The Metamer Quarterly Can Count

 I've begun a new collaboration, with a friend from long ago. It involves numbers, the Basque language, and collage. Our first project is a children's book we began in the last century, in fact. It will be available for purchase in the next few weeks, at Barbot Etchepare Basque Imports. https://basqueimports.com/shop/ols/categories/books
The author, Begoña Echeverria, is a writer, singer, educator, and all around energetically lovely person who teaches at UC Riverside. This is a fine summary of her activities: https://profiles.ucr.edu/b.echeverria

And, you may want to check out her singing group here: https://www.ilovenoka.com/

She has come up with a name for our collaboration, and I have typeset it. We are *BegoLara*

We are old, Father William...

Issue #13, a zine, "No One Tells You When to Shout", has finally begun shipping. Which is to say, put in envelopes, sent to subscribers.

“The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.”

 Hannah Arendt, quoted by Lyndsey Stonebridge

 

“Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.”

 James Baldwin, from The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction,

1948-1985

 

 

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,

    When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—

When he beats his bars and he would be free;

It is not a carol of joy or glee,

    But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,  

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—

I know why the caged bird sings!

from “Sympathy”, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

 

 

 

So, I say to you, as others have told to me, hold fast to what is good, and

seek to return no one evil for evil.

Strengthen the faint-hearted, support the weak, help the suffering.

Let each of us not be proud, but instead welcome help when

we are in need.

Let us always honor all people, tempering justice with mercy, as we

indeed desire for ourselves. Find something sacred in

the abstract nakedness of being human.

 

 

 

Lara Scott             metamer@protonmail.com

The Metamer Quarterly, Issue #13 “No One Tells You When To Shout”

https://themetamerquarterly.blogspot.com/

TMQ at Spring Writes Literary Festival in Ithaca, NY

The Metamer Quarterly is on the road again, headed to Ithaca, NY, on Sunday, May 5th, to lead a workshop with Kate Blackwood, frequent contributor and collaborator.

11:00am - 12:00pm @ Tompkins Center for History & Culture, 2nd Floor Conference Room **

Workshop: Book + Art: Make a book and write a poem to go inside

A workshop for those who love to write and make things. Write an original poem or flash story following an in-workshop prompt, or revise a piece of writing you've already started. Then make a book using one of three simple techniques. Formats will be appropriate for beginners, but interesting enough for pros! The final step is to place your writing in your book and take it with you: a new, complete piece of literary art. It's a done-in-a-day version of the artist's book project The Metamer Quarterly lead by the Metamer's founder, artist Lara Scott, and a frequent contributor, writer Kate Blackwood. All book-making materials will be provided. You just bring the words. (**For workshops in the 2nd floor conference room, we ask that you arrive a few minutes early to ensure we have enough seating for all participants!)


More information here:
http://artspartner.org/content/view/spring-writes

a note about our location:
Tompkins Center for History and Culture, 110 N. Tioga Street. This is on the Commons, to the left of M&T Bank. There will be signs as you enter the building pointing you to the Gallery/Program Room and the elevator to the 2nd Floor Conference Room. 

deadline extended!

Those who have ever made an appointment to meet up with me knows that I am almost always late. Even notoriously late folks become prompt in my presence, in deference to my superior tardiness. So who am I to stick to a deadline, or to rigidly enforce it?

So, there is still time to send in a submission -- a diagram of a soccer play, or a hockey play, or the batting list from your last best game, or a poem, or a shopping list, or a drawing, or a cartoon, a comic, anything that can be printed in b&w -- for Issue #6 of The Metamer Quarterly.

Send it to me, Lara Scott, at P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY, 13460, by Feb 10th.

Please do!

And here's a glamour shot of issue #5,

and a line from Carrie Newcomer:

"The curious promise of limited time."