tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89538538269712693152024-03-12T21:08:52.438-07:00Ciao PoetryThe Writing Life: Thoughts on Poetics, Poets and BooksLois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-50360887061560030152018-05-06T09:00:00.002-07:002018-05-06T09:02:28.108-07:00Panoply, A Literary Zine ,"This is What a Young Man Looks Like When His Heart is Full Grown," Lois Roma-Deeley<a href="https://panoplyzine.com/">https://panoplyzine.com/</a><br />
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<br />Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-70804727227093295852018-02-25T07:07:00.000-07:002018-02-25T07:07:05.643-07:00SWWIM literary journal, "Ghost Mother" by Lois Roma-Deeley<br />
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"Ghost Mother, " Lois Roma-Deeley, published in SWWIM literary journal<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Short List of Certainties </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">explores the
many ways in which we are blind to the depths of our fears and to the heights
of our noblest selves. Experimental when necessary, but classic in design, Lois
Roma-Deeley has woven together a narrative structure that traces the “hero’s
journey” while reaching into and beyond the social issues of our time.
Roma-Deeley’s writing entices the reader to join two strong-willed and modern,
yet vulnerable feminist spirits, on this venture. The twin daughters of
Hope —anger and courage— materialize and dematerialize throughout time,
physical space, and social boundaries to liberate the world while destroying
classic mandates. The twins struggle within themselves, argue with each other,
and rage at the world as they fight against work-a-day violence, social
injustices, and even Hope itself. <i>The Short List of Certainties</i> offers
no easy answers for the brokenness found within ourselves and our world, but
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reader’s Guide Discussion
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Short List of
Certainties</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Lois Roma-Deeley</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">aperback:</span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
104 pages , $14.95</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Publisher:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Franciscan University Press (July 9, 2017)</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISBN-10:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
0996930558</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISBN-13:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
978-0996930550</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Short List of Certainties</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
opens with the prologue poem, “Snow Blind,” in which the speaker is watching a
glacier calve and then experiences a temporary loss of vision. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Define “blindness” in terms of fear. <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:49">I</ins>n<ins cite="mailto:Lois%20Roma-Deeley" datetime="2017-08-03T05:46"> </ins><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>terms of faith. How are they similar? <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:14">D</ins>issimilar? <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:50">G</ins>ive examples of each
drawn from your own life<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:50">.</ins></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How
<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:31">would</ins> you explain
the phrase “the blind what-if?” </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are two epigraphs attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo and Pascal which introduce
the book:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hope
has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the
way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
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Hippo</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You must wager. It is not
optional. You are embarked</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—--Pascal</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a) According to St. Augustine,
one of Hope’s beautiful daughters is Anger. Throughout history and in
individual lives, “righteous anger” has been used as a justification for change
and, in some cases, physical violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:50">Find an example from current
events.</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:51"> What are the
tangible effects of this anger?</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:50"> I</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:51">n your opinion, i</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:50">s the use of this anger justified?</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:51"> </ins></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">b) Do you agree or disagree that there may be other forms of
violence which <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:15">are not</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:32"> </ins>physical? Explain.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">c) <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:52">Within
the book t</ins>he twin daugh<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:52">t</ins>ers of Hope--Anger and Courage-- struggle
within themselves, argue with each other, and rage at the world as they fight
against work-a-day violence, social injustices, and even Hope itself. <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:21">How are the emotions of anger
and courage a product of hope? How and why are they at odds with each other?</ins>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">d) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:53">What are three ways in which
the structure of the book</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:54"> is</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:53"> shaped by the feel</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:54">i</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:53">ngs or interactions</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:54"> </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:53">of </ins>the twin daughters? </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">e) Define the “wager” to which Pascal refers in the <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:54">epigraph. </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:55">What does it mean to be
“embarked”? </ins>Wh<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:22">at</ins>
