tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35874954432576136942024-02-19T10:20:46.506-05:00Workin' the WordBlog of The Word Works, a DC-based literary organization publishing poetry in collector editions and host of the monthly Cafe Muse literary salon and the eight-week summer poetry series at the historic Joaquin Miller Cabin in Rock Creek Park.Kathihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509566875707657225noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-12091449112842526482015-02-13T10:44:00.001-05:002015-02-13T10:44:08.866-05:00Cafe Muse Grows in 2015--Keplinger & Yarrow Reading<a href="https://vimeo.com/119515912">Poetry Reading by David Keplinger & Bill Yarrow</a><br />
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The winter Cafe Muse programs are always a risk but The Word Works was very lucky to have the Friendship Heights Village Center open for business to host American University professor <b>David Keplinger </b>and on-sabbitcal Chicagan <b>Bill Yarrow</b>. Bill took the train two nights before his February 2nd appearance, making it out before one of the five worst storms in history to hit Chicago. We had blustery frigid wind in the DC area but that did not keep 40 people from attending.<br />
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Henry Crawford introduced David expressing the great love his students have for this vivacious teacher. Many of his adult students were attending. Gwenn Gebhard, a departing Cafe Muse co-host, introduced Bill Yarrow with a poignant and on-the-money preview of Bill's work. Rocky Delaplaine ran our open mic for poetry. Although Susan Okie was absent, her work behind the scenes was keenly felt—she succeeded in getting this program listed in The Washington Post Literary Calendar two weeks in a row, news that always brings in new and regular-attending audience.<br />
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Our next program on March 2 features poets <b>Le Hinton</b> and <b>Susan Sonde</b>.<br />
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The Word Works thanks Courtyard by Marriott for hosting our reader Bill Yarrow. Thanks to Bill Yarrow for the high-quality video linked above.<br />
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Today is the 9th anniversary of Hilary Tham's death. The Word Works celebrates this poet who was the first writer published in the Capital Collection imprint with her book <i>Bad Names for Women</i>. The imprint was renamed the Hilary Tham Capital Collection in 2005.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take for example the
February 3, 2014, Café Muse readings by poet mathematician <a href="http://joannegrowney.com/">JoAnne Growney</a> and poet <a href="http://eliterature.org/what-is-e-lit/">interactive hypermedia "physicist"</a> <a href="http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/">Stephanie Strickland</a>. They
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And not only did they offer
up a different complexity shaped by the writer’s primary tool—words, but also
they framed an energy that brought out some exciting participants to the Café
Muse open mic, like Mary-Sherman Willis who recently presented in our forum
from her new cross-genre book <i><a href="http://maryshermanwillis.com/graffiti-calculus-a-poem/">Graffiti Calculus</a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a poem from JoAnne
Growney that is done in a syllabic square. About this form JoAnne says, “One of
the poem-forms I use frequently is the square, a form going back at
least to 1597, the date for a <a href="http://www.ubu.com/historical/early/early07.html"><span style="color: #2c65ee;">square poem by Henry Lok</span></a>, honoring Elizabeth 1. The
square form (a single-stanza in which the number of lines is the same as the
number of syllables per line) seems to help to shape a pithy statement.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This square by JoAnne has
six syllables per line and is six-line
poem:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than the rapist, fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the district attorney,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">smiling for the camera,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">saying that thirty-six<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sex crimes per year is a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manageable number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Copyright © 2013 by JoAnne
Growney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Reading from her latest book
<i>Dragon Logic</i>, Stephanie Strickland, serves as prophetic voice against the void
created by the virtual reality of the Internet that detaches its users from
each other. She shows how the past is not so different from the future and that
we have always lived with human consuming dragons.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Burning Briar
Scanning Tunnel</strong><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there is a zombie at the
wheel<br />
who finds acceptable all risk<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( his flesh looks like mine
)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a crinkle monkey in the
swamp<br />
mind tricky and brisk<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( his moves feel like mine
)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">headless mannequin draped<br />
white print snakeskin dress<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ( pale fakery filling me with dread )<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a boneless man used up<br />
by apparatchik juggernaut<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( scrivener like me )<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the one who hoped to poach<br />
cockroach strategy adrift<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( like me time-amnesic
overreaching )<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cord-cut all beyond the
call<br />
to heal or heel fold molt<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( wormhole crush crash
course )<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Copyright © 2013 by
Stephanie Strickland<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/">Join us at Café Muse</a> on March 3 for
readings by poets Margaret Mackinnon and Dennis <o:p></o:p><span style="text-align: center;">Kirschbaum.</span></span><br />
