POETRY READINGS
A Room of One's Own
Decluttering and Organizing Services
by Catherine Sasanov
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With a special emphasis on the needs of writers in the greater Boston area, I am offering my services in creating and
maintaining, decluttering and organizing, writing spaces and home offices. This extends to psychic space as well by way
of brainstorming strategies for creating a focused and fulfilling writing life.
Services include, but are not limited to:
- Creating space within the home that is conducive to creative endeavors.
- Revisioning and revamping old writing spaces that no longer work.
- Taming Paper: If you are overwhelmed with paper, I can assist in decluttering, setting up an organizational
system tailored to your needs, maintaining files, and finding strategies for keeping paper under control.
- Creating an efficient home office: Writers often have a business side to their creative life that includes
submitting work for publication and securing readings, residencies, and grants. I can assist with everything from
setting up a home office to decluttering and revamping an old setup to make it work more efficiently, leaving you
more time to write.
- Time management: Sometimes what gets in the way of writing is less one's physical surroundings than difficulties
in sorting out and prioritizing one's needs. Allow me to help you strategize and focus your time where you really want
it to go. This can also include guidance in locating writing residencies, journals to submit to, and possible
funding sources.
If I can be of service, please email me at catherinesasanov@yahoo.com.
We can talk about your needs,
what I can provide, and my rates.
References available upon request.
About Catherine
Without my organizational skills, I would never have been able to hold down full-time administrative work,
write, and carry on the business side of my creative life. This skill has served me in writing three
poetry collections, including the forthcoming, Had Slaves, winner of the Sentence Book Award, and achieving grants,
residencies, and commissions. My philosophy in my organizing/decluttering work is to listen first, then tailor
strategies and solutions to the particular needs of each individual.
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IBBETSON STREET PRESS POETRY AWARD
The Ibbetson Street Press Poetry Award is presented at the annual Somerville News Writers Festival
(http://somervillenewswritersfestival.com/ ) held this year at the Armory Arts Center in Somerville, Mass..
The festival will be held November 14th (2009) this year.
In past years poets and writers such as Pulitzer Prize
winner Franz Wright, Junot Diaz, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar-nominated novelist Tom Perotta, Iowa Writer’s Workshop
head Lan Samantha Chang, Sue Miller (author of “The Good Mother”), Steve Almond, Boston Globe Columnist Alex Beam,
poet Nick Flynn, and many others have read in this event.
This year former poet/laureate Robert Pinsky will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement award.
Ibbetson Street Press is also pleased to announce the 3rd annual Ibbetson Street Poetry Contest.
The winner of the Ibbetson Street Press Poetry Contest award (must be a Massachusetts resident) will receive a $100 cash award,
a framed certificate, publication in the literary journal “Ibbetson Street” and a poetry feature in
the “Lyrical Somerville,” in The Somerville News.
Deadline: Sept 15, 2009
To enter send 3 to 5 poems, any genre, length, to Doug Holder 25 School St. Somerville, Mass. 02143.
Entry fee is $10. Cash or check only.
Make payable to “Ibbetson Street Press” or “Doug Holder."
The contest will be judged by Richard Wilhelm http://richardwilhelm.blogspot.com/ poet and
arts/editor of the Ibbetson Street Press.
The winner will be announced at the festival, and will receive his or her award. A runner up will be announced as well.
Advertise with the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene! http://tinyurl.com/ddjcal
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene http://dougholder.blogspot.com
Doug Holder's website http://authorsden.com/douglasholder
Ibbetson Street Press http://ibbetsonpress.com
Ibbetson Street Press Online Bookstore http://www.lulu.com/ibbetsonpress
Fresh! Literary Magazine 2009 Summer Contest
Short Stories: send in two stories, not more than four thousand words, we look for quality. Please avoid the usage of profanity or
description sex scenes in your story. Our readership and writer made up of teens and adults.
