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 INTERVIEW WITH LUKE SALISBURY
Write a bio.I was raised on Long Island, went to prep school in Princeton, college in Florida, and have lived my adult life in New York City and Boston. The spiritual territory was upper middle class pretensions, stories of lost family glory (My mother is southern), the military traditions of the Salisburys (The men all seemed to have been wounded in wars), never enough money, and a general sense not belonging anywhere, so books, sports, imagination, friends became very important. We have to invent home. It took a while. Describe the room you write in.The room I write in reflects needs and obsessions. A big desk-a door trimmed and finished: I recommend doors for desks-built in book shelves, standing book shelves, a glass book case, and books piled on the floor. One of the shelves holds the Library of America, so the American cannon dominates the back wall. My wife thinks the LOA is hopelessly middle brow as the books have slip cases not covers, and don't look interesting on a shelf. I sympathize. I also judge books by covers, but the presence of all that American literature is a force of nature. I'm hopelessly middle brow anyway. I like Folio Society books but those are downstairs. Books are both a wall of protection from the outside world and the masonry of one's inner castle. I have a Chinese scholar rock on my desk, pictures of the Scott Fitzgerald, DW Griffith, Carmen Basilio, and a wonderful Rockwell Kent illustration of Moby-Dick leaping into the stars, on the walls. Some times the room is neat. It isn't now. You have one of the most extensive libraries I’ve ever seen. Have books always been such an important part of your life? Is your library a mixture of different kinds of books?Book collecting is my mania. Books are everywhere in the house and the house is big. I like literature, history, baseball, vintage paperbacks, own a few first editions, a lot of Armed Services Editions (Those odd little World War II paperbacks that were supposed to fit in a soldier's pocket), and an eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's madness, but madness that keeps one sane. Discuss your fascination with baseball. When did you first become interested in it?Baseball has been an internal fixture since I was 10, broke my arm, and couldn't play that spring. A friend gave me a Joe Reichler Baseball Annual, and I fell in love with the lists, statistics, tales, lore. The game played in your mind became more important than actually playing, which I liked, but wasn't very good at. You are well known for your TV, radio and newspaper articles on baseball. Talk about this and some of the places you appeared on as well as wrote for.I did a lot of radio interviews for my book The Answer Is Baseball. Christopher Lydon liked the book and had me on the old Ten O'clock News. Since then I occasionally get asked to be on TV, usually to talk sports, sometimes movies, or if Greater Boston can't find anybody else. Radio is easy. TV is fight or flight and it's almost impossible not to talk too fast. It's an adrenaline rush and I can see how it could become a substitute for writing. Even a sliver of celebrity is distracting. What was it like being an American Correspondent for AERA? Discuss your experience. This seems like it would have been a very interesting experience.I wrote about American sports for AERA, the Japanese equvalent of Time. It paid well. One article about Tonya Harding netted more than the advance for my novel The Cleveland Indian. The Japanese like American scandals. We do too. Discuss your books, The Answer is Baseball: A Book of Questions (Times Books, 1989), The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday (The Smith, 1992), Blue Eden (The Smith) and your award winning book, Hollywood and Sunset (Shambling Gate Press, 2005).My books follow my obsessions. The Answer is Baseball was a search for the best baseball question. It's a quest for the most interesting/significant baseball question, i.e. the shortest question that generates the longest answer. I wanted questions and answers that connect baseball to American history/culture, illuminate the present by the light of the past, entertain like a flash of wit. It was fun to write. This was before steroids broke the continuity between the present and past. Baseball is an alternative world with a detailed history, but