<!--EndFragment-->Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-41974850295832604232014-01-07T14:18:00.004-05:002014-01-07T15:07:50.474-05:00New Cafe Muse Season: Leslie Harrison & Rebekah Remington<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a blustery cold January 6, 2014, Cafe Muse hosts Laura Golberg and Gwenn Gebhard presented Leslie Harrison & Rebekah Remington reading from their prize-winning books. We were a cozy group of 22 listening first to Michael Davis play his classical guitar while eating apple pie and sipping cocoa and tea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leslie read this poem of the supernatural:</span><br />
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through a certain solidity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
house for example still moves <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through
me, moves me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When
I tried to reverse the process <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
kept dropping things, kept finding myself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in
the basement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Windows
became more than<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">usually
problematic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
wanted to break them <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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didn’t work, though for awhile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though
when I answered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bats
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
rings vanished from my hand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One
day the closets were empty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from <i>Displacement Poems</i>, winner of 2008 The Bakeless Prize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">copyright (c) 2009 Leslie Harrison</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rebekah read this poem about the earthquake that damaged the National Cathedral:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from <i>Asphalt</i>, winner of the 2013 Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize</span></div>
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The evening began with Michael Davis's graceful guitar performance, setting the tone for a thoughtful night.<br />
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Our first featured reader was Richard Harteis. His poetry discussed the "slow progress" of his grieving over the late William Meredith, mixing ordinary details of life with profound grief and questions. It also focused on his late dog, Daisy, his young students' reactions to the Newtown massacre, and several other topics. It was human, accessible, and quite sincere.<br />
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Our second featured reader was Mary-Sherman Willis. Her poetry focused on her relationship with her son as he entered adolescence, with all the worries and paradoxes that time of life brought. It discussed her journey of following her son's graffiti tags, the significance of his name: "your name we gave you to be a part of us and apart from us," and phenomenology or object-hood as she explored the significance of his graffiti. She also creatively incorporated calculus into her musings. It was clever, touching, and insightful.<br />
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After the featured readers, many people participated in the open mic segment. Thanks to our featured readers, everyone else who read their poetry, and everyone who came out for our "holiday edition" Café Muse!<br />
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Be sure to come out for the first Café Muse of the new year on January 6th, featuring poets Leslie Harrison and Rebekah Remington!<br />
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story and the cycle of seasons. The elegance combined with the simplicity in
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often is not anymore. She used remarkably sweet-sounding phrases such as “sea
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December Café Muse event on Monday, December 2<sup>nd</sup> at 7:00 PM to hear poetry by
Mary-Sherman Willis and pieces of works by novelist Halvor Aakhus!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03959902921795071763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-80074170666945454732013-10-08T12:32:00.001-04:002013-10-08T15:20:49.916-04:00Cafe Muse Hosts Thought-Provoking Poetry by Shara Lessley and Joseph RossFriendship Heights Village Center hosted Shara Lessley and Joseph Ross for Word Works' monthly Cafe Muse poetry reading on Monday, October 7th. It always strikes me that Cafe Muse feels like a retreat from the outside world into an environment of calm meaningfulness as we listen to words written and spoken in new ways.<br />
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The evening began with the always soothing musical talent of Michael Davis, accompanied by the gracious Richard Grayson (Paul Grayson's son).<br />
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The first featured poet of the night was Shara Lessley. Her poetry spanned from the everyday to her experiences in Jordan to what it felt like to return to the States after being gone for three years. It was easy to picture what she was describing in her poetry; we took a piece of her journey with us on hearing her descriptions.<br />
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The second featured poet was Joseph Ross. His work depicted important historical events such as Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat and the bombing of a New Orleans church that killed 32 people, as well as the story of a graffiti artist. After each poem Joseph read, it seemed that everyone in the audience raised their eyebrows and sighed audibly in response to the intensity of his words and passion.<br />
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After the readings by our featured poets, several others read. One person who read, the remarkable Paul Grayson, had just celebrated his 95th birthday! We celebrated with him, enjoying pumpkin cake made by Lois McBride in his honor.<br />