Poetry: Send in two poems, not more than forty lines, we look for quality in our writers. Please avoid the usage of profanity or
descriptive se scenes.
Teen Writers: Send in two of your best poems, forty lines or less. Please avoid the usage of profanity or sex descriptive sex
scenes. Short stories send in four thousand words or less, we look for quality in our writers.
Please include your $10.00 entry fee with your submissions. Deadline is October 31, 2009. Contest will be announced
November 30, 2009. Entry fee for teens is $5.00.
Short Story, First Prize ($100. 00)
Second prize, Fresh! Certificate
Poetry, First Prize (65.00)
Second Prize, Fresh! Certificate
Teens
Short Story, First Prize (50.00)
Second Prize, Fresh! Certificate
Teens
Poetry, First Prize (30.00
Second Prize, Fresh! Certificate
Send to
Fresh! Literary Magazine
C/O S. G. Ware
47 Pearson Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144
Woodstock Writers Workshops
Dear Friends and Workshop Members,
I'll be starting the spring session of the Woodstock Writers Workshops a little later than usual, but otherwise everything
will be the same. I'm sending a flyer as an attachment, but just in case anyone has a problem downloading it, here's the basic information.
The dates for spring are April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9 and June 23. Tuesdays as usual, 6:30 to 8:30.
All five sessions cost $75 as always.
Do e-mail me if you definitely plan to attend or have any questions.
Send checks to me at 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock, NY 12498 AFTER APRIL 1st.
I really look forward to seeing my “regulars” after our winter break, as well as some new members.
With all that snow, maybe you had more writing time.
Malachy McCourt said that the perfect place to write a novel was Woodstock in winter-and he did just that.
Maybe you did, too.
My very best,
Iris
COME CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF
MIKE AMADO
[4/23/75-1/2/09]
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SUNDAY JUNE 28, 2009
AT THE PLYMOUTH GUILD FOR THE ARTS
11 NORTH ST PLYMOUTH, MA
1PM
COME JOIN WITH MIKE'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN A DAY OF MEMORIES, STORIES, MUSIC AND POETRY. |
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SCHEDULED TO APPEAR, PEDLAR BRIDGES, JULIA CARLSON, DOROTHY DERIFIELD, LO GALLUCIO, HARRIS GARDNER,
DOUG HOLDER, WALTER HOWARD, IRENE KORONAS, GLORIA MINDOCK, JOANNA NEALON, CHAD PARENTEAU,
SEAN THEALL, SHEILA TWYMAN AND RICH WILEY
TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE FROM THE BRAINTREE `T' STATION
MORE INFOR CONTACT JOHNSCULLY36@YAHOO.COM
POETRY: THE ART OF WORDS
MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES
Poetry reading and Open Mic
Plymouth Center for Arts
11 North St. Downtown Plymouth, MA [off 3A]
MIKE AMADO
2009-2010 SCHEDULE
JUNE 28 CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF MIKE AMADO
SETEMBER 4 4TH ANNUAL POETRY SHOWCASE
OCTOBER 11 PHIL HSOURIS
NOVEMBER 8 NANCY BRADY CUNNINGHAM
DECEMBER 13 KIM TRIEDMAN
JANUARY 10 BILL ALBERTI
FEBRUARY 14 DANA ROWE
Doors open @ 12:30, Program begins @ 1:00, Open Mic @ 2:00
Entrance on Spooner Ave. FREE REFRESHMENTS MORE INFO:
johnscully36@yahoo.com
Concord Poetry Center
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 3-5pm
Open Mike at CPC
Featuring "The Core of Four"
We've opened our minds, our hearts, and now our mike! June 28 will be our FIRST OPEN MIKE reading. It will follow four
CPC featured readers: Walter Littell, Joel Johnson, Ann Taylor and
Keith Leonard, aka The Core of Four. Come hear their
strong and varied voices.
