White House Poetry Revival May 31st. 2006

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White House Poetry Revival
Wed 31st May. 2006 9.00pm

The White House poets continue with their weekly POETRY REVIVAL NIGHT.

Open-Mic session – all those who wish to read are invited to do so – everyone welcome – free admission – complementary finger food.


Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.
Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/
Blog Http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/


How To get There
The White House pub is located in the centre of Limerick City at 52 O'Connell Street. Its exact location is on the corner of Glentworth Street and O'Connell Street, opposite the Ulster Bank and the Bank of Ireland. It is approximately 5 minutes walk from the train and bus station - exit the station and go down Davis Street, pass Taits Clock continue on down Glentworth Street and the White House is on the right hand corner at end of street.

Map http://www.limerick.com/streets/map.html

White House Poetry Revival Slide Show. No. 3

Poem Of The Week: 'Pyramid' by Tim Cunningham

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PYRAMID

The curtain falls on the Royal George Hotel,
Final as the granite doors shuddering down
To seal the burial chamber of some pharaoh.

This is where their curtain opened when
Spotlights caught their drama, fixed them centre stage
Improvising those first faltering lines.

This is where he sent the cards stamped ‘Cairo’:
Camels, dusty streets, white dishdashas,
Baked walls, a sepia pyramid.

This was the address for urgent love
Notes from the front. Later, the dictated
Letters, photos of the fresh war grave.

Now the theatre is dark, all seven floors
And basement. Plywood blinds the windows, guards
The doors like sentinels with flaming swords.

I hoard the letters like a treasured
Folio. His promises in pencil
And blue ink lie boxed beside the sun-bleached cards.

And the hotel where they fetched and carried,
As if dancing attendance on a king,
Has changed its lease, become their pyramid.

Its four sides face the four points of the compass;
Reed mats decorate the limestone walls;
Chiselled hieroglyphs decode the past.

By day, the lovers wait for gaps in cloud,
Shinny the sun’s rays, enter stage left
The open-air theatre of the gods.

By night, they stroll with Isis down cool corridors.
The building’s apex takes its bearings, points
To their propitious circumpolar star.

Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick in 1942 and educated at Limerick C.B.S. and Birkbeck College, London. He has lived in Limerick, Tipperary, Dublin, Trowbridge, London, Newark (Delaware) and, presently, Billericay. He has published and read widely. His first collection, 'Don Marcelino's Daughter' was published by Peterloo Poets in 2001 and reprinted in 2002 and 2004. 'Unequal Thirds' is scheduled to appear, again Peterloo, in autumn 2006.

Diary Dates: Sun 28th May to Sat 3rd June 2006

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Tuesday 30th May @ 7.00pm Poetry Ireland in association with Astrolabe Presspresents the launch ofThe Lost Roundness of the Worldby Mairide WoodsLaunched by Liz Mc Manus TDDamer Hall, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2For further information T: 01-4789974 E: management@poetryireland.ie
Tuesday 30th May 2 - 5.30pm Launching The Warrior and Other Poemsby Dairena Ní ChinnéideLaunched by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaillin association with Clo Iar-Chonnachta and Foras na GaeilgeThe Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin
Wednesday 31st May @ 6.00pm Translating Irish Literature - Exchanging experiencesKlaudyna Rozhin and Krista Kaer Ireland Literature Exchange, the organisation which promotes Irish literature abroad, has planned the talks and public interviews to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Irish Translators‚ and Interpreters‚ Association. Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster PlaceFor further information contact Sinéad Mac Aodha or Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Ireland Literature Exchange, 25 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2 T: 01 678 8961 E: info@irelandliterature.com
Wednesday May 31st 9.00pm The White House poets continue with their weekly POETRY REVIVAL NIGHT.Open-Mic session – all those who wish to read are invited to do so – everyone welcome – free admission – complementary finger food.
Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409. Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/ Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/
Friday June 2nd. 9.00pm at Sheridan's Wine Bar Over The Edge in association with Poetry Ireland presents a reading by Sandra Bunting, Sara Berkeley and Patricia Burke Brogan at Sheridan's Wine Bar,14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway. All welcome. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Slide Show Of White House Poetry Revival No.2

Slide Show Of White House Poetry Revival

White House Poetry Revival Wed. 24th May 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 24th. May. 2006 9.00pm

The White House poets continue with their weekly POETRY REVIVAL NIGHT.


