Local Poetry Events

 

 

Friday - June 26 / 7:30pm

MUSIC, ART, AND POETRY @ THE NEON GALLERY 1921 Truman Road

Thomas Cobian’s art, River Cow Orchestra’s music, and local poets reading.

Friday - July 10 - 8:00 pm

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Poet Laureate of Kansas - Landed is her new collection of poetry, and The Sky Begins at Your Feet, the title of her forthcoming memoir. Her books include My Tree Called Life: Writing and Living Through Serious Illness and Lot’s Wife.

Anastacia (Stacey) Tolbert is a writer, playwright, and fifth grade teacher at Seattle Girls School, in Seattle, Washington.  Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have been published nationally, and she is writer, co-director, and co-producer of GOTBREAST (2007), a documentary on women’s views about breast and body image.

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In Case You Didn't Know Department

"I quote Irish poets all the time because they're the best poets."

- Vice President Joe Biden

English-Only Group Can't Spell the Word 'Conference' -- Politics Daily

This item caught my attention today and I had a good laugh. I hope this makes Morning Joe on MSNBC. Would be a great story for Willie Geist who has the New You Can't Use segment that is generally humorous material. Click the link below to see a photo of the banner.

Filed Under:Republicans, Barack Obama, Gaffes, Humor, Immigration

Should English be the official language of the United States? That assertion was made over the weekend at a conference hosted by talk-show personality and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. Oddly, as the featured speakers delivered their remarks ridiculing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her supposed lack of English proficiency while at Princeton University, and warning that the Obama administration is "going to gradually institute institutional bilingualism in the country," they did so beneath a large banner that contained a doozy of a typo

English-Only Group Can't Spell the Word 'Conference' -- Politics Daily

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Nice Bright Colors

Kodak created Kodachrome in 1935 and by the mid-1970's it was so culturally ingrained into society no one gave it a second thought when Paul Simon  immortalized the film in song.   These digital times have reduced the film, known for its vivid colors to a business loser. So much so that Kodak announced today that it will stop making it.

Like the typewriter (you remember that don't you?) the 35 mm film will soon be lost from the vocabulary of a generation who know nothing but digital photography.  Momma won't even have have a chance to take your Kodachrome away.

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Thirty-five / for Cathy

Thirty-five


Two numbers open
to possibilities-
the three and five
each with open cupped hand

Coral and Jade
are its traditional and modern
representations

It's a long time for people
to be together these days
but not to long for love
its symmetry
which defies math
or any defining number
rebuking any summation
or equal sign

Thirty-five is not a destination
but a mile marker
a momentary pause
on an odometer
to be be eclipsed

It is green with passion
green with hope
and ivory tough
to carry on
for the years
to come

Journal Bits

• June 7 - "Books on the shelf lean / helter-skelter / left asunder / by random reading"
• June 7 - "Parking is an exercise / of temporary occupation / of territory"
• June 8 - "The day they closed / the car plant / eyes burned of acid bewilderment"
• June 9 - poets to add to my reading list for June: Farrah Field, Joe Wilkins, Adam Clay, Karen Rigby, Emma Bolden
• June 10 - "The miles between us are narrow ruled / I can count the times we've tripped  / over one syllable words
• June 12 - " holding on is an art / so too is letting go"

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Up Sores

My wine of choice is Chardonnay.  Yesterday, I had a glass of "Hob Nob" while eating out. I tried it based upon the two choices available to me. Big mistake. I imagine it's what wood alcohol would taste like.

On a positive note, I saw the movie UP which was charming and very well suited for 3-D which is how we saw it.  Don't let the animation fool you. It's a great movie for adults, especially couples.

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