Updates: Ross, Ling Book Release, Women Exposed Calendar, IU Writers Conference

It is morning, even if it looks more like dusk here in Bloomington, Indiana where the celebration of Earth Day continues! Here are some updates to the calendar.

Blessings of good words to you.

Patricia

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- Not poetry, but some you may but some of you may be interested. Saturday, April 23 - All City Swap Exchange facilitated by Transitiontown Bloomington at the Showers Building (City Hall) beside the Bloomington Farmers Market. Bring stuff, take stuff.

-Tonight, Saturday, April 23, poets Ross Gay an Micah Ling Book Launch

-Women Exposed, April 29^th – May 1^st, Art, music, performance and poetry

-IU’s 71^st Writers Conference

Book launch party for local poets Ross Gay and Micah Ling! Presented by Boxcar Books:

Saturday, April 23rd at 7pm
The Bishop Bar, 123 South Walnut St.
Free, 18+


About the event:
Bloomington's own Ross Gay and Micah Ling have each had their second books of poetry published and they'd like you to help them celebrate their achievement! Each author will read from their book and be available for a casual signing and chat afterward. Books will be for sale at the event.

Ross Gay‘s books of poems include Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, MARGIE, and Ploughshares among other magazines. Ross teaches in Indiana University‘s M.F.A. program, is on the board of the Bloomington Community Orchard, and is a former Mother Hubbard‘s Cupboard garden intern.
"These poems speak out of a global consciousness as well as an individual wisdom that is bright with pity, terror, and rage, and which asks the reader to realize that she is not alone— that the grief he carries is not just his own. Gay is a poet of conscience, who echoes Tomas Tran-stromer‘s 'We do not surrender. But want peace.‘" –Jean Valentine

Micah Ling completed her BA at DePauw University as an English major. She earned her MA in 20th Century American Literature and her... MFA in poetry at Indiana University. Ling is currently teaching at Franklin College and in the MFA program at Butler University. She taught for the 2010 Indiana University Writer‘s Conference in Bloomington, Indiana. Ling‘s first full- length collection, Three Islands, was published in September, 2009 by Sunnyoutside Press. The collection deals with three figures: Amelia Earhart, Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), and Fletcher Christian. Ling‘s second collection, Sweetgrass, (Sunnyoutside, 2010), is almost entirely prose poems about south-central Montana. She was one of three finalists for the 2010 Indiana Authors Award.

About Boxcar Books :
Boxcar Books and Community Center, Inc. is a volunteer powered, non-profit organization that exists to provide new and used books, zines, magazines, and comics on topics of social justice, independent media, and fiction for the community; send literature of all types free of charge to prisoners in the midwest; and to provide a meeting space for community and literary groups.

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205952609433427
For more info, please visit http://www.boxcarbooks.org/

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Boxcar Books and Community Center
The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
408 East Sixth Street
Bloomington Indiana 47408
812.339.8710
http://www.boxcarbooks.org/
http://pagestoprisoners.org/

Contact:
Tara Johnson tara@boxcarbooks.org, 219-973-7425
Abbey Friedman abbey@boxcarbooks.org, 812-327-7247

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Women Exposed which is an annual fund raiser for Middleway House.

The website is http://bloomingtonwomenexposed.org/ If you click on the photos the information comes up.

This year performance pieces are being included: poets Antonia Matthew, Shana Ritter and Patricia Coleman will be reading. The schedule is both attached and set out below:

Friday Night: The Lodge

7:30-7:50 Kati Gleiser music

8:00-8:20 Ritmos Latinos Indiana dance

8:30-8:50 Bobbie Jane Lancaster music

9:30-9:50 Dena El Saffar & Friends

Friday Night Street:

7:00-7:20 Belly Belly dance

9:00-9:20 IU Step Dance

10:00-10:20 Kali Ma dance/movement

10: 25-….Dark Side Tribal dance

Saturday Afternoon Soiree:

3:00-3:20 Sarah Flint music

3:30-3:50 Janas Hoyt music/spoken word

4:30-4:40 Shana Ritter poetry

4:45-4:55 Nicole Kousaleos poetry/prose

5:00-5:20 Tyler Ferguson music

5:30-5:55 Lazy Susan: Merrie Sloan & Kate Long music

Saturday Evening Salon:

7:00-7:10 Antonia Matthews poetry

7:30-7:55 The Grateful Divas music

8:00-8:20 Yuriria Rodriguez music

8:30-8:50 Bette Lucas-Flamenco dance

*Sunday May Day on Courthouse Lawn:

noon-12:30 Maypole Ribbon/Circle Dance

12:50-1:15 Dark Side Tribal dance

2:00-2:25 Hudsucker Posse Hoop Jam ~movement/hula hoop jam

Sunday Intergenerational The Lodge:

4:00-4:25 Bobbie Jane Lancaster Children's Music music

4:35-4:45 Gwenette Gaddis poetry/prose

4:50-5:10 Raging Grannies

5:15-5:25 Alisa Alering short fiction

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7:00-7:10 Patricia Coleman poetry

7:30-7:50 The Vallures music

8:00-8:25 Amy Roche & Friends music

8:30~gathering & thank you from organizers, curators, director

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.