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Thanks so much to our featured readers and the others who read! We appreciated another haven of poetry. Be sure to come out for our November Cafe Muse event on Monday, November 4th at 7:00 PM to hear poetry by Hailey Leithauser and Chad Davidson!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03959902921795071763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-36776110415551904062013-09-13T06:43:00.001-04:002013-09-13T11:14:57.993-04:00Invitation to the Splendid Wake Kickoff Event<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGJS__npb9EoUx7CiMWqS5kd8xSVQLig_DmF2t1sin1efH5ffplYcDPJDeuMFu3gi7gh_6W3m1xyQDl1Y0_Q7dDB3XES8bnlCM7qo4vi5MQOerrAsk3bjuafjP_O_JKrAKlK2fMjO0Vey/s1600/Splendid+Wake+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGJS__npb9EoUx7CiMWqS5kd8xSVQLig_DmF2t1sin1efH5ffplYcDPJDeuMFu3gi7gh_6W3m1xyQDl1Y0_Q7dDB3XES8bnlCM7qo4vi5MQOerrAsk3bjuafjP_O_JKrAKlK2fMjO0Vey/s320/Splendid+Wake+Poster.jpg" width="225" /></a>The Word Works and Karren Alenier have been helping develop the <a href="http://alenier.blogspot.com/2013/02/splendid-wake-discovering-scope-of.html">Splendid Wake project</a>, a massive attempt to document poetry in the Greater Washington, DC area from 1900 forward. A brain child of Myra Sklarew and Elisavietta Ritchie, the project began to honor deceased poets associated with the Nation's Capital.<br />
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On Wednesday, September 25 from 6:30 to 8 pm at The George Washington University Gelman Library's Special Collection Conference Room on the seventh floor, a group of area poets will discuss the history of poets and poetry in Washington, DC. Some of the participating poets include: Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Sarah Browning, Grace Cavalieri, Teri Cross Davis, Ethelbert Miller, and Kim Roberts.<br />
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You are invited to attend this historic event and get involved in helping document poetry in and around DC. We have established a WIKI to collect data at:<br />
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Currently Word Works intern Monica Root is working on short bios of dead poets. Maybe you have something to contribute?<br />
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For more information about the kickoff event, contact Special Collections Librarian Jennifer King at jenking @ gwu.edu.<br />
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For more information about the project contact: Myra Sklarew at msklarew @ verizon.net.<br />
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<br />Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-62169172975502015342013-07-25T14:12:00.003-04:002013-07-25T14:12:46.513-04:00Bernadette Geyer and Rachel Richardson for the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series, July 21, 2013Thi<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">s past Sunday, July 21, we closed the 2013 Joaquin Miller Poetry Series with beautiful performances from Bernadette Geyer and Rachel Richardson. In her introduction, Deborah Ager invoked the series' namesake, Joaquin Miller, a man whose legacy remains an inextricable mix of myth and truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bernadette, whose book </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;">The Scabbard of Her Throat was published as a part of the Word Work's Hilary Tham Capital Collection, read first. Her performance included pieces on motherhood - "Thumbelina's Mother Speaks to Thumbelina" and "Nature Center" - and the summer weather - "Heat."</span><br />
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Rachel read next, also touching on themes of motherhood, as when she reflected on her grandmother's hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana in pieces like "Portrait of Lead Belly in a Pin-Striped Suit" and her Signs series.</div>
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It has been a wonderful summer of poetry and community in the Joaquin Miller Series! Thank you for joining us. We hope to see you all again next summer<i>. Sail On! sail On!</i><br />
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On the eve of the anniversary of Hilary Tham's death June 24, poets Karren Alenier and Judith McCombs joined with Hilary's daughter Ilana and her two children Lia and Elijah to read from Hilary's work.<br />
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Hilary's daughter Ilana read "<a href="http://www.authormark.com/article_730.shtml">On Buying a Burial Plot One Sunny Day</a>," which details how Hilary came to buy the burial plot she now occupies and which is just a few feet away from her friend and ours, poet Maxine Combs.<br />
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Karren and Judy read selections from Hilary's books <i>Bad Names for Women</i> and <i>Counting</i>.<br />
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Lia read "Mountains" from <i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Bad Names for Women.</i><br />
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The Word Works keeps Hilary's name and work alive through our imprint series known as the <a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/programs.html#hilarytham">Hilary Tham Capital Collection</a>. In 1989, Hilary's book <i>Bad Names for Women</i> was the first book published in the Capital Collection. Later, she became editor-in-chief and revitalized the imprint. In 2013, Word Works is expanding the imprint by inviting poetry manuscripts from any volunteer volunteering for literary nonprofit. Please help us do this by <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/245906796/expand-the-hilary-tham-capital-collection?ref=recently_launched">pledging your donation through Kickstarter by July 14, 2013</a>. We have already have pledges over 1/3 of the modest sum we are trying to raise. Stayed tuned for the announcement of who judge Jeanne Larsen has selected as the two winners of the 2013 Hilary Tham Capital Collection.<br />
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<br />Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-17298535378013823752013-06-17T14:27:00.000-04:002013-06-17T14:27:29.687-04:00Adam Chiles & Moira Egan for the Joaquin Miller Poetry SeriesYesterday afternoon, June 16, we were again graced by a stellar performance for the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series. First up was Adam Chiles who read several "Landscape Variations" inspired by the work of English painter David Hockney. He also reflected, to much delight, on the importance of the English pub.<br />
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After Adam, Moira Egan, an American poet based in Rome, took the floor. Moira admitted to altering her set for the "young and tender ears" in the audience! She ended her reading with several poems from her collection of Hot Flash Sonnets.</div>
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During the Q&A, issues of language and translation - specifically Moira's experience as an English-speaking poet living in Rome - and regionalism - specifically Adam's experience as a UK-North American transplant - were discussed. The featured poets were followed by a lovely open mic; many of the readers took time to reflect on Fathers' Day and a few touched on the subject with their performances!</div>
