Shameless Monday & *NEW* MPS Weekly Preview
It’s Monday — which means it’s time to do some shameless self-promoting on the Mad Poets blog. If you’ve ever been to a poetry reading you know all about shameless self-promotion. So, give it a go: post a comment letting us know where you’re reading or where we can buy your book or read your articles or hear your spoken word tracks or view pictures of latest vacation… okay, maybe not that last one. Unless they’re really good pictures & you went some place truly interesting.
New this week, I’m adding a little something extra to Shameless Monday. I’m going to get a little shameless on behalf of MPS and offer up a little round up of our events for the week. Here goes:
*Week of Aug 3, 2009*
- Tuesday Aug 4th, 7pm: Open mic poetry at Steel City Coffeehouse in Phoenixville, hosted by Mary Kathryn Morgeneier
- Wednesday Aug 5th, 7pm: MPS Critique Circle at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, lead by Amy Laub.
Can’t wait to hear what you’s all are doing this week. And if you’re not doing anything, well, then I hope to see you at one of our fine events!
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I am reading for the Poetic Arts Performance Project presenting Blend, this coming Thursday August 6th, 7.30 p.m. Blue Bananas Cafe on South St. Philadelphia. (Cover $5)
Every month I write a column for the newsletter of the Main Line Macintosh Users Group (”MLMUG”) on artificial intelligence and humans. The column is geared to non-scientists, like me.
Every month you can read the current column in the Newsletter Columns section of the website, usually by the end of the second week.
The website is http://www.mlmug.org
You can also read the columns for the past 11 months as printed in the newletter in the Newsletter Downloads section of the website.
The August column, “Right Before Your Very Eyes,” about visual perception, especially detection of motion, in humans and computers, is now up on the website. The July column is “No Adult Left Behind.” It’s about how artificial intelligence can help us keep up with information overload and rapid technological change.
Visitors and new members are welcome at monthly meetings of MLMUG.
I am now the Philadelphia Literary Scene Examiner for Examiner.com, where I am posting about literary events, news and commentary. You can see the site and subscribe to receive e-mail alerts whenever I post anything new by going to
http://www.examiner.com/x-4299-Philadelphia-Literary-Scene-Examiner
and clicking on the “subscribe to e-mail” next to my photo.
I mostly cover prose. PHILADELPHIA DOES NOT HAVE A POETRY EXAMINER SO IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR THAT POSITION contact me, my e-mail is on my website at Local LIT
http://www.locallit.com
In other news, I published an essay called “Man on the Moon,” about meeting Neil Armstrong and other matters,in the July 2009 issue of Main Line Today magazine. You can read it online at
http://www.mainlinetoday.com/Main-Line-Today/July-2009/Man-on-the-Moon/
I am still doing Local LIT and will start posting events there in September.
And now to be really shameless: my husband’s
new plant nursery and garden shop, Michael Petrie’s HANDMADE GARDENS (where I also help out) was just named “Best of Philly/Suburban Green Thumbs” in the August 2009 issue of Philadelphia magazine. You can find out more by going to
http://www.handmadegardens.net
Thanks for opening this space for this,and thanks for reading this. — Kathye
Come and Support Fellow Mad Poets!!
Light of Unity Artist’s and Writer’s Series
Parkway Central Library
Skyline Room, 4th Floor
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(Cross Streets: (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Library Does Have Parking!
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
Contact director, Tamara Oakman thebusinessofwords@gmail.com
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 6pm
There will be an open mic
Ian Wolf
Jeff Ingram
Paul Siegell
Ebony Malaika Collier
Tamara Oakman
The Alien Architect
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 6:30pm (*note time change*)
In Celebration of Women
Eileen D’ Angelo
Yellow Rage
Nzadi Keita
Mecca Jamillah Sullivan
Geraldine Drakes
Tarannum Laila
Adonaya Boyd
Deborah Derrickson Kossman
Joanne Leva
Stephanie Durann
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7pm
Mel Brake
Courtney Bambrick
Cole Eubanks
Iain Haley Pollock
Alexis Simmons
Steve Young
Vernyce Danells
Joyce Lee Slater-Williams
Tessa Micaela
Beth Phillips-Brown
I’ve got a new article up on Philly2Philly.com about the Camden Children’s Museum.
And I just found out my poem “Sorting Mail, circa 1967″ will be published in Philadelphia Stories next best of anthology, due out later this year. You can order a copy of the anthology on the Philadelphia Stories website.
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