Poetry Heals featured in Aspen University's Nursing Blog
As a poet and longtime teacher of poetry, Teresa Carson is accustomed to entering difficult rooms.
So when she came into a conference room at a New Jersey hospital in April of 2012 and observed, as she put it, that the medical professionals in the room looked as though they’d rather stick pencils in their eyes than talk about poetry, she was unfazed.
To read the full article, visit Aspen University’s blog
Poetry Heals featured in Aspen University’s Nursing Blog
As a poet and longtime teacher of poetry, Teresa Carson is accustomed to entering difficult rooms.
So when she came into a conference room at a New Jersey hospital in April of 2012 and observed, as she put it, that the medical professionals in the room looked as though they’d rather stick pencils in their eyes than talk about poetry, she was unfazed.
To read the full article, visit Aspen University’s blog
Poetry news from the web
The fate of the NEA budget is still being debated
The Los Angeles Times is accepting poetry submissions thru August 25th
NASA is sending haikus to Mars
Boston Poetry Marathon is happening August 16-18th
Why do creative types have to say no? This is why
Breaking Bad uses “Ozymandias” to market the new season
BuzzFeed presents 15 Curious Things Found in Library Books
Grant Opportunities from New Jersey State Council for the Arts
Emirates Airline Skywards Future Artists Competition
Call for Emerging Artists
Emirates Skywards Future Artists aims to discover exciting new talent in contemporary art and showcase their work worldwide. Competition is open to emerging visual artists, architects and designers from anywhere in the world. Curator Lance Fung has been re-invited to judge this competition and encourages everyone to apply.
Application process is simple and free with only 9 days left to apply.
Learn more: fc@fungcollaboratives.org
Hurricane Relief Fund
$5 Million Grant to Non-Profits
Apply Online – July 11 to October 3, 2013
Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund plans to award $5 million in grants to non-profit organizations. Apply online now for disaster relief and recovery grants.
Learn more: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_hurricane_relief_fund_plans_5_million_in_grants.html#incart_river_default
Jersey City, Bike JC & Jersey City Art School
Bike Rack Design Competition
Design Submissions: July 29 through August 2, 2013
The City of Jersey City in partnership with the Jersey City Art School and Bike JC are hosting a citywide design competition for new, creative bicycle racks. The competition strives to promote cycling as a sustainable transportation option, and seeks unique designs that will add visual appeal and functionality. The competition will feature two categories: racks for two bikes and racks for three or more. Designs “with the spirit and history of Jersey City considered” are preferable.
Learn more: http://www.jerseycitynj.gov/green.aspx?id=7978
Valley Arts Luna Stage
Summer Arts & Business Institute Workshop
August 8, 2013
West Orange, NJ
A one-day intensive workshop is designed to help you launch and/or grow your business into a sustainable career, selling to galleries, shops, museum stores and more.
Learn more: http://www.artsbusinessinstitute.org/new-jersey-workshop/
Jazz Touring Network
Membership Guidelines Available
Application Deadline: August 30, 2013
The Jazz Touring Network is a presenter-based membership program designed to expand the presentation of jazz in the mid-Atlantic. The Jazz Touring Network is open to applications from presenting organizations within the mid-Atlantic region that have limited experience presenting jazz and who are working within communities under served by the arts.
Learn more: www.midatlanticarts.org
VSA New Jersey
The Unlimited Potential Theater Company
Poems, Essays, Short Stories and Plays
Deadline: September 30, 2013
The Unlimited Potential Theater company is seeking poems, essays, short stories and plays by New Jersey residents, 18 years of age or older, for its 20th annual Joyce Indik New Jersey Wordsmith Competition. Selected works will be showcased at the New Jersey Readers’ Theater.
Learn more: www.vsanj.org
The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
American Fine and Decorative Arts Program at Sotherby’s Institute of Art
Third Annual Conference on Emerging Scholars
October 5, 2013
Recent graduated scholars and current graduate students are invited to submit proposals that critically examine “Integrating Art and Life: Idealism, Economics, and Craft in America”. Submission Deadline: September 7, 2013
Learn more: jonathan.clancy@sia.edu
Center for Non-Profits
Upcoming Workshops
The Center for Non-Profits’ “13 in ’13” program brings Center members and New Jersey’s non-profits a catalogue of 13 workshops and events in 2013. The courses were designed to meet the pressing needs of local non-profits. Workshop topics include: Building the Board of Your Dreams; Building Great Teams; New Designs for Changing Times; Dispelling the Overhead Myth; Grown Locally/Practiced Nationally; and more.
