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Stephen Woosley, Lorelei Moore, and Derek McGrath. Photo by Sam Blythe.
Raconteur Theatre Company is pleased to invite you to the regional premier of Isaac, I Am by Mary Steelsmith.
We spend a lot of our time in cyber space but how do we know what is "real" and what is "safe?" How do we learn to trust anyone? Isaac, I Am (winner of the 2006 Helford Prize) explores these timely questions as Angela (Lorelei Moore) "meets" Ben (Derek McGrath), a funny guy who's single and Isaac (Stephen Woosley), a grieving father.
Design Staff Director: Mary Aileen St. Cyr Scenic Design: Michael S. Brewer Lighting Design: Andy Batt Sound Design: Andrew Hartley Costume Design: Jill C. Hartley Stage Management: Patricia T. Jones
Cast Angela: Lorelei Moore Ben: Derek McGrath Isaac: Stephen Woosley Josh: Zachary Elgin Lape Katie: Sela Williams Ensemble: Bryanne E. Bornstein, Angela Cutrell, Suzanne Laird, Caliph Scott, Ric Shoemaker, Anna Wang
The Poetry Forum will resume its Monday night reading series January 26 at a new location, The Rumba Café, 2507 Summit Street, Columbus (just south of Hudson Street), with featured poet Kip Knott, who was scheduled to open our winter season January 5.
Our well-known poetry event lost its 25-year home when campus watering hole Larry’s closed its doors abruptly December 27.
The Rumba Café has become a popular spot for music in the north University area over the past 2 years, and we’re grateful that its management has been gracious enough to offer us the early Monday evening slot (before the acoustic singer-songwriters show up for 10 p.m. gigs, which may provide a nice cap to an evening of poetry).
Thanks to all of you for your support over the years, your words of support when all of us lost a community institution at Woodruff & High, your suggestions for optional venues, and –we hope—your continued presence to maintain the vitality of an open poetry community. We all look forward to seeing you on January 26 and in the ensuing weeks. Keep checking Poetry Calendar Columbus at www.puddinghouse.com for updated schedules for The Poetry Forum and other central Ohio poetry events.
Steve Abbott with The Poetry Forum of Columbus, sent this urgent note today. I am also sad about "Larry's" final closing. More than a campus bar, Larry's was an important, iconic site, part of my background, especially during its heyday during the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s. As he explains below, this sudden closing has caused the Forum to lose it's home of the past 25 years. Got any suggestions or ideas where the forurm can hold public readings? Let us know! - charlie
Friends,
The abrupt closing of Larry’s Bar on December 27, without the courtesy of notice to The Poetry Forum despite over 700 readings over 25 years, has forced us to cancel the series of readings scheduled to begin January 5 as we seek a new location. We have several possibilities that we’re looking into, and some may require shifting to another area of the city and/or to a coffeehouse rather than a bar. So it goes. The line turns.
We hope to have a new home and a revised schedule within 3 weeks. I’ll let you know what’s going on, and please forward this or pass word of our hiatus to friends, acquaintances and other possibly interested parties. (There’s a related story in today’s/Saturday’s/January 3 Columbus Dispatch.)
All of us at The Poetry Forum thank you for your past support and wish you the best for the new year.
I am rerunning this previous item to include "non violent executions" , a new piece sent here just this past week. Steve was an original member of the legendary, seminal Living Theatre. Please search my blog for previous articles about Steve Ben Isreal. -charlie
Award winning actor, performer, social commentator, poet, raconteur, and all-around good guy Steve Ben Israel sent three vignettes below. Steve is often heard delivering wry, relevant commentary on NPR. In this photo, (taken by Fernando Leon) he accepted an Obie award.
I met Steve at an all-night diner in the lower east side of NY city, several years ago, introduced by my long-time friend Stan. We talked, dank coffee, schmoozed, listened to his fabulous tales and enjoyed it enough to consider the evning memorable.
