tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66928875119576016592024-02-20T20:50:05.508-08:00Maria Loves WordsPoetry, ecopoetics, literature, art, travel, fashion, gender issues, words. . .Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-17117989301977604402020-01-20T14:09:00.001-08:002020-01-20T14:09:56.121-08:00Eileen Myles, Poet Republik<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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agreeing to be the feature for this month’s <a href="https://marialoveswords.com/poet-republik-eileen-myles/" target="_blank">Poet Republik</a>. You are a badass and
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-6293824580788990702017-06-01T10:25:00.000-07:002019-01-28T03:03:58.449-08:00Henry Miller Library Grand Opening at the Barnyard in Carmel, California<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On May 28th, 2017 The Henry Miller Library opened its doors in Carmel, California at the Barnyard. I was asked to read along with Carolyn Mary Kleefeld and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts. <br />
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published by the Henry Miller Memorial Library. The evening will feature a
poetry reading by Brenda Coultas; a staged reading of Henry Miller and Anais
Nin’s more salacious writing entitled Miller Out Loud! featuring local actors
portraying the roles of Henry, June, Anais and Rimbaud. Chicago musician and
Library friend extraordinaire, Al Rose, who just dropped a critically acclaimed
CD entitled, Spin Spin Dizzy will close out the evening with a musical set
featuring songs that put the free in free speech. Please join us in this
celebration, because we believe that without free speech there can be no human
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<strong>October 1<sup>st</sup>, 2016 at The Henry Miller Memorial Library</strong><br />
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Come join us in a benefit for Big Sur’s own literary press: Ping-Pong Free Press, published by the Henry Miller Memorial Library. The evening will feature a poetry reading by Brenda Coultas; a staged reading of Henry Miller and Anais Nin’s more salacious writing entitled Miller Out Loud! featuring local actors portraying the roles of Henry, June, Anais and Rimbaud. Chicago musician and Library friend extraordinaire, Al Rose, who just dropped a critically acclaimed CD entitled, Spin Spin Dizzy will close out the evening with a musical set featuring songs that put the free in free speech. Please join us in this celebration, because we believe that without free speech there can be no human rights. Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7:30.<br />
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Brenda Coultas is the author of four poetry collections, including <em>The Tatters</em> (Wesleyan University Press, 2014), <em>The Marvelous Bones of Time</em> (Coffee House Press, 2008), and <em>A Handmade Museum </em>(Coffee House Press, 2003). Her honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.<br />
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Al Rose is a striking songwriter and musician with a unique and powerful vision that continues with his seventh and latest release (2016), “Spin Spin Dizzy”. His previous albums have received extensive airplay on AAA and Americana stations throughout the US along with a bevy of critical praise. He is a mesmerizing transformer when performing live as a solo or with any number of his band, The Transcendos, in any configuration. This drives the songs each night, but the songs have always been what drives the musicians in what The Chicago Tribune has called “one audaciously entertaining ride”.<br />
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Ron Genauer is an optometrist who has been involved in community theatre for many years. Some of his favorite roles have been Gelman, in Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass”, the Player, in Tom Stoppard’s “Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, and Charley, in David Mamet’s “Speed the Plow.”<br />
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John Dotson is a writer/producer/director/multi-media artist with Carmel Bay Players. He also works with The Seventh Quarry Drama Group of Swansea, Wales. John’s first acting was in excerpts of Shakespeare directed by Charlotte Perry at Santa Catalina School. He performed at the Forest Theater in <em>The Hollow Crown,</em> directed by Marcia Hovick, and in Robinson Jeffers’ <em>Medea,</em> directed by Nick Zanides. At Cherry Hall in Carmel, John performed Willie in Beckett’s <em>Happy Days,</em> directed by Conrad Selvig. John’s three-act play, <em>It’s Always Something,</em> directed by Nancy Pridemore, was staged in Kingsport, Tennessee, his hometown, in 2001. He then wrote and played the leading role in <em>Without Why,</em> directed by Conrad Selvig. With Lisa Maroski, John has written two plays, <em>Touching Distance</em> and <em>Dearly Departing,</em> performed in the US and at the Dylan Thomas Theatre in Swansea.<br />
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Susan Roether Zsigmond (Director) is a writer and film maker. She is a friend of the San Francisco Library; North Beach Citizens: American Film Institute; The Actor’s Studio Playwrights Unit; and the Mecahnics Institute Library and Chess room. Her recent novel “Our Lady of West Hollywood” was listed among “Best of the Independent Press, 2014” by <em>Kirkus Review</em>. Susan is also a member of the board of directors of the Henry Miller Memorial Library.<br />
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Maria Garcia Teutsch (Producer) <em>The Revolution Will Have its Sky</em>, won the 2016 Minerva Rising chapbook competition, judge: Heather McHugh. She is a poet, educator and editor. She has published over 20 journals of poetry as editor-in-chief of the Homestead Review, published by Hartnell College in Salinas, and <em>Ping-Pong</em> journal of art and literature, published by the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. She teaches poetry and creative writing online as a member of the faculty of Hartnell College. She serves as president of the board of the Henry Miller Memorial Library, and is the founder and EIC of Ping-Pong Free Press.<br />
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Deidre Mccauley has been doing theatre for over 50 years. In Philadelphia she began at Old Academy Players following in her mother's footsteps onto the stage.<br />She’s performed at Western Stage, Magic Circle Theatre, The Golden Bough, Outdoor Forest Theatre and Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. Recently she starred in a film called "Laces" which debuted at the Monarch Film Festival. She is part of The Actor's Collective which is a group of actors who love to fly without a net.<br />
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Marnie Glazier is a writer, theatre artist and educator. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing, and a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies. She has directed a number of productions – professional and academic – has taught Theatre, Writing, and Communication Studies for more than ten years, and currently serves as Theatre Faculty Lead at Hartnell College in Salinas. Her scholarly writing has been presented at numerous conferences and published in Laconics and the Texas Theatre Journal, and upcoming performances include: Transpiration, at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference this fall in Minneapolis, MN. Her work is deeply embedded in social practice/physical/visual theatre, ecology, and ecofeminism.<br />
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River Atwood Tabor is a poet, photographer, philosopher and other things that begin with the letter “p.” At 20 years of age, he has helped found a press, published a book of poetry, and traveled to 5 countries, and that’s just in the past year.<br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-60376002719989328392015-11-14T12:48:00.000-08:002015-11-14T12:48:48.247-08:00Jesse Goodman Presents: Pink Martini! Poet David Meltzer to open December 8th, Monterey, California<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jesse Goodman has been producing benefit concerts for the Henry
Miller Memorial Library since he brought Patti Smith there in 2004. The
past few years he has been bringing poets in as the opening acts of
these shows, which as you can imagine, pleases us here in the Republik
of poets to no end. This year he is bringing in legendary San Francisco
poet, David Meltzer to open for Pink Martini in this year's benefit on
December 8th at the Golden State Theatre in Monterey, California. Get
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baby, they're going fast . . . So, to honor Jesse's mad genius we are
featuring his story as well as poems by David Meltzer and his wife, the
poet Julie Rogers. Scroll down for his story, but first: the poets.
