Cheer me up with your Shameless Self-Promotion
No matter how much we try to hide, Monday keeps coming back on us — week after week, month after month, year after year. This Monday finds me in a particularly foul mood (for no reason in particular, which is even worse I think). So, I’m turning to you - oh world wide web of poets - to cheer me up with your good news of readings and books and poems being published.
You know the drill. Put your good news in the comment box and click submit. It’s just that easy. Then keep checking back (or subscribe to this post), to get updates on what everyone else is doing!
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you heard it first here: Otoliths is bringing out my newest book “It’s All a Movie.”
Lifelines: Poetry With Kelley White
This five-week course, taught by Kelley White and sponsored by The Schuylkill Valley Journal, welcomes poets with all levels of writing experience to come together with open ‘beginners mind’ to make poems. We’ll play with words, use our senses and our not-so-conscious mind to attend to passing reality and give voice to things we didn’t know we knew. We’ll explore the basics of the craft: image, metaphor, music, voice, line, meter, rhyme, form, experiment, revision and even publication in a challenging but supportive environment. We’ll consider poems from master poets and look closely at each student’s work. Expect intriguing homework assignments. Expect to be surprised by the poems you create.
A pediatrician, Kelley White has published three full-length poetry collections, THE PATIENT PRESENTS, LATE, and LIVING IN THE HEART, four chapbooks, and has had well over 3000 poems appear in hundreds of journals including American Writing, Exquisite Corpse, Feminist Studies, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. In spite of this she thinks poetry keeps her sane.
Classes will meet at the Manayunk Art Center, 419 Green Lane (rear), Philadelphia, PA 19128, Monday evenings October 15, 22 & 29, November 5 & 12, 7-9 pm.
$75 for five-week class, payable to Peter Krok-SVJ.
Contact kelleywhitemd@yahoo.com or (215) 681-6501 to register
I’ll be reading at Robin’s Bookstore on Tuesday, September 25 at 6:00. Lisa Grunberger will be reading that evening as well. Robin’s is at 103 South 13th Street.
I love reading and its been awhile since I’ve had a chance to so I hope you will come out to listen.
This Wed., Sept. 19th, 7p, I’ll be reading at the Belmont Hills Library alongside the effervescent Arlene Bernstein & the unstoppable Eileen D’Angelo. The reading is hosted by Arlene, and includes musical performances by Joe Fanning and Annabella Wood. As if this awesome line-up isn’t enough to entice, there will be free refreshments and open mic.
For details & a map, check out the events page on Friends of Poetry website: http://www.friendsofpoetry.com/02_events.html.
this one isn’t so much self-promotion as advocacy. on nov. 8th from 8a-9:30a, the Arts & Spirituality Center will host a fundraising breakfast at Moore College of Art & Design. The event is free (you must RSVP) and is intended to raise awareness & funds for the organization and its programs. You won’t be required or even pressured to give a dime — but you will be asked. You’ll also meet a really diverse group of people and experience some really invigorating programming.
For more info about the event and the Arts & Spirituality Center, check out the website: http://www.artsandspirituality.org/home/calendar/
Weds -
September 26th 7-9pm Blam is in the building at the Set Table- poetry/open mic..BYO..come all come on…Adam
adamreal2000@yahoo.com…questions
Next Monday evening, Oct. 8, I’ll be reading at the Barnes and Noble in PRINCETON (Rt. 1, just south of Rt. 571). Rachel Bunting and Anna Evans will be reading with me. I’ll be reading from my “old new book”, CROSSING THE EQUAL SIGN (Plain View Press, TX), of poetry about the experience of math. — I also have a “new new book”, SURVIVING THE ALPHABET, my very-first UNthemed collection (”just” poems that I’ve written during the 30 years that I’ve been sharing my writing). That book was published last week by my husband! — I also have a new job this year, teaching math at Arcadia. I was really really enjoying “retirement” last year and got a lot of writing done, so the job is a mixed blessing. But I will have time to get down to Princeton next Monday!
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