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just in case i remember the first time i read jayne s writing at poetry w an internet writing workshop that works through e mails and how it made my brain sizzle i was amazed to learn using my megawatt nosiness that she had only started writing poetry had the poetry world been a greek myth jayne was athena who sprang into being fully formed and fully armed with pen and paper from the head of zeus that was i think over six or seven years ago sorry i have the memory of a big goldfish and lose count after five years the important thing is we got out of the w cave and got into funky online forums where we ran laps in the 30 poems for 30 days marathon together with other masochistic poets you know who you are so don t pretend to be innocent in the meantime we discovered that we were both happily mental and shared a healthy or unhealthy depending on how you look at it love for banter cursing wine and recently zombies and freud after both appearing innocently in the same issue of an online bisexual journal you d probably expect something to happen and something did last may we rented a room at the etherpad where we literally had a tapeworm together the little bugger nicknamed cobra is still making its choppy way through submission school we had planned to work on more short fiction this summer but things came up and we had to move our trysts to late autumn i m still sad that we would never have other mutant babies to sic to editors but i m also grateful for jayne s gift of laughter and our cobra yesterday i had fun going through our last bawdy e mails from june under the eerie subject header good omens where we were exchanging double yays because she finally found a cover she liked for her poetry collection the livelihood of crows and i happened to be a huge fan of pamela hill s art i m really happy that she got to see the book in its final form i thought i d post the old bio on her website which i managed back in 2007 wherein she talked more about her life and her family for some strange reason i held on to it and am glad that i did jayne s wonderful nature and vibrant personality just shines through her words i was born in the shenandoah valley of virginia in 1962 as the story goes my mother went into labor during a march blizzard my father was stationed in north carolina where he served as part of the military police in his absence my uncle drove my mother to the hospital they barely made it through the snow drifts but they did i m here that s proof my only sibling a brother was born two years later there would be no more children as this was about the time my parents learned that i had a form of muscular dystrophy a condition that would show up in any female children they produced my childhood included a lot of things that weren t fun wheelchairs braces surgeries casts sandbags and so on but i had a devoted family books and animals and didn t seem to need much else that s still pretty much true with the exception of the bible and the farmer s almanac books were not valued much in my childhood home bedtime stories weren t part of evening rituals no one wrote poems or spent time reading novels if anyone in my family kept a diary i never knew it despite their own lack of interest in books my parents saw that reading was something i could do and enjoy they gave me all the books i wanted and allowed me to read anything i chose one of the advantages of growing up in a family of nonreaders was that no one censored what i read to this day my mother undoubtedly thinks anais nin s little birds is a story about sparrows i m not about to tell her differently while i read and wrote constantly i didn t consider becoming a writer in rural communities like the one where i grew up writers were akin to astronauts jugglers and movie stars sure they existed but no one in their right mind talked about becoming one i went to college at age seventeen and majored in psychology completing first my bs and then my ma both from james madison university i used all my electives to take english courses continued to write and published my first poem i was given awards from both the english department and psychology department during the next years i worked with several populations including battered women and the homeless mentally ill but i found my niche as a therapist working with inmates i relocated to central virginia to work with incarcerated sexual offenders after several years working with adults i transferred to a correctional center for juveniles where i continued to specialize in the treatment of sexual offenders and their families soon after leaving the shenandoah valley i met and married my husband a librarian he is sane stable and a calming influence in my life as i once heard joyce carol oates say on c span no one tells you that you re going to need somebody like that to write but you do if you don t have someone like that go find them ed and i are parents to three amazing children through adoption kaity was born in india and came home to us at age five she was quite the feral child as she was blind born without eyes and autistic she had never spoken a word and understood no english nor had she been potty trained or taught how to use a spoon travis was also born in india and came home to us as an infant he was actually our first child adopted a year or so before kaity and finally we adopted ryan an african american boy born in the united states he was only five months old when he arrived when my children were older i turned more and more attention to writing i became more focused and started submitting work to publishers receiving a number of rejections but also more acceptances than i expected my work has appeared in numerous print and online journals and has twice been nominated for the pushcart prize i m the author of two poetry chapbooks primitive pudding house press 2004 and local girls dead mule 2007 my first novel tomato girl is forthcoming from algonquin books in 2008 that same year forms of intercession my first full length collection of poems will be published by mayapple press jayne pupek august 2007 here s to you jayne photo courtesy of didi wood from jayne s doll poems on press 1 posted by arlene at 4 37 pm 20 comments wednesday october 28 2009 interview with liz gallagher in the event museum there is no pleasure like wine and no pleasure greater than drinking wine with liz gallagher while talking about her first full length collection of poems the wrong miracle salt publishing 2009 as part of their contract poets are given a superhero costume to wear during the interview just so they understand that we are dead serious arlene ang welcome to the event museum liz i hope you re comfy liz gallagher hi arlene it is lovely to be here at the event museum thanks for awakening me out of my non poetry slumbering life and getting me up and about again i so love the superwoman outfit that you had laid out on the couch for me as you can see i have slipped into it and also have delighted in the fact that my legs took on a new spurt of growth while doing so i am totally comfortable sitting here and yes if there is a large martini going i would be delighted hope you join me and i adore your outfit too i want your dressmaker s name after the interview aa i m pleased to say that our supporters have provided us with every type of liquor but no glasses it s probably a study on human adaptation just pick what you want and drink directly from the bottle it s perfectly okay