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As always, we invite you to join us for the next program in the Miller series, which will feature Niki Herd and Carol Quinn, June 23rd at 3:00 PM at the Rock Creek Nature Center!</div>
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June 9 <a href="http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/">Laura Madeline Wiseman</a>, poet, scholar, professor, read with the 2013 Jacklyn Potter Young Poet Competition winners Elena Botts and Kathryn McDonald Matheson in the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series at Rock Creek Nature Center in Rock Creek Park.<br />
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Rosemary Winslow, co-director of the Miller Series, hosted. Perry Epes, director of the Jacklyn Potter Young Poet Competition, introduced the young poets who were selected by Donal Ilich.<br />
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Madeline Wiseman read from work focused on feminist writers and themes. Kathryn Matheson read her narrative prose poems. Elena Botts read from new work and her book <i><a href="http://www.allbook-books.com/html/young_artist_series.html">a little luminescence</a></i>, published by Allbook Books in their Young Artist Series. <br />
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Tonight, The Word Works hosted another successful reading in the Cafe Muse series! As is Cafe Muse tradition, the readings were preceded by a beautiful performance of classical guitar by Michael Davis.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alyse Knorr took the podium first, reading several selections from her book <i>Annotated Glass</i> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">(Furniture Press Books). She also read several yet to be published poems inspired by the 1977 Voyager Expeditions, in which she imagined the recipients of the golden records sent out with the space craft coming to earth. The series exhibited equal parts wit and heart.</span></span></div>
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Next, Barabara Buckman Strasko read from her book <i>Graffiti in Braille </i>(Word Press 2012), as well as other unpublished works. A personal favorite was<i> Ode to the Berrigans</i>, a piece inspired by the Berrigan brothers, two Catholic priests who destroyed draft files during the Vietnam war.</div>
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Our two featured poets were joined by a few others who read during the open mic portion of the event. Thank you to all who attended and to these two lovely women for sharing their immense talent with us!</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">We encourage all poetry lovers to join us for future Cafe Muse Events. The next Cafe Muse will feature Kathi Wolfe and Dan Vera, Monday Jul<span style="font-family: inherit;">y 1 at the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD</span></span></div>
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What distinguishes The Word Works Washington Prize, an award
of $1500 and book publication, from other book-length poetry manuscript prizes?
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THE WASHINGTON PRIZE BENEFITS EVERY ENTRANT<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every entrant gets a <b>copy
of the winning book</b>. The winning book is selected in the late summer and
then, after undergoing our attentive editorial process, published in late
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Entrants whose manuscripts progress to second readers and
final judges are offered the opportunity to request comments. Therefore,
semi-finalists and finalists can get <b>constructive
feedback</b> from a reader and possibly a final judge. We have heard that
entrants getting such feedback have gone on to win other prizes and for that,
we are pleased because The Word is in the business of supporting contemporary
poetry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Washington Prize is a <b>blind judging</b>. We read manuscripts without identifying information
and if one of our readers or judges recognizes the work, that reader or judge
recuses him- or herself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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whom are members of The Word Works editorial board with at least one judge who
did not participate the year before or is new to the prize. This ensures that
we do not pick the same kind of manuscript year after year. In fact, The Word
Works prides itself on being <b>open to any
style of poetry and on any subject.</b> We are just looking for the best
manuscript.<o:p></o:p></div>
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WHO HAS WON THE WASHINGTON PRIZE?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word Works has been awarding this prize since 1981. The
first seven years, the prize was $1000 for a single poem that we published in a
full-page ad in <i>Poets & Writers
Magazine</i>. Our first seven winners were <a href="http://barbaragoldberg.net/">Barbara Goldberg</a>, <a href="http://www.poemeleon.org/susan-gubernat/">Susan Gubernat</a>,
<a href="http://www.brooklinema.gov/arts/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:judith-steinbergh-bio&catid=47:poet-laureate-application-details&Itemid=82">Judith Steinbergh</a>, <a href="http://www.corvidwriters.org/mbm/non-poetry/SRreviews3.html">Lindsay Knowlton</a>, <a href="http://www.enidshomer.com/">Enid Shomer</a>, <a href="http://reneeashleyatwork.com/Poetry.htm">Renée Ashley</a>, and <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/lisa_ress_1">Lisa Ress</a>. Each of these poets went on to publish a book of poetry if not multiple books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1987, the
prize moved to book publication. The first book published in the Washington
Prize imprint was <i>Stalking the Florida Panther</i> by the prolific and
highly successful Enid Shomer. <i>Stalking the Florida Panther </i>was her
first full-length book of poetry. The title of her book was also the title
of the winning poem in 1985. Consider these lines from that Washington
Prize-winning poem, “What I know:/ that desire spreads like light/ without
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1988, the first
official year of the Washington Prize as a book contest, the Word Works judges
selected a funky page-turner by <a href="http://www.christopherbursk.com/">Christopher Bursk</a>. His original title was
replaced with <i>The Way Water Rubs Stone</i>.
