tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62615061663207259732024-03-05T21:32:26.544-08:00April LindnerMaking things up and writing them downUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-61190027615244860942023-03-30T11:35:00.006-07:002023-06-22T08:29:40.634-07:00Marching into April <p style="font-weight: bold;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaV37P0w6O6yDmUFBrXXmK3RqmE3R0a5xdQ4IMUFFIbrggavwpXE7IIXjFY2D5rMV0QRIMsLk47ZduAar3lcSvKFhjoGZYuU1iMwWviiIAakldAkMz_gIjBoQCw2wLfMIaRiCbkXfx9BSKR2uZ3fU0sfGZh-tngia4x3CfcTAA5COT1DLZ1rK7vx6UQ/s960/338006549_6275219462537596_952824514343497494_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaV37P0w6O6yDmUFBrXXmK3RqmE3R0a5xdQ4IMUFFIbrggavwpXE7IIXjFY2D5rMV0QRIMsLk47ZduAar3lcSvKFhjoGZYuU1iMwWviiIAakldAkMz_gIjBoQCw2wLfMIaRiCbkXfx9BSKR2uZ3fU0sfGZh-tngia4x3CfcTAA5COT1DLZ1rK7vx6UQ/w342-h403/338006549_6275219462537596_952824514343497494_n.jpg" width="342" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peep season!</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-weight: bold;"></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thanks to Passager Books and the Burning Bright podcast for featuring a poem of mine this week. Being included in this spring podcast due to my spring-y first name more than makes up for all the years of people telling me I was the cruellest month. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Click on through to hear the <a href="https://www.passagerbooks.com/marching-into-april/">podcast</a>: </span></p><br /><p style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-87907076210163020922020-05-21T06:53:00.000-07:002020-05-21T06:53:29.770-07:00A Poem For When Standing Still is Hard
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<span style="background: white;">The railroad track is miles away, </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And the day is loud with voices speaking, </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Yet there isn’t a train goes by all day <br />
But I hear its whistle shrieking.<br /><br />
All night there isn’t a train goes by, <br />
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming, <br />
But I see its cinders red on the sky, <br />
And hear its engine steaming.<br /><br />
My heart is warm with friends I make, <br />
And better friends I’ll not be knowing; <br />
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, <br />
No matter where it’s going.<br /><br /></span></span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Edna St. Vincent Millay</font></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As much of the world hunkers in lockdown, waiting out the coronavirus pandemic, I find my life has grown quieter and the small things--a garter snake in the iris patch, three turkey vultures poised on a neighbor's roof--have the power to sooth. That's why this poem seems perfect for this moment in history:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Peace of Wild Things</span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">When despair for the world grows in me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and I wake in the night at the least sound</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I go and lie down where the wood drake</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I come into the peace of wild things</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who do not tax their lives with forethought</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of grief. I come into the presence of still water.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And I feel above me the day-blind stars</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">waiting in their light. For a time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I rest in the grace of the world and am free. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">--Wendell Berry</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9Lambertville, NJ 08530, USA40.365939399999988 -74.94294479999999240.31754939999999 -75.023625799999991 40.414329399999986 -74.8622638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-35640779482767405952019-11-08T06:54:00.005-08:002020-01-09T18:45:07.067-08:00Journey with Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Sharon Foley whose podcast, <a href="https://www.journeydailywithacompellingpoem.com/podcast/episode/1a7a8c21/the-trip-to-brooklyn-misremembered-as-a-roller-coaster-ride" target="_blank">Journey Daily with a Compelling Poem</a>, currently features a poem of mine, "The Trip to Brooklyn Misremembered as a Roller Coaster Ride." </span> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-81881245908128390362019-09-27T11:26:00.004-07:002021-08-17T06:48:31.249-07:00Free the Mice!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to <a href="https://collegevilleinstitute.org/bearings/freeing-the-mice/" target="_blank">Bearings Online</a>, for publishing my poem about trying--and sometimes failing--to be kind to the mammals who only want to share our homes and our crumbs.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-35654513784750311012019-06-29T17:51:00.003-07:002019-07-01T10:07:50.872-07:00Where I've Been (When I Wasn't Here)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a while since I've blogged here. A looooong while. While I wasn't here, I've been moving, writing, and teaching. I've also been fostering dogs. One was Moka, a labby girl who went on to find a perfect forever home. <br />
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<br />The second, Miles, a foxy little chihuahua corgi mix (we think) quickly squiggled his way into our hearts. <br />
