Category Archives: art

Overdue Meto-news for May Day

Posted on May 1, 2017 by metonymicalpen

Interview time (click here for the link). Thanks, as usual, to Mike Czyzniejewski, for the gig.  Smokelong Quarterly has turned out another smashing edition with ol’ 55 (here) and is still including an interview for every single piece, every single … Continue reading →

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Hanging On, Finishing & Fixing

Posted on March 14, 2017 by metonymicalpen

This gallery contains 7 photos.


I see you, long ago Illustrator. Maybe things were pretty bleak then, too. Continue reading →

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More Art

Posted on March 2, 2017 by metonymicalpen

  As uncomfortable as it makes me, I have to admit that the election of our 45th president kicked my ass sideways. I’ve lost some time on the blog to swirling anxiety, anger, and exhaustion brought about by insomnia—a condition … Continue reading →

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April Throwback Thursday: A Storybook

Posted on May 14, 2015 by metonymicalpen

Of all the lame social media/facebook trends out there to which I wish I wouldn’t succumb (“What Avengers Character are you? Let’s Play!”), I admit there is one I actually like and even value. Throwback Thursdays have given me the … Continue reading →

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The Goddard Blog: rawboned in the News

Posted on May 11, 2015 by metonymicalpen

Check out the Goddard Blog, here, for a great overview/interview/write up of our rawboned staff in its current configuration: Ginna Luck, who I think of as our soul-bearer of beauty and the aesthetic ideal. bevin, who is the persona of poetry–a … Continue reading →

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May ’15 Prompt-a-thon: Quantum Fiction

Posted on May 7, 2015 by metonymicalpen

Here I go, on a nerd voyage. But there is a literary ending, so all will be well. Just to preface, if you haven’t been reading along and don’t know it yet, I am a huge lover of all things sky: … Continue reading →

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Erasure Time

Posted on April 20, 2015 by metonymicalpen

I’ve been erasing again. I am back on the Henry Van Dyke project pretty much every day, working steadily while also shaping the final projects in a short collection that began as my MFA thesis. On the whole, I have decided the … Continue reading →

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Did I Icon the Week Away?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by metonymicalpen

For the longest time,  a wooden egg I found at a remnants sale has sat on a shelf in my closet. I’ve had a confusing variety of ideas about what should cover the egg—everything from decoupage flowers to simple gradations … Continue reading →

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Meto-things: What’s Up

Posted on February 27, 2015 by metonymicalpen

Here is where things are at: 1 My partner in all things of art and life, David L. White, has three poems up at The Knicknackery, “Low Tide”, “Crochet”, and “At Oven’s Door”, which I can’t even read because it breaks me. Intensity. I … Continue reading →

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Prompt-a-thon, with Pictures

Posted on February 19, 2015 by metonymicalpen

I have learned something valuable: Prompts are well liked. I guess I get a little frustrated with prompt-driven writing because it was so much a part of the public school classroom. I, the student me, hated grade school (and everything … Continue reading →

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