Satellites

Satellites know of our whereabouts.

Within a few inches, or thereabouts.

Is this something anyone cares about?

They'll tell us, I hope, when there's bears about.

Polkabats and Octopus Slacks - The Music!

Polkabats and Octopus Slacks - The Music!
Songs by Clementown (Chris Beaty and Kate Lynch)
from Poems by Calef Brown.
Now available for purchase at CDBaby.com
or download on itunes.

28 Songs from all the poems in

Polkabats and Octopus Slacks

and Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers.

Highwire 66!
Eliza's Jacket!
Moon Reunion!
Dutch Sneakers!

First review on Zooglobble.com is a good one. (date of the review on the site is Oct. 26th)

A Poem for Halloween

The Hawthorn Berry

Let’s take a trip
to East Londonderry
and pay a visit
to The Hawthorn Berry –
the last old gothic apothecary.
It’s a gathering place
for weary undertakers
to relax and chat
over nightshade boilermakers
and other odd toddies.
They talk about funerals
and dead bodies–
the tricks of the trade,
how crypts are made,
and helpful hints
like which tints of makeup
make cheeks appear rosiest.
Which headstones are costliest.
Which coffins are coziest.
Even the nosiest
eavesdroppers, gawkers,
and local loud talkers
find the atmosphere calming.
it must be the candles
and herbs for embalming
down at Hawthorn Berry –
the last old gothic apothecary.

© calef brown 2009

TV Taxi

Television Taxicab, what a way to travel!

Another poem from Flamingos on the Roof.

Also on Youtube.

Dooce.com

A very flattering and kind mention

of my book Polkabats and Octopus Slacks

here on the well known blog Dooce.com

Thanks to my sister Phebe

for introducing me to Dooce, one of her favorite blogs.

The Crystal Bowling Ball

A short video I made of the poem The Crystal Bowling Ball

from my book Flamingos on the Roof.

Read beautifully by John McDonough.

The Audio CD is available too, from Recorded Books.

Also on youtube here

School Visits

Here are some photos, as well as wonderful artwork

created by students at schools I visited this spring.

Thanks to everyone at Woodland, Arrowhead, Worcester,

Audobon, Eagleville and Forest Park elementary schools,as well as Springside School.

Greece! Rome! Monsters! Art!

I recently received a wonderful email from Rainier,who created this amazing wall hanging
for her son Gabriel. The project was inspired by his interest in Greek mythology,
and by extension, the book that I illustrated titled Greece! Rome! Monsters!
Check out the beautiful bead and fabric renderings of my paintings. I'm very flattered
to have such fantastic skill and effort put into bringing them to life in another medium.
Thanks Rainier, for sharing this cool project!

Don't be a

couch 'tater. You'll regret it later.

The Yggyssey!

I just recieved my first hardback copy
of The Yggyssey by Daniel Pinkwater.
It's the sequel to his amazing novel The Neddiad.
I did the cover art , as well as a small ink illustration for
each of the sixty-nine chapters.

School Cafeteria Food.

Some things never change. Gross school cafeteria food for instance.
Will, a local poet, artist, and all around cool kid sent me this
awesome poem and drawing. "The Mac n' Cheese is made with...
glue! "–you'd think they'd at least use wheat paste,
but Nooooooo!

The Holiday Elephant

December eleventh is traditionally the day when the Holiday Elephant
makes his yearly appearance. Brandishing a pagoda tree
and a bucket of candy canes, he meanders through every town and metropolis
delivering pickled licorice to the fickle populace. Hooray for the Holiday Elephant!

Speaking of Birds...

This is a drawing done for a project called
Los Pajaros del Arcoiris – Rainbow Birds - created by
Foi Jimenez Jurado and Charles Glaubitz.
It's a coloring book that will be sold to raise funds to donate to a
charity of poor and orphaned children in Tijuana, Baja California,
where both artists live.The book will be printed in an edition of 1000,
distributed and put on sale in various locations and art exibitions.
I will post more information when the project is complete
and books are available.

Sketchbook – Birds and Creatures

Two sketchbook drawings with color added. Where are they headed?