Editor's Eye (C.M. Mayo): Covers, Mundo a Mundo, Conversational Reading

This week several people have asked me about our covers. At Tameme, we have been very lucky to be able to work with two outstanding graphic designers, Kathleen Smythe, who did the cover of Tameme's first issue, and Ines Hilde, who has done the others, and most recently, the cover of our first chapbook, Agustin Cadena's "Carne verde, piel negra ~ An Avocado from Michoacan." The latter features the painting "Aguacuates" by Edgar Soberon.

Buenas noticias: University of Oregon Professor Amanda Powell will be teaching the fabulous "Mundo a Mundo" Literary Translation Workshop again this summer in Queretaro, Mexico.

Check out Scott Esposito's litblog Conversational Reading. We hear he's in Mexico these days, doing lots of reading.

Editor's Eye (C.M. Mayo): Notes Toward a Taxonomy of Litblogs

Litblogging--- blogging literature--- both competes with and complements print-publishing. To what degrees and in which ways? It's a strange and still emerging paradigm. Writers blog, reviewers blog, poets, groups of writers, associations of translators, you name it--- and of course, publishers blog. A few new blogs in the latter category include News from the University of Georgia Press and Zyzzyva Speaks, the blog of the San Francisco, California-based Zyzzyva literary journal. (Howard Junker, you rock.)

I'm fascinated by the variety of litblogs. As for blogs by writers: Washington DC-based fiction writer Wendi Kaufman has a newsy and massively read litblog, The Happy Booker. Another example is poet and memoirist E. Ethelbert Miller's diary jottings at E-Notes. Yet another: Mexican writer Agustin Cadena, author of "Carne verde, piel negra ~ An Avocado from Michoacan", Tameme's first chapbook, posts original writing on his blog, El vino y la hiel.

Editor's Eye (C.M. Mayo): Getting Started

Welcome to the Tameme blog, which is just getting started. If you're new to Tameme, please be sure to visit our website at www.tameme.org and check our our titles, including our first chapbook (by Mexican writer Agustin Cadena) and back-issues of the Tameme literary journal. The complete catalog is here. Tameme is blingual (English and Spanish), however, my blog posts, for the most part, will be in English. I'll be posting "Editor's Eye" every Tuesday (except when not) and we'll also have some other bloggers with musings and news in both English and Spanish on various subjects related to Tameme's mission. Be sure to visit again soon.

O Canada

Published on the first Thursday of each month, "O Canada" is Don Q's column of news and musings about the Canadian literary scene. Don Q is the nom de blogue of a U.S. citizen who has lived on the U.S.-Canadian border and maintains an active interest in all things Canadian.

Editor's Eye

Published on Tuesdays, "Editor's Eye" is C.M. Mayo's column about Tameme and whatever else catches her eye in the world of literature and translation. C.M. Mayo is editor of Tameme.