HART Rock Community Poem #2 - May 2011

Here it is! Community Poem #2. Thank you everyone who provided a line. If I don't see you before next month, have a great one.

Community Poem #2

HART Rock Poetry and Open Mic – May 2011

Ruminate, marinate, percolate poems!

To do this, one must look from the inside out

…And from the future to your past.

Like a ray of setting sun sweeping east to west

A midwife live here

And in the reflection of her mirror

Suns tore back storm’s drapes

Snapping turtle hides under the cattails

Kinda dark down here – feels like a jail

At least we’re not constricted by dactylic hexameter

So we let words flow like sweet nectar from our fingers

And catch their meanings from the breezes

Gently whispering soft encouragement

Will that is if he could speak

He would never know what to say

So, read his mind. You’ll be right.

Right, that is, if you’re certain to be wrong

If you are certain, you must be wrong, right?

Perhaps that rule is right until I hold on to it with all my might

Holding on is sometimes all we can do

As the storms blow through

We listen to the magic of rebirth

And we wonder about all the things that are to come

But let it go to breathe, breathe this

Breath of peace, oxygen of hope

We are all that and more to one another

Freedom is irresistible, but I do not touch

I refrain from his glorious splendor.

After Poetry with Women Writing for a Change

What a wonderful evening of poetry last night! Our Women's Words program featured writers from "Women Writing for (a) Change" - http://www.womenwritingbloomington.com/ - followed by the many who presented in the open-mic made for a great time. The room was filled with people from Bloomington to Brown County. There were younger poets and the elder poets, and the response was gratifying! So many people told me how much they appreciated the work Peggy and I do in organizing the program. I am grateful to share this with Peggy. Together HART Rock Poetry Series and Open-mic gets better and better!

On June 24^th we will host the Free Range Poets for our final program for the 2010-2011 poetry season. Peggy and I will return September 23^rd to begin the 2011-2012 poetry year!

Because we are taking July and August off does not mean no poetry at Rachael's on the fourth Friday in July and August. Virginia Thomas, one of our younger regular poets, will host poetry. So you can expect to receive announcements and view postings on our blog at http://www.hartrockpoetry.blogspot.com

If you have any poetry announcements, send them our way and if we are not on vacation, the information will be posted to the blog calendar.

I will return later with a posting of Community Poem #2.

Blessings of good words!

Upcoming Poetry - Tonight and June 3rd

Tonight - Katmandu: Home is Where the Art is  - 5:00pm Tibetan Cultural Center for information : www.bloomingtonkatmandu.com

Friday June 3rd - Fountain Square Poets   

Along the Gallery Walk 

Presented by  The Writers Guild and By Hand Gallery 

  6:00 to 7:30 p.m.  101 West Kirkwood in the atrium of Fountain Square Mall

Featured Poets are Tony Brewer, Anne Haines, Jenny Kander,  Joseph Kerschbaum,    

                                Shana Ritter

With Special Guest  Luis Cordova, classical guitarist

And stop at By Hand Gallery to see:  "Water Meditations" -

                                                                  Oil Paintings by Dawn Adams   

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And YES! do visit the Bellevue Gallery on 9th Street between College and Walnut (inside the lobby of the Bloomington Playwrites Project and look for one of my line pictures.

I will be back later with a brief note about last nights "Women's Words" program and the new Community poem.

Blessings of loving words!

HART Rock's Poetry Series - Women's Words with reading with Stanfield, Aurich, Long, Breeden and Hutchison - Rachael's Cafe

HART ROCK Poetry Series and Open Mic will presents

"Women's Words"
poetry readings with
Veda Stanfield, Mitch Aurich, Nancy Long,
Glenda Breeden, and Deborah Hutchison

Friday, May 27th at 7:00pm

Community open-mic following.

Presented in cooperation with the Creative Aging Initiative and Bloomington's Commission on Aging, We want to showcase the talents and skills of both established and first-time older artist and performers; cultivate inter-generational understanding through dialogue, sharing, traditions and storytelling; enhance awareness abut the value of creative engagement to adult health and well being. Women Writing for(a)Change is part of a national network of affiliate writing schools who share a mission to provide opportunities for individuals to craft more conscious lives through the art of writing and the practices of community.


The event is FREE and OPEN to the Public - Come Eat Drink, Listen, Read, Enjoy!

The series is produced and hosted by Patricia C. Coleman and Peggy Squires from Rachael's Cafe, 300 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN.

