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Music and Poetry of Healing with Pedro de Alcantara

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Yesterday’s performance, “Music and Poetry of Healing”, was a wonderful evening of music and poetry and a huge success, as an enthusiastic and responsive crowd filled the Great Room.

Playlist: Annabelle Moseley 4/9/2011

Playlist: Patti Tana 4/9/2011

httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=415F38863AE5C718 Pedro de Alcantara, Annabelle Moseley, and Patti Tana performed in front of a packed house at the Long Island Violin Shop. The theme of the evening was the artistic expression of grief and healing. Featured poets Annabelle Moseley and Patti Tana found common themes in their poetry, including the healing power of the beach, and the bond of marriage. Similar themes were found in the open mic performances, even those not prepared for the healing theme.
The evening started with a haunting and primal performance by Pedro de Alcantara, as he explored the resonance and harmonics of the baby grand piano and his voice. We continued with the healing poetry of Moseley and Tana, and then took a brief intermission. We returned for a cello and voice performance by Pedro de Alcantara. Our host Annabelle Moseley then introduced our open mic performers.  Many thanks to St. Hugh of Lincoln Church for providing chairs for this event.

 

black and white collage with ink drawing, cira early 90s by John Digby

Pianist Cathy Callis and Poems on the Subject of Music

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Playlist: Cathy Callis and Poems About Music 6/24/2011

Cathy Callis
Cathy Callis

Cathy Callis is an award-winning pianist, teacher, coach and consultant. She serves on the music faculty of Queens College and Hofstra University, and is an independent piano teacher on Long Island.  A grand prize winner of the International Recording Competition sponsored by the American College of Musicians for a performance of George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, Volume I, Dr. Callis is an adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers, an artist for the Ohio Arts Council’s Arts in Education, and a recipient of a Performer’s Certificate and Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Eastman School of Music. A performance at Steinway Hall, New York City, was highly acclaimed for both her musical performance and for her commentary on the traditional listening experience and musical perception.  The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle wrote “Cathy Callis turns technique into musical gold.”

Richard Bronson
Richard Bronson
 Richard Bronson is on the faculty of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics at Stony Brook. He serves on the Boards of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and the Long Island Poetry Collective. Bronson has won the 2003 poetry prize of the American College of Physicians and the 2005 prize of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society. His poems have appeared in The Lancet, JAMA, Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the Annals of Internal Medicine

Sandy McIntosh
Sandy McIntosh
 Sandy McIntosh is the publisher of Marsh Hawk Press. His newest poetry collection is Ernesta, In the Style of the Flamenco. He is also the author of 237 More Reasons to Have Sex (with Denise Duhamel), and Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death. His poetry and essays have been published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, and American Book Review. His original poetry in a film script won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. He was for a decade Managing Editor of Confrontation magazine.

Annabelle Moseley
Annabelle Moseley
 String Poet Founder and Editor Annabelle Moseley is an award-winning poet and author. She became the first Writer in Residence of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association from 2009-2010. She has published five chapbooks of poetry, a young adult fiction novel, and a children’s book of hero fables. Her first full-length poetry manuscript, titled The Clock of the Long Now : Time Travel in Verse, has been selected for publication in early 2012 by WordTech Communications, under the David Robert Books imprint.

Pramila Venkateswaran
Pramila Venkateswaran
 Pramila Venkateswaran is the author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002), Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008), and Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009). An award-winning poet, she has performed her poems internationally, most recently in the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Socialism and Democracy. She is an Associate Professor of English at Nassau Community College. She plays the violin and sings Indian classical music.
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Kim Bridgford and Serenade Duo

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We had another great event on Friday, March 25th. The award-winning poet Kim Bridgford was our featured guest, with musical performance by Serenade Duo.

Playlist: Serenade Duo 3/25/2011

Playlist: Kim Bridgford 3/25/2011

Host Annabelle Moseley welcomed the crowd, then introduced Serenade Duo. Guitarist Gerry Saulter and Flutist Michelle LaPorte performed beautiful pieces by such composers as Astor Piazzolla, father of New Tango.

Annabelle then introduced poet, editor and critic, Kim Bridgford, Director of the West Chester University Poetry Center, who had traveled from Philadelphia for this event.

Kim gave a dazzling reading, delighting the crowd with both her sonnets and her free verse. Her poetry spanned a wide range of emotion from moving to humorous. The event closed with an open mic.

