Chapbook Now Available Online:
A Voice for my Grandmother can now be read on the publisher’s website. link to text
Reading:
On Saturday, February 24th, at 4 p.m. Ron Singer was included in the closing event for an exhibition at The Painting Center, Suite 500, 547 W. 27th St, NY NY. Singer read three stories about art.
Also featured in this event were gallery talks by the three painters in the exhibition: Bosiljka Raditsa (“The Nature of Memory), Susan Post (“Color Balance”), and Elizabeth Yamin (“Wallabout”). Yamin is Singer’s wife, and one of her paintings, “Floating World,” is related to his riff on artists’ resumes, “From a Small Fish in the Floating World.”
For a video and sound recording of the event, go to link to text
Recently published:
“I’ll Teach You to Build the School,” Front Porch Review, http://frontporchrvw.com/issue/april-2012/article/ill-teach-you-to-build-the-school.
“Loopholes in the Ghanaian Budgetary Process,” Pambazuka News, http://pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/80971
“The African Regent Hotel: Culture and Corruption in West Africa,” opendemocracy. net: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ron-singer/african-regent-hotel-culture-and-corruption-in-ghana-and-nigeria
From a Review of “After ‘The Battle of San Romano,’ ” by Niccolo Mauruzi da Tolentino (5 1/2′’ high x 8 1/2” wide) Marco Polo Arts Magazine: http://www.marcopoloartsmag.com/#2688066/From-a-Review
“Sunday Afternoon at the National Museum of Ghana,” Marco Polo Arts Magazine, http://www.marcopoloartsmag.com/#2687989/Sunday-Afternoon-Accra
“Nigeria, the Way Forward,” an article on Nigeria’s corruption fighters, has recently appeared in Pambazuka News: www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/78198 and in Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, Winter 2011, Vol 16, No 2: www.friendsofnigeria.org/Newsletter…/FON%20Winter%202011%2…
Four other new publications are forthcoming:
an essay: “Nigeria, The Money Country.” Evergreen Review.
two poems: “Birdville, UT 84777,” Waterways; and “On the Road from South Africa to Botswana,” Third Wednesday.
a story: “Living in the Moment,” big bridge.