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MIDDLE SCHOOL BLUES
Check out Brooklynometry. She is applying to public middle schools for her 5th grade daughter. Just like me. Her piece perfectly characterizes the panic I am feeling right now. Applications are due on Monday and we’re all in a tizzy.
Thanks Brooklynometry for Last Exit to Middle School.
POETRY READING AND OPEN MIC: BROOKLYN READING WORKS
Don’t miss tonight’s reading at the Old Stone House.
Tonight: Brooklyn Reading Works presents Word Girls: 4 poets associated with Word Tech Press.
Plus: an open mic following the reading, which I will be reading in.
AWP: The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, an annual conference and book fair is in town and some of the participants are coming out to Park Slope.
Brooklyn Reading Works is at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Take the F-train to Fourth Avenue or Union Street and walk. The R train to Union Street. Directions are here. For information or questions: 718-288-4290 (if you get lost or need better directions).
WORD GIRLS with poets published by Word Tech: BARBARA CROOKER, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, KIM GARCIA, ERIN MURPHY. OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW. Starts at 8 p.m.
DEBATE PARTY IN PARK SLOPE AT THE DRAM SHOP
This is an event sponsored by supporters of Hillary Clinton. It is located at a nice looking new bar on 9th Street called Dram Shop (details below).
When: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Where: The Dram Shop
339 Ninth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
General Area: Park Slope
Join fellow Brooklyn Hillary supporters on debate night in Park Slope – at the newly opened Dram Shop, a terrific bar with a great atmosphere – 7:30PM – 10:00PM. Location is 341 Ninth Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues – close to the F and M/R lines. Please bring your friends to network, watch the debates and get motivated to get out the vote for Hillary in the NY primary February 5th!
Please rsvp by registering at the Hillary Clinton site, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/actioncenter/event/view/?id=7284
NOT MUCH OTBKB TODAY
Busy. Busy. Busy. Will try to post later on. For news about the tragic construction death on Clinton Street and video of the Carroll Gardens down zoning rally go to Gowanus Lounge.
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BROOKLYN READING WORKS: POETRY AND OPEN MIC
AWP: The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, an annual conference and book fair is in town and some of the participants are coming out to Park Slope on Thursday night at 8 p.m. That’s January 31st at 8 p.m.
. Brooklyn Reading Works is located at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Take the F-train to Fourth Avenue or Union Street and walk. The R train to Union Street. Directions are here. For information or questions: 718-288-4290 (if you get lost or need better directions).
WORD GIRLS with poets published by Word Tech: BARBARA CROOKER, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, KIM GARCIA, ERIN MURPHY. OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW. Starts at 8 p.m. Note to readers: I will be reading at the open mic.
ONLY THE BLOG LINKS
Winter plant show at Botanic Gardens (NY 1)
Bay Ridge pharmacy owner linked to sterioids found dead (NY 1)
Lowen’s pharmacy in Bay Ridge (Bay Ridge Blog)
New York Matters Film Festival curated by Isabel Hill (Spoke the Hub)
Carroll Gardens zoning rally (Gowanus Lounge)
Interview with Major Owens on Barack Obama (Brooklyn Optimist)
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BROOKLYN READING WORKS WELCOMES THE ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS AND WRITING PROGRAMS
AWP: The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, an annual conference and book fair is in town and some of the participants are coming out to Brooklyn on Thursday night at 8 p.m. That’s January 31st at 8 p.m.
BROOKLYN READING WORKS AND THE OLD STONE HOUSE WELCOME AWP 2008 (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs).
Come on out to Brooklyn for a a great reading. There are many great restaurants and bars right nearby on Fifth Avenue. Brooklyn Reading Works is located at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Take the F-train to Fourth Avenue or Union Street and walk. The R train to Union Street. Directions are here. For information or questions: 718-288-4290 (if you get lost or need better directions).
WORD GIRLS with poets published by Word Tech: BARBARA CROOKER, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, KIM GARCIA, ERIN MURPHY. OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW. Starts at 8 p.m.
BARBARA CROOKER is the author of more than 575 poems published in over 1675 anthologies, books, and magazines She is the recipient of the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award and many more. A twenty-six time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me–The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press).
MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY’S collection of poetry, Fishing Secrets of the Dead, was a Word Press First Book Selection in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Bayou, Isotope, Gulf Stream, Margie, California Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, River Oak Review, and the Delmarva Quarterly as well as in the Literary House Press anthology entitled Here On The Chester. She is a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain and a book reviewer for Poetry International. She is also a musician who has performed in the U.S. and Ireland.
KIM GARCIA lives and writes in Boston. Her poetry collection Madonna Magdalene was published by Turning Point books in the fall of 2006. Her work has appeared in many publications and she is the recipient of an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant.
ERIN MURPHY’S poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Field, Nimrod, The Paterson Literary Review, Literal Latte, Kalliope, and elsewhere. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was a Poetry Fellow. Her awards, include the 2003 National Writers Union Poetry Award judged by Donald Hall; a Pushcart Prize nomination; and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. She lives in Pennsylvania and teaches at Penn State-Altoona. She is the author of three books of poetry: Dislocation and Other Theories (Word Press, 2008); Science of Desire (Word Press, 2004); and Too Much of This World (forthcoming)
A THEATRICAL VERSION OF THE ATLANTIC YARDS BATTLE
The Daily News reports that The Civilians, a performance group that combines investigative reporting with stories, song and dance, will prepare a play or musical about the Atlantic Yards Project for their 2009-2010 theater season.
Here’s what I want to know? Who’s playing Bruce Ratner? Frank Gehry? Daniel Goldstein? Lumi Rolley? Norman Oder?
PARK SLOPE IS SAD ABOUT THE CLOSING OF THE SECOND STREET CAFE
Yup, it’s closed. Closed down for good.
The women who work at Met Food said the rent was too high. Another local shopkeeper said that they weren’t making any money. Maybe the renovation did them in. A neighbor saw the tall, white haired owner crying.
It’s very sudden. Everyone’s asking, “What happened to Second Street?”
One local shopkeeper told me that she loved the old decor, the pictures on the wall. She thinks they were ill advised to change anything. Moving the door from Seventh Avenue to 2nd Street may have been a problem as well.
Wherever I went today people said, “What happened to Second Street Cafe?” It was definitely the talk of the neighborhood. And there were many expressions of appreciation for the owners, the food, the staff, and the old pictures on the wall.
So sudden. So strange. The block between 2nd and 3rd Street on Seventh Avenue has had three closings in two months (Tempo Presto, Seventh Avenue Books, Second Street Cafe). Park Slope Books will be out in March.
Prior to Second Street that storefront had a liquor store and then an ill-fated Mexican restaurant. Second Street went in ten years ago. Then they made the changes and now they’re gone.
My sister had a dream that she walked into the Cafe and all the old crayon drawings were back.
Good bye Second Street: we will really miss you.
ONLY THE BLOG LINKS
Bush’s last State of the Union (NY Times)
Bloomberg to Spitzer: Thanks for Nothing (NY Daily News)
Hot selling market on Third Street between the Gowanus and Hoyt Street (Gowanus Lounge)
Recycling at construction sites proposed by Brooklyn Assemblyman (NY 1)
Idiotarad: the idiocy and the ecstasy (Brooklyn Optimist)
Brooklyn calendar girls curbed (Brooklynometry)
Joanna Newsom and the Brooklyn Philarmonic (NY Times)
Paul Simon to be celebrated at BAM, including concert staging of The Capeman (NY Times)
Swimming in the Sea of Death by David Rieff (NY Times)
Hot water from tap should never be used for cooking or drinking (NY Times)
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