Just announced! Winners of the 2010 MOVING WORDS Poetry Competition were selected from nearly 300 poems submitted by DC area writers. The competition judges were poets Naomi Ayala, Paulette Beete, and Lane Jennings. The six winning poems below will be displayed on Metro buses from April through September 2010. Click here to read the poems.
The 2010 winners are:
Tony Mancus, Excerpt from A Vessel Interior
Judith McCombs, Clearings
David Moss, Geology of Our Bed
Ann Rayburn, Diner
Elizabeth Rees, It Used to Be Called Tenderness
Marcela Sulak, Coffee
The 2010 finalists are:
Ann Rayburn, At the Bridge
Elizabeth Rees, Upon Delivery
Jacqueline Jules, Frog vs Toad
Michael Tims, To a Jewel
Karen Joan Topping, i95
Kati Nolfi, Cul-de-sac
Roberta Beary, On the F Train
Please join us at the IOTA Club & Café on Sunday, April 11 at 8:15 PM to hear the six winning poets read from their work! Moving Words will be featured at IOTA’s new “Second Sundays Poetry and Art Hang.” The event brings together some of the most established and prolific Metro Area poets and students, professors and poetry fans. Second Sundays is a natural outgrowth of the long-standing IOTA Poetry Series, adding a third hour of reading with the Articles Press Hour. The corresponding Art Hang adds visual art to the event and encourages discussion and mingling after the readings. IOTA Club & Cafe is a live music venue, restaurant and bar located two and a half blocks east of the Clarendon Metro Station in Arlington, Virginia.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The 2010 Moving Words Poetry Competition just awarded me an Honorable Mention for my poem i95.
Even those of you that know me and have a reason to look at this blog probably have no idea I've been writing poems for over a decade now and basically not sharing them with anyone...well hardly anyone.
Unfortunately it looks like my work will not be riding on the Arlington Virigia transit system, but I have been asked to read the poem at IOTA on April 11th with the Winners and other Honorable Mentions.
Me on IOTA's stage, after a decade of writing about what went on on that stage at groupiegirldc. That is some kind of role-reversal, eh? If I survive the butterflies, this will certainly be a new addition to my bag of tricks.
Stay tuned for details later.
Even those of you that know me and have a reason to look at this blog probably have no idea I've been writing poems for over a decade now and basically not sharing them with anyone...well hardly anyone.
Unfortunately it looks like my work will not be riding on the Arlington Virigia transit system, but I have been asked to read the poem at IOTA on April 11th with the Winners and other Honorable Mentions.
Me on IOTA's stage, after a decade of writing about what went on on that stage at groupiegirldc. That is some kind of role-reversal, eh? If I survive the butterflies, this will certainly be a new addition to my bag of tricks.
Stay tuned for details later.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Fw: The official word: Update regarding the Randall School
As some of you may know I was a former tenant of the studios at the Randall School - Millennium Art Center -
I just got this forwarded email and I am shocked and in 7th HEAVEN - According to the Corcoran:
"We have signed a Purchase and Sales Agreement with Washington D.C.-based Telesis Corporation and the Rubell family of Miami. They have entered into a joint venture to develop the site that will include a contemporary art museum, hotel, and residences. While our plans to construct a Corcoran College of Art + Design campus in Southwest will cease, we will collaborate with the Rubell Foundation and other community partners on educational programming."
I want to send the Rubell's a bus-sized valentine! Kiss the ground they walk on, etc. etc. Holy hell, after 10 years of carping about the lack of a real contemporary art museum in this city, for the first time I believe it can happen.
Tell all your friends!
I just got this forwarded email and I am shocked and in 7th HEAVEN - According to the Corcoran:
"We have signed a Purchase and Sales Agreement with Washington D.C.-based Telesis Corporation and the Rubell family of Miami. They have entered into a joint venture to develop the site that will include a contemporary art museum, hotel, and residences. While our plans to construct a Corcoran College of Art + Design campus in Southwest will cease, we will collaborate with the Rubell Foundation and other community partners on educational programming."
I want to send the Rubell's a bus-sized valentine! Kiss the ground they walk on, etc. etc. Holy hell, after 10 years of carping about the lack of a real contemporary art museum in this city, for the first time I believe it can happen.
Tell all your friends!
Monday, February 01, 2010
What a treat, A Review! My thesis show has been over about a month now, but I still am still so pleased to hear others thoughts about my work.
All of the work that ended up in my thesis was pretty much made during my summer residencies at the University of the Arts in Philly, PA. Therefore, hearing the thoughts of the author, DC area artist Peter Gordon on this work is really meaningful to me, because it was pretty fresh look for him as to what I've spent at least half of the past two years working on.
Peter is a colleague of mine from DCAC's Sparkplug. While we discuss art and our respective studio work all the time, (well at least once a month) any artist can tell you that this is not same as having someone put their thoughts about your work into writing. Thanks Pete, I really appreciate it!
All of the work that ended up in my thesis was pretty much made during my summer residencies at the University of the Arts in Philly, PA. Therefore, hearing the thoughts of the author, DC area artist Peter Gordon on this work is really meaningful to me, because it was pretty fresh look for him as to what I've spent at least half of the past two years working on.
Peter is a colleague of mine from DCAC's Sparkplug. While we discuss art and our respective studio work all the time, (well at least once a month) any artist can tell you that this is not same as having someone put their thoughts about your work into writing. Thanks Pete, I really appreciate it!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Traveling With Gulliver - City Lights - Washington City Paper
Traveling With Gulliver - City Lights - Washington City Paper
Ok - you know what? This is a REALLY OLD thing - A City Light - a mini-bit from the Washington City Paper that does not mention my name - but completely describes my work. In fact this time was the third time that my work was decribed in detail, but my name not mentioned.
So here I am finished with graduate school and as far as I can tell, still have not had anything critical said about my work - even though these critics that go to see art CLEARLY remember my work. Very strange indeed.
Really just want to put this out there as a time capsule of sorts. I'll have to see if I can find the other two times to show you.
Ok - you know what? This is a REALLY OLD thing - A City Light - a mini-bit from the Washington City Paper that does not mention my name - but completely describes my work. In fact this time was the third time that my work was decribed in detail, but my name not mentioned.
So here I am finished with graduate school and as far as I can tell, still have not had anything critical said about my work - even though these critics that go to see art CLEARLY remember my work. Very strange indeed.
Really just want to put this out there as a time capsule of sorts. I'll have to see if I can find the other two times to show you.
