CAMBRIDGE COHOUSING PRESENTS
THE FIRESIDE READING SERIES
MOLLY LYNN WATT, CURATOR
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Len Solo and Barbara Thomas
LEN SOLO’s primary work over the years has been in education. From 1974 to 2001 he was the principal of the Graham & Parks Alternative Public School in Cambridge and was the interim principal of Cambridge’s high school, CRLS, for over a year. Currently, he’s an educational consultant, working to support school principals and teacher leaders. Some of his educational writings have been collected into a book, Alternative, Innovative and Traditional Schools: Some Personal Views. Len’s latest book of poetry is The Magic of Light, published in September 2008. His first poetry book, Landscape of the Misty Eye, was published in 2002. Co-written with Steve Weitzman, the book reflects the cycle of the seasons starting and ending in the spring. His second book Rooted in Place, came out in 2004. In addition to writing poems, Len is working on a collection of short stories and on a book about the award-winning and nationally recognized Graham & Parks Alternative Public School.
BARBARA THOMAS, a former English and Reading teacher for thirty-five years, now devotes her time to poetry and writing. She has recently published a chapbook, Seduced by Sighs of Trees, Cloudkeeper Press 2008, and has published poems in Lalitamba, Writing Nature, The Wilderness House Literary Review, and The Istanbul Literary Review. She has read her poems at the Blacksmith House, Borders Bookstore, Porter Square Bookstore, and the Cambridge Public Library and she teaches nature writing for the Appalachian Mountain Club. Barbara lives in Cambridge with two gorgeous orange cats, Kalliope and Sofia.
The reading begins with a short open mike. Come at 7 PM to help set up, sign up for open mike and nosh and schmooze. Following the reading you are invited to a wine and cheese reception. (A donation of $3 is requested to help with the cost.)
The Fireside Reading Committee is Molly Lynn Watt, curator, Richard Curran, Jenise Aminoff and Dan Lynn Watt, webmagicians, Julie Rochlin, Lolita Paiewonsky, Debbie Pfeiffer and many others on logistics, and the writers who come month after month. Thank you all for contributing! The reading is held in the living room in front of the fireplace at Cambridge Co-Housing at 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140, 3 blocks from the Red Line stop at Porter Square. A request to the City of Cambridge allows out-of-town visitors to park on Richdale Avenue from 6:30-10:30 PM. Contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu, or www.cambridgecohousing.org/Fireside/index.html
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Poets read at NoCa Art Opening!
Thursday
November 13
6:00-7:30 P.M.
Poetry reading begins
at 6:30 P.M. featuring
Philip E. Burnham
Irene Koronas
Barbara Thomas
Molly Lynn Watt
NoCa Arts
is a group of
professional visual
and performing artists
who live or work in
North Cambridge
and have
a strong commitment
to the neighborhood
and community.
O'Neill Branch Library
70 Rindge Avenue
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Credit: Bobby Brown: Green Beard Mixed Media Mask
Friday, November 7, 2008
Shadow People:Poems by Molly Lynn Watt Reviewed by Hugh Fox
Watt is a kind of a flesh-and-blood monument in the boston area, totally involved with the poetic life there, but she reads like some kind of young world-traveller soaked in world literature, concentrating especially on the ephemeralness of human existence. As in this Memoriam poem titled simply Margie (1916-1999): It is always spring where she sits in her chair/under Monet's blue sky and fields of tulips/Her fragile body bends over nail clippers.../shaking/both hands shaking... (p.25)
Unexpected poems here about the Yup'ik People in Alaska, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Tlinqit First People (again in Alaska), Central Park in NYC during the winter, streetlife in Boston-Cambridge, everything always with a sense of transience, everything evaporating, vanishing away, even when she writes about the year she was born, 1938: That bloody year when I was born.../Nazis carried out pogroms against the jewish born.../Storm trropers smashed synagogues and shops and homes/ Time named Hitler Man of the Year... (1938, p. 11)
At the same time she's lamenting the shortness of life, swirling in memories of lost time, she preaches deliciously Debussyan delicate sermons on grasping the Here and Now:... Wear a crown of daisies/Build a fire on sand.../Listen to the peepers/ Wait for fireflies in the meadow. (Abandon Your Shoes, p. 51)
A living classic.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Fireside Readings Series Schedule 2008-2009
Molly Lynn Watt, Curator
Tuesday, September 23, 7:30
Bagel Bards
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30
Chris Brandt and John Hildebidle
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30
Len Solo and Barbara Thomas
Tuesday, January 20, 7:30
Suzanne Berger and Ifeany Menkiti
Tuesday, February 17, 7:30
Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30
Ellen Steinbaum and David Surette
Tuesday, April 21, 7:30
Dudley Laufman and Barbara Morrison
Tuesday, May 19, 7:30
Abbott Ikeler and Mignon Ariel King
Now in our tenth season, the Fireside Reading Series holds readings on one Tuesday each month at 7:30.