Open-Mic session – all those who wish to read are invited to do so – everyone welcome – free admission – complementary finger food.



Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409. Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/ Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/

Make a donation to the WhiteHousePoets. Details: http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/2006/05/make-donation-to-white-house-poets.html

How To get There
The White House pub is located in the centre of Limerick City at 52 O'Connell Street. Its exact location is on the corner of Glentworth Street and O'Connell Street, opposite the Ulster Bank and the Bank of Ireland. It is approximately 5 minutes walk from the train and bus station - exit the station and go down Davis Street, pass Taits Clock continue on down Glentworth Street and the White House is on the right hand corner at end of street.
Map http://www.limerick.com/streets/map.html

Podcast Of last Weeks Show 17th May 2006

To listen back to an edited Podcast of last weeks White House Poetry Revival - 17th May 2006 - with special guest Irish language poet Greagoir O Duill, click the link below:



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And the winners are...

MUNSTER 24

Biarritz 19

...'nuf said

White House Poetry Revival Wed. 17th May 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 17th. May. 2006 9.00pm

The White House Poets in association with Foras na Gaeilge continue their series of bi-lingual poetry readings this Wednesday 17th May at 9.00pm in the White House pub, O Connell Street , Limerick

This weeks guest poet is bi-lingual poet Greagoir O Duill.

Greagoir O Duill was born in Dublin, grew up outside Belfast. Educated in Queen's University, Belfast and UCD he took a PhD in English in Maynooth. Longtime resident in the Donegal Gaeltacht, he was associated there with the Poets' House, teaching an MA in creative writing (poetry). He recently moved to Waterford to set up postgraduate creative writing in W.I.T.

His own work has included eight collections of poetry, two anthologies, a critical biography and a collection of short stories, and he has taken prizes in poetry, short fiction and criticism. His work is widely anthologised and has been translated into the major European languages - most recently with a full-length collection of versions in English by Bernie Kenny called Gone to Earth. He has read from Cork to Stornoway to Palermo to New York.

Greagoir is Irish language adviser of the Shop and reviewer of Irish language reviewer of Poetry Ireland Review. He has recently started to write in English and has been widely published in journals in Ireland, Britain and the United States. His first collection in English has been accepted for publication by Lagan Press.


Over the coming months many more bi lingual poets are booked to read including Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Louis De Paor, Cathal O Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Cristoir O Flynn, Paddy Bushe, Gabriel Fitzmaurice plus many others.

The White House Poetry Revival has being going now for almost three years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan, the man behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continues to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. He sees the involvement of Foras na Gaeilge as a recognition of the work they have put in to making the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

"The best place in Ireland to give a reading" Greg Delanty.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.

Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets

Blog Http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/

Make a donation to the WhiteHousePoets. Details: http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/2006/05/make-donation-to-white-house-poets.html

Poem Of The Week 'Rafters' by Chris Collins

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Rafters.

Conversation varies - drinks sipped along the
bar,
Cracking oyster shells assist smiles across faces.

Happy hour erases the stains which remaim from tears,
Dollars diminish - watching souls drain their beers

Scattered chatter again seeks to intrique,
Oblivious to these words before they slowly begin to appear.

Ice to accompany maybe another cold emotion,
To capture numb feelings - like nets in the ocean.

Varieties of drinks to complement these multiple personalities,
A side order of blues to serenade love's lost attributes.

The pin-cushion barman humours slurred nonsense speech,
Like the sands absorb the water on a packed summer beach.

Chris Collins been writing for about 4 years now and is influenced by the likes of Auden, Yeats, Thomas, Dickinson, Whitman, Hopkins, etc... he reads regularly at the White House Poetry Revival.

