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	<title>Art Workshop International</title>
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	<description>Instructional &#038; Independent Programs</description>
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		<itunes:summary>Instructional  Independent Programs</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Art Workshop International&#8217;s alumni playing basketball with President Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=238</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the headiest basketball game, take a look at this picture of B.J. D&#8217;Elia, White House Producer for CBS News, and an alumni of Art Workshop International.  B.J., who is a fabulous photographer (his photos are on several of the pages of our website), is also a writer. Art Workshop International alumni B.J. DElia, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the headiest basketball game, take a look at this picture of B.J. D&#8217;Elia, White House Producer for CBS News, and an alumni of Art Workshop International.  B.J., who is a fabulous photographer (his photos are on several of the pages of our website), is also a writer. Art Workshop International alumni B.J. DElia, White House Producer for CBS News.
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		<title>Art Workshop International Photos from the Past</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=233</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the 30th anniversary of Art Workshop International coming up, alumni are sending us photos.  Here&#8217;s some from 1991.  Will post more as they come in.  Ciao, Chris Spencer
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the 30th anniversary of Art Workshop International coming up, alumni are sending us photos.  Here&#8217;s some from 1991.  Will post more as they come in.  Ciao, Chris Spencer
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		<title>Art Workshop International with Tony Kushner, Mark Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=225</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bea Kreloff, Director of Art Workshop International, knows a lot of people in the art/writing world.  And to demonstrate that, here&#8217;s a photo of her with Tony Kushner and Mark Harris.  
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		<title>Art Workshop International Alumna Marilyn Yanke&#8217;s Art</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional artist Marilyn Yanke who has attended several sessions of Art Workshop International continues to surprise me.  The latest is that she has combined a poem with a portrait.  Here are both:
Girl Child
Girl Child, A shadow ago,
Share not your hopes, your ribbon of unnamed dreams.
Tasting flower&#8217;s morning dew, oh, butterfly&#8217;s here too.
My face [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Professional artist Marilyn Yanke who has attended several sessions of Art Workshop International continues to surprise me.  The latest is that she has combined a poem with a portrait.  Here are both:
Girl Child
Girl Child, A shadow ago,
Share not your hopes, your ribbon of unnamed dreams.
Tasting flower&#8217;s morning dew, oh, butterfly&#8217;s here too.
My face among patches of blue, upon earth, puddles drew.
Whirling, giant rabbit, now white cat, wind&#8217;s magic hat.
My path lays before me, dare I dream it to be!
Wearing my dictated coat, cold or hot, do what I am told.
My face shows not my heart, I am more than pretty art.
Crying to let my spirit fly, others saying don&#8217;t even try!
My being sheds this despair, facade of equality laid bare.
I share my hopes, my ribbon of unnamed dreams.

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		<title>Art Workshop International creative writing instructor Bob Hughes</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=229</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch an introductory video that describes the courses that writer Bob Hughes, who covered varied cultural events for the Wall Street Journal for many years.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Watch an introductory video that describes the courses that writer Bob Hughes, who covered varied cultural events for the Wall Street Journal for many years.
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		<title>Art Workshop International&#8217;s Susan Yankowitz collaborates on Women in the World Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=227</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the March 12th opening night in New York of a three-day summit, Women in the World: Stories and Solutions, co-hosted by The Daily Beast, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Diane von Furstenburg, and the UN Foundation. Secretary Clinton will introduce an exclusive one-night reading at the Hudson Theatre of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the March 12th opening night in New York of a three-day summit, Women in the World: Stories and Solutions, co-hosted by The Daily Beast, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Diane von Furstenburg, and the UN Foundation. Secretary Clinton will introduce an exclusive one-night reading at the Hudson Theatre of SEVEN, the documentary play created for Vital Voices Global Partnership to honor the courage of brave female activists from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, and Russia.
Seven acclaimed actors have volunteered their time to dramatize the issues highlighted in the play: Meryl Streep heads the line-up, which includes Marcia Gay Harden, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stephanie Okereke, Archie Panjabi, Julyana Soelistyo and Lauren Velez. 
The reading is directed by celebrated Broadway director Julie Taymor. SEVEN is a collaboration by playwrights Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, and Susan Yankowitz.