Enjoy.<br />
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PEPPER<br /> Art's desire to get it all said<br /> to all who thought him dead<br /> in the joint & beside the point<br />
Art's struggle to sing it all<br /> through jazz warfare & tell<br /> everything he knew in brass<br /> speed rap stir crazy utopia<br /> of muscle chops push it in your face<br /> rough unrelenting grace<br />
fierce Art pitbull clamps down<br /> pulls edges out in time to break through<br /> scream knotty beauty<br /> toe to toe w/ any joe<br /> who thinks they know better<br />
Art tattoos blue needles into moonlight skin<br /> junk light makes mirror perfect<br /> Art's smoke aches out of wounds<br />
L.A. Art burritos & bebop<br /> black guacamole serge zoots<br />
Central Avenue cat copping<br /> Art at Club Alabam<br /> in Lee Young's band<br /> all the chicks & the hatcheck chick<br /> have big eyes for Art's horn<br />
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DAVID
MELTZER began his literary career during the Beat heyday and is
considered a prominent figure in the San Francisco/Beat Renaissance. He
came to prominence as the youngest poet to have his work included in the
anthology, <em>The New American Poetry 1945 – 1960</em>, edited by Donald Allen. He is the author of many volumes of poetry including <em>Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957 – 1992, No Eyes: Lester Young, Beat Thing, and David’s Copy</em>. He has also published fiction and essays, and has edited numerous anthologies and collections of interviews such as <em>Reading Jazz, Writing Jazz, and San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets.</em> His most recent book of poetry, <em>When I Was A Poet</em>, is 60 in the <em>Pocket Poet’s Series</em>
published by City Lights. In 2012 David was nominated for the Northern
California Book Award in Poetry. This year, City Lights reissued a
special edition of his poetry guide, ‘<em>Two-Way Mirror – A Poetry Notebook’,</em>
with a new introduction and an updated addendum. In April, with his
wife, poet Julie Rogers, and saxophonist Zan Stewart, released the CD, ‘<em>Two Tone Poetry & Jazz’</em>.
Diane di Prima, former SF Poet Laureate says of him, “David Meltzer is a
hidden adept, one of the secret treasures on our planet. Great poet,
musician, comic; mystic unsurpassed, performer with few peers.” David
Meltzer is also known for his inspiring and witty teaching style, and
has taught in San Francisco and elsewhere for four decades.<br />
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Witness <em>for Rodney King </em><br />
Beaten under by the clubs of his protectors<br /> he’s down for the count<br /> on asphalt not meant to hold his blood<br /> and he can’t get away<br /> his scars are monuments to ignorance<br /> his tears are dark water<br /> left running in the city<br /> filling toilets, filling swimming pools<br /> flooding gutters with our trash and the homeless<br /> his screams are the sirens of Los Angeles<br /> forcing the traffic back: heart attacks<br /> suicide attempts, maybe a kid on crack<br /> taking a fast ride<br /> through overgrowth that won’t stop<br /> his family grieving, wanting revenge<br /> while the TV shows a cremation of dreams<br /> smoldering rage rising like smoke<br /> from neighborhoods burning at dawn.<br /> Witness the bashing of Mr. King<br /> on an instant replay<br /> while a jury argues his pain.<br /> Someone said he fought back.<br /> I saw a man struggle to stand on his own.<br />
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Julie
Rogers entered the Bay Area poetry scene during the 1970’s. Her poems
were first included in a San Francisco anthology in 1980, and she later
published five chapbooks. She has read her work on public radio and
television and at many venues in California and Oregon, and more
recently in New York City. Decades of involvement in the Tibetan
tradition of Buddhism have influenced her writings, and in 2007, Vimala
published her Buddhist hospice manual, <em>Instructions for the Transitional State</em>,
with which she has begun a non-profit educational program. Her poetry
has been featured in various journals and anthologies such as <em>Beatitude
– Golden Anniversary 1959 – 2009, Poetry Flash, Sparring with Beatnik
Poets, Big Scream, The Cafe Review, World of Change</em>, and others. In 2012, Wild Ocean Press published her first selected collection of poetry spanning thirty years of work, <em>House Of The Unexpected.</em>
Omerta Publications released her newest chapbook, Street Warp, in 2013.
She recently released the CD, 'Two-Tone Poetry & Jazz', recorded
with her husband, poet David Meltzer, and saxophonist Zan Stewart.