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We wound up adopting him...so now he's a part of our pack. He's what they call a foster failure--or maybe we're the failures. At any rate, now that we've got three, our fostering days are over for the forseeable future<br />
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Miles came from <a href="https://www.littledoglifeboat.com/" target="_blank">Little Dog Lifeboat</a>. And Moka came up north from <a href="https://www.socorescue.com/" target="_blank">Southern Comfort Animal Rescue</a>, which has adoption events every three weeks. In fact, there's still time to catch the wagging tail end of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rosedalemills/videos/2266110670177315/UzpfSTU5NTI4MTIxMjoxMDE1NTk4MTcyODI1MTIxMw/" target="_blank">this weekend's rescue</a>, at <a href="https://rosedalemills.com/" target="_blank">Rosedale Mills in Pennington, New Jersey</a>. Both rescues do amazing work finding homes for deserving dogs. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-63809518570454205822019-06-27T12:20:00.001-07:002019-09-30T06:48:57.432-07:00Ladybug Season! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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quaint as a cartoon greeting-card <o:p></o:p></div>
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neat dome like a candy button. <o:p></o:p></div>
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the waterglass, His glossy shell <o:p></o:p></div>
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cracks to sprout waxpaper wings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the window brightens, more collect<o:p></o:p></div>
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in its skim of condensation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They cluster on the ceiling,<o:p></o:p></div>
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red and random as measles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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to buzz in sudden spirals, <o:p></o:p></div>
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and land with a clatter on a lampshade.<o:p></o:p></div>
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or bungle into my hair.
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an army of redcoats. Once doctors <o:p></o:p></div>
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mashed them to cure toothaches; <o:p></o:p></div>
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farmers entreated Our Lady <o:p></o:p></div>
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to send in scarlet swarms--<o:p></o:p></div>
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rosary beads spilling from the sky. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Harvest in, they’d clear the fields<o:p></o:p></div>
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The multitude has flown.<o:p></o:p></div>
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wandering the wasteland of my
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-62576035994014238022016-08-03T10:35:00.002-07:002016-08-03T10:40:39.165-07:00Under Construction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This summer, it seems my whole life is under construction. We've been living in limbo while the house we're hoping to buy in our beloved <a href="http://www.visitnj.org/city/lambertville">Lambertville</a> has been taking shape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I've been doing a lot of driving back and forth to the house to watch it grow into the next phase of its already quite long life. The process has been exciting and sometimes fraught. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then there's my usual summer preoccupation: writing. With several novels underway at once, I've been trying to figure out where to take my writing next. I've been researching and drafting what I suspect will turn out to be a Middle Grade novel and rethinking a YA novel that didn't quite cohere. I've also been turning back to my first love, poetry, putting together the first manuscript of poems in a really long time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Most of all, I've been grappling with what kind of writer I want to become. How should I spend the next part of my writing life? It's been a restless and uncertain couple of months trying to answer that question, and I'm still not sure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But the good news is that the hard work and expertise of team of builders has brought our future house a long way. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-32288644436172842142016-07-12T07:53:00.002-07:002016-08-03T10:36:23.872-07:00No Place Like Rome<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lucy-April-Lindner/dp/0316400688/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1468335022&sr=8-2&keywords=love+lucy">Love, Lucy</a> </i>comes out in paperback today, and I thought I'd commemorate Lucy's paperback birthday with a celebration of the Eternal City, where she travels with her summer love Jesse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here are some of my favorite spots in Rome, including the "greatest hits" I've set out to find, street map in hand. Here's </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Piazza Spagna in the evening:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And the Spanish Steps themselves, gorgeous even when under construction:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And all the wonders of Vatican City:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then there are the beauties I've stumbled upon by sheer accident, like St. John Lateran:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Wishing you were in Italy? (You're not alone!) Please check out <i>Love, Lucy</i> and <i><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/far-from-over-april-lindner/1123385281?ean=9780316358255">Far From Over</a></i>, Jesse's side of the story. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-59811896938817011352016-04-17T14:00:00.001-07:002016-04-17T14:10:50.110-07:00Half Past April: A Far From Over/Love, Lucy Extravaganza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here in Southeastern Pennsylvania, we've fast forwarded through April Showers and made it to May Flowers in what seems like record time. This year April brings with it the publication of <i>Far From Over</i>, the new digital-exclusive companion novella to <i>Love, Lucy. </i>It also brings some celebratory blog posts including <a href="http://thenovl.com/post/142794328004/my-six-favorite-dots-on-the-map-by-april-lindner-i">this one, from NOVL</a>, on the travel destinations that inspire me most<i>.</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, April brings a really nifty sale--<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Lucy-April-Lindner/dp/B00KAEXM6A/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1460926139&sr=8-1&keywords=april+lindner"><i>Love, Lucy</i> in e-book form for only $2.99</a>--which means for a little while longer you can download both <i>Love, Lucy</i> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Far-Over-Love-Lucy-Novella-ebook/dp/B01BKSLHWA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460926190&sr=1-1&keywords=april+lindner+far+from+over"><i>Far From Over</i></a> for under five dollars. So if you're yearning for a little vacation flirtation in sunny Italy, please give them a look!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Today marks the launch of my newest baby, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Far-Over-Love-Lucy-Novella-ebook/dp/B01BKSLHWA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1460477994&sr=8-3&keywords=far+from+over">Far From Over</a></i>, a digital-only novella companion to <i>Love, Lucy</i>. And to mark the occasion, the e-book of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Lucy-April-Lindner-ebook/dp/B00KAEXM6A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1460478021&sr=8-2"><i>Love, Lucy</i></a> is on sale (only $2.99) for the rest of the month. If if you've got a yen for some southern Italian sunshine and romance, please take a look!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-74964649906857763032016-03-23T13:22:00.001-07:002016-03-23T13:38:23.603-07:00Following the Music: Cattolica, Italy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I'd caught <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">MIK<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A's</span></span> act once before in Philadelphia, where he has a modest but devoted following. His show here was low-key and acoustic, befitting the smaller venues he can fill in the U.S. In Philly, MIKA mostly stayed behind the piano and focused on his quieter songs, the ones that don't call for full band backup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But in Europe the guy's a bona-fide popstar--<a href="http://xfactor.sky.it/cast/">a judge on X Factor Italy </a>and a former judge on The Voice France, with a giddy fandom of school-age girls and their families. In Europe, he tours with a band and puts on a big electric show that showcases all of his hits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A special bonus: MIKA's mother was watching the show on the other side of the fence from me. I said hello and thanked her for giving the world her son, and she was sweet and gracious in return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I've long been a fan of poet Marilyn Nelson--of her adept use of traditional forms, her extended explorations of history and personal spirituality, her desire to reach a wide readership that includes middle- and high-schoolers and not just the usual, insular adult audience sought by most poets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Marilyn is also impressively prolific, with two new collections published in quick succession--<a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Ace-Marilyn-Nelson/dp/0803733054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458317279&sr=8-1&keywords=marilyn+nelson"><i>American Ace</i>:</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">...and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Seneca-Village-Marilyn-Nelson/dp/1608981975/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1458317279&sr=8-4&keywords=marilyn+nelson"><i>My Seneca Village</i></a>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Earlier this week, Marilyn paid a visit to Saint Joseph's University, to read in our Writing Series. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Among the poems she shared were a couple of very striking newer ones from <i>Sacred Sisters,</i> a collaboration with visual artist <a href="http://hollytrostlebrigham.com/Holly_Trostle_Brigham/Portfolio/Pages/Seven_Sisters_II_Series.html">Holly Trostle Brigham</a>. Marilyn's poems and Holly's paintings depict the lives of nuns who also were artists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This one was first published by the <a href="https://www.poets.org/">Academy of American Poets in their Poem-a-Day program</a>: </span></div>
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Brazil<br />
August 14, ca. 1850</sub></i><sub><o:p></o:p></sub></span></div>
