Discoveries – Ideasmyth

DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “The Forces of Lehman and Sinatra Combine” (6/6)

For today’s post I want to circle back to where we began, with David’s recent book (now available in bookstores) Sinatra’s Century…

DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “If Two Heads Are Better Than One Then…” (5/6)

David Lehman loves wordplay. He loves writing poems in both traditional and invented forms. He takes the writing of…

DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Man of Letters Part 2” (4/6)

Yesterday we brought you Part I of a two-part in-depth interview with David. It touches on many of the themes and subjects that have concerned David over the course…

DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Man of Letters Part 1” (3/6)

David Lehman is truly a man of letters. He’s published 10 volumes of poetry, edited dozens of anthologies, including the Oxford…

DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Sinatra’s Century” (2/6)

On May 14, 1998, I phoned David [Lehman] just as he learned of Frank Sinatra’s death. “I can’t talk now,” he said. “Sinatra has…

DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Lehman’s Mind is an Arc” (1/6)

So happy and honored that David Lehman, the de facto dean of American Poetry is this week’s Featured Creative. Unlike so many…

DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (6/6)

What have I learned on the journey of discovery that’s been The Brooklyn Cottage?

DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (5/6)

In January 2015, the Brooklyn Cottage hosted an event to talk about race.

DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (4/6)

I thought back to the “instructions” Malidoma Patrice Some had given me…

DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (3/6)

In April 2012, we picked Dirt as the theme for the Brooklyn Cottage’s second month…

DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (2/6)

Yazmany and I decided that the Brooklyn Cottage would have monthly themes…

DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (1/6)

That the The Brooklyn Cottage exists is itself a mini-marvel of the 21st century. This…

DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Successful Interviews” (6/6)

I have finally figured out what drives me to make films: I want to connect! Connect with my subjects and connect with my audience. I like intimate, hand-made, personal films.

DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Film Festivals and Dealing with Rejection” (5/6)

One of the conundrums about making the films that I do is that I am making the films that I want to make—I’m not making them…

DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “Elizabeth King” (4/6)

This is an artist whose absolutely uncanny work I also grew up with in my family house, but I had never met her. When I was working on “Curious Worlds,” David Beck…