OCTOBER 17, 2012

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Kathy Flotz, Sharon Buckman, Beverly Stanislawski, Ron Trigg, Jane Burns, Michelle Vargas, Julie Perkins, Kelly Chase, Laurie Chase, Sandra Nantais, Jackie Huppenthal, Sharon Palmeri

 OLD BUSINESS:

Vote of approval for the last meeting was first given by SHARON BUCKMAN and seconded by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI.

NEW BUSINESS:

SHARON PALMERI told the members that a slide show of past meetings had been added to our blog; she encouraged the members to check it out when they were reviewing the minutes.

 LITERARY NEWS:

JANE BURNS brought a brochure entitled “Poetry in the Park,” which pertained to the Sat., Oct. 20^th poetry reading at the Evergreen Park in Lowell.  The general public is invited to attend, 10 A.M.  The meeting is sponsored by the North West Indiana Poetry Society; if you write poetry you are invited to join in.

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI stated she had received four awards from the Mid South Poetry Festival of Tennessee, two awards for first place, two awards for third place and one Honorable Mention.

READINGS: 

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read her six stanza poem entitled “BEWARE, THE BUBBA YUGGA.”  Beverly explained that a Bubba Yugga is the polish version of a witch; along with her very scary poem she also brought a cardboard cutout of a scary Bubba Yugga.

RON TRIGG read four pages of his INTRODUCTION of AFRICAN MEMOIRS.  Ron describes how he became enticed with African landscape and culture, a passion that only seemed to grow as he got older, eventually taking him on a very “adventurous agenda.”

JANE BURNS continued with chapter 8: “That Crippling Fever,” from her novel, ATALANTA.  After enduring a very hot midsummer, Melissa announced that the sisterhood would be going on an excursion to the lowlands.  The maidens were forced to carry very heavy equipment through the southern foothills, adding to their already very hot tempers.  After finally coming to a swollen river, they ended their ritual with “gliding into the murky water” and enjoying the end of the day.

MICHELLE VARGAS read four pages of her novel, STRIVING AFTER WIND.  This part of her novel began with Adam, a security guard for the Tolleston Gun Club, finally getting to see and hold his son Landon.  After “Gammaw” hands her grandson to him she begins to berate Adam for not spending enough time at home.  The story ended with planting suspicion of what his wife was actually doing in Chicago.

LAURIE CHASE continued with her novel, BADRADIN.  As her novel continued, Major Zon, after having Dr. Togalaz confined to her room, continued with his investigation of the “disturbance” which had occurred in the ship’s lounge and involved Dr. Togalaz and one of Major  Kyntook’s guards, Mr. Uzok.  The story ended with Mr. Uzok being confined to his quarters for the rest of the trip.

SANDRA NANTAIS brought her one stanza acrostic poem, entitled “NIPPY,” written at the top of a beautiful picture of a winter scene taken at the Buckley Homestead in Lowell.

JACKIE HUPPENTHAL  read her four stanza poem entitled, “CLINGY TWISTER.”  Her poem, also written on the same page of a photograph revealing two different versions of a pumpkin vine, compared  the twisting of the vines to the “depths of my strained mind.”

JULIE PERKINS read the four page ending of her short story, “ONE NIGHT STAND.”  Her story ended with Rachel, a pregnant woman who had been forced to stay at a hotel with Nevaeh, a prostitute ,and deciding to leave with the husband who had abandoned her; she had been unsuccessful in trying to persuade Nevaeh to come with her and leave her life of prostitution.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:

SHARON BUCKMAN