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Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Tuesday
August 5, 2008
10 am to 1pm
Occidental College Upward Bound program in Eagle Rock

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Janet Leister will be reading on August 14th, 2008

Sunday October 5th
7pm-9pm
Book Soup
An afternoon with
Lauded Poet Sharmagne Leland-St. John
reading from and signing
CONTINGENCIES
A Third Collection of Poetry


Please feel free to share with your lists and newsletters
http://www.booksoup.com/
310 659-3110
for pre orders

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"One If By Land," which airs every Wednesday at 5 p.m. on KSKQ, 94.9 FM (Ashland, Oregon) is accepting mp3 files of "homegrown" political music and poetry, to air at a later date. The first "political poetry and music hour" was a great success and featured songs by Ocho, Larry West, Jack Fisher and Darrin Wayne as well as poetry by Margaret Towner, to name a few of the artists.

Please send your mp3 files to one_ibl@yahoo.com.  You will be notified if your submission is aired.

Janet Phelan

"The revolution will be sung from the rooftops."

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Please check out our First Edition Book Store for our latest titles
 From Quill & Parchment Press

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Quill and Parchment poet Carole Bugge invites you to:
The Millay Sisters Cabaret

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Calendar of Klamath Basin related events

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  Howland Cultural Center
477 Main Street
Beacon, NY
(845)831-0077

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Poetry Open Mic every Wednesday 7pm
The New York Bagelry and Cafe
Route 9, in Poughkeepsie (across the street from Barnes and Noble)
(845)463-3370

Looking for features. Please call Debra at (845)255-4218.

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Rhapsodomancy

ELOISE KLEIN HEALY
ELIZABETH BRADFIELD
MICHELLE BITTING
WENDY C. ORTIZ

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:30pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 (east Hollywood/Silver
Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com (RSVP not required, but appreciated)
$3 suggested donation at door.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org

Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry and three spoken word
recordings. She was the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at
Antioch University Los Angeles where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative
Writing Emerita. Healy directed the Women’s Studies Program at California State
University Northridge and taught in the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s
Building in Los Angeles. She is Resident Poet at the Idyllwild Summer Poetry
Festival, the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture, and founding
editor of ARKTOI BOOKS, an imprint of Red Hen Press. Her latest collection of poems
is The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho.

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press,
2008) and editor of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org). Poems have appeared in The
Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, several anthologies, and are forthcoming in Orion and The
Believer. Currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, when not writing, she
works as a naturalist.

Michelle Bitting grew up in Los Angeles, California. She was educated at U.C.
Berkeley and in 2009, will graduate with an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University,
Oregon. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner,
Narrative, Poetry Daily, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Many Mountains Moving,
and Rattle. Thomas Lux chose her full-length manuscript, Good Friday Kiss, as the
winner of C & R Press’s DeNovo First Book Award. Formerly a dancer and a chef,
Michelle devotes a portion of her time to doing outreach work in Los Angeles where
she lives with her husband, the actor, Phil Abrams, and their two children, Elijah
and Vera Rose.

Wendy C. Ortiz is literary curator of Rhapsodomancy. Recent publications include
Blood Orange Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino
Literary Art, Cranky, and Eclipse. She was awarded a writing residency from
Hedgebrook in 2007. Wendy is currently a graduate student of psychology. Some of her
work can be found at http://www.wendyortiz.com.

http://www.rhapsodomancy.org

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EVENTS UPDATE FROM JIM BENNETT IN LIVERPOOL - 
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
2008

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Sacred Grounds Coffee House in Tampa has open mic on Monday nights, and
they host poetry slams periodically.  Events schedule is posted on their
website: Sacred Grounds Coffee House - Tampa, Florida

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Woodstock Poetry Society 

For Immediate Release - for further information contact Phillip Levine
(845)246-8565 or email: pprod@mindspring.com

Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival (www.woodstockpoetry.com) as part of
the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event
as part of the Woodstock "Second Saturdays" Art Events. For a full
listing of "Second Saturday" events, see: www.woodstockartsconsortium.org.