that history has been severed. The presence of what men did prior to 1987 is gone. Seventy-three home runs or seven Cy Young Awards is a joke. Recent records can't be compared with the past because of steroids, HGH and whatever other phramaceutical tricks have been played on fans. Chemically enhanced performance is pro-wrestling, not baseball. It reduces baseball to entertainment. It makes an alternative world only a game. I still watch but don't write about it. The Cleveland Indian is an answer to one of those questions: who was the first Native American to play major league baseball? It's a novel because I wanted the freedom to take the story wherever it might go. King Saturday represents a rebellious energy that has no place to go in America. Harrison, the narrator, thinks that energy can go into baseball, that baseball is safe, that his inner world can be his outer world, but Harrison gets involved in running the Cleveland club, in the business, in trying to own a club. All hell breaks loose and many lessons are learned. Perhaps I should say experienced, as novels provide emotion and intuition, not answers. Blue Eden is three stories placing J. Edgar Hoover in a diner owned by a Black man. The action concerns Dillinger, Ty Cobb threatening to kill Jackie Robinson, and the Kennedy assassination. Outlaws, baseball, conspiracy. Death. Hollywood and Sunset explores another alternative world-movies rather than baseball or the labyrinth of Dallas. I've always been fascinated with DW Griffith because my mother's father was an old-style southerner who I loved and perpetually disagreed with. Henry Harrison, narrator of both novels, is forced to deal with his wife and child, after a life of seeking alternative worlds. Historical fiction is wonderful to research and write. A little bit of time becomes yours, and you have the freedom to move in it, test it, understand it. You can look for historical truth, debunk or try to explain historical figures, imagine places, and of course put your psyche there. History and fiction are a marvelous combination. There might even be a distinction. You are a big music fan of groups from the late 50’s and the 1960’s. Yes Luke, of course I have to bring this up. We have had some great conversations about this. Has music played a part with your writing?Isn't there a Lou Reed song that says, "Her life was saved by rock and roll?" Whose wasn't? Figuratively if not literally. Great songs encapsulate time and energy. They are pieces of usable past. I've always had trouble sitting still. I used to drink three cups of coffee and listen to the Rolling Stones to get psyched to write. Sometimes Derrick and the Dominoes. If it got to the Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, do-op, gospel, or hits from key parts of my life, then the music lasted longer than the writing. Yes, rock and roll is a drug. I don't listen every day. Never thought that possible. We change. The music doesn't. It's there when needed. You have taught at Bunker Hill Community College since 1984. Discuss the classes you teach. What are the biggest challenges you face when teaching, if any? What do you like about teaching to have been teaching so long especially at the same place?Teaching at Bunker Hill Community College is great. I can't imagine a better day job for a writer. If you're going to teach, and many of us do, who better to teach than people who need it? Our average age is 30. We are 60% students of color. The students come from everywhere and many have decided they are ready to get educated. BHCC is educational democracy. The entry requirement is a high school diploma or GED. It's $1200 a semester, not $47,000 a year like my son's college. It's also a lot of work. We teach 5 courses a semester, so the main challenge is time and energy. But it's worth it. What are you working on now?I'm now working on three novels based on three generations of Salisburys. My great grandfather was wounded in the Civil War, my grandfather in WWI, my father in WWII. War is the last obsession. War and family. I've just finished the Civil War novel. I know several Civil War buffs. Have you ever met a World War I buff? That war is a horror of horrors. Let the research begin. Any last comments?I don't know how people who aren't writers survive. It's the perfect balance of obsession and imagination. Demons and truth. Escape and essence. A way to stay out of trouble. God speed.
