news & chatter from the Mad Poets Society
In case you missed the Mad Poets’ appearance on LIVE at the Kelly Writers House (either at the Writers House on March 31st or on WXPN on April 14th), click here to listen to the full program, featuring Eileen D’Angelo, Steve Delia, Missy Grotz, Dan Maguire, and Autumn Konopka (yours truly). Go now — What are you waiting for?!
From Eileen D’Angelo
THURSDAY, MARCH 27TH at 7:00 p.m.
MAD POETS OPEN STAGE AT TAYLOR’S AT THE OLDE MILL (200 W. Marshall St., Norristown, PA 19401; 610-272-2011) - Featuring YOU and a ton of other talented poets and musicians! Hosted by Eileen D’Angelo. This restaurant is a four story historic grist mill (circa 1880) This exciting new series will be held on 4th Thursdays through 2008, and offers an entertaining open forum for musicians poets, singer-songwriters– and anyone who enjoys listening to poetry and music is welcome. Come early and have dinner (or you can also come, on time, at 7 pm, and order dinner during the event.) The owners offered to make this event a mini-Mad Poets FUNDRAISER, by donating 10% of all dinners ordered that evening to Mad Poets.) See: http://www.taylorsoldemill.com/, you’ll find us on the events page, you can check out the menu, and you’ll get to see this stunning building. The readings will be on the 1st Floor, (not the 4th, as previously publicized.) And there is VALET PARKING– no need to drive around trying to find a spot.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th at 2:00 pm-
The THREE SISTERS CAFE READING SERIES, hosted by G. Emil Reutter, will present poets LOUIS McKEE and EILEEN D’ANGELO at Three Sisters Cafe, 7950 Oxford ave., (Corner of Loney & Barnes) in Philly, 19111. Phone: 215-725-6848. An open mike follows. Come out and join us !!!
MONDAY, MARCH 31st at 7:00 pm-
“LIVE” AT WRITERS HOUSE presents MAD POETS DAN MAGUIRE, STEVE DELIA, AUTUMN KONOPKA, MISSY GROTZ and EILEEN D’ANGELO, and Musical Guest DEVIN GREENWOOD, at Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk on University of Pennsylvania Campus. This program will air on WXPN on April 14th. Free & open to the public.
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH EVENTS!
*Something almost every day! Yikes !
FIRST !! NOTE! THE PHILADELPHIA WRITERS CONFERENCE DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS APRIL 15TH. I’M ON THE PWC BOARD, IT’S A GREAT CONFERENCE THIS YEAR: POETRY CLASSES TAUGHT BY KATE NORTHROP + BARB DANIELS; THERESE HALSCHEID ON JOURNALING, MICHAEL SMERCONISH IS OPENING SPEAKER, MARK BOWDEN (AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN) IS BANQUET SPEAKER, LORRAINE RANALLI AND BONNIE NEUBAUER OFFER CREATIVITY SEMINARS.. SEE: WWW.PWCWRITERS.ORG AND CHECK OUT ALL THE SPEAKERS & WORKSHOP LEADERS !
REMEMBER ! ANY WRITERS GROUP OF 7 OR MORE PEOPLE CAN SEND A MEMBER/WRITER ON A PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP ! INSTEAD OF PAYING $185 FOR THE THREE DAYS.. YOU PAY $100 .. FOR SCHOLARSHIP DETAILS, WRITE RAY PELHAM 1504 WARNER RD., MEADOWBROOK, PA, 19046-1913; SEND #10 STAMPED, SELF-ADDRESSED BUSINESS ENVELOPE FOR INFO. ACT FAST! CONTEST DEADLINE IS ALSO APRIL 15TH, SO IF YOU ARE COMING TO THE CONFERENCE — YOU WANT TO GET REGISTERED, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER — AND GET YOUR ENTRIES IN !!!
