I guess this is just going to be an Essential Sunday Open Mic- 2 people have responded to me.

Sign up when you arrive at 4pm

Check Event Planning Forum to sign up if you want to read May 12

Leave your name here if you want to read and an email address and I will work out a schedule.

thnx!

After I have some names I can start a schedule.

well party can be bigger. May 12th is just path of least resistance

SO May 12th PIB Forum Spectacular with Open Mic 4- til 7

cool?

So this is getting ridiculous

I realize I have not booked May 12 at Minas.
It is however Mothers Day.

If you guys are amenable-we can have a PIB open reading?

Give me a heads up here if you are interested in reading and we'll plan from there.


Im still working on a party event but this might be a fun thing too

I haven't been ignoring you guys-I've been talking behind the scenes and only now is something evolving.

It will be a reading event that will raise money for a worthy undertaking.
As soon as I have facts to share-I will.
The venue will be a central downtown location if it pans out.

thnx
J

Thanks M.J. for the suggestion of the Essex pizza place...

It might be central if it's in the city.

Not sure, let's keep at it.

J

If anyone wants to suggest some spots....we could always just show up somewhere but to do readings and hear each other makes it tricky.

I asked a question

Julie

What should we do?

Julie

From Nature Art In the Park_
Need some poets, who have written poetry about Nature, especially Fall maybe? I am thinking of mounting about ten of them on to bark and hang them along our Nature Art in the Park exhibit for this Sunday and the remaining 8 weeks of the exhibit. Ideally I am looking for one stanza poem, so visitors don't get overwhelmed with reading. These poems could include poems written for children.
PS: Don't forget to see the show yourself, bring the Family for Family Fun Day Sunday, 10-14 from 11-4
more info:
Heide Grundmann
410 945 0586
hgrundot@aol.com

Skittering Thing is HERE!


more at this link:

http://furniturepressbooks.com/chaps/fisherskittering/

Poetry Contest

Maryland poets, achieve fame through this FREE contest!

The winning poem will be published in the Little Patuxent Review, dramatically enlarged and illustrated for display during National Poetry Month in a Central Library show window, and featured in a reading at the CityLit Festival.

Contest Rules

    Entrants must be Maryland residents, 18 or older.
    Paid or volunteer staff of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Little Patuxent Review and their immediate families are not eligible.
    Please send only one original, unpublished (in print or on the Web) poem for consideration. Your entry cannot be currently under review for possible publication.
    Entry must be under 100 lines.
    Depending on its length, the winning poem may have to be excerpted for display in Pratt Central Library window.
    Submit your typed entry as a Microsoft Word attachment by email to contest@prattlibrary.org or by mail to:
    Poetry Contest, Periodicals Department, Pratt Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore MD 21201.
    Entries received after 5:00 pm on February 21, 2012, will be disqualified.
    Name, address, phone number, and the submitted poem’s title must accompany the entry on a separate page.
    Judges reserve the right to disqualify a poem because its content is not appropriate for public window display.

hi guys- this was emailed to me. I don't know anything about it. Check it out if you like


"Intimate Landscape" Juried Writing Competition

Open to Interpretation is now calling on writers to submit images for consideration
in a juried book competition.
 
Project Details
Open to Interpretation is a collaborative book project bringing together
photographers, poets and writers. Each book begins with a themed call for photos.
The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers' submissions. A
book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer
different interpretations of the image. The unique collaboration adds new dimensions
to both the photos and the written word.

Book Title: Open to interpretation
Theme: Intimate Landscape
Judge: Patrick Thomas, Editor + Program Manager at Milkweed Editions
Submission Fee: $10 per entry
Deadline for Submission: March 29, 2012
Results Announced: April 19, 2012
 
Awards
$300 Judge's Selection Award
 
Judge
Patrick Thomas is the editor and program manager at Milkweed Editions. As an editor,
his work focuses on acquisitions that consider our relationship to the
more-than-human world. As program manger, he works to find the best way to bring
literary art to the widest possible audience. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.
 
For further details go to
http://www.open2interpretation.com/submit_intimate_landscape.html     

Open to Interpretation
Juried Book Competition of Photography, Poetry and Prose
www.open2interpretation.com
651-312-0113