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<sub><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Tomorrow, after we’ve led the
procession<br />
following Our Lady of the Good Death<br />
back to our chapel, two hundred Sisters,<br />
in our white eyelet headwraps and dresses<br />
and the company of the Ancestors,<br />
will dance a Glory samba, with our neighbors<br />
like us redeemed, and those we work to free.<br />
We’ll dance as if we don’t know aches and pains,<br />
to celebrate the best death of all time.<o:p></o:p></span></sub></div>
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<sub><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">No death is easy, but some deaths
are good.<br />
The free die good deaths. The people we free<br />
will be put down with honor and music.<br />
The best death was the one Our Lady had,<br />
passing directly from breath to glory.<br />
Glory is ours, too, just one death from now.<br />
What dies lives on no longer slave, but free:<br />
The same essence, wearing another face,<br />
like an <i>orixa </i>changed into a saint.<o:p></o:p></span></sub></div>
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Day.<br />
Today we sit in our rooms to prepare,<br />
searching the dark silence to find glory.<br />
My still hands, thick from cutting sugarcane…<br />
and there it is, that flood of thanksgiving.<br />
These nimble fingers that can tell from touch<br />
the best tobacco leaf and when to stop<br />
rolling a cigar smooth on the table,<br />
this year helped free thirty Yoruba slaves!<br /> <o:p></o:p></span></sub></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-88202055076641572862016-03-13T14:35:00.001-07:002016-03-21T15:13:58.965-07:00Where I've Been Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where have I been lately and why haven't I been blogging? Well, for one thing, I was writing (and rewriting) <i>Far From Over,</i> a digital-exclusive companion novella to <i>Love, Lucy</i>. It comes out on April 12, and I'm thrilled with the cover.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's what it's about:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jesse
Palladino is used to moving on. As a street musician backpacking
through Europe, he's never in one place for long. Which is why it's so
surprising he can't seem to move on from Lucy, the girl he fell for in
Florence. They parted ways when Lucy returned home to start college, but
every crowded piazza and winding cobblestone street reminds Jesse of
the time they spent together. Now staying with a friend in Naples, he
can't help wondering if it's time to pack up and move on again. But just
when his mind is made up, something--or <i>someone--</i>might give him a reason to stay. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Far From Over</i> is available for <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/far-from-over-april-lindner/1123385281?ean=9780316358255#productInfoTabs">pre-order </a>now. And please, stay tuned, as I really do hope to get back to blogging in the not-too-distant future!</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-44889065335865528902016-01-14T09:42:00.002-08:002016-03-21T15:13:14.504-07:00Where I've Been<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been a long, long time since I posted here. I've got a big backlog of posts to write about this summer's adventures in Italy, about music fandom, and about the joys and frustrations of writing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead of posting here, though, I spent the second half of the summer </span><span style="font-size: large;">living those joys and frustrations, immersed in </span><span style="font-size: large;">writing the first draft of a novel that has basically tanked. For one thing, its premise was a bit similar to some other recently published successful novels I'd never heard of. For another, the breezy tone of it just didn't match up with its subject matter. For now, those pages are sleeping in a drawer...to be revisited someday and radically reworked, perchance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But after I had to face that my summer novel had gone belly up, I spent my fall sabbatical on a whole new project--a very different novel. Two days ago I made it to the end of the rough draft. There's much revising to do, and I don't know if it's the kind of book a publisher would want. But it was a book of my heart, and no matter what happens, I'm so glad to have written it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To sum up:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where I've Been: Writing in bed with dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where I'll Be For the Forseeable Future: Teaching, now that my sabbatical is over and spring semester is underway. Missing my writing-in-bed buddy, Nico the cockapoo. And, as ever, plotting the next revision.