TUESDAY, APRIL 1ST at 7 PM -
JOIN US FOR Another STEEL CITY COFFEEHOUSE MAD POET *OPEN MIKE* NIGHT*! This series has moved from Sundays and are held FIRST TUESDAY NIGHTS at 7 pm, hosted by Eileen D’Angelo. Located at 203 Bridge St. in Phoenixville, PA 19460; Store # 610-933-4043. You might want to come early & sign up, or email me in advance, at madpoets@comcast.net (or if you are emailing on the day of the reading, zing a note to my work to reserve your spot: eileendangelo@comcast.net, since I go straight from work to the readings.
Wednesday, APRIL 2ND at 7 pm.
HARVEST BOOK CRITIQUE CIRCLES ! Don’t miss the next MaD CiRcLe on APRIL 2ND . Moderated by Amy Laub. Bring 10 copies of a poem in progress for roundtable feedback, suggestions, discussion and critique * Where else can you go to listen to people debate commas and line breaks ?! It’s more fun than you can stand on a Wednesday night. Harvest Book is directly across from Trader Joe’s on State St. in Media (9 E. State St., 19063)
Tuesday, APRIL 8TH at 7 pm
GRYPHON CAFÉ OPEN MIKE NIGHT - Richard Moyer hosts these cozy readings upstairs at the Gryphon Cafe, located at 105 W. Lancaster Ave., (2nd Fl) in Wayne, PA 19087); Cafe # is 610-688-1988. If you’ve never been there, it’s right on Rt. 30, next to the Anthony Wayne Theatre in the heart of Wayne. The upstairs at the Gryphon is set up like a living room, and Richard offers a series of intimate gatherings of poets in an informal, comfortable atmosphere, poets who share original work, as well as their favorite poets’ and poems, as well. A perfect setting for those who are just beginning to share their work, as well as those who are long time mad poets!
FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH , 7 PM
THE LAST WORD BOOKSHOP
220 S. 40th Street 215-386-7750
(40th & Walnut Streets, U of Penn campus)
The Last Word Bookshop presents Dressing The Muse,
A Poetry Reading With: Autumn McClintock + Leslie Valdez + Lisa Grunberger + Joyce Meyers + Rafi Lev + Anisa Rahim + Janet Spangler + Alison Hicks + Catherine Bancroft + Hanoch Guy
+ Steven Kleinman + Minna Duchovnay + Sekai Afua Zankel + Christy Schneider.
Hosted by LEONARD GONTAREK.
A Mad Poets Society & Peace/Works Event.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH at 7 pm
OTHERWISE - POETRY AT CHURCHILL - Mad Poets continue in 2008 at this venue, hosted by Glenn McLaughlin, at Churchill Artisan Baker & Chocolatier, 137 E. high St., Pottstown, PA 19464; 484-941-5100 - Come out to hear poetry by THERÉSE HALSCHEID and BOB WATTS ! An open mike follows. Bring your poems !
SUNDAY, APRIL 13TH AT 1:00 PM
YOUNG POETS AWARDS READING !
This is one of the most important events Mad Poets hosts all year. The student winners of the Young Poets Contest will come and read their award winning poems at the REDWOOD PLAYHOUSE, 6th Street in Upland. (Directions are on the website). It’s heartwarming and amazing to hear these young poets. This is one of the most important events Mad Poets hosts all year.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16TH AT 6 PM – 8 PM
at the THOMAS DONATUCCI LIBRARY (formerly Passayunk Library) DIANE GUARNIERI will host poets JC TODD and DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE, in celebration of POETRY MONTH. Diane will host this series throughout the spring.. culminating in a special reading in June of her CENTER CITY POETS! Stay tuned!
Thomas Donatucci Library, 1935 Shunk St., Philly, 19145; Library # 215-685-1755.
| January 31, 2008 | ||
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Book Launch & Reading
Elizabeth McFarland’s
Over the Summer Water
The Main Line Art Center
Old Buck Rd. & Lancaster Ave., Haverford, Pa.
The Mad Poets Society is excited to present a special event celebrating the posthumous release of a first book of poems by Elizabeth McFarland, Over the Summer Water, from Orchises Press.
