E-Calendar March 2009
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Compiled by LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS

Banish dull care, banish sub-zero temperatures, banish the inevitable March Madness snowstorms! Write on! Here’s your LSW March E-Calendar.

LSW member Phil Fitzpatrick is the e-calendar editor. Send your info to him at calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org.

LSW ACTIVITIES AND NEWS.

[Editor’s note: All submissions of upcoming
events—one-time events and regularly scheduled
events—must include in this order day, date, time, name of
event, specific location, name of organization or merchant,
contact person, and contact information if available. Events
are arranged by date rather than lumped together by store,
agency, or person. Normal Ariel 10-point is the font used in
the newsletter. No html formatting is used. Proofreading is
greatly appreciated. Remember that this is a calendar and
not a newsletter, so brevity is important. Thank you.]

** Of Special Note: The memorial Service for Mara Hart’s
husband, Bob, will be held on Saturday, Mar 21 at 2:00 pm in
the UMD Library Rotunda.

** The Trail Guide to the Northland Experience has been
accepted as a finalist in the North Eastern Minnesota Book
Awards for 2009, in the category of Poetry. The NEMBA awards
celebration will be held on Sunday, May 17th beginning with
a book fair from 12:30 to 3:00 pm. The awards ceremony will
begin at 3:30 pm. It will be held in the Marshall Performing
Arts Center at UMD. In the past, it has been a beautiful
Sunday afternoon in May. Everyone is invited. Hope to see
you there!

** Advance Notice! Please join us on Saturday afternoon,
April 25, 3 to 5 pm. at Mitchell Auditorium (CSS campus) for
a Young Poets reading by area high school students. The
event is free, open to the public and refreshments will be
served. The reading is organized by Jim Johnson, Duluth's
2008-2010 Poet Laureate.

** Advance Notice! Saturday, May 16, 2-4 p.m. LAKE SUPERIOR
WRITERS AND NEMBA--WRITING WORKSHOP WITH ANNETTE ATKINS
Annette Atkins, who wrote "Creating Minnesota: A History
from the Inside Out" (Minnesota Historical Society Press,
2007), will be offering a writing workshop as part of the
21st annual celebration of the Northeastern Minnesota Book
Awards. Atkins employs a fresh approach to history, focusing
on the achievements and disappointments of our ancestors,
both of which led to the circumstances of our present world.
Writers will learn how to incorporate authentic elements of
time and place in their compositions. The workshop will be
held in the fourth floor rotunda reading room of the UMD
Library. Cost is $35 for LSW members; $40 for nonmembers. On
Sunday afternoon, May 17, Atkins will give the keynote
address for the NEMBA awards ceremony. For further
information, visit the NEMBA web site at
www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba. To register for the writing
workshop, email: deborahdebcoop@aol.com.

LSW MONTHLY GROUPS

Editor’s Note: Since there are at least
two or three different sources for “monthly group”
information, all monthly groups must submit announcements
each month in order to be included in the LSW e-calendar. Thank you.

** Sunday, Mar 15 at 1:30 pm, Memoir Writing at Chester
Creek Café.

** Wednesday, Mar 18 at 6 - 8 pm, Fiction/Poetry Writing
Group, at Chester Creek Cafe, 1902 E. 8th Street. Contact
Jill Hinners (349-6431) or Cheryl Reitan
(creitan@d.umn.edu), 218-728-3154.

** Thursday, Mar 19 at 11:30 am, Writers' Square Table at
Chester Creek Café.

** Thursday, Mar 26 at 5:00 pm, Play Reading Group at
Chester Creek Café.

Other Monthly Groups

** Note: Barnes & Noble monthly groups TBA

** Tuesday, Mar 3, 7:00 pm - In-Store Book Group: Population
485. Population:485 by Michael Perry is the selection for
the 2009 One Book, One Community Discussion led by Anita
Zager. Northern Lights Books and Gifts, 307 Canal Park
Drive, Duluth, MN 55802, 722-5267, 800-868-8904,
www.norlights.com. New members always welcome.

** Monday, Mar 9 at 6:30 pm The Children's Writers Group
will meet at Sara's Table Chester Creek Cafe.

** Friday Mar 27 6:30 pm Freshwater Screenwriting - we
meet at Barnes & Noble for coffee & encouragement at Barnes
& Noble, Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710. Join us!

LSW KUDOS News about LSW Members back to top 

** ERIC CHANDLER's essay "Chop Wood, Carry Water" appears in
the March/April 2009 issue of the Lake Country Journal. It's
about how he looks forward to opening up the cabin.