Said Daily Beast Founder Tina Brown; &#8220;We are all delighted that Secretary Clinton, who has done so much throughout her career to further the goals and aspirations of women around the world, will be joining this remarkable gathering of inspirational voices.&#8221;
Said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: &#8220;The play powerfully portrays the transformative way that seven courageous women have changed their societies for the better - from peace-building, to fighting corruption to combating violence against women.&#8221;
Secretary Clinton led the Vital Voices initiative when it was a program of the State Department and she was First Lady. Secretary Clinton personally knows and admires the women depicted in the play.
Alyse Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vital Voices Global Partnership said; &#8220;The most powerful thing about SEVEN is that it gets to the heart of some of the most critical issues facing our world today. It reminds us of the power of the human spirit to rise up when faced withadversity and as we riseit reminds us that we have a responsibility to bring others along with us.&#8221;
Summit participants include Valerie Jarrett, Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Fatima Bhutto, Cherie Blair, Luis CdeBaca, Thomas L. Friedman, Edna Adan Ismail, Christine Lagarde, Molly Melching, Somaly Mam, Frances Townsend, and Zainab Salbi.
Moderators include Christiane Amanpour, Mika Brzezinski, Katie Couric and Barbara Walters.
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		<title>Words to Eat by Art Workshop International&#8217;s Paulette Licitra</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=226</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food is the ultimate subject to write about.
It speaks to us all because we all eatwere all in contact with food everyday. And whether thats a pleasant experience or a troubling one it is part of our basic connection to life.
I think thats why the subject is so good at eliciting fiction, essays, memoirs, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Food is the ultimate subject to write about.
It speaks to us all because we all eatwere all in contact with food everyday. And whether thats a pleasant experience or a troubling one it is part of our basic connection to life.
I think thats why the subject is so good at eliciting fiction, essays, memoirs, and poetry: stories. Readers know about food and are eager to know the experiences of other individuals. Food inspires interaction with the world around you. And interactions always come with stories.
 Food writer (and fiction writer) Laurie Colwin said: &#8220;For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.&#8221;
Here is a little taste of food literature: a recipe poem of my own, and two excerpts from pieces that appeared in the journal I publish: Alimentum.
Peas
Peas are a strange animal. Two peas in a pod. Peas on earth. Grandma at the farm shelling peas into a bowl while rocking on the back porch. I grew up well away from any farm. My mom bought Le Seur petite peas in a can. They were green, but really a kind of grey-green. Still we thought they were the most excellent. Never being an advocate of frozen food I finally realized that the best peas are frozen peas (if you dont have a back porch on a farm). You can even get petite frozen peas. I like them in a bag rather than a box because you can squish the frozen peas around in there. Not squish to pop them, just to juggle them a little. I saut some cut up pancetta and thin sliced onion half-moons in a little olive oil. Add a splash of white wine and let it evaporate then pour in the peas (with a bit of water if they need it) and salt and pepper. This recipe gives peas a little lift. Makes them feels European. Lots of things improve when they feel European.
Excerpt from The Art of Eating Alone by Scott Seward Smith
. . . I sat there waiting for my food and feeling quite proper in my loneliness, quite relaxed. I felt the propriety of my loneliness. It&#8217;s all in the attitude: don&#8217;t keep recrossing your ankles, don&#8217;t bite your cuticles, don&#8217;t twist your glass so much, but don&#8217;t look catatonic either. Just look like you know something everyone else doesn&#8217;t.
Excerpt from The Freedom of Found Food by Ellen Morris Prewitt
We roamed the pastures of Mamo&#8217;s farm, we weaved in and out of neighbors&#8217; trees, we even sampled from our own front yards. Like the scavengers we were, we&#8217;d examine, but not eat, the onions at the end of the onion grass. We ate flower petals"velvety"and, on our walk to Power Elementary School, we&#8217;d lick the pollen butter from the buttercups"a dry, powdery disappointment. Likewise for wild strawberries"the little knots had no taste at all. At least the mimosa beans that we crunched while Mother was learning to play tennis on the public courts tasted like dirt. But taste wasn&#8217;t the point, was it, or why tackle the bitter persimmon?
Alimentum news:
Weve named our 2009 Poetry Contest Winners
For April National Poetry Month were once again publishing menupoems for diners to enjoy with their meals (and their menus). This year were inviting you to video your reading of a menupoem and well post it on Alimentums Youtube channel.
AND: We just got word that Alimentum won Best Food Magazine in the World from the 2010 International Gourmand Awards!