INTERVIEW WITH ELAINE TERRANOVA
BioElaine Terranova was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts in poetry for 2006. Her most recent book is NOT TO: New and Selected Poems. She won the Walt Whitman Award for her first book, The Cult of the Right Hand. Her other poetry collections are The Dog's Heart and Damages, and a chapbook, Toward Morning/Swimmers. Her translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2003 it was produced at the University of Kansas where it was praised for "its powerful simplicity and directness." "The Choice," a poem from Damages, appeared on buses and subways in Philadelphia as part of the Poetry Society's Poetry in Motion project. Her poem "River Bathers" was honored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. She received an NEA fellowship and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships for her poetry. She has been Banister Writer in Residence at Sweet Briar College, a Fellow at Bread Loaf, and a winner of the Judah Magnus Museum's Anna Davidson Rosenberg award. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review and other magazines and appear in various anthologies including Sixty Years of American Poetry, The Gift of Tongues, Blood to Remember: American Poets Write About the Holocaust, Articulations: The Body in Illness and Disease, and Poets Against the War. She teaches at the Community College of Philadelphia and in the Rutgers, Camden M.F.A program in creative writing. Where I writeI love to take trains so I can write. I write into poems or notes for poems conversations I hear around me. People on their cell phones. Strangers getting acquainted and even going deep into private lives because they are seatmates on a short journey. This may seem an accidental meeting but there must be something subliminal, some ESP that attracts someone to a particular person beside an empty seat. And then there's the world outside the window. I'm drawn to bridges, egrets, lights at night. A carnival that I have just passed, regretting I won't be able to take the rides. Also, since my 20s I've spent some of my life in the country, even earlier if you count summer camp. I think I write better here, just surrounded by desolation, emptiness, things growing or not, as they see fit. I think the change of seasons makes you more aware of time passing. Writers who have influenced meThe great literary Russians. The great literary French. Absurdist fiction writers like Barthelme, Leonard Michaels, Peter Handke, Walter Abish, a teacher I had, George Chambers. Of poets, early, in jr. high, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Humbert Wolf, Frost, Amy Lowell, Keats, Shelley, Dickinson. Asian poetry later, and Rilke. And for tempo, Gershwin and John Coltrane. Cole Porter for rhyme, which I don't often do. What I'm reading nowA Harlan Coben mystery, Palm of the Hand Stories by Kawabata, a novel on the life of Confucius, poems by Michael Burkhard, Afaa Michael Weaver, J.C. Todd, Lee Sharkey. I'm just finished Ryszard Kapuschinski's Travels with Herodotus. I'm always reading poetry and a mystery at the same time as other things, usually a literary novel and some non-fiction. Coben is especially interesting to me because I always think I've read his books before, even though they are brand new. I realize it is because he is recombining the same elements such as: a lawyer protagonist, a woman psychologist, a dead wife-mother-sister, an urban legend. Also, the covers are usually orange. It's as if he's dipping his hand into a bag of bingo numbers and laying them out. Like McDonald's, you (the reader) are always sure of what you get. Interesting technique for writing anything, it seems, though I haven't tried it yet. My booksNot To: New and Selected Poems There are five parts to the book. The titling of part pages happened because of the strange response I had when I told people the title of the collection, Not To. They replied with a question, spelling out what they thought they heard in the way they imagined it was written: "Oh, Knot To?" or "Not Two?" So I divided the work into groups. Not Two, I, is about the dissolution of a couple, by death or separation. Knot To, II, on the other hand, deals with getting together. Not To, section IV, I think of as the virginal section. Not Too, IV, is about loss, as if to say, "Not this, too." Noto, part V, was my first idea for the title of the whole collection. It's the name of a place I have never been. It's in Sicily and is mentioned, perhaps shown, in Antonioni's movie l'Avventura. It's also the title of a poem in the collection. To me, it stands for a space, internal or external, foreign or domestic, a place that, if it doesn't exist, should. Some of the poems in this section are "In Italy," "The Pines," and "Saltmen of Tibet." Among other things, The Dog's Heart and The Cult of the Right Hand relate childhood and formative experiences in poems such as "Merry-Go-Round," "Camp Hofnung," "Up the Block" and "In the New World." The subject of the title poem of The Cult of the Right Hand is an African sculpture, the totem of a cult venerating individual power over the supernatural. Damages deals with other people, primarily, their lives and their reverses. It's based on history and observation and includes poems about Lady Hamilton, Juana la Loca, a Spanish queen, and the unknown woman who's the subject of a Vermeer painting. Artists and fundingIt's so important for funding to be available to artists. Other countries have writers' unions, sort of a membership card for serious writers, legitimizing the role of the writer in society. We have government agencies that offer grants and that funding seems always to be on the verge of evaporating, making the competition even more intense. So few writers here ever make a living from their work. Agencies such as the state arts councils, the NEA and the Pew Foundation, which gives fellowships to Philadelphia artists, make it possible for artists to take time from their jobs to make art and also validate the importance of artists in society and the self-worth of the recipients.
