Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary
critic, poet, and patron of the arts.
She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor
of Poetry magazine, first
published in 1912. As a supporter of the
poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Max Michelson and others,
Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Her correspondence with early twentieth
century poets provides a wealth of information on their thoughts and
motives. She became a freelance
correspondent to the Chicago Tribune, and was commissioned
to write a commemorative ode for the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery
of America. Though Century magazine published her poem, "With a Copy
of Shelley," in 1889, she became disillusioned by the limited earnings
available for poets, saying: "The
minor painter or sculptor was honored with large annual awards in our greatest
cities, while the minor poet was a joke of the paragraphers, subject to the
popular prejudice that his art thrived best on starvation in a garret." Her financial hardships were alleviated after
she sued the New York World for
publishing the Colombian ode poem without her consent and she was awarded
$5,000 dollars in a settlement. With
help from publisher Hobart
Chatfield-Taylor, Monroe convinced one hundred prominent Chicago
business leaders to sponsor the magazine Poetry by each
committing to fifty dollars for a five-year subscription. The $5,000, coupled with her own settlement,
was enough to launch the magazine on September 23, 1912, while upholding its
promise to contributors of adequate payment for all published work. Monroe was editor for its first two years
without salary, while simultaneously working as an art critic for the Chicago
Tribune. By 1914, the magazine work
became too much for her to accomplish while working other jobs, so she resigned
from the Tribune and accepted a salary of fifty dollars per
month from the magazine. For more than
ten years she maintained herself on this stipend, raising it to one hundred
dollars per month in 1925. Monroe was a
member of the Eagle's Nest Art
Colony in Ogle County,
Illinois, and is mentioned in Erik Larson's The Devil
in the White City. In
2011, Monroe was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Monroe
Delicately suspended in
the Urban Room of the Salt Lake Public Library floats "Psyche,” a
hallucinatory synthesis of literature, nature and technology. Comprised of nearly 1400 component parts,
including several hundred subtly moving elements, the piece employs a sort of
three-dimensional Pointillism wherein numerous small sculptures coalesce into a
large composite human head. The small
components depict six different book forms, ranging from closed books
articulating the front of the face, and progressing to completely open books at
the back of the head. In the more open
books, over a dozen species of butterflies emerge from the pages, resulting in
scores of actively kinetic, variously colored butterflies-on-books comprising
the cranium. See illustration at https://culturenow.org/entry&permalink=19914&seo=Psyche_Ralph-Helmick-and-Stuart-Schechter
June 15, 2020 Bad Form, the quarterly literary review magazine, is launching a new
prize for young black, Asian, Arab and other non-white fiction writers
based in the UK, with support from across the publishing industry. The Bad Form Young Writers’ Prize is intended
to help provide practical support to British authors
from underrepresented backgrounds, helping them to break into the
business. The winner of the prize will
receive one-to-one meetings with agent Catherine Cho of the Madeleine Milburn
Agency, publisher Joel Richardson of Michael Joseph, and author Okechukwu Nzelu
of The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue
Books). Katherine Cowdrey
Copyright,
a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship
including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry,
novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas,
systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things
are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright
Basics, section "What Works Are
Protected." Copyright does not protect names, titles,
slogans, or short phrases. In some
cases, these things may be protected as trademarks. Contact the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov or see Circular 33, for further information. However, copyright protection may be
available for logo artwork that contains sufficient authorship. In some circumstances, an artistic logo may
also be protected as a trademark. See
more at https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
The first time I heard
about babka was in the 90s while watching Seinfeld. The episode also features a black and white
cookie, so I think that distracted me from learning more about babka at the
time. (Side note: Here is Joanne’s recipe for black and white cookies. I’ve made them, and they’re incredible.) Fast forward to earlier this year when I
found chocolate babka at Trader Joe’s. All of those Seinfeld memories flooded
back. It was delicious, but I was told
by several people that it wasn’t “real” babka.
Which my mind translated thusly:
I had no choice but to make it at home.
Bridget Edwards Find recipe and
pictures at https://thepioneerwoman.com/food-and-friends/chocolate-babka/ 16 servings
Encyclopedia Brown is a
series of books featuring the adventures of boy detective Leroy Brown,
nicknamed "Encyclopedia" for his intelligence and range of knowledge. The series of 29 children's novels was
written (one co-written) by Donald J. Sobol, with the first book published
in 1963 and the last novel published posthumously in 2012. The Encyclopedia Brown series has spawned a
comic strip, a TV series, and compilation books of puzzles and games. Sobol's first Encyclopedia Brown book
was written in two weeks; subsequent books took about six months to write. Find formula, style, and list of books at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Brown
“Happiness lies in
the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” Theodore
Roosevelt
“Continuous effort--not
strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston
Churchill
“All things are difficult before
they are easy.” Thomas Fuller
“Knowing is not enough;
we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking well is wise;
planning well wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.” Persian Proverb
"Since
the library closed on March 16, 2020 we've had about seven thousand people
register for library cards," says Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Executive
Director for the District of Columbia Public Libraries. "We've had over 300,000 books borrowed
since mid-March, which is astounding considering that our collections are
limited." By the library's
accounting, that's 37% higher than the same period in 2019, and DC isn't alone
in an uptake in digital usage: Weekly
library e-book lending across the country has increased by nearly 50 percent
since March 9, according to data from OverDrive, a service used by many
libraries to let patrons check out media for e-readers, smartphones and
computers. Audiobook check-outs are also
up 14%—not quite as large a shift, likely because fewer people are in their
cars commuting to work. Across the
country, while physical lending remains closed, five of Seattle's library
buildings have been opened for restroom-only access since late April, in part
hoping to slow the spread of COVID-19 by making handwashing easier for the
homeless. In DC, Reyes-Gavilan is
excited about being able to physically open the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library, which has been closed for renovation since 2017, especially given the
current background of race-related protest. "We'll be offering socially-distant
services the likes of which the city has never seen from a public
library," he says. Thomas
Wilburn https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877651001/libraries-are-dealing-with-new-demand-for-books-and-services-during-the-pandemic
WORD OF THE DAY FOR JUNE
19 Juneteenth proper noun (US) Also more fully as Juneteenth Day: a holiday celebrated in
many states on June 19, commemorating the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, Union Army General Gordon
Granger read out General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862 stating that all
previously enslaved people in Texas were now free. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Juneteenth#English
Read General Order No. 3 at https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/juneteenth.html#:~:text=Juneteenth,to%20the%20people%20of%20Galveston.
The Juneteenth flag is the
brainchild of activist Ben Haith, founder of the National Juneteenth
Celebration Foundation (NJCF). Haith
created the flag in 1997 with the help of collaborators, and Boston-based
illustrator Lisa Jeanne Graf brought
their vision to life. The flag was
revised in 2000 into the version we know today, according to the National
Juneteenth Observation Foundation. Seven years later, the date "June 19,
1865" was added, commemorating the day that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon
Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and told enslaved African Americans of
their emancipation. Harmeet Kaur See illustrations of
symbols and descriptions of their meanings at https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/freedom-day-juneteenth-flag-meaning-trnd/index.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2287
June 19, 2020
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