New Writing and Poetry

All We Need Is Love

Mariette — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:28:52 +0000

As I was typing this morning an email come into one of my less checked accounts. It was from a friend and all it said was, “I<3U.” The email subject read: All we need is love. Right now that shakes me from my tree a little. I have a busy day ahead, new work, new [...]

The Phoenix Ritual

Mariette — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:42:27 +0000

When observing the world I look at the rebirth of certain rituals as promising, since once I clung to nostalgia. I see egg coloring kits. I see egg prices rising. I hear of researchers finding new ways to kill chickens and new threats to even state’s rights to protect their family farmer or agro-enabled household. [...]

The Fool + April 1st Events

Mariette — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:26:14 +0000

Well, lately I’ve been contemplating the role of the Fool, the archetype for each of us when we begin anew. So, it seems appropriate that I’ll be participating in both an exhibit and a reading in Bushwick, Brooklyn, this Sunday, April Fool’s Day, since I often feel like I’m starting new projects and phases of [...]

The Phoenix Spring – Beyond OWS

Mariette — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:14:05 +0000

An Occupy Wall Street Memoir I sat in Liberty Park on Saturday, March 17th, watching the St. Patrick’s Day passersby, using a Direct Action Flaneurs typewriter, stopping to meditate with OccupyYoga and say hi to friends I haven’t seen in a bit. It was sunny and warm, much like today, the first day of Spring. [...]

New Dreams Video

Mariette — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:24:36 +0000

For everyone charting my project in progress, Dreams and Conversations, you know it has been a journey of changing and tweaking the particulars. Staying to true to my engagement in art making as an active dialogue I’m slowly incorporating the Dreams into my experience of Occupy Wall Street, and of course, my performance poetry and [...]

Barricades Down

Mariette — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:25:15 +0000

Last night the barricades came down from Zuccotti Park due to some good work by the ACLU and core activists. While I wandered out of some meetings at Charlotte’s Place, I happened upon the first barricades coming down. It was kind of magical to be there, before the word got out, before anyone really knew [...]