THEN: "If you'd like to read your poem to us, we'd love to hear it! You do not need to be a CPC member to read. Bring
ONE poem, no longer than ONE page, and sign up on the list before the featured reader(s), as we may need to limit the
number. Please participate (by reading or just by coming to listen) if you'd like this to continue. We hope it will
become a regular CPC event, perhaps quarterly." -Barb Crane, CPC host & open mike emcee
The reading will take place at the Concord Poetry Center, Emerson Umbrella for the Arts, 40 Stow Street, Concord, Mass.,
01742. 978-897-0054. Free. Donations graciously accepted.
ALSO:
Don't forget there are some great summer conferences coming up:
Friday, July 10-Monday, July 13
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
Sunday, July 26-Friday, July 31
Lesley University Writers' Conference
All good wishes,
Joan
Joan Houlihan, Director
Concord Poetry Center
www.concordpoetry.org
978-897-0054
NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB
Founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken
http://www.nepoetryclub.org
Sunday, June 28th, 4:00 p.m.
Salute to JOHN UPDIKE, with
CHRISTOPHER LYDON, journalist, TV and radio personality
X.J. KENNEDY, poet and editor
F.D. REEVE, poet, scholar, and novelist
Longfellow Summer Reading Series
East Lawn, Longfellow National Historic Site,
105 Brattle St., Cambridge
*Free and open to the public*
Sunday, July 12th, 4:00 p.m.
Golden Rose reading with CHARLES SIMIC
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate
More Sundays at Longfellow
July 12th and 26th, August 9th and 23rd
AGNI Magazine
Sven Birkerts, Editor
William Pierce, Senior Editor
New writing biweekly at AGNI Online (www.bu.edu/agni), which the blog Three Quarks Daily calls "one of the best online journals in America."
Our email lists keep you informed about readings in Boston and New York.
To subscribe/unsubscribe: www.bu.edu/agni/agnimail.html
AGNI is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that relies on additional support from Boston University, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a committed roster of individual donors (www.bu.edu/agni/friends-of-agni.html).
We thank them for keeping AGNI at the frontiers of literature.
Joan Wickersham at Brookline Booksmith
Tuesday, June 30th: 7PM
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA
Joan Wickersham reads from her National Book Award finalist
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order.
PEN New England / Hotel Marlowe Reading Series
invites you to a reading with
Fred Marchant and Teresa Cader
Wednesday, July 1st 2009
6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge.
Fred Marchant is the author of four poetry collections including The Looking House
(2009), Full Moon Boat, and Tipping Point,
winner of the Washington Prize in poetry. He is also the co-translator (with Nguyen Ba Chung) of From a Corner of My Yard,
poetry by the Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. He is a Professor of English, and the Director of the Creative Writing Program
and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston.
Teresa Cader is the author of three collections of poetry; History of Hurricanes
(2009), Guests, which won the Norma Faber
First Book Award from the Poetry Society of American and The Journal Award in Poetry, and The Paper Wasp. She is on the
faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lesley University and has also taught at Emerson College, the University
of Massachusetts-Boston, and MIT. She lives in Lexington, MA.
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.
Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels
A and C. Enter the garage from the Land Boulevard entrance, directly next to the Hotel Marlowe entrance.
The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.
AGNI Magazine
Sven Birkerts, Editor
William Pierce, Senior Editor
New writing biweekly at AGNI Online (www.bu.edu/agni), which the blog Three Quarks Daily calls "one of the best online journals in America."
Our email lists keep you informed about readings in Boston and New York.
To subscribe/unsubscribe: www.bu.edu/agni/agnimail.html
AGNI is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that relies on additional support from Boston University, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a committed roster of individual donors (www.bu.edu/agni/friends-of-agni.html).
We thank them for keeping AGNI at the frontiers of literature.
