Thursday, March 29, 2007
Living With The Living
Ted Leo made me fall in love w/ rock-n-roll again. He opened his tour last night at the TLA & burned down the room! If you're in DC tonight or Carrboro, NC tomorrow, don't miss this show! Leo & the guitar gang launch into a precise fury, playing every song as if it's going to be the one that changes the world. Joe Strummer's not quite dead- he's being channeled by an East Orange vegan.The new Ted Leo & the Pharmacists cd Living With The Living was released last week. You'll want to check it out.
- Frank Sherlock
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
get out the vote...
All :
My friend Haile Johnston is on the ballot for 5th District City Council primary coming up on May 15. Haile is a great guy with a huge heart and boundless energy who genuinely believes in Philly's potential & in the importance of our communities. After graduating from UPenn's Wharton School, Haile (a native of Philadelphia who grew up in Germantown) and his wife Tatiana (also a Wharton grad, native of Guatemala), chose to STAY here in Philly & channel their passion, creativity, & considerable smarts as agents of positive change.
My friend Haile Johnston is on the ballot for 5th District City Council primary coming up on May 15. Haile is a great guy with a huge heart and boundless energy who genuinely believes in Philly's potential & in the importance of our communities. After graduating from UPenn's Wharton School, Haile (a native of Philadelphia who grew up in Germantown) and his wife Tatiana (also a Wharton grad, native of Guatemala), chose to STAY here in Philly & channel their passion, creativity, & considerable smarts as agents of positive change.
A resident of Strawberry Mansion, Haile founded the East Park Revitalization Alliance (EPRA), a non-profit, with his wife Tatiana. They have planted over 300 trees, built community gardens, created jobs for local residents, engaged neighborhood kids in positive community building activies through after school and summer programming, and continue to manage over 13 acres of vacant land.
Haile also worked for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to enhance nutrition and recreation programs in order to combat childhood obesity and to ban trans fats from Philadelphia restaurants. His concern for the health of his community, especially kids, led him to initiate programs to improve access and awareness of Fairmount Park facilities and the development and promotion of organized activities.
You can read lots more about him here:
http://www.johnston07.com/
For those of you who live in his district, please take a minute to check out Halie's website and consider giving him your support on May 15.
& whatever you do, vote, vote, vote...
jenn mcc.
Monday, March 26, 2007
hey yall--
Conrad here, very excited to be reading with Elmslie THE LEGEND!
Friday, March 23, 2007
THANK YOU
I want to extend my deep thanks to everyone who showed their love & support on Sunday, as well as the past few months. I have learned a lot recently that I wouldn’t have chosen to if I had the option. But it was worth one great lesson- that the idea of a poetry community is not just a concept or theory, but a vital, living thing. Through the years, this community gave me many friendships, amazing poems & sometimes a hard time. This year, I was shown such overwhelming solidarity. Even during the most dangerous times, I knew this community was standing with me in spirit or in person by my hospital bed. You gave me love, & probably life. I’ll never forget that. I hope I can show you that love back someday somehow.
I’m trying to get back to living again, so I limped to a double-header reading tonight- Julia Bloch & Dodie Bellamy at Kelly Writers House, then Bhanu Kapil at TUCC. And all three writers were AMAZING!!! It’s so good to be back in circulation & getting poetry back in my ear. I can’t say it enough, but once more for now…
Thanks,
Frank
I’m trying to get back to living again, so I limped to a double-header reading tonight- Julia Bloch & Dodie Bellamy at Kelly Writers House, then Bhanu Kapil at TUCC. And all three writers were AMAZING!!! It’s so good to be back in circulation & getting poetry back in my ear. I can’t say it enough, but once more for now…
Thanks,
Frank
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Frank Sherlock Benefit Pix 18 March 2007
Many thanks to all who helped make this weekend's event such a lovefest & a success to boot.More photos may be viewed here: http://picasaweb.google.com/jmccreary.map/FrankBenefit?authkey=8h-T1vF_oG0
: jenn mcc
Monday, March 19, 2007
EOAGH Philly launch NOT TO BE MISSED!
A Journal of the Arts, Issue 3: Queering LanguageThis online journal can be read
for free by clicking HERE
PHILADELPHIA READING LAUNCH
Saturday, March 24th, 6pm to 8pm
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St.
Philadelphia
hosted by Tim Peterson & CAConrad
Readers will include:
Dodie Bellamy, Kyle Conner, CAConrad, Jim Cory, Sarah Dowling, Maria Fama, Chris Gullo, hassen, Mytili Jagannathan, Anne Kaier, Candace Kaucher, Erica Kaufman, Kevin Killian, Janet Mason, Cathleen Miller, Ashraf Osman, Tim Peterson, Stephen Potter, Sina Queyras, Nathaniel Siegel, Stacy Szymaszek, Eleanor Wilner, Christina Strong, Jason Zuzga
Dodie Bellamy will read the kari edwards editorial statement
Eleanor Wilner will read the poems by the late Almitra David
Jim Cory will read the poems by the late Karl Tierney
CAConrad will read the poems by the late Alexandra Grilikhes
EOAGH Issue 3 – Queering Language was edited by CAConrad, kari edwards, Paul Foster Johnson, Erica Kaufman, Jack Kimball, Tim Peterson, and Stacy Szymaszek.
This online publication includes the work of over 100 contributors as well as editors' statements on this project.
Issue 3 of EOAGH is dedicated to the memory of
kari edwards (1954-2006)
dear friend, mentor, colleague, crusader.
WE WILL HAVE WINE AND FOOD FOR DONATION
all money goes to the
kari edwards Memorial Poetry Award
at NAROPA
AND WE WILL RAFFLE OFF THE AMAZING
Sina Queyras photograph BAT BARBIE!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
LIMITED OFFER for the EMERGENCY FUND!
Susana Gardner, the ever generous publisher of DUSIE has printed and donated a set of 3 "wee chaps" by Frank Sherlock, Edmund Berrigan and CAConrad. The set goes for $15, and can be purchased at the upcoming benefit (see previous post for benefit details).
