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#16615 From: radomir luza <Rick@...>
Date: Tue May 22, 2012 11:29 pm
Subject: Fw: Radomir Vojtech Luza and Sharon Rizk Perform SESSIONS Together at BEYOND BAROQUE this Thursday at 7:30pm 		rickpoet
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Dear Friends,

      You are invited to see SESSIONS, a Collaborative Performance Piece written and performed by Radomir Vojtech Luza and Sharon Rizk at BEYOND BAROQUE Literary/ Arts Center this Thursday, 5/24, at 7:30pm.

       Written in the same room at the same time, Luza and Rizk detonate their conscious minds and find even more freestyle word ping pong.. A stew of imagery, analysis and commentary, SESSIONS takes you to the brink of madness and back again to the land of the living. 

    Both Poets use their own experiences and language to create their own worlds, yet are also influenced by the words and thoughts of the other Poet.  The back and forth is a mesmerizing exercise in reality, fiction and wordplay you don't want to miss.

     BEYOND BAROQUE is located at 681 Venice Blvd. in Venice, CA. 90291.  Half a Mile West of Lincoln Blvd.

      www.beyondbaroque.org for more information.

      Thank You,

      Radomir Vojtech Luza

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#16616 From: "Don Kingfisher Campbell" <kingfisher1031@...>
Date: Wed May 23, 2012 4:00 pm
Subject: 5/26 FIELD TRIP to EAGLE ROCK LIBRARY 		kingfisher1031@...
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Hey So Cal Poets,

Saturday Afternoon Poetry is here for you! We meet EVERY Saturday in the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. between 3pm and 5pm. Here's our schedule:

May 26th - Poetry Writing Workshop FIELD TRIP to the Eagle Rock Library on 5027 Caspar Avenue to write with SUZANNE LUMMIS (323/224-0039)

June 2nd - Deep Poetry Critique
June 9th - Featured: Poets published in the Spring 2012 issue (#54) of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (Poets, please send up to three poems in the body of an email message by May 26th to: kingfisher1031@...)
June 16th - MARY TORREGROSSA leads Poetry Writing Workshop
June 23rd - CALOKIE & MARY TORREGROSSA moderate Deep Poetry Critique
June 30th - CALOKIE hosts J.R. PHILLIPS, JULIA STEIN & MAJA TROCHIMCZYK + Open Reading

July 7th - Poetry Writing Workshop
July 14th - Deep Poetry Critique
July 21st - Featured: TERRY McCARTY, KEVIN PATRICK SULLIVAN & BRIGIT TRUEX + Open Reading
July 28th - Poetry Writing Workshop

August 4th - Deep Poetry Critique
August 11th - Featured: MICHAEL J. CLUFF, CEDRIC DRAKE & MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN + Open Reading
August 18th - Poetry Writing Workshop
August 25th - Deep Poetry Critique

September 1st - Featured: Poets published in the Summer 2012 issue (#55) of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (Poets, please send up to three poems in the body of an email message by August 18th to: kingfisher1031@...)
September 8th - Poetry Writing Workshop
September 15th - Deep Poetry Critique
September 22nd - Featured: TBA, TBA & TBA + Open Reading
September 29th - CALOKIE hosts 100 Thousand Poets For Change

October 6th - Poetry Writing Workshop
October 13th - Deep Poetry Critique
October 20th - Featured: TBA, TBA & TBA + Open Reading
October 27th - Poetry Writing Workshop

November 3rd - Deep Poetry Critique
November 10th - Featured: TBA, TBA & TBA + Open Reading
November 17th - Poetry Writing Workshop
November 24th - Deep Poetry Critique

All events FREE, as always.

Hope to see you there,
Don
 
 
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#16617 From: Antonieta Villamil <antonietavillamil@...>
Date: Wed May 23, 2012 8:10 pm
Subject: Re: Call for 100 Thousand Musicians for Change -- September 29, 2012 		antonietavillamil@...
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Querida Jessica gracias for this información. I wrote to Michael and Richard to organize an event. Cheers for poetry always!
Antonieta

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Jessica Wilson <europawynd@...> wrote:
 



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From: SoapBox Poets <venicesoapboxpoets@...>
Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Subject: Call for 100 Thousand Musicians for Change -- September 29, 2012
To:


Greetings!
In conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for Change, the global phenomenon born from the mind of Michael Rothenberg about 1 year ago, 100 Thousand Musicians for Change is born!

This is a call out to those musicians, singers, songwriters that wish to join in the global movement!


September 29, 2012

To sign up to organize an event for September 29th, 2012

write to us at: walterblue@...

and STAY TUNED for…
The new 100 TPC Website and 2012 Blogs for both 100 TPC and 100 TMC!


Do you want to join other poets MUSICIANS, SINGERS AND SONGWRITERS around the USA and across the planet in a demonstration/celebration of MUSIC to promote serious social, environmental, and political change?

100 Thousand Musicians for Change Day will take place in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day on September 29th, 2012.

This past September 24th, 2011 100 Thousand Poets for Change was initiated and the result was the largest poetry reading in history. For September 29th, 2012 we invite Musicians to join in the celebration/demonstration to let the world know we have a voice and we care about the future of the planet.

If you would like to organize an event in your community, write to us at walterblue@...

And join us on Facebook !

Download the 100 TMC logo at full size 100 TMC.jpg


For answers to your frequently asked questions (what type of change? where is it held?), please click HERE.






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Thank you,
Jessica M. Wilson





--
Antonieta Villamil


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#16618 From: Jessica Wilson <europawynd@...>
Date: Fri May 25, 2012 5:18 pm
Subject: SoapBox Poets are Back! Join us Memorial Day evening! 		europawynd@...
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Step up on the box! SoapBox Poets are back! 

SoapBox Poets Memorial Day Reading!

Join the SoapBox Poets for an amazing Memorial Day Open Mic at our new venue, Pyramido in North Hollywood!

Along with the wonderful creative work from our open mic, Pyramido offers a full bar, hookah, and amazing Greek/Mediterranean food! 

Our open mic is open to creative writers, musicians, and singers. 


