Parking Alert!
Greene Street is being repaved. This means there is no parking on Greene from 6 am - 6 pm, and that it may be closed completely if work is happening. Give yourself extra time to park, and look for spaces on McCallum or Sedgwick.
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Big Blue Marble's Writing Program Returns! "On Sundays We Write" starts up again in April.
In this week's newsletter you'll find:
- Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and turning wounds into wisdom
- Pre-pesach writing workshop
- Zora and Langston - the story of a friendship and its end
- Andrea Dworkin on the right to one's own voice
- "Shrill" comes to Hulu, and to Big Blue Marble
- In memoriam: Linda Gregg, W.S. Merwin, and Barbara Hammer
- 3-for-1 audiobook sale
- The house in Wuthering Heights can be yours
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In keeping with shabbat observance, this event begins at 7:45 pm with a short havdallah service. The event begins at 8 pm.
Our new neighbors at Mt. Airy Nexus are hosting this event for us - we'll have plenty of room for everyone, and the space is accessible.
The address is 520 Carpenter Lane, in the new condo building. Enter at the ground level and follow the signs.
"Wounds Into Wisdom" makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can be transformed and healed. Fusing contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and ancient Jewish wisdom and values, this work provides a roadmap for Jews, and all individuals and groups with trauma history, who wish to seize the power to change their lives.
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD, is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, Colorado. Ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi in 1992, she is a leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement and a renowned Jewish scholar and teacher.
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Sunday March 24 @ 2:00 pm
In the Spirit of the Holidays: a pre-Passover writing workshop with Janet Ruth Falon
Join author Janet Ruth Falon for a fun exploration of what Passover means for you and your family. In this workshop she'll walk you through imaginative writing prompts and help you create your own meaningful poems for your seder.
No writing experience is necessary!
The cost of the workshop includes a copy of Janet's book
In the Spirit of the Holidays: Readings to Enrich Every Jewish Holiday
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Sunday March 24 @ 4:00 pm
In the Spirit of the Holidays: a reading by Janet Ruth Falon
Big Blue Marble welcomes Janet Ruth Falon. She'll be reading from her new book "In the Spirit of the Holidays: Readings to Enrich Every Jewish Holiday."
In this collection of 146 poems designed to be read at home or at synagogue, privately or aloud, Janet Ruth Falon questions, grapples with, and sometimes turns concepts and rituals about the Jewish holidays inside out.
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On Sundays We Write Returns!
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On Sundays We Write returns in April with a new set of teachers and workshops, as well as the return of beloved favorites.
The first class is Sunday, April 7th at 2 pm. Anndee Hochman returns with "Lost & Found," a found poetry workshop for teens and adults.
Pre-registration is required.
More classes will be posted soon.
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Libro.fm is a great service designed for Indie Bookstores - and this month, to encourage you to switch from Audible, each new member gets 3 audiobooks for the price of 1. Membership is just $14.99 a month - and a fair share of that comes to us rather than to the richest man on the planet.
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News From the World of Books
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Yuval Taylor,
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
03/26
“It is so easy to see how and why Zora and Langston would love each other. Each was to the other an affirming example of what black people could be like: wild, crazy, creative, spontaneous, at ease with who they are, and funny. A lot of attention has been given to their breakup … but very little to the pleasure Zora and Langston must have felt in each other’s company."
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03/12
I begin by presuming that I am free.
I begin with nothing, no form, no content, and I ask: what do I want to do and how do I want to do it.
I begin by presuming that what I write belongs to me.
without the presumption of freedom, there is no freedom. I am free, how, then, do I want to live my life, do my work, use my body? how, then, do I want to be, in all my particulars?
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Lindy West has made the body-positive show she never had growing up
Lindy West did not set out to make an after school special. The new Hulu show
Shrill,
based on her 2016 memoir about being feminist and body positive, is not "all about the message," she says.
"The reality of being a fat person isn't that every moment of your life is about being fat," she says. "It's that you're trying to live the same kind of complicated, exciting, fun, beautiful, difficult life as everyone else."
The only problem, West says, is that at every turn, society says "you should apologize for just living in your body."
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Linda Gregg, 1942 - 2019
"Having lived with her poems for decades now, I have learned immeasurably—and been immeasurably consoled—by those things, as well as by her belief in the rocks, the earth, the body, the sea, passion, rage, joy and calm. It’s that abundance, and the clean sharp mind capable of making meaning of it all, that most characterizes Gregg for me. No—not Gregg, but Linda. Because it is Linda whom I miss and love. Linda who was my teacher, my colleague and friend—and who remains a powerful ambassador for poetry’s weight and its light, for its wisdom and purity as an art form and a way of life.”—Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States
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W.S. Merwin, 1928- 2019
W. S. Merwin, who died last week at age 91, wrote in a lyric register to capture the epic brutality and organized violence of the 20th century. His poems are promontories from which readers can see, in one panoramic view, the catastrophic storm that sweeps together the Nixon era with the Trump era. Merwin’s poetry found its visionary calling in the late 1960s and 1970s as an indictment of U.S. militarism. Today’s readers can recognize in Merwin’s work the lamentations for what humans have done to the world, as well as the exhortations of ethical care for the nonhuman and those no longer living—which for Merwin might include lost loved ones, clear-cut forests, and endangered or extinct species.
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Barbara Hammer, 1948 -2019
Then I started living in Berkeley and somebody gave me a Super-8 camera and I made a lot of films. I would do something crazy. I would hitchhike up and down College Avenue and then I would tape-record people inside the car, what they thought of me, what it was like living there. I would get to the end of the street, get out, come back the other way interviewing people. I went to Gay Pride and walked around interviewing people about what an orgasm felt like. And, you know, I would find some who would participate. You could call it eccentric. You have an idea—you try it. Those are the processes that I followed at that time. I would write my name and address and put them in a balloon for people to find. Because otherwise I’d be lost in the world.
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The house that inspired Wuthering Heights is for sale
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Up for sale is Ponden Hall, a 5000-square-foot detached property sits in extensive grounds of approximately four acres offering panoramic views over Ponden Reservoir and the open countryside. The east end of the property dates back to 1541 and the main house was built in 1634. The former free-standing Peat Loft at the west end of the house dates back to 1680, and it was joined to the main house in the major renovation of 1801.
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