Press release:
Celestial Panther Publishing is happy to announce a new project, the InkSlinger's Theatre, to debut on March 2, 2012 at 10 p.m. at Bookmamas, 9 Johnson Ave., Indianapolis, in historic Irvington.
The InkSlinger's Theatre is a spoken word event that veers from the traditional format of most poetry readings found throughout the city. We will be combining elements of stage production with the writing in an effort to really bring the words to life. Boldly, we are attempting to create a new genre of creative writing. You be the judge.
Feb 29, 2012
News from the Writers' Center of Indiana (2-29-12)
News of classes, contests, readings, and other events here.
Feb 28, 2012
Words for Riley Poetry Contest
It's a fund-raiser for Riley Children's Hospital. $100 top prize. For details, click here.
Joseph Heithaus in Zionsville this Thursday
From Poetry on Brick Street:
Poetry on Brick Street will present Joseph Heithaus as the featured poet and speaker at 6:30 pm Thursday March 1, 2012 in the cellar room at G. Simone’s Café (112C South Main Street in downtown Zionsville, Indiana).
Joseph Heithaus teaches at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where he and his wife are raising their four children. His poems have appeared in Poetry, North American Review, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner and Indiana Review. He is one of five “Airpoets,” whose poems have been integrated into stained-glass window murals in the new Indianapolis International Airport and are featured in two books, Rivers, Rails and Runways and Airmail.
He was winner of the “Discover”/The Nation Prize in 2007 for a group of ten “Poison Sonnets,” inspired by illustrations of poison plants in an old Webster’s Dictionary. Those original sonnets are included in his newest collection titled Poison Sonnets (David Robert Books, 2012).
His poem "Indiana Flight" was chosen by the Writers' Center of Indiana for inclusion in British artist Martin Donlin's stained glass murals in the new Indianapolis International Airport. His poem "What Grows Here" is painted on a barn just outside of Greencastle. He continues to work on a translation project with Salvadoran poets Jonathan Velazquez, Fabrizzio Sagett, Hector Planas, and Crosby Lemus.
An open mic for poets will follow the featured speaker.
Other guest readers for the Brick Street series:
Apr 5th , 2012 - Poets from “And Know This Place” (Indiana)
May 3rd, 2012 - Ruthelen Burns (Carmel, Indiana)
June 7th, 2012 – Mark Neely (Ball State University)
Poetry on Brick Street is sponsored by Brick Street Poetry Inc. —a tax-exempt non-profit organization under IRS Code 501(c)(3). Brick Street Poetry Inc. also publishes the Tipton Poetry Journal and hosts other poetry-related events.
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Brick Street Poetry Inc.
P.O. Box 804
Zionsville, IN 46077
http://poetryonbrickstreet.org/
http://brickstreetpoetry.org/
http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/poetryonbrickstreet
Poetry on Brick Street will present Joseph Heithaus as the featured poet and speaker at 6:30 pm Thursday March 1, 2012 in the cellar room at G. Simone’s Café (112C South Main Street in downtown Zionsville, Indiana).
Joseph Heithaus teaches at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where he and his wife are raising their four children. His poems have appeared in Poetry, North American Review, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner and Indiana Review. He is one of five “Airpoets,” whose poems have been integrated into stained-glass window murals in the new Indianapolis International Airport and are featured in two books, Rivers, Rails and Runways and Airmail.
He was winner of the “Discover”/The Nation Prize in 2007 for a group of ten “Poison Sonnets,” inspired by illustrations of poison plants in an old Webster’s Dictionary. Those original sonnets are included in his newest collection titled Poison Sonnets (David Robert Books, 2012).
His poem "Indiana Flight" was chosen by the Writers' Center of Indiana for inclusion in British artist Martin Donlin's stained glass murals in the new Indianapolis International Airport. His poem "What Grows Here" is painted on a barn just outside of Greencastle. He continues to work on a translation project with Salvadoran poets Jonathan Velazquez, Fabrizzio Sagett, Hector Planas, and Crosby Lemus.
An open mic for poets will follow the featured speaker.
Other guest readers for the Brick Street series:
Apr 5th , 2012 - Poets from “And Know This Place” (Indiana)
May 3rd, 2012 - Ruthelen Burns (Carmel, Indiana)
June 7th, 2012 – Mark Neely (Ball State University)
Poetry on Brick Street is sponsored by Brick Street Poetry Inc. —a tax-exempt non-profit organization under IRS Code 501(c)(3). Brick Street Poetry Inc. also publishes the Tipton Poetry Journal and hosts other poetry-related events.
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Brick Street Poetry Inc.
P.O. Box 804
Zionsville, IN 46077
http://poetryonbrickstreet.org/
http://brickstreetpoetry.org/
http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/poetryonbrickstreet
Feb 21, 2012
Simon Armitage at Butler
Tonight at 7:30, Simon Armitage at Butler University in the Krannert Room of Clowes Hall. Details
here.
here.
