Judith Tannenbaum

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05/29/11--14:07: Tattoos on the Heart (chan 2757059)

"The pregnant heart is driven to hopes that are the wrong size for this world."


05/29/11--14:15: Love Lines (chan 2757059)

Most years, Sara and I see the two shows Alonzo King's Lines Ballet offers in San Francisco.


05/31/11--12:16: Janie’s visit (chan 2757059)

Janie and I talked and talked when she visited last January. We're both hungry for time and space to surround us in memory and image. She suggested I read the new Lydia Davis translation of Proust's Swann's Way and I did.


05/31/11--12:25: Poem Lines (chan 2757059)

The biggest gift of weeks at an art colony is endless time to write, to make. At VCCA, this past spring, part of my stay was spent putting together a poetry manuscript. I also made collage using some of the lines in my poems. Here are a few of those:


06/11/11--10:24: Getting Lost (chan 2757059)

Made many collage this spring inspired by Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Here are a few.


06/26/11--12:07: Invisible Cities (chan 2757059)

New collage in response to Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities."


08/31/11--18:52: Beginner (chan 2757059)

I've written -- stories, poems, novels, memoir, essays -- close to my whole life. I've made collage for about twenty years. But this summer I took a drawing fundamentals class that allowed me to be a complete beginner again.


01/21/12--16:33: Dime-Store Alchemy collage series (chan 2757059)

Been reading and loving Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell. Simic's prose poems inspired these collages.


02/05/12--09:46: Carve This Body into Your Home (chan 2757059)

My new book! You can buy a copy here.


02/12/12--17:00: The Death Penalty and The Other Death Penalty (chan 2757059)

Many Californians are elated that we might get an initiative on the ballot to abolish the death penalty and that a majority of voters might be convinced (by the initiative’s economic and crime-fighting language) to stop state killing. Count me among those who agree that ending the death penalty in California is a most worthy goal. I’m concerned, though, that those fighting hard for the SAFE California Act seem comfortable with an initiative that advocates for life without possibility of parole as a reasonable sentence.