Sunday, May 11, 2008
An Evening Reveals Three Cool Enterprises
We went out on Saturday night for a bit of adventure. Pam has recently connected with a writer who had previously been a part of the Clarion workshops and was going to participate collaborative reading. We timed our dinner accordingly andwent for it. Hence the discovery of three cool enterprises:
- Diet Soap is cool old school literary zine with a sense of anarchy and adventure. They just came up with their second issue with a sex and gender theme and the work read that night mostly reflected the issue and that theme. I have a great appreciation for enterprises that involve practitioners with passion. A five dollar quarterly magazine with the same amount of honorarium for its contributors is about community and the work.
- Writer's Dojo is a writer's room project that was described by its originator Jeffery Selin as "a space that is equal parts office, coffee house, library, clubhouse and dojo for writers." I didn't get it at first. I thought it was someone's home converted in part into a semi-public space. It sure isn't for everyone who is trying to write, but I like the fact that there is such a strong community element at its core. I hope it continues to grow, and now that it is on my radar, will look for events and monitor its evolution. In St Johns, even--who would have thunkit?
- St Johns Booksellers is one of those cozy hand picked new mix with old neighborhood bookstores that we seem to find fewer of these days. It is the kind of place that immediately invites browsing and potential discovery. The social at the dojo moved through the streets a few blocks to the store, which was nice place for a reading. I now know where to go to find something to read before setting out my lawn chair for this year's Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, another most excellent enterprise
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