Filiz Cicek's BLOOMINGTON KATMANDU

The Ryder May Issue 2011 online version. Bloomington Katmandu: Home is Where the Art Is

by Filiz Cicek

“Home is where my foot is.” Says a half drunken actor in a beer and life induced lucid sate of mind. He left his birthplace Mersin at the age of six. Berlin in Germany is not home, but a street named Kreuzeburg is. Birol Uner visits daily its one and only Tapas bar, chattering with his fellow actors and musicians, carrying on with life in between film shootings. When I met him for the interview, he had just played a lovesick drunk German man with Turkish origins. His role in Gegen Die Wand/Head-On/Against The Wall, in which the protagonist tries to kill himself in the first scene, is semi-autobiographical. The film won a golden bear for Germany in 2006. Uner plays gypsies, drug dealers, police officers, and an uber German. In his half drunkenness he quotes Nedim's Ottoman poetry randomly. His friends carry him to his feet to take him to his nearby apartment; a house covered in big shiny metal letters conjugating life in Turkish  past tense perfect: -mis, -mis, -mus. The street, bar and the house are seem to have merged into same space in his drunken lucid state of mind. He walks home alone.  To read the article, pick up a RYDER. or For more information please visit: www.bloomingtonkatmandu.com

Upcoming Poetry and Literary Events

Hello.

Upcoming Poetry and Literary Events

Sunday, May 8 - Art is Ageless, 2:00–3:30 p.m. in the IU Art Museum. The City of Bloomington Commission on Aging and the Center on Aging and Community invite you to participate in the Creative Aging Festival honoring our elders and their creative contributions to our community. At the IU Art Museum, enjoy a gallery tour with two of the museum’s leading elder docents. Then stay for a reading of works by Bell Trace Senior Living Center writers who have been working with Tonia Matthew of the Writers Guild. The Festival’s purpose is to promote intergenerational understanding and to highlight the value of creative engagement for adult health and well-being. This event is presented by the Writers Guild and Bell Trace.

In the art of aging, creativity matters! Come be inspired.

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~ Friday, May 13 - Lemonstone - a reading series by the Writers Guild Presents: Tony Ardizzone, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Sweet Claire Gourmet Bakery, 309 East Third Street.

Tony Ardizzone is an award winning novelist and short story writer. He is the author of seven books of fiction, including In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu and The Whale Chaser. He is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and many other honors. He will read from his latest novel, The Whale Chaser. A discussion with the author will follow the reading. There will be a few copies of his book for sale, and available for signing by the author.

~ Monday, May 16 - Food for Thought: A Heart-Healthy Menu of Songs and Poems about Food presented by Voces Novae and Lee Chapman, Patricia C. Coleman, Jenny Janker, Tonia Matthew, Ratsy Rahn, Shana Ritter of the Writers Guild 7:30 to 8:30 P.M. in City Hall. This event is part of the Food for Thought traveling exhibit. The Center on Aging and Community, and the Bloomington Food Policy Council are hosting the exhibit and a lineup of events connected to it.

Click Here for complete Food for Thought Calendar - http://localfoodbloomington.blogspot.com/2011/05/food-for-thought-traveling-exhibit-in.html

~May 27^th, The Hart Rock Poetry Series presents a poetry reading, "Women's Words--Creative Aging" on Friday, May 27, at 7 pm. Readers will be Veda Stanfield, Mitch Aurich, Nancy Long, Glenda Breeden, and Deborah Hutchison, members of Women Writing for (a) Change, an affilate of a national network for writers. This reading is part of the Bloomington Commission on Aging's Creative Aging Initiative, taking place this month all over the community. The formal reading will be followed by an open mic in which participants have up to three minutes to share a poem, song or story. The event takes place at Rachael's Cafe, 300 East Third Street, and admission is free. http://www.hartrock.net/poetryrachaels.htm.

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~ June 3 - Fountain Square Poets, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Fountain Square Mall On Gallery Walk Night, stop by the Fountain Square Mall to hear poets in the square. The poets are: Tony Brewer, Anne Haines, Jenny Kander, Shana Ritter, Joseph Kerschbaum. Chapbooks will be available for sale. This event is presented by the Writers Guild and By Hand Gallery.

The 71st Indiana University Writers' Conference on June 5-10 The Indiana University Writers' Conference, now in its 71st year, will welcome an award-winning lineup of authors to the Bloomington campus of Indiana University from June 5-10 for a week long festival of readings, classes and workshops. Classes include "Writing the Unthinkable" with Lynda Barry; "The Art of the Blog" with Gary Ferguson; "The Art of Screenplay" with Jill Godmilow; and "Poetry" with Julia Story. The Writers' Conference will also offer fiction workshops led by best-selling author of Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon, and IU Professor Tony Ardizzone, as well as a poetry workshop with award-winning poet Patrick Rosal. For an application and more information visit: http://www.iuwc.indiana.edu. Each year visiting instructors have participated in readings, free and open to the public. When I get the schedule, I will post it here.

~June 24^th, Hart Rock Poetry Series and Open-mic presents our final poetry reading of the 2010 -2011 year at the usual time of 7 pm. Our 2011-2012 season begins September 23^rd . More details to come. Check website at http://www.hartrock.net/poetryrachaels.htm and blog at http://www.hartrockpoetry.blogspot.com. Sign up and you will be notified when new updates are posted.

Thank you Bloomington Writers Guild and others for sending information for this calendar.

Please visit HART Rock’s web-home http://www.hartrock.net/poetryrachael.htm for links to the Bloomington Writers Guild and for a variety of resources for writers, artist and storytellers, click here.

May your words come easily and with joy through your heart.