<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:55">do</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:56">es it mean that</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:55"> </ins>th<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:56">e</ins> gamble or bet is “not
optional”<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:33">?</ins> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3) <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In what ways does <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:57">the </ins>structure of this book<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>follow the<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:57"> </ins>idea of the hero’s journey as being one of
adventure and transformation? In what ways does the book depart from this
notion?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time,
memory and “the journey” all are key elements in this book. For example, the
first lines of the poem, “Nearby Is the Country,” state: “The past moves inside
me/as water from a swollen river makes its inevitable way/to the sea.” How <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T21:58">are </ins>time and memory like
moving water? Who <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:23">do you
believe could be</ins> the “bloody blind one” standing on the rooftop waiting
to be recused? Who or what <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:23">do
you think</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:34"> could</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:23"> be</ins> the rescuer?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
poem “Dematerializing” draw heavily on the tale of <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:34">“</ins>The Ring of Gyges,<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:34">”</ins> as set forth in Plato’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Republic, </i>which explores the idea of
human virtue. What would you do if you knew there would be no consequences to
your actions? <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-07-29T22:01"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does your answer match your core beliefs about
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Thoughts” <span class="browse-poem-preview">employ the editorial strike-out
function (as in <s>strike-out</s>) as a way of creating juxtaposition among
images to produce a poem that can be read and experienced <ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:26">at </ins>different levels.<ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:26"> Choose one of the poems and </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:28">analyze </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:26">the different meanings found
when reading it with and without the struck-out text. Which way feels more
authentic </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:31">to you </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:26">and why? </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:28">Do you believe this technique </ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:29">causes the poem to be</ins><ins cite="mailto:janie" datetime="2017-08-02T19:28"> more effective or less
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signature poem “Two Daughters” ends with the lines: “burn a path through this
world/or move on to the next.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In what
ways can a person “burn a path” through the world? <ins cite="mailto:Lois%20Roma-Deeley" datetime="2017-08-03T05:52"></ins></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ins cite="mailto:Lois%20Roma-Deeley" datetime="2017-08-03T05:47">In section three,
many of the speaker</ins><ins cite="mailto:Lois%20Roma-Deeley" datetime="2017-08-03T05:48">s are presented as imperfect human beings. </ins><ins cite="mailto:Lois%20Roma-Deeley" datetime="2017-08-03T05:49"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In what ways do these personas </ins><ins cite="mailto:Lois%20Roma-Deeley" datetime="2017-08-03T05:50">serve the themes
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your<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>own “short list of certainties?”
Explain why they would or would not be correct in their assumptions? Is there
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Click on the link to view a video of my poetry reading for the Narrow Chimney Reading Series in Flagstaff, Arizona</span>,<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On Monday evenings, during Northern Arizona University's fall and spring
semesters, Uptown Pubhouse, in downtown Flagstaff, presents The Narrow
Chimney Reading series. The series pairs two different creative writers
each week--one writer is from NAU's MFA program and one is an
established writer in the Flagstaff community--and gives them a forum to
share their original work. The hour reading takes place at 7 pm with
networking to follow. </span>Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-18831331117638330672016-08-06T08:37:00.000-07:002016-08-06T08:39:16.644-07:00Lines + Stars, Lois Roma-Deeley<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Nearby Is The Country"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">poem published in <i>Lines + Stars </i>literary journal, </span><br />
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Check this out! A video narrative of my poem "The Sensei of Venice Beach," created and published by Helen: A Literary Magazine as part of the Friday Night Specials series.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honored to have my poem "Don't Tell Me My Future" published in the Commemorative Issue of the Pinyon Review along with Marge Piercy, Kathleen Aguero, Walter Bargen, Joan Coby, Lucille Lang Day and so many other wonderful poets and writers!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">T<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">his was the homily given by my best friend and editor, Sydney James, as she officiated <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">at our best fr<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">iend<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'s</span> wedding.