7 mins max performance time.

No cover; enjoy this new venue and join me in some hookah to top off this Memorial Day!


RSVP for open mic by emailing venicesoapboxpoets@...om! Sign up sheet also at venue!



Pyramido:
4907 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Event time: 8-10pm


Happy Memorial Day!

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#16619 From: Antonieta Villamil <antonietavillamil@...>
Date: Fri May 25, 2012 9:22 pm
Subject: Re: SoapBox Poets are Back! Join us Memorial Day evening! 		antonietavillamil@...
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Hi Jessica I got back form Colombia 2 weeks ago. This is a great way to say ADIOS to May. Please sign me UP. Can you forgive my ignorance about exact day? It looks like I live in a parallel universe. What day is Memorial day?
Cheers!
Antonieta Villamil

Our open mic is open to creative writers, musicians, and singers. Pyramido:
4907 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Event time: 8-10pm
Happy Memorial Day!--
Antonieta Villamil

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#16620 From: Eric Lyden <livelrn@...>
Date: Sat May 26, 2012 7:04 am
Subject: Bigger and Better Catches - Poetry and Music by Eric and Bob 		livelrn@...
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From Live at the Common Coffee Grounds, featuring Jamin' Jowls Lyden and Larry Younger. Check it out.....
 
 
Eric C. Lyden, M.A.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
4881 Topanga Cyn. Blvd., Suite 210
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
(818)426-6967

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#16621 From: "Rick" <Rick@...>
Date: Sat May 26, 2012 5:19 pm
Subject: POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY presents poems from Desert Hot Springs and India 		rickpoet
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....
Poetry Super Highway
  • Join the growing list of 2012 Poetry Contest Sponsors! (80 prizes pledges so far!)
    We're looking for prize donations for our 15th annual summer poetry contest. If you'd like to donate, books, subscriptions, services, or anything of specific interested to Poets and Writers in exchange for promotional mention in our classified section and in all contest correspondence for the duration of the contest, please click on "SPONSOR THE 2012 CONTEST" from the main PSH menu for all the details.
THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
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Issue # 762 - ISSN: 1523-6587.

May 28 - June 3, 2012

this week:
  • This week featuring poets from Desert Hot Springs, CA andMumbai, India.

  • 2 new poetry and writing links added this week.

  • The News Factory: Notes from a Dying City by Matthew Abuelo featured this week in thePoets of the Week section of the PSH Bookstore.

  • PSH LIVE - Last Sunday's show in the archive. Next Show, Sunday, June 10.

  • Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
POETS OF THE WEEK

This week's featured poets are Patricia D'Alessandro and Aftab Yusuf Shaikh:

Patricia D'Alessandro (Desert Hot Springs, California) has been writing poetry for over 40 years, and is a Graduate of the University of San Francisco, earning her B.S. in 1980, in Human Relations& Organizational  Behavior,  while working at Levi Strauss &Co., in San  Francisco subsidized by LS&Co, to enable her to move forward as an administrative assistant in the Merchandising Department. She  currently, she hosts the Barnes & Noble/Palm Desert/Westfield Center's monthly poetry series "Valley Voices of the Muse," having done the same in Sacramento for "TEA & EMPATHY"  for the Wellspring Women's Center, sponsored by POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE through a grant received from the James Irvine Foundation.  She lives in Desert Hot Springs, where she is working on her seventh volume of poetry to publish at the end of 2012, and is an essayist / artist / photographer, published in various literary journals and she hopes to live to celebrate 100, in 2024.

Aftab Yusuf Shaikh (Mumbai, India) has been writing since the early age of eight and has since then authored a number of poems, many of which have been featured in publications like The Istanbul Literary Review, Muse India, Moon Washed Kisses Magazine, The Barefoot Review,etc. His prime interest lies in culture, society, religion and psychology. He has self published a collection of his poetry titled 'Poems-Twenty Ten.' Born and brought up in Mumbai, he considers the city as his muse along with some others like New York and Jerusalem. He is currently pursuing his Bachelors in English Literature and Psychology from the University of Mumbai.

Read their work by clicking on "POETS OF THE WEEK" from the main PSH menu.

NEW POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LINKS

Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's Poetry and Writing links sections:

Find thousands more links to poetry and writing websites on our website. Click on "Add Your Link Here" from the main PSH menu to add your poetry/writing website to our directory.

NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:

Lady Samantha Writes
My name is Lady Samantha. I am a freelance writer from New York state. I enjoy writing poetry, short stories, and articles on various topics. I've written for numerous sites including Yahoo!Voices. I've also been published in various magazines such as Asbestos and cynicmag.com, as well as in various poetry anthologies, such as Bards Annual Anthology 2011.

Zvi A Sesling Poetry
Contains reviews of my books, selected poems and online help with your poems.

POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE

News Clips and Ego Trips: A Poet's Companion from the Best of Next... Magazine edited by G. Murray ThomasThe News Factory: Notes from a Dying City byMatthew Abuelo featured this week in the Poets of the Week section of the PSH Bookstore.

In his new collection of poems and short stories, Matthew Abuelo pays homage to Dexter House, NYC, a SRO he called home for many years. The volume brings to life the strong ties among the tenants of the once affordable housing option in the city: "Will you know the Jerusalem of their hearts?/ those of the Dexter house/ who travel in time/ of fading New York/ not as travelers/ but as pictures…" The residents' pain of losing their homes seeps through graphic urban imagery: "Do you know the language of the Dexter House?" asks Abuelo. It is a language "built on tears and the mantra called beauty…" The collection speaks volumes as social commentary—a valuable and insightful contribution to the genre. 
–Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, poet and scholar.

Click here for more and to order

Paperback, 84 Pages, Published by Plain View Press (February, 2012)

UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS

PSH LiveWe host a monthly, live, online open reading and other special shows which you can listen to and participate in here: poetrysuperhighway.com/pshlive.html

If you can't make the live time, you can also listen to any past show by visitingpoetrysuperhighway.com/pshlive.html and clicking on the show's title. (As well as subscribe to all of our shows through iTunes or any other software you use to listen to podcasts.

