Poet, Writer, Artist
Poets are the unofficial legislators of the world.To paraphrase Auden, we make no/thing happen.
We offer mirrors on the world.
We write and speak toward clarity, truth, change.
I create to encode the African American urban technopeasant mythos, to heal, and to make good manifest.
Through the Fire Shield, kiln cast glass, Akua Lezli Hope, 2001
EVENTS & CREATING
Prayer for Amadou,fused, kiln cast, and sandblasted glass, Akua Lezli Hope, 2000
2005
Performances and Workshops Juneteenth Poetry Writing Workshop
at the YWCA of Elmira and the Twin Tiers http://www.ywcaelmira.org
PASt ACts
My Recent Appearances in Print
My Soul to His Spirit
Black Daughters Writings on their Fathers, edited by Melda Potts
Summer (5 haiku) in Knocking on the Silence, Finger Lakes anthology edited by donaa Marbach, Foot hills Publishing
Sunday Drive/Black in Appalachia in Two Voices, Two Pages contest Geva Theatre and Writers and Readers, December 13, 2004 theatre reading/performance of work
Beginner's Guide to Papermaking by Heidi Reimer-Epp and Mary Reimer, (D&S, England, 2003)
The Years' Best Writing, April 2003, Writer's Digest Guides
Moon Journal, Fall Winter 2002 Volume VII/ Issue 2, Arlington Heights, IL
Poems For All September 2002
164. Freedom
165. Not final, Just Next
Dark Matter, the first anthology of SF/F by African Americans including pathbreakers Octavia Butler and Samuel Delaney, Warner Aspect Books, July 2000
"Words of Wisdom," Poet Theatre's 20th Anniversary Anthology, H&H Press, 2000
I'm included in "Night and Day : The Double Lives of Artists in America"
Poetry Chat Room
Slide or click as it were on over to Akua's Rest Stop on the Poetry SuperHighway. Courtesy of PSH, I've added a
chat room. I've yet to define what to do with my franchise, what version
of postmodern meets craft eclectic at the millenium to use for
the decor. Your ideas are welcome, as is your conversation.
Making Art With Glass
My new and evolving joy is making objects out of glass. Glass blowing, lampworking/flameworking beads, slumping and fusing glass, and sandcasting/direct furnace casting glass are the techniques I study. Some of the iconography I developed for paper, I've replicated in glass. A number of my paper constructs include my handmade glass beads.
Making Jewelry
Wire offers me fascinating opportunities to make wearable art. It is the calligraphic dance of line that my drawing hand never managed. It is the cradle and partner for my beads. And my glass beads have offered me the fulfillment of design and of evolving self ornamentation.
Hand Papermaking and Papier Maché
My griefwork had been through the medium of recycled paper. Where words did not work, my hands and eyes did. That led me to new realms of experience: texture, fiber and the infinite bounty of the earth. When flowers leave, their bodies yield another harvest. Here are my discoveries, comments, and sources that I have found.
'Zines!!!
I've created my first and second' zines on hand papermaking: Introduction to Hand Papermaking (May 2003) and Handmade Beads of Handmade Paper (July 2003). Info here.
My book
,was awarded a book prize by Writer's Digest in 1996. It is also available as an audiocassette tape.
Select here
to hear a poem from it (Telegram from Topeka stuffed/compressed to 121k)
or read about ArtFarm Press.Select here
to order your own copy of EMBOUCHURE from ArtFarm
Press or to request information on ArtFarm's
other offerings.
My short lit bio is available, as is my full literary resumé, art resumé and artist statement.
I welcome your thoughts and information on other:
- Human rights pages
Did you follow the links? Select here
for the list of poems at this website.
Thanks for visiting Akua Lezli Hope's webpage.
I hope to hear from you again soon.
I wish you and yours an abundance of creativity, health, peace, prosperity, and joy.
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P.P.S. I am ever in search of: wisdom, prosperity, information on paper making, free travel to warm places, sustainable and renewable sources of energy, great music, beautiful yarn, compelling SF and other fiction, inexpensive saxophone repair, glassmaking equipment, Moretti glass, and opportunities to sing.... among other joyous, affirming things. Want to trade? Check out my list.
This page, and all contents, are copyright (c)1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 by Akua Lezli Hope.
Updated May, 2005
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