Learn more: http://www.njnonprofits.org/Events.html
Morristown Medical Center-Malcolm Forbes Amphitheater
Music Therapy in Medicine: Perfect Harmony
Morristown, NJ
October 10, 2013
A half day symposium exploring Music Therapy in medicine highlighting the Music Therapy programs at Atlantic Health System, Beth Israel Medical Center and CenterLight Health System. Registration Required
Learn more: www.atlantichealth.org
New Jersey State Council on the Arts & Playwrights Theatre of NJ
New Jersey Poetry Out Loud 2013-2014
School Registration Deadline: November 15, 2013
Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest that encourages high school students across the country to learn about great works of classic and contemporary poetry through memorization and recitation. Supported nationally by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and locally by the State Arts Council, the program is open to all New Jersey public, charter, private, and parachial high school and home school associations.
Learn more: www.jerseyarts.com/POL
Support the NEA!
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approved a 2014 funding bill that calls for a 50% cut of the NEA.
This will place the NEA budget to a level unseen since 1974.
Please take a moment to conntact your local representative and voice your support of the arts.
Various literary bits from the web
Books to enjoy this 4th of July season from PBS
Poetry Foundation’s Record-a-Poem project, a cool project you should check out
The Decline of the English Major? From the New York Times
Poems for the hot summer
Public poetry in NYC
A new kind of comic book…for the blind
MiPOesias: a video of Nin Andrews' "Barbie In the Dark"
MiPOesias: a video of Nin Andrews’ “Barbie In the Dark”
Calling all New Jersey poets: Fellowships available
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The New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announce the Availability of 2014 New Jersey
Individual Artist Fellowship Guidelines and Application Applicant Workshops and Webinars to be Offered Statewide
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Baltimore, MD – May 14, 2013 – Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation announced today the immediate availability of 2014 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship guidelines and application. The funding categories available for 2014 include the following: Choreography, Music Composition, Poetry, and Sculpture.
To be eligible, one must be an artist working in one of the disciplines offered and a current New Jersey resident. Fellowships are awarded based on independent peer panel review of work samples submitted and the anonymous process is focused solely on artistic quality. The grants help professional artists to produce new work and advance their careers and impact on the community.
All applications must be submitted online. Applicants can go to http://www.artscouncil.nj.gov or click here for the link to the Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship application. Applicants who do not have access to a computer can visit any County Library in New Jersey for access to the Internet. Visual artists will need to upload work sample images online and submit them with their application. Prospective applicants with specific questions regarding the online application process may contact Kimberly Steinle-Super at 410-539-6656 x101. Fellowship applications for 2014 categories must be submitted by 5:00 pm on July 16, 2013. The printable Consent Form, signed in blue ink, and work samples, must be postmarked on or before July 18, 2013. If any special accommodations are required to file an Arts Council Fellowship application, please call Don Ehman at 609-984-7023.
The New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship program has been managed collaboratively by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for 18 years. MAAF’s similar partnership with the states of Maryland and Delaware maximizes Fellowship program administrative costs and efficacy.
In June of 2013, the Arts Council will hold three technical assistance workshops throughout the state and two workshop webinars. These workshops will address the process for applying in the categories offered for the Arts Council’s 2014 Fellowships. All physical sites are wheelchair accessible and provide accessible parking. The workshop schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Grounds For Sculpture
18 Fairgrounds Road
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Directions: www.groundsforsculpture.org/direct.htm
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Kramer Hall of Richard Stockton College
30 Front Street, Room 201
Hammonton, NJ 08037
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Morris Arts
14 Maple Avenue, Suite 400
Morristown, NJ 07960
Directions: http://www.morrisarts.org/about/contact-us/
Workshops require advance registration. To sign up to attend a workshop, please call the State Arts Council at 609-633-1251.
Advance registration is also required to participate in the webinars listed below. To register, please follow the links to the webinar you wish to attend.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Register online: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/870790678
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Register online: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/514601902
Questions about webinar registration should be directed to Kimberly Steinle-Super at 410.539.6656 ext. 101 or kimberly@midatlanticarts.org.
About Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation develops partnerships and programs that reinforce artists’ capacity to create and present work, advance access to and participation in the arts, and promote a more sustainable arts ecology. To learn more about MAAF, its programs and services, visit our Web site at www.midatlanticarts.org.