Currently, she teaches creative writing privately, and performs solo and
with her husband. Poet Michael McClure has said of her work, “Few poems
are written as close to the heart -- no extra words, just soul
meanings…”<br />
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<strong>Jesse Goodman's Story:</strong><br />
This
story begins on Independence Day, at the turn of the Millennium, having
just moved to San Francisco a day or two before the 4th. My very first
mission having moved to the West Coast was to head South on Highway 1 to
Big Sur. I had longed to go to this most special of places, that in my
mind I knew would be pure magic. I'm not even sure when Big Sur entered
my consciousnesses, but if it was good enough for 'The Beats' I was
certain I'd find something special there.<br />
I had been camping,
hiking, and exploring both the little nooks and the grandeur of the area
when the 4th of July came round. I had heard that Baba Oluntuji was
performing at the Esalen Institute. Given how I was vibe'ing with the
flow of Big Sur, I headed to Esalen, fully believing that despite being
sold out, I'd find my way in.<br />
Just as quickly as I arrived at
Esalen, I was rejected (as to be expected). I hopped in my car and
headed North back to the campground. I was feeling badly about not
having had the chance to see the Nigerian drumming legend. Then in an
instant, as I passed the Henry Miller Library (HML), I suddenly and
without thought parked my car next to The Library's gates. There was a
palpable feeling that something exciting was about to happen. It was
here that I found the cultural beating heart of Big Sur.<br />
The
Library was in preparation mode, with a troupe of artists from Prague
along with their organizer extraordinaire, Maya Cain. A tall charismatic
Swede, Magnus Toren (Executive Director of HML), who somehow appeared
as if he had been birthed from The Library's grounds, was everywhere. It
was clear this was no ordinary spot. In this place of overwhelming
beauty with its lofty trees and vast ocean, The Library is the
intersection of Big Sur's spiritual grandeur and human creativity.<br />
July
4th, 2000 began my relationship with HML & Big Sur. Fast forward
several trips and I am spending the evening in Magnus & Mary-Lou's
cozy cabin on Partington Ridge (Miller's Ridge) along with my partner,
Max. We are drinking wine under the stars, and the talk moves to "how
cool it would be" if Patti Smith could perform a benefit for HML. I
said, not knowing how I'd accomplish this, "YES YES YES" !! I said "Yes"
because in Big Sur anything is truly possible.<br />
Patti did perform,
on August 22nd, 2004, in what became the 1st Annual Henry Miller
Library Benefit. Against all odds, she agreed to perform for the little
Library off Highway 1. What an honor!<br />
Not more than a moment had
passed after Patti's encore when Magnus turned to me and asked with a
cheeky grin, "So, who are ya bringing next year"? The thought that this
might be the first of an annual benefit hadn't even crossed my mind, but
with those words uttered, a new challenge emerged.<br />
Who could I
invite to the same place that inspired Henry Miller, gave birth to HML,
and has attracted adventurers & artists for as long as there has
been a Big Sur?<br />
Eleven years have passed since Patti's
performance. I think back to having never seen Baba Oluntuji and the
moment another path was forged. Over the years audiences have enjoyed
intimate performances by Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Marianne
Faitfull, Rufus Wainwright as well as other artists who have been a part
of HML's annual benefit.<br />
As long as Big Sur exists, as long as
HML exists, artists and audiences alike will come to inspire & be
inspired. The magic will continue.<br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-83433987211389610792015-10-14T08:56:00.000-07:002015-10-14T08:56:00.872-07:00Ping-Pong Free Press<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-17967280918497417302015-09-26T14:04:00.002-07:002019-01-28T03:37:42.920-08:00Speech Is Not Free! 60th Anniversary of Howl, poetry workshops, and more . . . <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.marialoveswords.com/poet-republik-alice-notley/">Speech is Not Free! 60th Anniversary Celebration of Howl, Ping-Pong Free Press Extravaganza!</a><br />
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Featuring Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye in performance<br />
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Group Reading of <i>Howl, </i>screening of the Telling Pictures film, Howl.<br />
Poetry Reading of <i>The Revolution Will Have its Sky, Maria Garcia Teutsch</i><br />
<b>For Immediate Release:</b><br />
<b>Contact: Mike Scutari 667-2764</b><br />
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<b>Speech is Not Free </b><br />
<i>Howl 60<sup>th</sup> Anniversary,</i> choral reading and Film; music by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye; a benefit for <i>Ping-Pong</i> Free Press/release party for the 2015 journal.<br />
On Friday October 16 the Henry Miller Memorial Library will present
their second annual Speech is Not Free Event with apoetry reading from
the Library’s literary journal Ping-Pong; a group reading of <i>Howl</i>; a performance featuring Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye followed by a showing of the Telling Pictures film, <i>Howl.</i><br />
On Saturday the Library will host performance and poetry workshops: 10-11:45, <b>Riot Writing</b>: poems to start a revolution generative workshop with <i>Ping-Pong</i> EIC, Maria Garcia Teutsch; 12-12:30 brown bag lunch. 12:30-2:30-<b>Performance and Poetry</b> workshop with Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye; 2:30-4: <b>Free Speech Presentation and exhibit</b>: informal chat with library executive director Magnus Torén.<br />
On Saturday Evening there will be performances by Grammy award winning artist Ian Brennan, and Bob Forrest of Thelonius Monster.<br />
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-workshops-and-exhibit-tickets-18644468106"><b>Saturday 10/17/15 Workshops: </b></a><br />
<b>10:00-11:45 am: Riot Writing—Poems to start a Revolution:
Poetry of Protest is Poetry of Witness generative workshop with Maria
Garcia Teutsch</b><br />
Poetry is written for any number of reasons, most often having to do
with witnessing: the poet sees something so beautiful they want share it
with the world, or perhaps the poet sees an injustice they want to give
voice to—poetry of social consciousness. Working primarily with poetry
of the latter ilk, we will examine Chicano/a poetry, Feminist poetry,
Palestinian Poetry, Jewish poetry, Russian poetry, Syrian poetry etc…
and then generate and share our own poems of protest.<br />
<b>12:30-2:30:The Poem-in-Performance: A Workshop with Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye</b><br />
Working with our <i>melopoeia</i>, — the innate music of our
writing — we will let our poetry guide us into various performance
strategies and modes of composition. We will be working with our voice,
our timing, possible instrumentation, collaboration and the like. We
will consider methods of <i>sprechstimme</i> (speak-singing),
monologue, vocal duets, curses, spells, lullabies, blues,
poem-as-libretto, and also consider how to shape the work on the page
with its orality in mind. We will begin with some “experiments of
attention” and work toward individual pieces we will then record on a
CD. Participants may also bring a piece of their choice to class to work
on, as well as instruments they can play. Musicianship is welcome!