** Bruce Henricksen's short story "A Day in the French
Quarter" will appear in Mota 9, an anthology being prepared
for Amazon's Kindle 2 reader. He will also have two poems in
the summer issue of Minnetonka Review.

** A poem from Gibbons Ruark's collection Staying Blue has
been selected for Best American Poetry of 2009 (Scribners).
Staying Blue was published in Duluth by Lost Hills Books,
http://www.losthillsbooks.com.

** Two poems "Collecting Sun" and "The Messengers" by Lisa
Poje Angelos have been chosen for inclusion in the upcoming
Poet Artist Collaboration VIII exhibit sponsored by
Crossings at Carnegie Gallery & Gift Shop in Zumbrota, MN.
Twenty-five poems on the theme "Brief Encounters" will be on
display during the month of April along with the artwork
artists created using the poems as inspiration. An opening
reception and reading will be held at 7 pm on April 17.

** Jan Chronister's first chapbook, Target Practice, is now
available from Parallel Press through their website
http://parallelpress..library.wisc.edu/ or from the author
at janchronister@yahoo.com
Jan was also awarded the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award and
will use the grant to hold a series of writing workshops on
the Bad River Indian Reservation in Odanah April 14-May 5.

** Kirsten Jacobson Stasney's historical novel Thy
Father’s Will has been published by Kirk House Publishers
(ISBN-13: 978-1-933794-15-0). Based on real-life events
with tragic results, the novel is a heartbreaking story of
consuming love and controlling family relationships set in
the Upper Midwest at the beginning of the twentieth century.
For more information, visit the publisher website at
www.kirkhouse.com or contact the author at
kirsten@kjstasney.com.

** "Shelter Half," former Duluthian Carol Bly's first and
only published novel from Holy Cow! Press, is a finalist in
this year's Minnesota Book Awards. "Shelter Half" and "John
Beargrease: Legend of Minnesota's North Shore" by Daniel
Lancaster are both nominated for this year's Northeastern
Minnesota Book Awards.

AREA LITERARY EVENTS back to top

** Note: Barnes & Noble events TBA

** Sunday, Mar 1 at 2:00 pm - A Poet's Winter Sampler
Reading Sponsored by Douglas County Historical Society 1101
John Ave, Superior, WI. Readings by 6 local Poets who are
members of Arrowhead Poet's, Duluth & St. Croix Writers Ruth
Schmidt-Baeumler, Viola LaBounty, Linda M. Johnson, Brian
Landstrom, Kay Karras, Dennis Herschbach.

** Monday, Mar 2 at 6 pm, The Sounds of Poetry with Jim
Johnson, Duluth’s Poet Laureate at the Lyric Center for
the Arts, 514 Chestnut St., Virginia. Contact information at
www.lyriccenteronline.org. $5.00 suggested donation.

** Tuesday, Mar 3 at 6 pm, Reading and book signing with
Aaron Brown, author of Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron
Range, at the Lyric Center for the Arts, 514 Chestnut St.,
Virginia. Contact information at www.lyriccenteronline.org.

** Saturday, Mar 7, 12-2 pm Booksigning: Mark Munger Mr.
Environment: The Willard Munger Story. Northern Lights Books
and Gifts, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN 55802, 722-5267,
800-868-8904, www.norlights.com. New members always welcome.

** Saturday, Mar 7 at 1 pm Sally Mayasich will be speaking
at the B'nai Abraham Synagogue, 328 5th St S, Virginia, MN
on the "WPA Federal Writers' Project" or "How Mabel Simis
Ulrich Saved Minnesota Culture for the WPA" as part of the
Range of the Arts week in Virginia.

** Monday, Mar 9 at 7 pm in the Rothwell Student Center Sky
Lounge UW-Superior hosts a reading and book signing by
Kathryn Kysar and Ka Vang, the editor and a contributor to
the collected essays, Riding Shotgun: Women Write about
Their Mothers (Borealis, 2008). The event is free and open
to the public Refreshments will be served. The date of the
event was previously
set for March 10 but has recently been changed to March 9.

Ka Vang was born in Laos and grew up in Minnesota. Her
plays, Disconnect, Dead Calling and From Shadows to Light
have been performed at venues in Minnesota and New York
City. Vang's short story, ³Ms. Pac Man Ruined My Gang
Life,² was featured in two anthologies: Bamboo Among the
Oaks and Charlie Chan is Dead II: At Home in the World.