Upcoming Shows:

June 2012 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, June 10, 2012 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Join our monthly open reading by listening to the show live and/or calling in and sharing a poem. No content or style restrictions...it's open reading and you don't even have to leave the house to participate!

Recently Archived broadcasts:

May 2012 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, May 6, 2012 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Our May 2012 show featured callers from Raleigh, NC, Newark, NJ, New York City, NY, Sacramento, CA and Birmhingham, AL...along with a spoken word track from Jerry Garcia in Los Angeles and great conversation with many callers about print versus electronic publication.

April 2012 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, April 15, 2012 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Our April 2012, reading featured poets from Westerville, OH, Raleigh, NC, Los Angeles, CA, Birmingham, AL, Cincinnati, OH and Houston, TX, along with a spoken word track from Jerry Garcia and some interesting conversation about how to go about getting published. 

Poetry Super Highway Live would love to host your reading, interview, contest promotion or other poetry/writing related show. Please e-mail your show idea toRick@..., and we'll take it from there.

POETRY CLASSIFIEDS

For information on placing Poetry Related classifieds ads on the Poetry Super Highway web page and weekly e-mail outburst, send an e-mail to:classifieds@...

Winning WritersSports Poetry & Prose Contest - Last Call!

New from Winning Writers. 14 cash prizes totaling $5,000. Top prize for poetry: $1,500. Top prize for prose (fiction and nonfiction): $1,500.

Submit an entry of 1-2 poems or one work of prose on a sports-related theme, up to 6,000 words in all. All entries that win cash prizes will be published onWinningWriters.com (over one million page views per year) and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 40,000 subscribers.

Fee is $15 per entry. Submit online by May 31. Sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2012). Final judge: Jendi Reiter. Guidelines and online submission at www.winningwriters.com/sports

...Alex M. Frankel reading at the Second Sunday Poetry Series in Pasadena

SECOND SUNDAY POETRY SERIES: This open mic poetry reading series, hosted by Alex M. Frankel, takes place on the second Sunday of every month at 72 North in Old Town Pasadena. Great poets are featured. They perform their work, sell and sign books and mingle with audience members and open mic participants. Admission is free but there is a one drink minimum.

Next reading: Sunday, June 10, 5 pm. Featured readers to be announced. This is Pasadena's leading poetry event! For more about the series please email alexmfrankel2000@... 72 North is at 72 N. Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena. Check out website, search for "Second Sunday Poetry Pasadena"

CALL FOR ENTRIES!
THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone. Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, form or style. And/or (2) Write short story five pages maximum, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, fiction or non-fiction. Multiple entries are accepted. Prizes: Writing Contest First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. Entry fees: $5 per poem/$10 per story. Postmark deadline: July 31, 2012. Visithttp://www.dreamquestone.com for details and enter!

48HrBooks.com

...Death of a Mauve Bat by Rick Lupert
Death of a Mauve Bat: The Poet's Experiences in, and on the way to and from, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"I know of no other poet able to establish intimacy with the reader as fast as Lupert. If this is your first experience of his work, I urge you to receive him as you would any friend of a friend." ~ Brendan Constantine

Rick Lupert's brings you back to the hidden Canada in the follow up to his 2011 collection, Sinzibuckwud! written in Montreal, Death of a Mauve Bat steers you through Toronto and Niagara Falls with Lupert's one of a kind satirical filter. You'll learn Toronto like no-one ever should. You'll climb an unfinished castle, drink a blue drink, mosey in and out of the requisite museums and wonder at the ekphrastic glories that are revealed. You'll wander the streets in search of vegetarian hot dogs and stand in the lights which illuminated the most famous funnytarians of our time. Throw away your guidebook, bring this instead. (okay, maybe bring both.) This is travelogue poetry for the 21st century. (160 Pages, Ain't Got No Press, January 2012)

Learn more about Death of a Mauve Bat, read sample poems and get your own copyhere.

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The Night Goes On All Night - Noir Inspired PoemsThe Night Goes on All Night - Noir Inspired Poems edited by Rick Lupert

Turn out the light, then turn it back on, then do it again...someone outside is watching and this is the code they need to see. Read this book and enter a world where the night goes on all night. Conceived as part of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival's "Night and the City", 2011 Noir Festival, this collection was released as part of the "Valley Noir" event at the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park. It includes noir-inspired new and selected poems from E. Amato, Michael C. Ford, Michael Cluff, Brendan Constantine, Mike Daily, Gloria Derge, Peggy Dobreer, Jerry Garcia, Joelle Hannah, Kris Huelgas, Elizabeth Iannaci, Jack Bowman, Ruth Nolan, Marc Olmsted, Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Angela Penaredondo, Douglas Richardson, Anthony Seidman, Eric Steineger, Eric Tuazon, Mehnaz Turner, Wyatt Underwood, Wanda VanHoy Smith and Florence Weinberger. Edited by Los Angeles poet and Cobalt Cafe series curator Rick Lupert.

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Authors, Share Your Book with Millions of Readers

A Poet's HaggadahA Poet's Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poetsedited by Rick Lupert
36 Poets reinterpret the traditional themes and text of the Passover Haggadah through their own unique lenses. Guaranteed to add something different to your own seders and a great read! Edited by Los Angeles Poet Rick Lupert (Creator of the Poetry Super Highway) Includes work from Helen Bar-Lev, Lynne Bronstein, Salvatore Buttaci, Howard Camner, Larry Colker, devin davis, Barbara Elovic, Robert Klein Engler, David Gershator, Leslie Halpern, Claudia Handler, Daniel Y. Harris, Elizabeth Iannaci, Marc Jampole, Rachel Kann, Beth Kanter, Peggy Landsman, Michael Levy, Jake Marmer, Ellyn Maybe, Heather McNaugher, Daniel Olivas, Judith Pacht, Jaimes Palacio, Jonathan Penton, Joan Pond, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Richard Schiffman, G. David Schwartz, Adam Shechter, Diana Sher, Scott Alixander Sonders, Julia Stein, S. Thomas Summers, Pam Ward and Misha Weidman.

