This Week in Poetry

Thanks to P.C. McKinnon for putting this together:


MONDAY MARCH 30
· 4:00 PM: OLLU / Blue Room
LIT: The Fire Inside Us Literary Festival (thru Sun., April 5) / The Thing Itself (literary journal publication party)
CENTRAL LIBRARY
Poetry Wall (on the first floor, submissions will be accepted
beginning in March), Through April 30
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TUESDAY MARCH 31
· NOON: OLLU /Blue Room
“Favorite Poem Project” (OPEN MIC reading of favorite poems)
· 6:30 PM: SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART / Cowden Gallery & Auditorium
Gemini Ink’s Dramatic Readers Theater: “Writers Respond to Art”
Jenny Browne, Cary Clack, and Vincent Toro in response to artworks by Vincent Valdez and John Hernandez.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 1
· SLAM THE TOWN: EVERYONE!
Email, fax, text, mail or hand copies of poems – poems you like poems you find important or beautiful or necessary, poems you’ve written, poems that people should read TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! (friends, fellow workers, neighbors, relatives, poets, teachers, students, your newspaper delivery person – everyone!)
All we ask is that at the bottom of the page of every poem you get out
please include the following: “APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: in San Antonio over 60 events, the month-long. For a complete calendar: www.sahearts.com PASS IT ON!”
· 3:00 PM: OLLU / Group Library Community Room
LIT: “Rekindling Our Spirit” presented by the OLLU Mujeres Writing
· 4:00 PM: BROOK HOLLOW BRANCH LIBRARY
Teen Mad-Libs Poetry Palooza
· 7:00 PM: OLLU / Thiry Auditorium
LIT: Janet Burroway reading
· 6:30 PM: BARNES & NOBLE – INGRAM / 6065 NW Loop 410) (same side as Ingram Park Mall)
OPEN MIKE and Scobee Middle School Poetry Contest winners

THURSDAY APRIL 2
· 4:00 PM : OLLU / Library Community Room
LIT: Janet Burroway lecture on Metaphor & Symbol
· 6:30 PM: GEMINI INK / IGO LIBRARY–13330 Kyle Seale Parkway Readers: Catherine Bowman, Laurie Guerrero, Cyra Dumitru, and
Jenny Browne
· 5:30 PM: MC NAY Art Museum
TRC Sharing Session “Ekphrasis: Writing About Art”
A workshop with poet Mobi Warren (from Gemini Ink’s Writers in Communities Program) and exhibit from AT&T Collection.
· 8:00 PM: OLLU / 24th Street Theatre
LIT: Sam Shepard’s FOOL FOR LOVE by 24th Street Players
Thurs – Sat. April 2-4 @ 8:00 PM and Sun. April 5 @ 2:00 PM

FRIDAY APRIL 3
· 9:45-1045 AM: OLLU / International Folk Culture Center
LIT: “The Line in the Sand” presented by Jose Ruben DeLeon
play about Mexican immigrants crossing the border part of Catholic Relief Services’ drama project
· 1:00-2:00 PM: OLLU / Thiry Auditorium
Reading : An Afternoon with Stephanie Elizondo Griest
5:00 PM: CENTRAL LIBRARY
Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Sandra Cisneros’ “House on Mango Street ”
Activities for families, artworks, and a reading by Sandra Cisneros

SATURDAY APRIL 4
· 10:30 AM: SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART
student program
· 1:30 PM: SAN ANONIO MUSEUM OF ART
“Awaken the Sleeping Poet,” Laurel Crown Foundation, adult program
· 2:00 PM” BIHL HAUS ARTS / 2803 Fredericksburg Rd.
Reading : Celeste Guzman Mendoza, featured poet
· 2:00 PM: OLLU / Thiry Auditorium
LIT: Sandra Cisneros’ “House on Mango Street ” (theatrical adaptation by Amy Ludwig)
· 3:00 PM: DOS GATOS PRESS / Huston-Tillotson University / 900 Chicon / King-Seabrook Chapel / AUSTIN
Book People: Reading from “Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair”
· 7:30 PM: AUSTIN : Reading by Carolyn Forche – her poetry of witness accompanied by Alex Coke (saxophone/flute) and Shawn Sanders (cello) $35 in advance / $40 at the door / $15 students with ID
go to www.texasnafas.org

SUNDAY APRIL 5
· 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM: GOVERNMENT CANYON STATE NATURAL AREA
Haiku Hike: a three mile hike with quiet immersion in nature and
stops to write, with Poet Mobi Warren
Reservations: reservations@friendsofgc.org
· 2:00 – 5:00 PM: SEW-DELUXE / 1132 South Hackberry #1
Spontaneous Household Haiku (sewdeluxe@gmail.com)