Elizabeth McFarland (1922-2005) is the poet who brought poetry into the lives of millions. As poetry editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal from 1948 to 1961, she published new work by many noted poets, W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, among others, and by soon-to-be famous young poets such as Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, and Sylvia Plath. Her poems embody purity of feeling in purity of diction and musical structure, and they have the fingerprint of her individual style. Rachel Hadas writes, “I am intrigued by the wit that knows what to put in and what to leave out, and the curbed but no less strong sensuality.”
The book launch & reading will feature Daniel Hoffman, her husband of 57 years and a former Consultant in Poetry to the Library Congress (the appointment now called U.S. Poet Laureate), who will describe her extraordinary and unique editorial career and discuss the distinctive lyric virtues of her poems. Their daughter, Kate Hoffman Siddiqi, will read a selection from the new book.
A wine and cheese reception will follow.
The event will be held at The Main Line Art Center, located at Old Buck Road and Lancaster Ave. in Haverford (Old Buck Rd. runs next to Wilke Lexus dealership, across from Wendy’s.)
Hey there kids –
The Mad Poets Review Book Party, originally scheduled for October 27th, has been POSTPONED until December 1st. The time and location will be the same — 11a @ the Delaware County Institute of Science in Media, Pa.
For more information or directions, check out the Institute of Science schedule or email madpoets{at}comcast{dot}net.
After a few missed weeks, I say we bring this back. And not JUST because I have something to promote. But because I want to know what everyone else is doing.
So bring it on: What are you doing? Where are you reading? When’s your book coming out? Where are your pome’s being published?
Be as shameless as you need to be. We really truly want to know.
As I was reading G Emil’s most excellent interview with Samantha Barrow, I noticed the events calendar in my periphery and that it erroneously reads “No Events.” This is my fault. A few weeks ago I started a really exciting new job, and the pace has been pretty nutty. I’m almost settled in. I’d like to promise that I’ll update the events calendar this weekend, but in case I don’t, rest assured there are events. Just check out the Mad Poets’ main page. Pick a series, any series (right there in the left hand menu), and you’re likely to find a Mad Poets event coming up in a matter of days.
Thanks for your patience.
Well it’s that time again, kids:
Anything exciting happening this week? Did you just find out about an acceptance or a reading invitation? Do you have an upcoming appearance in person or in a journal? Did you just have a set of poems accepted for broadcast at Skin Radio? Let us know what’s going on!
Bring on the self-promotion!
Last night I headed over to Bryn Mawr College with fellow MPS blogger Anna and our faithful poetry cohort Don Kloss for the last reading in the BMC Visiting Writers Series, given by Yusef Komunyakaa. The reading was held in the Wyndham Alumnae House, which was a lovely – if a bit formal – place. (Remember, I like my poetry with “guts and knuckles,” so parlors and flowered wallpaper are not always the thing for me.) There was a terrific crowd, including a host of students from the college, where Komunyakaa has been teaching a Poetry Master class.
Bloggers like to play games. Bloggers also like attention. So do poets. Come to think of it, I guess all people like a little attention every once in a while. So, in that spirit, I’d like to introduce a new, weekly feature of the Mad Poets Blog — Shameless Self-Promotion Day.
Every Monday, I (or one of the other MPS bloggers) will start a Shameless Self-Promotion post, shamelessly plugging some event or other in which we’re participating, be it as featured reader, host, or even excited audience member. In response, you dear readers, are invited to add comments shamelessly plugging something that you’ve got going on. A reading. A book. A new website or blog. Whatever it is, we want to know. Did I mention that this is your opportunity to be totally shameless??
And if you don’t have anything, checking the thread will probably give you some good leads to help you plan your week in poetry.
Let the games begin.
Check it out. Over there on the right.
That little calendar is interactive: Click a date and it will show you what the Mad Poets are doing (of course, it won’t show you anything if we don’t have anything scheduled).
Then there’s that nifty list underneathe, which shows our next 5 events! Click on any of those listings for full details.
And if you’re looking for a full chronological list of our upcoming events (for about the next month or so), click the title “Upcoming Events” or sort by “Events” in the category menu further down in the sidebar.
If you’d like to see our schedules for the year, by venue, visit the Readings & Events page on the main site.