More info and get the book here: http://www.poetseder.com/

Publish your book from your computer! As little as $1.00 a copy!http://www.instantpublisher.com/Instant Publisher offers the ability for you to print professional quality, perfect bound, with glossy full color cover books, which you lay out yourself directly from your computer.Your book can be any number of pages with any design you want in black and white or full color for the front and back covers.You simply download the Instant Publisher software to your computer, lay out your book using any program you want (Publisher, Microsoft Word, Quark XPress, Adobe Indesign, etc...) and then when you're ready, you print over the internet to the Instant Publisher servers.In less than 2 weeks, you'll get your books in the mail!You can order as few as 25 books if you want. They can also provide ISBN and Barcodes for your book if you want, and full color cover design if you need it.This is the cheapest way to get bookstore quality books of your poetry or any other work in almost any quantity.Visithttp://www.instantpublisher.com/ for more info!

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#16622 From: Antonieta Villamil <antonietavillamil@...>
Date: Sun May 27, 2012 5:16 am
Subject: LA POESIA FESTIVAL and Potluck Party at Beyond Baroque. Please pass along to fellow friends in Los Angeles. 		antonietavillamil@...
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LA POESÍA FESTIVAL ˇEN ESPAŃOL! and Potluck Party

bring original poesía, cuento, música, pintura to share

 

FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH

Starting: June 2, from 8pm to Midnight

 

BEYOND BAROQUE LIBRARY

681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291

 

Organized by Antonieta Villamil antonietavillamil@...

Free. To participate, bring original work in Spanish to share.

Potluck Party: bring something to eat or drink. Free public parking.
_________________________
A compartir y disfrutar de tu cultura en tu idioma

LA POESÍA FESTIVAL ˇEN ESPAŃOL!

Trae obra original: poesía, cuento, música, pintura

 

PRIMER SÁBADO DE CADA MES

INAUGURACIÓN: Sábado Junio 2 de 8pm a 12pm

 

En el legendario centro literario

BEYOND BAROQUE
 
IMPORTANTE: Beyond Baroque tiene teatro
entrando a mano derecha, galería subiendo
las escaleras y nuestro evento es entrando
a mano izquierda en LA LIBRERÍA DE BEYOND BAROQUE

681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291

www.beyondbaroque.org

Beyond Baroque Tel: 1310 822 3006

 

Organiza Antonieta Villamil:

antonietavillamil@...

Antonieta Cel: 1424 603 8156

 

Para el Potluck Party: trae algo de comer o beber para compartir.
Este nuevo espacio de expresión cultural necesita de tu apoyo. Te esperamos!
Beyond Baroque queda al oeste de Los Ángeles, a mano derecha sobre Venice Blvd., entre Lincoln y Abbot Kinney. Si te pasas Abbot Kinney te fuiste muy lejos. Entrada gratis. Estacionamiento público gratis entrando a la derecha por la esquina inmediatamente antes de llegar a Beyond Baroque.
 
--
Antonieta Villamil



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Antonieta Villamil


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#16623 From: "Dori Marler" <dorimarler@...>
Date: Sun May 27, 2012 3:14 pm
Subject: tonight at 5...see attached 		dorimarler@...
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Dori Marler

dorimarler@...

 

 

Announcing

 

The Poetry Fix

Presented by: Co-Hosts

 

James Maverick and Dori Marler

 

Open mic, spoken word, stories, music and more

 

Featuring/Guest Poet

 

Matt “Maestro” Gamin

 

Sunday May 27th 5:00 PM till 7:00 PM

 

See attached for details

 

 

 


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#16624 From: Murray Thomas <nextmag@...>
Date: Sun May 27, 2012 8:13 pm
Subject: Fwd: One piece sold while hanging the show - it's that good! Tomorrow at 5! 		gmtpoet
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This is today. I'm forwarding this as a favor to Nicole, a regular at the B&N reading.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nicole Street <csulbhippoetics@...>
To: Nicole Street <csulbhippoetics@...>
Sent: Sat, May 26, 2012 10:34 pm
Subject: One piece sold while hanging the show - it's that good! Tomorrow at 5!


Hi all,
Half the art is up and it is truly fabulous!
The open mic will be interesting as always, in a good way.
The featured readers are going to blow you away!
Say you're coming, because you are worth it! Your friends too.

Nicole M. Street
Founder of HipPoetics, 2010
562 895 9299





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#16625 From: Antonieta Villamil <antonietavillamil@...>
Date: Sun May 27, 2012 10:01 pm
Subject: LA POESIA FESTIVAL: Saturday June 2 from 8pm to Midnight at BEYOND BAROQUE! AND WHY? 		antonietavillamil@...
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LA POESIA FESTIVAL
First saturday of every month
 
Starting: June 2, from 8pm to Midnight.
BEYOND BAROQUE LIBRARY
681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291
Organized by Antonieta Villamil
 
Free. To participate, bring original poetry, short story in Spanish to share
Musicians and painters are welcome.
For the potluck Party: bring something to eat or drink to share.
(Wine, cheese, breads, grapes, salads, etc) 
Free public parking.
 
Is this basically for Spanish speaking poets, story tellers, musicians and artists?
 
Yes dear friend. We lack and are weaken for that lack of expression space. 60% (conservative number of census) of the population in Greater Los Angeles of Spanish first language lacks this basic public space of expression of culture in mother tongue. It's a fight for the soul of the diversity of culture. This country of only English maims a parallel universe that should coexist for diversity's sake. Our original peoples from Africa and preAmerican lands know these. Those who claim to be superior cut the spirit of our cultures first. There is no art in the schools for the common kid. Why should there be space for POESIA in their mothers’ tongues? The masses are fodder for war anyway? Shouldn't they be touched by the power of poetry in their own language? The powers that be impose and enforce these from day one. Aliens to culture in mother tongue; we are easily turned into war machines. I am a poet activist and to correct this is a way to help end the SUCIA culture of war. The angel of creativity and peace speaks to the heart in mothers tongues.
 
