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 “The Best Thing I Did”
by Ron Padgett
The best thing I did
for my mother
was to outlive her
for which I deserve
no credit
though it makes me glad
that she didn’t have
to see me die
Like most people
(I suppose)
I feel I should
have done more
for her
Like what?
I wasn’t such a bad son
I would have wanted
to have loved her as much
as she loved me
but I couldn’t
I had a life a son of my own
a wife and my youth that kept going on
maybe too long
And now I love her more
and more
so that perhaps
when I die
our love will be the same
though I seriously doubt
my heart can ever be
as big as hers
In memorium – Jean Gelfand 8/18/26-3/19/10
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 UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, March 13th, 7-10 PM:
You are Invited!
York Street Salon, 1085 York Street
San Francisco - Potluck, wine, schmooze
I’ll be showing 2 short poetry films and a discussion will follow.
Monday, March 13th: Interview with Sara Hart, Ph.D.
President, Hartcom - Speaker, Consultant, Group Facilitator, Coach Senior Faculty & Director of Programs, USA, Time To Think, Inc. Prime Spark Radio - Air time to be announced.
http://www.sobradionetwork.com/
April 13th, 7-8pm: “Get Published!” Sponsored by So. Philadelphia chapter of the Women’s National Book Association - Towne Center Books - Collegeville, PA - 7-8pm
June 17th: Join Joan for “Turn Your Dreams into Art” with Kelly Sullivan-Walden (AKA “Dr. Dream” and author of “I Had the Strangest Dream” and other books - Conference Workshop @the International Association for the Study of Dreams - Register here: http://www.iasdconferences.org/2017/
OPPORTUNTIES:
• Agape Editions, an imprint of Sundress Publications, announces the second annual Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award for a book of poetry. All authors are invited to submit qualifying, full-length manuscripts of poetry during our reading period: January 25-April 15, 2017. We are looking for manuscripts between 40-90 pages in length (single-spaced). Individual pieces or selections may have been previously published in anthologies, chapbooks, print journals, online journals, etc., but cannot have appeared in any full-length collection, including self-published collections. Translations and collaborative manuscripts are not eligible for this year’s award. More information here.
• Call for Readers: Do you have a recently published book? Have you had stories/essays/poems published in literary publications? We're looking for vibrant voices to read for 2017. If interested, email Inkwellreadings.sf@gmail.com.
• Books to Trump: WNBA sends a Book a Day to Trump: Today Publisher's Weekly published this... How our 100 year old org stays relevant! https://goo.gl/euo8wu
• Saturday March 25th - WNBA Pitchathon: www.wnba-sfchapter.org - Meet literary agents, publishers & Rene di Palma who will speak w Mary Mackey on screenwriting.
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IN THE COMMUNITY
• Check out and like Clive Matson’s page and workshops:
https://www.facebook.com/MatsonPoet/
• Kehillah Community Synagogue Reading Series: This Sunday!
Dina Elenbogen from Chicago next Sunday, March 5, from 4-6pm at Kehilla Community Synagogue, 1300 Grand Avenue in Piedmont, $10 suggested donation, no one turned away. She has written extensively about the resettlement of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Dina will read from her new manuscript, "Most of What is Beautiful."
• Excerpt from “In Hubble’s Shadow” by Carol Smallwood:
There’s a Tree by the Side of the Road
on the way to town that stands
leafless in spring.
Leaning as if tempered by wind,
its starkness giving chill in the
gold of dandelions.
In rain it turns darker,
branches more strained to sky.
On some days it encourages survival—
others, a cautionary tale.
Citation: Smallwood, Carol, In Hubble’s Shadow (Brunswick, Maine: Shanti Arts Publishing, 2017). Used with permission of the publisher: www.shantiarts.com
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PICTURE ALBUM
Canyon Sam @Festival of Women Authors
Frances Dinkelspiel at Festival of Women Authors
Happy Valentine's Day from Adam
Gavi Sonntag visits me at my new coworking space "Eco-Systems"
Looking for lights for our new kitchen!
Yes we will have Portuguese tiles in the new kitchen- when? Who knows!
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