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Call for Submissions

The Last Automat Press

The Last Automat Press is actively seeking chapbook manuscripts of poetry, memoir, and flash fiction. Established this year, we have four titles in print and at least three more due by the end of the summer.

For more information please visit our website at www.thelastautomat.com.
E-mail should be directed to thelastautomat@hotmail.com.
Thank you.

Lou Orfanella
Publisher, The Last Automat Press

Writing Contest

Fresh! Literary Magazine
(2008 summer contest)

Short Stories Submission; submit two well crafted stories, two-thousand to three-thousand words. All stories must be free of profanities, prejudice and descriptive sex scenes. All Submissions must include a $10.00 entry fee.
Contest deadline is October 31, 2008.

Poetry Submission; submit two of your best poems, thirty to fifty words. All poems must be free of profanities, prejudice and descriptive sex scenes. All Submissions must include a $10.00 entry free.
Contest deadline is October 31, 2008.

Teens Short Stories Submissions: Submit two of your best short stories, one-thousand to two-thousand words. All stories must be clean, free of profanities, prejudice and sex scenes. All submissions must include a $5.00 entry fee.
Contest deadline is October 31, 2008

Teens Poetry Submissions; submit two of your best poems, twenty-five to thirty words, All poems must be clean, free of profanities, prejudice and sex scenes. All submissions must include a $5.00 entry fee.
Contest deadline is October 31, 2008.

Short Stories
First Prize, $100
Second Prize, Honor Mention Certificate

Poetry
First Prize, 65.00
Second Prize Honor Mention Certificate

Teens Short Stories
First Prize, $50
Second Prize, Honor Mention Certificate

Teens Poetry
First Prize, $35
Second Prize, Honor Mention Certificate

Send Submissions To
Fresh! Literary Magazine
C/O S. G. Ware\
47 Pearson Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144

Workshops

A MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP
based on an engagement with the poems and letters of
EMILY DICKINSON
for both prose & poetry writers
Led by TOM DALEY

MASSACHUSETTS READINGS:

Červená Barva Press Reading Series Pierre Menard Gallery (Harvard Square) 10 Arrow St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Fall Reading Series 7:00 PM, Free, Reception to follow Contact Information Coordinators: Gloria Mindock, Editor and Publisher, and Tam Lin Neville editor@cervenabarvapress.com   Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Celebrating Three Červená Barva Press Authors With New Books Kathleen Aguero Kathleen Aguero's books of poetry include, Daughter Of (Cedar Hill Books), The Real Weather (Hanging Loose Press), and Thirsty Day (Alice James Books). She has edited three volumes of multicultural literature published by the Univiersity of Georgia Press and has an essay in the anthology, Why I'm Still Married. The recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Elgin Cox Foundation, she is a Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA, teaching in their low-residency MFA and undergraduate programs. Mike Amado Mike Amado is a performance poet, a percussionist and drummer who does lyrical, rhythm-based tomes attuned to the social and semi-political. His first book is entitled: Poems: Unearthed from Ashes (2006). He has hosted three poetry venues in Massachusetts. He is an online reviewer for Rattle Magazine and the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. He has been performing for ten years and has featured numerous times in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review, the Bagelbard's anthology 1&2, Apt magazine #12, Down in the Dirt and elsewhere. To quote the author: "I don't Slam, I rock!" George Held The News Today is George Held's second chapbook from Cervená Barva Press, the first being W Is for War (2006). His other poetry books include Beyond Renewal (2001) and the chapbooks Winged (1995), Salamander Love and Others (1998), Open & Shut (1999), Grounded (2005), The Art of Writing and Others (2007), and Phased (2008). Other books include the e-book American Poetry (2004), the art book Absolut Death & Others (2000) (with paintings by Roz Dimon), Martial Artist (2005) (translations of Martial's epigrams), and the anthology Touched by Eros (2002), which he edited. Held's poetry has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac (NPR). He has co-edited The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine since 1991. In addition, he served as a Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia, 1973-76, and has been on the executive board of The South Fork Natural History Society and Museum (Bridgehampton, NY) since 1991.   Wednesday, October 15, 2008 John Amen Kevin Gallagher Glenn Sheldon   Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Robert Johnson Irene Koronas Sue Owen (unconfirmed)   At the time of the reading, the gallery will have an exhibition by Aldo Tambellini. September 19th-October 26th, 2008 Opening reception September 19th, 6:00-9:00 PM For more information about the exhibit: Contact Nathan Consello, Gallery Director John Wronoski, Proprietor Gallery: 617/868-2033 Pierre@pierremenardgallery.com

Out Of The Blue Gallery

EVERY MONDAY NITE,
Stone Soup Poetry (Host: Chad Parenteau), a 35 year old venue, $4, sign up to be a feature - call Bill Perrault at 978-454-7423.
Starts at 7:30PM and don't forget to sign up!
Recorded on local t.v. station.