The readings begin with a short open mike. Come at 7 PM to help set up, sign up for open mike and nosh and schmooze. Following the reading you are invited to a wine and cheese reception. (A donation of $3 is requested to help with the cost.)
Writers are welcome to bring a short work in progress to read at our open mike and any published works they may have to sell after the readings. Please bring handouts for upcoming events.
The Fireside Reading Committee is Molly Lynn Watt, curator, Jenise Aminoff and Dan Lynn Watt, webmagicians, Julie Rochlin, Lolita Paiwonsky and many others on logistics, and the writers who come month after month. Thank you all for contributing!
The readings are held at Cambridge Cohousing, 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge MA 02140. It is 3 blocks from the Red Line stop at Porter Square. A request for “parking consideration” from the City of Cambridge allows out-of-town visitors to park in resident only spaces on Richdale Avenue from 6:30-10:30 PM. Contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu for more information or check out the website at www.cambridgecohousing.org/fireside/index.html.
Tuesday, September 23, 7:30
Bagel Bards
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30
Chris Brandt and John Hildebidle
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30
Len Solo and Barbara Thomas
Tuesday, January 20, 7:30
Suzanne Berger and Ifeany Menkiti
Tuesday, February 17, 7:30
Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30
Ellen Steinbaum and David Surette
Tuesday, April 21, 7:30
Dudley Laufman and Barbara Morrison
Tuesday, May 19, 7:30
Abbott Ikeler and Mignon Ariel King
Now in our tenth season, the Fireside Reading Series holds readings on one Tuesday each month at 7:30.
The readings begin with a short open mike. Come at 7 PM to help set up, sign up for open mike and nosh and schmooze. Following the reading you are invited to a wine and cheese reception. (A donation of $3 is requested to help with the cost.)
Writers are welcome to bring a short work in progress to read at our open mike and any published works they may have to sell after the readings. Please bring handouts for upcoming events.
The Fireside Reading Committee is Molly Lynn Watt, curator, Jenise Aminoff and Dan Lynn Watt, webmagicians, Julie Rochlin, Lolita Paiwonsky and many others on logistics, and the writers who come month after month. Thank you all for contributing!
The readings are held at Cambridge Cohousing, 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge MA 02140. It is 3 blocks from the Red Line stop at Porter Square. A request for “parking consideration” from the City of Cambridge allows out-of-town visitors to park in resident only spaces on Richdale Avenue from 6:30-10:30 PM. Contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu for more information or check out the website at www.cambridgecohousing.org/fireside/index.html.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Where You Will Find Me!
January 13, 2009 at 7 pm to hear Three of Us: Poetry and Memoir:
Denise Bergman, H. Susan Freireich, Molly Lynn Watt, Central Square Library, Cambridge
November 18, 2008 Len Solo and Barbara Thomas Feature at Fireside, 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge, Molly Lynn Watt, curator.
November 13, 2008 6:30 pm NoCa Poetry Reading at O’Neill Branch Library as part of art reception opening: Philip E. Burmham, Irene Koronas, Barbara Thomas, Molly Lynn Watt.
October 18, 2008 Chris Brandt and John Hildebidle feature at Fireside Reading, 175 Richdlae Ave., Cambridge, Molly Lynn Watt, curator
October 6, 2008 7:00 pm Pub Reading at James’ Gate Pub by Doug Holder, Elizabeth Quinlan, Christy Page, Molly Lynn Watt.
September 23, 2008 7:30 pm 2 dozen Bagel Bards will start off the tenth season of the Fireside Series celebrating the BagelBard Anthology #3, introduction by Regie O. Gibson, edited by Molly Lynn Watt.
August 4, 2008 10 AM: On the Wings of Song: Music in the Civil Rights Movement, stories of We Shall Overcome, Which Side Are You On? and other songs moving the Civil Rights Movement Along: Graham & Barbara Dean & Molly & Dan Lynn Watt
&
7:30 PM: Personal Stories of the Civil Rights Movement, Molly was active in the Civil Rights Movement Directing the North/South Smokey Mountain Workcamp at Highlander Center and Dan supporting voter registration in Fayette County, Tennessee. Dan & Molly Lynn Watt @ World Fellowship Center, Conway, New Hampshire
August 3, 2008 10 AM: The Civil Rights Movement:1955-1968 8/3, a multimedia portrayal from Montgomery Bus Boycott of '55-through Birmingham & Selma to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. Dan & Molly
&
4 PM: Songs of the Movement: Dan & Molly Lynn Watt
@ World Fellowship Center, Conway, New Hampshire
May 27, 2008 Fireside Readings featuring the Jamaica Plain Carpenter Poets in a Pub-Style Reading featuring poems about woodworking, beer and burgers. As always, a short open mic. 175 Richdale Ave., Cambridge. Molly Lynn Watt, curator
April 29, 2008 Fireside Readings, Molly Lynn Watt curator, Julie Rochlin and Tom Daley reading poetry at 7:30 PM, starts with short open mic. 175 Richdale Ave., Cambridge
April 26, 2008 Molly Lynn Watt, Irene Koronas, Philip Burnham, Jr read at 12 noon at Porter Books as the first event for NoCa's Open Studios weekend.
