French Festival at Thursday Night Poetry, March 22, 2007

No one wanted to leave, this was a favorite night so far. Great poetry, and poet friends, French baroque music on a rare and beautiful instrument, and three French soufflés! See our French Night at Thursday Night Poetry Workshop report. Bruce Teter and Marishka Hopcroftprovided music by Couperin and Chedeville on harpsichord, musette de coeur, and recorder. Poets participating were CaLokie, Toti O'Brien, Justin Kibbe, Sharon Hawley, Albert Kung, Debbie Kolodji, Mira Mitaric and Kath. Musician friends attend the workshop as well as making music--Bruce and Marishka, as well as oboist Paul Sherman (who is planning a future program for one of our evenings), his wife Asuncion Ojeda, and Rick Wilson.

Thursday Night Poetry meets the French Musette

Tomorrow, Thursday, March 22, 2007 will be French Night at the Thursday Evening Poetry Workshop and Critique. Workshop starts ar 6:30 PM, Music at 8 PM, dinner snacks throughout. Our guests will be Bruce Teter (see him performing at a concert) who will play the musette, pictured above, and also recorder; his wife Marishka will play our harpsichord. Our friend Bruce is also a professor at UCLA, specializing in brain research. Please come as early as possible, and stay for the music, as our guests have prepared a special program! We are so lucky to have them visit. They will come early to tune the harpsichord and are also looking forward to the poetry!

Thursday Evening Poetry on Irish Night --(March 15, 2007)

Oh yes, this was the best. How could it be otherwise, with the luck of the Irish. See the story of the night a wonderful workshop and celebration ("oh my Guinness"...as Michael Dunnn would say!)

WORKSHOP NIGHT CHANGED TO THURSDAYS

We've changed our workshop night to Thursdays! You'll love our report on Elizabethan Night at the Evening Critique Workshop, March 7, 2007 at Kath and Rick's! Look there for details and directions. This Thursday we'll be having an Irish Night, Kath will cook some favorites from THE JOYCE OF COOKING and we'll feature Celtic Music with Rick Wilson and Steven Radice.

Wednesday Critique and Poetry Party Tomorrow

Welcome poets, to our poetry party and critique tomorrow. You can see a bit of last week's festivities Wednesday Evening Critique and Chinese New Year celebration Feb. 28, 2007 at Kath and Rick's. Rick presented his collection of Chinese flutes and gave a short recital. Kath made a Chinese meal, homemade rice crackers, mock duck rolls with plum sauce, hot and sour soup, mapo tofu, and homemade fortune cookies... (after so many requests) she's promised to post some recipes soon. Tomorrow night we'll start promptly at 6:30 with the Critique, followed by an introduction to Elizabthan music and the viola da gamba, by our friend musician Phil Schlosberg, accompanied by Rick on flute. Plan to stay for the music and dinner snacks to be served throughout. So much fun we poets have together!