The book rapidly sold out to his already established following. After all, this
was his fourth book with his first—<i>Standing Watch</i>—having been published
by Houghton Mifflin in 1978. <i>The Way Water Rubs Stone </i>dared to
tackle questions about masculinity and homosexuality in a time when these
subjects were just barely seeing the light of day. In the poem "Dorks,
Nerds, Wimps," Bursk relates conversations with his son that let it all
hang out: "My children laugh when I tell them/ how in fifth grade I
was voted best girl./ My sons howl in delight, knowing/ they’re nothing
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With the launch of <a href="http://bkfischer.com/">B. K. Fischer</a>'s <i>St. Rage's Vault</i> at the Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
Bookfair in March 2013, Word Works counts 26 books in the Washington Prize
imprint. <i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/books2.html#vault">St. Rage's Vault</a></i> is an all ekphrastic set of poems that detail from
inception to conception the birth of a child real or imagined. One of the poems
scans two pages. Except for the endnotes, a reader would not know each poem was
inspired by a work of art. Here are the last lines: “Hewn from darkness,/
the
minutes rise as you open///your hand to touch the ladder H/ and spin it
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Every book in the Washington Prize imprint is a carefully
sculpted gem. The author gets 15 percent of the print run, which has often
results in the author receiving 150 books as his or her royalty payment.
Additionally, Word Works provides 30 review copies and helps the author
distribute these copies. Some Washington Prize authors like Fred Marchant, author of <i><a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/books2.html#tipping">Tipping Point</a></i>, go into second editions. For a <a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/washington_prize.html#winners">complete list of Washington Prize winners</a>, visit
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<!--EndFragment-->Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-23543715531110859072012-08-07T15:18:00.001-04:002012-08-17T11:33:19.935-04:00Goethe Time Shadows at Cafe Muse<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So much for August being a slow month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cafe Muse hosted Goethe Institute's Time Shadows translation project that featured poems by by local poets Sunil Freeman, Brian Gilmore, Rod Jellema, and Fred Joiner. As Lane Jennings, the moderator for this unusual program that brings together German, Chinese, and English translators and poets, explained, all the poems selected were aired in three different languages. German poet Brigitte <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Struzyk and Chinese poet </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Yi Lei were also represented in this program. We were pleased to have the participation of Goethe Institute Director Wilfried Eckstein and Lihong Wang.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here for example is the first stanza of Brian Gilmore's poem "<b style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Chocolate City Blues":</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"><i>sugar mama i met in the wee wee hours;</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15px;"><i>was it ten years ago</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15px;"><i>or was it thirty days?</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Zucker Mama traf ich in den frühen Morgenstunden</span></span></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15px;"><i>War’s vor zehn Jahren</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15px;"><i>Oder waren’s dreißig Tage?</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">亲爱的,某天深夜我与你相识</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15px;">那是十年以前</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15px;">还是三十天以前?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">The Goethe Institute website explains:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Here, </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Brian Gilmore</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"> (a native Washingtonian poet currently teaching at the University of Michigan College of Law) takes a 20th century form of song—the blues—and tells an all-too-familiar story just a little differently. In this glimpse of “love-gone wrong,” for once it is the man who is left waiting for the phone call that never comes, while the “sugar mama” he adores has gone and left him empty in every way. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Cafe Muse Co-director Laura Golberg wanted to know how one translated such slang as "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">hoochie coochie man"? Read about the project and <a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/kue/lit/ts12/cul/enindex.htm">see the poems and their translations</a> to discover how the translator handled such challenges.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">The Cafe Muse program, which also included a tribute to the late Ernie Wormwood (delivered by her daughter Sydney Sgambato and poet Kathi Wolfe), played before a house of nearly 40 people. Paul Hopper, participating in the open mic, also offered a moving poem by Ernie. </span></span>Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-22376237847937181472012-07-21T09:52:00.000-04:002012-07-21T09:56:21.889-04:00Celebrating Poets at Rock Creek Nature CenterJoin <a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/">The Word Works</a> for its final 2012 <a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/miller_cabin.html">Joaquin Miller Poetry Series</a> program featuring<br />
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<a href="http://www.brandelfrancedebravo.com/wordpress/?page_id=2">Brandel France de Bravo</a>, author of <i>Provenance</i><br />
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<a href="http://barbaragoldberg.net/">Barbara Goldberg</a>, translator of Moshe Dor's <i><a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/books2.html#scorched">Scorched by the Sun</a></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240366">Mark Smith-Soto</a>, author of <i>Our Lives Are Rivers</i><br />