A benefit for Donald Lev's *Home Planet News *will be the scheduled
event when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the
Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on *Saturday, November 8th at
2pm*. Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every month.

The reading will feature current (Issue #61) contributors to HPN
including: *Teresa Marta Costa, Roberta Gould, Sandra Graff, Eugenia
Macer-Story, Shiv Mirabito, Tad Richards, Ed Sanders, William Seaton,
Matthew J. Spireng, Janine Pommy Vega, Bruce Weber, Christopher
Wheeling, R. Dionysius Whiteurs, Peter Lamborn Wilson *and *Donald Lev*.
All poets who come are invited to read. We will be passing the hat.

Read some poetry, make a donation, enjoy some refreshments, and pick up
HPN #61.

Free refreshments and copies of Home Planet News - Suggested contribution $5

If you can't attend in person, but would still like to contribute,
please mail a check to:

Home Planet News
P.O. Box 455
High Falls, NY 12440

The event will be hosted by Woodstock area poets Phillip Levine and
Donald Lev. All meetings are free and open to the public. For
information about the group, and its activities, visit
www.woodstockpoetry.com

Here's our upcoming schedule of featured readers:
12/13 - Annual Business Meeting
1/10 - TBA, TBA
2/14 - TBA, TBA

*Also, please join us for a very special reading:*

*Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival
Presents:
Martin Espada - Poetry Reading

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 7:30pm
Kleinert/James Arts Center
34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
$12
Tickets at Golden Notebook, Phoenicia Pharmacy, Online
(www.woodstockpoetry.com) and at the door.
*
*This project is made possible (in part) through a grant from the
**Dutchess** **County** Arts Council, administrator of public funds
through NYSCA's Decentralization Program.*

Also, why not become a 2008 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society &
Festival?

Membership is a nominal $15 a year. (To join, send your check to the
Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Include
your email address as well as your mailing address and phone number.)
Your membership helps pay for hall rental, post-office-box rental, the
WPS website, and costs associated with publicizing the monthly events.
One benefit of membership is the opportunity to have a brief biography
and several of your poems appear on this website.

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You received this email because you are on phil's "upstate calendar
events" list. if you wish to no longer receive these emailings tell me.

Phillip
pprod@mindspring.com

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The Rabbit Hole,
203 SE Grand, in Portland, Oregon
on the corner of SE Grand and Ash.
the event is an open mic poetry/jazz event that is free every Sunday
and begins at 9:00 P.M.

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Meetro Cafe
Open Mic
Thursdays at 7PM.
They are on campus at:
1809 SW 11th in Portland, Oregon

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In Other Words, Women's Books and Resources,
3734 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR 97214
is home to The Last Word Open Mic Zine Read.  
This event features poetry, zines, readings on
trans issues and everything else under the sun.  
When:Tuesday of every month at 7pm
at In Other Words.  

Come and listen or come and read!
Sue Burns
503-232-6003
www.inotherwords.org
othrwrds@teleport.com

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Really BIG Show
Where: Un-Urban Coffeehouse; 3301 Pico; Santa Monica
When: Wednesdays (sign up 7:30-8:30; show starts at 8)
What: poetry, spoken word, music, monologues, freestyle, comedy, and just about anything else.
Web site: www.reallybigshow.org
Email: wednesday@reallybigshow.org
 

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In addition to the most comprehensive Southern California poetry venue listing, this month, as usual, this incredible site brings you the most updated and complete poetry calendar.

Southern California Poetix

Redmond Association of SPokenword

Cavalcade of Poetry

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Live From The Living Room,

Live From the Living Room is a featured poetry reading series with an open mic
afterwards. The reading is held at The Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community
Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. The sign up is at 7pm with the reading
starting at &:30. The next reading is October 8th with Erik Sweet.

Erik Sweet was born in Buffalo, N.Y. and has lived in Albany for twelve years. He
has co-edited Tool a Magazine since 1998 (www.toolamagazine.com). Some of his poems
can be found in Jacket, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, and Big Bridge.

Sign up is at 7pm with 7:30 start time with host Don Levy and $2.00
suggested donation. For more info call (518) 462-6138. This is a
straight-friendly reading.

