rooftoppoets:

Poet’s on the Roof: A Literary Salon

You are invited to a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books; join the Rooftop Poets for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.

Come prepared to participate in engaging dialogue about art, books, literature and life. Discussions will be lead by Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden. Please bring work by someone you admire or something you’ve written to share at the salon.

Snacks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided, along with music by Mattick Frick and the Bloodroot Orkaestarr.

$10.00 admission includes all food and beverages.

Join us Friday, February 18, 8:00pm – 11:00pm at the historic Battery Park Hotel, 1 Battle Square, Asheville, NC (located north of the Grove Arcade building).

For more info or to register for the salon, visit the Facebook events page or email: coffeehousejunkie@gmail.com

Fri., Feb. 18, 8PM Poet’s on the Roof: A Literary Salon

rooftoppoets:

You are invited to a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books; join the Rooftop Poets for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.

Full details of the event are provided on this web page.

For more info, visit the Facebook events page or email: coffeehousejunkie@gmail.com

This week: Poets on the Roof: A Literary Salon

You are invited to a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books; join the Rooftop Poets for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.

Come prepared to participate in engaging dialogue about art, books, literature and life. Discussions will be lead by Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden. Please bring work by someone you admire or something you’ve written to share at the salon.

Snacks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided, along with music by Mattick Frick and the Bloodroot Orkaestarr.

$10.00 admission includes all food and beverages.

Join us Friday, February 18, 8:00pm – 11:00pm at the historic Battery Park Hotel, 1 Battle Square, Asheville, NC (located north of the Grove Arcade building).

Design: bookshelf/nightstand

52books:

Apartment Therapy has a pretty decent project for turning an old drawer into a new bookshelf/nightstand. But like my old stand, you still can’t hide much in it.

(Source: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/bedroom/bedside-bookshelf-foundonthestreet-drawer-135910)

Rooftop Poets reading this Friday

rooftoppoets:

Will the Rooftop Poets love poems? You’ll have to come and find out.

The Rooftop Poets perform at Accent on Books on Fri., Feb. 11, 6 PM. Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden will be accompanied by special guest musician Mattick Frick.

This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

Next week: Poets on the Roof: A Literary Salon

If you’re using Facebook or Twitter, you may have heard that the Rooftop Poets are gearing up for some big gigs in Asheville.

Tomorrow’s reading at Accent on Books is just the beginning.

Friday, February 18th, the Rooftop Poets host a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel.

Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re are a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books prepare for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.

More details will be provided soon.

Megan McIsaac Photography

meganmcisaac:

bedside table.
portland, oregon.
january 2011. 

#tea

How To Make a Decent Cup of Tea

Quote: John Steinbeck

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

John Steinbeck (via theparisreview)

Rain, Donald Hall

poetry365:

Curled on the sofa,
In the fetal position, Jane wept day
And night, night and day.
I could not touch her; I could do nothing.
Melancholia fell
Like rain over Ireland for week
Without end.
I never
Belittled her sorrows or joshed at
Her dreads and miseries.
How admirable I found myself.

22 Pages

That’s the size of today’s Asheville Citizen-Times. Monday’s newspaper was only 20 pages. And most of what I read is reprinted content from USA Today or AP. AC-T is a city newspaper that barely prints city news. When will AC-T print something the people of Asheville want to read? 

What I learned from Facebook today

Apparently people on Facebook like to read fortune cookies, horoscope and bible verses, and watch a lot of Youtube videos. 

One reason for writing, of course, is that no one’s written what you want to read.

Philip Larkin (via theparisreview)

#avl #avlwx #avlsnomg Remember that 10% grade snomaghetto road I couldn’t navigate at 6AM. Makes a perfect sled (or luge) run at 2PM.

#avl #avlwx #avlsnomg At 6AM I realized I wasn’t going to make it out of the snomaghetto. May not look like it but that’s a 10% grade slope.

In Those Days, Randall Jarrell

In those days—they were long ago—
The snow was cold, the night was black.
I licked from my cracked lips
A snowflake, as I looked back

Through branches, the last uneasy snow.
Your shadow, there in the light, was still.
In a little the light went out.
I went on, stumbling—till at last the hill

Hid the house. And, yawning,
In bed in my room, alone,
I would look out: over the quilted
Rooftops, the clear stars shone.

How poor and miserable we were,
How seldom together!
And yet after so long one thinks:
In those days everything was better.

(via Poetry 365: In Those Days, Randall Jarrell)

npr:  After The Crisis, An Economist Reconsiders Cappuccino  Oh, Planet Money, you had me at “cappuccino.” –wrightbryan3

(Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/12/17/132115320/after-the-crisis-an-economist-reconsiders-cappuccino)

malty: every damn day

(Source: http://weheartit.com/entry/5094668)

Poetry at The Pulp featuring Pat Riviere-Seel

Tonight at 7 PM, Poetry at The Pulp features Pat Riviere-Seel. The reading is followed by an open-mic. So, if you can not make the trip to Warren Wilson College, hangout at the Orange Peel’s members-only club, The Pulp, and enjoy an evening of poetry.