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Sunday, July 22 at 3 pm<br />
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Rock Creek Nature Center<br />
5200 Glover Road NW<br />
Washington DC<br />
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202 895-6070<br />
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It has been an outstanding season of poetic voices. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150922783635776.401785.93161255775&type=1">See images on our Facebook page</a>.<br />
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Highlights of our 2012 programs included presentation of<br />
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2012 Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Zachary Fine & Ariana Yeatts-Lonske with Elizabeth Arnold<br />
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2010 Washington Prize winner Brad Richard<br />
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Many other accomplished poets from near and far were featured and also shared in our open mic.<br />
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Come help us celebrate the close of this 37th season of poetry!Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-61325118656688906872012-06-03T20:41:00.000-04:002012-06-03T20:48:15.050-04:00Big Success!—Joaquin Miller Poetry Series Opening Program<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The spirits of Joaquin
Miller, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Jacklyn Potter were vibrating in the
auditorium of the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/naturecenter.htm">Rock Creek Nature Center</a> where The Word Works with <b><a href="http://www.wordworksdc.com/books2.html#green">Rosemary Winslow</a></b> as host opened the first of eight
programs in the 2012 Joaquin Miller Poetry Series. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gave the traditional reading of Miller’s well-known poem “<a href="http://theotherpages.org/poems/miller01.html">Columbus</a>” with the backdrop being a projected image of the lush green landscape of the
beloved cabin where our programs took place annually for 35 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ehud Sela</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
had all the poems he read projected on that same screen much to the approval of
the audience who appreciated that extra sensory experience. Karren Alenier
suggested that the audience might like to ask a few questions of this
Florida-based veterinarian who write formal poetry. One question was did he every write about his
work with animals because the poems he selected for this reading dealt with
cityscapes of Washington, DC and San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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tribute poem by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Hopper</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> to our
late </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.wordworksdc.com/miller_cabin.html">Miller Cabin Poetry</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> Director Jacklyn Potter, a performance poem about
Allen Ginsberg, a civil war poem about Walt Whitman as a battle field nurse, a
villanelle by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Barbara Orten</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> who was
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this program (Susan Okie also presented a villanelle in her reading as tribute
to Barbara going the extra mile to attend Susan’s Miller Poetry reading—we love
how connected Susan was and how her reading also brought in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Pamela Murray Winters</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> who will read
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The next program is Sunday, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">June 10</b> and features University of
Maryland professor <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elizabeth Arnold</b>
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Zachary Fine and Ariana Yeatts-Lonske</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-12819592836500371282012-05-28T17:54:00.000-04:002012-05-28T17:54:31.987-04:00Poem by Mike White on Poetry Daily<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Originally from Montreal, Mike lives and teaches in Salt Lake City, Utah. <i>Bird</i> is his first book and The Word Works proudly launched it in Chicago during the 2012 Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Bookfair and Convention.Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-83924069973629349202012-05-16T22:20:00.003-04:002012-06-06T22:40:12.080-04:00JOAQUIN MILLER POETRY SERIES, SUMMER 2012<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Join us at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road, NW, Washington, DC, <br />every Sunday at 3 PM, from June 3 through our concluding program on July 22.</h4>
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June 3: Susan Okie and Ehud Sela</h4>
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<strong>June 24: Pamela Murray Winters and Meredith Davies Hadaway</strong></div>
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<strong>Thank you to our generous sponsors and volunteers for this exciting summer program!</strong></div>
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</h4>Kathihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509566875707657225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-64032956851372677772012-02-19T09:35:00.000-05:002012-02-19T09:35:28.284-05:00<!--StartFragment--><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFzgamaqnq1rsLKMgmCbLFeV2l1e5f3S2fgQAPttBZR-FMqAlyoALXuZQUzmG-G1J_UHrhPfa9AbeaPeOJghbHlK0huH6ibJmAEABAxdYgiCxnOPAp9iJgCcbpOfWWl4xPythfeBM55KF/s1600/WW_PerpetualMotion_Cover_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFzgamaqnq1rsLKMgmCbLFeV2l1e5f3S2fgQAPttBZR-FMqAlyoALXuZQUzmG-G1J_UHrhPfa9AbeaPeOJghbHlK0huH6ibJmAEABAxdYgiCxnOPAp9iJgCcbpOfWWl4xPythfeBM55KF/s320/WW_PerpetualMotion_Cover_small.jpg" width="217" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Word Works presents</span></span></span><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1931502076">PERPETUAL MOTION</a></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://wordworksdc.com/books2.html#perpetual"> </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Winner of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Hilary Tham Capital Collection award</span><br />