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good afternoon, and welcome to this wonderful celebration of the wedding of Dave and Marianne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m Sydney James, and I’ve known Marianne for thirty-one years. She’s a sister to me in all but blood. Lois Roma-Deeley, our other sister, is the Matron of Honor, and Rory Dave’s son, is the best man. Also standing here are four girls who love Marianne as their aunt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In all the time I’ve known Marianne, I have known her to be hopeful. Many of you here today have sat with her telling her your deepest dreams, and she has carried the flag of hope into battle for you. And for herself, she never gave up hoping to find the love of her life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think it’s safe to say that everyone here has to choose, every day, whether to hope, and what to hope for. And at the deepest levels, despite the anger and violence in the world, and in the face of our own doubt and sadness and fear, we all are hoping that love will win. We all want love to win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Isn’t that why we get emotional at weddings? No matter how cynical we might be, there’s something about two people taking this step together, declaring themselves absolutely on the side of love winning, that makes us dare to do it too. All of us in this room with them, for this moment, we’re living in hope!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But whenever we hope, here’s the thing--it’s always for something outside ourselves. Because if we could give it to ourselves, we would have done it already and we wouldn’t need to hope!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So it’s only something outside, something other, something bigger than ourselves, that can fulfill our hope. And that’s what makes it so difficult. We don’t control that Other, whether it’s a company to give us a job, or a neighborhood where we want to find a home, or finding our life partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we hope for something Other like that, we have to surrender to something that often we can’t even see, and gamble that it might meet our needs. And that’s why we resist hope. We like to be in control and we like to look at something and categorize it, and define what its limits should be. That makes us feel comfortable. But it also leaves our deepest needs untouched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Marianne and Dave entered into this relationship, they had to choose whether to let that process of surrender even begin to happen. They had to choose not to despair when things weren’t going exactly as they wanted them to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">They had to choose not to drape some illusion over one another, to remake each other in their own image and then get mad if the other person didn’t play along. Or to cover themselves with an illusion of being somebody else, somebody they thought they were supposed to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For real love to happen, they had to choose to truly see each other, and hear each other, and themselves, for who they really are. And when they were each seen and heard like that, they were able to become more of their real selves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To me each of them seems now to be a more strongly defined, clearer version of the person I knew before. They began by being as authentic as they could be, and that willingness to risk being known has led to them to be more deeply, more vividly, more truly themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Dave and Marianne, and for me and for many of you, it’s the love of God that is the biggest, most important love of all. These two believe that they found each other because God wants to manifest his love for them and for the world through their relationship. And they are daring to hope that that love will nourish and bring joy not just to them, but to others they’re in relationship with and those they encounter in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that is all of us, today, who may need a witness to testify to us that hope is a brave thing, a true thing, a thing we can trust. And that love will win.</span>Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-55514363512935812402016-07-17T08:43:00.000-07:002016-07-19T16:46:35.865-07:00Eyedrum Periodically Lois Roma-Deeley<br />
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Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-70392434771123899412016-07-11T15:44:00.001-07:002016-08-01T06:55:11.717-07:00More poems, on line, Lois Roma-Deeley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-61724521694287135872016-03-26T09:53:00.001-07:002016-04-22T06:33:35.127-07:00Roma-Deeley's poems online, 2016<span style="font-size: large;">This has been quite an eventful month with new poetry publications to be found online!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Helen: A LiteraryMagazine</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Abduction </i></span><br />
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"In
September 2014, NPR writer and critic Juan Vidal wrote an essay whose
titular question, "Where Have All the Poets Gone?" provided a platform
for various musings regarding the political state of contemporary
American poetics. According to Vidal, "For centuries, poets were the
mouthpieces railing loudly against injustice. They gave voice to the
hardships and evils facing people everywhere... What has happened?" He
further suggested that poets writing today have failed to create work
that carries the same "weight" as the poems written by their literary
forefathers.<br />
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Should American poets still be trying to write
"Howl"? Are Neruda, Kerouac, Baraka, and the rest of the Beat Generation
the only viable prototypes for political literary expression in
American culture? How does the influx of identities, voices, and life
experiences that are now expressed in mainstream American letters
potentially create and communicate new political vision(s) -- vision
that may sound or appear different from Ginsberg's poetic/political tour
de force, but is no less necessary, compelling, challenging, or
iconoclastic? What do we even mean when we talk about the weight of a
political work? How is that weight both carried and expressed by poetry
today?<br />
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To address these questions, Sundress Publications' newest
anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of
Identity showcases the substantial amount of political writing that is
being done today. <br />
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Contributors include Kenzie Allen, Jasmine An,
Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ahi Baraka, Anne Barngrover, Jennifer Bartlett,
Scott Bear Don't Walk, Erin Belieu, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Xochitl-Julisa
Bermejo, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Callista Buchen, Cortney Larmar
Charleston, Sarah A. Chavez, Chen Chen, Alicia Cole, CA Conrad, Oliver
De La Paz, Emile DeWeaver, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Amber Flame, Lisa A.
