Moving on!

So now that I have finished doing BLEND---I have decided to turn this blog into a kind of BLEND of ideas.....a few times in the recent past friends have suggested that I should start writing a blog---it's strange for me to write in this medium and think about other people reading it because I have never been what I would call a "personna" ---though I am very honest--I have never allowed people to see the "full picture" --that is me--if there is one---just little spurts

maybe I am scared to be a whole ---because I feel that with any given whole --there is no more mystery--a set of rules--a computer program that always does one thing in response to another---of course people are always free to re-invent themselves--and to be flexible--perhaps what I have always liked about poetry is that it allows for multiple layers of interpretation and it ultimately remains a mystery in and of itself---but Alas I am human and I guess eventually one must figure out at least partially, who they are--and what they would like to present to the world.

BLEND Thursday June 17th 7:30 PM

This will be last performance of season
Tamara Oakman
Ian Wolf
Allegra Fletcher
SamHaiNE


$5.00 cover
Discounted parking (w/validation) at New Market Garage

OPEN MIC

Blue Bananas Cafe
223 South Street
(right next to laff house)
http://www.bluebananascafe.com/

May 13th--Joe Roarty and Catie Rosemurgy -OPEN MIC

COME OUT THURSDAY MAY 13th to BLUE BANANAS CAFE 223 South Street

http://bluebananascafe.com/

This Month we will be featuring Joe Roarty and Catie Rosemurgy

Catie Rosemurgy is the author of two collections of poetry My Favorite Apocalypse and The Stranger Manual, both published by Graywolf Press. Her work appeared in such places as American Poetry Review, The Gettysburgh Review and Ploughshares. She is the recepient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation award and a National Endwoment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at a college in New Jersey.

http://thediagram.com9_5/rosemurgy.html

Joe Roarty has been shiprekkd on the shores of the susquehanna and has made his way 2 Philly.

www.foxchasereview.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/choruses-1-by-Joe-Roarty/

The featured performers will be followed by an OPEN MIC

Email alla.vilnyanskaya@gmail.com to sign up in advance!

BLEND Thursday APRIL 8th 7:30-10:00 PM

Debrah Morkun is a founding member of the New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia. Her first book, Projection Machine, is forthcoming from BlazeVoks books.
http://www.debrahmorkun.com/

Brandon Holmquest lives in South Philadelphia. Ugly Duckling Press has published his translation of Manuel Maples Arce's "City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos," and two of his books are coming out soon on Truck Press and SplitLeaves Press respectively.

http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2010/01/brandon-holmquest.html

Featured readings are followed by an OPEN MIC! Food and drink available for purchase at venue---$ 5 cover!

Bill McConney, Sean Webb, and a killer open mic!

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Thanks to Linda Thea for taking these.

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