http://jacketmagazine.com/05/mina-iv.html
E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Sun, October 31, 2010 -- 3:46 PM ET ----- Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy Counselor and Wordsmith, Dies at 82 Theodore C. Sorensen, who was a close adviser and counselor to John F. Kennedy for 11 years, writing words and giving voice to ideas that shaped the president's image and legacy, died Sunday. He was 82. Mr. Sorensen said he suspected the headline on his obituary would read: "Theodore Sorenson, Kennedy Speechwriter," misspelling his name and misjudging his work. "I was never just a speechwriter," he said in an interview with The New York Times in 2007. He was best known for working with Mr. Kennedy on passages of soaring rhetoric, including the 1961 inaugural address proclaiming that "the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" and challenging citizens: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Mr. Sorensen drew on the Bible, the Gettysburg Address and the words of Thomas Jefferson and Winston Churchill as he helped hone and polish that speech. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na
October 31, 2010
Tricycle Daily Dharma
Jack Engler, "Just As It Is"
Tricycle Daily Dharma
The Energies That Keep Us Alive
The energies that keep us alive are joy, generosity, compassion, curiosity, truthfulness, serenity, equanimity, wakefulness, one-pointedness, and impeccability—the qualities of mind that Buddhist teaching sometimes calls paramitas, or perfections, or sometimes bojjhangas, the factors of enlightenment. They are qualities of awakened mind as well as qualities that can be cultivated to aid awakening.Jack Engler, "Just As It Is"
Saturday, October 30, 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010
The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery at the Washington DCJCC presents:
A Night of Poetry in the Bronfman
In conjunction with the exhibition Memory of a time I did not know… which showcases works on paper by artist Miriam Mörsel Nathan, the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery will be hosting A Night of Poetry in the Bronfman on November 21, 2010 at 5 PM.
Miriam Mörsel Nathan’s work deals with the themes of memory and post-memory. Being a poet, her art has a lyrical quality to it. The images are poems themselves. This poetry reading will also reflect on the theme of memory and the many forms in which it comes.
During the reading, each poet will have ten minutes to read one or a series of poems. Some of the poets who will be reading include: Mörsel Nathan, E. Ethelbert Miller, Simone Jacobson, Derrick Weston-Brown and Bassey Ikpi.
Presented in partnership with the 16th Street
We are still looking for participants. If you are interested in participating in this poetry reading, please contact Dafna Steinberg at (202) 777-3208 or at dafnas@washingtondcjcc.org.
Contact
Dafna Steinberg
Gallery Director
T.: (202) 777-3208
Email: dafnas@washingtondcjcc.org
1529 Sixteenth Street NW
Metro: Red Line, Dupont Circle
Website: http://www.washingtondcjcc.org/gallery
WENDY AND ME:
Pier Review: E. Ethelbert Miller's Love of Poetry | NBC Washington
Oct 27, 2010 ... Wendy Rieger sits down on the pier with E. Ethelbert Miller. ... NBC4 Washington has announced that NBC Washington Nonstop, ...
www.nbcwashington.com/.../Pier_Review__E__Ethelbert_Miller_s_Love_of
www.nbcwashington.com/.../Pier_Review__E__Ethelbert_Miller_s_Love_of
The M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore Reading Series, Fall 2010 presents AMY HEMPEL Monday, November 8 7 p.m. Hilda and Michael Bogomolny Room UB Student Center, 5th Floor 21 W. Mt. Royal Avenue Free and open to the public. This reading is sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Visiting Scholars Fund and the Klein Family Fund. For more information, go to www.ubalt.edu/creativewriting; www.ubalt.edu; or email jcrooks@ubalt.edu.
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Local Commuter Alert: McPherson Square Metro station closed due to suspicious package
October 29, 2010 6:28:24 AM
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The McPherson Square Metro station has been closed due to a suspicious package outside the station. Expect delays on the Blue and Orange lines.
According to Metro, trains are continuing through the station without stopping. Shuttle bus service has been requested.
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/O914NF/0G8LOI/HYLG0A/59YLUA/UZW5T/KI/h
For more information, visit PostLocal.com
Local Commuter Alert: McPherson Square Metro station closed due to suspicious package
October 29, 2010 6:28:24 AM
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The McPherson Square Metro station has been closed due to a suspicious package outside the station. Expect delays on the Blue and Orange lines.
According to Metro, trains are continuing through the station without stopping. Shuttle bus service has been requested.
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/O914NF/0G8LOI/HYLG0A/59YLUA/UZW5T/KI/h
For more information, visit PostLocal.com
It's Friday and I'm trying to "hit" myself out of a slump. A letter of recommendation to write, several books and manuscripts to read, and comments to send back to fellow writers. A tenure evaluation to begin ( a huge amount of work), reviewing and selecting poems to read on November 20th ("BertDay" at Busboys), a big pile of leisure books to read - yes the Willie Mays biography is quietly waiting on deck...
But first I need to pull my notes together and prepare for my memoir workshop that is next week on the campus of Howard University.
Next trip - Texas in December.
So I've been listening to Sekou Sundiata's LONG STORY SHORT.
I miss my brother poet. We met back in 1974 - I think it was at the 6th Pan African Congress. He took a picture of me talking with South African poet Dennis Brutus. The photograph remains - so many of us gone. Even the photographers.
