Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC 2019 -2022 / 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow
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Dear friends, readers and writers,
Please come out for our first planned reading under new curatorship at Riverby Books. Mary Ann Larkin, one of DC’s best poets will be reading her poetry and poems by poets who have influenced her. We promise you a delightful evening of words.
That’s:
Tuesday, Oct. 19th 2010 @ 7PM
Mary Ann Larkin
READING FROM HER
NEW BOOK OF POEMS
Riverby Books
October 19, 2010
at 7:00 PM
Featuring Mary Ann Larkin
(202) 526-1632
or
Riverby Books (202) 543-4342
The flyer for this reading, and directions to the bookstore can be found at http://capitolhill.poetrymutual.org
As you know, we’ve taken over hosting A Space Inside, the regular monthly reading series founded by Monica Jacobe. Monica, although now teaching at Princeton University, serves in the capacity of Host Emerita.
Because the title of the series, A Space Inside, is Monica’s, we’ve decided to re-brand the series as the Capitol Hill Reading Series. With this new name we hope to retain the warm and intimate atmosphere that Monica has created, and also show that we are part of Capitol Hill, part of the community, that our interests radiate out from Capitol Hill to DC and environs, and that showcasing our rich and diverse literary world is our goal.
So, I hope to see you at Riverby this coming Tuesday, wine, refreshments and noshes will be in attendance.
Michael Gushue & Dan Vera
Co-curators of the Capitol Hill Reading Series
A SAMPLING OF LARKIN’S WORK:
BODIES
All my members felt His in full felicity.
I wholly melted away in Him.
Hadewijch of Brabant
Even the solitary mystics—
it was their bodies God came to.
Love knows no abstractions.
It licks and sucks,
wounds and devours.
Even the infant stiff with desire,
tensing and mewling, roots
in tumescent flesh, hungry
as the mystics
for bliss,
that pure white milk.
CAR RADIO
After we crossed the Tappan Zee
the New York stations came in clear,
jazz and blues and far-out
and the oldies,
the Cleveland songs that taught me lust,
the folk songs that lured you from the suburbs,
and we got that feeling
people get, driving all night
with only the headlights and the stars,
that we were young again and crazy,
and we started singing,
me, belting them out,
knowing only the words,
you, your timing and nuance and sound so fine,
so heartbreakingly fine,
singing Woody Guthrie’s old song
“This Land Is Your Land”–
that that’s when it happened.
I saw you. I saw you deep,
not the tired guy coming home from the factory,
not your neurons and muscles
but the place the song came from.
I saw where you make your song.
Poems by Mary Ann Larkin, from gods & flesh, Plan B Press
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here she is talking about the new Man Ray exhibit that opened at the Phillips a few weeks back!
check it out:
I try to keep up with all the interesting neighborhood bloggers around town, renewshaw is one that I read regularly.
When i checked it out today there was an interesting article up there about the financial woes of both the building owner and the gallerist at the well known art complex at 1515 14th Street NW.
in his/her post shaw rez suggested that the galleries should relocate to Shaw, because of lower rents (for now) and centralized buildings with architectural character. While I cannot disagree with him/her, I can think at least two other solid locations with just as much potential if not more than the 9th Street Corridor.
Firstly, the H Street Corridor, with help of the Great Streets Initiative and the efforts of a lot of good organizations and individuals H Street is quickly becoming a desired destination by those in the know and those willing to venture East of 11th and U Sts NW, not mention North Capitol Street.
Secondly, Downtown Anacostia, I know as some of you are reading this you are already scoffing at the idea but what many of you may not know is that there are already three Fine Art galleries there that have been adding to the art scene of this city for almost 4 years, Honfleur Gallery, Vivid Solutions and American Poetry Museum’s Gallery, have been showing work by locally, regionally, nationally and internationally known artists since opening their doors. Additionally they have been participating in ongoing cultural exchanges programs with artists and galleries in France (Dorothy’s Galerie), Wales, Belfast (Belfast Exposed), Cuba (Lazaro Baptisa), these collaborations have sent Washington DC and River East based youth and adult artists around the world showing their art…..
So i started thinking to myself although Shaw would be a good place move for the 14th Street galleries, i think it would be a wiser move to have those galleries plug themselves into a community that has created an international arts community without the help of all the critical attention, foot traffic, and the brut force of an economic development engine that continues to support the neighborhood. Additionally in considering Downtown Anacostia would probably give these gallerist the opportunity to buy their own space and not have to immediately worry about their taxes increasing at an alarming rate (500% in the case of another Shaw artspace, The Warehouse).
I am hopeful that someday soon business like these soon-to-be displaced galleries will come to communities further East and perhaps even as far as River East. I think they will be pleasantly surprised to find a community spawned unofficial arts district already hard at work in the heart of Downtown Anacostia.
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Showing Every Sunday in June!
Monk the Play written by Laurence Holder, starring Rome Neal and Music by Bill Lee.
Blair Mansion 7711 Eastern Ave Silver Spring MD
for more info go to www.blairmansion.com, www.monktheplay.com, www.washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com
The Ward 8 Farmers Market Cooperative is back for its 11th Season!
This and every Saturday through November 21, from 9am to 2pm, come out to purchase fresh produce, herbs and plants provided by local farmers.
We’re located at the old Congress Heights School parking lot, at Martin Luther King, Jr. and Alabama Avenues, SE.
WIC Coupons, Food Stamps and Debit Cards are accepted.
For more information, call (202) 561 – 8204 or email ward8fm@gmail.com.
Although these three albums don’t even begin to scratch the surface of Duke’s range and contribution to the world of music, they all hold a special place in my heart and in the development of musical “ear”….I will talk about this later…in the meantime go and listen to Duke and if you are DC walk down You Street, down to the Howard Theatre and Frank Holliday’s Poolroom (the old Cafe Mawonaj) where Ellington started his musical career at 14…