Antonieta Villamil
 
 

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#16626 From: "Don Kingfisher Campbell" <kingfisher1031@...>
Date: Mon May 28, 2012 6:15 pm
Subject: 6/1 CaLokie, Dorsey, Kingfisher, Torregrossa perform poetry in Santa Monica 		kingfisher1031@...
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The Inner Four (CaLokie AKA Carl Stilwell, me, Marvin L. Dorsey, and Mary Torregrossa) 
will be reading this Friday, June 1st at 8:30pm inside the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica. 
As a bonus, I'm offering a $100 recording contract with Small World Sound producer extraordinaire 
Barry Schwam for the Open Reader who gives the best poetry performance that night (as judged by The Inner Four).

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#16627 From: Jessica Wilson <europawynd@...>
Date: Mon May 28, 2012 11:31 pm
Subject: CANCELLED tonight: SoapBox Poets Memorial Day reading 		europawynd@...
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CANCELLED tonight:

Hello everyone. Happy Memorial Day! Due to unfortunate circumstances, tonight's SoapBox Poets is cancelled. I apologize for this...but I do hope you all enjoy your holiday. I will keep you updated about future SoapBox events.

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#16628 From: "lummisday" <lummisday@...>
Date: Tue May 29, 2012 2:01 pm
Subject: Lummis Day poetry gala, Sunday June 3 		lummisday
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 Ilya Kaminsky, author of the acclaimed "Dancing in Odessa," and Héctor Tobar, the Puliter Prizewinning columnist and author of the new novel, "The Barbarian Nurseries" will be among the poets reading at the 7th annual Lummis Day festival poetry gala beginning at 10:30 am on Sunday, June 3  in the garden at Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43.

Other featured poets will include Mary Fitzpatrick, Judith Pacht, Katie Ferris and Suzanne Lummis, who will also host the event. Free coffee and refreshments will be served, but come early: this event is always filled to capacity. Check the Lummis Day website (www.LummisDay.org ) for the schedule.

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#16629 From: "Dori Marler" <dorimarler@...>
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Do Not Miss This One

 

Friday June 8th  8:00 PM

 

A Work in Progress

 

The Gisele Show

 

The loveable optimist tells her stories

She will entertain you with her charming and beguiling

tales from life and more

 

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#16630 From: "Don Kingfisher Campbell" <kingfisher1031@...>
Date: Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:46 am
Subject: 32 poets being published in SGVPQ 54 		kingfisher1031@...
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32 poets being published in SGVPQ 54

ERIKA T. ALCALDE
PETROUCHKA ALEXIEVA
MARIA ARANA
JIM BABWE
DAVID BORTIN
JACK G. BOWMAN
CALOKIE
DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL
MICHAEL J. CLUFF
BARBARA COGSWELL
JOE GARDINER
THOM GARZONE
HELEN GRAZIANO
CHARLES HARMON
LINDA MARIE HILTON
ANITA HOLZBERG
GERDA GOVINE ITUARTE
JEFFRY JENSEN
LALO KIKIRIKI
MARIE LECRIVAIN
ELLARAINE LOCKIE
REYNALD ROMEA LUMINARIAS
KARINEH MAHDESSIAN
MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN
RUTH NOLAN
THELMA REYNA
RINA ROSE
NANCY SHIFFRIN
TIM TIPTON
JANINE TRUDELL
LORI WALL-HOLLOWAY
DENISE WALSH

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#16634 From: "Rick" <Rick@...>
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  • Join the growing list of 2012 Poetry Contest Sponsors! (80 prizes pledges so far!)
    We're looking for prize donations for our 15th annual summer poetry contest. If you'd like to donate, books, subscriptions, services, or anything of specific interested to Poets and Writers in exchange for promotional mention in our classified section and in all contest correspondence for the duration of the contest, please click on "SPONSOR THE 2012 CONTEST" from the main PSH menu for all the details.
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this week:
  • This week featuring poets from The Bronx, NY and Cincinnati, OH.

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  • A Bank Robber's Bad Luck With His Ex-Girlfriend by KJ Hannah Greenberg featured this week in the Poets of the Week section of the PSH Bookstore.

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POETS OF THE WEEK

This week's featured poets are Mary Ann Castle and G. David Schwartz:

Mary Ann Castle (The Bronx, New York) Mary Ann Castle is a social anthropologist by training.

G. David Schwartz (Cincinnati, Ohio) the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue and Midrash and Working Out Of The Book. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His newest book, Shards And Stanzas (Baltimore, PublishAmerica, 2012) is now in stores or can be ordered on line.

Read their work by clicking on "POETS OF THE WEEK" from the main PSH menu.

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Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's Poetry and Writing links sections:

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A Bank Robber's Bad Luck With His Ex-GirlfriendA Bank Robber's Bad Luck With His Ex-Girlfriendby KJ Hannah Greenberg featured this week in thePoets of the Week section of the PSH Bookstore.

In this new collection of poetry, KJ Hannah Greenberg takes on the topic of love with full poetic abandon. Tangling with fairy tales, disillusionment, regret, break-ups, hardships, and longevity, Greenberg doesn't shy away from the sticky side of sweet. Her poetry, didactic at times, representational at others, employs devices of style and unconventional usage to delve deeper meaning in narrative. A collection for those who know the course of love is as often fraught with adversity as it is suffused with light.

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UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS

PSH LiveWe host a monthly, live, online open reading and other special shows which you can listen to and participate in here: poetrysuperhighway.com/pshlive.html

If you can't make the live time, you can also listen to any past show by visitingpoetrysuperhighway.com/pshlive.html and clicking on the show's title. (As well as subscribe to all of our shows through iTunes or any other software you use to listen to podcasts.

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June 2012 Worldwide Open Reading - Next Sunday!
Sunday, June 10, 2012 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Join our monthly open reading by listening to the show live and/or calling in and sharing a poem. No content or style restrictions...it's open reading and you don't even have to leave the house to participate!