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-4156680856852906892015-11-05T11:25:00.001-08:002016-03-21T15:13:01.201-07:00See Naples and Write<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Last summer, while I was teaching Travel Writing in Rome, the universe kept telling me to take a side trip to Naples. I kept bumping into displaced Neapolitans who told me how wonderful their native city was, how I absolutely needed to see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I'd been meaning to someday get to Naples--I'd even changed trains in its station once--but somehow I hadn't managed to really visit. This time I went, and promptly fell in love--with the electric blue Bay of Naples and the view from Castel Sant'Elmo:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With its colorful streets:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the quirky sights to be seen around every corner:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The picturesque Spanish Quarter:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Most of all, I fell in love with the people I encountered there, people who seemed instantly familiar--like extended family members. Maybe that's not too surprising, considering my great grandmother set sail from the port of Santa Lucia in 1909, my two-year-old grandmother in her arms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To think how much I'd have missed if I'd stayed away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And as it turns out, it was a good thing I listened to the universe. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Soon after I came home to the States, I was invited to write a spinoff of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Love, Lucy</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">--a digital-exclusive novella in Poppy's new NOVL imprint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I said yes, happy for a chance to re-enter Lucy's world. The novella,<i> Far From Over</i>, tells what happens to Lucy's summer love, Jesse, after she flies home from Italy. And since Jesse's next stop is Naples, it was handy that I'd taken a trip there myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For a vibrant, world-class city, Philly has a bit of an inferiority complex. How could it not, in the twin shadows cast by those heavyweights, Washington D.C. and New York City? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Maybe that's why Rocky Balboa resonates so much here. The scruffy, down-on-his-luck prizefighter who gets one shot at the big time? That was us this weekend, when the World Meeting of Families brought Pope Francis to our city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For Catholics and the many non-Catholics who admire this Pope for his vision, his humility, his heart, and his willingness to shake things up, Philly was--for a shining moment--<i>Caput Mundi. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here's what you experienced if you braved the Popepocalypse:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--Deliciously car-free streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--Singing in unexpected places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--Pilgrims from around the globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--A rainbow of habits, vestments, and robes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--Bobbleheads and Hug-a-Popes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--including Secret Service agents and even rooftop snipers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--A surprise papal visit to a certain Jesuit University:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">--Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">...and the adoration that follows Pope Francis everywhere he goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A friend recently asked me where in the whole world I would live if money and job were no object. I didn’t have to think hard about the answer: Verona, Italy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until last summer, I’d only been there once before, on my very first trip to Europe, when I was 22, travelling solo with a backpack, a Eurail pass, and an International Youth Hostel Card. I fell instantly in love with Europe in general and Italy in particular. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And of all the Italian cities and towns I visited, Verona--charming, romantic, easily crossed on foot—struck me as the one in which I could most vividly imagine making a life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I adored the medieval streets of its historical center. I especially loved the way Verona’s citizens take their evening<i> passagiata </i>around the Roman colosseum in the center of Piazza Bra. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On that first trip to Verona, I was in the process of becoming. So much about my life was unsettled. I had just graduated college and didn’t have a job or a significant other. I didn’t know where I would be living once I returned back home. Everything I saw on my travels seemed full of portent, and that was especially true in Verona, setting of Shakespeare’s <i>Romeo and Juliet.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last summer, when I finally got to revisit Verona, I had of course changed more than a little. But Verona's power over me hadn't diminished one bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even Juliet's house still felt portentious. I still got the same thrill </span><span style="font-size: large;">strolling through its quiet rooms and standing on that balcony. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now as then, it didn’t matter one bit that Juliet didn’t exist. To me, fiction was--and still is--at least as real as reality. Walking through the house designated as Juliet's, I could hear the echoes of her graceful step echoing in its stairways. I could hear her voice even in that stone courtyard bustling with tourists and plastered with their hastily scrawled graffiti.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-55229953962969371522015-08-10T10:39:00.001-07:002015-08-11T09:13:16.686-07:00Carried Away Once More<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm thrilled to report that former poet laureate Ted Kooser has chosen my poem "Carried Away" to feature today on his website <a href="http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/542.html">American Life in Poetry.