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Thursday, <b>March 8</b>, 2012</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br />
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Wine! Cheese! Interpretive Dance! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">in the <a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/cafe_muse.html">Cafe Muse Literary Salon</a> October 1, 2012.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><!--EndFragment-->Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-87828858301475056482012-02-12T19:01:00.001-05:002012-02-13T19:10:47.546-05:00Scorched by the Sun: Kissing the Bride<div style="font: 18px Monaco; margin: 0px;"><div style="font: 18px Monaco; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEIUcjZN4UjSeDXjo7G9attiK3PwscK8Wki07KMW2QI24sG6Es0zoOHEejcYhfjGFak_SatYSJAwMmaRfkr3fDduE0shsLtirxwqt3BXYOnjrfivpJo2aY6oy4qzzVi_IOQ3BAHQuK6Koz/s1600/ScorchedFCTiny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEIUcjZN4UjSeDXjo7G9attiK3PwscK8Wki07KMW2QI24sG6Es0zoOHEejcYhfjGFak_SatYSJAwMmaRfkr3fDduE0shsLtirxwqt3BXYOnjrfivpJo2aY6oy4qzzVi_IOQ3BAHQuK6Koz/s1600/ScorchedFCTiny.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> were so pleased to get a translation grant for <i><a href="http://wordworksdc.com/books2.html#scorched">Scorched by the Sun</a></i> from the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. It's such a vote of confidence in the collaboration between Moshe Dor and myself. We have worked together on many projects over the years, including <i>The Stones Remember: Native Israeli </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Poetry</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> (recipient of the Witter Bynner Foundation Award), also published by The Word Works. But this book of his own poems is long overdue. Especially now, when it's so important that saner voices from that ancient and troubled area of the world be heard.</span></div></div><div style="font: 18px Monaco; margin: 0px; min-height: 25px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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Brandon Johnson, author of <a href="http://wordworksdc.com/books2.html#skin"><i>Love's Skin</i></a>, is active with Cave Canem, a national organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of black poets. He is a founding member of the Modern Urban Griots, a poetry and performance collective in the District of Columbia. And he is a dynamic reader of his own work.<br />
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<a href="http://www.splitthisrock.org/news.html">Testimonials and reviews from the 2010 Festival</a> tell the bigger story. So make your calendar with these dates March 22-25, 2012 for Split This Rock!Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-87235609600966100702011-12-29T16:28:00.000-05:002011-12-29T16:28:56.892-05:00Inspired by Gertrude Stein: A Workshop<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>296</o:Words> <o:Characters>1688</o:Characters> <o:Company>R&A</o:Company> <o:Lines>14</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>3</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>2072</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Monaco; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Saturday, February 4, 2012</b>, The Word Works, in cooperation with Stanford in Washington, will sponsor <i><a href="http://www.wordworksdc.com/intheworks.html">Inspired by Gertrude Stein</a></i>, a special master class workshop on Gertrude Stein, a unique opportunity to learn about Stein and to be inspired by her work and the work of artists already influenced by this great Modernist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQBiZYkLqBsQUMoe7xJzyQl-N3PKa3hm_kJFZUCN8rBCJzhRGBsfXu4dx3foTDt8b49JbDSmd9LYrgdb7CXXdtqfUFKjjr1X9LrVPRulaDYtHz4RXs5Dws7ZyoCnnAA_jTymVwldjuhAlC/s1600/CIMG2267.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQBiZYkLqBsQUMoe7xJzyQl-N3PKa3hm_kJFZUCN8rBCJzhRGBsfXu4dx3foTDt8b49JbDSmd9LYrgdb7CXXdtqfUFKjjr1X9LrVPRulaDYtHz4RXs5Dws7ZyoCnnAA_jTymVwldjuhAlC/s320/CIMG2267.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Monaco; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 10 am to 5 pm workshop will take place at the <b>Stanford in Washington Art Gallery</b>, 2661 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC. The program, which includes an overview of Stein and her work, a curated tour of the exhibition (now extended to March 2012) “<a href="http://alenier.blogspot.com/2011/10/partying-with-gertrude-stein.html">Insight & Identity: Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein</a>,” writing time, and an opportunity to share newly created work, will be led by Karren Alenier, author of the libretto <i>Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On</i>, and Hans Gallas, co-curator of the “Insight & Identity” exhibition. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Monaco; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The program is open to writers of all levels and genres.</b> The cost is $50. Visit <a href="http://www.wordworksdc.com/intheworks.html">http://wordworksbooks.org</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for more information or call 301-581-9439.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wex3hnxdlE636VEhZT8Dsf0usoMN33om6E2q3yGyzf_-UYH1r8p7J-YV3KhpeRbNStMGiFvdd-UICHWnIBPjvw5Eu6CgAsIvtsxQn95qwnndsWrHd8VD7PZ_9tmNfWlO_fM1eHYgYhiB/s1600/Karren.