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HART
ROCK Poetry Series and Open Mic
will present a reading and Open-Mike on the fourth Friday
of each month at 7:00pm unless
otherwise announced. The
event is FREE and OPEN to the Public - Come Eat Drink,
Listen, Enjoy!
The series
is produced and hosted by Patricia
C. Coleman. Patricia is a member of
5
Women Poets
and the Bloomington Storytellers Guild and has been
presenting, producing and hosting poetry and multi media
presentations for more than a decade. Previously this
series was the Runcible
Spoon Poetry Series, which she hosted
for over five years before the move to Rachael's Cafe.
Margaret Squires
became co-host and producerof the HART ROCK Poetry Series
and Open-mic in January of 2010.
For
further information about the series and future readings
contact Patricia.
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IMPROVE
YOUR PRESENTATION SKILLS!
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Patricia C. Coleman,
is available to help you improve your presentation skills
or to host your event . She's been a presenting poet
and storyteller for more than a decade performing in
coffeehouses, libraries, theaters, on college campuses,
in workship services, including an interfaith service
with the Dahlia Lama as well as presenting on radio.
She is host and
producer of Hart Rock Poetry Series and Open-mic and
previously hosted and produced the Runcible Spoon Poetry
Series for over five years before the programs move
to Rachael's Cafe.For more information e-mail
Patricia
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GREEN DOVE'S
POETS FOR PEACE
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Brown
County Pottery
58 West Franklin Street
Nashville, Indiana
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BEAN
BLOSSOM MUSIC SERIES
Music of the Spoken Word
Four Poets Present Their
Work
Patricia C. Coleman of Bloomington
Deborah Hutchison of Brown County
Matthew Jackson of Columbus
Stephen Stouder of Brown County
June 27, 2010 at 7:00 P.M.
Saint David's Episcopal Church
Intersection of 135 & 45
Bean Blossom, Indiana
For Information: 812-597-0135
Or: www.saintdavidsbeanblossom.org
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HART
ROCK Poetry Series and Open-mic Presents:
"FATHER
WORDS
and SOUNDS"
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Community
Open-mic
Share
your favorite father poems and soundslisten, and to
share favorite poems, songs and stories.
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co-hosted
and produced by
Patricia
C. Coleman and Margaret Squires
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Open-mic
readers have up to three minutes to share poems, short stories,
prose pieces, music or song.
Send
questions to poetry(at)hartrock.net
This event
is FREE and open to the public.
Check
Back for our Next Program .
Rachael's
Cafe is located at 300 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN
(812) 330-1882
Food and drinks available for
purchase.
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This
event is FREE and open to the public. Food and drinks available
for purchase.
Send
questions to poetry@hartrock.net or bloomingtonpoetry@gmail.com.
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January
22, 2010
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WINTER OPEN-MIC
- Introducing new co-host and producers,
Margaret Squires and Alison Nicole!
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26 |
Standing
on the Side of Love "Community Open-mic> |
| March
26 |
Women's
Words with Anne Haines, Deborah Pender Hutchison with
Johnathon Hutchison |
| April
23 |
Poetry Month
Celebration! with with
Peter Bethanis and Patricia C. Coleman
Peter Bethanis's
poems have appeared in over fifty literary journals
including Poetry, Tar River Poetry, Haight Ashbury Literary
Journal, Lullwater Review, Country Journal, and Cape
Rock Review among others. In 1995 he was selected by
James Dickey as winner of the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry
Prize sponsored by Negative Capability. He has been
twice selected by Joseph Parisi as a featured poet on
Poetry Magazine's website, and has been a finalist in
the National Poetry Series, The Robert Frost Poetry
Prize, and the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. He is the
author of two books, "Dada and Surrealism for Beginners"
from Random House, and a collection of poems, "American
Future," from Entasis Press. American future has
been reviewed in several literary journals including
Rattle. Peter earned his MFA from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, and has been teaching for
twenty years. He is currently a professor in the writing
program at Ball State University where he has taught
for over a decade.
Patricia C.