Discussion will include some performance theory.<br />
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<b>7:00PM–Saturday evening performances</b> by Grammy Award winning artist Ian Brennan and Bob Forrest (Thelonius Monster).<br />
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About the artists:<br />
<b>Anne Waldman</b> The author of more than 40 collections
of poetry and poetics, Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider
experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat
movement and the second generation of the New York School. Her
publications include <i>Fast Speaking Woman</i> (1975), <i>Marriage: A Sentence</i> (2000), and the multi-volume <i>Iovis</i> project (1992, 1993, 1997).<br />
Her work as a cultural activist and her practice of Tibetan Buddhism are
deeply connected to her poetry. Waldman is, in her words, “drawn to the
magical efficacies of language as a political act.” Her commitment to
poetry extends beyond her own work to her support of alternative poetry
communities. Waldman has collaborated extensively with visual artists,
musicians, and dancers, and she regularly performs internationally. Her
performance of her work is engaging and physical, often including chant
or song, and has been widely recorded on film and video.
www.annewaldman.org<br />
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<b>Ambrose Bye</b>, musician/producer grew up in the
environment of The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University, graduated
from The University of California, Santa Cruz and was trained as an
audio engineer at the music/production program at Pyramind in San
Francisco. Working primarily with poets, he has produced four albums
with Anne Waldman, “In the Room of Never Grieve”, “The Eye of the
Falcon”, “Matching Half”, and “The Milk of Universal Kindness”. He also
produced “Comes Through in the Call Hold” featuring Waldman, Thurston
Moore, and Clark Coolidge. Recently he produced, “Harry’s House” a
compilation from recordings done at Naropa University and is working on
Volume Two. www.fastspeakingmusic.bandcamp.com<br />
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<b>Maria Garcia Teutsch</b> is an award-winning poet, editor and educator. Her most recent collection, <i>The Revolution Will Have its Sky,</i> received the Minerva Rising Chapbook award, Judge: Heather McHugh. She serves as editor-in-chief of <i>The Homestead Review,</i> <i>Ping-Pong</i> Magazine and <i>Ping-Pong</i>
Free Press. She has been teaching poetry and creative writing classes
at Hartnell College for the past 16 years where she received the Gleason
Award for teaching excellence. Ilya Kaminsky says of Maria’s poetics:
“The voices in her poems are direct and yet there is a certain mystery
to this directness, this clarity of address. Clarity, the great
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish taught us, is the first mystery. She
understands this too. Her poems can be devotional, or political or sexy,
but there is always this sense of direct address, of clarity that isn’t
all that simple, that contains a kind of tenderness, a kind of
playfulness that is clear and mysterious at the same time.”
www.marialoveswords.com<br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-72382865058885837952015-09-03T08:00:00.001-07:002015-09-03T08:01:46.321-07:00The Revolution Will Have its Sky, Now Available!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Judge's Citation, Heather McHugh<br />
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<i>The Revolution Will Have Its Sky</i> <br />
by Maria Garcia Teutsch<br />
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The revolution will have its sky—where else might its banner wave, aloft,<br />
esteemed--and still be widely legible? In order for us to discern what otherwise the<br />
sight alone can’t catch, impulses appropriate letters, airs take shape, the wind turns<br />
signs to tatters, tatters to signs. The author of these poems keeps an eye not on a<br />
single great celestial value, but on the human disposition to scrips, emblems, notes,<br />
names, lists: The scores we keep.<br />
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The tricks that contribute to this work's verbal motif are many, but not superficial.<br />
Brothel trick, funeral trick, mirror trick, catafalque trick: they arise as the recourse<br />
of an active alertness, in the face of masks, to the presence of representations.<br />
In heraldry, an engraver's trick enlists letters or numbers (written or carved) to<br />
represent colors (under whose airier sways may armies march). But this poet's<br />
alerted attention is to another sort of detachment.<br />
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The senses of the word “trick” flicker between means and meaning, exploit and<br />
exploiter, ruse and wit; between adroitness and waylaying; between wile and skill,<br />
where working skeptics must be wary even of awareness: "Mirrors in tatters<br />
become a veil." And where exactly are those "Stripes in gold fringes"? In words? In<br />
garbs? The grand banners and regal ribbons of a Reine Soleil ? (Or the sun’s own<br />
sine qua non , taken, in a coup d’oeil , for a single eyeblink?) Even love hurts; and<br />
looking (or seeming) is its chief instrument.<br />
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This poetry isn't out to convert, but to advert. It doesn't pledge allegiance or invest<br />
in transcendent causes, but rather observes some kinds of signs – signs of war, wars<br />
of sex, hexes of communication It won't hallow a transparency; it won’t turn away<br />
from an execution.<br />
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In the skeptic's etymology, to look and to reflect are kin. I watch, says the skeptic.<br />
And the watch pulled from the Madame/ Queen’s breast “[s]teals a whirl of second<br />
hands.” The ticker—with its little diamond—keeps count of time’s bit-bedevilled<br />
billionfold: more and more representations of the claim to be one. Emblems of<br />
Monarch, Freemason and Pope alike inscribe a dialectic: two arms serving the same<br />
