UPCOMING EVENTS!
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2010 AT NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE, NORWALK, CT: NATIONAL POETRY DAY CELEBRATION: Come hear students, faculty and others read their work, 1 - 2:20, IN THE FORUM, EAST CAMPUS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACADEMIC FESTIVAL
11:30 - 12:50: Come hear students, faculty and community members discuss their process in creating a "translation" of a Lakota Prayer song. Poems, artworks, journals, rap, and a menu resulted!
FURTHER INFORMATION: WWW.NCC.COMMNET.EDU
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
FAIRFIELD ARTS COUNCIL
70 Sanford Street, Fairfield, CT 203-319-1419
www.fairfieldartscouncil.org
WORKSHOP ON EKPHRASIS (WRITING FROM ART WORKS), 7 - 8:30 pm: In this student-focused workshop, we will define ekphrasis, look at professional examples, write from the beautiful art works in the gallery, and discuss our work.
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010, 7 - 8:30 PM
FAIRFIELD ARTS COUNCIL
70 Sanford Street, Fairfield, CT 203-319-1419
www.fairfieldartscouncil.org
OPEN MIC, featuring local award winning poet, Jack Powers of Fairfield. Come and bring a poem to share. I will be hosting with my husband, poet Van Hartmann.
I am pleased to announce the availability of my chapbook, That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press. It can now be ordered through the press's web page, www.finishinglinepress.com, under 2009 New Releases, for $14, plus $1 for shipping. I hope you enjoy the book!
“Laurel Peterson stands at the ‘edge of the world’ not far from a casually harsh God who enjoys ‘golf afternoons’ as all hell is breaking loose around Him. She puts up with it by writing rings around Him, sledgehammer poems wrapped in velvet, poems of confession and affirmation. That's the Way the Music Sounds is an eclectic array of poems that are fashioned from flesh and reach the ear in quite a new voice to contemporary poetry, a voice as true and lasting as bone.”
Dan Masterson, author of All Things, Seen and Unseen and editor of The Enskyment Online Anthology
“Laurel Peterson's poems are about what binds us to each other, the natural world, and the spiritual world, in language that is both forceful in its precision and tender in its rendering: ‘sewn into your heart/is the other end,/knotted just under the fragile/epicardium. We must both move/ so very gently.’ These poems have a wonderfully wide tonal range.”
Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Talking Underwater
The beautiful front cover photograph is by Renae Edge. Check out the links page for a connection to her website!
(Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience, has been released by Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing (www.c-s-p.org). Check out the introduction by clicking on the “Scholarly Writing” link. Buy it on Amazon UK, Amazon US or at the publisher's website. Check out a recent blurb and commentary on www.blogtalkradio.com/blurb. Click on the 6/24, 9 pm show. We're about halfway through!
WHAT I'M READING NOW: The Bhagavad Gita (OK, so it's taking me a long time), Karen Armstrong's The Case for God, and Sue Grafton's latest, U is for Undertow. Jung's Red Book arrived yesterday too. Oh my. My favorite place to buy them is at Northshire Books in Manchester, Vermont: http://www.northshire.com/
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Author Photo by Carol Caulfield