Coleman is a member of 5 Women Poets and became
involved in storytelling through the Bloomington Storytellers
Guild more than 15 years ago. Her poems have appeared
in a few literary journals and books including Sketchbook,
Matrix Mag, Linen Weave of Bloomington Poets and the
Green Dove Peace Poetry Gallery. She has been involved
in a variety of poetry, book and multi-media projects.
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"Mother
Words" with Julia Dadds and Frida Westford
Julia
Dadds Julia Heimer Dadds never knows what's going
to happen next but she can usually count on poetry.
A resident of Bloomington long enough to remember Rapps
Pizza and The Two Bit Rush, she sometimes organizes
efforts around justice, schooling and families. She
aims to abbreviate Piled Higher and Deeper to PhD sometimes
soon. Most days boil down to mothering, gardening, and
contemplating emptiness.
(She says to take
what we like of that and leave the rest, and then adds:)
If you need official type stuff: Board member at CJAM,
YSB, involved at UU Church, Tibetan study, Used to direct
Head Start, teaching as an AI at IU, PhD in Curriculum
Studies. Sometimes works for Option 6.
Frida Westford
is a longtime Bloomington resident. She enjoys writing
formal poetry, particularly medieval forms, though she
also writes free verse. "Immigration Rap"
has recently appeared in the March-April 2010 issue
of Star*Line, the magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry
Association. Other poems have appeared in publications
such as Byline, Friends Journal (a Quaker publication),
The Black Lily and The Wheel. Some of her poems are
inspired by two cats for whom she and her husband, John
Daschke, are "staff."
She also writes
short fantasy fiction. She currently co-leads the South
Central Indiana Fiction Interface, a writers' critique
group focused on the science fiction, fantasy and horror
genres.
Open-mic follows the featured presenters with readers
having up to three minutes to share their own, or another's
works.
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25 |
"Father
Words and Sounds" Community Open-mic |
SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER FOR
THE BEGINNING OF THE 2010-2011 SERIES!
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2009 |
BEGINNINGS -
LOTUS with Nancy
Pulley and Jade Sylvan
Nancy
Pulley's new chapbook Dream Puzzle was published this
spring by Art in the Heartland Publishing. Nancy is
a graduate of Indiana Central College-now the University
of Indianapolis. A previous chapbook, Tremolo of Light,
was the winner of the 2nd Indiana Poetry Chapbook Contest
sponsored by the Writer's Center of Indiana. Her poems
have appeared in The Flying Island, Arts Indiana Literary
Supplement, Passages North, Plainsong, The Sycamore
Review, the Humpback Barn Collection and A Linen Weave
of Themes, a collection of poetry on tape, as well as
other journals and publications. For information, go
to www.nancypulley.com.
Writer and performer Jade Sylvan sows new ground in
contemporary poetry with The Spark Singer. Incorporating
performance, philosophy, sensationalism, tradition,
science, religion, and internet meta-culture, Sylvan
pulls verse into the future with proven mastery of a
vast range of poetic forms. Her evocative images, economical
and precise diction, and fresh uncompromising point
of view are the driving force behind her extraordinary
momentum. Sylvan succeeds in breaking through the current
pigeonholes of slam and academic writing. The result
is a strikingly new voice.
Sylvan,
a self confessed geek, was born of a family of scientists.
She spent her adult education studying world religion,
esoteric mysticism, the occult, sustainable design,
and rock & roll history. After college, she traveled
extensively, becoming acquainted with most of the best
bars in the Western World and learning how to pour a
proper glass of absinthe in both the French and Bohemian
styles. She settled in Boston in 2007 and in a short
time made a powerful splash in the independent literary
community. Her work has been widely published online
and she has performed across the country alongside such
poetry icons as Regie Gibson and Jack McCarthy.
Spuyten
Duyvil is one of New York City's most ambitious independent
publishing houses. Recent critically-acclaimed works
include Nona Casper's Little Book of Days, Tsipi Keller's
Jackpot, and Robert Creeley's Day Book of a Virtual
Poet. For more information, contact Spuyten Duyvil at
prod.dept@spuytenduyvil.net or 718-398-9067.
