Happy Birthday, Beatriz Alba Del Rio

 

 

Happy Birthday, Beatriz Alba Del Rio

 

 

Happy Birthday, Beatriz Alba Del Rio

Come back to Oddball Magazine. 

Happy Birthday, Beatriz Alba Del Rio

 

 

Happy Birthday, Beatriz Alba Del Rio

Will we be seeing you again soon?

Happy Birthday Beatriz Alba Del Rio

We need to read more of your work soon.

Scenes from Wilderess House Literary Review's 10th Anniversary Bash

Yesterday I was late getting to the Out of The Blue for the celebration of this acclaimed ten year old online web journal, but I got there just in time to get on the open mic and read a revised version of the first poem I ever had published in WHLR ("Charon's Slow Day," retittled "Charon Works Through Lunch") More importantly, I made it in time for cake.

The cake was presented, and there was much rejoicing.

And when we were finished photographing the cake, there was even more rejoicing.

WHLR founder Steve Glines makes the first cut.

Julia Carlson and Teisha Dawn Twomey.

Beatriz Alba Del Rio.

I even got to see Tim Gager too.

Awwwww!

Maybe it was the new beard but when others offered to take pictures of Tim, Teisha and me with my camera, Tim wanted to mug in front of the gallery's microphones. He was picturing us doing a rendition of a CSNY song.

Good times.

Stone Soup Croutons, 9-19-16, Debris

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, the poem doesn't go up because it's good; it goes up because it's Tuesday morning. I've done fifty of them now, and you can access them all here.
Read and comment on them before I go catatonic trying to get to poem one-hundred.

Yesterday, Gordon Marshall  presented the Jack Powers Stone Soup Savor Poetry Prize to Jonathan J. Joseph. As if that wasn't enough, Beatriz Alba Del Rio dropped in to show off an original sculpture by the late Jack Powers. It was one of many pieces he constructed from found items in the street, signing the under the moniker "Jack Debris."

Extra Dose of Monday Stone Soup

Beatriz Alba Del Rio with another Jack Powers tribute piece is up on Oddball Magazine.