MASSACHUSETTS READINGS:
(These readings current as of April 1, 2008 go to the Readings page to see updated listings!)
WorkshopsUpcoming at the Concord Poetry CenterONLINE POETRY WORKSHOP: THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUEInstructor: Reginald Shepherd,
Nationally Renowned Poet and Editor BUILDING A BETTER POEM:
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Červená Barva Press Reading Series
Pierre Menard Gallery (Harvard Square)
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Loring-Greenough House,
12 South Street,
Jamaica Plain Centre
FEATURES:
MARTHA COLLINS is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front, (Graywolf, 2006), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was chosen as one of "25 Books to Remember from 2006" by the New York Public Library. Her most recent publication is the chapbook, Sheer (Barnwood, 2008). She is the founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and, currently editor-at-large for Field magazine.
FRED MARCHANT has published three books of poetry including Full Moon Boat from Graywolf Press. He is Professor of English, Director of the Creative Writing Program, and Co-director of the Poetry Center at Suffolk University. He is also a longtime teaching affiliate at The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
ALICE KOCIEMBA describes her poems as "parables" and is working on a collection titled, "Seizures and Other Disorders." She is a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets and the Cape Cod Writers Center. She is the director of a new poetry reading series in West Falmouth called Calliope, and she has read in numerous places in Boston including the Birds and Bards Festival at Forest Hills and Chapter and Verse.
$5.00 suggested donation
Free refreshments served after the reading
The Loring-Greenough House is handicapped accessible.
Further information: email dorothy.derifield@gmail.com or wileysister@yahoo.com or call 617-325-8388
The Bay State Underground
Sponsored by Boston University,
The Writers’ Room of Boston,
and AGNI Magazine
236 Bay State Road
(BU East T-stop on the Green Line)
Boston, MA
Readers:
Brandy Barents
Kevin Barents
Mary Bonina
Megan Collins
Clay Cogswell
Caitlen Frank
Morgan Frank
William Delman
Nancy Kassell
Jenne Knight
Emily Leithauser
Fred Marchant
Anna Ross
Ryan Wilson
Tom Yuill
EVERY MONDAY NITE,
Stone Soup Poetry (Host: Chad Parenteau),
a 35 year old venue, $4, sign up to be a feature - call Bill Perrault at 978-454-7423.
Starts at 7:30PM and don't forget to sign up!
Recorded on local t.v. station.
Dire #85 April 4, 2008
Ploughshares release party with
DeWitt Henry, Jennifer Haigh
and Robert Arnold
Dire #86 May 2, 2008
Rusty Barnes, John Sheirer
and poet Chad Reynolds
For more info and to get on the mailing list: EMAIL
COMING SOON
Mike Heppner and David Lawton (June 08)
Tom Daley (July 08)
Lisa Beatman (Sept 08)
George Wallace (Oct 08)
Michael Kimball (Nov 08)
USUALLY the 3rd FRIDAY of the MONTH!
NOLA’s TIGH FILI POETRY & OPEN MIC, $5, 8PM, Host:
Nola, poems/prose.
April 5: David Surette
April 19: Julia Carlson
April 26: Christine Korfhage
May 3: David Sirois & Richard Moore
May 17: Tam lin Neville
May 24: Julia Carlson
June 7: Barbara Bialick
June 21: Lisa C. Taylor
3-5 dollar donation @ the door
Feature info: Mike Amado, spokenwarrior@verizon.net
1st SUNDAY of the MONTH!
DEMOLICIOUS POETRY, $5, 2PM, Host: John, experimental poetry.