talking of adaptation i ve always been intrigued that you were born in donegal ireland and have been living in grand canary island these past fourteen years what impact did this have in your writing would you have any poems that shout donegal or grand canary to you they don t necessarily have to be about these places but more of a feeling maybe how they remind you of a period or time there lg i really began writing while living here on gran canary island we are so fortunate as to live in a very beautiful and protected valley where there are only a few houses nearby so the quiet and relative isolation of the place is ideal for writing i think the fact that i am an outsider here even though i speak the language know lots of people and am quite involved in the community has also impacted on my writing as i can so easily go into objective mode and sort of remove myself from my roots so to speak and thus feel freer to actually write about personal and root like things i suppose there is some contradiction there i never really write while i m in ireland i take notes and jot down expressions and things i hear as the wealth of expressions and sayings that my parents and neighbours use is very inspiring and amusing one of the things i have found is that the minute i am on the plane out of ireland i am there with the food tray down writing away and usually it will be about ireland even if indirectly it will take maybe two months for me to shake off the irish experience and move on to other themes aa i noticed some religious elements in your book the wrong miracle even the title hints on an act of god gone wrong i remember exchanging notes with you once and talking about our catholic background in one of the poems there sun over a tree line i m fascinated by this image god becomes a ragged fellow who moves from tree to tree in the back of the mind he pursues the living and the dead stay dead will you tell us more about this poem it s almost as if god or religion is being relegated to the back of one s mind to be taken out only on special occasions like for an illness or a funeral i m also struck by the use of the verb become does this mean that we tend to use religion to suit our needs lg oh gosh yes g god in lower or capital does make his her way into my poems a lot i was never really aware of the pattern until putting the book together and thinking here we go again god god is everywhere i will confess to actually spending quite some time wondering whether to put g god in lower or capitals in some of the poems in the book after having written them and yes arlene i was brought up a catholic and was educated by the nuns and no doubt that has left its mark and it comes out in a sort of half rebellious way every so often in some poems this poem was written after the invasion of iraq there were protests and general disgust at this whole event happening it felt like a collapse of civilisation the fact that something so barbaric could happen in the 21st century and that the world stood by and let it happen the over riding feeling was one of chaos as shown by some of the images in the poem e g humpty dumpty hoof prints pedicures for dictators door frames collapsing dead bodies and water logged blankets and at the end i suppose god is being implicated in what is happening like the lurker behind the tree who comes to pick at the spoils i ve never really analysed this poem before but yes it is a move away from an all loving g god to one who is part and parcel of the chaos and the resulting deaths and to answer your question about using religion to suit our needs i think this is possible even though catholic religion as i know it has always been so boxed up and defined that i have never felt that i could make it adapt to my needs that in fact it was a case of adapting to it or nothing but yes i know what you mean about all of a sudden finding a purpose for a g god religion especially non institutionalised religion in times of grief and sadness aa another favorite poem cosmic noise is such a perfect depiction of marriage not just between two people but also between two opposing forces the pullmi pullyu bickering in the first stages then the establishment of balance i settle to enjoy lunch you settle to enjoy lunch two people their bearings found and settling would you relate this to your writing too can you discuss your own relationship with poetry lg i love your interpretation of this poem arlene and yes i do think that balance is needed to be able to write i cannot write if i am unhappy or worried the word settling to me is really important it s about that stretching out of one s legs and the sigh of contentment feeling that means turmoil is held at bay for a while but like you said the pullmi pullyu bickering is a sort of foreplay to settling as settling implies having been unsettled beforehand this is my relationship with poetry to a certain degree there are so many preludes interludes general life happenings that prevent me from writing and when i do actually get down to writing i always give a sigh of relief and since i physically write with my back against my study wall cushion between back and wall though and my legs stretched out before me on the study futon and laptop on lap then it is the physical act of settling as well as the psychological aa i have to say that after all this time episode iii the day the shelling started remains in my mind as one of the best poems i ve come across there s this haunting tango between the horrific and banal happiness the doctors said her tumors had shrunk a wedding took place across the street an artist in lebanon ties a microphone to his balcony to record the summer rain of bombs breaking the sound barrier he plays the trumpet in the background and sketches drawings in the hushed seconds of a starry night an ex hostage dreams of the blood letting being over he imagines one day sitting under a magnificent oak and letting the beauty of the place soak into him i ve always wanted to ask you about this poem what made you write it will you tell us more about zena el khalil to whom this piece is dedicated lg as you know arlene i have taken part in poem a day activities with yourself and others in inside the writers studio 30 30 forum it was during one of these 30 30 s that i wrote this poem just to explain to other readers 30 30 means writing a poem a day for 30 consecutive days it was in july 2006 and it was during the invasion of lebanon i used to read the guardian online every day to find out what was happening and i remember reading zena el khalil s account of being there during the invasion and it affected me greatly at one stage for about 10 days during this particular 30 30 i lost my internet connection but i didn t want to give up the poem a day activity nor to give up reading the guardian so i used to go to the nearest village which is 10 minutes away and go into a cyber café there to read and write my poems because it was duirng the summer holidays there used to be lots of young teenage guys there playing very loud computer war games and there i was stuck in the middle of them trying to get inspired to write poems actually most of the poems that came out of that time evolved around the invasion of lebanon and war in general the artist mentioned in the poem is a real person his name is mazen kerbaj he actually did record from his balcony the summer rain of bombs he blogs here www mazenkerblog blogspot com and has a 6 min 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