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E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
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| RAYMOND ANDREWS |
Yesterday I met Jesse Freeman. He gave me a copy of his film - SOMEBODY ELSE, SOMEWHERE ELSE/THE RAYMOND ANDREWS STORY.
Highly recommended. Andrews was a talented African American novelist who committed suicide in 1991.
Here is a link to information about him:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-997
Tricycle Daily Dharma
Right effort is effort with wisdom. Because where there is wisdom, there is interest. The desire to know something is wisdom at work. Being mindful is not difficult. But it’s difficult to be continuously aware. For that you need right effort. But it does not require a great deal of energy. It’s relaxed perseverance in reminding yourself to be aware. When you are aware, wisdom unfolds naturally, and there is still more interest.
Sayadaw U Tejaniya, "The Wise Investigator"
What is Right Effort?
Sayadaw U Tejaniya, "The Wise Investigator"
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| Dear E., We've just posted our second podcast. This month features the "voice of books" on National Public Radio, Alan Cheuse, discussing his latest novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert−which publishes this month. Listen to the podcast here. March is going to be a busy month. Our Publications & Communications Coordinator & in-house graphic designer, Maureen Punte, is laying out the Summer issue of the Workshop & Event Guide, featuring ALL summer workshops. Look for it in your mailboxes by the end of the month (if you subscribe), or online at Writer.org if you don't subscribe. In the issue, you can expect articles by Beltway Quarterly's Kim Roberts (on great venues for readings in the DC area) and Donald Bliss (on Mark Twain). I'll also have a piece about our PEN World Voices Event upcoming in May, an event that features writers from Sudan, Sweden, and Mexico. And you'll be able to read about our new Rockville AND Annapolis workshops. Good stuff all around. But we have plenty of workshops coming up this month as well, including Zahara Heckscher's Writers' Staycation, Shannon O'Neill's How2 Find a Literary Agent, the Songwriters' Woodshed with Cathy Fink, and much more. Find All March workshops here. EventsThere are plenty of events this month, too. On Friday, March 4th−yes, that's THIS Friday−we kick off our Story/Stereo events for 2011. Emerging Writer Fellowship recipients Matthew Pitt (Pitt's leading a one-day fiction workshop) (Attention Please Now) and James Hannaham (God Says No) will read. Musical guest is The Caribbean, and they're releasing a new album called "Discontinued Perfume." It's getting great reviews, like this one at Pitchfork. Feel free to visit our recently retooled Story/Stereo Facebook page, like it, and share it with others. Also on tap this month: Our Open Door Readings Sun, March 6, 2:00 PMKim Kupperman reads from her recent collection of essays, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings. She is joined by poet J.H. Beall, who reads from Republic. Register for this free event here.Sunday, March 13, 2:00 P.MPoetry publication reading with visiting author Jeanne Marie Beaumont, who reads from Burning of the Three Fires, and Michele Wolf, reading from Immersion. Register for this free event here.Sunday, March 20, 2:00 P.M.Join editor Joelle Biele in a reading from the recently published Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Readers will include Dana Gioia, Sandra Beasley, David Gewanter, and others to be announced. Register for this free event here.Sunday, March 27, 2:00 P.M.Terese Svoboda reads from her latest novel, Pirate Talk or Mermalade. She is joined by Jane Satterfield, whose most recent book is a memoir, Daughter of Empire. Register for this free event here.PublicationsWe've got a couple news items to share. First, member Elisabeth Murawski, who recently wrote for First Person Plural, and her poem, “Emma Hardy Speaks from the Grave,” has won Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia poets. It will appear on Shenandoah's Web site soon. Congratulations, Elisabeth.New member Amin Ahmad, who recently moved here from Boston, has a new story, "A Taste of Revolution," in the New England Review. And finally, board member Ann McLaughlin has a new book coming out this April, A Trial in Summer. She will be reading at The Writer's Center in May with one of her former students, Alan Orloff, who also has a new book coming out around then−Killer Routine. For more details on Ann's book, visit her Web site. Hope to see you around The Writer's Center here in March! All best, Kyle | ||
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JOYFUL NEWS:
Greetings Poetry Friends and Family,
I am happy to share the email below from Patrick D. McCoy, The African-American Voice in Classical Music, which announces "a magnificent collaboration" of the poetry of Langston Hughes with classical music performances by The Washington Chorus.
Blessings,
Sistah Joy
"The African-American Voice in Classical Music, Patrick D. McCoy is proud to support this magnificent collaboration and hope that you will share with your networks about this celebration of word and song.
The Washington Chorus partners with The Coalition for African-Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) to celebrate the legacy of beloved poet Langston Hughes with noted composer Elena Reuhr
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Washington Chorus will sponsor a series of free lectures throughout the Washington, D. C. area in preparation for its special April 3rd concert at the National Presbyterian Church. This season’s Music for A New Age concert will feature several beloved literary works, including a musical setting of Langston Hughes’ poem “Gospel Cha Cha,” by noted composer Elena Reuhr. Music director Julian Wachner will conduct the Grammy® award winning Washington Chorus and orchestra with internationally acclaimed African-American baritone Stephen Salters featured as soloist. Salters most recently was presented in recital by Vocal Arts DC in the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center.
