Chesapeake Bay Poets: THE WORD HEARD 5-27-2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

THE WORD HEARD 5-27-2011

I have spent the last 4 days cleaning up and bringing up-to-date the CBP website with maddening frustration. I've been able to clean up the Home Page and a few of the "interior" pages. So far, however, despite deleting a conglomeration of old pages and elements, leaving more digital space to post new information, I have been unable to post a couple of new pages, most notably "POETRY PROSE and PIZZA". Nevertheless, check the Monthly/Weekly link on the website

www.ChesBayPoets.org

So, to bring you up to speed for the "right now, right here" of the next few days. Tonight Synnika Lofton hosts Prime Time Poetry at Bean There Cafe in downtown Norfolk; the good folks at The Muse in Norfolk always have good stuff going on (check the website link to The Muse), as do the good folks at The Venue at 35th in Norfolk (right now look for "Dirty Barbie and Other Girlhood Tales" playing Fri/Sat this week and next). This is the 4th Friday evening, and as ever the poetry reading with soup, contributed eats, and libations (check the CBP Monthly/Weekly link) at Jack Callan's house in Norfolk.

Tomorrow afternoon Iris Art Studio in Poquoson is hosting its regular featured reading with Daniel Pravda (check the link on the CBP website).

Next week, the First Saturday, look for the last session of the current season of the Poetry Society of Virginia Saturday Series of readings: this is a star-studded cast if ever there were one, you don't want to miss this one - Sofia M. Starnes, J. Ron Smith, Joyce Carr Stedlbauer, Henry Hart, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, and Nathan Richardson. Again, check the link on the CBP website.

I'm also still trying how to figure out how to link my google calendar with this blog.

Anyway, there you have it for a couple of days.

Writing won't make you fat, nor get you drunk. But if we don't munch and drink while writing and sharing our stuff, then why do we do it?

Hoo ahhhhhhhh:?0
pete/the mindworm

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The purpose of Chesapeake Bay Poets is to serve and feed the poetry community of Hampton Roads, Virginia, as a stimulus and a clearing-house for poets, poetry, and sharing poetry and ideas. To that end the website component lists elements that support and encourage poetry across the region, including places and times as well as photos and directions to such sites and links to online information. It includes the publication of SKIPPING STONES, an anthology of region poets (approximately 16-18 month cycle) .

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