brain. (Hence the insignias of their respective realms: the unicorn's complement of<br />
lion; the double-headed eagle; two keys crossed.)<br />
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The heart of the matter, the matter with consciousness, is the momentary: the<br />
ticker cannot construct enough momentousness out of the countlessness or bits of<br />
particulars. "…The eternal song/can prolong the funeral trick/ but for a moment…”<br />
Whether in love or in politics, a con is attended by its pro.<br />
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This work's occasions are implicated in its materials: with trompes l'oeil , jacks and<br />
johns, sleights of hand, this poetry registers some serious claims and obligations:<br />
"After he sells her to the rebels/for 100 women…/…she becomes…/An anti-image<br />
singing/to an image in a field of blue." (An engraver's trick is an anti-image too.)<br />
Constitutions are (constitutively) vulnerable to prostitutions, restitutions,<br />
destitutions.<br />
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In a final draft, the colors may come down to a blast of taps: "If you fasten a<br />
collection/of decorations to a uniform/you can give last orders/ to last men." In<br />
black and white, Old Glory has been tagged. Seeing illusions attached to<br />
engagements, uses to ubiquities, profanities to idealism, privates to a general, The<br />
Revolution Will Have Its Sky reminds us enlistees (whether in grays or blues,<br />
whether in wishes or words, whether in war or love) how down-and-dirty signing<br />
up can be.<br />
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Heather McHugh<br />
February 14, 2015<br />
Seattle WA<br />
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To purchase a copy of this collection please go here: <a href="http://minervarising.com/purchase-chapbooks/">Minerva Rising</a></div>
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The Henry Miller Library Benefit Continues on Sunday!<br />
<a href="http://www.marialoveswords.com/event/sunday-at-mccabes-henry-miller-library-benefit-continues/">More deets here</a><br />
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Friday Night from 7-10 pm: Poets/Artists will perform a piece based on a banned work that has affected them in a transformative way. For full details go to my blog here:<br />
<a href="http://www.marialoveswords.com/event/speech-is-not-free-50th-anniversary-tropic-of-cancer-obscenity-trial/">Free Speech at Coagula Curatorial</a><br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-60852233348911574992013-10-31T16:48:00.001-07:002013-10-31T16:48:17.634-07:00Check out this fab review of the brand new edition of Ping Pong by C.E. McAuley, Features Editor at PopMatters.com!Henry Miller Memorial Library<br />
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Check out this podcast of <a href="http://www.kimaddonizio.com/">Kim Addonizio</a> interviewing a number of Henry Miller aficionados about Henry's life in Big Sur, California. Featuring interviews with Miller's son Tony, as well as yours truly.<br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-89320008170154802322013-05-07T14:03:00.001-07:002013-05-07T14:03:50.336-07:00Splashed in this week’s NEW YORKER: It’s the BIG SUR BROOKLYN BRIDGE Festival (May 12-19)!Henry Miller Memorial Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivw75OVE5GQJyiTD3sLVh074lpQI0LsOURAhIOfjWWMzH4qSXMMQl4-PGZDU26kqsChXvdyHgeTZxdZsNggj83-HUC-ay8_lYDlP5FkEw1MBTCk_dvMgx3FJioGzMhxjIL8z6ICcqZ-Zs/s1600/NewYorker1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivw75OVE5GQJyiTD3sLVh074lpQI0LsOURAhIOfjWWMzH4qSXMMQl4-PGZDU26kqsChXvdyHgeTZxdZsNggj83-HUC-ay8_lYDlP5FkEw1MBTCk_dvMgx3FJioGzMhxjIL8z6ICcqZ-Zs/s640/NewYorker1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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Big Sur in Brooklyn? Well, a little piece of the wonder that is the Henry Miller Memorial library happens May 12-19. For a full schedule of events go here: <a href="http://bigsurbrooklynbridge.wordpress.com/">HENRY</a><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.pingpong.henrymiller.org/">Ping-Pong</a>, </i><a href="http://parachutepoetry.tumblr.com/">Parachute</a><i>, </i>and <a href="http://www.poetrycrush.com/">Poetry Crush</a> brings you the first night's offering of poetry, performance, and prose. (with apologies for the alliteration, but hey, we're all poets over here).<br />
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These amazing folks will be dazzling us with their brilliance:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Big Sur/Brooklyn Bridge</span></b><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";"> night of poetry, prose and
performance is hosted by </span><a href="http://www.pingpong.henrymiller.org/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Ping-Pong</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">a journal of art and literature
published by the Henry Miller Memorial Library, the Coney Island performance
festival </span><a href="http://parachuteconeyislandfestival.blogspot.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Parachute</span></i></b></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">,
</span></i><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">and the
Brooklyn-based poetry blog: </span><a href="http://poetrycrush.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">poetrycrush</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">.</span></div>
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Jonathan Ames has varied his
creative output in recent years to span numerous media. He published another
well-received collection of autobiographical essays in 2006 entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Love You More Than You Know</i>; in 2008,
he collaborated on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Alcoholic</i>, a
semi-autobiographical graphic novel with artist Dean Haspiel and launched <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bored to Death</i>, an HBO series about a
creatively-blocked Brooklyn writer named Jonathan Ames (played by Jason
