You are invited to a reading from Mary Kay Rummel’s new book,
What’s Left Is The Singing, at Common Good Books in St. Paul
on November 11 at 7:30.
CGB is on the corner or Selby and Western across the street from WA Frost.
She is reading with poets Jill Breckenridge and Jim Rogers.
My new poetry book, What’s Left Is The Singing, has just been published by Blue Light Press of San Francisco.
It can be ordered from:
www.1stworldpublishing.com or phone (641-209-5000)
Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com or Powell’s Books
or it can be ordered at your favorite book store.
using the ISBN: 9781421891507/LCCN: 2010930193
or get a signed one from me for $15.00. Just send me an email.
It is also available at Micawber’s in St. Paul and Magers & Quinn in Mpls.
“Here we find beauty that resists adoration, caution that armors
raised fists, and belief that survives religion. Here we find metaphors
for life’s passion in the scapes of sand and tides and endless stars
that shine through us.” (David Oliveira)
Sharon Chmielarz reading from new books on September 16, 2010 at the Loft. 7:30, at Common Good Books, St. Paul on September 22, 2010. 7:00 and reading at Hamline Midway Branch Library, St. Paul, September 29, 2010. 7:00
Sharon is teaching a writing for children workshop on Madeline Island, June 28 to July 2. www.madelineschool.com
She is also teaching a writing poetry workshop at Grand Marais, July 11 to July 16. www.drurylanebooks. com
Sharon Chmielarz and Alison Bergblom Johnson will read on April 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM, again at True Colors Bookstore.Sharon Chmielarz’s books of poetry include The Rhubarb King, The Other Mozart, But I Won’t Go Out in a Boat,Different Arrangements, and one chapbook, Stranger in Her House. The Other Mozart has been made into a two-part opera. She has two books of poetry forthcoming in 2010.
Alison Bergblom Johnson has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in creative nonfiction and at the Arts Retreat at New York Mills Regional Cultural Center on a fellowship supported by the Jerome Foundation. She will have a show in the Minnesota Fringe Festival in August and is working on a memoir.
Save the Date
Anika Fajardo and Anya Achtenberg will read at Betweon May 21, also at True Colors Bookstore.What: Between
Who:
Sharon Chmielarz and Alison Bergblom Johnson
Where:
True Colors,
4755 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN
When:
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Why: To build community across generations
In a nationally televised press conference, Charles Brittain Fleming, CEO of Northography.com, announced today that the Minnesota-based literary project will close after three years of operation. Fleming, also known as “Britt,” stated that “the tight credit market has made it impossible to obtain the necessary operating capital, while demand for web-based poetry workshops has seen a steep decline.” Britt also went on to explain how he found it “increasingly difficult to compete with Big Poetry outfits who deliberately undersell the market.”
Loyal Northography customers were saddened by the news. “It was a very valuable service,” commented SherryAnn Margaret Toulouse-McBeth, one of the founding members, “I don’t know where I’m going to find another regional web-based literary workshop. Come to think of it, I don’t know where I’m going, period.” Others expressed similar sentiments, but were thankful for the opportunity to have participated in such a unique endeavor. At an impromptu gathering of devotees formed at The Lucky Goose in St. Paul, celebrated local poet Seamus Von Chmelinski remarked, “Norsography wash grreat fun, deschpite the somewhat eccentric adminish..admensch..guy in charge.”
Northography will be missed by poets and freinds alike. Perhaps when poetry futures rise again, and public demand for bizarre experimental verse begins to climb, it will make a comeback. For now, though, hard times demand that this shopkeeper hangs up the “closed” sign, locks the doors, and walks down the street for a stiff one.
Wendy Brown-Baez is performing La Noche del Amor as part of OP ED ART Cabaret — an evening of extraordinary multi-cultural, dynamic, cutting edge dance, spoken word, and comedy with Maia Maiden, Deja Stowers, Aneka Mcmullen, Farheen Hakeem, and Renee Copeland
Friday April 3, Saturday April 4th at 8:00pm
Patrick’s Cabaret
3010 Minnehaha Ave S MPLS 55406
If you contact Wendy before the show, she can leave will call tickets for $8 (paid to her) or it is $10 at the door.
poetaluna (at) yahoo.com for more info: calendar Patrick’s Cabaret
A Poetry Workshop
taught by LouAnn Shepard Muhm
sponsored by Region 2 Arts Council
In this workshop, we will focus on the revision of rough drafts of poems. Topics will include compression, line breaks, titles, word choice and punctuation. Each participant will have the option of bringing one poem-in-progress to the group for discussion and advice on revision. There will be time for Q &A to cover other topics of interest to participants. Participants: Please bring 10 copies of a poem you would like to revise with the input of the instructor and the group (optional), and one copy of a poem that you love written by someone else.
Saturday, April 18
Region 2 Arts Council Boardroom
(downstairs at the Bemidji Community Arts Center)
426 Bemidji Avenue
Bemidji, MN
10 am – 4 pm
cost: $40
Registration deadline: April 13
PDF and application form: seeing-again-registration21
Bryan Thao Worra has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2009 Fellow in Literature for Poetry. NEA Literature Fellowships are awarded to published creative writers of exceptional talent in the areas of prose and poetry to advance the goal of encouraging and supporting artistic creativity and preserving our diverse cultural heritage. The NEA was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, and the Endowment is the nation’s largest annual funder of the arts.
This year, out of over 1,000 applications received from across the country, only 42 were awarded after being judged by 10 of the country’s leading poets. The award for poetry comes only once every 2 years. The award also comes with $25,000 for Bryan to continue his work to study and advance awareness of Laotian American poetry.
Kevin Zepper finds inspiration on the shelves of thrift stores. Check it out here.