Literary Forum – Erri De Luca

As part of the 2011 John Fowles Literary Forum at Chapman University, Italian poet and writer Erri De Luca will be reading excerpts from his work on Monday, April 4.  Defined recently as “the writer of the decade” by the Corriere della Sera literature critic Giorgio De Rienzo, De Luca is known for his bestselling [...]

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Puddles in the Path

In the works of Virginia Woolf, puddles often represent a metaphorical chasm between significance and anonymity, solidity and vagueness, reality and illusion.  Frequently her protagonists, upon confronting a puddle, find themselves unable to cross, thereby remaining – like Woolf – locked in the debilitating delusions of their mind.   On this day in 1941, the tormented [...]

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We Have Not Long to Love

We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away. Coarse fabrics are the ones for common wear. In silence I have watched you comb your hair. Intimate the silence, dim and warm. I could but did not, reach to touch your arm. I could, but do [...]

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Time to Submit – Fiction Open

Glimmer Train’s quarterly Fiction Open is open to all writers and all themes.  Entries should be 2,000 to 20,000 words and must be previously unpublished.  The deadline for submissions is midnight (Pacific Time) March 31.  The first place winner will receive $2,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and twenty copies of that issue.  Second and [...]

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In Perpetual Spring

Gardens are also good places to sulk.  You pass beds of spiky voodoo lilies and trip over the roots of a sweet gum tree, in search of medieval plants whose leaves, when they drop off turn into birds if they fall on land, and colored carp if they plop into water.   Suddenly the archetypal [...]

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Literary Forum – Assaf Gavron

As part of the 2011 John Fowles Literary Forum at Chapman University, novelist and this year’s winner of Israel’s Prime Minister Creative Award for Authors Assaf Gavron will be reading excerpts from his work on Monday, March 21. Gavron has published four novels (Ice, Moving, Almost Dead, and Hydromania), a collection of short stories (Sex in the [...]

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Solitude

Blest, who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day,   Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixed; sweet recreation; And innocence, which most does please, With meditation.   Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal [...]

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Lynn Emanuel Poetry Talk

The Department of English at Chapman University and Tabula Poetica are pleased to present a poetry talk with Lynn Emanuel on Monday, March 14, at 10:00 a.m.   Emanuel has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and is the author of Noose and Hook (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).  Her other books [...]

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An Evening with Novelists Tatjana Soli and Lisa Fugard

The Pen on Fire Writers Salon is pleased to present an evening with novelists Tatjana Soli and Lisa Fugard on Tuesday, March 15, at 7:00 p.m.  This monthly speaker series, hosted by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, features authors, literary agents, and others involved in the field of writing.  The events take place in the atmospheric Scape Gallery [...]

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Time Passes

It’s hard for me to believe that this is my 200th post on Archetype.  It doesn’t seem possible that I have shared observations, favorite literary quotes and poems, brief author profiles and tributes, event information, submission opportunities, original work, and personal angst about my own literary efforts one hundred more times since my 100th post last June.  [...]

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