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Chicago and Suburbs
Spoken Word/Poetry Slams/Open Mics/Hip Hop/Etc.

Big Joe's 2 & 6
1181 W. Foster. 773-784-8755: Open Mic. hosted by Bren.  Open run: First Wednesday of Month, 8:30 PM.  Free.

Blue Oasis
12947 S. Western, Blue Island, 708-293-1505: Open mic. poetry reading.  Open run: Mondays, 7PM. Free.

Borders Books & Music
1144 Lake, Oak Park, 708-386-6927:  "Lucid Apple,"  Open mic. for poets, story-tellers, and musicians hosted by David Crawford.  Open run: First Wednesday of month, 8PM (registration 7:30 PM).  Free.

Borders Books & Music
1539 E. 53rd, 773-752-8663: "Cypher open mic.  Poetry Sessions" Presented by Cyber Coalition. 
Open run: First and third Thursday of month, 8 PM (registration 7:30PM).  Free.

Burkhart Studios
2845 N. Halsted, 773- 348-8536: Burkhart Underground: An Artists' Studio" features open-mic. poetry and music.  Open run: Sundays, 8:30 PM.  $5.00 (includes all beverages)

Café
5115 N. Lincoln, 773-274-3514: "Poetry Circus,"  hosted by David and Victoria Rubin.  Open run:  Tuesdays, 8 PM.  Free but donation requested.

Café Mestizo
2123 S. Ashland, 312- 942-0095;   "Dis) Simulation,"  open forum for all arts.  Hosted by Nicholas.  Open run:  Wednesdays "about 6:30 PM"  (registration 6PM).  Free.

Cocoabean Café
7007 N. Glenwood, 773-262-6350:  “Headshrinkers Inc,’ a program
of Open mic therapy for artists, misanthropes, and hopeless cases”
hosted by Kate Cullan and Josh Bermont.  Open run: first Friday of month, 9 PM.  Free.

Coffee Chicago
5256 N. Broadway, 773 784-1305: Poetry open mic. hosted by John Starrs.
Open run:  Fridays, 7:30 PM. $3.00/ $2.00 for open mic.  participants.

Creative Minds House of Culture
1064 W. 63rd, 773-436-4863:  Poetry reading hosted by Ajani Olufemi.  Open run:
Fridays, 9 PM. Free.

Early to Bed
5232 N. Sheridan, 773-271-1219:  “ The Finger,”  An all-gender queer open myke
and variety show.” Open run:  third Sunday of every month (November 16, December 21) PM. $3.00.

East-West University
816 S.  Michigan, 4th floor auditorium, 312-939-0111, ext. 1818: Poetry slam.  Thursday,
November 6, noon.  Free.

Ethio Café
3462 N. Clark , 773-929-8300: Open mic.  Open run:  Tuesdays, 9 PM.  $3.00/$2.00 for readers.

Frankie J’s Metha-Dome Theatre
4437 N. Broadway, 2nd floor, 773-769-2959: “Storyteller Showcase and Open Mic.” for performance art,  stand-up, and improv. comedy, music, etc. Open run:  Wednesdays, 8PM.
$3.00 (includes free beer)

Full Circle Bookstore
11018 S. Halsted, 773-928-8797: Open mic; call 773-928-8797 to register. Open run: forth Friday of month November 28, December 26, 8 PM.  Free.

Funky Buddha Lounge
728 W. Grand, 312-666-1695:  “Supa Soul Sunday,” hosted by Mark Fulla Flava.” Open run:  Sundays, 8 PM.  Free.

Gio’s Sports Bar
4857 N. Damen, 773-334-0345:  Open mic for “music, poetry, comedy, interpretive bunny juggling, etc.” Open run: every other Friday, November 14,  and 28, 9 PM. ( registration 8:30 PM).  Free.

Green Mill
4802 N. Broadway, 773-878-5552:  “Uptown Poetry Slam,”  featuring open mic., special guest and end-of-the-night competitions. Open run: Sundays 7-10 PM.  $6.00.