More news, samples, and food fun on Alimentums website:
http://www.alimentumjournal.com/
Paulette Licitra
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		<title>Art Workshop International&#8217;s Dinitia Smith&#8217;s new play</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=224</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Dinitia Smith&#8217;s new play &#8220;Dirty Pictures&#8221; just had a highly-successful reading at the Actors Studio, with the well-known theater actor actor, Austin Pendleton, in the lead role. There are hopes for a production the play soon.
        Dirty Pictures is the story of a little-known piece of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[  Dinitia Smith&#8217;s new play &#8220;Dirty Pictures&#8221; just had a highly-successful reading at the Actors Studio, with the well-known theater actor actor, Austin Pendleton, in the lead role. There are hopes for a production the play soon.
        Dirty Pictures is the story of a little-known piece of American history, the arrest in 1960 of the gay literary critic Newton Arvin and two younger colleagues at Smith College as part of a government crackdown on homosexuals that occurred at the end of the McCarthy period. Gays were targeted as security risks because they were supposedly vulnerable to blackmail by Communists. Prior to the arrests of Arvin and his friends, nearly 1,000 Federal workers in Washington, D.C. had lost their jobs for &#8220;sexual perversion&#8221; under Executive Order 10450 from President Eisenhower. 
The play is a reimagining of these incidents based on interviews, trial transcripts, and historical documents.
NOTE:  A leading agent is now taking the lead.  We will watch for upcoming developments!  &#8212; Chris Spencer
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		<title>Art Workshop International alumna Diana Woodcock&#8217;s Poetry Chapbook published!</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=223</link>
		<comments>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=223#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of
Mandala by Diana Woodcock, the 14th book in FootHills Poets on Peace Series.
(Release Date, December  
From the book:
FOR LHASA
March 17, 2008 I could not shake
the thought of you in flames.
Throughout the day whispering
the names of those I know still
living in your center, on your
periphery.  Felt [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of
Mandala by Diana Woodcock, the 14th book in FootHills Poets on Peace Series.
(Release Date, December  
From the book:
FOR LHASA
March 17, 2008 I could not shake
the thought of you in flames.
Throughout the day whispering
the names of those I know still
living in your center, on your
periphery.  Felt your misery.
Smelled burning shops, overturned cars,
Chinese flags.  Saw smoke rising like
incense over the Potala and Jokhang.
Heard the rumblings of a hundred
tanks moving through your hallowed
streets.  Remembered the soldier
who narrowly missed me, knocking
me down-bicycle and body sprawled
on the ground as he sped past laughing.
Today I said it out loud to no one
in particular, to the nameless faces
in the crowd, I never left you nor
loved any city more.  So tonight
I&#8217;ll fill seven prayer bowls, make a
mandala out of Arabian desert sand,
remember as I dangle my feet in Gulf
waters the source of the Ganges,
and wonder if indeed I am a certain
lama&#8217;s reincarnation.  I&#8217;ll take that
long flight back, walk the famished,
enflamed road leading to the holy
city where I&#8217;ll rise up like incense,
a faithful wife burning on her husband&#8217;s
pyre because I can&#8217;t forget
you, most fragile tragic city of Tibet.
Mandala
is a 40 page hand-stitched chapbook.
$10.00
For comments about the book, cover image,
another poem, author bio
or to order on-line go to:
http://foothillspublishing.com/2009/id69.htm
To order through mail send total price plus $1.75 Shipping and Handling
($2.75 in Canada; $5.00 other countries) for each address sent to.
(NYS Residents please add $1.20 Sales Tax per book)
Send orders to:
FootHills Publishing
PO Box 68
Kanona, NY 14856
(This is a one-time only mailing. Your address was supplied by the poet
and will not be used in any other mailing.)
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		<title>Private Eye Fiction by S.J. Rozan, Art Workshop International instructor</title>
		<link>http://www.artworkshopintl.com/blog/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events from &#8220;The American Culture&#8221;
Crippen &#038; Landru Publishers
Paper: 243 pages
ISBN (cloth): 978-1-932009-89-7  (paper): 978-1-932009-90-3
$42.00 (cloth)  $17.00 (paper)
Multiple-award-winning private eye (p.i.) author S. J. Rozan is equally at home writing novels or short stories. Crippen &#038; Landru has collected together some prime examples of her work [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events from &#8220;The American Culture&#8221;
Crippen &#038; Landru Publishers
Paper: 243 pages
ISBN (cloth): 978-1-932009-89-7  (paper): 978-1-932009-90-3
$42.00 (cloth)  $17.00 (paper)
Multiple-award-winning private eye (p.i.) author S. J. Rozan is equally at home writing novels or short stories. Crippen &#038; Landru has collected together some prime examples of her work in the short form.