Stone Soup Poetry Series
Out of the Blue Gallery
Host: Chad Parenteau

TIMOTHY GAGER'S DIRE LITERARY SERIES /Out of the Blue Gallery/
1st Friday- Cambridge, MA

5, 15 MINUTE OPEN MIC SLOTS AT 8 PM,
SIGN-UP AT 7 PM
FOLLOWED BY FEATURES

COMING SOON
Lisa Beatman (Sept 08)
George Wallace (Oct 08)
Michael Kimball (Nov 08)

For more info and to get on the mailing list: EMAIL

USUALLY the 3rd FRIDAY of the MONTH!
NOLA’s TIGH FILI POETRY & OPEN MIC, $5, 8PM, Host: Nola, poems/prose.

OPEN BARK meets @ the Out Of The Blue Art Gallery,

Open Bark "Candelite Poetry" with Hostess Deborah M. Priestly and Features!!!!

Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street,
Cambridge, MA 02139
www.outoftheblueartgallery.com

Every Saturday Nite
August 2/9/16/23/30
Sept. 6/13/20/27
Oct. 4/11/18/25
Nov. 1/8/15/22/29
December 6/13/20/27

Open Bark Features @ the Out of the Blue Art Gallery:

Time: 8PM into the night! Admission: $3-5 at the door (donations accepted & adored!)

Readers: Features are determined about 1 month in advance. If you want to be one, Deborah Priestly and Rob Russell (Feature Coordinator), will book you to be one. Call the gallery at (617)354-5287 and ask to speak to Rob Russell, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from about 1pm to 8pm. Or email us at ootb@att.net and put your Poetry Feature Request to the Attention of Rob Russell, Feature Coordinator! Thank you!

Other info: We are a very laid back and creative Poetry Venue, "Open Bark Candelite Poetry Series" running on 11 (eleven) years strong now. We only ask that you bring original work and if you read someone else's work, like a famous poet or poetess' that you give recognition to their work by reciting first their name. Musicians, actors, mimes, dancers, drummers and others welcomed!!!!

1st SUNDAY of the MONTH!
DEMOLICIOUS POETRY, $5, 2PM, Host: John, experimental poetry.

Out Of The Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone: 617-354-5287

Newton Free Library Poetry Series

http://newtonfreelibrarypoetryseries.blogspot.com

This blog is devoted to the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, at the Newton Free Libray in Newton, Mass. 330 Homer Street. Director: Doug Holder, Former Director: Robert K. Johnson.
dougholder@post.harvard.edu
(Meets second Tuesday of designated months 7PM Open mic.)

Upcoming Readings Fall 2008
2008 - 2009 Season

FALL 2008

SEPT 9, 2008 7 PM

Irwin E. Thompson-- Thompson is the author of Memories & Milestones. It is a book for anyone who enjoys contemporary abstract art and thoughtful poetry. Artist, poet, and retired faculty member of Harvard Medical School Dr. Irwin E. Thompson wrote the poems and painted the pulsating, colorful paintings to mark life's noteworthy milestones: the seasons, death and desire, best friends, divorce. The poems are deeply personal and Dr. Thompson's colors explode off their canvases.

Michael Mack---Michael Mack has performed at the U.S. Library of Congress, Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center, and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School. His poems have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, America, the Beloit Poetry Journal, and have twice been anthologized in Best Catholic Writing.

Kevin Gallagher--Kevin Gallagher is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Isolate Flecks (Cervená Barva Press, 2008), and Looking for Lake Texcoco (Cy Gist, 2008). His poetry and reviews have appeared in such publications as The Boston Review, Emergency Almanac, Green Mountains Review, Harvard Review, Jacket, Peacework, the Partisan Review and elsewhere. In 2004 he edited a feature on Kenneth Rexroth for Jacket, and a chapbook titled Nevertheless: Some Gloucester Writers and Artists. From 1992 to 2002 he was a publisher and editor of compost magazine. A retrospective anthology of compost, co-edited with Margaret Bezucha, is titled There's No Place on Earth Like the World (Zephyr, 2006). He lives with his wife Kelly, and son Theo, in Newton, Massachusetts.

Oct. 14 2008

Denise Bergman
Elizabeth Kirchener
Kathleen Aguero

Nov. 11, 2008

David Surette
Miriam Levine
Mike Ansara

Doug Holder http://www.ibbetsonpress.com
http://dougholder.blogspot.com
http://authorsden.com/douglasholder
http://somervillenewswritersfestival.com
http://yahoogroups.com/group/ibbetsonstreetpressupdate

Tapestry of Voices Poetry Reading series

Harris Gardner will be hosting a Tapestry of Voices Poetry Reading series to continue with the long literary history of the Parker House Hotel in Boston, Mass. Gardner, a Beacon Hill Resident, a Bagel Bard poet http://bagelpoetry.blogspot.com, and real estate broker is moving his series to the Omni Parker House from Borders Books in Boston.

The first reading will be held in the Historic Gardner Room (named after Isabella, not Harris!)
Sept 11 6:30PM

The featured readers will be David Surette, and Vicki Murray Bosche.

Open mic, food and wine available, free admission... Hope to see you at this exciting new venue.

SEPTEMBER 13th, the 3rd Annual Poetry Showcase
@ the Plymouth Guild Juried Art show

42nd Plymouth Guild Juried Art show
1pm - 3pm /free admission

Features:

Dzvinia Orlowsky

Tim Gager

Gloria Mindock

and more!