Out Of The Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone: 617-354-5287
Tapestry of Voices and the Forest Hills Educational Trust
present Poetry in the Chapel Sunday, APRIL 6th, 2pm
In Forsyth Chapel at historic Forest Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Avenue
Boston, MA
FOUR Regionally Acclaimed Poets offer readings of their original works to Poetry to amuse, provoke, and move you. Words to uplift you . This promises to be a stirring, wonderful event.
FEATURED POETS: MAGGIE DIETZ, HARRIS GARDNER, REGIE O. GIBSON, BARBARA HELFGOTT- HYETT
A POWER-PACKED CELEBRATION of NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
617.524.0128
Admission: $5
Info: www.foresthillstrust.org
at the Mattapoisett Free Library
7 Barstow Street Street
Mattapoisett, MA 02439
(508-758-4171 )
Free and Open to the Public
Diana will be reading from her new book THE SECOND QUESTION
and F.D.Reeve from THE TOY SOLDIER
at the Harvard University Yenching Library
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
At the Cambridge Central Square Library
45 Pearl Street
Free
HOSTED BY MIKE AMADO
Mike Amado is a performance poet from Plymouth. He published his first volume
of verse in 2006. His work has appeared in many magazines and online journals.
In 2008, two chap books are slated for release. He has featured at over 20 poetry
venues in MA and R.I.
When:
EVERY 1st SUNDAY OF THE MONTH,
1:00 to 3:00pm
BEGINNING APRIL 6TH
Our first feature will be:
David Surette
David will be reading from his latest book:"Easy to Keep: Hard to Keep In.
"Surette is also the author of three collections, "Malden", "Good Shift",
and "Young Gentleman's School." Surette is co-host of the
Poetribe Reading Series in East Bridgewater, Mass.
More info: www.davidsurette.com
Doors open @ 12:30, Program begins @ 1:00
Entrance on Spooner Alley.
More info: spokenwarrior@verizon.net
Directions: From Rte 3, get off at exit 6A to Rte 44 East (Samoset) to Plymouth Center.
Take right at lights onto Rte 3A (Court St). Approx 1/3 mile, take left on North St.
There is a public parking lot across the street.
Newton Free Library
330 Homer Street
Newton, MA
Newton Free Library/ 2007-2008
The Newton Free Library Poetry Series meets the second Tuesday of each month ( September, October, November,
February, March and April) at 7PM. Open Mic follows feature. One poem per poet.
Depot Square Gallery
1837 Mass. Ave
Lexington, MA
(Lexington Center near the Minuteman statue)
56 Major and emerging poets will each do a ten minute reading;
also Featuring six extraordinarily talented prize winning high school students:
Rhea Kroutil-McKendry and Tu Phan, Boston Latin High School;
Jocelyn Morris, Yamira Serret, Taoe Clark, Boston Arts Academy;
and Gabriella Fee, a Sophomore attending the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.
These Student stars will open the festival at 10:00 A.M.
Some of the many luminaries include SAM CORNISH, Diana DerHovanessian , Rhina P. Espaillat, Richard Wollman, Lloyd Schwartz, Fred Marchant, Barbara Helfgott-Hyett, DanTobin, Charles Coe, Danielle Legros-Georges, Regie Gibson, Kate Finnegan and Michael Bialis (Kaji Aso Studio), Marc Widershien, Sandee Story, Tino Villanueva, C.D. Collins, Stuart Peterfreund, Frannie Lindsay, Ifanyi Menkiti, Lainie Senechal, Harris Gardner, Susan Donnelly and Doug Holder.
Even more, it is about community, neighborhoods, diversity, BOSTON and MASSACHUSETTS.
This fast growing tradition is one of the largest events in Boston’s Contribution to National Poetry Month.
FREE ADMISSION !!!
For information:
Tapestry of Voices, (617-306-9484)or 617-723-3716
Library: (617)- 536-5400
Wheelchair accessible. Assistive listening devices available. To request a sign language interpreter or for other special needs, call (617) 536-7855 (TTY) at least two weeks before the program date.