Naked Truth Summer Events:
Wednesday, July 1st 7 PM
Stephen Burt
Jessica Bozek
Naked Truth is pleased to feature faculty member Jessica Bozek, who will be reading from her first book,
"The Bodyfeel Lexicon," and Harvard professor Stephen Burt, the poet and critic, author of "Parallel Play"
and "Shotclocks: Poems for the WNBA." Burt also has a few books of criticism, including studies of Randall Jarrell,
adolescence in poetry, and his new book, "Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry."
Library Reading Room
The New England Institute of Art
10 Brookline Place West
Brookline, MA 02445-7295
“Word on the Street”
Thursday, July 2, 2009, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Start the holiday weekend with some poetic fireworks!
Featuring
* Readings by Carolyn Gregory and Alice Kociemba
* A fun open mic with various poems, poets and lovers of poetry. All are invited to read their own or someone else’s work.
Free, with refreshments.
Where: 633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain in the double-wide trailer on the front lawn of First Baptist Church of JP at the corner of
Myrtle and Centre Streets (across Myrtle from the JP post office). Accessible by the #39 bus or straight up Green Street,
five blocks from Green Street Station on the Orange Line.
Carolyn Gregory, a Jamaica Plain resident, has published poems and classical music reviews in
“American Poetry Review,” “Seattle Review,” “Pemmican,” “Ibbetson Street,” “Bellowing Ark,”
“Main Street Rag,” “Poesy,” “Art Times,” “The Aurorean” and “Stylus.” Recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Foundation award,
she has published two chapbooks. Her book, Open Letters, was published in 2009 by Windmill Editions. She has conducted
workshops and given readings in Boston, New York and Michigan. She is a member of Jamaica Pond Poets and the
New England Poetry Club.
Alice Kociemba grew up in Jamaica Plain and returns here to write and enjoy the city. She lives and works as a psychotherapist
in Falmouth. She is the director of Calliope—Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library, a monthly poetry series. She is working
on her first volume of poetry, Seizure, and Other Disorders. Her poems have appeared in various journals, such as “Plainsongs,”
“Slant” and “Roanoke Review,” and one has won an International Merit Award from the “Atlanta Review.” Alice is also a member of
Jamaica Pond Poets.
Word on the Street is part of First Thursdays arts nights on Centre and South Streets in Jamaica Plain during the summer.
The poetry readings are sponsored by JP Centre/South Main Streets in collaboration with Jamaica Pond Poets. Admission is free.
Questions? Suggestions? Contact JP Centre/South Main Streets at info@jpcentresouth.org.
The Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts
Presents
Poetry Series: at the Brockton Library
304 Main Street. Map it!
New website!!! www.gbspa.org
Go to our website and click on the CAT to read about City Lights
Our workshop and venue are free, the seats comfortable, the refreshments delicious.
12:00 - 2:00 Poetry Writing Workshop
1:30 - 2:00 Sign up for Open-Mic Reading
2:15 - 3:15 Open-Mic Reading
3:30 - 4:30 Feature Poets
During Open-Mic Reading share your own poetry
or read from works of your favorite poets
Upcoming Features (For information on the following poets click on our website)
Sat. Jul 18 - Kim Triedman
Tino Villanueva
Sat. Aug 15 - Doug Holder
Kate Chadbourne
Sat. Sep 19 - Nancy Brady Cunningham
Sheila Mullen Twyman
Joanna Nealon
Sat. Oct.17 - Ellen Steinbaum
Paul Hostovsky
Brockton Library Poetry Series
Sheila Mullen Twyman
Out Of The Blue Gallery
EVERY MONDAY NITE,
Stone Soup Poetry (Host: Chad Parenteau),
a 38 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.
Stone Soup Poetry Series
Out of the Blue Gallery
Host: Chad Parenteau
For information on the rest of May's performers,
visit the Stone Soup web site: http://stonesouppoetry.blogspot.com
Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The
Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at
7:30 p.m.
http://stonesouppoetry.blogspot.com/
TIMOTHY GAGER'S
DIRE LITERARY SERIES /Out of the Blue Gallery/
1st Friday- Cambridge, MA
5, 15 MINUTE OPEN MIC SLOTS AT 8 PM,
SIGN-UP AT 7 PM
FOLLOWED BY FEATURES
For more info and to get on the mailing list: EMAIL
USUALLY the 3rd FRIDAY of the MONTH!
