On Sunday April 17 you can end your weekend with some wine and art while you walk (or ride your bicycle!) around downtown Oxnard. Read on to learn more about this event which benefits music programs for kids!
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Art & poetry tonight: Fluxus A Go-Go at Art City features Kevin Carman, Carol Henry offers art, music, poetry + Arcade Series!
Tonight, Saturday April 16, Outlaw Conduit Gallery presents this month’s outsider art and electronic music event, Fluxus A Go-Go featuring artist and poet Kevin Carman and with live music by Stockboken at 9pm and Cybearg at 10pm followed by DJs Kevin C from Leftside Productions at 11pm and Dept and MossMen at midnight. Learn more about these Fluxus A Go Go artists here: http://artcityventura.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/fluxus-a-go-go-3-0/
The event is only $5 at the door; 21 and over, please. Art City is located on Ventura’s Westside near Vons on Main: 197 Dubbers off Olive and Rex. Gate closes at 11:45. BYOB–and bring a few to share with Russel the Rockseller! For more information, go to www.outlawconduit.com.
Also tonight, from 6-9pm, Effloresco! Celebrating spring at carolhenrystudio on April 16th! With the images of Imogen Cunningham, Rondal Partidge and Carol Henry plus musical guest Margaret Marston! 6-9pm, April 16th, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Studio B1 and poetry– I’ve been invited to read my poem for Horace Bristol.
Also tonight, April 16 at 7pm, Cathy Colman, Dan Gerber and Vanessa Johnson feature at the Arcade Poetry Series, Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum, 424 South C Street, Oxnard with host Jackson Wheeler. Continue reading for sample poems. Read more…
Tax Day 2011: some thoughts
I was moved to tears at times by President Obama’s speech about the budget the other day. It seems timely that we are evaluating exactly how we should be spending our taxes right now as the deadline for filing taxes approaches. Personally, I agree with President Obama that we have a social contract to provide for the elderly. I think it is wrong that so many of the children in this country are living in poverty. And I think it is wrong that so many corporations pay little to nothing in taxes and that under President Bush the wealthier grew more wealthy while the poor and the middle class lost ground. And I think it it wrong to spend so much money on the military when our schools and are infrastructure is so needy. Instead of military service, I would like to see us offer a civil service putting the young and unemployed to work to rebuild our crumbling country.
Thinking about the Tax Man, it seems the post below from 2009 which discusses corporate taxes and this one on being compassionate by guest blogger Grant Marcus are as timely as ever…
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Record Store Day 2011: some thoughts
Saturday April 16 is Record Store Day! Join Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in supporting local independent record shops by picking up a copy of the limited edition 10″ vinyl single featuring “Gotta Get That Feeling” & “Racing In The Street (’78)” from the December 2010 “Songs From The Promise” concert in Asbury Park, NJ. To find your local participating independent record shop, visit: http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues
Other Record Store Day Highlights include Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Regina Spektor & More according to billboard.com.The Foo Fighters are doing an in-store performance at Fingerprints Record Store in Long Beach, CA. Wristbands were given to the first 200 people who pre-ordered the new cd last week.)
Locally, Salzer’s offers to the 1st 60 in line a bag full of goodies, especially prepared for Record Store Day, with lots of exclusive freebies and promotional stuff. Salzer’s opens at 10am and the free shopping bags are a record store day collectible. According to Salzers, the bags vary and the best ones are the first ones given out.
Birdfeeder
The Clouds
Buffalo opens at 11am; bands start at 2. Plus they’re filling the bins with loads of great rare vinyl items in addition to all the official Record Store Day releases.
Record Store Day is April 16–You won’t want to miss it!
Poetry for Horace Bristol’s Easter lilies
It’s Easter time
and the calla lilies
are in full swirl
some tightly green
others full blown cream
orange corncobs
tucked inside
revealed to
sun rain insects
snow white pollen erupts across gold
tempts small fingers to disassemble
In their prime
they are cut down
not called Easter lilies for nothing
they are grown to be gathered
sold displayed to the adoring
adorning churches homes
come Easter Sunday
their dazzling pure white
redeeming souls
Fresh lilies become
old papery tissues
discarded
no longer loved appreciated
prayed to
they are scorned trashed
dumped unceremoniously
Oh green leaves oh sensuous tubes
let your flesh
be revealed to me
I will let you into my
home
I will place you carefully
in water
on the table I will pay
my homage to you nightly
Only you Horace Bristol did them justice
when you found them discarded
lilies still glowing
post church post embrace
the trash can a condom
protecting us from the
frivolous
fecundity
of spring
For more poetry by bloggers from all over the world, catch the Monday Poetry Train!
For more of my poetry, please check out my new collection 3:15 experiment poetry Middle of the Night Poems from Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son (en theos press 2011). Read sample poems here. Read a review by Robert Peake here.
Voting ends Monday April 11, 2011 so please vote now!! Read more about Beverly, Poet Laureate Chicken in this blog post from Wine Predator:
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Old Creek Ranch Napa Cab Inspires Poetry
I posted this Old Creek Ranch Winery 2007 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon inspired poem last week over at Wine Predator. While it may not be one of my better poems, I had a blast writing it! Here it is now for the Monday Poetry Train! Climb aboard and see what others have posted. Coming soon–similar poems by other workshop participants!
(PS I’m taking the week off from blogging for some family time! See you next Monday with another new poem from the “Message in a Bottle” Writing Workshop!)
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April Fools! Join us Friday for an ArtRide!
Here are all the details including our planned route for this Friday’s ArtRide which celebrates the passage of the Master Bicycle Plan by Ventura’s City Council!
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August 20, 2006 ~ 3:15 AM
I hear elephants
keep their trunks at half-mast
when a member of the tribe dies
I hear they parade like lost souls
Do pets ever mourn our passing?
Do animals worry?
I don’t see evidence
in bees or birds
worrying about the sudden change
in weather passing storms
kids have left the nest
haven’t called in a week took off
with that dirty bird
Mourning takes space and time
can be triggered by any sense
or by a slight vision
of personal intake
The man walking in front of me
had my Father’s legs,
that funny skinny pale
and I choked on a lump
in my throat Do birds
suffer for lack of imagination?
Do they “not feel like it” sometimes
the arrow flying north next stop
the Great White North?
I stress therefore I am
and I am because you were
you made me aware you
gave me colour scheme
appreciation of art & music why
I plan to eat ice-cream
next Thursday and take a trip
to the Museum I don’t
expect to see any elephants
or birds there
c. Danika Dinsmore
please note some of the formatting is incorrect
Today March 29 is a good day for poetry! If you’re from around LA or Ventura County, you should consider going to hear Danika Dinsmore or Joyce LaMers. More info on both readings and poets along with sample poems follows. Read more…
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