Gene Glickman & Nancy Hoch Featured Poets At Curley's This Tuesday

Gene Glickman and Nancy Hoch will be sharing their work and the experiences informing it at Curley's Diner in downtown Stamford on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, beginning at 7:30 pm.

Gene Glickman is a retired professor of music. He taught at Nassau Community College from 1963 to 1999. During the academic year 1969-70 he spent a sabbatical year in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, teaching at its Music Academy. He returned to Sarajevo for visits several times thereafter. His last trip there was for three weeks in 1997, after Yugoslavia had split into fragments and Sarajevo had undergone a prolonged siege conducted by Bosnian Serbs. During that three-week period he kept a journal; he will read from that journal.

Nancy Hoch teaches writing and literature at the City University of New York. Many of her students are teachers’ aids in the New York City public schools. She is completing a dissertation on the figure of the father in recent U.S. literature who positions himself on the periphery of the family. In particular, she is interested in the way economics shapes the father into an absent presence. She will read from her poetry, including some poems based on historical incidents and some of a more personal nature.

Life, Liberty, OR The Pursuit Of Happiness

III.

Crafted bliss in a mason jar


bubbles to the surface where its essence


dissolves into the sanguinity of the scene

 
before me at the pizza place:


The patrons are pole-axed


by Budweiser and trivia, by the amber menace


of the oven yawning as the timer ticks to zero


because nobody knows where lies Laos.


One girl shouts:


“Is that even a real place?”


Cheeriness fled me, replaced by the bitter of burnt garlic.


We fire our teachers and praise the wisdom of pizza


called “kicker”, and the Dream dies slowly.



Nicholas V. Miele, June 2011
originally read at PoemAlley August 2, 2011

The Beachead Wails


near a body of water where the beachhead wails

a casket empty save for the scales

an empty casket lies in state

where  lady liberty is no longer magistrate


Ever since a miscarriage of justice stalks the soul

and a stillborn blows in the winds

the magnolia, incarcerated in sidewalk pavement raised from a stitch

strains perplexed, and in the dire wake of fall rails against

the wires woven of the wrought iron fence.

The government doesn't speak for us,

separate yourself from the state,

their defaults are a heavy weight,

we're getting nowhere at this rate.

That's what the magnolia says.


Enzo Malagisi, August 13, 2011
original to the blog

Schedule and Tour Addendums to Festival! Stratford

(See end of post for new information as of 8/16)
Festival! Stratford begins its sixth year at, and on the grounds of, Stratford, Connecticut's American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, beginning this Thursday, August 11 and running through August 21.

Among some of the participating performing companies, workshops and activities contributing to the program are Shakespearience Productions (presenting “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”), Dr. Joe Utterback and the Sister Cities Choir, the SquareWrights ("Quickies in the Park"), Hudson Shakespeare Company ("Tymon of Athens"), morning yoga instruction, as well as a week-long theatre camp.

Picturesquely situated along the Housatonic River, the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre is located at 1850 Elm Street. Website: http://festivalstratford.org/. 

Theatre Tour Opportunities:
Tours of the restored American Shakespeare Festival Theatre (loosely inspired by the design of the original Globe Theatre) begin 6:30 through 7:45 on August 18 through 21. Each tour closes 15 minutes before performances.

2011 Festival! Stratford Schedule (check here for the complete program for the summer):

August 16th, Tuesday
9:00 AM     Theatre Camp with Shakesperience (9 am – 3 pm)

August 17th, Wednesday
9:00 AM     Theatre Camp with Shakesperience (9 am – 3 pm)

August 18th, Thursday
9:00 AM     Theatre Camp with Shakesperience (9 am – 3 pm)
6:30 PM     Stratford Arts Guild – Arts Exhibit (6:30 pm – 11:00 pm, inside theater)
8:00 PM     Hosted by Mark Goldstein; Featuring: Broadway’s Jerold Goldstein, Annie Edgerton & more! -                    Broadway Meets The Bard, A Night of Music, Magic, and More!

August 19th, Friday
8:30 AM     AM Yoga
9:00 AM     Theatre Camp with Shakesperience (9 am – 3 pm)
6:30 PM     Stratford Arts Guild – Arts Exhibit (6:30 pm – 11:00 pm, inside theater)
8:00 PM     Jazz for the Spirit – Music
                  Temple Players – Learning Experience at Elderhostel & Soldiers of the Lord
                  Eastbound Theatre – Maybe in Another Universe
                  Bridgeport Theatre Company – Highlights from 2011 & 2012 Seasons
                  The Players at Putney Gardens – Shakespeare in the Garden

August 20th, Saturday
8:30 AM     AM Yoga
12:30 PM     Stratford Arts Guild – Arts Exhibit (12:30 pm – 1:45 pm, inside theater)
2:00 PM     SquareWrights – Quickies in the Park
8:00 PM     Shakesperience – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

August 21st, Sunday
8:30 AM     AM Yoga
12:30 PM   Stratford Arts Guild – Arts Exhibit (12:30 pm – 1:45 pm, inside theater)
2:00 PM     Festival! Theatre Camp performance, etc. – Shakesperience
2:30 PM     Jeff Butler & Sean Morrissey – Uno Duo
4:00 PM     Shakesperience – The Jungle book