originally posted at Poets United – A Community For Poets Who Blog.
Life of a Poet – Annell Livingston
Kids, I am blown away by how many multi-talented creative folk there are, doing such great work, in this community. Annell Livingston is such an artist. At Some Things I Think About, you will find her poetry, but will soon discover she always has an art project on the go as well: paintings, exquisite miniature artists books, and her recent Red Shoes Project, which included the writing of some of the women in the Poets United community. Pour a cup of Lady Grey, or some iced tea on the rocks, and come along, as we scoot down to Taos, New Mexico, Land of Enchantment, and meet Annell, who is rather enchanting herself!
Poets United: Annell, So lovely to sit down with you and peek into your world. Tell us a little about yourself. A bit of your history – herstory! – your magical part of the world, and what your life is like. Is there a story behind beginning your blog? Annell: How did I get started ? I read a blog of my friend Gail Siptak, Eye with a View. I thought I could do that, a good place to write. I had no idea what I might want to write? I thought it would be like a personal journal, perhaps letters to myself? When I chose my name I was thinking it would be Some Things I Think, then the gremlin in the computer put “-annell-annell”, I knew that wasn’t right, but didn’t know how to change it. I’m a real techno-peasant. Poets United: I so relate! Annell: As a child I was the middle child, grew up as a sea nymph on the shore of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, fishing, crabbing, swimming, and playing in the surf. I’m not sure as a child I ever had a “complete thought,” but I had a happy childhood. And when asked what do you want to be when you grow up? I would answer, “I want to be an artist.” It is all I ever wanted to be. I remember I spent most of my time at the library and loved the smell of the books.
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