JULY 21, 2016

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Sharon Palmeri, Beverly Stanislawski, Sharon Buckman, Bob Philpot, Sharon Dorelli, Caren Von See, Carl Cabanas, Adam Sedia, Amy Brailey, Neil Bedeker

GUESTS PRESENT:

Virginia Williams

OLD BUSINESS:

A vote of approval for the July 7, 2016 minutes was first given by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI and seconded by SHARON PALMERI.

NEW BUSINESS:

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI brought a brochure for each member pertaining to the Fall Rendezvous Poetry Contest.  The brochure, running through July 1st to September 1^st, gave all the rules and regulations necessary to win.

CAREN VON SEE and CARL CABANAS each decided that they would tell the members, each at various meetings,  as to what they considered the most interesting and helpful articles written in the “Writer’s Digest.”

LITERARY NEWS:

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI stated she had received Honorable Mention for the Ekphrastic poem she had entered in the Oklahoma poetry contest.  She also received 1^st place Honorable Mention for “A Night to Remember.”

READINGS:

ADAM SEDIA read his three-stanza poem entitled, “Blood Moon.”  The poem tries to decipher the three faces he manages to see while moon watching one evening.   After trying to decide which face, “a shriek of fear,” a “wrathful shout,” or a “scornful sneer,” he concludes that it might be all three.

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read her four stanza, somewhat sinister poem, entitled “Pregnant Nights.”  The poem began with “pregnant nights are evil filled,” and continued with various evils that seem to persist during these nights.

NEIL BEDEKER read four pages from his novel, An Early Retirement.  In this part, Chapter 9, he tells of the conversation between two FBI agents as they are driving through Atlanta.  The agents, new partners, are irritating each other as one agent keeps insisting on an answer as to how their suspect, Rick Grossman, managed to elude the other agent in Philadelphia.

AMY BRAILEY continued reading two pages from her novel, Jon Everett and the Hall of History.  Jon is irritated after arising one weekend morning and remembering he must continue with his homework at the library doing research on George Washington.  He becomes more irritated when he begins to argue with the librarian that they have the wrong portrait of him and he wants his $5 admission fee back.

SHARON DORELLI read her one page story, including a four stanza poem, entitled, “Anniversary of a Suicide.”  The story tells of the suicide of a 40 yr. old man on New Year ’s Day.  The poem asks the question, possibly from his mate, as to why he decided to do this.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:

SHARON BUCKMAN