Frost Place Conference: now accepting applications
Spend a week at “intensive poetry camp” with writers who are deeply committed to learning more about the craft of writing poetry. The Frost Place Poetry Conference offers daily workshops, classes, lectures, writing and revising time in a supportive and dynamic environment.
Application deadline is June 10th.
For more info and to apply, visit The Frost Place.
Joseph O. Legaspi in Poets & Writers!
As it is, it has taken me years to be comfortable saying that I’m a poet. To this day there’s still a tiny level of discomfort, uttering the—what? title, character, state of being? What does it mean to be a poet?
Go to Poets & Writers for the full article
Joseph O. Legaspi in Poets & Writers!
Go to Poets & Writers for the full article
Poetry Heals and CavanKerry in The Alternative Press
“At the beginning it’s difficult because they’re afraid of being wrong and not knowing what a poem means immediately,” says Teresa Carson, Associate Publisher at CKP, of the initial challenges participants face. “But you get a few people to talk and they get less and less afraid. By the end they have the courage to listen and be creative.”
To read the full article, visit The Alternative Press
"The Landress Catches Her Breath" wins Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Congratulations to Paola Corso!
First Prize winner of the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing for The Laundress Catches Her Breath
Judge’s comment:
This book is a precisely visionary evocation of working-class Pittsburgh and the struggles of working women, in particular. Paolo Corso’s laundress is a vivid, richly detailed character, hard-working, chainsmoking, grouchy and smart, memorably imperfect and entirely winning. The book is stylistically varied and ingenious as well. “Hold for Ten Seconds” is a sort of magical realist sequence that involves washing clothes—maybe the first since 100 Years of Solitude. And the long, astonishing “Heiress to Air” is brilliant, a moving tour de force that William Carlos Williams would certainly have loved.
Jeff Gundy, Bluffton University
“The Landress Catches Her Breath” wins Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Congratulations to Paola Corso!
First Prize winner of the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing for The Laundress Catches Her Breath
This book is a precisely visionary evocation of working-class Pittsburgh and the struggles of working women, in particular. Paolo Corso’s laundress is a vivid, richly detailed character, hard-working, chainsmoking, grouchy and smart, memorably imperfect and entirely winning. The book is stylistically varied and ingenious as well. “Hold for Ten Seconds” is a sort of magical realist sequence that involves washing clothes—maybe the first since 100 Years of Solitude. And the long, astonishing “Heiress to Air” is brilliant, a moving tour de force that William Carlos Williams would certainly have loved.
Jeff Gundy, Bluffton University
Poetry Out Loud: National Competition News
Washington State’s Langston Ward is named Poetry Out Loud National Champion
Spokane, Washington high school student receives $20,000 award at Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest
Washington, DC – Langston Ward, a high school senior from Spokane, Washington, has won the 2013 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. National Endowment for the Arts Deputy Chairman Patrice Walker Powell and Poetry Foundation Program Director Stephen Young announced the award at the Poetry Out Loud National Finals at Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington University in Washington, DC, last night.
Ward clinched the win with a stirring rendition of “The Bad Old Days” by Kenneth Rexroth. When asked why he chose the poem, he said “When I read it, the message that justice deserves attention, that’s something I want to communicate. The poem was calling me.”
As 2013 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Ward will receive a $20,000 award and his high school, Mead High School, will receive a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books.Ward earned the top spot among nine finalists, who competed Tuesday evening. Those nine advanced from the Monday semifinals, in which 53 students representing every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands matched skills in reciting classic and contemporary poetry from Shakespeare to Brenda Cárdenas.
The Poetry Out Loud National Finals is the culmination of a pyramid-structure competition that began last September among schools across the country. The nationwide poetry education program and competition involved more than 375,000 students and some 2,000 high schools across the country. Poetry Out Loud is sponsored by the National Arts Endowment and the Poetry Foundation.
The second-place winner was the Maryland State Poetry Out Loud Champion Blessed Sheriff, a sophomore at Richard Montgomery High School and a resident of Gaithersburg, Maryland, who received a $10,000 award. The Oklahoma Champion, Denise L. Burns, a senior at Lawton High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, received the third place prize and a $5,000 award. Each of the nine finalists received at least a $1,000 award, and their schools received $500 each for the purchase of poetry books.
