Wishing Upon a Star
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| Photo by Michael Cefola |
Latest News
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| Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) reading James Joyce |
Sleepy Hollow Wishing Wall
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| Tim Grajek at work |
More Wishing
Resilience at Mercy College
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| Sarah Bracey White |
New and Recent Releases
Mary K O' Melveny, Merging
Star Hypotheses
(Finishing Line Press)
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, Foraging
for Light
(Finishing Line Press)
J. R. Solonche, The
Dust (Dos
Madres Press)
Thomas Vinton, The
Package: Bomb, Money, or Drugs (Independently Published) and Sanctioned
Treachery: Portrait of a Drug Informant (Picasso Publications)
Creative Opportunities
Catholic Literary Arts Sacred Poetry Contest, by April 30
Mahopac Poetry Workshop, 6pm, every second Wednesday
ModPo,
University of Pennsylvania’s free poetry course and global community
Norwalk Poetry Workshop, first and third Mondays, 6:30pm; email poet_laureate@norwalkpl.org to register
The Poet (UK) poetry writing courses
Pure Slush (Australia) call
for submissions on growing up and conversations
Rhino poetry,
translations, and flash open-reading period, March 1-June 30
March Readings and Events – ET
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| Ruth Handel |
March 9, 7pm, Poetry Caravan featuring Doretta Cornell, Alice Feeley, Ruth Handel, Sandra Hauss, Linda Levit, Deborah Maier, Rachel Cindy Simon, and Fran Sisco; register here
March 10, 7pm, Kazim Ali, Jill Bialosky, and Mark Wunderlich, HVWC, $10
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| Mary Newell |
Robinson, Rodger Kamenetz; register here
March 31, noon, Kelly
Writers House (Philadelphia) Panel on Plants and Poetics featuring Lee Ann Brown, Adjua Gargi Nzinga
Greaves, Brenda Iijima, Mary Newell, and Evelyn Reilly
Monthly Readings – ET
Thanks to Yorktown Poet Laureate John McMullen for this list:
Every Tuesday, 2pm, Spoken Word World (Paris)
Every Tuesday, 7pm, Curley’s Diner
Second Fridays, Noon, Writers, Artists, Actors, etc. Luncheon
Third Fridays, 7pm, Hudson Valley Writers Center
Open Mic – click
on third Friday for details
Wildly Popular Baked Feta Pasta
Last night, the news reported a feta shortage thanks
to this Internet recipe. Apparently it emerged from
Scandinavia three years ago and has taken the globe by storm. I have yet to try
it but trusted test cook Linda Simone gives it the thumbs up:
12 oz pasta
3
cloves garlic, peeled and thinly
sliced
2 ½
tsp fresh thyme, chopped
1 1/3
lb cherry tomatoes
½ cup olive oil
sugar, salt, pepper
Preheat oven to 400°F. Add cherry tomatoes, five tablespoons of the olive oil, garlic, most of thyme, sugar, salt, and pepper in a large baking dish and mix well. Place feta in middle of dish. Sprinkle remaining olive oil and thyme over feta. Zest lemon over dish. Bake 30 minutes. Cook pasta in salted water, per package instructions. Drain and set aside. Remove baking dish from oven and stir to combine ingredients. Stir in pasta and serve immediately.
ΚΌRound the Net
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| Jenni Baker (1984-2020) |
Poet Regi Claire for work in The
New European, flash fiction in Ambit (video), prose in
the anthology The Middle of
a Sentence (Common Breath),
and pandemic meditation in the blog What She
Might Think
Art Historian Beth Gersh-Nesic for
sharing this sculpture of books
Poet Gary Glauber for poetry and flash fiction in The Piker Press, his Pushcart-nominated
poem in Sheila-Na-Gig Online, and his sixth
book, A
Careful Contrition (Shanti Arts Publishing)
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| Gary Glauber |
Poet Janet Kaplan whose book Ecotones will be published this fall by Eyewear Ltd
Coeditors
Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach,
and Sarah Nolan on having Poetics for the More-than-Human World (Dispatches Editions) listed as a
finalist for the 2020 Big Other Award
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| Jo Pitkin |
Century America (University of Wisconsin Press) and Multiplicity Magazine
Poet Jean-Luc Pouliquen for this recent Var-Matin profile
Poet Christina Rau, named the Oceanside Library Poet in Residence for a second year, for this clip of her reading
Poets Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Mary
K O’Melveny on the debut of their writing group’s website
Blues bassist Larry Schwartzman for
Larkin Poe’s “She’s a Self-Made Man” and “Tennessee Waltz”
Playwrights James Sherry and Mark Wallace on reading their original play, “The Rapture”
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) |
Poet Linda Simone for sharing MoMA’s poetic response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
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| Fran Sisco with two of her sculptures |
Art and music critic Ann Starr for this animated version of
Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things”
Keep looking up!
Until next time,
Ann