Tonight, 8:15PM, free public reading at Warren Wilson College

This morning Kevin McIlvoy and Alan Shapiro presented lectures as part of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. [1] Tonight, Dean Bakopoulos, Martha Rhodes, Alix Ohlin, and Ellen Bryant Voigt read their work at 8:15 PM at the Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel. [2]

[1] The complete Public Lecture Schedule for The MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College – Winter 2011 [2] The Public Reading Schedule – Winter 2011

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Free public readings at Warren Wilson College

The last few years I’ve taken advantage of the free public readings by guest poets and writers at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. It’s free and open to the general public.

A few years ago I heard Marianne Boruch present a lecture discussing ars poetica in contemporary and American poetry. It opened my eyes to the poetic process. Another year I heard a poet deliver a lecture for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and then, months later, discovered an essay based on that lecture printed in a notable literary journal. I thought to myself, I heard it first before it made print!

One evening [1] I heard Mark Jarman, Stephen Dobyns and Percival Everett read new and or forthcoming work. And yet another time, I heard a lecture by Maurice Manning [2] that continues to haunt me. I think back to some of the other notable readings, [3] notable to me at least, and chart the influence [4] of some poets in my work.

One poet who was a regular guest of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College was Steve Orlen. He passed away recently [5] [6] [7] and I’ll miss hearing him read “I Love You. Who Are You?”? [8]

What I find amusing is that the public readings don’t attract larger crowds. Maybe this is one of Asheville’s best kept secrets.

[1] The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College public readings — Winter 2007 [2] The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College public readings — Winter 2008 [3] The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College public readings — Winter 2008 [4] The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College public readings — Summer 2010 [5] Arizona Daily Star [6] Best American Poetry Blog [7] Laura Hope-Gill’s Tweet [8] Anthologized in Best American Poetry 2005

The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College Public Reading Schedule – Winter 2011

Twice a year, the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College offers public readings by guest lecturers and graduating students. Here’s the schedule for this year (as posted on their web site):

Monday, January 3, 8:00pm – in Gladfelter, Canon Lounge
Antonya Nelson, Dana Levin, Patrick Somerville, Maurice Manning

Tuesday, January 4, 8:15pm – Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel
Rick Barot, Michael Parker, Eleanor Wilner, Megan Staffel

Wednesday, January 5, 8:15pm – Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel
Dean Bakopoulos, Martha Rhodes, Alix Ohlin, Ellen Bryant Voigt

Thursday, January 6, 8:15pm – Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel
Brooks Haxton, Karen Brennan, Alan Shapiro, Stacey D’Erasmo

Friday, January 7, 8:15pm – Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel
Debra Allbery, Liam Callanan, Jennifer Grotz, C.J. Hribal

Saturday, January 8, 6:00pm – “Fastest Readings in the World” with MFA Faculty at  Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood Street, Asheville.

Sunday, January 9, 8:15pm – in Gladfelter, Canon Lounge
Marianne Boruch, David Haynes, C. Dale Young, Kevin McIlvoy

Monday, January 10, 8:15pm – Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel
Graduating fiction student readings: Zoe Lasden-Lyman, Scott Nadelson, Brian Tai

Tuesday, January 11, 8:15pm – Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel
Graduating poetry student readings: Leslie Contreras Schwartz, RJ Gibson, Jenny Johnson, Glenis Redmond

Wednesday, January 12  –  4:30pm, followed by Graduation Ceremony
Graduating student readings:  Diana Lueptow, Nathan Poole, Andy Young

Public Lecture Schedule for The MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College – Winter 2011

In the past, I’ve enjoyed lectures from notable poets like Marianne Boruch and Maurice Manning. This year the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College offers public readings by the following guest lecturers:

All lectures will be held in the Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel unless indicated otherwise.

Tuesday, January 4
MARIANNE BORUCH:  The End Inside It
11:15am

Wednesday, January 5
KEVIN McILVOY: Sentencing & Summoning: Reflections on the Sentence and the Poetic Line
9:30am

Wednesday, January 5
ALAN SHAPIRO:  Technique of Empathy: Free Indirect Style in Poetry
10:45am

Friday, January 7
MICHAEL PARKER:  Transvestite Hermaphrobite: All Hail the Semi-Colon
9:30am

Tuesday, January 11
STACEY D’ERASMO:  On the Unsayable
9:30am

Tuesday, January 11
RICK BAROT:  The Sea and the Zebra: Visual Effects in Poems
10:45am

Wednesday, January 12
DEAN BAKOPOULOS: Hot Dog Station!  Show Show Show!: Expressionism, Exclamations, and the Lyricism of Upheaval
10:00am

Wednesday, January 12
MAURICE MANNING: Place and the Composition of Poetic Self
11:15am