The other six finalists were: Illinois State Champion Rapheal K. Mathis, Plainfield East High School, Plainfield, Illinois; Minnesota State Champion Oluwatosin Oyeyemi Ajagbe, Woodbury High School, Woodbury, Minnesota; Nebraska State Champion Russell Heitmann, Thayer Central Community Schools, Hebron, Nebraska; New Jersey State Champion Kavita Oza, The Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey; Texas State Champion, Maria Jose Zuniga, Coppell High School, Coppell, Texas; US Virgin Islands Champion Josae Martin, Charlotte Amalie High School, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. For a full list of all 53 state finalists, visit arts.gov.
All of the Poetry Out Loud State Champions were accompanied by their State Arts Agency coordinators. All State Arts Agencies played a pivotal role in implementing Poetry Out Loud at more than 2,000 high schools nationwide.
The host for the event was Anna Deavere Smith, award-winning playwright, actress, and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship Award. Guest judges were poets Patricia Smith and Eduardo Corral; BBC Correspondent Jane O’Brien; Kevin Dyels, director of the Interpreting Services Division of TCS Associates; and Tree Swenson, executive director of the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington. The featured performer was Ben Sollee.
Poetry Out Loud Partnerships
The National Finals are the culmination of efforts by many partners. As national partners, the NEA and the Poetry Foundation have contributed support for administration of the program, educational materials, and awards for both the state and national finals. State arts agencies have implemented the program in high schools nationwide and organized state competitions, often in collaboration with local arts organizations. The Poetry Out Loud National Finals are administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Schools that are interested in registering for the 2013-2014 Poetry Out Loud contest should contact their state arts agency. More information is available at www.poetryoutloud.org.
Educational Materials
The NEA and the Poetry Foundation provide free, standards-based curriculum materials for Poetry Out Loud, which include poetry anthologies containing more than 650 classic and contemporary poems, a teacher’s guide, video footage of performances from the National Finals, and audio tracks about the art of recitation. Schools are welcome to download these resources at www.poetryoutloud.org.
Contests and Awards
Using a pyramid structure, Poetry Out Loud starts with classroom and schoolwide activities and contests between September 2011 and February 2012. State contests were held by mid-March; the 53 champions of contests in every state, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC compete at the National Finals. The Poetry Out Loud National Finals presented a total of $50,000 in awards and school stipends for the purchase of poetry books. Awards included $20,000 for the Poetry Out Loud National Champion, and $10,000 and $5,000 for the second- and third-place finalists. Each state-level final has awarded $1,000 in cash awards to the champion, runner up, and their schools. In total, Poetry Out Loud awarded more than $100,000 to state- and national-level winners.
About Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation develops partnerships and programs that reinforce artists’ capacity to create and present work, advance access to and participation in the arts, and promote a more sustainable arts ecology.
About the National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The NEA extends its work through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector. To join the discussion on how art works, visit the NEA at www.arts.gov.
About The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative partnerships, prizes, and programs.
Joseph O. Legaspi in Poets and Writers
Gradually, I’ve found my footing as a poet in Queens, the literary underdog borough, the one noted for being the most ethnically diverse.
For the full article, visit Poet and Writers
Register today for the FREE “Arts for Life Sampler”
Register today for the FREE "Arts for Life Sampler"
Ross Gay: 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Ross Gay, 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry!
See the full list of fellows in last week’s New York Times announcement.
This Saturday, April 13th: Realizing Opportunities Through Collaboration
A co-sponsored project of Morris Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in collaboration with Drew University
Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University
36 Madison Avenue (Lancaster Road Entrance), Madison, NJ, 07940
Register online
from March 4th through April 11th: $15 in advance, $20 day of event
Walk-in registration accepted if space is still available
Registration has no pre-requisite and is open to all ages and experience levels, including students, young professionals and aspiring artists
April 13th Schedule
9:00 a.m. Sign-In, Networking, Coffee
9:30 a.m. Opening – Welcome Session
10:00 a.m. Breakout Sessions
- Animation – Martha Colburn
- Music – Dan Messé and Steve Curtis of HEM
- Theatre – Bonnie Monte – Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
- Writing – David Noonan – Journalist and Novelist
- Visual Arts – Anna Schuleit – Visual Artist
- Dance Photography and Video – Nel Shelby Video
- Poetry – Gretna Wilkinson – Dodge Poetry Festival Poet
12:15 p.m. Panel – “Realizing Opportunities Through Collaboration”
12:45 p.m. Closing
Artist Professional Development Workshop from New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Presented by the South Jersey Cultural Alliance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Your Art Practice Made Real:
Marketing via Social Media
- How to Promote Your Art & Yourself without Annoying People – Peter Murphy
- Web Presence & Social Media Branding – Karen Chigounis
Saturday April 6, 2013
11 AM – 2 PM
Carnegie Library Center-Stockton College
35 S. Dr. MLK Boulevard, Atlantic City, NJ
Please visit www.sjca.net/artist to register, for presenter bios and directions. If you have any questions, please call 609-645-2760.
