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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This is just a quick reminder of the PoetryWall
at the LBCC Library. Our library is sponsoring the space (next to the
Library Reading Room) and the materials (whiteboards and pens) and our
Poetry Club is providing themes and recording and archiving your
submissions. What we need is YOU and your "gaiety of language."
Consider it poetry improv and bring your classes. Or drop by yourself.
It's fun!!! This week's theme: Curiosity....
Here's a little gem from e.e. cummings:
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
while Spring is in the world
my blood approve,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
-- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
Events are coming your way!
This Friday, April 19th at 7:30 p.m. join the LBCC English Department in their annual fundraiser for the English Endowment. There's going to be readings, music, food, no-host bar... ;)
NEXT Friday, April 26th at 7:00 p.m. come riot your words with LBCC Student Leadership Council, LBCC Benton Center, and LBCC Poetry Club at WordMOB! There's going to be silly amounts of fabulous local poets and artists, and an open mic for you, too!
Wednesday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. Oregon State University's Kathleen Dean Moore and Rachelle McCabe will dazzle you with words and music and music and words and music and
it's
bound
to be
spectacular!
CLICK HERE for more details!
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Join LB students and staff for an evening of live entertainment and class. Yes folks, this event is going to be ritzy and chalk-full of talent from our very own LBCC English Department. Don't pass up the opportunity to hear some fabulous music and spoken word from those who know the language best!
A link for more details: http://www.facebook.com/events/394927627281193/
Hope to see you there!
A link for more details: http://www.facebook.com/events/394927627281193/
Hope to see you there!
Monday, April 1, 2013
CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS
All local poets are invited to submit a poem for the Grass Roots Poem-A-Day April Poetry Month celebration. As you may already be aware, we celebrate National Poetry Month by sending out one of our favorite poems for every day of the month of April. This year, as we have done in the past, we will be featuring a selection of local poets as well. To submit a poem for consideration, please send it to grootsreads@gmail.com along with a brief bio. We love showcasing our own local talent. Thanks for your submissions!
All local poets are invited to submit a poem for the Grass Roots Poem-A-Day April Poetry Month celebration. As you may already be aware, we celebrate National Poetry Month by sending out one of our favorite poems for every day of the month of April. This year, as we have done in the past, we will be featuring a selection of local poets as well. To submit a poem for consideration, please send it to grootsreads@gmail.com along with a brief bio. We love showcasing our own local talent. Thanks for your submissions!
This was supposed to be the prompt for spring break (but the blog fell off my radar for a moment) ;) If you'd like to still try it out I'd love to see what everyone comes up with!
Write a haiku for every person that has impacted, swayed, or influenced your life in a grand way. Create a series of haiku with these poems. The haiku can be for anyone: a teacher, grandfather, gas station pump attendant - anyone you feel has made a valuable impact on your life.
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." - Matsuo Basho
Write a haiku for every person that has impacted, swayed, or influenced your life in a grand way. Create a series of haiku with these poems. The haiku can be for anyone: a teacher, grandfather, gas station pump attendant - anyone you feel has made a valuable impact on your life.
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." - Matsuo Basho
Gold Man Review, a literary journal produced in Salem, is currently open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction and poetry until May 1, 2013, for their third issue. They are looking for Oregon authors, both new and old, to grace them with the written word!
Requirements:
Prose submissions up to 5,000 words
Poetry submissions up to 3 poems (up to 3 pages total)
If you're interested, go to www.GoldManPublishing.com to submit your work!
Happy scribbling!
Hello Poets, one and all!
My apologies for the short hiatus over spring break, but I am back with plenty of news for you! First off: our hard work on the Ekphrasis project is finally being mounted to life! Please join us this Wednesday, April 3rd, in the South Santiam Hall Gallery from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to meet the poets, photographers, and facilitators of this event! Our books will be on sale for $20, but if you're thinking of buying several books, you can get a deal for buying them in bulk here: http://www.blurb.com/books/4129291-ekphrasis
Secondly, we have another new project beginning to take place! In light of April Poetry Month, Bryan Myagishima from the library has mounted whiteboard poster board up on a wall in the library. The idea is that anyone can come to this wall and jot down some poetry! When the wall starts to fill up, I will be taking pictures of all the poems to later document here and also potentially for a paperback copy. The wall should be up any day now, so feel free to stop by the library and check it out!
Happy scribbling everyone!
Kiera
My apologies for the short hiatus over spring break, but I am back with plenty of news for you! First off: our hard work on the Ekphrasis project is finally being mounted to life! Please join us this Wednesday, April 3rd, in the South Santiam Hall Gallery from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to meet the poets, photographers, and facilitators of this event! Our books will be on sale for $20, but if you're thinking of buying several books, you can get a deal for buying them in bulk here: http://www.blurb.com/books/4129291-ekphrasis
Secondly, we have another new project beginning to take place! In light of April Poetry Month, Bryan Myagishima from the library has mounted whiteboard poster board up on a wall in the library. The idea is that anyone can come to this wall and jot down some poetry! When the wall starts to fill up, I will be taking pictures of all the poems to later document here and also potentially for a paperback copy. The wall should be up any day now, so feel free to stop by the library and check it out!
Happy scribbling everyone!
Kiera
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