Hard Drive Internet Café
1529  S, State, 312-253-0601:  “Equilibrium Sundays, “ Poetry open mic.   Hosted by K. Weatherly. .” Open run:  Sundays, 8 PM.   $5.00.

Heartland Café
7000 N. Glenwood, 773- 465-8005: “In One Ear,” open mic. for poetry and music.  Open run:  Wednesdays, 10:00PM.  (registration (9:00 PM.) $3.00

Hotti Biscotti
3545  W. Fullerton, 773-486-1099: “Poetry Odyssey” Open mic. Open run:
fourth Saturday of month, 9 PM.  Free.


MoJoe’s Café Lounge
2256 W. Roscoe, 773-388-1236: “Spok e‘n’ Word,” open reading. Open run:
second Thursday of month, 7 PM.  Free.

The New Dating Game
8924 S. Stony Island, 773-374-8883: Poetry open mic. Open run:  Wednesdays, 10 PM. $3.00

No Exit Café
6970 N. Glenwood, 773-743-3355: “Homolatte,” featuring work by lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered artists and hosted by Scott Free. Open run: Thursdays 8:00 PM  Free.

Phyllis’ Musical Inn
1800W. Division, 773-486-9862,:  “shag’s Little thing,” Open mic. for poetry, comedy and music. Open run: Tuesdays, 9:30 PM.-midnight.  Free.

Pontiac Café
1531 N. Damen, 773-252-7767:  Open mic. presented by Hostage Radio, Open run: Sundays, 9:30 PM. $2.00 donation.

Room at the Cross Church
1432 W. 87th,773-684-8058: Open mic. for poets, singers, dancers, hip-hop acts, and mime artists, hosted by the Christian Poets Society.  Open run: first third and fifth Saturday of month, 3:00 PM. Free.

Some Like it Black
Swift Mansion,4500 S. Michigan, 773-374-2660: Open mic. hosted by June June. Saturdays, 8:00 PM-1:00 AM.  Donation requested.

South Side Community Arts Center
3831 S. Michigan, 773-373-1026: Open mic. for poetry and music.  Open run: second and fourth Saturday of month (November 8 and 22). 9:00 PM. $7.00

Trace
3714 N. Clark, 773-5477-3400: Poetry/music open mic. hosted by Poly Rhythmic Arts collective.  Open run: Tuesdays, 10:30 PM. (registration 10:00 PM), Free. (Donations accepted.)

Urban Sandbox
Ice Factory, 526 N. Ashland,  (Look for the Green door)host Dan Sullivan check fprecords.com  for dates and contact.

Weeds
1555 N. Dayton, 312-943-7815: “Poetry Night” hosted by Gregorio Gomez. .  Open run: Mondays, 9:00 PM. Free.

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~The Prodigal Son Coffeehouse~

Theatre 6th season at The Prodigal Son Coffeehouse, 10 Ocean St., Hyannis  
508.771.1337

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~Colony Cafe~  
For Immediate Release - for further information contact Phillip Levine (845)246-8565 or email: pprod@mindspring.com

Colony October, 2008: Upcoming "Special Guests" at the Colony Café - Monday Night Open Mic - Poetry/Prose/Performance

Every Monday Night "Forever"

All events include an open mic of poetry/prose/performance hosted by Phillip Levine (Chronogram Poetry Editor).

Doors Open at 7pm, start time is 7:30pm. Features read for approximately 20-25mins each, beginning around 8pm. Open mic before & after the featured readers.

Upcoming "Special Guests":

Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 7pm:
1) Larry Winters (poet, author of The Making and Un-making of a Marine)
2) Richard Boes (prose, from his new book Last Train Out)

Monday, October 13th, 2008 (Columbus Day) - 7pm:
1) Rivka Tadjer (novelist, author of Two Weeks Under)
2) Raymond J. Steiner (prose, author of The Mountain, a novel)

Monday, October 20th, 2008 - 7pm:
1) Esther Frances (Peace by Piece by Peace)
2) Tyler Wilhelm (poet, author of Alive)
3) Alifair Skebe (poet, author of  El Agua es La Sangre de La Tierra)

Monday, October 27th, 2008 - 7pm:
1) Daniel Gilhuly (poet, author of 45 Poems)
2) Kevin Kenny (Poet/Artist/Actor)
3) Leif (comic monologist)

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 7pm:
Samuel Claiborn (Musical Provocateur, Poetical Heretic, Photographer, Satirist, Composer)

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Poetry/Prose/Performance:
Colony Cafe
22 Rock City Road
Woodstock, NY
(845)679-5342
www.colonycafe.com

$4

The Colony Cafe has full bar and cafe menu.

