Thursday, April 18, 2013

More Poetry Month Events in Bloomington, Indiana



 

Upcoming Events


Lemonstone Reading Series

Presented by the Writers Guild
 Featuring poets

Joseph Kerschbaum & Eric Rensberger

 Friday, April 19 7:00 to 8:30 pm Sweet Claire Gourmet Bakery 309 East Third Street
Joseph Kerschbaum has published six books of poetry and two spoken word albums. His most recent collection, "Ken: a man for all seasons," was published by Plan B Press in April, 2012. He has published poems widely in numerous print and online journals. Joseph has received the Greer Foundation Fellowship for Creative Writing from the Bloomington Area Arts Council and an Individual Artistic Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is 1/4 of the performance poetry troupe, the Reservoir Dogwoods. You can learn more about Joseph and his artistic exploits at www.ThirstyOcean.com.
Eric Rensberger, originally from northern Indiana , has lived in the Bloomington area since 1979. He has been active on the local poetry scene and published several chapbooks and broadsides. His collected poetry can be found on the website http://www.ericrensbergerpoetry.net/ . Eric is a member of the Writers Guild at Bloomington.
FREE and open to the public!
 
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Third Sunday Workshops

Presented by the Writers Guild
 Featuring poets

Next Workshops:  Sunday, April 21

Registration now open for the April 21 Writers Guild Workshops.
For more information, including how to register, select “Workshops” under the
Members Only tab.  Participation is limited to Writers Guild members only.
Creative Writing Workshop       
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
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This is a generative writing session during which you’ll be given several writing prompts. All styles and genres welcomed.
Writing may be shared at the end of the workshop. (min 3; max 15)
Cost: $3
Feedback Workshop       
2:45 pm – 4:45 pm
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This workshop gives you the chance to get feedback on a piece you’ve been working on or have completed. We’re excited to be offering these feedback workshops to Guild members—they won’t be the standard type of critique workshop. Rather, we’ll be using the WOW (Working on Our Work) workshop style that is led by a facilitator but peer-based,  in which we all learn from one another. The emphasis is not focused on “critique” but rather "feedback". The writer is in total control on what feedback s/he receives. Participants respond to the writers questions so that the writer can see the impact of what s/he wrote. Participants do not try to “fix” another person’s art/writing. More information about the process will be sent to you when you register. All styles/genres welcomed. (min 3; max 6)
Cost: $6.00

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Upstart Poets
Upstart Poets invites you to its first reading of 2013! Join us for this special devotion to open-mics everywhere. Free OPEN event in the cozy People's Bar!
(People's Bar is a co-op bar that highly encourages participants to  donate refreshments.  You may bring anything from ice to mixers -  which are the most in need!  All beverages are accepted, non-alcoholic and alcoholic.  Please donate, so that People's Bar can continue to  offer their great service.)

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Upstart Poets Series
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Facilitated by J. Jacob Barker

Hosted by People's Bar
908 East 14th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408

Featured Guests - YOU!

6:30PM doors 7:00PM first round of open-mic 7:50PM ten minute break 8:00PM second round of open-mic
9:00PM closing

This is a free OPEN event.
Welcome to friends and family.
Celebrating Poetry Month and open-mics everywhere!
Bring your favorite literature.
All subjects and genres are welcome!

For more information please contact upstartpoets@epadonic.com.

*We will go around the room (remember back in elementary school when  we got in a circle and shared something about ourselves? well it is  kinda like that) and individuals who have brought something may share  one piece, or 3 minutes of an excerpt. For this occasion we will go around the room again and again until 7:50 pm, and then again and again until 9:00pm--or whenever we run out of literature to share!

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Attached is a map and a photo of the bar. Find the event (and us!) on  Facebook, http://on.fb.me/13kDwtX. Best wishes to you and yours! Thank  you.

Sincerely Yours,

(Joel)

J. Jacob Barker
Upstart Poets Series Coordinator
facebook.com/UpstartPoetsSeries epadonic.com/upstartpoets.html upstartpoets@epadonic.com

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A Conversation with Art:
Writing Ekphrastic Poems

This workshop is cosponsored by
the
Monroe County Public Library
and the Writers Guild.
April 28, 2013
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Monroe County Public Library
Program Room 2B, second floor
Have you ever tried writing a poem about a painting or sculpture you love? How about composing one about a piece of abstract art where you can invent the story or jump off from an evocative title? Remember during childhood when you looked at a painting and imagined a whole new world? “A picture is a painting without words,” Horace once said. Please join us in exploring several poems by well-known poets based upon art and in creating one of your own. No experience necessary.
The workshop will be led by Doris Lynch and Nancy Long.
Please register via the Events page at the Monroe County Pubic Library website, or in person at the reference desk, or by calling 349-3228.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Poet Jenny Kander by Bloomington Writers Guild

Dear All,

You are cordially invited to a reading and tribute by the Bloomington Writers Guild celebrating Poet Jenny Kander on Sunday, April 14 from 2 to 3 PM followed by refreshments, drinks and open mic. 10 local poets including myself will read in 5 minute increments.  The celebration will take place in Monroe County History Center, 202 E 6th Street

Jenny has worked for many years to raise the profile of poetry in Bloomington.  Many of you know that she is responsible for getting poetry on WFHB and WFIU, the anthology, A Linen Weave of Bloomington Poetry and more. 
I hope you will be able to participate in this celebration!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

July and August Poetry at Rachael's Cafe

POETRY AT RACHAEL'S JULY AND AUGUST

Hosted by Joel Barker and Virginia Thompson

Saturday , July 30th, 7pm at Rachel's Cafe. 'Respond to your time! - Community Open –mic.