Kathryn Kysar is the author of a book of poetry Dark Lake
(Loonfeather, 2002). Her poems have been heard on A Writer's
Almanac and published in many literary magazines including
Great River Review, Midland Review, Mizna, Painted Bride
Quarterly, and The Talking Stick. A winner of the Lake
Superior Writer's and SASE poetry contests, Kysar has
received fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Norcroft, The
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and
Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts.

** Saturday, Mar 14, 2009: Memoir Writing Workshop
facilitated by Sheila Packa at Ironworld Museum in Chisholm.
Write your own story, for yourself and your children's
children! See www.ironworld.com for registration ($35).

** Saturday, Mar 21, from 5:00 - 8:00 pm Gary Boelhower and
Cecilia Lieder of LSW will be reading selections from Milton
and other poets at the opening of the next NPG exhibit, the
gallery's 2009 Earth Day show titled "Paradise Lost &
Regained." The opening will be at the Northern Prints
Gallery, 318 North 14th Avenue East, and the two readings -
which will be on the theme of the exhibit - will be
scheduled at 6:00 and 8:00. This exhibit was inspired by
Deborah Klochko's 2007 exhibit "Picturing Paradise" at the
San Diego Museum of Photography, and by Milton's classic
poems. Please come help us honor the Earth by examining the
ways we have lost touch with it, and celebrating it's
world-wide renewal which, like Spring, must now come.

** Saturday, Mar 21, 7:30 pm Spirit Lake Poetry Series
featuring Duluth Poets, Deborah Cooper & Ann Niedringhaus
with Karen Bauman on piano in the Somers Lounge, CSS/
Free & open to the public.

** Friday, Mar 27, 6 - 11 pm The Rich Cuisine Event Center
in Floodwood, MN invites you (sorry ladies only) to come
enjoy a performance and book signing of Lorna Landvik’s
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bon and Patty Jane's House of
Curls. Lorna will be the special guest at the 1st Annual
Ladies Only SPArty. What's a SPArty? It's a spa themed party
where ladies will enjoy an evening of wine, food, visiting,
shopping, and spa treatments - a great ending to a long
Minnesota winter! The 1st Annual SPArty is a fundraising
event for the Four River Foundation Inc., a local advocacy
group who is working toward the goal of building a new
medical clinic in Floodwood. Tickets:$30 or $25 55+. Group
Special - purchase 7 tickets and get the 8th free! Visit
www.richcatering.com for more information and to purchase.

** Friday, Apr 3, 9 am –noon - LSW Member Jan Chronister
will teach a four-week course in Iron River, Wisconsin
called the "Power of Poetry". The classes cover constructing
images and metaphors, writing titles and first/last lines,
revision and other craft-related issues. Lots of in-class
writing activities. Suitable for beginners and published
poets alike. This is a WITC course, so please register
through www.witc.edu. Course is class # 24487 and Catalog
#42-801-402. First class is April 3; classes are 9-noon on
various Fridays in April and May. Cost is $33.12.

** Advance Notice! Tues, April 14, noon - 2 pm, at UMD in
Kirby 333, Writer-in-Residence Joyce Zonana, author of
"Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, An Exile’s Journey,"
will offer a free writing workshop. Limited to 20 people. To
register, call 218-726-7953 or email ws@d.umn.edu. Zonana,
English professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community
College and an Egyptian Jew by birth, will explore issues of
gender, cultural, and racial identity in the context of a
multicultural, international, and ever-changing world.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/09/dream.html>

Here are few enticing add-ons and reminders for the LSW
March E-calendar:

** Saturday, Mar 21, 5-8 pm – Exhibit Opening: PARADISE
LOST & REGAINED
Northern Prints Gallery March 21 to May 16 Contact person:
Cecilia Lieder, 318 North 14th Avenue East, Duluth, MN 55805
218-724-5212/3089 Gallery Hours: 1 - 6, Friday through
Sunday & by appointment. Inspired by Deborah Klotcho's 2007
exhibit "Picturing Paradise" at the San Diego Museum of
Photography, the Northern Prints Gallery presents its
Earthday Exhibit for 2009 titled "Paradise Lost &
Regained", after the classic Milton poems. The opening will
feature readings of poetry on the theme by a variety of
poets who have written about healing and appreciation of the
earth. Works by Berry, Oliver, Stafford, and Jeffers - among
other - will be read by Gary Boelhower and Cecilia Lieder.
Two readings will take place, one at 6:00 and one at 7:00.
The event is free and open to the public. The exhibit will
feature the work of new members Erik Waterkotte, Natalia
Himmirska, and Kurt Seaberg. Other members of the Northern
Printmakers Alliance participating in the show are Alesa
DeJager, Joel Cooper, Anna Marie Pavlik, Cecilia Lieder,
Gordon Manary. Please come help us honor the Earth by
examining the ways we have lost touch with it, and
celebrating its world-wide renewal which, like Spring, must
now come.

