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Cantab
December 16, 2009 from 8pm to 11pm – Cantab Lounge
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Cornelius Street Cafe
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm – Cornelia Street Cafe
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Poets Out Loud at Fordham University at Fordham University
November 11, 2009 from 7pm to 9:30pm
Tara Betts, Rachel McKibbens and Willie Perdomo read at the Poets Out Loud series on the behalf of Acentos.
- Cornelius Street Cafe on September 6, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm
- Cantab on December 16, 2009 from 8pm to 11pm
- Big Poetry Series at Pete’s Candy Shop on December 4, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
Page Meets Stage at Bowery Poetry Club
September 23, 2009 from 8pm to 10pm
Tara Betts and Major Jackson read together in the Page Meets Stage series hosted by Taylor Mali.
- SEED art Gallery on July 30, 2009 from 8pm to 10pm
- The Return of the Stained Glass Confessional on July 10, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm
Poets Out Loud at Fordham University at Fordham University
November 11, 2009 from 7pm to 9:30pm
Aracelis Girmay, Tara Betts and a third sister affiliated with the Acentos crew will be reading at the Poets Out Loud series.
Tara Betts at Bowery Poetry Club
September 23, 2009 from 8pm to 10pm
Tara Betts & Major Jackson read together in the Page Meets Stage series hosted by Taylor Mali.
- Acentos Writing Workshop on May 31, 2009 from 12pm to 2pm
- Cave Canem Workshop Instructors Read @ The New School on November 5, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
- One Word/Many Voices, Port Chester Fest on May 17, 2009 from 4pm to 7pm
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author of Arc and Hue (Aquarius Press/Willow Books) to be released in Fall 2009.
- Do You Have A Website?
- www.tarabetts.net
- About Me:
- Tara Betts is a poet, activist, educator, and performer originally from Kankakee, Illinois. A graduate of Loyola University, she received her MFA in Poetry from New England College in 2007. Before publishing "Arc and Hue", she authored two chapbooks, "Can I Hang? and Switch". Her work appears in several anthologies, including "Bum Rush The Page", "The Spoken Word Revolution", and "Gathering Ground". Her work appears in the journals Callaloo, Women Studies Quarterly, African Voices, Ninth Letter, Hanging Loose, Essence and others. Her work was commissioned for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production "Words on Fire" and the stage adaptations of Fingernails Across a Chalkboard" and "That Takes Ovaries!" Tara performed in two Southwest VDay productions of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" at Chicago's DuSable Museum and Estrogen Fest. In addition, she represented Chicago twice at the National Poetry Slam, and appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
As a teaching artist in Chicago, Betts co-founded several initiatives for young women writers, including GirlSpeak (a program of Young Chicago Authors) and the open mic and performance space Women OutLoud, recently revived by Chicago's Insight Arts. Betts serves as a lecturer in creative writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, teaches workshops with teens.
- Favorite Books:
- An Exaltation of Forms edited by Annie Finch & Katherine Varnes*The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde*Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan*Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith*Yusef Komunyakaa*Toni Morrison*Gwendolyn Brooks* Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston* If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin*Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets*Julia de Burgos*for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbo is enuf*Lucille Clifton*Collected Poems of Robert Hayden*Alabanza by Martin Espada*Sharon Olds*In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker*The Black Poets edited by Dudley Randall*H.D.'s Trilogy*The Essential Etheridge Knight*The World Is Round by Nikky Finney*Wanda Coleman*Life From Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal*Assata*Jonathan Livingston Seagull*The Velveteen Rabbit*bell hooks*Willie Perdomo*The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- In Chicago: Myopic Books, Women & Children First, Heritage Books, Quimby's, 57th Street Books.
In NY: Strand Books, Brownstone Books (Brooklyn), Book Court (Brooklyn), Housing Works, forbidden planet.
In Portland, Oregon: Powell's.
In Seattle: Elliot Bay.
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Are you ready?
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.