Our winged Dodge and a sweet donkey
Do you
remember cars with push-button gears, plaid-fabric bench seats and chrome
fins? My poem, “At the County Airport,”
recalls such space-age designs. To my
delight, Main Street Rag has accepted it for a
car-themed anthology. I’m also thrilled
that issue 46 of Sugar Mule features two of my poems. Thanks again to guest editor Alyse Knorr. |
| Karin Miller |
Congratulations
to editor Karin Miller, whose Cancer Poetry Project 2 (Tasora
Books, 2013) was named Best Poetry Book of
2013 at the Midwest Book Awards
Gala on May 15 and is a National Indie Excellence
Award finalist.
A Slant of Light (Codhill Press, 2013) has won First
Prize in the 2014 USA Book
Awards for Anthology and the 2014 da Vinci Eye
Eric Hoffer Book (Cover) Award; and is a finalist in the
2014 Beverly Hills International Book Awards for Anthology, 2014 NextGeneration Indie Book Awards in Women’s Issues, and 2014 International Book
Awards in Chick Lit/Women’s Literature.
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| Martin Espada |
The Widow’s Handbook (Kent
State University Press, 2014) continues readings: June 5, 7 pm, Iona
Senior Services,
4125 Albemarle St NW,
Washington, DC; June 7, 2 pm, Swarthmore
College,
Trotter Hall 301; June 8, 7 pm, Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., Portland, OR; June 10, 2 pm, East Castle Place, 2505 E. Bradford Place, Milwaukee, WI; June 26, 7 pm, Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main Street,
Concord, NH, and July 9, 11 am, Shorewood Senior Resource Center, 3920 N. Murray Ave, Shorewood, WI.
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| Petra Lewis |
WORD - A Caribbean Book Fest will celebrate Caribbean-American Heritage Month on Sunday, June 8, 2 – 8 pm, at Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn. Petra Lewis, author of The Sons and Daughters
of Ham: Book I, A Requiem, will join 35 writers from 18 countries
celebrating the storyteller in all of us.
Dianalee
Velie Poetry Workshop
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| Dianalee Velie |
Canaan
Meetinghouse Reading Series
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| Paul Harding |
In the same NH neighborhood, stop by
these readings which feature nonfiction writer Douglas Bauer and author Sue Miller on July 10, poet Jeffrey Harrison and novelist Deb Harkness on July 17, natural historian Bernd Heinrich and novelist Rachel Urquhart on July 24, author Abigail Carroll and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding on July 31. Readings
start at 7:30 pm at the
Meetinghouse, Canaan Street, Canaan, NH.
New books
Tanya Chernov is delighted that her anthology, The Burden of Light (Smashwords, 2014), is live on Amazon.
Petra Lewis announces that the EBook
version of her novel, The Sons and Daughters
of Ham: Book I, A Requiem, is live on Amazon.
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| James Dean |
Red Glass Books is beside itself with joy to announce
the publication of Café between wars,
a chapbook by Karen Garthe and designed by
Janet Kaplan. Available from the
author—please email her at macminch2@gmx.com for details.
Calls for work
Red Booth Review is accepting poems on celebrity and
art and photos on isolation through June 30.
Include 4-10 poems within an email and/or 3-5 digital images no greater
than 720px. See current issue for
editorial preferences in poetry.
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| Watercolor by Isabelle Fuller |
Beatrix Potter Redux
Thanks to
artist Isabelle Fuller for sharing this delightful spring watercolor which
pays homage to classic Beatrix Potter
illustrations.
Racoco on
the go-go
SOAK: A torrent of AcTS and Training
molded by LEIMAY at CAVE will take place June 19 at 8 pm. Racoco Productions will show a new collaboration with
visual artist Stephanie Beck
and composer Lynn Wright, Paper Work, which charts ideas of
"progress," territorial expansion, discipline, and disorder.
Beck and Racoco will follow up this premiere with an installation and series of performances at Harlem’s Chashama Performance Space, 1351 Amsterdam Avenue. The installation will be open to the public Saturday, June 21, from 3 - 9 pm, Sunday from noon - 8 pm, and Monday from 10 am - 9 pm.
Benefit Harp Concert
Beck and Racoco will follow up this premiere with an installation and series of performances at Harlem’s Chashama Performance Space, 1351 Amsterdam Avenue. The installation will be open to the public Saturday, June 21, from 3 - 9 pm, Sunday from noon - 8 pm, and Monday from 10 am - 9 pm.
Benefit Harp Concert
On Sunday, June 15, at 4 pm,
harpist David Holton and flutist Pamela Sklar will
perform, accompanied by tenors Michael Hull and Robert Puleo at Trinity St. Paul’s Church in New Rochelle.
This benefit will raise funds to send David Holton to the
Philippines as part of the Episcopal Church Young Adult
Service Corps. Reception to follow concert. Suggested Donation: $15.
Send Sam to Ghana
Sam
Russell, a recent Trinity College
graduate with an economics degree, is going to volunteer in Ghana where he will
help WomensTrust
improve their operations, focus on micro lending to women to eliminate poverty,
and raise awareness how scholarships can improve life for girls. Help Sam get to Ghana by contributing to his IndieGoGo campaign.
Cool Ginger
Limeade
When the
heat rises, I thirst for something delicious.
I created this recipe as an alternative to chemical- and high
fructose-sugar-laden ginger ale. Ginger has an astringent quality that cleanses
the digestive system, and lime is alkaline to counteract acidity. Great after a big meal!
1 cup bottled natural spring water
1 quarter-size quarter-inch slice of ginger root, peeled
1/2 lime
2 Tablespoons (more or less to taste) organic raw honey
This
refreshing drink calls for a strong blender.
Combine water and ginger root in blender and process on the highest
setting about a half minute. Using a tea
strainer over a tall glass, strain the ginger water into the glass. Rinse out the blender to make sure it is free
of any ginger.
Return
the ginger water to the blender and squeeze the juice of one-half lime into
blender. Add two tablespoons of raw
honey. Blend again on high. Pour back into glass. The drink will be a lovely cream color and
develop a foamy head. Drink right
away. Serves one.
Round the Net
Translator Jeffrey Angles for
sharing this
article by the great Persian translator Dick Davis on
translating Hafez.
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| Contemporary poets discuss poetry hosted by UPenn Prof Al Filreis |
Belated birthday wishes to Gary Glauber, whose poems “Anthem” and “Refrain” appear in The Citron Review; and has three more poems in The Blue Hour, and two in East Jasmine Review, purchasable at the East Jasmine Review
Store.
Writing mentor Robert
McDowell for letting us know about his new workshop, Flash Writing for Fantastic
Exploration, starting June 11—to register, email rmcdowell@mind.net
Congratulations
to Laura Morelli on winning a silver IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction Ebook for her debut novel, The Gondola Maker, also been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award, the da Vinci Eye Prize, and the National Indie Excellence Award
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| The Offbeats |
Thanks to Linda Simone
for alerting us to the passing of the beloved civil rights activist and poet, Maya Angelou
Thanks to
filmmaker Frank Vitale for sharing Episode 5 of the Metropolis
Organism and this fascinating look
back at
his role in the PBS children’s program, Shining
Time Station
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| Maya Angelou |
Until next time,