Harris Gardner
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Director of Tapestry of Voices
website: http://tapestryofvoices.com
Emerson Umbrella Theater
40 Stow Street
Concord, MA 01742
Admission $4
Refreshments follow
Benefit Reading featuring XJ Kennedy with members Barb Crane, Bob Clawson, Joan Kimball and Amy Woods
Featured Poet David Rivard and emerging poet Michael Ansara with community readers Colleen Ottomano and Lindsay Kramer (Hopkinton High School).
Featured Poet Afaa Michael Weaver and emerging poet Bob Clawson with community readers from Simmons College.
Admission is free, but we pass a top hat for the feature.
Poetribe is going strong with great features and open slams every other Saturday night.
They meet in the Community Room of the East Bridgewater Library, 32 Union Street, East Bridgewater.
The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. with an open mic, followed by a feature at 9:00 and an open slam at 10.
Upcoming features include:
03/15 -- Robert Pinsky
03/15 -- Sean Janson
04/12 -- Jack McCarthy and the Lit Mag debut
04/26 -- Rosanna Warren
TIME: 7:30 PM
SITE: Newburyport Art Association Gallery, 65 Water Street, Newburyport
DETAILS: Free and open to the public; handicapped-accessible; light refreshments.
OPEN MIKE: An Open Mike follows the reading.
INFO: For more information, contact mcantor@prodigy.net
Reading Date |
Powow Reader |
Guest Reader |
April 16th |
Deborah Warren |
Marcia Karp |
May 14th |
Pat Callan |
Nemo Hill |
June 18th |
Alfred Nicol |
Gail White |
July 16th |
Melissa Balmain |
Tuesday April 29 7:30 PM
Tom Daley and Julie Rochlin
Tuesday May 27 7:30 PM
The Jamaica Plain Carpenter Poets
Note: The Walden St. bridge is under construction. Cambridge Cohousing is located just north of Porter Square at 175 Richdale Ave. From Massachusetts Ave., turn onto Upland Rd. Take the first right onto Richdale. Cross Walden St. and proceed to 175 Richdale Ave. Cambridge Cohousing is a complex of yellow buildings. Walk through the main gate to the Common House. For further information or instructions, please contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net, or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu or go to http://www.cambridgecohousing.org/fireside/index.html
738 Massachusetts Ave,
Central Square, Cambridge, Mass
(617) 354-2685
Email: cantab@slamnews.com
(http://www.slamnews.com/)
Wednesday, 8 pm open mike; 9:30 pm feature; 10:30 pm slam
Hosted by: Slammaster Simone Beaubien
Co-hosts: Dawn Gabriel, Ryk McIntyre, J*me, Adam Stone.
$3 at the door
Please Note:
*****18+ everyone must have a photo ID*****
Cambridge Common
1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
$5 Cover
Every Sunday
Poetry Slam: 8:00 pm
Feature: 9:30 pm
Open Mike: 10:30 pm
As always, The Stone Pigeon takes place at Breaking New Grounds in Portsmouth, on the second Monday of every month from 7 to 9PM. The format will consist of two featured readers followed by an hour-long open mic.
If you know anyone interested in poetry that might want to attend or maybe even read during the open mic portion, please pass this message along. Breaking New Grounds has been very supportive of everything, and I'm sure they would love to see this thing grow as much as I would. They just ask that we keep things age-appropriate and clean, so bear that in mind when passing this along or if you plan on reading at the show, as a feature or during the open mic.
For more information refer yourself or a friend to The Stone Pigeon website,
http://www.stonepigeon.com
Need help finding Breaking New Grounds?
Google Map Directions Here!
Or call Breaking New Grounds at (603) 436 - 9555
April 14th: Poet's Guide to New Hampshire Reading |
May 12th: Jennifer Elisabeth and Timothy Gager |
June 9th: Poetry Outsider's Month |
July 14th: Nathan Graziano and Lo Gallucio |
August 11th: Chris Eliot and Guest |
September 8th: John Grady and Bruce Pingree |
October 13th: Jon Stoker and George Jack |
November 10th: Crazy Cody and Andrew Periale |
December 8th: Mike Albert with Guest Alice Persons |
The Stone Pigeon website also includes directions to the show, in case you need them.