Schwartzman) who reinvents himself as a private investigator; and in 2009, Ames
published yet another collection of gonzo essays, entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Double Life Is Twice as Good</i>.</div>
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poetry: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm
Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine</i>, all published
by Soft Skull Press. He was also the editor of the poetry anthology
Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology (St. Martin’s Press). Colby
serves on the Board of Directors for The Poetry Project, where he teaches
poetry workshops. Colby has given readings at The Poetry Project, The Rubin
Museum, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Brooklyn
Public Library, Cornell University, The Kingston Writers Conference, The
Whitney Museum of American Art, PS 122, and more. He posts new work on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amanda Deutch’s poetry has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Esque</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Denver Quarterly</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Delirious
Hem</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boog City</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">6x6,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watchword
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the author of four chapbooks:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gena Rowlands (Sounds Nice) </i>(forthcoming),
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Box of Sky: Skeleton Poems</i> (Dusie
Kollektiv 4<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Motel
Drift</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Subway Series</i>. As
a poet, she has collaborated with musicians, video artists, installation
artists, sculptors, theatre companies and her poetry has been nominated for a
Pushcart Prize. Deutch is the recipient of a 2007 Footpaths to Creativity
Fellowship to write in the Azores Archipelago. In 2009, she founded <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Parachute:
the Coney Island Performance Festival</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>a literary non-profit that hosts a festival, free writing
workshops, and innovative poetry happenings in Coney Island. </span><a href="http://www.parachutepoetry.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.ParachutePoetry.tumblr.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collection <i>LA
Liminal</i> (Kore Press, 2010) and several chapbooks, including <i>Nonstop
Pop</i> (Bloof Books, 2013) and<i>Merrily, Merrily </i>(Lame House
Press, 2013). She co-founded the feminist poetry press Switchback Books and is
a member of the outreach committee for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Becca is
currently a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University, where she is
writing a dissertation on U.S. avant-garde women's poetry, feminism, and the
everyday. She grew up in Milwaukee, WI, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.</span><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">J. Hope Stein is the author of the
chapbooks </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">[Talking Doll]:</span></i><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
(Dancing Girl Press 2012), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Corner Office</i>
(H_NGM_N BKS 2012) and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">[Mary]:</span></i><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
(Hyacinth Girl Press 2012). She is also the author of
poetry/humor site <span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/eecattings\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">eecattings.com</span></u></span>, editor
of <span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/poetrycrush\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">poetrycrush.com</span></u></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Maria Garcia Teutsch is a poet and the editor-in-chief of </span><a href="http://www.pingpong.henrymiller.org/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Ping-Pong</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";"> magazine published by the Henry
Miller Memorial Library, and also <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Homestead
Review </i>published by Hartnell College.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
</i>She has been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Café Review, Southern Poetry Review, Poets
and Writers, Prairie Schooner, Whole Beast Rag, The Cold Mountain Review, Two Review,
</i>and many others. She serves as President of the Board at Henry Miller
Memorial Library. She spends half of her time in Penang, Malaysia and half in
Santa Cruz, California. More here: </span><a href="http://mariateutsch.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">marialoveswords.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edwin Torres is a bi-lingual poet rooted
in the languages of both sight and sound. A native New Yorker, he's received a
number of fellowships and acknowledgements over his lifespan as a poet and has
traveled the world seeking like-minded mind-travelers. He has work in the
forthcoming anthologies; "Postmodern American Poetry Vol. 2" (Norton)
and 'Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poetry, Stories and Songs for Children"
(Black Radish Press) and is the author of seven books of poetry including, “Yes
Thing No Thing” (Roof Books), “One Night: Poems For The Sleepy” (Red Glass Books)
and the forthcoming collection "Ameriscopia" (University of Arizona
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Los Angeles based artist <a href="http://www.timyoud.com/">TimYoud</a> will be “performing” the entirety of Henry
Miller’s <u>Tropic of Capricorn</u> over a two week period May 9-19
in New York, the setting for Miller’s classic and outrageous novel. The
performance consists of <span class="il">Youd</span> reading aloud and typing the
novel on an Underwood Standard, the same model typewriter used by Miller.
