Authors and artists from the United States

I’ve never really been much of a Picasso fan. I guess I just don’t get it. I’d love to spend time with a true Picasso connoisseur who could answer my questions about this painting. Like, does she have four eyes? And what’s that on top of her head? And what’s up with her breasts? What’s wrong with her teeth? Questions like that.
Is the girl in the painting ME?
Today, as I sit here and type, I am not tormented in the least. I’m pleased with just about everything – my hair color, the bowl of pasta I’m eating right now, my relationships… I’m even somewhat comfortable with my own body at this very moment. (I may edit that sentence after I finish this bowl of pasta.)
Last May, I celebrated 16 years of sobriety. That counts for much.
If someone were to walk up to me right now, engage me in conversation, and then evaluate my mental health, the last thing they would say would be, “Wow. Karen sure is tormented.”
Okay, so maybe not today. But am I EVER the girl in the painting?
I admit it. I go through times of torment. In fact, the truth is, I’m usually smoldering. Coals perpetually glowing deep down inside. The kind that flash when least expected, setting off raging, destructive forest fires.
Why the torment, huh?

http://www.yareah.com/magazine/index.php/arts-arte/499-tormented-girl-by-pablo-picasso

Her bio:

Karen Haley works as a technical writer in Northern California. Her passions include classical piano, interior design, and the San Francisco Giants. She is a mother to Niccole, a grandmother to Izic, and a girlfriend to Brian. Her interviews and stories have appeared in publications including The Pacific Union Recorder and The Gleaner. She has contributed how-to articles for the ezine TechTrax (http://www.mousetrax.com/). Read her blog, IMNSHO, at http://karen051793.blogspot.com/.

An artist from the United States: Simon Björge’s collages on Yareah magazine

opinionsyareah — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:44:40 +0000

I try not to think about it too much. A lot of what I do is inspired by a close friend of mine who creates works according to a twelve year cycle and the phases of the sun and the moon, but I’m not so fascinating. I sort of work in layers. This work is my first. Its taken me about two months, mostly because I hate it half of the time and give up on it. I was in a pretty dark place when I started it. But now its colorful and 3D. It seems to be balanced. I’m a big fan of symmetry. Most of it I created from National Geographics, so you can find anything from asians in cowboy hats dancing in a honky tonk bar in Tokyo to the Horse Head Nebula.

Read more about Simon’s bio and works:

http://www.yareah.com/magazine/index.php/arts-arte/450-simon-bjoerges-art

Polly Jackson (Ima Wizer) on Yareah magazine

opinionsyareah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:32:40 +0000

Professional fine artist with over thirty years of painting.
Originally from West Texas
Lived in Santa Fe, NM from 1974-1999
Now reside in Austin, TX 2000-2009
Studio Art degree from The University Of New Mexico
Presently art instructor for Gardner Betts Juvenile Facility in Austin, TX.

Work shown @ www.pollyjackson.com

artistpolly.blogspot.com
areyoupainting.blogspot.com

See her gallery:

http://www.yareah.com/magazine/index.php/galleries-galerias/view/18

Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and other romantic American authors on Yareah magazine

opinionsyareah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:32:23 +0000

See the issue 7 of Yareah magazine dedicated to the Romanticism. A lot of different authors opinated about the subject:

Read this article:

American Romanticism and its Contrast with the European counterpart

by Zhang Huaming on:

http://www.yareah.com/magazine/index.php/issue-7-numero-7/81-7-literature-literatura/276-american-romanticism-and-its-contrast-with-the-european-counterpart

and this other one by Elisabeth Powers about Goethe and America:

http://www.yareah.com/magazine/index.php/issue-7-numero-7/81-7-literature-literatura/278-goethe-and-america