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May.20.2013
I have been away attending the PEN Conference together with three other colleges from Pen Belgium Dutch speaking. The conference was extra-ordinary: we were catered for in a health good way, also vegetarians have been taken into account. The day's were long and the discussions and presentations...
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May.05.2013
My mother was a war bride and sailed to the US either in 1945 or 1946 after she got married in Belgium to my father, a GI, and settled for a while with his family in Ohio. Her library is a treasure-trove of old American books. Having visited Louisville briefly I picked up Louisville Saturday...
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May.02.2013
Today it is World Press Freedom Day, a day never before observed in Belgium. When in 1993 the United Nations declared May 3rd The International Day of Freedom of the Press they mainly had countries in mind where the state brutally oppressed the freedom of the press.
This year however PEN-...
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Apr.21.2013
Sometimes the fog sticks to the window: no view, just being wrapped inside, into ruminations and inside jokes. Today a haze came down and the city in its vague outline is a landscape of hills and valleys. I distinguish the dome of Central Station, know the clumps of administrative buildings forming...
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Apr.04.2013
Mountainair - New Mexico
Clouds ride the horizon – soft rain, overcast – perfect weather for a whole day’s ride. The expanse, the space all around and above, the smell of dry earth drinking, makes me drunk. Happiness is being on the road – moving through vastness and chronology and thus sharing...
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Apr.03.2013
Let’s think back to the times that on the surface of the earth were only the dimmer trails. Hooves and pads and paws of animals were followed by feet of women gathering the fruits and greens for food and dreams. After what was perceived as emptiness was crossed and conquered, the trails...
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Mar.20.2013
No it is not a weird disease. Yet, yes it is a bit impractical. I posted a preview article by Rose Vandewalle about my bilingual book Traces/Sporen. It was published on Mededelingen van het Centrum voor Documentatie & Reëvaluatie. Thus the review is written in Dutch. Rose quotes however...
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Mar.11.2013
MICHAEL MOORE: I have followed this case for a very long time and the idea of how we incarcerate people in this country. Millions tonight sit in prison. And Leonard is there for a crime that he didn’t commit and has served 37 years, enslaved in a pen. What will history write about us in how we...
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Mar.08.2013
Yesterday I explained a bit why these masks should not be auctioned off but returned to the Hopi Nation.One should be aware that the items to be auctioned by Néret-Minet are religious artifacts, cultural property and considered by the Hopi people to be stolen goods. As I explained yesterday these...
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Mar.05.2013
My real life Hopi friends are horrified. Seventy Hopi Katsinam will be sold in auction in France. The horror is that these Katsinam are irreplaceable and that with the loss of each Katsinam, the ceremony is also lost. Some are valuable, but that is not the issue for the Hopi. For their world to...
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Feb.27.2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
One day I passed a beautiful sewing, knitting and patchwork shop. They announced an introductory class making a Ohio star. It is as you can see a simple nine block pattern. being a novice and born in Ohio I decided to give it a try. And here is the...
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Feb.22.2013
This is an invitation to you, if you are an author reading this. If you are not already member of your local Pen, consider joining and as a second step consider volunteering for their Writers in Prison Committee. From Pen International (situated in London) is the following brief overview for last...
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Feb.19.2013
Today ‘Sequenza’ has been send to the printers. In about a week the book will be available as a book and as an e-book. Also at Barnes and Noble in the USA and some indie bookshops. As the translator into English I will present the book March 15 in den Hopsack in Antwerp.
Most of the poets I read...
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Jan.31.2013
Today is poetry day, some instances having turned it into a poetry week. It means that as well the high art of recognized and established poets (does that even exist?) is celebrated in big theaters and in beautiful locations, but also that in different venues in town there are readings. To name a...
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Jan.29.2013
Last Saturday Pen-Flanders held its yearly general assembly. The meeting was open, yet well organized. The chairperson, David Van Reybrouck held the reigns and gave every one space. The authors Geert Van Istendael and Dirk Verhofstadt who gave the keynote speeches were to the point and very...
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About Annmarie
Born in Ohio, raised in Belgium, I became interested in languages and worked as a professional interpreter. I write poetry in English and Dutch and also non-fiction about the South West. I am a published author in Dutch. I translate poetry from Dutch, German...
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