The Writers Group, one of the sponsors of the recent Valley International Poetry Festival meets at 7:00 this evening at the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, 225 East Stenger Street in San Benito.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in writing. Participants have ten minutes each to read whatever they choose. Some regularly bring guitars and perform original music and once or twice flamenco dancers have taken a turn.
The Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center is named for the renowned Mexican accordion player known as the Father of Conjunto — a popular form of Tex-Mex music. The San Benito center promotes Latino heritage through art, music, theater, film, dance and literary programs. (956) 361-0110.
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1 Flamenco Dancing Guitar and Cajon Spanish Music » Blog Archive » Writers Group Meets at the Narciso // May 6, 2008 at 9:16 am
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2 GeneNovo // May 8, 2008 at 1:17 pm
…keep finding very solid words in site, very solid!
I said I’d try to write once a week, not an assignment, just a decent goal …
And the May Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers Forum was mind-altering, and June’s, start of Year Eight! should be the same, June 3rd, 7 p.m.
What a job Daniel Garcia and Brenda Nettles Riojas did with the Valley International Poetry Festival, which is already set for another year in late April 2009. They read Tuesday the the NMCACWF - sharp, per usual ….
… and as I sat with coffee, blueberry muffin, milk and cookie outdoors at the moody (my mood!) German Chocolate Shop in San Pedro, watching chickens cross back and forth the side road, I thought - though not before two trucks pulled in, one a Border Patrolman, the other two men from a truck with Arizona plates (figured”Wall” surveyors ) … all just doing their job ….
Sales Girls and Sales Women
Push and wind, up go the shutters,
Noisly, in Mexcian shops, with morning sun building.
Young women, maybe some junior high, and
Then then pour water on the sidewalks,
Then, sweep it away … wetting gutters ….
Hit a button and up go the shutters in malls.
The women, maybe some high school, in suits,
Ready to work the store, no brooms for them,
No straining with aluminum, no blouses and jeans,
No wishes for Friday’s romance ….
Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky, Brownsville
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