Friday, August 26th, 'Dog Days of Summer', 7pm at Rachel's Café with featured readers, followed by a community open mic.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Upcoming Poetry, July - September, Bloomington, Indiana -

Hello All,

It has finally cooled a little here in Bloomington! Although Peggy and I are off for the months of July and August, returning on the 4th Friday in September with possibly "Literary Lotus" (because Lotus Festival will be happening then).

Until HART Rock's return, here are a few literary announcements.

*The Writers Guild of Bloomington website has gone live! Check it out at. http://writersguildbloomington.com/

*New resources in the HART Rock Writers, Artist and Storytellers Resource at
http://www.hartrock.net/writersartistsresource.htm


* July 19, 2011
SELECTED READINGS FROM:
BRONISLAVA VOLKOVÁ
& CLARICE CLOUTIER:
UP THE DEVIL’S BACK: A BILINGUAL
ANTHOLOGY OF 20th CENTURY CZECH POETRY

Professor Bronislava Volková will read from her and Clarice
Cloutier’s 2008 Slavica Publishers anthology of translations. With
brief biographical commentaries and original Czech versions.
Tuesday, July 19, 6:30 PM, BH 005
SWSEEL

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* July 29, 2011

Lee Chapman invites poets to join him at Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center in the Treasurer’s Gallery on Friday, July 29 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. to participate in an open reading. Since Lee’s art exhibit Digital Cathedrals is in this gallery, poems relating to visual art would be particularly appropriate. Each poet’s allotted time will be determined by how many of poets come, so please let him know if you intend to read. Email him at Lee_J_Chapman@comcast.com.
INFORMAL POETRY READING
Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center
Treasurer's Gallery
Friday, July 29
5:30pm - 6:30pm (but come early to look at the art)

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* September 3rd, 2011

Spoken Word Stage
Saturday, September 3 at 11:00am
Location:
Fourth Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts


* September 23, 2011
Literary Lotus, 7:00pm - Rachael's Cafe

* November 5th, 2011
5 Women Poets Annual Reading , Rachael's Cafe




Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Hello Everyone,

May this note find you well. The guild's website is now on line! Thanks to everyone who worked to make this so. Thank you Writers!
Blessings of words,
Patricia

The Writers Guild of Bloomington, Indiana's website is now online.

Visit our new website at: www.writersguildbloomington.com

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

HART Rock Poetry and Open-mic Community Poem #3, June 24, 2011

Dear Reader,

Thank you each for your interest. Following is Community Poem #3 composed of lines offered by some of the guest at last Friday's Reading featuring the Free-Range Poets. It was another fine evening of words from a few of the many Bloomington writers crafting poems. For Peggy and I, it was the final program for our 2010 - 2011 HART Rock Poetry and Open-mic year.

We will return with the 2011 - 2012 HART Rock Poetry season on September 23rd. We look forward to sharing Poets with you and to hearing your works during the open-mic. We hope some of the poets participating in this years IU Writers Conference and Writing program will share some of their works with us in open-mic.

There may be a summer poetry offering in July and August, if so, we will let you know.


Two Things - some of you know that I have been revising my Beautiful Biscuits Book for a very long time and it is slowly coming together. I would love to have a few more biscuit poems and memories about home made biscuits from scratch. So, if you want to have something considered, send it to me before the end of July.

Green Dove Images and Words Galleries of Peace welcomes your submissions for consideration to the Peace Poets and Peace Arts galleries - http://www.greendove.net/imagesandwords.htm.

Where ever you are, blessings of words.

Patricia



Community Poem #3

June 24, 2011

What circumscribes my efforts reach and range

in the leafing out of the solstice anything, everything is possible

When we choose to awake within this varied dream

We will once again venture into the unknown territory

Wishing to recapture the fleeting wonder

Hoping it would refuel – restart - a zest for life!

A gift free for asking

not what your country can do

can your country do?

A gavotte? A tango? A slow boat to Brooklyn?

A Muse, A Dance, a frolic in the woodlands.

No more thoughts of war, only love on my mind

For the trees, for the flowers, for the children, for you

The one can be the two can be the three can be the few

The few are favored by the many

and we give those stars names, forgetting they may already have one

more fitting than human sounds may tell. O’ glittering love

that has been sought here, there, and everywhere