NOLA’s TIGH FILI POETRY & OPEN MIC, $5, 8PM, Host:
Nola, poems/prose.
OPEN BARK meets @ the Out Of The Blue Art Gallery,
Open Bark "Candelite Poetry" with Hostess Deborah M. Priestly and Features!!!!
Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street,
Cambridge, MA 02139
www.outoftheblueartgallery.com
Every Saturday Nite
Nov. 1/8/15/22/29
December 6/13/20/27
Open Bark Features @ the Out of the Blue Art Gallery:
Time: 8PM into the night!
Admission: $3-5 at the door (donations accepted & adored!)
Readers: Features are determined about 1 month in advance. If you want to
be one, Deborah Priestly and Rob Russell
(Feature Coordinator), will book you to be one. Call the gallery at (617)354-5287
and ask to speak to Rob Russell, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from about 1pm to 8pm. Or email us at ootb@att.net
and put your Poetry Feature Request to the Attention of Rob Russell, Feature Coordinator! Thank you!
Other info: We are a very laid back and creative Poetry Venue, "Open Bark Candelite Poetry Series" running on 11
(eleven) years strong now. We only ask that you bring original work and if you read someone else's work, like a
famous poet or poetess' that you give recognition to their work by reciting first their name.
Musicians, actors, mimes, dancers, drummers and others welcomed!!!!
Out Of The Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone: 617-354-5287
The Boston Poetry Slam
Downstairs at the Cantab Lounge
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*****
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Sunday Night!
Cambridge Common
1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
$5 Cover
Every Sunday
Poetry Slam: 8:00 pm
Feature: 9:30 pm
Open Mike: 10:30 pm
MADISON SQUARE READS
Madison Square Park / 25th Street & Madison Avenue / Farragut Monument, NYC
For more information, visit madisonsquarepark.org
Free Readings Every Thursday Night
June 11 – August 6
ahughes@madisonsquarepark.org
Eleven Madison Avenue 14FL, New York, NY 10010
LALITA JAVA READINGS
3rd THURSDAYS 7-9 PM
HOSTED BY DOROTHY F. AUGUST
Lalita Java
210 East 3rd St.
(Btwn. B & C)
92nd Street Y Reading Series
92nd Street Y Reading Series
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY
"Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes with Dr. Ni"
(radio show; internet radio)
Date, time, price: Every Tuesday, 8-9 p.m. EST
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
$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
1ST FRIDAYS ON VINE
Hosted by Aziza Kintehg
Every First Friday of the Month
Be part of an Art Extravaganza
* Spoken Word * Music Freestyle * Open Mike
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
A Different Day Gallery
July 23, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Lucille Lang Day, Marianne Betterly,
and Andrena Zawinski
Open reading follows
A Different Day Gallery
1233 Solano Ave.
Albany, CA
(510) 868-4904
Refreshments provided
Poetry Flash at Diesel
August 2, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Lucille Lang Day and Roz Spafford
Poetry Flash at Diesel, A Bookstore
5433 College Avenue
Oakland, CA
(510) 653-9965
Coordinators: Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg, editor@poetryflash.org
Lucille Lang Day's newest book
The Curvature of Blue by Lucille Lang Day
Červená Barva Press, 2009
Description: The Curvature of Blue traverses an arc from the personal to the social and historical to the cosmic and
philosophical. As a scientist and poet, Lucille Lang Day goes beyond celebration of the natural world to explore the
intersections of science, nature, and human experience, and to meld scientific accuracy with intuition and emotional
response. Whether writing about jellyfish, war, or her own experience, she draws attention to important questions and
inspires us to think more deeply about what it means to be human and how our choices affect the planet Earth.
Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/index.html
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