Here's
what people are saying about Sylvan's poetry:
Jade Sylvan's poems are ornaments to holidays that don't
exist yet. Something with candles. Our first instinct
is to treat them with extreme care, but not out of fragility,
just the understanding that the sacred has occurred.
Magic. Too much of the world fit into this small ritual.
- Brian Ellis, author of Uncontrolled Experiments in
Freedom.
Jade Sylvan transcribes our strangers and familiar scripts
to the page without the fear of romanticizing the bottle
in the artist's hand, the kid slumming in expensive
shoes, the husk of smoke rubbed voices. She then casts
them alongside literary and mythological icons, not
flinching as she offers the notion that we often do
not learn from history. In a time when many writers
are attempting to bow down to the reader or listener,
Jade's work is unapologetic without being violent or
cruel. - James Caroline, author of Neon Hospital
Fine, fine poetry, both in craft and performance. -
Ryk McIntyre
The
flood of passion that generated these poems saturates
every sandbag piled up to hem it in. - Tom Daley, Online
School of Poetry
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January
23 2009
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Words
of Peace - Words of Hope with Kadhim Shaban, Salih
Altoma, David Keppel and Patricia C. Coleman
David
Keppel
is a writer and activist living in Bloomington.
Salih
Altoma is a poet and has been a professor of Near
Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University
since 1964.
Kadhim
Shaaban was born in Bagdad, Iraq. He came to Indiana
University in 1965. He is interested in poetry and related
issues of metaphoric and rhetorical language.
Patricia
C. Coleman is a member of 5 Women Poets and the
Bloomington Storytellers Guild. She makes art, practices
Reiki and is a peace, wellness and community activist.
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February
27
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Lots
of Love with Julia
Dadds, Glenda and Bill Breeden, and Paul Swanson. Join
us for an evening of poetry, song, music and storytelling
about love.
Julia
Heimer Dadds writes
poetry because it tells her to. She loves her 3 boys,
husband, parents, maaaarvelous many friends because
they are SO deep and wonderful. She's wrapping up a
gradual degree in Education and working very part time
for Community Justice and Mediation as Development Coordinator
because she loves doing these. She's accepting suggestions
for the next right things to do
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Bill
and Glenda Breeden,
members of this community since the mid-80's, have been
celebrating Valentines Day together as best friends
and lovers for more than forty years. Teenage sweethearts,
young parents, middle-aged grandparents, Glenda and
Bill believe whole heartedly in the work and play of
long term relationships, and hope to laugh, cry, and
sing together for another forty years.
Paul
Swanson came to
Indiana six years ago to work on a farm in Paoli, fell
in
love with Bloomington and has been living here since.
He works as both
teacher and International Student Coordinator at Harmony
School, and
teaches courses including critical thinking, cultural
arts, history,
language, and music. Outside of teaching, Paul spends
his time playing
guitar and bass, training martial arts, and telling
stories. He is
currently on a campaign to convince the world that stories
are more than
simple diversions; the stories that we tell about ourselves
and the world
are at the heart of our struggle to find meaning out
of life.
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March
27
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Women's
Words - Women's Voices with
Barb Schwegman, Amanda Wrigley and Silja Weber.
Join us for a diverse palate of womens voices through
poetry, storytelling and more ? in honor of Women's
History Month.
Barb
Schwegman has lived in Bloomington since 1980. She is
a local school teacher wanting to do more writing, and
more public reading. Barb mostly writes about family
relationships.
Silja
Weber - I grew up in Germany and moved to the USA in
2000. I have a 7 year old daughter who continually keeps
me on my toes, concerning correct English and everything
else. My original job was to have been high school teaching,
but coming here, I fell in love with American Sign Language
and went back to school to become an interpreter. Language
in any shape and guise is fascinating to me. I have
used written language as catalyst and therapy since
I was 13, but am still wary of calling the end product
'poetry'. Another lifelong companion is music, and I
have a keen interest in the environment (including all
those diverse humans), natural building, and what is
maybe best called creative inconsistency.
