Happy Birthday, Gloria Mindock

 

 

Tonight: The First and Last Word Poetry Series Featuring Doug Holder and Gloria Mindock

 

Hosted by Harris Gardner. Starts at 7:00 PM ET. Click here to register.

Tonight: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

Featuring George Kalogeris, Jean Flanagan and Carla Schwartz. Hosted by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock. Click here to register. 

Tomorrow: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

Featuring George Kalogeris, Jean Flanagan and Carla Schwartz. Hosted by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock. Click here to register. 

Happy Belated Birthday, Gloria Mindock

 

 

Cervena Barva Press Reading Series, October 25th, 2023

Hosted by Gloria Mindock. Featuring Joan Gelfand, Timothy Gager and George Wallace. 

Fifteen Years of Discarded Marked by a Cautionary Tale

Cover by James Conant, RIP.

Yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of Gloria Mindock and ,Červená Barva Press announcing the release of my first official chapbook. Discarded: Poems for My Apartments.  Do you know it's available to purchase today? I'm grateful that Gloria still has my collection available on her Lost Bookshelf website. I might even purchase copies of it for an exclusive event coming up.

It also marks the fifteenth anniversary of this wretched author photo.

Happy Birthday, Gloria Mindock

 

Tonight: First and Last Word Open Mic

Click here for the Zoom link.

Tomorrow: First and Last Word Open Mic

Happening on December 20. Hosted by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock. Contact hosts for Zoom link. Mindock's email is editor@cervenabarvapress.com.

Tonight

First and Last Word!

This Tuesday: The First and Last Words Poetry Series

From co-host Harris Gardner.

Please join us for a memorable evening of poetry and camaraderie with featured poets CD Collins, Wendy Drexler and Carla Schwartz. Tuesday, September 20th, 2022. Starts at 7:00 P.M. First and Last Words Poetry Series at Arts at the Armory. 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville.

Great featured poets!!! Great Venue!!! Great Open Mic. Soups, salads and wraps available on menu as well as wine and crafted beer. 

Hope to see YOU there!!. Guest Co-Host: Denise Provost!!

Happy Birthday, Julia Carlson

Hopefully, we'll talk soon.

Happy Birthday, Gloria Mindock

 

Tomorrow!

Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock at the Somerville Public Library.

A Part of History

Gloria Mindock has been posting videos detailing the history of her publishing company Červená Barva Press. The video below shows all the collections they published in 2008. I'm one of the early entries with my chapbook Discarded: Poems for My Apartments. So proud to have played a small part in this long-lived endeavor. 

The First & Last Word Poetry Series, February 15th

Hosted by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock. Contact Gloria at editor@cervenabarvapress.com for the Zoom link.

From Yesterday's Mail

So happy to get my contributor's copy of Ibbetson Street #50. So happy to have my poem, "Famous People No Writing," included along poem from Lloyd Schwartz, Marge Piercy, Gloria Mindock, Dewitt Henry, and especially the late Diane Robitaille. Thanks to Doug Holder for including my work again. You can order you copy from Lulu now.

Next Tuesday November 16: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

David Miller, Gary Rainford and Ruth Smullin read at the Center for The Arts at The Armory. Hosted by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock. 

RIP The Lost Bookshelf

Gloria Mindock posted this photo of the empty space at Somerville's Center for The Arts at The Armory. Until this weekend, it was the home for The Lost Bookshelf, the offline extension for the website of the same name Gloria uses for selling books from Červená Barva Press. There have been some crooked actions committed over at the Armory. Once again, the arts are encouraged in cities, but only if they are self-sustaining without the cities having to do anything. 

Because of where I've lived the last few years, I haven't visited Somerville very much. Still, I went to the Armory and visited Gloria's space enough times to have some nice memories. My favorite moment there, of course, was the 2015 release party for Tell-Tale Inklings #1. Good times you can't duplicate on a Zoom call.

The arts are dying all around the city, and I can barely comment on it all. It'll be all I can do today to send Gloria my consolations.