Diary Dates: May 14th to May 20th 2006

EVENTS:
Tuesday 16th May @ 7pmPoetry Ireland in association with haiku Ireland presentsA Haiku EveningDamer Hall, St. Stephen's Green, DublinT: 01-4789974 E: poetry@iol.ie
Wednesday 17th. May. @ 9.00pm The White House Poets in association with Foras na Gaeilge continue their series of bi-lingual poetry readings.This weeks guest poet is bi-lingual poet Greagoir O Duill. Born Dublin 1946, educated Belfast B.A, Dublin M.A., Maynooth Ph.D. Teacher and recently director the Poets\' House, Falcarragh, Co Donegal, currently lecturer in Irish literature in Queen\'s University, Belfast Eight collections of poetry, one of short stories, a selected verse and a literary biography; a pamphlet of poems in translation into English. An anthology of Ulster poetry 1960 - 1985 and an anthology of the twentieth century\'s best poetry in Irish.Bursaries from the Arts Councils in Ireland; awards from an tOireachtas and Bord Na Gaeilge for poetry
Over the coming months many more bi lingual poets are booked to read including Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Louis De Paor, Cathal O Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Cristoir O Flynn, Paddy Bushe, Gabriel Fitzmaurice plus many others.

The White House Poetry Revival has being going now for almost three years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan, the man behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continues to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. He sees the involvement of Foras na Gaeilge as a recognition of the work they have put in to making the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.
For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409. Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets
Blog Http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/
Thursday May 18th @ 9pm Dave Lordan Guests at North Beach Nights.in BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade, Galway. Admission: 4 Euro North Beach Nights gratefully acknowledges the support of Galway City Council.For info: 091-593290.



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Make A Donation To The White House Poets

Dear Friends,

The White House Poetry Revival has been going now for almost three years. During that time we have helped and encouraged many young poets to read their own work in public, as well as bringing the best of Irish, European and US poets to read in the White House in Limerick.
We have done all this on a voulntary basis with only occasional assistance from the various arts bodies. Last year we published an Anthology of work read at the White House - again from our own resources.
This year we have a number of publishing projects on the drawing board which we would hope to initiate before the end of the year. Again we will be seeking assistance for this work but you can also help by making a donation to the White House Poets - just click the PayPal button on the side bar and choose how much you want to give. All donations will be used solely for the promotion of poetry in Limerick.
If you would like to help continue our work please do so now, all contributions are greatly appreciated.

Warm best wishes,
Dominic Taylor and Barney Sheehan

White House Poetry Revival Wed 10th May 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed. 10th May 2006 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Karyna Mc Glynn from the United States.

KARYNA McGLYNN is originally from Austin, Texas. Her poems have appeared in Connecticut Review, Rosebud, The Pedestal Magazine, Cimarron Review, Midwest Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Good Foot, Wisconsin Review, Blackbird and Verse. A three-time Pushcart nominee and graduate of the creative writing program at Seattle University, she was recently nominated for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Karyna is a former member and coach of five National Poetry Slam teams from Austin and Seattle. She has been awarded the Cornwell Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Michigan where she is currently pursuing her MFA.

Recently she has been awarded the 2006 Moveen Residency by the University of Michigan Masters of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. The residency, aimed at encouraging the work of new writers, provides a stipend to cover travel and living expenses for a month long stay on the remote West Clare peninsula in Ireland in a cottage owned by Thomas Lynch, an adjunct professor with the M.F.A. program. Keith Taylor, coordinator of the undergraduate program in Creative Writing at Uof M. selected Ms. McGlynn’s work from entrants in a blind competition. “The winning essay was able to capture several things in a very short space. It is quite moving and genuinely funny. It is musical and stylish while also being wonderfully colloquial. I could imagine reading it in any number of fine magazines or journals,” said Mr. Taylor

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00pm

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409. Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets Blog http://http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While in Ireland Karyna will also be reading:

Monday, May 22nd 2006 - Reading with Eileen Casey 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Ballyroan Library, Orchardstown Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Tel: +353 1 4941900
Wednesday, May 24th 2006 - Reading with Eileen Casey at County Library, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Tel: +353 4620073

Poem Of The Week 'Song Of Limerick Town' by Desmond O Grady

Desmond O Grady with Barney Sheehan

A Song Of Limerick Town
for Anette Reeves

We, in the fishblue hours
Of clockstrike early morning;
Sleep in the househuddled doors
Of our eyes, love in our yawning;

Stole through the sailorless streets
Of the still, caught-cuddling town,
Where seabedded fishing fleet sleeps
Fast in the arms of ‘Down

Anchors, all hands ashore.’
And now, here with the bulk
Of our talk from the hours before,
Here with the sulking hulks

Of ships, when no bells fore
Or aft will bang in the ears
Of morning and the town clock
Hoarsely churns its gears.

We are made one. I
With the man of the Limerick town
And you with the Shannon stream;
Made one till all doing is done.

Desmond O'Grady was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1935. He left during the 1950s to teach and write in Paris, Rome and America where he took his doctorate at Harvard while a Teaching Fellow there. He has also taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Alexandria, Egypt. During the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, while teaching in Rome, he was a founder member of the European Community of Writers, European editor of The Transatlantic Review, and organised the Spoleto International Poetry Festival. Now he lives in Kinsale, Co. Cork. His publications number seventeen collections of poetry, including The Road Taken: Poems 1956 – 1996 and The Wandering Celt, ten collections of translated poetry, among them Trawling Tradition: Translations 1954 – 1994 and Selected Poems of C. P. Cafavy, and prose memoirs of his literary acquaintances and friends. He is a member of Ireland’s Aosdána. He will read at the Feile na Bealtaine festival in Dingle on Sat. 13th May at 11.00am.

Podcast Of Last Weeks Show 3rd May 2006

To listen back to an edited Podcast of last weeks White House Poetry Revival - 3rd May 2006 - with special guest poet John Menaghan from the United States, click the link below:


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Diary Dates: May 7th to May 13th 2006

EVENT:
Wednesday 10th May @ 6pm Alan Titley will launch Na Buachailli Dana a new critical reading by Padraig de Paor of the work of Cathal O' Searcaigh and Gabriel RosenstockForas na Gaeilge, 7 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Wednesday 10th may @9.00pm the White House Poetry Revival in Limerick presents a reading plus open mic session. This weeks guest is Karyna Mc Glynn.
KARYNA McGLYNN is originally from Austin, Texas. Her poems have appeared in Connecticut Review, Rosebud, The Pedestal Magazine, Cimarron Review, Midwest Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Good Foot, Wisconsin Review, Blackbird and Verse. A three-time Pushcart nominee and graduate of the creative writing program at Seattle University, she was recently nominated for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Karyna is a former member and coach of five National Poetry Slam teams from Austin and Seattle. She has been awarded the Cornwell Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Michigan where she is currently pursuing her MFA.
Monday, May 22nd 2006 - Reading with Eileen Casey 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Ballyroan Library, Orchardstown Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Tel: +353 1 4941900
Wednesday, May 24th 2006 - Reading with Eileen Casey at County Library, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Tel: +353 4620073
Thursday 11th May and Thursday 18th May 7.30-9pmTwo readings by Galway Arts Centre Workshop participantsReadings by members of Galway Arts Centre's Creative Writing Classes Galway Arts Centre, Nuns Island StudioAll Welcome - For details contact T: 091 565886
Saturday 13th May @ 11.00am. Feile na Bealtaine, Dingle. John Liddy, Limerick poet living in Madrid and Desmond O’Grady, member of Aos Dána will read from On My Way (Dedalus).Russian poet Alexy Ivanov.Short film on life of Desmond O’Grady by poet Adam Wyeth.Ceol/Music: Frankie Mulcahy & Mike Galvin. Dick Mack’s, Green St., An Daingean/Dingle.