Flowers, Yolanda J. Franklin, Jennie Frost, Carmen Gimenez-Smith,
Arielle Greenberg , M. Ayodele Heath, Sara Henning, Jeb Herrin,
Elizabeth Hoover, Mark Irwin, Allison Joseph, Bhanu Kapil, Vandana
Khanna, Ayisha Knight-Shaw, EJ Koh, Kristin LaTour, Kenji C. Liu,
Timothy Liu, M. Mack, Shahé Mankerian, Shane McCrae, Freesia McKee, Lynn
Melnick, Philip Metres, Hoa Nguyen, Jennifer Perrine, Saba Syed Razvi,
Jessica Reidy, <span style="color: #cc0000;">Lois Roma-Deeley</span>, Danny A. Romero, Lee Ann Roripaugh,
Danielle Sellers, Glenn Shaheen, Raena Shirali, Karen Skolfield,
Christopher Soto, aka Loma, Anna B. Sutton, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie,
Emma Trelles, Donna Vorreyer, Jim Warner, Ginny Wiedhardt, Hanif
Willis-Abdurraquib, and Emily Jungmin Yoon!"Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-28978265070734156832016-02-08T08:48:00.002-07:002016-02-08T08:48:55.000-07:00Redux: A Literary Journal and Lois Roma-Deeley's poem <a href="http://www.reduxlitjournal.com/2016/02/192-all-she-knew-she-learned-at-movies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.reduxlitjournal.com/…/192-all-she-knew-she-learn…</a><br />
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Here is the link to Redux: A Literary Journal where you can find my
poem "All She Knew She Learned at the Movies"--along with my
mini-essay about the piece.<br />
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Many thanks to editor Leslie Pietrzyk!<br />
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previously published stories and poems, not found elsewhere on the web
~~ edited by novelist Leslie Pietrzyk ~~</span>Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-85580845675149504032016-01-11T14:24:00.002-07:002016-01-11T16:40:45.431-07:00Lois Roma-Deeley, Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant<br />
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Thrilled to announce that I have be awarded an Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant!<br />
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<a href="http://azarts.gov/news-media/">http://azarts.gov/news-media/</a><br />
<br />Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-48128078668321428132015-08-04T11:10:00.004-07:002015-08-10T07:25:11.259-07:00"The Ballad of Downtown Jake" Roma-Deeley & Scinto, nominees, ariZoni AwardI am thrilled to say that"The Ballad of Downtown Jake," a music drama based on my collection of poems <i>High Notes--</i>and for which I wrote the book and lyrics--has two nominations for the 2015 ariZoni Awards.<br />
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Nominations:<br />
Original Script--Adult--Play or Musical (Lois Roma-Deeley)<br />
Original Music Composition--Adult--Play or Musical (Christopher Scinto)<br />
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<a href="http://www.arizoniawards.com/">http://www.arizoniawards.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The ariZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">About Us</span><br />
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The
ariZoni Theatre Awards is a not-for-profit organization devoted to
promoting the visibility and growth of theatre in the Valley of the Sun
& Maricopa County. Each year at its annual awards ceremony, the
Board bestows an outstanding contribution award and a distinguished
service award to deserving individuals or organizations for their
contributions to theatre. In addition, the ariZoni Scholarship
Committee will award one or more scholarships to selected, qualified
students.<br />
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Most
importantly, after completion of an exhaustive judging process,
(involving close to 100 Adjudicators) awards of excellence are
presented to those individuals who have excelled in performance and
production during the just-completed season. <br />
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These awards represent true celebrations of EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE. Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-69203727575696477532015-07-20T07:59:00.001-07:002015-07-20T08:00:03.720-07:00Roma-Deeley's poem "Otherwise"--The Good Men ProjectI am thrilled my poem "Otherwise" is on The Good Men Project webpage!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I breathe out the last of my heart--</span></div>
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From this distance, my husband seems so small.<br />
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Through dreams in one direction. If I call<br />
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To him from this great height: <i>we</i><br />
<i>Had a life no one thought practical,</i><br />
Will he look up and will he answer me?<br />
Love and work will kill him. I’ve seen his eyes<br />
Study the clouds, heavy with ridicule,<br />
Too late. But what if there were better lives,<br />
Some way we always think that it should be? Our days<br />
Filled with a furious constancy,<br />
Rise through the rain. We are not what we became.<br />
I have looked into the palm of his hand<br />
Cupped under the well-pump and don’t know why<br />
He doesn’t scream out loud. The farmer<br />
And his wife–Tom and Jane–two marks<br />
Over one grave. Now he sees my face<br />
In the light on a pool of standing water…<br />
From a whisper of dark,<br />
Honeysuckle in the meadowland,<br />
I breathe out the last of my heart–<br />
We have lived as if this is commonplace.<br />
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(first published on <a href="https://bestpoem.wordpress.com/tag/lois-roma-deeley/" target="_blank">BestPoem.com</a>)<br />
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<b>Otherwise</b><br />
From this distance, my husband seems so small.<br />
Like water over mill wheels, he moves<br />
