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What is this site about? This site is to show people from California and elsewhere what poetry, art, and publishing projects Donald R. Anderson of Stockton, California is joining people in; to also link to other sites that Donald thinks are useful to those interested in the arts; to also provide information about Donald; to also gain publicity for events that Donald has become aware of.

Aertherialism, New Art and New Hope, Neo Mundus

Aertherials never ask "Why Fly?"  They are their flight, albeit imaginary flights of introspective insights and an artistic philosophy of life that lend naturally to their arriving at perceptual heights undreamt.  Most as fledglings have learned the value of an unduantable sense of try and try again, whatever expend in achieving psychic ascent, that sometimes, even by their own demanding standards of success, themselves surprise.  This in a land of Big Sky, Big Pie, Big Size, to which the Aertherials say "Never Die!" a land demanding greater "Can-Do-It-iveness" and a most unusual openness to new ideas and perspectives of the world.  Yes, Aertherials can and do fly, with great scope and precision.

Aertherialism is derived from a barely conscious miasma struggling to voice a new beingness of which any artistic movement may be said to originate.  It is new doctrine if not dogma (new doggerel, perhaps to skeptics?)  of intracranial as much as interstellar flight.  Aertherialism is a new aesthetic, a new-fangled artistic idealism, a tangible promise in its altitudinal attitude and aerial artifacts.  As new as it is, it is just as much evidence of a very ancient urge in the human breast, Aertherialism the latest dream of flight, reborn in each generation in new forms and new expressions.  Aertherists would claim it is an impulse to gravitate towards and join the oft-intuited and as often intimated realm of the spiritual, to which it is the latest heir.  Aertherialism reflects the need to unite with the holy heavenward, the mythical beyond mortality’s keen, the final abode of the vaporous soul, which is nonetheless the essence, the vital force, to which the cessation of breath is the cessation of living, though seemingly inevitable, to the Aertherial is not final.  Rather, it is to be resurrected into a new atmosphere where works of art are air, the artist recognized aeronaut in the issues of his/her artistry as a kind of immortality.

Aertheriality exists despite lack of wings, in the appreciation of what wings can do.  Aertherials create metaphorical wings and become one with the universal ether by which all is ultimately determined and defined.  Paradoxically, Aertherials never leave the ground, but just as well are always in the air.  They accomplish this feat of levitation by sheer will, a capacity to transfer what they believe to what they imagine aerial elevation to be, at least in so far as their minds can graphically illustrate.  Thus, the Aertherial is a balloon in a child’s hand, a bird in a tree, a cloud on a mountain, an aeroplane above a skyscape, a planet in orbital revolution, a spacecraft to the stars, an angel in the everafter, a new thought, idea, suspension of disbelief in a new way, even a new credulous incredulity, all clement speculations on states, variously euphoric, of the Aertherial dimension.

The Aertherial is a species of Dreamer, whose art is "such stuff as dreams are made on" (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, scene I, line 157.)  Aertheriality is a Dream World, where all live happily together in a fairy kingdom, flitting about in the flowers; where knights still joust for the honor of fair ladies, and dragons are still slayable; where heroes and heroines answer the call to aid humanity in its quest for what is right and true, how ever far to go, however high or low.  In the final anaylsis, Art is Hope, Aertherialism, Hope given Wings To Fly, Aertheriality, Hope
Eternal, an Aertherial, an angelic being in whose heart burns Hope’s Eternal Flame.

An Aertherial,
This Day, May 29, 2003,
Of This Anno Prima Aertheria

Aertherial: ¹someone who asks “Why not fly?”, ²something of a heavenly or positive and airy nature, ³someone who believes in vicaricanism or that discourages mooglahism.

The Aertherials: ¹people who believe in uplifting (heavenly, light, airy) creativity. The Aertherial Movement is a very small but growing group of poets and creative artists who go by the name of the Aertherials, because they believe in the common goal of uplifting with their creativity, or else using the creativity to reach a more enlightened state. The movement was encapsulated by a declaration of the definitions of Aertheriality (a variation on ethereal with more specific and implied meanings) that has been posted online at the top of this page. “Aertherial” could be said to be a portmanteau of the words “art,” “air,” and “ethereal.” The original author has gone by the simple pen name of “An Aertherial” for the piece. The definition was completed in May of 2003. There have also been (at least) two known comb-bound anthologies (no longer in print) off of a small self published press that have used the name “The Aertherials” as a group name for the authorship, which were Naked Poetry (2003) and Midnight Dance / Pathos (2004).

mooglahism: ¹the belief that disposable, consumable goods should be sold for maximum profit, ²any behaviour that disregards future consequences in favor of temporary gratification.

vicaricanism: ¹the belief that anything is possible, to question all the beliefs which deny compassion, and that one should do all one can to make the best possible scenario become a reality, ²belief in one's ability to, in the things one does and conceptualizes, change the world and everything in it.

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What has Donald R. Anderson done?

Donald R. Anderson, editor of PoetsEspresso newsletter and comb-bound Anthology Naked Poetry (2003), previous co-editor of Artifact magazine, comb-bound anthologies Midnight Dance/Pathos and Darwin’s Children (2002), paperback anthologies Sun Shadow Mountain (2007) and is assisting Chief Editor Nikki Quismondo with the upcoming Moon Mist Valley poetry and art anthology. Donald has self-published on numerous occasions things starting with The Traveller, Crossing Your Heart, Tender Places, Victory of the Heart, Turn Around, and Dinosaur So Weary. ... chapbook anthologies and newsletters and websites (see the projects webpage on this site). He has had poetry or graphic art published in !Zam Bomba!, Blue Moon Press, Whispered Screams (Fall 1996), Soul Food (Fall 1997), Mere Mutterings (Fall 1998), Rattlesnake Press, Farmhouse Magazine, Artifact (even before being co-editor), The Collegian, A Poem a Day: An Anthology (Edited by Chantel C. Guidry), Dwarf Stars 2008, online on Medusa’s Kitchen, Poet’s Corner Press, Pulverized Diamonds, and Farmhouse Magazine, and a small award in the contest by the Stockton Arts Commission a few years back for Suddenly a Fearsome Crow. He designed the cover art for the Papernet Gazet May 2009 issue and won 2nd place in one of the categories at the San Joaquin Delta College’s Arts Fest 2008. He has maintained websites for the projects in poetry and art publishing such as this website. While he supports all the Fine Arts, he has dabbled in music but has leaned more towards writing and visual art in recent years. He also has a certificate in Web Development Applications and a certificate in Graphic Arts, both from Delta. He is looking for full time employment, he spends most of his time behind a computer screen anyway. He likes visionary ideas, wisdom and the value of human life, and is forward looking.

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