Shira Dentz is Poetry Net's Poet of the Month
Shira Dentz is Poetry Net’s Poet of the Month
CKP titles are finalists for ForeWord Book of the Year Awards!
We are thrilled that two of our 2012 publications have been announced as finalists for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.
Drum roll please…
In the category of Poetry:
The Laundress Catches Her Breath
By Paola Corso
In the category of Family & Relationships:
By Judith Hannan
A big congratulations to Paola and Judi!
Congratulations Kavita Oza, winner of NJ Poetry Out Loud
To read more about the final competition (and a CKP mention), visit the The Star-Ledger.
Waiting Room Reader II featured in Poets and Writers
CavanKerry Press, a nonprofit literary publisher based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, conducted an unusual experiment a few years ago. In partnership with the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine, the press set out to discover whether a carefully edited anthology of creative writing could have a positive effect on the stress levels of patients and families awaiting medical care.
Visit Poets and Writers to read the full article
Judith Hannan in ZYZZYVA
What ultimately absorbed my attention was the bow. To draw the music out, it had to sacrifice a piece of itself as hair after hair snapped with the effort. It was literally pulling its hair out. During the applause I took the frayed bow from Sebastian and held it up to the audience. I wanted everyone to see in the bow a representation of Sebastian’s brilliance. I hadn’t yet recognized the true reason behind my fascination with that stick and its threads. Twelve years earlier, I was that bow, drawing and scraping myself across the strings of my daughter’s illness.
From Reading Music
Read Judith’s full article here
The Kundiman Poetry Prize now accepting manuscripts
The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets.
Winner receives $1,000, book publication with Alice James Books and a New York City feature reading.
The deadline is March 1st.
For more info visit Kundiman.
Grant Opportunities from New Jersey State Council for the Arts
Monmouth Arts
Social Media Playbook: A Workshop for Everyone!
Belmar Arts Council
February 5, 2013
Gain practical tools including a playbook full of ideas for getting the most out of your social media plan. The workshops will include techniques for using Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and more.
Learn more: http://monmoutharts.org/news/
Center for Non-Profits
2013 Annual New Jersey Non-Profit Issues and Trends Survey
Survey Deadline: February 11, 2013
This survey is an important way to gather information regarding current and emerging trends for our state’s non-profits, as well as gathering information about Hurricane Sandy’s affect on organization’s. Survey results will strenghten and shape the Center’s advocacy and programmatic priorities and will be shared broadly.
Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/LLJHW7B
South Jersey Cultural Alliance
Tech Impact
FREE Educational Webinar: Strategic Technology Planning
February 14, 2013
Engaging and informative session covering the Technology Initiative Project and how IT strategic plans can help you make informed decisions and also serve as an important tool for budgeting and fundraising.
To Register: okorolev@sjca.net
or Call: Olga 609-645-2760
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) National Survey
Survey Deadline: February 15, 2013
NFF’s anonymous nonprofit survey is to explore the state of the sector from a financial perspective and it is important that New Jersey be well represented. Survey results will help foundations, the media, government and other nonprofits.
Survey: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/2013SectorSurvey/
Americans for the Arts
2013 BCA 10 Nominations
Deadline: February 15, 2013
BCA 10: Best Companies Supporting the Arts in America recognizes businesses of all sizes for their exceptional involvement with the arts that enrich the workplace, education, and the community.
Learn more: http://www.AmericansForTheArts.org/go/BCA10%20
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC)
“Facing the unthinkable: Preparing for the Next Sandy”
College Art Association Conference, New York
February 16, 2013
This session is aimed at artists and small gallery managers and will concentrate on steps they can take to mitigate the impact of emergencies through planning and preparing for forecasted events.
Free and open to the public.
