Marilyn Applies LitBalm
Young French Painting
The Fabricator Sparkles at Brooklyn Film Festival
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| Loren "Dink" Stalter |
Cecily Spitzer at Upstream
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| "Sunset Hill" by Cecily Spitzer |
Creative Opportunities
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| Kevin Pilkington |
Line-by-Line, a Poetry Workshop with Kevin
Pilkington
Madville Dolly Parton Poetry
Anthology, by June 30
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| Suzanne Cleary |
Poetry Anthology for the Ukraine, send to jbradley5@niu.edu by September 30
“The Power of Not Knowing: The Role of Surprise in Creating a Poem,” workshop with Suzanne Cleary, June 17, 9-11am, register here
Pure Slush and Truth Serum Press, prose, poetry, fiction on marriage, by July 31
Rhino, fiction, nonfiction,
poetry by June 30
Slaping Hol Chapbook Contest, by June 22
Women in Their 80s,
octogenarian poetry and prose anthology; detaylor@cabrillo.edu, by September
30
New and Recent
Releases
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Selected Poems (Chax Press)
Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD, and Jacqueline
Gojard, translators, Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and “Young French Painting” by André Salmon (Za Mir Press)
Hilary Sideris, Liberty Laundry (Dos Madres
Press)
Work! Lifespan Volume #5 (Pure Slush)
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
June Readings and
Events – ET
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| Jenny Xie |
June 2 and June 9, 6pm, Scarsdale Library Writing Critique Group participants read poetry, fiction, and prose
June 5, 1:30pm, Gowanus
Dredgers Canoe Club; Myra Malkin,
Susana H. Case, Mervyn Taylor, Margo Taft Stever (LIVE)
June 5, 4pm, Katonah
Library, Jennie Xie, $15
June 6, 7pm, Oradell Library, Monroe reading: John J. Trause, Joel Allegretti, Tina Kelley, Anna Limontas-Salisbury, Cindy Fouhy, Susana H. Case, Margo Taft Stever (LIVE)
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| Mark S. Burrows |
June 12, 2pm, Brooklyn Film Festival, debut of Frank Vitale’s The Fabricator
June 19-26, Mercy by the Sea Retreat Center, “Poetry as Prayer” with Mark S. Burrows; see pricing
June 24, 7pm, Bureau of General Services - Queer Division, Monroe reading: Bruce E.Whitacre, Patrica Carragon,
Alexander Cavaluzzo, Elaine Sexton, Robert Anthony Gibbons, Matthew Hittinger,
Lynn McGee, Joel Allegretti (LIVE)
June 25, 5pm, Lit
Balm, Suzanne Cleary, Ann
Lauinger, Margo Taft Stever, Mervyn Taylor, via Zoom
Monthly Readings
– ET
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
Maple-Marinade Salmon
This delicious recipe comes to us via the Yankee Chef:
4 (6 oz) boneless salmon fillets
nonstick cooking spray
1/2 cup cup apple juice
1/2 cup chili sauce
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon Dijon-style mustard
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon each salt and black pepper
Preheat oven to 350°F. Place parchment paper in bottom of 8-inch square
baking pan and liberally coat with nonstick cooking spray. Put fillets in pan
without overlapping; set aside. In a bowl, whisk together apple juice, chili
sauce, maple syrup, brown sugar, mustard, lemon juice, and seasonings. Pour
over fish and bake for about 20 minutes, or until fish flakes when pierced with
a fork. Remove from oven; serve hot with baked beans if desired.
ʼRound the Net
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| Jamaica Baldwin |
Astrophotographer Rick Bria for an amazing photo of last month’s lunar eclipse, and
for the cover photo on Laurel Peterson’s Daughter
of the Sky (Futurecycle Press)
Poet Suzanne
Cleary on being invited to give a workshop at the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival (UK)
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| May 2022 Lunar Eclipse by Rick Bria |
Site
Art Historian Beth S. Gersh-Nesic published a review of the exhibit
The Hare with Amber Eyes at The Jewish Museum in Bonjour Paris
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| John McMullen |
The New York Public Library for encouraging us to read banned books
Poet translator Anthony Seidman on appearing on the UCLA
panel, “Traducir, editar y publicar poesía
Latinomamericana” last month
Music archivist, producer, and cellist Jay Shulman on another rave review of his CD Laura Newell: The Philharmonia
Recordings (Artek Records)
What’s Nice
More from Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007):
I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He
was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest
life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his
principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it
when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in
the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like
honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to
exclaim, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." SO I do the same
now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you
are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't
nice, I don't know what is."Until September,