Brian Turner at UIndy
It's not too late to plan to attend a reading by Brian Turner at the University of Indianbapolis. It starts at 7:30 p.m. in Good Hall, Recital Hall. The campus ia at 1400 E. Hanna St. in Indianapolis. For information, contact Elizabeth Weber at eweber@uindy.edu or 317-788-3373. Also: http://english.uindy.edu/kellogg.html. This is part of the Kellogg Writers Series.
Feb 15, 2012
Indy Reads bookstore
Indy Reads, an Indianapolis adult literacy organization, is planning to open a bookstore the week of April 23 along the Cultural Trail on Mass Ave., where two sites are being considered.
The store, Indy Reads Books, is accepting donations of books, DVDs, audio books, and video games. No textbooks or magazines, please. Collection boxes are at:
The Best Chocolate in Town, 880 Massachusetts Ave.
Global Gifts, 446 Massachusetts Ave.
The Indy Reads office, 2450 N. Meridian St.
WFYI, 1630 N. Meridian St.
Feb 10, 2012
Nominate an author for the Glick Indiana Authors Awards
Nominations for the 2012 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award are being accepted through March 23.
Nomination forms and eligibility guidelines are available at http://www.indianaauthorsaward.org/nominate/. Any published writer who has lived in Indiana for at least five consecutive years is eligible.
Nomination forms and eligibility guidelines are available at http://www.indianaauthorsaward.org/nominate/. Any published writer who has lived in Indiana for at least five consecutive years is eligible.
A nine-member, statewide panel selects the winners in three categories, with these prizes:
$10,000 for a Hoosier author who has national recognition.
$7,500 for a regionally known writer.
$5,000 for an emerging author.
The awards are funded through The Glick Fund. The awards dinner will be held Sept. 29 at the Indianapolis Central Library.
Unbroken Bones Society
The Unbroken Bones Society
Saturday, February 11th • 7:30 pm
Songwriters: Bill Price, Cara Jean Wahlers
Storyteller: Howard Boles
Humorist: Jeff Price
Poets: Emily Zimmerman, Monica Rose Kiesel
Roberts Park United Methodist Church
401 North Delaware St. • Downtown Indianapolis • 317.635.1636
Free Parking on east side of building near the corner of Alabama & Vermont
7:30 pm $10 at the door (children free)
Light refreshments available
20% of proceeds benefits Soup's On meal for those in need
Saturday, February 11th • 7:30 pm
Songwriters: Bill Price, Cara Jean Wahlers
Storyteller: Howard Boles
Humorist: Jeff Price
Poets: Emily Zimmerman, Monica Rose Kiesel
Roberts Park United Methodist Church
401 North Delaware St. • Downtown Indianapolis • 317.635.1636
Free Parking on east side of building near the corner of Alabama & Vermont
7:30 pm $10 at the door (children free)
Light refreshments available
20% of proceeds benefits Soup's On meal for those in need
Feb 7, 2012
Wednesday: Anne Waldman at Butler
From Butler University:
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
The author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics, Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, working there for 12 years.
Waldman also co-founded, with Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in the western hemisphere, in 1974. Her publications include Fast Speaking Woman (1975), Marriage: A Sentence (2000) and, most recently, The Iovis Trilogy.
Her honors include grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she has received the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. She has twice won the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico. She divides her time between Boulder, Colorado, and Greenwich Village, New York.
This event is free and open to the public.
Learn more about Anne Waldman:
http://www.poetspath.com/waldman.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/523
Upcoming Visiting Writers Series Events
The Butler University
Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series invites you to attend an evening with
Anne WaldmanVivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series invites you to attend an evening with
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
The author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics, Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, working there for 12 years.Waldman also co-founded, with Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in the western hemisphere, in 1974. Her publications include Fast Speaking Woman (1975), Marriage: A Sentence (2000) and, most recently, The Iovis Trilogy.
Her honors include grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she has received the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. She has twice won the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico. She divides her time between Boulder, Colorado, and Greenwich Village, New York.
This event is free and open to the public.
Learn more about Anne Waldman:
http://www.poetspath.com/waldman.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/523
Upcoming Visiting Writers Series Events
Simon Armitage • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 • Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room
Nicole Krauss • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 • Atherton Union Reilly Room
Linda Gregg • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27 • Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room
Maile Meloy • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 • Atherton Union Reilly Room
Jhumpa Lahiri • 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 16 • Atherton Union Reilly Room
Feb 4, 2012
New blog by Karen Kovacik
As Indiana's newest poet laureate, Karen Kovacik has started a blog titled No More Corn, which will focus on Indiana poets: http://karenkovacik.wordpress.com/
Feb 3, 2012
Joseph Heithaus' "Poison Sonnets" available
He's begiining a reading schedule, one of which will be at Poetry on Brick Street at G. Simone's Cafe in Zionsville on March 1, and another at Bookmamas on Saturday, Feb. 25.
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