Sunday, April 11, 2010

Words of Wisdom

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

~Greg Bear

Friday, April 02, 2010

Calling All Writers

For those of you would would like to write about happenings in your local area, here is a website that will explain whatyou need to do to get started.

Gennee

www.examiner.com

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Words of Wisdom

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

~Gwendolyn Brooks

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Words of Wisdom

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

~Confucius, Chinese philosopher (551BC-479BC)

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Words of Wisdom

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

~Carlos Castenada

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Mid-Week Inspiration

Rob a people of their sense of history and you take away hope.

~Wyatt T. Walker

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Words of Wisdom


Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

~Toni Morrison

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Words Can Spark Positive Change

Yesterday's word of wisdom can be applied to writing. We write because we desire to reach as many people as we can. Literature can inspire, encourage, and challenge. It's wonderful when a song, poem, or story changes a person's life for the better.

Monday, March 01, 2010

Words of Wisdom

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

~Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)

Friday, February 26, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Reading @ Solar Bar

NYC PhillySound Reading for St. Mark's Bookshop Poetry Series

When: Thu, February 25, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Where: Solar Bar
232 E. 9th St
(between 2nd and 3rd aves.) (map)

Description: NYC PhillySound reading for St. Mark's Bookshop Poetry Series featuring
PhillySound poets CAConrad, Ryan Eckes, Ish Klein, Frank Sherlock

http://PhillySound.blogspot.com

Today's Word

BI-

1. having two; thing having two (bilateral)

2. occuring twice in every year or once every two (biweekly)

Monday, February 22, 2010

Talk At Bluestockings

Wednesday, February 24th @ 7PM

- $5 Suggested

Presentation: Nicholas Powers “Haitian Aftershocks” The situation in Haiti is horrible. Come out for a first-hand account of the turmoil in Port-au-Prince by writer Nicholas Powers with an elaboration on the history of American involvement in the poorest country in the hemisphere.

Bluestockings
172 Allen Street

Today's Word

ACQUIESCE

v.intro 1. agree
2. raise no objection
3. accept (an arrangement)

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Words of Wisdom

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.


~Van Wyck Brooks

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Today's Word

TORPOR

sluggishness, lethargy, apathy, indolence, passivity, sleepiness.

BOOK