Bloomsday 2017 . . .
Today is Bloomsday.
Re(ad)-Joyce.
– rPs 06 16 2017
Postscript: Reconnect with the original wwv Bloomsday story here:
https://wildflowersofthewestvillage.com/2010/06/16/bloomsday/
June 16, 2017 at 11:12 am · Filed under Wildflower Books, Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: White, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Bloomsday, James Joyce, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, New York Times, The New Yorker, Ulysses, Wildflowers
Bloomsday 2017 . . .
Today is Bloomsday.
Re(ad)-Joyce.
– rPs 06 16 2017
Postscript: Reconnect with the original wwv Bloomsday story here:
https://wildflowersofthewestvillage.com/2010/06/16/bloomsday/
December 9, 2015 at 2:58 pm · Filed under Wildflower Books, Wildflower Illustrations, Wildflower Related ·Tagged Manhattan, New York City Wildflowers, New York Observer, New York Times, Poetry, The New Yorker, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Slanted December Sunset Light . . .
Why the sudden inclusion of Poetry to Wildflowers of the West Village? The answer can be traced back five years and some months to an “Ode to Onion Grass” that served my intent in art history, an extended appreciation of Albrecht Dürer.
Most of my poems shared at Wildflowers of the West Village have been subtitled “for insert historical figure’s name here.” Each strives to serve as a summation of sorts. Their existential whole, their individual presence, how has it remained felt in the accompaniment of my own one life? The poems answer.
How my educations, my ethics, my politics, my essential tastes in entertainment and recreation have been directed somewhat can be referenced by their keyword names in their broad honor.
Antecedents. Progenitors. Kin.
The cadence of my rhetoric,
Clear enough to my mind,
Best to share my best,
Universally, no gratuity.
A poem lives by readers, not sales. Sails in my sights have been those boats engaging the Hudson tidal stream. I see them when running the river paths. Running from something? No, on my feet, I am not. My pace may rather be equated to running for something, toward something, pushing for sustained strength, pausing, still, to watch a small town arrangement of wildflowers greet the west wind and the slanted December sunset light.
Green almost Loden bathed in Gold.
– rPs 12 09 2015
Postcript: “Green Side of the Path” photo starring Artemisia, Persicaria, Solanum, Malva, and Galinsoga.
March 27, 2011 at 12:54 pm · Filed under 1, Wildflower Books, Wildflower Related ·Tagged Nature, New York City, New York Times, NYC Wildflower Week, West Village
NYC’s Extinct Blooms in the NYT . . .
New York City’s wildflowers have made the op-ed page of today’s Sunday edition of the New York Times.
Mariellé Anzelone, an urban conservation biologist and the executive director of NYC Wildflower Week, penned a short essay about a dozen native species of wildflowers now extinct in the region. Her words are illustrated by Wendy Hollender, a botanical illustrator and the author of Botanical Drawing in Color. You can view their collaboration here:
“When New York City Bloomed”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/25/opinion/20110326-opart.html#1
For more information regarding NYC Wildflower Week, you can click the link on the Blogroll located to the right, which will take you directly to the organization’s homepage.
– rPs 03 27 2011
ron P. swegman is an angler, artist, and author who is interested in those times and places when and where nature and the city intersect.