{shades of autumn}

{zara via krisatomic}

{bejewelled}

{j.crew bracelet; via mint}

{sasha}

{images: this season's must-haves, sasha pivovarova by david vasiljevic for h&m magazine autumn 2010, styled by veronique didry via smile}

{perfectly elegant}

{images: moodboard}

{parisian chic: leopard print}

{via net-a-porter}

{ginta}

{ginta lapina by doug inglish for love #4, f/w 2010; fashion editor, rachel zoe via oh}

2010 WITH WORDS COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT

WITH WORDS COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT

 

We are pleased to announce that the 2010 Words International Haiku Online Competition is now open: http://www.withwords.org.uk/comp.html

This year at the request of some entrants we will be announcing Highly
Commended and Commended authors rather than a longlist and shortlist.

Highly Commended poets will be given the option of having their haiku
published online.

Good luck to all of you entering our next international haiku
competition, and many thanks for your support.

Results of the competition in previous years can be read at:
http://www.withwords.org.uk/results.html

Alan, Karen & Kathy, With Words

{divine idylle}

{editorial: divine idylle, model edita vilkeviciute photographed by camilla akrans for numero 116 september 2010 via smile}

{lara}

{images: lara stone by mert & marcus for vogue US september 2010 via fgr}

Rose Hip Curry and the Sound of Poets Cooking - Book Release!

The Sound of Poets Cooking

editor Richard Krawiec
Jacar Press, 2010, 172 pages
ISBN: 9780984574001

http://jacarpress.com/books.html#sopc

Featuring work by five dozen poets, including NC Poet Laureates Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer, and dozens of other nationally celebrated writers. The poems alternate with recipes written by the poets, their family members, lovers and friends. The writing is at turns sensuous, hilarious, elegant, and playful. The recipes range from Asian, through European, to Middle Eastern dishes, as well as regional favorites from across the U.S.--tiramisu, homemade curry, vegetarian meals, exotic seafood, some simple, some complex. There is something here for every palate, literary and culinary.

Proceeds from the sales of this book will be used to fund writing workshops in excluded communities. 
.

Click for review:

Review: The Independent, in Durham

  

"The first step in Alan Summers' Rosehip Curry recipe (yum!) is to write for several hours in a walled garden in direct sunlight."

Wild Goose Poetry review says:
 
"The Sound of Poets Cooking  is a new, 172-page anthology of poems about food accompanied by related recipes, from Krawiec’s fledgling press, Jacar Press. And it is an impressive debut, featuring wonderful work from poets both familiar and new, including two NC Poets Laureate, Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer ... and more, wrapped in a clever cover with an image of Buddha cradling a pomegranate, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potato, chef’s knife and some spiky yellow fruit I’m not familiar with, appealingly conveying the mixture of spirituality and whimsy one might expect from poetry about food."

North American Readings for 2010 and 2011 

by Richard Krawiec and other poets

Oct 23, 3pm Greensboro Barnes and Noble,– Mark Smith-Soto Coordinator

Nov 6, Bookwalk Washington, NC – Marty Silverthrone

Nov 7, 3pm Quail Ridge Books Raleigh – Richard Krawiec

Nov 13, 7pm – Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill – Richard Krawiec

Nov 14, 3pm Malaprops, Asheville – Pat Riviere-Seel

Nov 18, 8pm ECU – John Hoppenthaler - Richard Krawiec if you want to carpool

Dec 3, 7pm – The Regulator – Richard Krawiec

Dec 10 (possibly) 6pm, Accent on Books, Asheville – Pat Riviere-Seel

2011

April 3, 3pm City Lights Books, Sylva, April Poetry Month kick-off – me for
now but someone else will be handling the local aspect

April 14, 7:30pm.  Central Piedmont Community College Literary Festival,
Charlotte.  This will be a big event, combined with culinary students there
cooking recipes – Richard Krawiec for now

April 23 all day event at Barton College, including readings, workshops, and
a concert by Fleur de Lisa – Richard Krawiec for now

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{enchanted}

{alexandra agoston by by chris searl, styling by mark vassallo for harper’s bazaar december 2009 via wildfox}

{lookbook: a.p.c.}

{images: a.p.c.}

Blast from the Past Haiku Residency; enjoy the video!

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Working with Sam and Emerson who helped create Ambidextrous (an undergraduate programme now adopted for every year) when they were undergraduates was a fantastic experience as Haiku poet-in-residence with Bath Spa University Undergraduate Development Project.

Sam and Emerson (photo©Sam & Emerson):

 



The whole project including my haiku residency was run by student organisation ambidextrous (Autumn 2006 - Summer 2007)

This was a number of haiku projects designed by me or Sam and Emerson:

·     * haiku and renga workshops

·     * mobile haiku walls for students and lecturers

·    * 24 Hour Haiku Answering Phone

·    * web-based media project (ArtsWork Bath Spa University) 

   * Final event Play On Words Festival (Newton Park Campus). (scroll down a little)

Video project, created 20 Nov 2006 by Ambidextrous and Soft C

Viewed 2827 times so far

An exploration of haiku for the modern day, featuring Britain's leading haiku expert Alan Summers.

Created in collaboration between two student arts groups - Ambidextrous and SOFT C. 

Now enjoy the video!

http://tiny.cc/BathSpaHaiku

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{noir}

{p.s.} more of this beautiful editorial at {this is glamorous}

{ylonka verheul, melissa tammerijn and marlena szoka by indlekofer & knoepfel for vogue germany, september 2010 via oh}

{inspiration: big hair & sunglasses}

{editorial: she's always a woman, alana kuznetsova by david slijper, stylist - anne-marie curtis elle uk, september 2010 via oh}

{a perfect afternoon}

{editorial: simply red; dree hemingway by alexi lubomirski for harper's bazaar us september 2010 via smile}

{goldenrod}

{milagros schmoll by james mountford for elle uk, september 2010 via oh}

{cozy days ahead . . .}

{carmen kass by daniel jackson for harper's bazaar us, september 2010 via oh}