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May 2012 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, May 6, 2012 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Our May 2012 show featured callers from Raleigh, NC, Newark, NJ, New York City, NY, Sacramento, CA and Birmhingham, AL...along with a spoken word track from Jerry Garcia in Los Angeles and great conversation with many callers about print versus electronic publication.

April 2012 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, April 15, 2012 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Our April 2012, reading featured poets from Westerville, OH, Raleigh, NC, Los Angeles, CA, Birmingham, AL, Cincinnati, OH and Houston, TX, along with a spoken word track from Jerry Garcia and some interesting conversation about how to go about getting published. 

Poetry Super Highway Live would love to host your reading, interview, contest promotion or other poetry/writing related show. Please e-mail your show idea toRick@..., and we'll take it from there.

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Winning WritersMargaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse - Last Call!

Ninth year. Ten cash prizes totaling $5,550. Top prize $3,000. Submit poems in traditional verse forms. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com (over one million page views per year) and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 40,000 subscribers. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Entry fee is $8 for every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: June 30. Judges: John H. Reid, Dee C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2012). See guidelines and past winning entries: www.winningwriters.com/margaret

...Alex M. Frankel reading at the Second Sunday Poetry Series in Pasadena

SECOND SUNDAY POETRY SERIES: This open mic poetry reading series, hosted by Alex M. Frankel, takes place on the second Sunday of every month at the Cafe Alibi in Old Town Pasadena. Great poets are featured. They perform their work, sell and sign books and mingle with audience members and open mic participants. Admission is free but there is a one drink minimum.

Next reading: Sunday, June 10, 3 pm. Featured readers areDon Kingfisher Campbell, Steve Miller and Paul Knobloch. This is Pasadena's leading poetry event! For more about the series please email alexmfrankel2000@...The Cafe Alibi is at 84 South Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, near Green St. Check out website, search for "Second Sunday Poetry Pasadena"

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THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone. Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, form or style. And/or (2) Write short story five pages maximum, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, fiction or non-fiction. Multiple entries are accepted. Prizes: Writing Contest First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. Entry fees: $5 per poem/$10 per story. Postmark deadline: July 31, 2012. Visithttp://www.dreamquestone.com for details and enter!

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Rick Lupert's brings you back to the hidden Canada in the follow up to his 2011 collection, Sinzibuckwud! written in Montreal, Death of a Mauve Bat steers you through Toronto and Niagara Falls with Lupert's one of a kind satirical filter. You'll learn Toronto like no-one ever should. You'll climb an unfinished castle, drink a blue drink, mosey in and out of the requisite museums and wonder at the ekphrastic glories that are revealed. You'll wander the streets in search of vegetarian hot dogs and stand in the lights which illuminated the most famous funnytarians of our time. Throw away your guidebook, bring this instead. (okay, maybe bring both.) This is travelogue poetry for the 21st century. (160 Pages, Ain't Got No Press, January 2012)

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#16635 From: "Rick" <Rick@...>
Date: Mon Jun 4, 2012 6:02 am
Subject: H.I.P. presents URIEL TOVAR this Tuesday at the Cobalt plus open reading 		rickpoet
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H.I.P. presents URIEL TOVAR this Tuesday at the Cobalt plus open reading

more info and directions: poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt



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#16636 From: beth multer <zestyfilm@...>
Date: Mon Jun 4, 2012 4:20 pm
Subject: Please help support a member of our community 		zestyfilm
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Dear Family, Friends and Community:

On Saturday, June 2nd, Brenda Petrakos’ nephew, Max, was killed in a car accident.  The car he was traveling in with his mother and brother was hit by a drunk driver.  His mother and brother are in the hospital.  Max was 13 years old.

As many of you know, Brenda’s role in Max’s life went well beyond that of Aunt. This is a devastating time for her and her family.   Max was beloved.  He was insightful, smart, irreverent, creative – much like his Aunt.  He had a sweet spirit, a curious mind, and a perhaps odd addiction to Scrubs and Sanford and Son.

As a community, we have come together before to buoy those who need it, and steer people away from rough shores.  We are asking if we can do that again.

The family needs your prayers and support at this time.  They are also in need of financial assistance.

A funeral for Max may cost up to $10,000.  This is a burden that the family cannot bear.   We are asking for donations to raise the money so that Max may have a funeral.  He deserves one.  We must also raise this money as quickly as we can, and have set a goal of June 15th.

Donations may be made via PayPal  (https://www.paypal.com/) to bcpetrakos@....  For those who prefer to write a check, or drop off cash, you may do so to:

Brenda Petrakos
1055 Lincoln Blvd., #2
Santa Monica, CA 90403

For more information, or questions, please feel free to contact me, or Marie Lecrivain:

E. Amato
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Marie Lecrivain
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We will do our best to post information about the funeral, and the fund.  We hope that you will help to share this message, as well as any future information about services for Max, with the community.  Those of you with venues, if you would be kind enough to either read an announcement and share the information, or post this to your lists, it would be much appreciated.

On behalf of the family, thank you so very much for your compassion.


Max's last performance at Downbeat 720 Youth Open Mic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOb47a0N3Nw
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#16637 From: "Rick" <Rick@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 5:55 pm
Subject: H.I.P. presents URIEL TOVAR tonight at the Cobalt (plus open reading) 		rickpoet
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Hollywood Institute of Poetics presents
URIEL TOVAR plus open reading
Tonight! Tuesday, June 5 ~ 9:00 pm at the Cobalt Cafe
22047 Sherman Way (Just west of Topanga Cyn.)
Canoga Park

The Cobalt opens at 8:30 pm on Tuesdays

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URIEL TOVAR

Uriel Tovar is an aspiring poet born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. Born to a Catholic family, his parents instilled religion in him at an early age which fostered his development and discipline. He attended St. Genevieve School for twelve years, then went to St. John's Seminary to pursue the priesthood. Developing most of his writing craft during those years, it is no surprise that the philosophical and theological writings which he was studying influence his poetry. Deciding not to continue on to the theologate, Uriel left the seminary in search of a greater purpose.
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POEM:

Blossom

Cherry blossoms
Bloom
And fall
Carried and scattered
To the wind
Exploding into the air
In hues of white
Pink and scarlet red
Left brighter
And more fragrant
By the Setting sun of
A Spring evening.

