Review of Books; Fulcrum (New York); Shearsman magazine; and Poetry Salzburg Review

Shearsman Titles:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/lowenstA.html  

• Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry
• Conversation with Murasaki

FFI on the course, enquiries, or booking regarding the Ekphrastic Haiku Sessions at Quest Gallery:

http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=489

.

{the world}

[hot tea and happy things]

{time}

[classy in the city]

{shimmery orange locks}

. . . and more at {this is glamorous}

{gold}

[style me pretty]

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