A Virtual Embrace
Hi everyone, thanks for your kind emails and news.
Connecting and celebrating our talents is more important than ever, and you,
yes you, are vital to this annogram community. Read on to see how
we are creating and bringing forth our best selves. Avoiding stores, I produced
my own “card” for a family member—something I really loved doing.
Free Ferry
e-book and more
Excited to
announce Free Ferry (Upper Hand
Press) will soon be available as an e-book—thanks to publisher Ann Starr for her
master plan to expand readership! I am equally grateful for acceptances in As
Above So Below (UK) and Truth Serum Press
Verdant anthology (Australia).
Snowflakes
in a Blizzard
Thanks to
Darrell Laurant for featuring my first book, Face Painting
in the Dark, this
week. Darrell’s concept for his blog came when he considered the challenge writers face in
promoting their work—like singling out a snowflake in a blizzard. It’s my good luck
that he has also singled out Free Ferry and The Hero.
Fonoteca Española de Poesía
Linda Simone’s Watercolors
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| Teabag watercolor (right) by Linda Simone |
Di Meola and the Beatles
New Releases
Cathryn
Essinger, The
Apricot and the Moon (Dos Madres Press)
Heller
Levinson, Seep (Black Widow Press)
Mary
Newell, Sarah Nolan, and Bernard Quetchenbach, editors, Poetics for
the More-Than-Human World (Dispatches from the Poetry Wars)
Steven
Salmoni, A Day of
Glass (Chax Press)
Ann
Starr, Starr Review
– New Edition
Estha
Weiner, Poetry Podcast (Soundcloud)
Creative Opportunities
David Crews offers online
community poetry workshops
Hole in the Head Review
call for submissions by June 19
The Journal of Compressed
Creative Arts is open for submissions.
The Writer's Harbor Poetry Week:
June 15-19 with awesome teacher / poet Kevin Pilkington
Linguine with Lentil and Wine Sauce
We
still have chilly nights that call for a warm nourishing meal. This one, based
on one from The
Festive Vegetarian (Pantheon Books, 1983), fits the bill—a vegetarian
Bolognaise.
1
tablespoon olive oil
1
onion, peeled and chopped
1
large garlic clove, peeled and crushed
1
teaspoon basil, fresh chopped or dry
1
14.5-ounce can tomato sauce
½
cup dried lentils
1
tablespoon tomato paste or ketchup
1
¼ cup red wine
1
¼ cup vegetable stock or water
Sea
salt and freshly ground pepper
1
8-ounce box of linguine – try DeBoles
butter
grated
Parmesan cheese
Heat
oil in medium-size saucepan and sauté onion 10 minutes
until soft and slightly brown. Add garlic, basil, tomato sauce, lentils, tomato
paste, wine, and stock. Bring to boil, then cover saucepan, turn down heat, and
simmer 45 minutes, stirring from time to time, until lentils are tender and
mixture is a thick purée. Season with salt and pepper. Cook linguine,
drain, and put in a pan with butter, stir, and pour onto a platter. Top with
lentil sauce and Parmesan cheese.
Online Poetry + Art Events (EST)
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| Patricia Carragon |
May 17,
3pm, Tompkins Corner Cultural Center
May 21, 4-6pm, "As We Keep Our Distance,” poets Madeline Artenberg, Patricia Carragon, Susana H. Case,
hosted by Jerry T. Johnson; register for admission
May
21, 7-8pm, Beth Gersh-Nešić on “Mothers in Art History,” Byram Shubert Library
June 7, 4pm, poets Peggy Ellsberg, Jennifer Franklin,
Margo Taft Stever
http://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/shpeditorsreadzoom/
http://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/shpeditorsreadzoom/
Ongoing Poetry Events
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| Ralph Nazareth, host of Curley's Diner Poem Alley series |
Third
Mondays, 6:30pm, Norwalk Poetry Workshop
Tuesdays,
7pm, Curley's Diner, Stamford,
Poem Alley/Feedback Group
Poem Alley/Feedback Group
Wednesday
Poetry Night
Third
Wednesdays, 6pm, Business of Writing and Publishing Workshop
Thursdays,
6:30pm, Mahopac Writers Group
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| Bill Buschel, host of HVWC Open Mic |
Fourth
Wednesdays, 6pm, Yorktown
Poetry Workshop
Third Fridays, 7pm, HVWC Open Mic
led by Bill Buschel
Every other Friday, noon, Talking with Our Mouths Full,
translation conversations
Indoor Treats
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| Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright |
Visit iconic architecture by Frank
Lloyd Wright
Travel
the universe via the Keck Observatory
Cosmic Videos
Singalong at Marie’s Crisis Café,
Facebook group, 4-7pm and 7-9pm
Access exhibits at the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
ʼRound
the Net
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| Grover Washington Jr. |
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| John Krasinski |
The
New York Arts Exchange for online exhibit Fereshteh
Priou: Poetry in Line and Form
Surviving the
Unexpected
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| New Zealand's Jack Buchanan gets his family in the groove |
Our
dramatic societal change makes me appreciate, for the first time, the fears my
grandparents surely experienced during the Depression. I have to ask myself if
there is enough milk, and if yes, do I want to use it in one meal? I intuit how
mind-blown my parents must have been when the US entered World War II. Facing our
own global crisis, we’re seeing creativity transform from a “nice to have” to a
means of survival—from rapid-fire biomed discoveries to inspirational videos of
families quarantining in “Family
Lockdown Boogie” and “One
Day More.” So, please—now more than ever—do what your heart calls you to
do, and make the world more whole by expressing your whole self.
Be safe, be creative!
Until next time,
Ann