Each petal
Serving its purpose
Bringing fruit to the branch
A beautiful array of life
And death
Captured in a perpetual cycle:
Nature to art to human necessity.

Time
Like the wind
Becomes the force of
Change
Only for us to realize that
Change becomes consistency
Through this age ole struggle.

Through this beauty comes death
In death we realize
The true meaning of life
An immortal birth
Through the legacies we are forced to forge--
An eternal instance burnt into the background
Of a fragrant landscape.

~ Uriel Tovar

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UPCOMING READINGS AT THE COBALT:

Tuesday June 12, 2012
Open reading plus Valley Contemporary Poets present:
Matt Sedillo

Tuesday June 19, 2012
Open reading plus featured guest
Reverend Dave Wheeler 

Tuesday June 26, 2012
NO READING

Tuesday July 3, 2012
NO READING

Tuesday July 10, 2012
Open reading plus Valley Contemporary Poets present:
T.B.A.

Tuesday July 17, 2012
Open reading plus featured guest
Crystal Salas

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#16638 From: nextmag@...
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 7:48 pm
Subject: Jennifer Donnell to read at Long Beach B&N, Tuesday, June 12, 7 pm 		gmtpoet
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On Tuesday, June 12, we will be featuring Jennifer Donnell at the Long Beach Barnes & Noble. There will also be an open reading.
When Jennifer Donnell was small, she read Harriet the Spy six times and decided she was a writer. She also realized that, if Harriet was right, writing was a dangerous job. In addition to being published in an assortment of journals and anthologies, Jennifer’s recent/upcoming work appears in The Scrambler, Bohemia Journal, Tin Foil Dresses, Young American Poets, Borderline, Pure Slush, and A Few Lines Magazine. Her first full length collection of poetry will be released in 2012.

Upcoming readings:
July 10: All Open Reading
Aug. 14: Daniel Romo
Sept. 11: Peggy Dobreer
Oct. 9: League of Vampiric Bards
Nov.13: Ricki Mandeville

Who: Jennifer Donnell
     plus open reading

When: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 7 pm

Where: Marina Pacifica Barnes & Noble
     6326 E. Pacific Coast Hwy.
     Long Beach, CA 90803
     562-431-2253

For more information, contact G. Murray Thomas
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#16639 From: nextmag@...
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:15 pm
Subject: Jennifer Donnell plus open reading, Tuesday, June 12, 7 pm Long Beach B&N 		gmtpoet
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On Tuesday, June 12, we will be featuring Jennifer Donnell at the Long
Beach Barnes & Noble. There will also be an open reading.
When Jennifer Donnell was small, she read Harriet the Spy six times and
decided she was a writer. She also realized that, if Harriet was right, writing
was a dangerous job. In addition to being published in an assortment of
journals and anthologies, Jennifer’s recent/upcoming work appears in The
Scrambler, Bohemia Journal, Tin Foil Dresses, Young American Poets, Borderline,
Pure Slush, and A Few Lines Magazine. Her first full length collection of
poetry will be released in 2012.

Upcoming readings:
July 10: All Open Reading
Aug. 14: Daniel Romo
Sept. 11: Peggy Dobreer
Oct. 9: League of Vampiric Bards
Nov.13: Ricki Mandeville

Who: Jennifer Donnell
     plus open reading

When: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 7 pm

Where: Marina Pacifica Barnes & Noble
     6326 E. Pacific Coast Hwy.
     Long Beach, CA 90803
     562-431-2253

For more information, contact G. Murray Thomas
     562-930-0587
     Nextmag@...



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#16640 From: Amy Davis <amydavis@...>
Date: Wed Jun 6, 2012 11:05 pm
Subject: A VERY SPECIAL RUSKIN READING: Marilyn Nelson! 		haystackbranch
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MARILYN NELSON READING AT THE RUSKIN

JUNE 13, 7:30 pm

Marilyn Nelson, the author or translator of 12 books and 3 chapbooks,

is the most recent recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s highest

honor, the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement in Poetry. She

is a winner of the Annisfield-Wolf Award and the Poets' Prize, among

others. Her honors include two NEA fellowships, a Fulbright Teaching

Fellowship, three honorary doctorates, and a fellowship from the

Guggenheim Foundation. Nelson is a professor emerita of English at

the University of Connecticut; founder and was founder/director of

Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers' colony; and the former Poet

Laureate of Connecticut.



CLAY

Beauty is the vocation of the earth.

—William Bryant Logan

God's breath on a compound of silica,

alumina and various oxides—

primarily iron—gave Adam life.

There is a primal, almost mystical

connection between humankind and clay,

from the footed, bellied first receptacles

to frescoed Renaissance cathedral walls.

To Carver's eye, the muddy creek banks say

Here to be dug up, strained and painted on,

is loveliness the poorest can afford:

azures, ochres . . . Scraps of discarded board

are landscapes. Cabins undistinguished brown

bloom like slaves freed to struggle toward self-worth.

Beauty is commonplace, as cheap as dirt.

—from Carver: A Life in Poems



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Former 12 year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America, Elena Karina Byrne is a freelance teacher, editor, collage artist, Poetry Consultant / Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books,  a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, a reviewer for ForeWord's Clarion Reviews, Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club and the new Executive Director of AVK Arts. Her publications, among others, include,  2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII Best of the Small Presses, Best American Poetry 2005, The Yale Review, The Paris Review,  APR, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Journal, Colorado Review,  Barrow Street, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Verse, Drunken Boat, and Volt . Her books include: The Flammable Bird , (Zoo Press /Tupelo Press 2002), MASQUE (Tupelo Press, 2008) and the forthcoming Out of Frame (Tupelo Press, 2013), and she is currently completing Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art and Desire (essays).




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#16641 From: Rick Lupert <Rick@...>
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2012 2:07 am
Subject: Poetry Fundraiser 		rickpoet
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Poetry Stew Presents:

A Fund-Raiser Poetry Slamabration

for Long Beach Youth Team

“DUENDE”

Every year, the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival attracts more than 500 young poets from around the world to compete on teams in the largest youth poetry slam competition in the world. DUENDE have qualified to compete and need help covering their travel expenses.