Yesterday I met Malik Washington. It's always exciting to meet students who make the future look bright. Here is a link to his blog:
www.normativechaos.com
www.normativechaos.com
REPUBLICAN TAKE DOWN?
One thing that no one seems to be talking about is the possible "death" of the Republican Party. Let's not talk about seats in Congress, but instead concern ourselves with ideas. Where are the "new" ideas from the GOP going to come from? We are talking about ideas that will help them govern and get the nation back on track. How can the Republicans be the party of the future if they only want to go back to 1773. What does the GOP have to say to people of color? Does Sarah Palin have any black friends? Notice how Karl Rove is openly critical of Palin. When will she go away? No way this woman could ever be elected president. Who would join her Administration? Best to take her down now with a Rove drone before 2012.
One thing that no one seems to be talking about is the possible "death" of the Republican Party. Let's not talk about seats in Congress, but instead concern ourselves with ideas. Where are the "new" ideas from the GOP going to come from? We are talking about ideas that will help them govern and get the nation back on track. How can the Republicans be the party of the future if they only want to go back to 1773. What does the GOP have to say to people of color? Does Sarah Palin have any black friends? Notice how Karl Rove is openly critical of Palin. When will she go away? No way this woman could ever be elected president. Who would join her Administration? Best to take her down now with a Rove drone before 2012.
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Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Copper Canyon Press poet W.S. Merwin, appointed 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, by The Library of Congress. PBS interview
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Breaking News Alert: FCC reaches record settlement with Verizon Wireless over 'mystery' fees
October 28, 2010 2:20:12 PM
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The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it has reached a record $25 million settlement with Verizon Wireless for wrongly charging subscribers "mystery" Internet fees over the past several years.
The payment is the largest in FCC history and the settlement concludes the agency’s 10-month investigation into these overcharges, the agency said in a press release.
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/0H2RO6/EWXZOQ/L9G0A5/1YWM36/X5KEN/YT/h
Breaking News Alert: FCC reaches record settlement with Verizon Wireless over 'mystery' fees
October 28, 2010 2:20:12 PM
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The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it has reached a record $25 million settlement with Verizon Wireless for wrongly charging subscribers "mystery" Internet fees over the past several years.
The payment is the largest in FCC history and the settlement concludes the agency’s 10-month investigation into these overcharges, the agency said in a press release.
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/0H2RO6/EWXZOQ/L9G0A5/1YWM36/X5KEN/YT/h
DON'T JUST PAINT, WRITE, DANCE OR SING. ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE!
Dear Colleague, In Fiscal Year ‘09 the city funded the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) at $13,257,583. In FY ’10, the city funded the DCCAH at $5,833,610. In FY ’11, the city budgeted the DCCAH at $4,940,310. Three weeks ago the city cut arts funding for a fourth time in three years, reducing the FY 11 allocation for the DCCAH to $4,495,889. And right now the mayor is preparing a gap-closing budget, for consideration by the city council in November, which could cut the arts even further. Please join the DC Advocates for the Arts on Wednesday November 6th from 4-5:00pm at the Studio Gallery (2108 R. St. NW – Dupont Circle) to help craft an advocacy strategy to respond to this latest round of arts funding cuts. RSVP to steering@dcadvocatesforthearts.org requested but not required, and please forward to your colleagues. Sincerely, Rob Bettmann, Chair DC Advocates for the Arts
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Thu, October 28, 2010 -- 1:30 PM ET ----- Firms Knew of Cement Flaws Before Spill, Panel Says Halliburton and BP knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said on Thursday. In the first official finding of responsibility for the blowout, which killed 11 workers and led to the largest offshore oil spill in American history, the commission staff determined that Halliburton had conducted three laboratory tests that indicated that the cement mixture did not meet industry standards. The result of at least one of those tests was given on March 8 to BP, which failed to act upon it, the panel's lead investigator, Fred H. Bartlit Jr., said in a letter delivered to the commissioners on Thursday. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na
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The Killens Review of Arts & Letters, published by the Center for Black Literature, is a journal dedicated to supporting the mission and work of the John Oliver Killens Chair. The objective of the Chair is to provide short residencies for literary writers/activists who embody the vision and spirit of the late John Oliver Killens. Through the Killens Review of Arts & Letters and the John Oliver Killens Chair, writers and students will have opportunities to create and expand the canon of literature produced by writers of color.
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POETRY AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
2010-2011 Poetry at Noon series continues with a November program entitled "Insider/Outsider Experiences." David Gewanter, Carol V. Davis and Joseph Ross will use poetry to convey what it feels like to be an insider or an outsider. The event takes place on Tuesday, November 16 at 12:00 noon in the Whittall Pavilion in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE in Washington, DC. The event is free and tickets are not required.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I corresponded with her yesterday.
www.kitchenprimer.blogspot.com
MEET ME AT THE AWP: Here are the panels I will be on next year. YOUR EVENT SCHEDULE Below is your event title(s), as well as their scheduled day, time, and room. All events will take place at either the Marriott Wardman Park or the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Schedule requests cannot be considered at this date. Event Title #1: Shaping a Life: Voice, Structure and Craft in Memoir Scheduled Day: Saturday, February 5 Scheduled Time: 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM Scheduled Room: Diplomat BR, Omni Event Title #2: The Way We See D.C.: African American Writers' Riffs on Living in the Nation's Capital Scheduled Day: Saturday, February 5 Scheduled Time: 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM Scheduled Room: Diplomat BR, Omni
