Articles Archive for August 2010
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A Gamble in Verse
by Jeffrey Encke
Reviewed by Stephen Page
I just got home from an all-night card game after a Monday Night Football tailgate party. I can’t say how wonderful it was to play poker and read poetry at the same time.
These cards would be good for anyone who likes to shuffle the deck once and a while, whether it be poker, rummy, cribbage, crazy eights, go fish, 3 card brag–or, if you buy two decks and set aside the 2’s to 8’s, pinocle.
These cards are fun, …
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Dear Pirate-tasters:
Pirate Talk or Mermalade will launch September 19 on Talk Like a Pirate Day in the appropriate anarchy of Bluestockings Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., 172 Allen Street, http://bluestockings.com/directions/ (closest subways: F at Delancy or the B/D at Grand). Free eyepatch for the first fifty pirates!
For those of you unwilling to walk the plank that night, see my Events page for other possibilities: http://www.teresesvoboda.com/events.html
which include a 4p.m. reading on Sept. 12 Brooklyn Book Festival with Per Petterson and Scott Spencer.
Naked mermaid in video::
http://www.youtube.com/user/t3r3s3#p/a/u/1/2dq7724_0oc
All best,
Terese Svoboda
contact: svoboda@el.net
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Family Albums
By SUSANN COKAL
LEAVING ROCK HARBOR
By Rebecca Chace
292 pp. Scribner. $25.
THE HOUSE ON SALT HAY ROAD
By Carin Clevidence
285 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25.
Long ago and far away, Aristotle called poetry (by which he meant imaginative writing in general) “a more philosophical and serious business than history; for poetry speaks more of universals, history of particulars.” He was describing the difference between the events we know to have happened to such-and-such a person on such-and-such a date and the wide scope of human reactions to those events. And, by extension, …
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Follow this link;
http://doniganmerritt.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/are-you-a-writer-read-this/
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Dear fellows:
We would like to invite you to
TALKARAMA.
English/Spanish-French Conversation Group
Bilingual chats and hang-out
Saturday, 31th of July
From 7 to 9.30 pm
,
PIZZA MASS (PASEO LA PLAZA)
Sarmiento 1601(Esquina Montevideo)
Buenos Aires City
-No fee charged
-Feel free to invite your friends and spread this out.
Cheers!
Pablo
15-5886-3322
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Watch the Sharon Haywood Video here: Come to Peace with your Body
or here: Youtube
Sharon is a freelance writer and editor originally from Toronto, Canada now living in Argentina. Her educational background consists of undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Exceptionality in Human Learning from the University of Toronto. While living in Toronto, she was a regular guest on the radio program Life Rattle where she orated several of her short stories, many of which addressed issues such as body image and violence against women. Upon graduation she devoted her energies to a …
