HERE COMES THE REAL BIG READ

THE WRITER'S CENTER  - STAFF OPEN DOOR READING

SUNDAY, JUNE 23RD AT 2 PM.

The Writer's Center is located at 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, Maryland

Genevieve DeLeon, Jill Leiniger, Mia Cortez, Zachary Fernebok, Laura Spencer, Stewart Moss, John Hamilton, and Sunil Freeman

THE SCHOLARS

AN INTERVIEW WITH ANA JARA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhWl8w2BEQ

THE 5 E-RULES

1. Talk less.

2. Read more.

3. Write more.

4. Make more.

5. Spend less

HAITI IN A TIME OF CHOLERA

Does anyone care?
Cholera has killed 8,000 people and sickened 649,000 since October 2010.

How many days left?

NEW STUDIO CELEBRATION AND OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, March 24, 12–5 p.m.

411 New York Avenue NE, Third Floor
Washington, D.C. 20002 
 

MICHELINE KLAGSBRUN
RAYE LEITH 
The Tuesday Night Group
and more... 

Please enter through the side of the building. If you are driving east on New York Avenue, heading out of town, cross the major intersection with Florida and First (past McDonalds), drive up the bridge past the construction, and turn right on 4th Street NE (the first traffic light you see). PNC Bank is on that corner. As soon as you have turned, make an immediate left turn into the parking area of 411 NY Ave. (The General Type building). Drive around to the far side to enter.

Park anywhere around the building. If there are no spaces, there should be plenty more parking available at PNC Bank or in the adjacent Union Market area.

Plan to visit the renovated Union Market building too - enjoy the new Oyster Bar, artisanal cheeses, a local creamery and bakery, handmade cupcakes, TaKorean,  sandwiches, spices, a wine bar and many more artisanal foods, drinks and crafts.

 

THE WRITER'S CENTER

After my board meeting at The Writer's Center (Bethesda, Maryland) yesterday I stayed for the afternoon poetry reading with Anya Achtenberg, Carmen Calatayud and Truth Thomas. Sunil Freeman did the introductions. I took a few pictures:

SUNIL FREEMAN photo by Ethelbert

ANYA ACHTENBERG photo by Ethelbert

TRUTH THOMAS photo by Ethelbert

THE COMICS

Tricycle Daily Dharma March 18, 2013

Breaking the Chain of Suffering Our suffering was not caused by our parents or grandparents. It was merely passed down. We are social animals. We grow through modeling. We teach what we have learned. We act as we have been acted upon. A person who is not loving has not experienced love. It is not his fault. Realizing this gives rise to forgiveness. And in Chan we vow that suffering will stop with us. We will not pass it down. - Guo Jun, "A Special Transmission"

QUOTE OF THE DAY

We are already ankle-deep in the future.

     - Bill Keller, The New York Times, 3/17/2013

POET LORE AND JODY BOLZ

http://www.writer.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=1152

G IN DC photo by Ethelbert

RACE

I saw Mamet's play "Race" at the DCJCC this afternoon. Excellent. One of the best plays I've seen in a spell. A strong cast. Ari Roth does it again with Theater J.
www.washingtondcjcc.org/RaceinAmerica

CUBAN NEWS

Yoani Sanchez, Cuban Blogger, Plans Independent Newspaper Online

 

giovanni singleton ascending...

http://poetryflash.org/reviews/?p=PINSON-Journey_with_Alice-SINGLETON_Ascension

I must have missed the movie trailer.
Why is North Korea such a serious threat to the US now?
Did we kick sand in someone's face in the playground last week?

Union Station

After all the arrivals and departures

It’s just you and the homeless

If there was a ticket in your pocket-

Where would you go?

The small black bag at your feet

Wags its tail

-         E. Ethelbert Miller

IS THAT A DRONE IN YOUR POCKET?

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2013/03/we-have-officially-entered-the-drone-era/

Poetry's tense relationship with e-readers Washington Post Washington poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller insists there is a difference between his poem “Before Hip Hop” when it is shown like this: Before ...

Washington Post

FROM E-CHANNEL TO E-BOOK

The E-Channel will be published around next January by Dzanc Books as an ebook with the title The Words and Wisdom of Charles Johnson.

Here is the link to the E-Channel: http://ethelbert-miller.blogspot.com