For further information about the Monday Night Open Mic or possible bookings contact: Phillip Levine <pprod@mindspring.com>

For information about the Colony Café contact: Jeff Harrigfeld <osmrecords@hotmail.com>

Check out the web-site:
www.colonycafe.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/woodstockcolonypoets/

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Planned November Schedule:
11/3 - Samuel Claiborne
Series takes the Winter off, see you in Spring, 2009

Upcoming October Features (available bios):

Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 7pm:
1) Larry Winters (poet, author of The Making and Un-making of a Marine) -  Born and raised in New Paltz, NY, Larry Winters entered the United States Marine Corps after high school and served in Vietnam 1969-1970. Twenty-five years later, by then a licensed mental health counselor at Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, NY, the veteran returned to Vietnam with other heath care professionals to study Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Vietnamese people and to make peace with his past. Larry is a widely published poet, men's group leader and group psychotherapist.

He has recently published his book titled "The Making and Un-making of a Marine".

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2) Richard Boes (prose, from his new book Last Train Out) - Anne Pyburn (Chronogram, June 2007) wrote about his previous book, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive: "Richard Boes has written a ripped-from-the-heart memoir of the years of struggle, substance abuse, and failed relationships that followed his combat experience. It’s painful, yet richly rewarding. Imagine sitting down in a pub next to a slightly scary-looking fellow who buys you a round and then begins to talk, his words spilling out in a heated rush, things bottled up within him all flooding to the surface. And although some of what he is saying is hard to hear, it’s made compelling by his wry, ironic perspective and stream-of-consciousness style, which is akin to that of Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac. At closing time, you’d be inviting him home for a nightcap to hear the rest—even if it disturbed your sleep for weeks to come."

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Monday, October 13th, 2008 (Columbus Day) - 7pm:
1) Rivka Tadjer (novelist, author of Two Weeks Under) - Rivka Tadjer is a sign-of-the-times author who specializes in the sociological implications of our techno-centric era—how our behavior is changing. She has devoted a lot of ink to the issues of privacy, security, and identity.

Tadjer has written for newspapers, magazines, and online outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, Business Week, Red Herring, Working Woman, and CBS MarketWatch. She has been a columnist for the The Wall Street Journal Interactive, and several other business and tech publications. She has written for TV news, made on-air appearances for Internet privacy issues, and authored a non-fiction book called Small Business Solutions for Financial Management, to help entrepreneurs compete with large corporations.

After they tried to dose the New York press corps with Anthrax, Tadjer started writing novels.

Tadjer now teaches journalism as an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz, hoping she can convince at least a handful of people that there is a difference between the news and American Idol, before the Fourth Estate crumbles to ruins altogether. She also does marketing and PR work for select, worthy high-tech companies and non-profit organizations in the arts and education. Her favorite long-term personal project: Finagling a way to make the voting system in this country mandatory, less hackable, and able to provide voters with a receipt. She also serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Woodstock Day School, a progressive, independent private school.

Tadjer’s hometown is Washington, D.C. She went to Boston University and University of Maryland, studying philosophy and journalism when those two things weren’t mutually exclusive. She is a first-generation American who lived in L.A. briefly, Manhattan for most of her adult life, until she scurried to live on high ground in Woodstock, NY.

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2) Raymond J. Steiner (prose, author of The Mountain, a novel) - Since the turn of the 19th-century, the course of American art took a major turn from earlier academic principles to radical modernist influences from Europe. The Mountain traces this course through the eyes of its protagonist, Jacob (Jake) Forscher, a self-made painter who tries to wend his way through the maze of new art, new ideas, and a new post-world war that turned mores and values upside down.

