When I was painting murals of short poems by women I called it ‘a committee for the beautiful.’ Sometimes that was just me, or me and a baby on my back. Sometimes it was me and ten friends, or two used-to-be strangers. I know you’ve got several committees for the beautiful too. Thank you for them.
Current use, spring 2025: I began keeping this daybook during the Covid shutdown, some of that ended up in a chapbook, Chrome of Iris (Burnside Review). This iteration, "Days & Days," has been happening for a year now, by hand, through the mail. Turns out the mail service is unreliable in Guanajuato, where we are living, and I’d need to use FedEx to send letters. So, for now, I’ll post these poems and daybook entries here. I may also post some old or new work, (e.g. “Good Eggs,” paintings on blown eggs), and sketches.
Previous use, spring of 2021: I used this platform to give a series of interviews I recorded on the postures and practices of reading to my students, then-remote, for a class on reading at Colorado College. How does one read like a child, an artist, a person with dyslexia, a book designer, a cartographer, an indexer, a monk, etc? Those are in the archives, including one with Peter Rooney, indexer of the Mueller Report.
Bio: Mary Margaret Alvarado (Mia) is the author of American Weather (NewLights Press), Chrome of Iris (Burnside Review), and Hey Folly (Dos Madres). Mia’s work has been published in The Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, VQR, Outside, Image, Cagibi, The Point, The Hairpin, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