Learn more: http://www.collegeart.org/news/2013/01/15/conservators-to-present-a-conference-session-on-preparing-for-the-next-sandy/
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2013 Artists’ Roundtable
George Street Playhouse
February 20, 2013
The 16th annual Artist Roundtable will focus on topics of interest to artists in all disciplines. Two consecutive sessions will feature expert presentations, and the opportunity for questions and conversation. The event will conclude with networking and light refreshments.
Session 1: Learn about the new Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare) and how it affects you as a working artist.
Session 2: Learn about on-going funding opportunities for artists, as well as special programs developed to support artists dealing with recovery from Sandy.
Free – Registration Required
Learn more: www.artscouncil.nj.gov
Main Street New Jersey
NJ Downtown Revitalization & Management Institute
Digital Downtown: Tech Savvy Ways To Move People to Action
Eagle Theater, Hammonton, NJ
February 20, 2013
Featuring George Weiner of The Whole Whale this session will focus on the ever-expanding set of social media tools to help your organization leverage the people and resources it needs to get everything done.
Learn more: http://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/dhcr/offices/msnj.html
South Jersey Cultural Alliance
Building Business Partnerships Workshop
Atlantic County Library
February 26, 2013
This workshop will cover assessing organizational readiness for business partnerships and understanding the concept of “partnership building”.
Learn more: www.sjca.net/registration
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grants and Application Workshops
Application Deadline: April 3, 2013
Folk Arts Apprenticeship grants support the traditional arts and crafts of New Jersey’s many different cultural communities, helping talented apprentice artists further hone their skills by working directly with a master artist of a shared community. Guidelines and application information are now available and Council staff will conduct application workshops at various locations around the state.
Learn more: http://www.state.nj.us/state/njsca/dos_njsca_grants-artists.html
Atlantic Health System
“Creative Expressions”
Arts & Healing Calendar Art Contest
Project Deadline: May 1, 2013
The Atlantic Health System is looking for artwork to help celebrate the opening of the new Goryeb Center for Advanced Medicine in Pediatrics (CAMP). People between the ages of 4 and 18 with a Chronic Illness or Chronic Pain are encouraged to enter original artwork to be considered for the inaugural “Creative Expressions” calendar, this is an ideal way to express your creative side.
Learn more: http://www.atlantichealth.org/Files/Public/Documents/Healing%20Arts%20Calendar%20Contest%201-17-2013.pdf%20
CavanKerry’s Poet Survivalist Kit: Preparing for the Mayan Apocalypse
All day Thursday on Facebook and Twitter, we posted tools to keep poetry alive, in case there was an apocalypse. Here is the list in its entirety.
Preparing for the Mayan Apocalypse:
Keeping Poetry Alive
1: Rhyme
An essential key. Keep your rhyming dictionaries close to you.
2: Form
Limerick, sonnet, free verse, prose…remember poetry comes in many forms.
3: Memorize Poetry
Do this and impress fellow survivors. If you know a poem already, you are ahead of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVu4Me_n91Y
4: Do not fear big opening lines
See Emily Dickson: “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –/ In Corners – till a Day/ The Owner passed – identified –/ And carried Me away –
5: Read poetry out loud
Especially if you have a voice like Dylan Thomas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRec3VbH3w
6: Poetry inspires
People, your soul and other art forms.
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7: Let nature inspire you
See Robert Frost: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep./ But I have promises to keep,/And miles to go before I sleep:”
8: Remember your favorite poems.
Keats’ “Ode to Melancholy” is one of our favorites: “Ay, in the very temple of Delight/ Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine”
9: Poetry is alive, so perform it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx845QaOck
10: Even the mundane is glorious in poetry
See Neruda: “The moral of my ode is this:/ beauty is twice beauty/ and what is good is doubly good/ when it is a matter of two socks/made of wool in winter.
11: Poetry is a record for the generations, so you must write no matter what happens
See Whitman: “Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high;/ A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,/ Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.”
12: Poetry will always be everywhere
From collaged words, overheard conversations, simple gestures and movements. Whatever tomorrow brings, there will be poetry.
CavanKerry's Poet Survivalist Kit: Preparing for the Mayan Apocalypse
All day Thursday on Facebook and Twitter, we posted tools to keep poetry alive, in case there was an apocalypse. Here is the list in its entirety.
Preparing for the Mayan Apocalypse:
Keeping Poetry Alive
1: Rhyme
An essential key. Keep your rhyming dictionaries close to you.