Committed to providing musical enjoyment to the entire community and the welcoming of diversity to its concert audiences, The Washington Chorus has partnered with the Coalition for African-Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) in selected lectures designed to provide additional educational opportunities from the African-American perspective. “Our goal is to expose the African American community to classical music in different ways”, stated Pamela T. Simonson, CAAPA Co-Founder with her brother musician Victor Simonson.
Representatives of the Coalition for African-Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) will be on hand to personally welcome the community at the following lectures:
Thursday, MARCH 10TH,
9:00 am – 10:00 am Howard University Department of Music
Childres Hall, Room 3001
2455 6th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Info: 202-806-7095
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission MNCPPC - Harmony Hall Regional Center
Battersea Room
10701 Livingston Road
Fort Washington, MD 20744
Info: 301-203-6040
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm University of District of Columbia
Department of Performing Arts
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW
Fine Arts Building 46 West, Room A03
Washington, DC 20008
Info: 202-274-5803
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Levine School of Music – Levine
THEARC (Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus)
Recital Hall, 2nd Floor 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Suite 201 Washington, DC 20020 Info: 202-610-2036
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Clifton Park Baptist Church
Main Sanctuary
8818 Piney Branch Road
Silver Spring, MD
(Reception Immediately Following)
Info: 301-434-2456
The first thirty attendees at each lecture will receive FREE tickets to attend the upcoming concert performed by The Washington Chorus “New Music for a New Age” featuring Reuhr’s works including the Hughes poem along with other works by Emily Dickinson “Cricket, Spider, Bee” and “Averno”, a world premiere with text by Louis Gluck at National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 5:00 pm. For complete listing of all lecture locations, please visit http://www.thewashingtonchorus.org or call the CAAPA offices at (301) 203-0929.
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Nikky Finney, who is profiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads a poem from her new collection, Head Off & Split.
"I used to think I had to have important events to write about, I had to be taken by pirates or something," says one of the participants in a writing workshop for seniors that Poets & Writers has funded for more than a decade. Check out this short video featuring an inspiring group of writers.
"Don't take notes," says novelist Justin Taylor. Let him explain it to you in the latest installment of Writers Recommend.
If you want to gain some perspective on the state of American poetry, please check out The National Book Foundation's series of short essays on books that have won the National Book Award.
THE 29TH ANNUAL IN CELEBRATION OF THE MUSE
A BENEFIT FOR POETRY SANTA CRUZ
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Presented by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Dena Taylor
Sponsored by Cabrillo College English Department
Cabrillo Music Recital Hall
6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos
$16/Advance, $18/Door, $8 with Cabrillo Student Activity Card
Tickets available at: Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Cafe, Crossroads Books and Poetry Santa Cruz events.
Readers will include: Kate Aver Avraham, Terri Drake, Marilyn Robertson, Ellen Treen, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, Peggy Heinrich, Julie Hannah Brower, Beth Benjamin, April Reed, Jessica Woods, Patricia Zylius, Kim Scheiblauer, Ellen Bass, Wilma Marcus Chandler, Angie Boissevain, Susan Freeman, Jo-Ann Birch, Maggie Paul, Lisa Allen Ortiz, Danusha Laméris.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
TOP NEWS
Qaddafi's Forces Hit Back at Rebels
By KAREEM FAHIM and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces struck back at his opponents with special forces, regular army troops and, rebels said, fighter jets, in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya a step closer to civil war.
THERE ARE E-NOTES AND OF NOTES:
http://ofnotemagazine.wordpress.com/the-team-behind-the-of-note-movement/
http://ofnotemagazine.wordpress.com/the-team-behind-the-of-note-movement/
THE POOR IS OUT, IS CLASS STILL IN SESSION?
How the middle class became the underclass - Feb. 16, 2011
How the middle class became the underclass - Feb. 16, 2011
TAMPA TOO?
This March 4-5, we are holding major pickets and marches in Tampa to put pressure on Publix to do the right thing. Farmworkers from Immokalee, their families, and supporters from around the Tampa Bay area, the state of Florida, and beyond will come together for these actions.
This March 4-5, we are holding major pickets and marches in Tampa to put pressure on Publix to do the right thing. Farmworkers from Immokalee, their families, and supporters from around the Tampa Bay area, the state of Florida, and beyond will come together for these actions.
March 1, 2011
Tricycle Daily Dharma
Beginning students commonly ask how they can honestly vow to save all beings. It sounds like missionary arrogance. Hui-neng [the Sixth Zen Patriarch] offers a response: "You are saving them in your own mind." It is bodhichitta that you are cultivating—your own aspiration for wisdom and compassion, and your determination to practice it in the world as best you can.
Robert Aitken Roshi, "The Bodhisattva Vows"
Tricycle Daily Dharma
The Bodhisattva Vow
Robert Aitken Roshi, "The Bodhisattva Vows"