non-violent executions
in the revolution we will execute only the system with a new way of being alive
it won't be necessary to kill people anymore even the torturers the ones who did the dirty work of chasing angels will be allowed to live and build
for they are the dead to be raised and they the dead raised will be profoundest homage to those they have harmed
we will walk naked in the world as the sun gently touches our cocks and cunts humming a tune so beautiful that the dead poets will come in their graves and forever be at peace
steve ben israel
brooklyn
flunked out of high school went back in the summer and passed all 3 subjects amazing, teachers must be nicer in july and august what now,18 years old now what some friends out in k.u. in kansas write me and say come out here and I write them back are you kidding with my grades" they say write them anyhow and I do and they write me back and say are you kidding with your grades but they give me a three month trial period of three credits in english
so I make my way to the land of thank you and come back and there in english I am asked to write a paper on henry david thoreau's walden pond now reading and writing it down was always tough for me and still is, but I do it and hand it in a week later the papers are marked and ready the teacher is holding up two papers in front of the class he says this first paper shows remarkable insight in to walden pond but I am not quite sure what language he wrote it in this other students paper is grammatically perfect but I don¹t know what he read,now the first paper was mine a lot of red on yellow legal and he hands it to me in front of the entire class and I take the heat hoping that the bell is going to ring so I can go out and talk to a tree who I know will tell me I am really ok the bell rings so I make my way to the door and the teacher says steven can I see you for a momment sure and I make my way to the front of the class and the teacher says steven ah are you a foreign student and I say no I am from brooklyn
steve ben israel
not my real uncle
she invited me over to dinner for lisa bauer at her uncles house in west berlin she said he wasn't her real uncle he a berlin police captain hid seven jews in seven different houses along with her mother and brother for four years he provided food medicine and security they were hiding they were hidden they were hidden they were hiding the last day of the war she emerged to the sunlight and then raped by a drunken russian liberator in the midst of her joy and then stabbed in her breast later she became a pianist and teacher and was a bright light in a city with a wall around it I went to her uncles house for dinner along with the others who called him uncle every month he cooked dinner when I met him he said" just call me uncle" now that's an uncle
steve ben israel
star wars 1999
I won't be waiting on line and I don't need any tickets because star wars is playing everywhere, especially on CNN the military home shopping channel and every half hour, James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, says,"this is CNN" and I won't be picking up any action figures to this" new phanto menace"
because I remember April 29,1975 our sons first birthday, and he's asleep and he doesn't know it when suddenly he's awakened by another baby crying 6,000 miles away coming out of the tv because I'm watching the NBC special "the evacuation of Saigon
the next picture was of the parents of the last American soldier to die in that Vietnam war and they were both holding back their tears as the father say's,"my son gave his life for his country" I held our son even closer and realized how precious that moment was
a few years later a friend of mine says,"have you seen the new star wars movie yet?" and I said "not me, pops, the last thing I want to do is see a movie with the word war in it'
but that changed very quickly, when all of a sudden our son said 'daddy, daddy, we have to go see star wars, everybody I know has seen star wars, we have to see star wars" so we went to see star wars. and I actually saw all three of those modern day swashbuckling intergalactic sagas of good guys verses bad guys and, actually the movies played for years on our son's floor I was always avoiding stepping on luke Skywalker, princes laya, Darth Vader,Han solo, Jaba the hut, chubacka the wookie,Yoda r2d2 and cp30. I once spent an hour and a half on my knees trying to find Yoda's cane and screamed out,"I found it, I found it, I found Yoda's cane"
but know our son is twenty five and I think this time, together we are going to skip this phantom menace and go to the peace vigil out the 42nd street library hoping that we are going to be joined by the liberals and the conservatives the democrats and republicans the left and the right because too many parents have cried in this century for the children they have lost
Award winning actor, performer, social commentator, poet, raconteur, and all-around good guy Steve Ben Israel sent three vignettes below. Steve is often heard delivering wry, relevant commentary on NPR. In this photo, (taken by Fernando Leon) he accepted an Obie award.
I met Steve at an all-night diner in the lower east side of NY city, several years ago, introduced by my long-time friend Stan. We talked, dank coffee, schmoozed, listened to his fabulous tales and enjoyed it enough to consider the evning memorable.
Please enjoy three short poems below told with a bit of New York irony, followwed by two short Youtube videos showcases. -------------------------- brooklyn
flunked out of high school went back in the summer and passed all 3 subjects amazing, teachers must be nicer in july and august what now,18 years old now what some friends out in k.u. in kansas write me and say come out here and I write them back are you kidding with my grades" they say write them anyhow and I do and they write me back and say are you kidding with your grades but they give me a three month trial period of three credits in english
so I make my way to the land of thank you and come back and there in english I am asked to write a paper on henry david thoreau's walden pond now reading and writing it down was always tough for me and still is, but I do it and hand it in a week later the papers are marked and ready the teacher is holding up two papers in front of the class he says this first paper shows remarkable insight in to walden pond but I am not quite sure what language he wrote it in this other students paper is grammatically perfect but I don¹t know what he read,now the first paper was mine a lot of red on yellow legal and he hands it to me in front of the entire class and I take the heat hoping that the bell is going to ring so I can go out and talk to a tree who I know will tell me I am really ok the bell rings so I make my way to the door and the teacher says steven can I see you for a momment sure and I make my way to the front of the class and the teacher says steven ah are you a foreign student and I say no I am from brooklyn