2: Form
Limerick, sonnet, free verse, prose…remember poetry comes in many forms.
3: Memorize Poetry
Do this and impress fellow survivors. If you know a poem already, you are ahead of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVu4Me_n91Y
4: Do not fear big opening lines
See Emily Dickson: “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –/ In Corners – till a Day/ The Owner passed – identified –/ And carried Me away –
5: Read poetry out loud
Especially if you have a voice like Dylan Thomas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRec3VbH3w
6: Poetry inspires
People, your soul and other art forms.
[vimeo 22176136]
7: Let nature inspire you
See Robert Frost: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep./ But I have promises to keep,/And miles to go before I sleep:”
8: Remember your favorite poems.
Keats’ “Ode to Melancholy” is one of our favorites: “Ay, in the very temple of Delight/ Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine”
9: Poetry is alive, so perform it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx845QaOck
10: Even the mundane is glorious in poetry
See Neruda: “The moral of my ode is this:/ beauty is twice beauty/ and what is good is doubly good/ when it is a matter of two socks/made of wool in winter.
11: Poetry is a record for the generations, so you must write no matter what happens
See Whitman: “Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high;/ A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,/ Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.”
12: Poetry will always be everywhere
From collaged words, overheard conversations, simple gestures and movements. Whatever tomorrow brings, there will be poetry.
CKP Wants to Prepare You for the Mayan Apocalypse
We know the national news has been difficult lately, so CKP is going to take a comic, lighter approach to rest of the week. I want everyone to be prepared for the flurry of unusual activity you will see tomorrow on our various social media sites.
-Angela Santillo
Social Media Marketer
In case you haven’t heard, the apocalypse is (possibly) near.
This Friday, 12/21/12, the Mayan calendar ends and some believe the end of times have arrived. (For more details, see this article from Huffington Post.) Here at CKP, we believe poetry is a necessity and it should never be forgotten. So in case Friday brings hellfire, the arrival of aliens, or if zombies start walking around, we want you to be prepared. After all, you could be one of the last people to remain and the fate of poetry will rest solely in your hands.
So tomorrow, we are counting down the last day of our times with:
CKP’s Poet Survivalist Kit: Tools for the Mayan Apocalypse
Every hour on the hour, we are sharing tips and tools you need to ensure that whatever happens, the world will still have poetry.
So Thursday is going to be a busy day on our Facebook and Twitter. Get ready.
(And to see how serious this could be, see the below speech from the Prime Minster of Australia.)
Taking Action after Newtown
Like everyone, CKP has been shocked by the events in Newtown. As Florenz Eisman emailed the staff:
Like everyone else I’m still anguished about this tragedy. [But] we tend to forget these massacres as we get preoccupied with the minutiae of our work and lives — a tragic flaw of our own human nature.
So she sent us links, ways we can be active in the face of this event.
If you are looking to help or want your voice to be heard, we hope the following links will be of some use.
With love,
Angela Santillo
Social Media Coordinator
To help the city of Newtown
My Sandy Hook Family Fund
Newtown Youth and Family Services
Sandy Hook Support Fund
To fight for gun control
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence We the People Petition to President Obama
Contact your local representatives
Call for Submissions: Poems about the Jersey Shore
Call For Submissions
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, unbound CONTENT is publishing an anthology (title TBD) celebrating the Jersey Shore. The book, edited by poet Joanie DiMartino, is expected to release in late 2013, and proceeds from the sale will be donated to ongoing restoration charities.
We are looking for: your prose, poetry, and artwork inspired by your recollections and reimaginings of the Jersey Shore. The focus should be more on love than loss, but send your best work for consideration. No restrictions or length limit on submissions, within reason. Send submissions to annmarie@unboundcontent.com and INCLUDE JERSEY in the subject line. Writers and artists do not need to be residents of New Jersey to submit work for consideration. Deadline for submissions is 03/31/2013.
Joanie DiMartino is the author of two collections of poetry, Licking the Spoon, (Finishing Line Press) and Strange Girls, (Little Red Tree Publishing). She is the director of the Hidden Treasures Poetry Series in downtown Mystic, CT, and hosts the Soup & Sonnets Literary Salon for Women. Raised in southern New Jersey, she holds history degrees from both Rowan and Rutgers. She has fond memories of summers at the shore, and is a true Jersey Girl.
