Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels

Here's a sprinkling of recent poems and notices. I've become bad about adding things here because blogs are in abeyance, but these are a few things that have popped up recently.A glad thank you i...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2023/11/kingdom-poets-clive-seren-charis-more.html

The Village Library reading: 6 p.m., Tuesday April 25thFrom The Hollins Critic reviewSeren of the Wildwood is a magical book, a visionary journey through motherhood and the rebellious, unwie...

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Art by Clive Hicks-JenkinsSETH WRIGHT at FRONT PORCH REPUBLICYoumans’ gift for creating primordial archetypal images that stir the gut and fascinate the eye of the mind places her among the bes...

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Beth Garst of Howl'n Dog Designsreads Seren on a Virginia porch swing...AMANDA COCKRELLI was given a review copy of Seren and couldn’t put it down. It’s lyrical and magical and offers a glimp...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2023/03/two-novelists-on-seren.html

Seren, by Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfrom Seren of the Wildwood(Wiseblood Books, 2023, hc/pb)ANDREW FRISARDIMarly Youmans’s verse-narrative Seren of the Wildwood is a bildungsroman or coming-of-age tal...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-writer-and-artist-respond-to-seren.html

Saturday, March 18  3:00Reading with Sally ThomasCity Lights Bookstore 3 East Jackson St.Sylva, North Carolina828-586-9499Thursday, March 23 7:00 p.m.Reading with Sally ThomasGoldberry ...

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Seren at the home of poet and writerDavid Russell Mosley(Wiseblood Books)Launch Day review from poet/translator/writer Jonathan Geltner at the Slant Books blog. Wiseblood Books notes that it "sit...

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in-process detail, jacket/cover imageby Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor Seren of the WildwoodMy TinyLetter newsletter, The Rollipoke, went out to subscribers early this morning. This time I'm opening it u...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-rollipoke-23-cover-reveal-pre-order.html

1,From the Wiseblood Books End-of-2022 newsletter:Seren of the Wildwood, a long fantasy story in verse by Marly Youmans, forthcoming in March of 2023. Youmans is an award-winning author of o...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/12/wiseblood-seren-poems.html

I'm on a panel talking about the short(ish) film, "Why Beauty Matters," in Delhi's lovely old public library  on the 13th. at 2:30... Regional friends, come see the movie and discuss!* * *Sm...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/11/matters-of-beauty.html

My beautiful child!FAVORITE LINE AT THE COUNTY FAIR"The Beautiful Child Contest is now underway at the Cow and Sheep Barn." Last night I went to the Schoharie County Fair with my husband and...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/08/wordishly.html

From a recent North Carolina Literary Review zoom reading: three of my poems from a wild-and-free sequence influenced by the paralIelism of Hebrew poetry (via the lovely rhythms of the King James...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/06/nclr-night-blooming-cereus-spring-tree.html

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https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/06/otherworlds.html

Forthcoming from Wiseblood BooksDear Readers,Our horizon of forthcoming publications is afire with good things — so many, in fact, that I can't help sharing a few highlights:1. S...

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Here's a little postscript to the prior post!            *   *   *That is, here's another poem, my first in Light, edited by poet ...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/05/queen-alice.html

I'm pleased that Michael Fitzpatrick, who wrote a lovely, recent review of Charis in the World of Wonders, included one of my poems at the close of his latest Eighth Day column: The Dreamer as Ar...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/05/poems-and-tiny-thank-you.html

Roderick Robinson1:27 AM, May 06, 2022You've said you're not interested in politics; I'm not sure how you manage this given politics infects every human enterprise but I hope I know you well enou...

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TONIGHT: reading "She-Who-Changed," "Night-blooming Cereus," "Spring Tree Egg," and "Alice" with @NCLitReview "North Carolina Literary Review"... at 7:00. (Just realized. Eep! So please shar...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/04/tonight-reading-with-nclr.html

As I have been the around-the-clock caretaker of my elderly mother for some time, I'm way, way behind on all things literary or bloggish... But here are a couple of pieces of news.Sheryl Knight, ...

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UPDATE ON THE READINGOkay, tonight's Zoom reading announcement (with links) is up--again, that's Pacific Standard Time 7:30, so check the time converter! With Jorge Quintana. https://sacpoetrycen...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/01/new-mag-today-live-reading-tomorrow.html

Yellow Hen and Sunflowers. 2021. Oil, gouache and pencil on panel. All paintings from the currentClive Hicks-Jenkins series...CHARIS, CLIVE, SUSSEX, MORE!Clive Hicks-Jenkins made chapter hea...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2022/01/charisean-clivean-and-poems.html

As I've had to be away a great deal this year, I haven't posted much... but here's a poem that just emerged in First Things, in print and online. Posting in the small hours with a wave to fellow ...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2021/12/starting-with-sentence-by-aidan-hart.html

Charis has clambered on top of the new-and-noteworthy reviews at Christianity Today. I'm very glad to have that attention, and happy for the words of reviewer and novelist Heather Cross. Cha...

https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2021/09/my-puritan-story-at-ct.html

Sun and Moon.Taken near the side door by Michael.WVAfter returning from a six-day jaunt in West Virginia (and a bit of Virginia), where we pondered retirement possibilities for the still-distant ...

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