Doug Holder:
http://www.ibbetsonpress.com
http://dougholder.blogspot.com
http://authorsden.com/douglasholder
http://somervillenewswritersfestival.com
http://yahoogroups.com/group/ibbetsonstreetpressupdate
Reflections Cafe
8 Govenor St, corner of Wickenden St
Providence, RI 02903-4429
(401) 273-7278
(http://www.gotpoetry.com/)
PoetsWednesday
582 Rahway Ave
Woodbridge, NJ
Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Robert Roth + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Yes.
Evie Ivy, Guest Host
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com
Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
The Vault
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 @ 8 pm.
90-21 Springfield Blvd,
Queens Village, NY
Barbara Reiher-Meyers + Open
$5 suggested contribution, no minimum.
Handicap accessible? Afraid not (it’s somebody’s house).
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com
Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Evie Ivy + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Yes.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com
Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Mitch Batavia + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Probably.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com
Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Yolanda Coulaz + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Yes.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com
NYC Pedestal Event
Featuring Edward Hirsch, Christine Boyka Kluge, George Wallace, & John Amen
West Side YMCA (The George Washington Lounge)
5 West 63rd Street (between Central Park West & Broadway)
New York, NY
Besides the old, humdrum signs of spring: the bulging fanny packs, the blasé squirrels, the rise in muggings; there is something expectedly unexpected in the air! The Spring Schedule of The Multifarious Array! Bulging Poets! Blasé Poets! Poets with criminal pasts! Nearly every other Friday this season. Come out and visit! All readings begin at 7 pm.
April 11th – Chris Hosea & Thomas Heise & Mark Yakich & Joe Fletcher
April 25th – Evie Shockley & Brenda Ijima & Bob Hicok
May 9th – Keith Newton & Erica Ehrenberg & Robyn Art
May 16th – Betsy Wheeler & Frank Montesonti & Amy King & Morgan Schuldt
Pete's candy store
709 lorimer street
williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718)302-3770
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
NYC
free
Host: Miles Tepper
George Wallace presents: Larissa Shmailo and readers TBA.
Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery at the foot of 1st
(F to Second Avenue)
Lalita Java
210 East 3rd St.
(Btwn. B & C)
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY
Address: (Dr. Ni's local address) P.O. Box 15095
City and State: Philadelphia, PA 19130-9998
Contact person and or URL/information: Dr. Niama L. Williams;
www.internetvoicesradio
Date, time, price: Every Tuesday, 8-9 p.m. EST
$35/guest/appearance on show
Readers: International internet radio listeners
Other appropriate info: (station owner's address):
Ms. Lillian Cauldwell
P.O. Box 2344 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-2344;
734-332-5902.
Dr. Niama L. Williams
P. O. Box 15095
Philadelphia, PA 19130-9998
http://www.lulu.com/drni
http://www.blowingupbarriers.com
Jose Sebourne Graphic Design
1213-15 Vine Street Philadelphia PA 19107
7-10pm $5.00 Cover
Contact info:
The Gallery - (215)564-2554
Aziza Kintehg(215)668-4500
Email: azizalockdiva@...
or check out the website: www.Josesebourne.com
Rubloff Auditorium
Art Institute of Chicago
280 South Columbus Drive
$10, $8 for students, free for members and SAIC students, faculty and staff
Ticket proceeds benefit the Poetry Center of Chicago
Center on Halsted
3656 North Halsted Street
Free Admission.
Fullerton Hall
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free Admission.
Four Saints in Three Acts, the opera collaboration of composer Virgil Thomson and writer Gertrude Stein, is examined through production slides, musical excerpts, professional actors, and art commentary.
