Sunday, June 7, 2015

JUNE 4, 2015



MEMBERS PRESENT:
Sharon Palmeri, Beverly Stanislawski, Katherine Flotz, Sharon Buckman, Sharon Dorelli, George Miga, Kay Depel, Paul Mulligan, Lisa Groszek, Mary Lu Cowley, Judy Whitcomb, Adam Sedia



OLD BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the May 21, 2015 minutes was first given by MARY LU COWLEY and seconded by KATHERINE FLOTZ.



LITERARY NEWS:

ADAM SEDIA stated that he recently had his short story, “The Red Sky,” published in the Liberty Island, a literary magazine (literaryislandmag.com). 

LISA GROSZEK brought two brochures for the members to read.  The first pertained to the Indiana Writers’ Consortium open house on Saturday, June 13th from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. , featuring local authors who will be selling and signing their books with literary readings every half hour.  The address for the open house will be at the Hammond Innovation Center, 5209 Hohman Ave., Hammond.  This will be in conjunction with the Downtown Hammond Art Walk, a conglomerate of various art centers, the majority of which are located on Hohman Ave. with various times with the first beginning at 9:00 A.M. extending to 5:30 P.M., also on June 13th.

READINGS:

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read her memorable 16 line, four stanza poem, “Time Thief.”  The poem reflected her feelings following the death of her husband due to cancer and appropriately including the line, “We plan to jail the thief of time someday.”

PAUL MULLIGAN read two pages of his newest novel for which there is no title yet.  The novel begins with a man accidently running into his lost love at a clothing store.  The woman, Navvy, had been known to him since their original abandonment at an orphanage and adoption by well-meaning scientists, later being forced to change their names.

MARY LU COWLEY read four pages of her novel-in –progress, Snowmen.  The novel begins with head coach, Jake Rawlings, getting ready to leave for home when his secretary informs him that his lead player, quarterback Kyle Tayler, had been involved in an accident.  Unable to believe that anything serious could happen to such an able athlete, he heads toward the field.

TOM SPENCER, having written his beautiful 24 stanza acrostic terza rima poem, from his hospital bed, had it read for the members by Adam Sedia.  The poem, titled  Terza Rima,” which included each letter, in alphabetical order, in the last word of the second line of each stanza, and concluded with, “poet’s use the alphabet from a to z, the creation of the theme is up to you, in placement of the ever present zeugma.”

LISA GROSZEK read her six stanza cree poem entitled, “One With Words.”  This beautiful poem begins with a baby’s coos, turning into words she would later speak and later giving little doubt she would “fly among clouds, with only her words as her wings.”

ADAM SEDIA brought his seven stanza poem entitled, “The Diamond.”  This fantastic poem, written for his fiancée when he asked for her hand in marriage, told of the beginning of a diamond and the amount of care needed to be “befitting my beloved’s hand.”

JUDITH WHITCOMB read four pages of her children’s chapter book, Emma and Guenever.  In this part of her novel, Chapter 2, “Gathering,” told of young Emma taking her friend, Princess Guenever, out to a chicken coop to teach her the proper way to collect eggs.  The collection of eggs went awry when Emma picked up a board, slamming it down to scare the chickens off their nest and accidently hitting the Princess in the nose.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:55 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:

SHARON BUCKMAN





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