Somerville Creative Arts Festival

In these times of media consolidation, alienation, and isolation, it is nice to knowthere is a TV station where everyone knows your street. Somerville Community Access Television has been Somerville’s local media “Cheers” for twenty-five years, and to celebrate that anniversary, as well as the presence of many great artists and musicians in Somerville, we will be producing the Somerville Creative Arts Festival. During the week beginning September 15, 2008 there will be special events and activities that celebrate our community’s diversity and talents. The events are as follows:

Monday, September 15: Haitian Arts Pot Pourri. 7:00-9:00pm
This two-hour live program, produced by Nesley Lambert, Raymond Archer and Ecclesiaste Pompilus, presents Haitian music and drama. The music is both pre-recorded on location and live in the studio. Band leaders will be interviewed live in front of a studio audience. The music is by gospel bands, Voix des Archanges de Boston and Les Mesianiques de 2000., and Hip Hop/Carribean music by Zangy, and Neg Nwa. In addition, portions of a new film produced by Archer called “La Fugue Creole” in Haitian Creole will be premiered and actors interviewed.

Tuesday, September 16: SCAT Open House 4:00-7:00pm
Somerville residents and organizations are invited to tour SCAT’s facilities and learn about the benefits of a SCAT membership. Free refreshments.

Wednesday, September 17: Villeside Talent Showcase 7:00-8:00pm
Teen Empowerment brings to SCAT a sampling of Somerville’s talented teens who perform hip- hop, poetry, and more in front of a live studio audience.

Thursday, September 18: Creative Arts Festival 7:00-10:00pm
The program begins with a half-hour set by renowned fiddler and Somerville resident, Matt Glaser and friends. Mr. Glaser serves as Chair of the Strings Department of Berkeley College of Music. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with Stephane Grappelli and Yo-Yo Ma, and at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival with Gunther Schuller. He was featured on the Grammy Award–winning soundtrack of the Ken Burns film The Civil War and the soundtrack for King of the Gypsies. He has also performed with the New York All-Stars, Bob Dylan, Lee Konitz, David Grisman, and the International String Quartet Congress. Locally, Matt Glaser performs at the Cantab Lounge with his jazz/bluegrass group, the WayfaringStrangers.

Other performers include singer/songwriter Steve Brodsky; poets Doug Holder, Gloria Mindock, and Afaa Michael Weaver; Peruvian musician Alfredo Velasquez; and belly dancer Nadira Jamal. Lively program hosts,Janet Cormier and Adam Azia, open the show and interview the performersbetween acts.

An audience is welcome for the studio programs. No tickets are needed but seating is limited and it will be first come first served. The Somerville Creative Arts Festival is SCAT’s “Thank You” to the many Somerville residents who have participated and supported public access television.

For more information, please call Bill Barrell at 617-628-8826 or studio@access-scat.org.

Doug Holder: http://dougholder.blogspot.com ( Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene)
http://authorsden.com/douglasholder ( Doug Holder website)
http://somervillenewswritersfestival.com ( The Somerville News Writers Festival)
http://yahoogroups.com/group/ibbetsonstreetpressupdate ( Ibbetson Update)
http://homepage.mac.com/rconte ( Ibbetson Street Press)

Wake up and Smell the Poetry

September 20th, 10:30 am-12:45

Featuring David Surette, Victoria Bosch Murrayand Sarah Borello

HCAM Studios
77 Main St.
Hopkinton, MA
www.hcam.tv

The Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts
Presents
Poetry Series: at the Brockton Library

304 Main Street. Map it!
New website!! www.gbspa.org

Celebrating Poetry One Saturday Every Month

This is a Free Event
with really comfortable chairs and divine refreshments

• 12:00 - 2:00 Workshop with Danielle Legros Georges
• 1:30 - 2:00 Sign up for Open-Mic Reading
• 2:15 - 3:15 Open-Mic Reading
• 3:30 - 4:30 Feature Poets

During Open-Mic Reading share your own poetry
or read from works of your favorite poets

Upcoming Features

Sat., Sept 20 -
Dorinda Wegener http://gbspa.homestead.com/DorindaWegener.html
Teresa Cader http://gbspa.homestead.com/TeresaCader.html

Sat., Oct 18 -
Glenn Sheldon http://gbspa.homestead.com/GlennSheldon.html
Gloria Mindock http://gbspa.homestead.com/GloriaMindock.html

Sat., Nov 15 -
Marge Piercy http://gbspa.homestead.com/MargePiercy.html

Sat., Dec 20 -
Nancy Brady Cunningham http://gbspa.homestead.com/NancyCunningham.html
Sheila Twyman http://gbspa.homestead.com/SheilaTwyman.html
Joanna Nealon http://gbspa.homestead.com/JoannaNealon.html

NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB READINGS
all free and open to the public

Sunday Sept 21 2 pm
FAMILY DAY at the Longfellow lawn with student prize winners and poets laureate of Boston and poetlaureate of camb 105 Brattle St

Monday Oct 6
Yenching Library
Poets with new books 7pm

Tuesday October 21
AGNI reading at the Cambridge Public Library
45 Pearl Street, next to parking garage

Monday November 3rd
Tuesday Nov 18 and Monday Dec 1st Prize Winners

Poetry Events at Molloy College

Sunday, September 21, 2008 3 pm

Multi Purpose Room, Wilbur Arts Center
Molloy College
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Rockvville Centre, NY 11571
Free. Open to the public.