American Perspectives is a yearlong alliance among the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Poetry Foundation designed to explore how artists, composers and writers influenced one another to an unprecedented degree in 19th- 20th-century America.
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street
Free Admission
Fullerton Hall
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free Admission.
Fullerton Hall
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free Admission.
Veritas Fine Books
3500 Chinden Blvd
Garden City, ID
Arts & Culture Festival
Blue Mountain Community College
Pendleton, OR
for more info, contact Shaindel Beers at
shaindelr@yahoo.com
Book Barn
135 NW Minnesota Ave
Bend, OR
For more info, call 541.389.4589
The Bagel Junction
119 Redwood Hwy
Cave Junction, OR
Judy Joy Jones
The Bones of the Homeless
second printing release date;
February, 2008
joy@creationisbliss.com
Modern Times Books
Book Signing
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, California
April 10th, 2008
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th St
Sacramento, CA
Reading at UC-Riverdale
For more info, contact Judy Kronenfeld at
judy.kronenfeld@ucr.edu
Moorpark College Series
4:30-5:30 workshop, followed by reading
For more info, contact Sandra Hunter at tinyhuntress@roadrunner.com
2008 Annual Convention of the California Federation of Chaparral Poets (4/25-27)
Marriott Airport Hotel
Ontario, CA
I'll be doing a poetry workshop on 4/25, 7-8pm.
Other workshops go on throughout the weekend.
For more info or to register, contact Ursula T. Gibson at UrsulaTG1@aol.com.
Featuring Timothy Green, Judy Kronenfeld, Florence Weinberger, Ed Frankel, David Dannov,
Karen Stromberg, Ruth Nolan, PB Rippey, Marylen Grigas, Lucia Galloway, & John Amen
LA Pedestal Event
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd
Venice, CA
Margot Van Sluytman, Poet, Calgary, Alberta
Award Winning Expressive Writing Facilitator
403-454-5334
www.MargotVanSluytman.com
www.Palabras-Press.com
www.Dance-With-Words.com
to dance with words, is to be nourished~Margot Van Sluytman
University of Alberta St. Stephen's College, Edmonton, AB
February 2008 (Date to be Announced)
Reading and Workshop
Spiritual Directions, Calgary, Alberta
Workshop Series from January 2008 - June 2008
403-210-2802
May 2-3, 2008
Queenswood Centre, Victoria, BC
Honouring Your Unique and Vital Voice: Write Your Fire
In this expressive writing workshop, award winning facilitator,
Margot Van Sluytman, will inspire you to enter the depth of your
soul, the wells of your heart, unearthing your unique voice and
vision via your pen, as you come to dance with your words, with your
unique and fierce, and fabulous fire.
June 22-June 26 2008 - Sorrento Retreat Centre, Sorrento, BC
Contemplative Waiting~Write Into the Heart of Your Spiritual Journey
July 2008 Writing and Healing Workshop
Ontario
Dates and Venues to be Announced
Normandi Ellis, Foundation for the National Association for Poetry Therapy
"Margot, You are a worthy recipient, of the Seeds of Joy Award, from
the Foundation for the National Association for Poetry Therapy, for
your work in facilitating growth experiences through experiential
workshops in writing and healing voice here in the US and in
Canada."
Diarmuid O'Murchu, Member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order,
Social Psychologist, and author of: Quantum Theology, Reclaiming
Spirituality
"I thought many times of Thomas Merton as I read through Margot Van
Sluytman's poems, in Contemplative Waiting: Write Into the Heart of
Your Spiritual Journey: the contemplative waiting becomes an
awakening in which the sacred breaks through even in the mundane and
ordinary."
Brenda Peddigrew, Ph.D. - University of Alberta on Palabras Press
"It has been a powerful awakening for me simply to work with Palabras
Press. To be in a milieu where poetry is highly valued, where the
personal poetic voice is honored, and where the art of words is seen
as a way of healing, has heightened my own connection with the inner
world of passion and purpose. Palabras Press is a hidden gift to the
world, which is beginning to be seen for all that it can give back."
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