The uncertainty of what “art” is — or what it ought to be — dogs Jake throughout the novel. Though a fictional work, The Mountain is set mainly in the burgeoning art colony of Woodstock, New York, and contains historically authentic people and places allowing for the book to relate much local and New York state history of the early 19th century. Hudson River life, (Day Liners, ice harvesting, etc.), the bluestone industry, the building of the Ashokan Reservoir, and especially the growth and development of the Woodstock art colony serve as the setting for the story. Woodstock ‘notables’ such as Birge Harrison, John Carlson, Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and others, are included in the book as ‘characters’ with whom Jake interacts and from whom he learns about the world of art. Opening in New York City with the famed “Armory Show” of 1913, the book ends in Woodstock, New York ten years after the equally famed 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Raymond J. Steiner is editor/art critic for ART TIMES, a literary journal, which he co-founded in 1984. He has profiled over 100 American and European artists and regularly reviews or critiques art exhibits and art books. Among his published books are: The Vessel of Splendor: A Return to the One; Scraps McGillicuddy (a serialized novelette); The Girl Who Couldn’t See; 23 Woodstock Artists; Quarry Rubble (a book of poetry); Heinrich J. Jarczyk: Toward a Vision of Wholeness; Heinrich J. Jarczyk: Etchings 1968-1998; The Art Students League of New York: A History; and Chen Chi: Sketches and Drawings.

The author of hundreds of essays, reviews, and critiques, he has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad on various topics. He is also an accomplished landscape painter and has exhibited his work in solo and group shows. The Mountain is his first full-length novel.

Contact: Cornelia Seckel; (845)246-6944 mountain@arttimesjournal.com

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Monday, October 20th, 2008 - 7pm:
1) Esther Frances (Peace by Piece by Peace) - Esther Frances is a singer/songwriter, interfaith minister, founder of EARTHARTISTRY; Arts & Education for the Ecozoic Era and released her first CD Mother Earth Calls in 2004.

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2) Tyler Wilhelm (poet, author of Alive) - Tyler Wilhelm is a young poet out of Catskill, NY.  In his spare time he drowns himself in the work of Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  Alive, his first collection of poetry, is available from Liberty Artists and can be found at the Golden Notebook or online at www.LibertyArtists.com/alive.

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3) Alifair Skebe (poet, author of  El Agua es La Sangre de La Tierra) - Alifair Skebe is author of El Agua Es la Sangre de la Tierra/water is the blood of the earth (Finishing Line Press 2008) and Love Letters: Les Cartes Postales (Basilisk Press 2004). Her poems have appeared in many national and local journals including Rhino, The Cape Rock, Blueline, and 32 Poems.

She is a PhD Candidate in 20th Century American Poetry and Poetics at SUNY, University at Albany, and she holds a Master's Degree from The University of North Texas. She teaches poetry writing, composition, and literature.

Alifair is also visual artist. Her most recent chapbook features her painting Immaculate Conception (1995) on its cover. Her earlier book features a center insert of visual poetry in the form of collage-postcards.

She lives in Albany with her husband, three children, and the family dog.

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Monday, October 27th, 2008 - 7pm:
1) Daniel Gilhuly (poet, author of 45 Poems)

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2) Kevin Kenny (Poet/Artist/Actor) - As an adolescent, Kevin hosted poetry readings out of his living room.  He then hosted Atomic Soul, in Cornwall-On-Hudson.  He moved on to direct poets and their original work, in a theatrical setting.  Kevin’s original art work has been hung and sold in various galleries.  Thank you friends and family.

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3) Leif (comic monologist)

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Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 7pm:
Samuel Claiborn (Musical Provocateur, Poetical Heretic, Photographer, Satirist, Composer)

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All best, your host

Phillip
pprod@mindspring.com

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~Seattle's Best~

Dear Friends,

I hope you will join us at our next
<http://www.moondaypoetry.com>Moonday reading at
Village Books in Pacific Palisades.