Rozans tone in these stories varies from decidedly grim to lightly humorous, but she never strays very far from what is usually called the real world " or at least the world typically envisioned by private eye authors (i.e., that environment of unremitting sin and corruption in high and low places which p.i. writers have created by common consent and inhabited with sinful and corrupt characters who are never more than one step removed from being stereotypes) " a world, in brief, that is as real and yet as unreal as Middle Earth.
All of which in no wise detracts from Rozans story-telling skill; when it comes to p.i. fiction, she may be one of its foremost contemporary practitioners.
Night Court takes us to an unexpected place, almost to another universe, yet its where we live daily:
Murph took his seat on the bench, after which the assembled multitudes, who had been bidden by Rossi to stand, sat also. Not that they were all that multitudinous: night court didnt allow spectators. The only people here were directly connected with the case. The attorneys, the witnesses, Rossi, the guards. And the defendant. Murph watched Leopold squirm. The guy looked pale. Well, he ought to. He was in big trouble.
Rozan gives a p.i. named Smith in one story and Bill Smith in another two cases (Hoops and Childhood) keyed to the shortcomings of the social system:
     Why me? I asked. Curtis knows every piece of black slime that ever walked the earth, but he sent you a white detective. Why?
     Cause the slime we looking for, Raymond said evenly, I dont believe they black.
Passline is a departure for Rozan, not a p.i. story but a character study of a man, a compulsive gambler, under extreme pressure:
     And the people who built this place (not the first time, not the old days, but now), they knew, too. They built everything huge and so obviously fake because of it. No one talked about it (that was part of it, the shared secret) but they didnt want you to forget it. They knew the rush was better because of the desert. They knew the illusion only worked because of the truth.
     And the truth was, if he didnt come home with $400,000 for Bennie, Taylor was a dead man.
In Seeing the Moon, Chinese-American private eye and fine art connoisseur Jack Lee gets involved in an art swindle:
    Molly told me he gives you the hives.
    Hives, he makes me itch? Yah, thats good, Jack! Yes, its bad enough, the people who buy and sell art as a commodity, with no love. But to cheat also, this is abhorrent. Such men must be avoided. You cannot win against a man like that.
The remaining four stories in A Tale About a Tiger feature Rozans famous series character, Chinatown p.i. Lydia Chin, who sometimes joins forces with her barbarian partner Bill Smith. The first one is Film at Eleven, where Lydia is on the trail of a murderer who seems to have gotten away with it:
As it had been when our eyes first met, my skin crawled now, so near Mitch Ellman. The way he leaned a little too close; the way his teeth seemed pointed when he smiled; the way his eyes held mine too long every time they met: I wanted to get up and move, to put actual, physical distance between us.
In Subway, a rape case escalates into murder " of the witnesses:
      I told you, no one was sure-sure. Or if they were, they wouldnt say. And they cant get DNA without a court order if he dont want to give it. They cant get a court order unless they arrest him, which they cant without probable cause. They got no conviction in the prior and no i.d., they got no probable cause. Besides, she added, shaking her head, they lost him.
      What do you mean, lost him?
      He disappeared. After the line-up. Hes scum but I guess hes not stupid.
With A Tale About a Tiger, folk lore leads to fraud " and also to gunplay:
      Fifteen, Ho. Thats a cool $135,000, in good American cash. Take it and run.
       That will barely cover my expenses, Ho objected, much less compensate me for the risks Ive taken in obtaining these items, and bringing them into this country.
       Meaning, I thought, bribing and poaching and smuggling.
Finally, in Double-Crossing Delancey, Lydia must outcon a consummate conman:
Well, that would be like Joe: giving away as little as possible, even to his business partner. Controlling the information minimizes the chance of error, misstep, or deliberate double-cross. As, for example, what Charlie and I were up to right now.
If you like your private eyes both hard- and soft-boiled but imbued with a social conscience, A Tale About a Tiger should satisfy you. S. J. Rozan strikes a fine balance between the extremes of Miss Marple and Mike Hammer, and for that reason " as well as her smooth prose " these stories will be of interest.
(Parental warning: Strong language, not for children.)
"Mike Gray
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