</a> Please drop by and give it a read! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Carried Away" may also be found in my second poetry collection, <i><a href="http://www.aprillindnerwrites.blogspot.com/p/this-bed-our-bodies-shaped-poems.html">This Bed Our Bodies Shaped</a></i>, from Able Muse Press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Riding the metro. Coming above ground in Piazza del Duomo. Seeing that enormous melting wedding cake of a cathedral. Crossing the square through a crowd of tourists, locals and pigeons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Trying out my beginner's college Italian. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Wandering through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuelle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since Andre left the itinerary of our recent trip up to me, and since the trip from Les Arcs Draguignan to Venice necessitated a transfer in Milan, how could I resist stopping there a little while, showing him the places that loom so vividly in my memory?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since my travel writing class in the Saint Joseph's University study tour program in Rome is reading Marlena De Blasi's lush memoir <i>A Thousand Days in Venice</i>, now seems like a good time to look back on the Venice portion of my own trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In sensuous, poetic prose, De Blasi tells the story of a wild and spontaneous romance that begins and ends with the city known variously as <i>La Serenissima </i>and <i>Bride of the Sea.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"The doors are open and I step out into wet rosy light, onto a sweep of wide shallow steps. Shimmering water glints from the canal below. I don't know where to put my eyes. The Venice of myth is real, rolled out before me. In straw hats and striped shirts, the gondoliers are sculptures of themselves fixed on the sterns of glossy black boats under around yellow sun. The Bridge of the Barefoot is off to the left and the sweet facade of the church of San Simeone Piccolo hails from across the water. All of Venice is tattered, resewn, achingly lovely, and like an enchantress, she disarms me, makes off with the very breath of me."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No matter how often I return, that first glimpse of Venice from the train station steps never fails to take my breath away. And this time around it was even better to see it with my husband Andre on his very first visit. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261506166320725973.post-33626437785358235812015-07-02T09:38:00.001-07:002015-07-02T09:42:22.651-07:00Flashback: The View From Fox-Amphoux<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhubpybj5IIpF4ZWdyHcQ_1DUAM6fK4HwfXVBIWhqAEoQJQV2Me-6fNXGqAEBypmaXJHxBXoY6A-b7BGjVzYitjEQ26y3AL9XRo291kils1uFQh7-ogP-m6AFPzNrdSbCs_9fMFspgWQ3zc/s640/blogger-image-1694394568.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhubpybj5IIpF4ZWdyHcQ_1DUAM6fK4HwfXVBIWhqAEoQJQV2Me-6fNXGqAEBypmaXJHxBXoY6A-b7BGjVzYitjEQ26y3AL9XRo291kils1uFQh7-ogP-m6AFPzNrdSbCs_9fMFspgWQ3zc/s640/blogger-image-1694394568.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As I settle in here on Viale di Trastevere, I'm hoping to catch up on recording the first bit of my trip--the vacation part with my husband, Andre, and, for the first few days, with our friends Howard, Melissa, and Artemis. We had the great pleasure of staying with them in their home in Fox-Amphoux, a quiet village in Provence. And I'm not using the word quiet casually. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">When we stepped out of the car, in the middle of a little cluster of homes, the first thing I noticed was the profound quiet--a thick, rich quiet like cream poured over everything, in which the loudest sound for miles around were the cries of the swallows that swooped and soared overhead.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">From up on the roof, the view stretched on for gorgeous miles. 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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Some of my friends--people I first met on the internet, though they later went on to be three-dimensional real-world friends--knew me first as Misadventure. I chose this particular handle in remembrance of my travels, and because of the Squeeze song...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Misadventures make the best stories. That's what I have been telling myself ever since I arrived in Rome. I'm staying in Trastevere, a neighborhood I don't know very well, and so far, if there's been a wrong turn to take, I've taken it. I've spent most of the last two and a half days lost--and not just geographically--learning the hard way how things work in a different culture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've had to admit that my sense of direction truly sucks, and that my Italian, while decent for the basics, really falls short when it comes to the complicated stuff. And I've had to learn that what I thought was politeness--asking, in Italian, "Excuse me, sir, I'm looking for X"--fell short enough in the politeness department to get me nowhere. I've learned that it's okay to take up more of a stranger's time by being really, really, REALLY polite. "Excuse me sir, could you please help me? I'm looking for X. Could you tell me where it is?" gets much better results. </span></div>
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