[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: dacenter.org Jan. 15 reading/open mic

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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:26 AM
To: Amanda Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: dacenter.org Jan. 15 reading/open mic



Dear Amanda,


Please forward this email to everyone.  Thanks, Maurya




Happy New Year from the dA Center for the Arts Poetry Series!

Sunday, January 15, 2 p.m.

FREE POETRY READING AND RECEPTION, followed by an Open Mic:

Deborah Bogen will read from her award-winning collections 2 p.m. at dA
Center for the Arts, 252-D Main Street, Pomona, Ca. 91766. Free. Info:
(909) 397-9716 (www.dacenter.org <http://www.dacenter.org/> ) The
reading and reception are free and open to all. [A sample poem can be
found below.]

 

Ms. Bogen's first full-length collection of poetry Landscape with Silos,
received the 2005 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. Her
chapbook, Living by the Children's Cemetery won the 2002 ByLine Press
Chapbook Competition. Her poetry and reviews have appeared or are
forthcoming in Field, Shenandoah, Poetry International, Margie, and The
Gettysburg Review. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she
provides a free community writing workshop in the tradition of Doug
Anderson.
 
OPEN MIC:
 dA Center for the Arts, January 15, 3: 30 p.m. Sign-ups at 1:45 p.m.
$5. dA Center for the Arts, 252-D Main Street, Pomona, Ca. 91766. Free.
Info: (909) 397-9716 (www.dacenter.org <http://www.dacenter.org/> ) 
 
Workshop
Ms. Bogen's 12:30 p.m. workshop is currently full. If you wish to be
placed on the waiting list or would like info about future workshops,
please email us!

 

Sample Poem
 

Landscape with Silos
 

One nail sticking up in a pile of boards,

air bladders from fish brought home for supper,

sugar in green glass bowls,

glittering rattle snakes.

 

The palsied ghosts of cloud-stained women,

shadows of railroad men far from their homes,

a deep-freeze filled with molasses cookies,

broken concrete, lilacs, thunder.

 

We drank water from old pipes,

picnicked under windbreaks, peach pits

and egg shells, and in the glove box

roadmaps to the river, to the reservation,

 

to Fargo and Minot.  But no maps

to the silos where men tended missiles so big

we didn't even think about them.

They didn't scare us, those missiles,

 

not the men either who rose like bankers,

sat calmly at the counter, starched and pressed.

Keys jingled on their belts.

They ordered rootbeer and blackbottom pie.






Maurya Simon

Professor 
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619 

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