Happy Again at Last: Life in the Art World is a collection of thirty stories set in various corners of the art world. These short fictions speak of the nature of the artist and the creative impulse, the artist's experience in the world, and the various issues, psychological and intellectual, that are integral to that experience and to the art world itself. The stories are wide-ranging, some of them darkly serious, others lightly amusing. This altogether unique collection is fully accessible to general readers and provides colorful insight into a world that in popular perception is often considered remote and mysterious.

Happy Again at Last: Life in the Art World

Literature & Fiction

McGowan, Robert

Short Stories & Anthologies

Shanti Arts Publishing

The poignant story of a marriage as well as a gallant journey into loss, Witness Chair is both a beautifully written personal memoir and a compassionate guidebook to the art of living in the face of suffering and death. In his last years, artist Christopher Horton, the author's husband, worked on the design of sixteen "chair" maquettes in preparation for an art installation to commemorate the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In reflecting on her long marriage and the difficult months before her husband's death from leukemia, author Sherry Horton draws on the unsettling yet powerful significance of the various chairs, seeing her life and the death of her husband through the concepts of accusation, displacement, rumor, captivity, and heaven. Leah Leatherbee describes Witness Chair as a "quietly searing account of the unspoken," and Bernie Siegel soberly remarks: "In love's service and the process of life and healing, only the wounded soldier can serve. Read Sherry's words and understand why."

Witness Chair: A Memoir of Art@@ Marriage@@ and Loss

Horton, Sherry

Arts & Photography

Trail to the Spring

Smith, Stacie

Poetry

In this collection, Nancy K. Jentsch takes the reader to familiar places where ambiguity and conjecture reign, where no single response seems to be the right one. But rather than encouraging her reader to tiptoe past discomfort, loss, and unanswered questions, the poet's words attempt to illuminate those fragile spaces, braiding despair with hope and "mapping a yes to what/can yet be holy."

Between the Rows

Jentsch, Nancy K

Author Mary B. Kurtz shares the rich experiences of her Colorado agricultural life in this collection of twenty-eight lyric essays, contributing immeasurably to the great tradition of Western American literature. As if looking through the aperture of a microscope with its light-gathering qualities, Kurtz sees a clear and magnified vision of her life on a ranch and writes about its daily rhythms, the murmurings of a natural world, and the vagaries and mysteries of aging and mortality. Her stories are a manifestation of spirit, an exploration and amplification of her inner experience. She discovers her inherent instinct for survival and growth by meeting change and loss with hope and trust.

Apertures: Findings from a Rural Life

Science & Math

Kurtz, Mary B

Nature & Ecology

Waiting for a Name is a collection of poetry devoted to the questions surrounding love, divinity, and identity. It is an exploration of the magic contained in the Caribbean diaspora. It is the veneration of the imperfect Muslim. It is one of the many war cries of Queens, New York.

Waiting for a Name (Elizabeth S Jaikaran)

Jaikaran, Elizabeth

Land Marks is a journey across geographies-the physical, temporal, and spiritual. An exploration of how the natural world marks us as we move through it, seeking meaning and communion. How places shape us, how the earth is alive. The poems move north, south, then west with roadside haikus for contemplation and rest, then spiral outward and beyond for a wider view of the world with meditations on the environment and other sentient species. How we live with the light and the dark, how our days are observed.

Land Marks

Tracey, Sharon

Absence: Presence

Gholson, Christien

On a rainy-day excursion, poet Marjorie Maddox and her daughter and artist Anna Lee Hafer visit the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as never before, they realize how their passions for art and poetry intersect. With this exhibit and Hafer's own surreal paintings as inspiring backdrop, they exchange their responses to joy and trauma more deeply-artist to artist, mother to daughter. These connections between poet and visual artist constitute the core of this ekphrastic collection. In addition, Maddox includes nine poems based on work she saw that day by Antar Mikosz, Greg Mort, Margaret Munz-Losch, Ingo Swann, and Christian Twamley, as well as several later collaborations with Karen Elias.

In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind

Maddox, Marjorie

Terrible Terrain: Poems Inspired by the Life of Lavinia Dickinson

LeBlanc, Jean

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