steve ben israel
not my real uncle
she invited me over to dinner for lisa bauer at her uncles house in west berlin she said he wasn't her real uncle he a berlin police captain hid seven jews in seven different houses along with her mother and brother for four years he provided food medicine and security they were hiding they were hidden they were hidden they were hiding the last day of the war she emerged to the sunlight and then raped by a drunken russian liberator in the midst of her joy and then stabbed in her breast later she became a pianist and teacher and was a bright light in a city with a wall around it I went to her uncles house for dinner along with the others who called him uncle every month he cooked dinner when I met him he said" just call me uncle" now that's an uncle
steve ben israel
star wars 1999
I won't be waiting on line and I don't need any tickets because star wars is playing everywhere, especially on CNN the military home shopping channel and every half hour, James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, says,"this is CNN" and I won't be picking up any action figures to this" new phanto menace"
because I remember April 29,1975 our sons first birthday, and he's asleep and he doesn't know it when suddenly he's awakened by another baby crying 6,000 miles away coming out of the tv because I'm watching the NBC special "the evacuation of Saigon
the next picture was of the parents of the last American soldier to die in that Vietnam war and they were both holding back their tears as the father say's,"my son gave his life for his country" I held our son even closer and realized how precious that moment was
a few years later a friend of mine says,"have you seen the new star wars movie yet?" and I said "not me, pops, the last thing I want to do is see a movie with the word war in it'
but that changed very quickly, when all of a sudden our son said 'daddy, daddy, we have to go see star wars, everybody I know has seen star wars, we have to see star wars" so we went to see star wars. and I actually saw all three of those modern day swashbuckling intergalactic sagas of good guys verses bad guys and, actually the movies played for years on our son's floor I was always avoiding stepping on luke Skywalker, princes laya, Darth Vader,Han solo, Jaba the hut, chubacka the wookie,Yoda r2d2 and cp30. I once spent an hour and a half on my knees trying to find Yoda's cane and screamed out,"I found it, I found it, I found Yoda's cane"
but know our son is twenty five and I think this time, together we are going to skip this phantom menace and go to the peace vigil out the 42nd street library hoping that we are going to be joined by the liberals and the conservatives the democrats and republicans the left and the right because too many parents have cried in this century for the children they have lost
This came from Katherine Burkman who was active with the now defunct Women at Play
A group that grew out of WOMEN AT PLAY, who call themselves WILD WOMEN WRITING, which is what they are, will give a free reading of their work, April 10th at The Upper Arlington Library, 2800 Tremont Rd., in the library's basement theatre. You are cordially invited to attend.
Best, Patricia Ake, Katherine Burkman, Anne Brethauer, Carole Dale, Ann C. Hall, Susie Gerald, and Laura Zakin (the wild women)
This press release is from Turber House. 77 Jeffer son Avenue Contact : Missie Kendall Columbus, Ohio 43215 614-464-1032 ext . 1 1 www.thurberhouse.org
Tuesday, January 15: Kurt Anderson Heyday Columbus School for Girls, 56 S. Columbia Ave. 7:30 PM
Kurt Anderson is the author of Turn of the Century, a New York Times Notable Book. He will read from his newest novel and New York Times bestseller Heyday, a brilliantly imagined, immensely entertaining tale of America’s boisterous coming of age in the 19th century.
Friday, February 8: John Burnham Schwartz The Commoner Canzani Center (CCAD) 7:30 PM Jonathan Burnham Schwartz is the author of three novels, Claire Marvel, Bicycle Days and Reservation Road, currently a film. He will read from his new novel, The Commoner, a mesmerizing story of the first non-aristocrat to marry a Crown Prince of Japan and enter one of the most mysterious monarchies in the world.
Monday, February 25: Lee Woodruff In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing Columbus School for Girls, 56 S. Columbia Ave. 7:30 PM Lee Woodruff, with her husband, Bob Woodruff, tell their amazing story in the New York Times best seller, In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing. Theirs is a story of courage and resilience after Bob’s critical injury in Iraq while anchoring a broadcast for ABC News. Despite the trauma and fear, the Woodruffs’ love, perseverance, and even humor led to the creation of the Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury.
Wednesday, March 12: Mary Doria Russel l Dreamers of the Day ColumbusPerforming Art Center, 549 Franklin Avenue 7:30 PM
Mary Doria Russell is the award-winning author of four novels, including The Sparrow, Children of God, and A Thread of Grace, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She will read from her latest novel Dreamers of the Day, about the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference when a handful of British diplomats, oil executives and military men invented the modern Middle East.
Monday, April 28: Joanne Harris The Girl with No Shadow Columbus Performing Art Center, 549 Franklin Avenue 7:30 PM
Although Joanne Harris has written over a dozen books, including Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange and Holy Fools and The French Kitchen: A Cookbook. She is best known for Chocolat which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She will read from her eagerly-anticipated sequel, The Girl with No Shadow, a dazzling urban fairy tale set in Paris five years after Chocolat. Harris is the author of several novels including Blackberry Wine.
Thursday, June 5: Nancy Horan Loving Frank Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad Street 7:30 PM
In her debut novel, Loving Frank, Nancy Horanbrilliantly blends fact and fiction into an unforgettable story of the long-lived love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright – a union that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. Drawing on years of research and weaving in little-known facts, Horan reveals the profound influence that Cheney had on Wright, and delivers a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
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