What? No Madeleine?
Virginia
Woolf: A Modern Mind
Congratulations
to Sarah on being named Westchester
Senior of the Year. Poet, playwright, memoirist, and public speaker, Sarah
has shared her talent for decades by creating, among many projects, youth
writing workshops and hundreds of art exhibits as executive director of Greenburgh Arts
and Culture. Her memoir Primary Lessons
(CavanKerry Press) precipitated Transcendence, where
she debuted as playwright and actor last year; and she is a frequent Read650
(see 1:12:45) reader. Wow!
Holly
Jolly Holiday Art Show & Boutique
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| "The Last Supper" (2022) Watercolor and acrylic on paper by Laura Lopez |
Creative
Opportunities
Apricity Press open
call, deadline Jan. 1
Atmosphere Press, open call all
genres, read the fine print carefully
Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award ($30), deadline Dec. 30
The Fairy
Tale Magazine, open call
on love, deadline Jan. 2
The Poet
Magazine, on
climate change, deadline Dec. 31
Pure Slush, writing on Stella’s
Secret Sonata, opens Jan. 1
New and Recent
Releases
Ryler Dustin, Something Bright
(Green Linden Press)
Circumference, Issue 10
Creative Workshops
All-Genre Writers Group, 6:30pm, Thursdays
John McMullen Poetry Workshop, 6pm, fourth Wednesdays
Mahopac Poetry Workshop, 6pm, second Wednesdays
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 Poets Salon, led by Ed Ahern and Alison McBain of Fairfield Scribes Press, 10am, every second Saturday
Writers and Artists Lunch Conversation, second
Fridays, noon
December Events
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| Photo by Bill Buschel |
Heedan Chung in Members’ Open:
Small Works at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, through
January 8
Poet Christin Rau with Akua Lezli Hope in Afrofutruistic
Pastoral Speculative Poetry Series on Facebook, December 21, at 7pm
Now through March 5, New York Public
Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Virgina
Woolf: A Modern Mind, free: register here
Voices
Group Exhibition, Upstream Gallery
(Hastings-on-Hudson), through December
Monthly Readings
– ET
First Sunday, 4pm, Poetic License (Austin)
Every Tuesday, 2pm, Spoken Word World (Paris)
Every Tuesday, 7pm, Curley’s Diner
Third Fridays, 7pm, Hudson Valley Writers Center
Open Mic – click
third Friday for details
Frequent Saturdays (check Facebook),
5pm, LitBalm
Shortbread Stars
This comes via
The Vermont Country Store’s Our
Vermont journal.
1 ½ teaspoons
almond extract
1 ¼ teaspoons
ground cardamom
½ teaspoon
table salt
1 ¾ cups
all-purpose flour
¼ cup
cornstarch
5 ounces
bittersweet chocolate
Flaky sea salt
(optional)
Preheat oven
to 300 degrees F and set racks on upper and lower third. Line two large baking sheets
with parchment and set aside. In large bowl, cream butter, sugar, almond
extract, cardamom, and salt. Add flour and cornstarch, and beat until dough
forms. Gather into a ball, press into a disk, and wrap in plastic wrap.
Refrigerate 1 hour and up to 2 days. Gently roll dough onto floured surface to
¼-inch thickness. Cut out stars and transfer to baking sheets. Gather and
reroll dough. Bake 30 minutes, or until pale golden brown. Transfer to wire
rack. When cool, melt chocolate in microwave. Dip half of each cookie into
melted chocolate, then return to parchment paper and sprinkle with sea salt. Makes
about 2 dozen.
ʼRound the Net
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Poet
Magazine Editor Robin Barratt on receiving an acknowledgment from Buckingham
Palace, specifically on behalf of the King, for receipt of The Queen
anthology
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| William Blake (1757-1827) |
Co-translators Chen
Du and Xisheng Chen on publication
of the Yan An poem, “Fog and Yellow Leaves,” in The
Fourth River
Poet Cindy
Hochman on the latest issue of First Literary Review-East, and on having three alliterative prose poems selected
for Poetry Pacific
Poet, essayist, and translator J. Chester Johnson on his mention in this
NPR article on the Elaine and Tulsa race massacres
Yorktown Poet Laureate John McMullen for best songs by Frank Sinatra
The New York Public Library which lets you purchase
a book plate inscription as a gift for only $35
Poets and Writers for this video
of the late poet Stephen Dunn, one of my beloved teachers
Poet and watercolorist
Linda Simone on her poem, "South Texas 'Scapes," and work by others such as
poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin, published
in Texas
Poetry Assignment
Playwright, artist,
and performer Fran Sisco on the Harrison Players performance last
month of her play, “It’s an Italian Thing! No, It’s a Black Thing”
Poet,
artist, and filmmaker Bob Zaslow on
his rap version of Twelfth Night
Peace and wonder
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Until next time,