After the open mic, the artistic atmosphere remained. As Kim Bridgford signed and sold books at the counter, a circle of people sat discussing poetry, music, and spontaneously sharing songs – creating a very joyful sound that resonated among the violins and cellos.

String Poet would like to thank local businesses for their support of String Poet Studio Series. Reinwald’s Bakery contributed the delicious cookies, and Saint Patrick’s School provided chairs.

2011 String Poet Prize Composer : Beth Anderson

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Beth Anderson

String Poet is pleased to announce that Beth Anderson will compose the music for the winning poem of the 2011 String Poet Prize.

Beth Anderson is a critically-acclaimed composer of new romantic, avante-garde music, text-sound works, and musical theater events. Born in Kentucky, she studied primarily in California with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin at Mills College and U.C. Davis. She is a resident of New York City and a member of BMI, American Composers’ Forum, I.A.W.M., Poets and Writers, and New York Women Composers. Her early work was considered post-Cagian, non-academic, but more recently, the music became more lyrical while retaining the cut-up quality of the minimalists. She produces Women’s Work, a concert series of women composers each March.

String Poet Editor at Barnes and Noble, 3/11/11

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PPA (Performance Poets Association) presents featured readers Gladys L. Henderson, and String Poet Editor Annabelle Moseley.  Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:30-9:30 PM.

Hosted by Lisa James at Barnes and Noble Bookstore
380 Walt Whitman Road
Huntington Station, NY 11746
Open reading to follow.

 

Flamenco at the Long Island Violin Shop

Flamenco!

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Here are photos and video clips from our “Flamenco!” Fourth Friday Studio Series event, which took place on Feb. 25th, 2011 at the Long Island Violin Shop.

Sandy McIntosh at the Fourth Friday Studio Series

"Learning to Dance" by Annabelle Moseley

"Duende", by Annabelle Moseley

Our evening began with Annabelle Moseley reading her poem “Spanish Guitar”, accompanied by Gerry Saulter.  Gerry then continued with a set of pieces on guitar, in a Spanish style.

The focus of the evening then shifted to Flamenco-influenced poetry.  Sandy Mcintosh introduced his book, Ernesta: in the Style of the Flamenco, and read the opening half. After the intermission, which involved mingling, refreshments, and some tasty treats from Reinwalds Bakery, Sandy continued Ernesta.

Annabelle then took the podium, and read a selection of her Flamenco poems from Artifacts of Sound, including “They Arrive From Spain,” “Learning to Dance”, “Calo,” and “Duende”.

The evening concluded with an open mic performance.

2011 String Poet Prize Final Judge : Patricia Fargnoli

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Patricia Fargnoli
photo credit: John Hession

String Poet is pleased to announce that Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate (December 2006 to March 2009) will be the final judge for the 2011 String Poet Prize. She will also be the featured poet at the String Poet Prize Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 27th at 7:00 pm as part of the Fourth Friday Studio Series at the Long Island Violin Shop in Huntington, New York. That same evening, String Poet will go live with the launch of its inaugural issue.

Patricia Fargnoli is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry, her newest book is Then, Something (Tupelo Press, fall 2009) which won the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award Silver Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award of the New England Poetry Club and an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit (Tupelo Press, 2005) won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize.  Her first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award.

“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a Macdowell Colony fellowship. She’s been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught privately, at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College.  She was the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Arts, has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations.  Twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Green Mountain Review, Alaska Quarterly, Massachusetts Review.  She currently resides in Walpole, NH.

Inaugural Event: Tribute to the Bard

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Our inaugural event on Friday, January 28th was a great success! The evening began with host Annabelle Moseley welcoming the crowd to the debut of the Fourth Friday Studio Series, then introducing Gerry Saulter of Serenade Duo. Gerry played a selection of guitar pieces from Shakespeare’s time period, focusing on the composer John Dowland. Following this, Richard Bronson and Graham Everett read from their works of poetry, each closing with his favorite quote from Shakespeare. Annabelle Moseley recited Sonnet 147; then at the request of Serenade Duo, read the lyrics of a few John Dowland songs (1562-1626), which were then performed by Gerry Saulter and Michelle LaPorte. The evening continued with the poetry of Gladys Henderson and Gayl Teller, and their favorite lines of the Bard. Serenade Duo delighted the crowd one last time before the open mic.