This sustained performance will begin on May 9 at the Pulse Art Fair in
Manhattan and culminate over the course of the week long Henry Miller celebration
at the City Reliquary in Brooklyn. <span class="il">Youd</span> is
represented by Coagula Curatorial gallery in Los Angeles, in whose booth at
Pulse the performance will commence and run through May 12. He will move to
the Reliquary from May 13-19.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Jenny Zhang is
the author of the poetry collection, <span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/octopusbooks\.net\/details_zhang\.php\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Dear Jenny, We Are All Find</span></span></span> (Octopus
Books, 2012.) Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published or are
forthcoming in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fence, Bomblog,
HTMLGIANT</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glimmertrain</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Altered Scale,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pen American, Coconut</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Octopus</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pinwheel, Sink Review,Jezebel</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vice.</i> She writes for teenage girls
at <span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/rookiemag\.com\/author\/jenny\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Rookie</span></span></span> magazine,
and teaches high school students in the Bronx. She's currently a
writer-in-residence at
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-58721696722117406562013-01-19T16:30:00.001-08:002013-01-19T16:30:40.062-08:00NewPages magazine reviews “Ping Pong” – the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library!Henry Miller Memorial Library<a href="http://www.henrymiller.org/the-newpages-magazine-reviews-ping-pong-the-literary-journal-of-the-henry-miller-library/#.UPs6iWtcvRA.blogger">NewPages magazine reviews “Ping Pong” – the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library!Henry Miller Memorial Library</a>Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-67764461973618532972012-10-11T10:50:00.001-07:002012-10-11T10:50:02.101-07:00Ping Pong Launch Party at Henry Miller Memorial Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_ArJFVDV3Dhi_DWTdH4PFFiSRHxxdV7zWvbK8WwF8x8gc0X7fAMqQOppojvYTwr4VnYFmL1dBy1EHyRv59AMSELotNPsii0NSPKW4w1ltoaJ5Sc6BDKOtlkdMcaF87e-a8VHOfQ_Fpk/s1600/PingPong_cover2012_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_ArJFVDV3Dhi_DWTdH4PFFiSRHxxdV7zWvbK8WwF8x8gc0X7fAMqQOppojvYTwr4VnYFmL1dBy1EHyRv59AMSELotNPsii0NSPKW4w1ltoaJ5Sc6BDKOtlkdMcaF87e-a8VHOfQ_Fpk/s320/PingPong_cover2012_thumb.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.folkyeah.com/">(((folkYEAH!)))</a> and the <a href="http://www.henrymiller.org/">Henry Miller Memorial Library present: </a><br />
<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00492AD72D858C">Patti Smith and John Lennon at Golden State Theatre</a><br />
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and a review from last night's show:<br />
<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_21730639/review-patti-smith-still-has-power">Patti Smith at the Fillmore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/177257179065578/?context=create">East Coast Release Party October 6th!</a><br />
<a href="http://pingpongreleaseparty.eventbrite.com/">West Coast Release Party! October 14th</a><br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-60571717207082872672012-09-02T17:07:00.001-07:002012-09-02T17:07:16.240-07:00Ping Pong (2012) - The Literary Magazine of the HML! - $12.00 : Henry Miller Library Store<a href="http://store.henrymiller.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=260#.UEP0pyXhczU.blogger">Ping Pong (2012) - The Literary Magazine of the HML! - $12.00 : Henry Miller Library Store</a>Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-13327320417393648942012-06-27T11:59:00.002-07:002015-05-18T07:47:43.611-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On Monday June 25th, Philip Glass, Joanna Newsom and Tim Fain did a benefit performance for the <a href="http://www.henrymiller.org/">Henry Miller Memorial Library.</a></div>
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Below is the blurb I wrote for the program notes. If you are interested in donating to the Library's capital fund go here: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=lDpM08lOHUCNJLooaURBCrONwKswRg-VHia_Cb39Y4Lm7gTtOTgZBwAH6Ea&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d8494db9703d295b4a2116480ee01a05c">Capital Fund for Henry Miller Library</a> </div>
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Days and Nights Festival and (((folkYEAH!))) Present</div>
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Philip Glass, Joanna Newsom and Tim Fain<br />
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There are stories to be told without<br />
words, and lyrics that yet unfold in the<br />
hollow corner of your heart, a space you<br />
did not know existed until the bird of song<br />
unfolded her wings there. And you felt<br />
a truth in this wind created by this beat<br />
of wings, this beat. Philip Glass, Joanna<br />
Newsom and Tim Fain weave such musical<br />
stories. Through their music something<br />
rare and beautiful emerges. Emily<br />
Dickinson said hope is a thing with feathers.<br />
What these amazing bards will leave<br />
you with tonight is not so much hope, but<br />
a passage wherein you can find the way to<br />
your own personal truth. This is a mythic<br />
musical journey you are about to embark<br />
upon. Enjoy the ride, it’s a magic carpet<br />
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Maria Garcia Teutsch<br />
Board President<br />
Henry Miller Memorial Library</div>
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"Music is the can opener of the soul."<br />
Henry Miller</div>
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<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass">Philip Glass Music here</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/joannanewsomallalive">Check out some of Joanna Newsom's music here</a></div>
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<a href="http://timfain.com/music.html">Tim Fain's music here</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.daysandnightsfestival.com/">Find out more about the Days and Nights Festival here </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.folkyeah.com/">and the fine folks at (((folkYEAH!))) here</a></div>
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wherein Mike Scutari once again outdoes himself with his verbal repartee. This event promises to be epic. Will post pictures. Will listen to the entire soundtrack to L.A. Woman while driving down there. Will pass the ocean: sea oats, otters, pelicans, Monterey Cypress; then farmland: lettuce, lettuce, grapes, grapes, tumbleweeds; then climb the Grapevine, look at houses perched on hill tops, and finally arrive.<br />
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See you there-Maria</div>Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-38992841723281088612012-05-28T20:13:00.001-07:002019-11-27T00:37:34.812-08:00Henry Miller Memorial Library Blog about Coagula Gallery Reading and Ping-Pong Tournament and What is Reality Anyway Blog, can you find the link???<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.henrymiller.org/miller-lovefest-and-ping-pong-tournament-june-2nd-at-coagula-curatorial-in-la/"> Henry Miller blog</a><br />
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about my upcoming reading at the Coagula Gallery this weekend in Los Angeles, California. <br />
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And if you missed Krystal Simpson's blog check it out:<br />
<a href="http://www.whatisrealityanyway.com/2012/05/pussy.html">What is Reality Anyway?</a><br />
