HART ROCK Poetry Series and Open Mic will present poetry readings and a community open-mic the fourth Friday of each month at 7:00pm September through June unless otherwise announced. 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.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
July and August Poetry at Rachael's Cafe
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 -
*New resources in the HART Rock Writers, Artist and Storytellers Resource at
http://www.hartrock.net/writersartistsresource.htm
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.
Saturday, September 3 at 11:00am
Location: Fourth Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts
Literary Lotus, 7:00pm - Rachael's Cafe
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
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
Saturday, June 18, 2011
HART Rock Poetry Series and Open-mic hosts Free-Range Poets, June 24, 2011
Peggy and I are looking forward to our last poetry program of the 2010 - 2011 year this Friday, June 24th at 7:00 pm!
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Friday, June 24th, HART ROCK POETRY SERIES AND OPEN-MIC at RACHAEL'S CAFÉ hosts “FREE-RANGE POETS” Lee James Chapman, Jack King, Judy Lafferty Beerman, Jerry Smith, Suzanne Sturgeon, Bob Taylor, Ian Woollen followed by a Community Open-Mic.
The Free-Range Poets are the product of a 2001 idea of Bob’s. Jerry and Ian were friends with whom Bob knew he shared an interest in the craft of poetry. He met Jack through a writing workshop at the John Waldron Art Center in Bloomington. Wouldn’t it be grand, Bob thought, if we could get together and share what we’ve been writing. The invitations were issued, all accepted, and the group was born. It has been meeting ever since. has been meeting ever since. The format has remained the same. A member reads a recent work, the others mull it over, and then there is time for written and oral critiques. So the process goes—around the table until all have had their turn. From the beginning coffee, tea, and cookies have been a necessary part of the ritual. Meetings happen every two weeks or so. Until 2006 we took summers off but now meet year-round.
Since the group’s founding, three others have joined the circle. Judy, Lee, and Suzanne were met during poetry classes at the Waldron. There have been some leaves of absence from our circle—getting married, finishing and publishing a novel, spending winters in Florida, occasional unavoidable obligations of earning a living, assorted grand tours, etc.—but none have been permanent. We’re grateful for that.
Lee James Chapman wrote his first, terrible, poems at age 15 but spent most of his life energy helping physicists smash atoms at Fermilab. Between quarks he wrote songs and poems and set poems of Emily Dickinson to music. While a member of the Naperville Writer’s Group in Illinois he had several poems published. He set a collection of Bloomington poets’ poems, including some of his own, for voice and piano, and produced a performance of them in Bloomington. He has been a member of the Free-Range Poets since 2005.
Jack King is a New Yorker by birth—a Hoosier by choice. He moved to Bloomington with his wife Sylvia and their three children in 1974 to take a position with the now defunct Center for University Ministry at Indiana University. While in town he has practiced—and retired from—at least three distinct careers. Through all three he wrote—lectures, a thesis or two, sermons, résumés, funding proposals, newsletters, etc. Now he writes poetry as a means of self expression, exploration, and spiritual discipline. The third retirement seems to be final.
Judy Lafferty Beerman, A native of Kansas, Judy moved to the Bloomington area in the late 1980’s. A retired Interior Designer for Residential Programs and Services, Indiana University, her experiences as a wife and mother and her appreciation of nature and the out-of-doors are strong influences on her poetry. Judy has been a member of the Free Range Poetry Group since 2002.
Jerry Smith and wife Betty, having lived in Bloomington for forty years, now call it home. Jerry “wakes to sleep and takes his waking slow.” He’s too old to try a new art form and too young to stop writing. He has 100 favorite poets and 1000 favorite poems. Don’t ask for the list. It’s not compiled and constantly changes. He tries to read 50 poems for each one written but seldom succeeds. Betty is his most helpful critic and daughter Linda and son Paul, his most prized accomplishments (with Betty). He has been writing poetry seriously, though not without humor, since 1996. His poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies.
Suzanne Sturgeon lives on a farm in Owen County with her husband, Michael Tracy, and three cats, Lancelot, Murphy, and Bear. Michael and the cats are instrumental in the poetry writing process—from inspiration to revisions. She began writing poetry by taking classes at the John Waldron Art Center, where she met members of the Free-Range Poets. An attorney in private practice in Bloomington, Indiana, her Monday-through-Friday writing consists of motions, wills, and trusts.
Bob Taylor, In the 70’s, I wanted to record memories from childhood on a small Iowa farm and thought that poetry could be a way to proceed. Upon taking them to a knowledgeable poet he noted that there was a child in there but probably they were not poems. Haiku and tanka style offered some improvement, along with graduate courses and workshops. As a student and professor of psychology, I find the power of story with dense structure, image, and metaphor useful and healthy for me. Honing skills with this writing group is most gratifying.
Ian Woollen, walks his dog in Bryan Park almost every day. Poems have surfaced in Zone 3, Porcupine, and Red Dancefloor. His short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Onthebus, and The Mid-American Review, from which he received a Sherwood Anderson Prize. His novel, Stakeout on Millennium Drive, won the 2006 'Best Books of Indiana' Fiction Award. Come to share poems, songs and stories of your favorite poets and to listen. Open-mic readers have up to three minutes to share their own or another’s works.
******************************************* Rachael's Café is located at 300 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN (812) 330-1882 Send questions to poetry@hartrock.net or bloomingtonpoetry@gmail.com.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Food and drinks are available for purchase.
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HART ROCK, http://www.hartrock.net , a member of the Indiana Holistic Health Network, http://www.indianaholistichealth.net
Hosted and produced by Patricia C. Coleman and Peggy Squires.
Readings for the 2010-2011 season are every fourth Friday, September through June.
2011-2012 Poetry Season
Join us on September 23rd, 2011 for the Opening Program of our 2011-2012 season!
http://www.hartrock.net/poetryrachaels.htm
ALSO: to connect with the BLOOMINGTON WRITERS GUILD contact Patsy Rahn at prahn@worldnet.att.net
WRITERS, ARTIST AND STORYTELLERS RESOURCES – http://www.hartrock.net/writersartistresource.htm
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