Featured poet: Gladys Henderson

The Poetry Event will celebrate the publication of Gladys Henderson's first book of poetry, Eclipse of Heaven (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Ms. Henderson, artist and award-winning poet, has been published in literary journals and anthologies. Her poems reflect her love of nature and mysticism and many are meditations on the preciousness of life. She conducts poetry workshops in Islip and Port Washington and co-hosts a poetry reading venue in Saint James. An open reading will follow the featured poet

Contact: Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence, (516) 678-5000, ext. 6468.

Sunday, October 19, 2008 3 pm

Multi Purpose Room, Wilbur Arts Center
Molloy College
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Rockvville Centre, NY 11571
Free. Open to the public.

Featured poet: Julio Marzan

Julio Marzan, current Queens Poet Laureate, has authored two books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies and college texts. Born in Puerto Rico, he has an international perspective and a strong lyrical voice that has been compared to Walt Whitman's. Winner of numerous awards, including the Dylan Thomas Memorial Award for Poetry presented by The New School, Dr. Marzan is a professor of English at Nassau Community College, and, in 2006, was a Visiting Professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University. An open reading will follow the featured poet.

Contact: Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence, (516) 678-5000, ext. 6468.

Author Afternoons at Molloy College
Sunday, November 2, 2008 3 pm

Multi Purpose Room, Wilbur Arts Center
Molloy College
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Rockvville Centre, NY 11571
Free. Open to the public.

Featured author: Tom Phelan

Acclaimed novelist Tom Phelan will read from and discuss his novels. He is the author of In the Season of the Daisies (selected by Barnes & Noble bookstores as one of its Discover Great New Writers books), Iscariot, Derrycloney, and The Canal Bridge. His work has been published in four countries--the U.S., Ireland, France, and Germany. Born and raised on a farm in Strahard, Mountmellick, County Laois, in the Irish midlands, he now makes his home on Long Island.

Contact: Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence, (516) 678-5000, ext. 6468.

A Celebration of Somerville Small Literary Presses

Ibbetson Street Press and Červená Barva Press Readings

Somerville Library/Central Branch
79 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA 02143

Thursday, September 25, 2008
6:30-8:30 PM
Free

Ibbetson Street Press Authors
Lisa Beatmen will read from Manufacturing America: Poems from the Factory Floor
Gloria Mindock will read from Blood Soaked Dresses
Richard Wilhelm will read from Awakenings

Červená Barva Press Authors
Mary Bonina will read from Living Proof
Doug Holder will read from The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel
Catherine Sasanov will read from Tara

THE SIMMONS INTERNATIONAL CHINESE POETRY FESTIVAL

Come Join the Poets!

All Events Are Free and Open to the Public
More than 20 Poets from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere

THE SIMMONS INTERNATIONAL CHINESE POETRY FESTIVAL

OCTOBER 4-5, 2008

SIMMONS COLLEGE
ZORA NEALE HURSTON LITERARY CENTER
300 THE FENWAY
BOSTON, MA 02115

POETS AS DIPLOMATS? RARE INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF CHINESE POETS OCT. 4-5 AT SIMMONS COLLEGE

Chinese, American Poets to use Poetic Translation
as a Model for Diplomacy

BOSTON (August 22, 2008) -- In what may be one of the most unusual ways to help improve communication and relations between modern day China and America, leading Chinese poets will travel to Simmons College in Boston Oct. 4-5 for an International Chinese Poetry Festival, using poetic translation as a model for diplomacy during today's challenging times.

More than two dozen well-known poets from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States as well as academic scholars and translators, will meet to explore ways to improve communications between the cultures through the exchange and translation of poetry. The festival, which is free and open to the public, will feature discussions about the difficulty of accurately translating poems between two radically different cultures, readings of modern and traditional Chinese poetry in English and Chinese, and an explorations of the significance of Chinese poetry in world literature.

The gathering will also focus on women and their role in contemporary Chinese poetry.

The two-day festival will be on the Simmons College campus at 300 The Fenway, Boston in the Linda Paresky Conference Center of the Main College Building. (For more information about the festival schedule, visit www.simmons.edu/znh. You may also call (617) 521-2175 or email znhlc@simmons.edu.

Among the poets attending are Leung Ping Kwan, Zhou Zan, Hong Hong, Marilyn Chin, Zang Di, Zhang Er, Yi Sha, Kelly Tsai, Ye Mimi and Shinyu Pai.

The festival is founded by nationally acclaimed poet Afaa Michael Weaver, a Simmons College professor and director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center at Simmons. Weaver's new book The Plum Flower Dance includes "American Income," a poem that was awarded the 2008 Pushcart Prize. Proficient in Mandarin, Weaver was the first African-American poet to teach American literature in Taiwan. The festival is co-chaired by Dr. Michelle Yeh of the University of California, Davis.

Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Lowell, MA- This October 10th, 11th and 12th

Dear Friend,
The very first Massachusetts Poetry Festival will take place in just seven weeks.

As David Mehegan of the Boston Globe wrote: "Why has no one thought of doing this in Massachusetts before?" Well now we have. And we need to let everyone know about this historic event.

For the very first time, gathering in one place will be a cross-section of Massachusetts poets: Robert Pinksy, Eileen Myles, Martin Espada, Lucy Brock-Broido, Regie Gibson, Rhine Espaillat, Richard Hoffman, Joyce Perseroff, XJ Kennedy, Marjorie Agosin, Joe Torra, Ed Sanders, Ann Killough, Lloyd Schwartz and even more.

And along with them are workshops for young people, workshops for new poets, workshops for established poets, a small press fair with small presses from across the country, poetry with music, programs for teachers, intercollegiate student readings, high school student readings, slam and performance poetry, films, debates and more, all in Lowell this October 10th, 11th and 12th. You can see the whole schedule at www.masspoetry.org.

We need you to help us spread the word. Most events are free. There are tickets for the three headline readings on sale at the web site. www.masspoetry.org

We need you to email your friends and encourage them to tell their friends. Please help us to make this first Massachusetts Poetry Festival a huge hit by letting your friends know what we have planned.

This fall we need to stand up for Poetry. We need to make poetry visible. We need to make it part of our Commonwealth's future, not just our heritage. For one weekend we can celebrate poetry and poets, mingle with poets famous and unknown and about to be known, learn and teach, sing and be moved. We can bring our children and have them play and participate. We can be stirred, shaken and inspired.

Again - take a quick look at what is planned: www.masspoetry.org and then please help by sending this on to your friends.

Looking forward to seeing you in Lowell for an epic celebration of Poetry.

Yours,
Michael Ansara
For the Planning Committee, Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The Boston Poetry Slam Downstairs at the Cantab Lounge

738 Massachusetts Ave,
Central Square, Cambridge, Mass
(617) 354-2685
Email: cantab@slamnews.com
(http://www.slamnews.com/)

Wednesday, 8 pm open mike; 9:30 pm feature; 10:30 pm slam
Hosted by: Slammaster Simone Beaubien
Co-hosts: Dawn Gabriel, Ryk McIntyre, J*me, Adam Stone.
$3 at the door
Please Note:
*****18+ everyone must have a photo ID*****

Calliope: Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library

Sunday, September 28th 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Open mike sign-up 2:45 p.m.
Donation: $5. Refreshments provided.

Featured Poets:

Irene Harris is English Professor Emerita from Fitchberg State College, and is a member of the Guyer Barn Writers Group and the Poetry Group of the Barnstable Unitarian Church. She began writing poetry after her retirement to the West Hyannisport in 2000 by taking classes with Peter Saunders and John Clarke at the Academy for Lifelong Learning at Cape Cod Community College. Her poems have appeared in Cape Cod anthologies. She prefers poems that tell stories.

Nancy Kassell has published in Willow Springs, Salamander, Kalliope, and several anthologies, including: Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics and Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Adult Children. She was a professor of Greek and Latin, and was a founding member of The Writers’ Room of Boston. She lives in Brookline.

Jennifer Rose has an M.A. in Creative Writing and an M.U.A. in Urban Planning from Boston university. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, Antioch Review and Ploughshares. She is the author of two books of poetry: Direction of Heaven (Truman State Press, 2000) and Hometown for an Hour (Ohio University Press, 2006) which won the Audre Lorde Poetry Prize and Hollis Summers Award. She lives in Waltham and works as a city planner specializing in downtown revitatlization.

Directions: To West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway (Rt. 28A). From Bourne Bridge. Rt. 28 south to Thomas Landers Road exit, right off ramp to Rt. 28A south (left), about 1 1/2 miles. Just past Old Dock Rd., on right, West Falmouth Library is on the left, with parking.

From Woods Hole. Woods Hole Rd. to Palmer Ave. to Rt. 28 north to Brick Kiln Rd. exit, left off the ramp to Rt. 28A (stop sign). Take a right, and go less than I mile. West Falmouth Library is on the right, with parking (before the library, across from the Quaker Meeting House).

Information: calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net or 508-566-1090

Next Calliope Reading: Sunday, October 19th, 3: 00 – 5:00 PM with features:
Jarita Davis, Jim Henle & Sandee Storey & an open mike.

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Sunday Night!

Cambridge Common
1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
$5 Cover
Every Sunday Poetry Slam: 8:00 pm
Feature: 9:30 pm
Open Mike: 10:30 pm

PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE:

Stone Pigeon Reading Series

As always, The Stone Pigeon takes place at Breaking New Grounds in Portsmouth, on the second Monday of every month from 7 to 9PM. The format will consist of two featured readers followed by an hour-long open mic.

If you know anyone interested in poetry that might want to attend or maybe even read during the open mic portion, please pass this message along. Breaking New Grounds has been very supportive of everything, and I'm sure they would love to see this thing grow as much as I would. They just ask that we keep things age-appropriate and clean, so bear that in mind when passing this along or if you plan on reading at the show, as a feature or during the open mic.

