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Escape the winter blues. Come in from the cold,
to a great book…
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Pigeon English Stephen Kelman

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life but his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. Harri …

Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter will be reading their poetry at The Moonstone Arts Center in Philadelphia, Pa. (USA) on January 24th@7pm (EST). We are hopeful you can join us for this event as it will be streamed live by Moonstone. The live stream link is:http://www.moonstonelive.org/ For more information on the event please visit: http://www.moonstoneartscenter.org/moonstone-arts-center-events/mps-diane-sahms-guarnieri-g-emil-reutter/

All the best,
Diane and g
www.foxchasereview.org
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http://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com/

www.gemilreutter-author.com

Every Monday and Tuesday in January, Carolina Papaleo will be in Mar de Plata, performing on stage in “Yo Adivino el Parpadeo (Our Fortune In A Blink)”
Every Wednesday thru Friday, at 12 noon, Carolina Papaleo is live on news and music show Radio 10, AM 710.  For expats this is a great way to practice your Spanish.  For movie, TV, and theater fans, this is a great way to listen to one of your favorite stars.
Every Wednesday and Friday, at 3 PM, Carolina Papaleo hosts a talk show on radio Touché, channel …

Just a note to announce the return of Canopic Jar: An Arts Journal.
For those unfamiliar, here’s a brief introduction, which also explains some of the circumstances surrounding this particular posting.
This is a special issue marking 25+ years of Canopic Jar and features writing by Will Campbell, Doug Hoekstra, Carroll Dale Short, Dave Easton, Ciretta Carroll, and Rethabile Masilo, with artwork by Alan Phillips and Sarah Hasty Williams.
Since this is an email going out specifically to friends of mine, I’ll also point out that there are two of my own bits of writing …

Milspeak
Edited by Sally Drumm
A book blurb by Stephen Page
If the words honor, nobility, self-sacrifice, and altruism mean anything to you, this is the book to buy.
Check out the website here: http://www.milspeak.org/milspeak/Anthology.html
http://grouppenbabookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/09/milspeak.html#links

a hawk glides by–
his spirit lives here
this mortal dwelling
by Stephen Page from the chapbook “Still Dandelions.”

Carolina Papaleo and Rubén Stella are in Mar del Plata all January to present “Your Fourtune in a Blink”. If you like theater, this is a great show to see.  Yo Adivino el Parpadeo is a story of two contemporarymilongueros (people who dance tango regularly) living out passionate moments in their lives for the stage.  Witness the two as they meet again for the first time in years. Watch the drama unfold and be drawn into the plot.  Experience each ensuing moment as it brings an unexpected joy or heartache.  …

Alison Luterman, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize for See How We Fly,  will be leading a workshop in San Pedro on February 17th & 18th, based on a poem she published in The Sun last year called “Even the word obstacle is an obstacle.”

Alison writes regularly for the Sun magazine, teaches workshops at Esalen, and has been published in the New York Times, Boston Phoenix and San Francisco Chronicle. www.alisonluterman.com
For further information, see http://spiritualbathing.com/alison/ or the attached flyer.
Alison Luterman Flyer rev9salon

Barefoot night beach walk, the cold foam,
My jacket caped over your trembling shoulders.
The ocean bubbled our ankles as we digested
Dinner: shrimp, champagne, and strawberry tart.
How dark it was except for that globe of chilled
Lucent gas including us on our stroll:
It phosphoresced the salty froth, effervesced your skin,
And giddied us with the laughter of spirited crustaceans.
When I leaned over and netted your hair
And robbed a kiss, you fished from the sea a lobster
And sprinkled upon it fresh winter berries.
We sat in the sand and watched the decapod return
To water scented with …

Thickly coated I sit in the snow on the side
Of a hill, peering down upon your home.
Wood smoke wafts warmly from your chimney.
I smell cinnamon and apples and baked meat.
Some type of celebration is going on,
I hear the horns, the laughter, the pop
Of champagne bottles. I wait for your door to open,
To see your shimmering image upon the snow.
A group of strangers appear in the front window.
They stare at my friendly face and yellow eyes,
Then lift their small hands to wave me inside.
I turn and pad into the birch wood,
Watching …