NEWS FLASH! We have had a change in our feature line-up this month.

Date: Monday (Moonday) October 13, 2008
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Village Books, 1049 Swarthmore Ave. (just
north of Sunset) Pacific Palisades Free parking in rear of building
Open Reading? Yes, come early to sign up. We start on time!
Questions? Email: pero@earthlink.net or call the bookstore at: 310-454-4063

Our feature will be Cecilia Woloch.
More about the poet and more poems at: http://www.alicepero.com/moonday.html

Cecilia Woloch is the author of three full-length
collections of poetry : Sacrifice (Cahuenga
Press, 1997), a BookSense 76 selection in 2001;
Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem; (Cahuenga Press, 2002);
Late (BOA Editions, 2003) for which she was named
Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004 ­
and a chapbook, Narcissus, which was chosen
winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Competition
by Marie Howe and published by Tupelo in 2008. A
new book-length collection of poems will be
published by BOA Editions in 2009. Individual
poems have been anthologized in Best American
Poetry 2005, Billy Collins' 180 More
(Extraordinary Poems for Every Day), Garrison
Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times, and The Best
American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present, among
others. In recent years, she has divided her time
between Los Angeles and Idyllwild, California;
Atlanta, Georgia; Shepherdsville, Kentucky;
Paris, France; and a small village in the
Carpathian mountains of southeastern Poland. She
currently serves on the faculty of the B.A.
program in Creative Writing at the University of
Southern California, and is the founding director
of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, as well as the Paris Poetry Workshop.

"Unofficially" Cecilia tells us:

I drive a pick-up truck and can climb into and
out of it in a cocktail dress and high heels. I
can dance salsa and cha cha cha and speak fairly
decent French. I'm learning Polish, finally. I
can also fake it in a couple of other languages.
I know maybe more than is healthy about Polish
history, and Russian history since the
revolution, and Poland under communism, and WWII
and Stalin, and the history of the Roma (gypsy)
people in Europe, but way less than any academic
specializing in those things would (I hope) know.
I'm an excellent parallel parker. Good navigator
and map-reader. I have expertise in making
complicated travel arrangements and in getting
small children to laugh, if not getting them to
go to sleep. I can ride a horse with a Western or
English saddle. I can do splits, but not
cartwheels. Double pirouettes but not triple. My
grammar skills have advanced to the point that I
know how and when to use the subjunctive. I can
braid my hair with my eyes closed. I can explain
the history of English prosody using coconuts. I
make perfect cup of coffee and a mean omelette,
but that's the full extent of my culinary skills.
I know the names of many wildflowers. Can still
do "figures in my head" and balance my checkbook
to the penny. I'm addicted to novels. I've never
owned a television. I've taught creative writing
to the criminally insane and line dancing to the
elderly. I've crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border
on foot in the company of smugglers and
journalists. Have been robbed by a Russian gang
in Warsaw and rescued by off-duty police in
Paris. Can build a fire and bathe in a bucket.
Can apply lipstick in a rear view mirror. Also
write poems and narrative non-fiction.

Wish

We clean the bones of the little birds we eat
with our teeth, then we let them dry.
Later, we split each wish at the crux ­
Many of dollars for both of us.

But love, we are vagabonds still,
our sleep full of bells and kisses, wind.
We have never touched one another enough.
We have never completely eaten our fill.

If I covered your body in lilacs now,
pale purple flowers against your dark skin,
would you not shake my breath from your hair
when you stood, would you wish

that the small birds who fed us had lived?

(first published in Black Rock & Sage, Spring 2005

© 2008 Cecilia Woloch

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Alice Pero
Founder/Host Moonday in the Village

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Fellow poets and friends of poetry,

You're looking for fun Friday night and you see this reminder about what's happening
at the Rapp Saloon!

Well, you're in luck because Friday night, Oct. 10, 2008, we are featuring YOU!

All open mic readers get the most time available at any venue: 8 minutes!

Mani Suri will host.

Upcomingfeatures:

Oct. 24, 2008 Jeanne Spicuzza
Nov. 7, 2008 Jaimes Palacio

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