For more information refer yourself or a friend to The Stone Pigeon website,
http://www.stonepigeon.com

Need help finding Breaking New Grounds?
Google Map Directions Here!
Or call Breaking New Grounds at (603) 436 - 9555

2008 Calendar

(subject to change!)

The Stone Pigeon website also includes directions to the show, in case you need them.

Doug Holder:
http://www.ibbetsonpress.com
http://dougholder.blogspot.com
http://authorsden.com/douglasholder
http://somervillenewswritersfestival.com
http://yahoogroups.com/group/ibbetsonstreetpressupdate

RHODE ISLAND:

GOT POETRY LIVE

Hosted by Tony Brown
Every Tuesday starting at 7:30 PM

Reflections Cafe
8 Govenor St, corner of Wickenden St
Providence, RI 02903-4429
(401) 273-7278
(http://www.gotpoetry.com/)

NEW YORK READINGS:

Asbestos Arts Group Readings

Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, September 7th, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Kelly Powell, Michelle T. Whittaker + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Yes.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com

Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
The Vault
Thursday, September 11th , 2008 @ 8 pm.
90-21 Springfield Blvd,
Queens Village, NY
Kathy Donnelly + Open
$5 suggested contribution, no minimum.
Handicap accessible? Afraid not (it’s somebody’s house).
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com

Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Dorothy Friedman-August + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Yes.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com

Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Chocolate Waters + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Probably.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com

Asbestos Arts Group Open Mic
Back Fence Bar
Sunday, September 28th , 2008 @ 3 pm.
155 Bleecker Street (btwn Broadway & 6th Ave)
New York NY
Eugenia Macer-Story’s Drama Festival + Open
$5 suggested contribution, $3 min.
Handicap accessible? Yes.
Robert Dunn, emcee
dunnmiracle@aol.com

Larissa Shmailo Events

My new poetry CD, Exorcism, is now available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/shmailo2

My new chapbook, A Cure for Suicide, is now available from the Červená Barva Press bookstore at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/index.html#May19.
Thanks for reading and listening!

September 13 at 8pm
The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street
Exorcism CD Release Party with Larissa Shmailo, Bobby Perfect, Leigh Harrison and special guest host Mike McHugh. $10

September 26 at 7 pm
The Stain Bar
766 Grand Street, Brooklyn
with Kathyrn Pringle, Chris Vitiello, Tracy Grinnell, Kristi Maxwell, Larissa Shmailo and Arpine Konyalain Grenier.

Third Thursday Poetry Night

The Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave.,
Albany, NY 12208

7:00 PM Sign-up; 7:30 PM Start
$3.00 Donation

September 18: tba
October 16: Don Levy
November 20: tba
December 18: tba

contact:
Dan Wilcox, 518-482-0262
dwlcx@earthlink.net

The Mad Hatters' Review Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes

October 10th Time: 7 – 9 pm

Readers: Jonathan Baumbach, Harold Jaffe, and Sheila E. Murphy

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY
Admission: Free

The Mad Hatters' Review Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes

December 12th 7 - 9 pm

Readers: Rebecca Goodman, Steve Katz, and Martin Nakell

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY
Admission: Free

Other info: See http://www.kgbbar.com/event/2008/12/14/month/all/all/1 (not posted yet)
http://www.madhattersreview.com/events.shtml

Honors Conference, "Creativity and Thought"

Nov. 7, 2008 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., press readings begin at 1 p.m.

Readers: Joan and John Digby, Flavia Lobo, Tara L. Masih, Edmund Miller, Dennis Pahl, Francis Poole, Suzanne Walther, and more.

Hillwood Commons, C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.,
Brookville, NY
Admission: Free to poets and illustrators

Other info: The Feral Press is holding a reading of press authors with an exhibition of press illustrators as part of the conference on "Creativity and Thought." There will also be a performance of original compositions by flutist P. Brent Register with choreography by John Ollam, set to English adaptations of Chinese poems by John Digby (at 11 a.m.).
For more information: Dr. Joan Digby at jdigby@liu.edu

LALITA JAVA READINGS
3rd THURSDAYS 7-9 PM

HOSTED BY DOROTHY F. AUGUST

Lalita Java
210 East 3rd St.
(Btwn. B & C)

92nd Street Y Reading Series

92nd Street Y Reading Series

Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

"Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes with Dr. Ni"
(radio show; internet radio)

Date, time, price: Every Tuesday, 8-9 p.m. EST

Address: (Dr. Ni's local address) P.O. Box 15095
City and State: Philadelphia, PA 19130-9998
Contact person and or URL/information: Dr. Niama L. Williams; www.internetvoicesradio

$35/guest/appearance on show
Readers: International internet radio listeners

Other appropriate info: (station owner's address):
Ms. Lillian Cauldwell
P.O. Box 2344 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-2344;
734-332-5902.