Amanda
Wrigley writes poetry the way some people keep a journal,
compulsively and often daily. Any experience or phrase
that fires her imagination goes right to paper, often
only as a fragment of thought- and sometimes, later,
those fragments become a poem. She works at IU, has
completed graduate seminary work, and plans to work
on an MFA in poetry starting next year. She breeds and
trains horses, loves to garden when she gets the chance,
and has a penchant for finding and rescuing stray animals
in her spare time.
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April
24 - National Poetry Month
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For
OUR Earth - POETS
SPEAK -
this month join us as we celebrate poetry and honor
our earth! Program with Storyteller Brandi Hartman,
Musician Alex Voiles from Harmony School, and Poets
from South High School: Matthew Bower, Jessica Hewitt,
Ariel Walden, Miriam Kerler, Levi Rogers and Miranda
Stinson.
Brandi
Hartman is a member of the
Bloomington Storytellers Guild. Folktales from around
the world, especially those featuring "wise women",
are a large part of her repertoire. She has often told
at "Wintertelling" in the Monroe County Public
Library, the Bloomington Senior Center, and been a guest
in the Runcible Spoon Poetry Series. This program features
the fold tale "How the Oceans Began"
Alex
Voiles is a student at Harmony School and will share
with us a gift of music.
Matthew
Bower is the name that I was given by my mother
and father on June 20th of 1990. I am the sibling to
my older brother Mark, my older sister Michelle, and
my younger brother Michael. We have lived in Bloomington
all of our lives, but eventually I plan to see what
else is out there and take the opportunity to travel
some day. I enjoy spending time outside and just relaxing
with some good friends spending the time to the best
of our abilities.
Jessica
Hewitt is 18 years old and was born and raised in
Bloomington, Indiana. She enjoys eating donut sticks
and spending mindless hours on her i-pod and computer.
She finds poetry to be a release of her inner thoughts.
Writing has just recently become a constant in her everyday
life, and she hopes it continues to be that way.
Ariel
Walden; the name I was given and have always used,
a sprite destined for freedom. Bloomington, Indiana;
an adventure for the past sixteen years, the magical
fairytale land I found when I was just a child. Colorado;
the land I will soon call home, deep in the greenery
of the mountain. Writing; a natural feeling, the expression
I have become accustomed to without second thought.
The stars; where my mind may wander and dream to write
of the endless beauty around.
Miriam
Kerler is a sophomore at Bloomington High School
South. I have a very supportive family; my brother,
father, and mother all motivate me to achieve all I
can and persevere with all that I set out to accomplish,
whether this be academic, athletic, or as simple as
my love for writing. Nature provides a great deal of
inspiration for my writing as I love to spend time in
the outdoors, either cycling, running, or simply walking
around Bloomington's beautiful campus. I hope to pursue
a career in journalism but to also continue writing
poetry as a hobby.
Levi
Rogers is a senior at Bloomington High School South.
If you were trying to describe me in a nutshell, then
I guess I would be the average Hoosier boy with some
non-conventional characteristics. My father is a cutter
at Indiana Limestone; he is also the president of the
stone cutters' union, so I get to be around all of the
politics and get taught the trade in the process. After
commencement, I plan to attend the 2009 IU Groups Program
and continue on at IU in the fall semester. Overall,
Bloomington is my home; it has given me so many opportunities
that just don't come about in other communities.
Miranda Stinson has been writing for six years,
and last summer she attended the Iowa Young Writers'
Workshop at the University of Iowa. She writes mainly
fiction but lately has been experimenting with poetry
and memoir. She is sixteen and a senior at Bloomington
High School South. Next year she hopes to pursue a BFA
in writing at the University of Evansville.
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22
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Mother
Words and More with Jada B.
poet/singer/songwriter/activist & performance artist.
She is founder of Verbal Terrorism Productions & has
been writing poetry & short prose for 10 + years.
She is currently working on a collection of poems than
never seem to be finished, but non the less she is working
on them. Her band The Ladyquakes! can be heard many places
locally as well as on the web & the events that her
company VTP puts on range from Poetry-Church to Burlesque
shows. She is overly fond of exclamation points! &
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Father
Words and Sounds - COMMUNITY OPEN-MIC |
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NO
PROGRAMS in JULY OR AUGUST
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