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Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-4504226559156575782011-10-29T11:01:00.000-07:002011-10-29T11:01:01.661-07:00Henry Miller in NYC (again) Ping-Pong East Coast Release Party!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A comedian, a burlesque dancer and 8 poets walk into a bar... It's the <i> Ping-Pong</i> East Coast Launch Party! One & One Bar (1st Ave & 1st St. on the LES), Sat., Nov. 5, 7PM. Featuring BRANDO! the funky No Cal band, Leta LeNoir, the fancy dancer, and Kathy Smith, the family-friendly comedian. With readings by Ping Pong contributors Cynthia Cruz, J. Hope Stein, Phyllis Wat, Sara Goodman, Joanna Fuhrman, Whitney Porter, Thaddeus Rut<span class="text_exposed_show">kowski,and Mark Lamoureux, as well as editors Maria Garcia Teutsch and Christine Hamm. Performances begin at 7:00. The event is free and open to the public. Pushing the envelope till it bleeds!<br />
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Thad Rutowski: Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Roughhouse, Tetched and Haywire. Haywire reached No. 1 on Small Press Distribution's fiction best-seller list. Both Roughhouse and Tetched were finalists for a Members' Choice Asian American Literary Award. He teaches literature at City University of New York and fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan.<br />
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Cynthia Cruz: Cynthia Cruz’s is the author of Ruin. Her second collection, The Glimmering Room, will be published in fall of 2012 by Four Way Books. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. She has been the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. <br />
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Joanna Furhman: Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently<br />
Pageant (Alice James Books 2009) and Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006.) A new chapbook The Emotive Function came out in June. To learn more, please visit her website JoannaFuhrman.com.<br />
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Mark Lamoureux: Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, NY. He is the author of thee full-length collections of poetry: Spectre (Black Radish Books 2010), Astrometry Orgonon (BlazeVOX Books 2008) and 29 Cheeseburgers / 39 Years (Pressed Wafer, Forthcoming 2012). His work has been published in print and online in Fence, miPoesias, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Jacket, Fourteen Hills and many others. In 2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. He holds an MFA from the New School and teaches in the CUNY system.<br />
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J. Hope Stein: J. Hope Stein is the author of the chapbooks Talking Doll (Dancing Girl Press) and Mary, both forthcoming in 2012, and her chapbook Light’s Golden Jubilee was a finalist in the 2011 Ahsahta Chapbook Contest. Her short film, The Inventor’s Last Breath, based on her full-length manuscript about Thomas Edison, was screened at the 2011 Cinepoetry Festival at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. (More information<br />
on this project is at <a href="http://jhopestein.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://jhopestein.wordpres</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>s.com/</a>) J. Hope Stein is also the author of poetry/humor site eecattings.com, editor of poetrycrush.com, and a member of Calypso Editions artist co-op. Her work can be seen in various journals and anthologies,including Poetry International, The Boog Reader: Boog City Anthology of New York Poetry, Web Del Sol and Ping Pong. She is a member of the faculty at the Chicago School of Poetics.<br />
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Sara Goodman: Sara Goodman graduated from Purchase College in 2005 with a B.A. in Creative Writing with her concentration on poetry. Her poetry has been published in several journals and has been defined as a melding of the romantic with science fiction. She currently teaches workshops in New York for adults and children on poetry and art. <br />
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Whitney Porter: Whitney Porter is originally from Houston Texas; however for the last 17 years she has resided in Brooklyn. She has done undergraduate work at the University of Houston and Brooklyn College and finally after many years of slogging from one university to the next has just this last year received her Bachelors Degree in Journalism. She is now currently studying with Phillip Schultz at the Writers Studio, in Manhattan. She has publications in Battered Suitcase a quarterly webzine from Vagabondage Press, Ping Pong Literary Magazine, and Craniotomic, a webzine out of Chicago. <br />
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Phylis Wat: Phyllis Wat is the author of three poetry books, "Shadow Blue" (Hot Water, 1988), "The Fish Soup Bowl Expedition" (Ten Pell Books, 2000), and "The Influence of Paintings Hung in Bedrooms" United Artists, 2007), with a fourth on the way. She is a poetry co-editor of the online magazine "Press 1," and publisher of Straw Gate Books (distributed by spdbooks.org).<br />
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Maria Teutsch: Maria Garcia Teutsch is a Santa Cruz poet. She has recently been published and has forthcoming publications in anthologies Conversations at the Wartime Cafe, and Eighteens, and Two Review. She has been editor of the Homestead Review for the past eleven years. She also serves as president of the board of the Henry Miller Library where she is editor-in-chief of Ping-Pong journal of art and international literature. mariateutsch.blogspot.com<br />
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Christine Hamm: Christine Hamm is getting her PhD in English Literature, and teaches at CUNY. Nominated four times for a Pushcart, her poetry has been in Rhino, Stone Canoe, Pebble Lake Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, Blue Earth Review, Rattle, and many others. She has published three books of poetry, and the most recent, Echo Park, was just released from Blazevox. Christine is the east coast poetry editor for Ping*Pong, a literary journal published by the Henry Miller Library of Big Sur, CA.<br />
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(The Dancer) Leta LeNoir: Hailing from the great state of Michigan Leta LeNoir has been dancing on stage since she was five years old. She has been performing Burlesque and gogo in New York City for over three years. Miss LeNoir studied the great art of the strip tease at the New York School of Burlesque and can be seen showing off this exquisite talent at venues all over the city.<br />
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(The Music) Dan's Guerra's Band: Brando from California. We are gonna melt faces!<br />
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(The Funny) Kathy Smith: Kathy Smith has been doing stand up comedy for a little over 10 years. She’s performed regularly at Caroline’s on Broadway and Don’t Tell Mama’s. She’s currently a regular at the Laugh Lounge and has been a MC at office gatherings on request. Kathy’s comedy is good clean fun, sexy and relatable across generations.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div>Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692887511957601659.post-54407891964770031372011-10-21T11:52:00.000-07:002011-10-21T11:52:18.730-07:00Ping Pong Party (PPP / P3) in SF tomorrow. It’s a perfect “first date” – we even have an itinerary laid out for you. | The Henry Miller Memorial Library Blog<a href="http://blog.henrymiller.org/2011/10/ping-pong-party-ppp-in-sf-tomorrow-its-a-perfect-first-date-we-even-have-an-itinerary-laid-out-for-you/">Ping Pong Party (PPP / P3) in SF tomorrow. It’s a perfect “first date” – we even have an itinerary laid out for you. | The Henry Miller Memorial Library Blog</a>Maria Garcia Teutschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715782266091513281noreply@blogger.com0