Dr. Niama L. Williams
P. O. Box 15095
Philadelphia, PA 19130-9998
http://www.lulu.com/drni
http://www.blowingupbarriers.com

1ST FRIDAYS ON VINE
Hosted by Aziza Kintehg

Every First Friday of the Month

Be part of an Art Extravaganza * Spoken Word * Music Freestyle * Open Mike

Jose Sebourne Graphic Design
1213-15 Vine Street Philadelphia PA 19107
7-10pm $5.00 Cover

Contact info:
The Gallery - (215)564-2554
Aziza Kintehg(215)668-4500
Email: azizalockdiva@...

or check out the website: www.Josesebourne.com

Akron, Ohio:

The University of Akron English Department Literary Arts Series
Presents Salvatore Scibona
with Eric Wasserman

Fayetteville, Arkansas:

Ozark Writers Live! Fayetteville (AR) Arts Festival

Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Reader: J. B. Hogan

J. B. Hogan will be reading from his latest unpublished book: Fayetteville: Real, Remembered, and Imagined

Fayetteville (AR) Public Library
401 W. Mountain St.
Admission: Free

Galway, Ireland:

The Western Writers Centre
MIRIAM GALLAGHER READS AT GALWAY CITY MUSEUM

August 28th, 2008

Acclaimed story writer and novelist Miriam Gallagher will read for us at Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway, at 1pm on Friday, September 26th. Admission is free.

Miriam Gallagher is an Irish author, playwright and screenwriter. Her work has been staged & screened in Ireland, Europe, USA & Canada and translated into Irish, Dutch, French, Finnish and Russian. Her Plays are published: Fancy Footwork (Dublin, Society. Irish Playwrights, 1997, 2nd Edition); Kalahari Blues & Other Plays (Dublin, Mirage, 2006) and The Gold of Tradaree & Other Plays (Dublin, Mirage, 2008) Published fiction includes Pusakis at Paros and Other Stories (2008,Trafford, Canada) and a novel, Song for Salamander (2004,Trafford, Canada),launched at the United Arts Club, Dublin by Macdara Woods, a leading Irish poet who called it ‘A paradigm for our times.’ Her short stories are also published in several anthologies of Irish Writing, and international literary journals such as Arabesques Press, Wilderness House Literary Review and Eden Waters Press (forthcoming). Her film Gypsies screened in Ireland, UK, New York, San Francisco and at International Children’s Film Festival, Hyderabad, India. She received Arts Council & European Script Fund awards for Girls in Silk Kimonos (feature length screenplay celebrating Constance & Eva Gore Booth) Other awards include MHA Tv Script Award for Kevin, EU Theatre award, a Writer’s Exchange to Finland and recently The Parting Glass (int. prizewinner of the ‘Near & Far’ Playwrighting Contest (USA) and her play Doracha Mór agus Seoltóirí Ghaoth Dobhair (best new script award) at An Gríanán Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Miriam has served on the committees of Irish PEN, Irish Writers Union, Irish Copyright Licensing Agency, Society of Irish Playwrights and as a judge for the O.Z. Whitehead Play Competition. She has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Dublin, Galway, Athens, New York, Boston & Pretoria.

Her website is www.miriamgallagher.ie

Order her books at: http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/g.html#Miriam Gallagher

Theatre:

The Boys of Winter
world premiere of an antiwar play

written by
Barry Brodsky
Dean B. Kaner
Eric Small

directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
September 5-21

“The Boys of Winter is a powerful play with timeless social and political relevance.”
(Michael Chiklis, actor, The Shield, Fantastic Four)

(Boston, MA) The Boys of Winter, antiwar play written by Barry Brodsky, Dean B. Kaner, & Eric Small; directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary. September 5-21; performances run Fri.*-Sat. at 8 pm, Sun. at 2 pm and 8 pm. [*September 5th benefit performance for Veterans For Peace and Iraq Veterans Against The War.]

At the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Convenient to the Green Line (B train) [detailed directions at www.bu.edu/bpt/directions/index.html]; wheelchair accessible. Tickets: $20, $10 for students / seniors / veterans / first responders; group rates available. Box Office opens one hour before each show (cash or credit cards only). For advance tickets, log onto www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/2692 or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). For general information, log onto www.boysofwinterplay.com.

The Boys of Winter playwrights, Dean B. Kaner and Eric Small, have never met their Boston-based collaborator Barry Brodsky – in person, that is. Their intense collaboration has all been done by way of the Internet, where they have virtually teamed up to tackle the creation of their war-is-hell drama. The Boys of Winter scenario harkens back to the Vietnam War era, yet it easily and eerily could read in the present tense: Half a world away from Vietnam three high school seniors are playing hockey ... for their lives. The year is 1966. The place is Minnesota. Upon graduation they will either go to college or end up in Vietnam. Watch the story of these boys and those around them as their chances dwindle and the miles to war become fewer.

The Boys of Winter is a memory play about a Vietnam veteran reflecting on his youth in the Midwest of the 60’s while reconciling demons in the present. Clearly there is a parallel to returning veterans from Iraq and the tragic lessons of Vietnam, never learned and repeating themselves 40 years later.

The Boys of Winter delves into the lives of what could be any young man or woman compelled or forced to head out and “defend this nation” by fighting on foreign soil. If and when they return, it is a matter of debate as to whether these soldiers and their loved ones are actually able to move on in a positive manner from their combat duties. The Boys of Winter wrestles with the lessons learned from our nation’s Vietnam experience. The playwrights are keen on provoking current audiences into becoming more aware of those who are now returning in droves from Iraq and Afghanistan. Instant recall about our current engagement should not only be triggered when we’re driving under an overpass decorated with signs of “welcome home.”