** Saturday, Mar 21 at 7:30 pm in Somers Lounge at the
College of St. Scholastica. Spirit Lake Poetry Series
presents Deborah Cooper and Ann Niedringhaus reading from
their latest chapbooks. Pianist Karen Bauman will perform
before the reading. Admission to the event is free, and
complimentary refreshments will be served.

** Friday, Mar 27, 6 - 11 pm The Rich Cuisine Event Center
in Floodwood, MN invites you (sorry ladies only) to come
enjoy a performance and book signing of Lorna Landvik’s
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bon and Patty Jane's House of
Curls. Lorna will be the special guest at the 1st Annual
Ladies Only SPArty. What's a SPArty? It's a spa themed party
where ladies will enjoy an evening of wine, food, visiting,
shopping, and spa treatments - a great ending to a long
Minnesota winter! The 1st Annual SPArty is a fundraising
event for the Four River Foundation Inc., a local advocacy
group who is working toward the goal of building a new
medical clinic in Floodwood. Tickets:$30 or $25 55+. Group
Special - purchase 7 tickets and get the 8th free! Visit
www.richcatering.com for more information and to purchase.

** Saturday, Mar 28 at 11:00 am - Reading/Book Signing with
Chris Monroe Monkey With a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem
at Barnes & Noble Duluth Children's Department, Miller Hill
Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Workshops/Submissions/Conferences/Opportunities/Deadlines back to top 

** ANNOUNCING THE FIRST ANNUAL LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS ONE ACT PLAY COMPETITION

All submissions must be one-act plays of any genre except
musicals or puppet theatre. Scripts are to be original,
unpublished, and unproduced. Staged readings or workshop
productions will not disqualify a manuscript. Scripts
should be between 30 and 60 minutes in length. Content and
subject matter are completely open. Manuscripts must be
typed. There must be two title pages, one that includes the
name of the play, author(s), address, email address and
phone number and a second that includes ONLY the name of the
play. Send one copy of the script bound with a binder clip
or paper clip (not stapled). Scripts will not be returned.
All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges.
Submit plays by Monday, April 13, 2009 (postmarked) to Lake
Superior Writers, 1301 Rice Lake Road, Suite 132, Duluth, MN
55811. A first place award of $150 and a second place award
of $75 will be given. Both plays will be performed in a
“reader’s theatre” format on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at
2:00 pm at The Play Ground in the Technology Center
Building, 11 East Superior St, Duluth. Only members of Lake
Superior Writers may submit scripts, but you may join Lake
Superior Writers and submit your script at the same time by
including a check made out to Lake Superior Writers for $35.

** Larry Weber, Writer, Teacher, and Photographer, would
like to start a nature-writing group. If you're interested,
please contact him at 218:384-3851 or frlaweber@q.com.

** Interlochen College of Creative Arts offers the following
writing workshops for summer 2009:
June 15-18: Writer¹s Retreat
August 10-15: Poetry, Prose and Paint Workshop
August 4-9: Screenwriting Workshop
For more information:
http://www.interlochen.org/college/2009_programs
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Post Office Box 199,
Interlochen, MI 49643-0199. Email: college@interlochen.org.

** Learn tips on writing and publishing, leads on articles
and info online for authors and writers, find inspiration
and motivation to write and stay focused. Follow me and I
will follow you! http://www.twitter.com/PatriciaBrooks.

LSW INFORMATION back to top

Lake Superior Writers prohibits discrimination in its programs, membership, and board of directors participation on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status or family status.

ABOUT THE LSW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE LSW MEMBERSHIP Member Involvement: We value our membership and encourage your involvement in LSW. An annual meeting for LSW members is held in the spring. All members are invited to participate. Financial reports and a summary of the year's activities are presented to the membership at the annual meeting for review. The LSW board meets monthly throughout the year. Members are invited to attend board meetings, review minutes, and look over financial statements.

Lake Superior Writers Calendar back to top

THIS CALENDAR is a benefit of your membership in Lake Superior Writers. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the literary arts. We welcome information from you regarding events, classes, kudos or announcements to be included in upcoming calendars.We reserve the right to edit all submissions.

Your editor for this issue of the e-calendar was LSW member and volunteer Phil Fitzpatrick. Thank you for contributing and for reading. Address all calendar events to calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org. Address all concerns or questions about the calendar to Phil Fitzpatrick c/o pfitzpa@charter.net.