Through dreams in one direction. If I call<br />
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To him from this great height: <i>we</i><br />
<i>Had a life no one thought practical,</i><br />
Will he look up and will he answer me?<br />
Love and work will kill him. I’ve seen his eyes<br />
Study the clouds, heavy with ridicule,<br />
Too late. But what if there were better lives,<br />
Some way we always think that it should be? Our days<br />
Filled with a furious constancy,<br />
Rise through the rain. We are not what we became.<br />
I have looked into the palm of his hand<br />
Cupped under the well-pump and don’t know why<br />
He doesn’t scream out loud. The farmer<br />
And his wife–Tom and Jane–two marks<br />
Over one grave. Now he sees my face<br />
In the light on a pool of standing water…<br />
From a whisper of dark,<br />
Honeysuckle in the meadowland,<br />
I breathe out the last of my heart–<br />
We have lived as if this is commonplace.<br />
***<br />
(first published on <a href="https://bestpoem.wordpress.com/tag/lois-roma-deeley/" target="_blank">BestPoem.com</a>)<br />
- See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/chb-otherwise/#sthash.JT9B3VlV.dpuf</div>
Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-78703803898787535402015-05-23T16:08:00.001-07:002015-05-23T16:08:02.744-07:00The Ballad of Downtown Jake - World Premiere Performance<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vyOEd-oWBtI" width="480"></iframe>Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-7394998366954014902015-03-11T07:56:00.001-07:002015-03-11T07:56:48.052-07:00The Ballad of Downtown Jake, based on HIGH NOTES, by Lois Roma-Deeley, World Premiere March 12<style>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE BALLAD OF DOWNTOWN JAKE</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(a contemporary music drama - for mature audiences) </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Created by PVCC Faculty members Dr. Lois Roma-Deeley and Dr.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Directed by PVCC Faculty member Andrea Robertson </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 12th, 13th, 14th @ 7:30pm; Sunday March 15th @ 2:00pm.
$8</span><span style="font-family: "Noteworthy Light"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">‐</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$15 Admission.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE BALLAD OF DOWNTOWN JAKE</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is
set in the shadowy jazz scene of the late 1950’s. On the road to success, Jake
Delmonico, once crowned the greatest saxophonist America has ever heard, takes
several dark turns, which threaten his life and, ultimately, his music. Each of
the main characters—hustler, jazz man, singer, waitress—and even the one
hovering Angel—struggle with themselves and the world they find themselves
living in. Jake’s addiction to drugs has resulted in the deaths of his children
and the near ruin of his music. Harry Jones tempts Jake, again and again, with
heroin. Sugar Baby’s unrelenting grief and emotional overdependence on Jake has
pivoted her life toward drugs, alcohol and prostitution. As the Civil Rights
movement is stirring, Jasmine is beginning to confront her own anger over
injustice. At each and every turn, the Angel refuses to give up hope for these
souls of “the imperfect now.” The spirits of Johnny Dae, Charlie “Bird” Parker
and other jazz greats appear in various ways to offer comfort and not a small
amount of warning. Lust, betrayal, longing and love make the journey these five
characters take a treacherous one, marked by addiction, redemption, hope and
one last shot at fame.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"What a journey this has been!" says Lois
Roma-Deeley, who wrote the lyrics and book for the show. “After nearly 10 years
of collaborating with composer Christopher Scinto on this project and now
working with such outstanding artists, I am thrilled to see the fusion of music
and poetry, story and character, struggle and hope, come to life on stage. The
total effect is pure magic!"</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Composer and musical director Christopher Scinto says, “The
musical score for JAKE is heavily influenced by the blues and small combo jazz
of the 1950s, which are fused together with musical conventions found in opera
and musical theater.”</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The opportunity to direct a new work is a rare and
wonderful one,” says Andrea Robertson. “Having the chance to turn to the
playwright and composer and say ‘what if we tried this?’ or ‘can you clarify
this character choice?’ is amazing; usually as a director you are feeling
around in the dark, guessing as best you can what the playwright meant or
wanted.”</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-66850607231012318682014-12-09T07:19:00.000-07:002014-12-09T07:19:00.275-07:00Spillway "Muse & Music" Roma-DeeleyThrilled that my poem, "A Banjo Strums Itself to Sleep," is published in the poetry journal <i>Spillway</i>'s "Muse & Music" edition alongside so many of my favorite poets, including: Norman Dubie, Jane Hirshfield, Cornelius Eady, Richard Krawiec, Eleanor Wilner and many more! Thank you Susan Terris!<br />
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<span id="goog_147764521"></span><span id="goog_147764522"></span><br />Lois Roma-Deeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08228283583882563423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953853826971269315.post-13976789930396149452014-10-23T10:37:00.001-07:002014-10-23T16:12:58.132-07:00The Dr. Lois Roma-Deeley Creative Writing Scholarship EndowmentI am honored and thrilled that my college has created a creative writing scholarship in my name!<br />
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