The Boys of Winter world premiere is being directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, whose father served in Vietnam, and features the performance work of Sarah Carlin, John Grenier-Ferris, Michael Jorgensen, John Oxenford, Elizabeth Rimar, and Zachary J. Winston.

More background information:

The Boys of Winter had humble beginnings in 1991 in Los Angeles as a story titled The Boys From Minnesota. Dean B. Kaner (from Scottsdale, AZ) met Eric Small (from LA), both writers. Kaner discussed a story based on his friendship with some classmates from Minnesota in 1966. Small liked the idea and crafted a story with some new characters with dramatic twists and turns.

Later a screenplay was optioned by an independent production company in 1994, but producer financing never materialized. Kaner and Small retained the rights. An opportunity came by way of a drama teacher in Phoenix in 1999 named Jane McSpadden, who fell in love with the story. She had grown up in the Vietnam era of the mid-60’s and lost some high school classmates in Vietnam. The antiwar theme stuck in McSpadden’s mind, so much so that she told Kaner if he and Small could adapt the screenplay to the stage, she would perform it at her high school. The play was written and renamed The Boys of Winter.

The Boys of Winter became an experimental play performed in Phoenix in 1999, then later in Los Angeles in 2000. The audiences reveled in what they saw on stage, but the authors wanted to eliminate any remnants of a screenplay. Particularly spurred on by all the developments in the wake of September 11th, Kaner began searching the Internet in 2006 for a playwright who could capture the story they created, yet write a completely different play with a stronger more universal antiwar theme. With the unpopular war in Iraq on the fast track, it was time to connect the dots from Vietnam to Iraq.

Fifty playwrights’ works were evaluated and Boston native Barry Brodsky, who served in the Army during the Vietnam War and is currently the Director of the Veterans Upward Bound program at UMASS Boston, agreed to rewrite the play. The entire development process was done by the three playwrights via the Internet and several conference calls. Although The Boys of Winter was born in a virtual world, the story is very much based in reality.

In April 2007, the play had successful readings at the former Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway space in Somerville, MA, and then went on to become runner-up in The Last Play Standing competition in Chicago in October 2007.

Barry Brodsky was born, raised, and educated in Boston. His stage plays have been produced in many cities; two have been published in anthologies, and a third, All Other Nights was recently published. Two of his screenplays have been optioned by an independent Boston producer, and he teaches screenwriting classes at UMASS Boston and at Emerson College. Brodsky is the Director of the Veterans Upward Bound program at UMASS Boston, a pre-collegiate program for veterans seeking to go to college. He received a BA in Politics from UMASS Boston and an MFA in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University. Brodsky served in the Army from 1967-70 during the Vietnam War and is a member of the Smedley Butler Brigade, Veterans for Peace.

Dean B. Kaner, who served in the USAF Reserve, began writing plays out of college. He co-wrote and co-produced The Night of Broken Glass with award winning playwright the late Alice Josephs. Kaner also co-wrote the play Hardball based on his grandfather’s life in a semi-pro baseball league in northern Wisconsin. It premiered in Memphis at Playwrights’ Forum on May 30, 2008. Switching from drama to comedy, he co-wrote the play Pets Are Human Too. Kaner’s present screenplay credits include The Ditz Sisters under representation by Cary Koslov and Associates, Los Angeles, a WGA literary agency. He resides in Scottsdale, AZ with his family.

Peter Bogdanovich was an early mentor to Eric Small while he studied film at UCLA where he graduated with honors. For the next decade Small worked as a first assistant director in television and film. He joined the Director’s Guild of America and was fortunate to work with many talented and influential directors. All the while, Small was a screenwriter looking for the proverbial “break,” which came with the sale of his original screenplay Rubicon to Touchstone Pictures. Assignments followed for the studios. One screenplay, Blue Blazes, was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Screenplay at Houston’s International Film Competition. Small debuted as a director with The Dust Factory, a film he produced from his original screenplay for MGM/UA. He followed with The Probe, a one-hour drama he co-created for the FX Network and 20th Century Fox. Most recently, Small is the co-creator of the Emmy-nominated and WGA award-winning Showtime original series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! He lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, who is an Artistic Associate at the New Repertory Theatre, received her MFA in directing at Boston University. Most recently, she completed her thesis production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Prior to her thesis, O’Leary directed the Boston Playwright’s Theatre production of The Devil’s Teacup. In 2007 she assisted Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg at the National Playwrights’ Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, where she assisted on new plays by Rebecca Gilman and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. B.U. credits include The American Clock, Curse of the Starving Class, and Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis. While in Washington, D.C., O’Leary worked with the Olney Theatre Center, Theater Alliance, Cherry Red Productions, Charter Theater, Studio Theatre Second Stage, and Phoenix Theatre DC, of which she was a founding member. DC directing credits include Independence, Parallell Lives, and the creations of Unwrapped and Lulu Fabulous by area playwrights. O’Leary’s father is a Vietnam War veteran.

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