 

Join us Saturday, June 9th

@ Artlife Gallery 720-B Allied Way

El Segundo, Ca. 90245

from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Starring: members of Duende

Co-starring: Leigh White/Jeremy Radin

& Poetry Stew Co-Hosts David McIntire/Cat McIntire

 

Light refreshments, featuring gourmet delights by

I Love Cuppies.com

 

 if you can’t attend but want to donate:

http://duendelongbeach.weebly.com/fundraising.html

 

add’l info: David @ 310.613.2901




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"Death of a Mauve Bat" by Rick Lupert
A new poetry collection written in, and on the way to and from, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Niagara Falls


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#16642 From: nextmag@...
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2012 2:52 am
Subject: G. Murray Thomas & RD Armstrong reading in Santa Barbara, Sat. June 9 		gmtpoet
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The Santa Barbara Poetry Zone Presents

Raindog Armstrong

and
G. Murray Thomas
Saturday June 9, 2012

2 - 4 PM



The Karpeles Manuscript Library

21 West Anapamu St (1 block West of State Street)

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

For Info, call host      Suzanne Frost
@ 805-252-1655, sfrost@...

This featured reading is every second Saturday of the month from 2-4.  Open Mic will follow.





My new book of poetry, My Kidney Just Arrived, is now available to order from tebotbach.org
For the latest news about me: gmurraythomas.com
For all the info on SoCal Poetry, go to Poetix.net.


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#16643 From: beth multer <zestyfilm@...>
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2012 5:01 pm
Subject: updated information on Petrakos family 		zestyfilm
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Hi -

You can find an update on my blog:

http://eamato.blogspot.com/2012/06/for-max-if-you-can.html

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#16644 From: Antonieta Villamil <antonietavillamil@...>
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2012 1:34 am
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ANTONIETA VILLAMIL Winner of Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards in The United States in the category of Best Poetry Book in Spanish. 		antonietavillamil@...
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PRESS RELEASE: ANTONIETA VILLAMIL Winner of Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards in The United States in the category of Best Poetry Book in Spanish.

THE WINNERS OF THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Dear friends I share this news with you, Please help me: resend to spread the news. I also want to read at different venues so if you have contacts or organize a reading in a venue please consider to include me. Cheers!

 
Best Poetry Book - Spanish or Bilingual
FIRST PLACE: ANTONIETA VILLAMIL
SOLUNA EN BOSQUE conjuros para invocar el amor by colombian poet: Antonieta Villamil; Caza de Libros; Colombia.
 
The largest and most important Latino book awards in the USA, The 14th Annual International Latino Book Awards, were held June 5, 2012 at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City. During the evening 148 authors and publishers were honored for their hard work. The awards were sponsored this year by Premium sponsor Libros Publishing and Gold Sponsor Scholastic, and Bronze Sponsor Atria Books. Additional support comes from the University of Arizona Press and Arte Público Press. Each year the Int’l. Latino Book Awards are held during BookExpo America, the largest publishing trade show in the United States. The awards are truly an international event with authors and publishers from across the USA, 14 countries in Latin America, Spain and other countries.
The awards were presented by Latino Literacy Now in partnership with Las Comadres Para Las Americas and the Instituto Cervantes. Latino Literacy Now was founded to promote literacy in the Latino community in all forms: educational, financial, reading, and community awareness. Since 1997, 49 Latino Book & Family Festivals have been held around the USA with a combined attendance of over 800,000. We also conduct the Latino Books into Movies Awards as an effort to increase the number of Latino themed films that are produced. Las Comadres Para Las Americas. There have been local informal groups of Comadres around the country for over 25 years. Nora Comstock, whose passion is building community and sharing resources, used her technological background to take the concept these comadres groups had in common to the next level using the Internet. Instituto Cervantes is a not-for-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. Its mission is to promote the teaching of Spanish and to contribute to the advancement of the culture of the Spanish speaking countries. Instituto Cervantes is present on five continents with more than 50 centers spread out across many different countries.
 
ANTONIETA VILLAMIL is an author with more than eleven books in print. She was born in Colombia in 1962. She is an international award winning bilingual poet, editor, translator and cultural organizer. Her work was featured in the documentary film “Voices in Wartime”: www.voicesinwartime.org She focuses her writing on the forgotten ones and honors them with a persistence that compels us to hear their voices.

Antonieta Villamil brings a cross-cultural experience to all she does. She presents poetry in an eclectic multimedia style using original music, song, and visual art. She speaks poetry as if it were a musical score. The result is an alchemical mixture of rhythms and voices from the Middle-East, India, Spain, Africa, to the Latino African, and indigenous peoples of America. She is the director and organizer of LA POESIA FESTIVAL at the literary center Beyond Baroque in Venice California. Editor and translator of poetry for independent literary presses, poet collectives and imprints in the United States.

She has performed at literary events in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Canada, Spain, France, Italy, New Zealand and The United States.
 
Her honors include: 14th International Latino Book Award 2012 in The United States, for her book of poetry in Spanish: SOLUNA EN BOSQUE conjuros para invocar el amor (SUNMOON IN FOREST conjures to invoke love). 13th International Latino Book Award 2011 to the complete edition of Acantilados del Sueño, given to a book of Spanish poetry in The United States. International Poetry Prize Gastón Baquero 2001 with her book “Cliffs of Dream” / “Los Acantilados del Sueño” in Madrid Spain. Prose Poems Project Prize in 2002 for “Migration Fields” in Los Angeles; Poetry in Motion Project to “Green Shoes”, a poem showcased on buses and trains by Poetry Society of America in the United States and the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize Finalist in 2001 with “The animal you seek” in Los Angeles California.

She is available for book presentations, workshops, poetry festivals, poetry readings and performance.
 
Please acces this link for a complete list of winners. After the publisher in each listing is the country of origin for the author:
 
Antonieta Villamil


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