April 25, 2008, George & Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War, Molly and Dan Lynn Watt with Tony Saletan & Sylvia Miskoe at 9:30-11 PM at NEFFA in Mansfield, MA (Admission free with festival ticket)
April 25, 2008 Molly with Dan Lynn Watt & Alice Flanagan singing Woody Guthrie's songs "Why, Oh Why" and "Mail Myself to You" with the Folksong Society of Greater Boston's Bound for Glory Performance at 8-9:30 at NEFFA in Mansfield, MA (Admission free with festival ticket)
April 18, 2008, George & Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War, Molly and Dan Lynn Watt with Tony Saletan & Sylvia Miskoe @ 8 o'clock at First Parish in Watertown, 35 Church Street, Watertown, MA.
April 12, 2008 Molly Lynn Watt, one of 8 poets reading their respective poems from the 2008 Poets Guide to New Hampshire at the Toadstool Bookstore in Peterborough, NH.
April 10, 2008 Molly Lynn Watt and Irene Koronas read at 6:30-7:30 at the O'Neil Library in North Cambridge at the opening reception of the exhibit of the North Cambridge Art Association (NoCa).
Denise Bergman, H. Susan Freireich, Molly Lynn Watt, Central Square Library, Cambridge
November 18, 2008 Len Solo and Barbara Thomas Feature at Fireside, 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge, Molly Lynn Watt, curator.
November 13, 2008 6:30 pm NoCa Poetry Reading at O’Neill Branch Library as part of art reception opening: Philip E. Burmham, Irene Koronas, Barbara Thomas, Molly Lynn Watt.
October 18, 2008 Chris Brandt and John Hildebidle feature at Fireside Reading, 175 Richdlae Ave., Cambridge, Molly Lynn Watt, curator
October 6, 2008 7:00 pm Pub Reading at James’ Gate Pub by Doug Holder, Elizabeth Quinlan, Christy Page, Molly Lynn Watt.
September 23, 2008 7:30 pm 2 dozen Bagel Bards will start off the tenth season of the Fireside Series celebrating the BagelBard Anthology #3, introduction by Regie O. Gibson, edited by Molly Lynn Watt.
August 4, 2008 10 AM: On the Wings of Song: Music in the Civil Rights Movement, stories of We Shall Overcome, Which Side Are You On? and other songs moving the Civil Rights Movement Along: Graham & Barbara Dean & Molly & Dan Lynn Watt
&
7:30 PM: Personal Stories of the Civil Rights Movement, Molly was active in the Civil Rights Movement Directing the North/South Smokey Mountain Workcamp at Highlander Center and Dan supporting voter registration in Fayette County, Tennessee. Dan & Molly Lynn Watt @ World Fellowship Center, Conway, New Hampshire
August 3, 2008 10 AM: The Civil Rights Movement:1955-1968 8/3, a multimedia portrayal from Montgomery Bus Boycott of '55-through Birmingham & Selma to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. Dan & Molly
&
4 PM: Songs of the Movement: Dan & Molly Lynn Watt
@ World Fellowship Center, Conway, New Hampshire
May 27, 2008 Fireside Readings featuring the Jamaica Plain Carpenter Poets in a Pub-Style Reading featuring poems about woodworking, beer and burgers. As always, a short open mic. 175 Richdale Ave., Cambridge. Molly Lynn Watt, curator
April 29, 2008 Fireside Readings, Molly Lynn Watt curator, Julie Rochlin and Tom Daley reading poetry at 7:30 PM, starts with short open mic. 175 Richdale Ave., Cambridge
April 26, 2008 Molly Lynn Watt, Irene Koronas, Philip Burnham, Jr read at 12 noon at Porter Books as the first event for NoCa's Open Studios weekend.
April 25, 2008, George & Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War, Molly and Dan Lynn Watt with Tony Saletan & Sylvia Miskoe at 9:30-11 PM at NEFFA in Mansfield, MA (Admission free with festival ticket)
April 25, 2008 Molly with Dan Lynn Watt & Alice Flanagan singing Woody Guthrie's songs "Why, Oh Why" and "Mail Myself to You" with the Folksong Society of Greater Boston's Bound for Glory Performance at 8-9:30 at NEFFA in Mansfield, MA (Admission free with festival ticket)
April 18, 2008, George & Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War, Molly and Dan Lynn Watt with Tony Saletan & Sylvia Miskoe @ 8 o'clock at First Parish in Watertown, 35 Church Street, Watertown, MA.
April 12, 2008 Molly Lynn Watt, one of 8 poets reading their respective poems from the 2008 Poets Guide to New Hampshire at the Toadstool Bookstore in Peterborough, NH.
April 10, 2008 Molly Lynn Watt and Irene Koronas read at 6:30-7:30 at the O'Neil Library in North Cambridge at the opening reception of the exhibit of the North Cambridge Art Association (NoCa).
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