Sept. 2nd Sunday Picnic

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jjhunter
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Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

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Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[zirconium]

I am on vacation, but have had to deal with work-related stuff pretty much every day, so I haven't gotten to much of the writing I'd hoped to have time/energy for. But I did get to a couple of bookstores a couple of days ago, including Books Do Furnish a Room (near Duke University):



I picked up The Zoland Books Poetry Postcard Collection there -- a booklet of seventeen poem-cards from 1989, including Marge Piercy's "For the Young Who Want To" and the late Erika Mumford's "Vertigo" (not seeing a copy online, but here's "The Water Seller"...).

And at The Regulator, I picked up two more books: Kate Barnes's Where the Deer Were and Maureen A. Sherbandy's Praying at Coffee Shops. (The latter is a chapbook by a Raleigh writer, published by a Charlotte press. The store has an entire shelf full of chapbooks, and also a local section that includes an anthology series devoted to the literary output of specific NC cities -- Hillsborough, Durham, and Asheville among them.)

So, my summer vacation so far: writing, .25; shopping, 3. ;-)

*passes around grapes, tapenade, and crackers*

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[bookblather]

Oh, wow, For The Young Who Want To is distressingly true, isn't it? And Water Seller is gorgeous. I think I may need to track down some more of Erika Mumford's poems. Thanks for the links!