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wex3hnxdlE636VEhZT8Dsf0usoMN33om6E2q3yGyzf_-UYH1r8p7J-YV3KhpeRbNStMGiFvdd-UICHWnIBPjvw5Eu6CgAsIvtsxQn95qwnndsWrHd8VD7PZ_9tmNfWlO_fM1eHYgYhiB/s200/Karren.jpg" width="142" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Monaco; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://alenier.blogspot.com/">KARREN LaLONDE ALENIER</a>, poet, librettist and innovator of educational programs, specializes in creative work related to Gertrude Stein. Since 2003, she has been writing The Steiny Road to Operadom, a monthly column on Gertrude Stein and opera for Scene4.com. She is author of five volumes of poetry, with a sixth — <i>On a Bed of Gardenias: Jane & Paul Bowles </i>— forthcoming January 2012. Her opera <i>Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On</i> premiered in New York in 2005 with a good review from the New York Times. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Monaco; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word Works is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit literary organization publishing contemporary poetry in artistic editions and sponsoring public programs for more than 35 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Monaco; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587495443257613694.post-2819590640373528052011-09-21T11:49:00.002-04:002011-09-21T12:00:26.130-04:00Cafe Muse Celebrates Fine Poets September & October<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">September 19, 2011, at Café Muse, The Word Works had the pleasure of hearing <span style="font-size: 13pt;">poets <a href="http://www.snydercamp.com/">Megan Synder Camp</a> and <a href="http://michelewolf.com/">Michele Wolf</a> read from their new books as well as host <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/09/greg-mcbride-wins-liam-rector-prize-terence-winch.html">Greg McBride</a> who gave moving tribute to our recently departed friend <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ann-b-knox-writer-and-teacher-of-poetry-and-short-fiction-dies-at-85/2011/05/29/AG5SxzEH_story.html">Ann Knox</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the opening poems from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Forest of Sure Things</i> by Megan Snyder-Camp:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTIG4RxC5ZpmQDg7OszKa83ppil8A_x0mP11mIBzVkko-QXA4pEPWm1mLV0zoNhD6j14BccSPHfn6cLN8xO4_u5QBUjBoUDWZkpfbr9pCLYnF3xhASMy_0Ejhu7rrRZZ7FGA5tAzgINxy5/s1600/forest225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTIG4RxC5ZpmQDg7OszKa83ppil8A_x0mP11mIBzVkko-QXA4pEPWm1mLV0zoNhD6j14BccSPHfn6cLN8xO4_u5QBUjBoUDWZkpfbr9pCLYnF3xhASMy_0Ejhu7rrRZZ7FGA5tAzgINxy5/s200/forest225.jpg" width="133" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SEA CREATURES OF THE DEEP</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O sockeye O rock sole O starry flounder<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O red Irish lord O spiny lumpsucker <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear threespine stickleback, sweet broken-backed shrimp—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hear the dreadful voices from the balcony. You’re the blind<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">taking the bull by the horns. You’re snow on a stick,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a stuck jukebox, a ribbon-swamped trike. O gum boot,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O lemon peel nudibranch—do not fear the leafy horn-mouth;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dogwinkle and moon snail walk the floor and burn their bridges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lonely whitecap limpet, days are not true. You stand on one foot,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we brush past. To live a life is not to walk across a field.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pity the ghost shrimp, heart on his sleeve, or the glassy sea squirt,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">run through with tears. O to have gathered no moss, to know a clam’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">muddy joy. You shut with a snap, you blur with silt, you poke <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">among barnacles. A bunch of one-trick ponies, even brave wolf-eel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cornered, the plainfin midshipman sings when afraid. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They say it fears only the elusive cloud sponge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzB4USSZDhK0uq8CLTcSxsw6zlnLVKpAm8C97F_I-2MONNKzTsdcjJe5RAiNjzFfdMdKYh01SLSCCKuLMtANhBSjgA8RpdMPz5F7GWMo1lHEzBzB4a2Yjf0-pe6FE4PYNmDheSWpP7F16j/s1600/Immersion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzB4USSZDhK0uq8CLTcSxsw6zlnLVKpAm8C97F_I-2MONNKzTsdcjJe5RAiNjzFfdMdKYh01SLSCCKuLMtANhBSjgA8RpdMPz5F7GWMo1lHEzBzB4a2Yjf0-pe6FE4PYNmDheSWpP7F16j/s200/Immersion.jpg" width="134" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://wordworksdc.com/books2.html#immersion">Immersion</a></i> by <span style="font-size: 13pt;">Michele Wolf: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wave is as vast as the roiling mass in the Japanese
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Print they had paused in front of at the museum,
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Capped with ringlets of foam, all surging sinew.
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That little village along the shore would be
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Totally lost. There is no escaping this.
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wave is flooding his heart,
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greg McBride read two poems by Ann Knox and in this video, you can hear one of these. Note the photo of Ann that Greg brought to the reading. It was taken at Ann’s last reading on the day of her death. Ann was a great asset to our literary community and we miss her very much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our our <a href="http://wordworksbooks.org/">next program is October 3</a><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> with </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">poets <b><a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/749">Linda Pastan</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-shore">Jane Shore</a></b> with tribute to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Darr">Ann Darr</a>.</span></span></div>Karren Alenierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397066137920309207noreply@blogger.com0