Hope you spotted a photo of Performing Arts Company alumna Jessica Bard in the Kalamazoo Gazette's Sunday, April 20 supplement on Kalamazoo College. The article is online, but, unfortunately, that particular photo is not. Go back through your recycling pile and check it out: Page 4 of the special section shows K College students volunteering as mentors to bilingual kids in the AMIGOS program at Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, and there's Jessica.
Then move on to the Thursday, April 24 Ticket section of the Gazette and read John Liberty's article about Jordan Lunardini, who is touring with Dave "Biscuit" Miller and his Indianapolis-based blues/funk band, The Mix. You can catch them locally this Saturday, April 26, at 9 p.m. at the Stagecoach Barn, behind the Blackhawk, right here in Richland.
Okay, back to my reading, and I'll let you know what I find.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Poetry opportunities
John Rybicki is a wonderful writer from our very own neighborhood--and, as so often happens, probably finds greater fame and recognition outside of it. So we locals should not miss the opportunity to hear him read from his new book, We Bed Down Into Water, published by Northwestern University Press. Convenient opportunities to do so include:
Monday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. at the Portage Public Library.
Thursday, April 17, 8 p.m. with novelist Paula Nangle at the Little Theatre, Oakland Drive, Western Michigan University, part of the Gwen Frostic Reading Series.
If you haven't read Rybicki's poetry and prose before, Northwestern University Press offers this description of Rybicki's new collection: "John Rybicki offers up an unafraid set of poems in this charged book of verse. We Bed Down Into Water is rich with imagery of family, love, illness, death, and, indeed, water, which seeps in throughout the pages: rivers, pools, rain, and tears. His moving stories, in both prose and verse, struggle to hang on to a vision of the world that can still allow benevolence, luck, and laughter. In this, the collection embodies a contradiction: it is a tender book of fury, a book of bleak hopefulness."
Monday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. at the Portage Public Library.
Thursday, April 17, 8 p.m. with novelist Paula Nangle at the Little Theatre, Oakland Drive, Western Michigan University, part of the Gwen Frostic Reading Series.
If you haven't read Rybicki's poetry and prose before, Northwestern University Press offers this description of Rybicki's new collection: "John Rybicki offers up an unafraid set of poems in this charged book of verse. We Bed Down Into Water is rich with imagery of family, love, illness, death, and, indeed, water, which seeps in throughout the pages: rivers, pools, rain, and tears. His moving stories, in both prose and verse, struggle to hang on to a vision of the world that can still allow benevolence, luck, and laughter. In this, the collection embodies a contradiction: it is a tender book of fury, a book of bleak hopefulness."
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