The Good Neighbor Series

We get what fall is all about: pumpkins, puppies, pie and...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:41:00 -0400

We get what fall is all about: pumpkins, puppies, pie and pick-your-own apples (supposedly, I am no sold on it), but THIS is what fall is all about. A gallery full of clad poets and friends and good cheer. Don’t miss it, please.

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"Lana Turner has Collapsed. Oh Lana Turner we love you get up."

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:43:30 -0400

We’re baaaaack. October 20th. Same spot, same time, and better hair than ever before. Stay ultra tuned.

NH poets alas! Zach Green’s last night being the host with...

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:11:11 -0400

NH poets alas! Zach Green’s last night being the host with less than the most, but a little more than some!

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Happening in our gallery this Saturday, the inimitable Jerry...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:14:00 -0400

Happening in our gallery this Saturday, the inimitable Jerry Levy performs Wallace Shawn’s, “The Fever,” Directed by Thomas Griffin.

The Fever is present by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

TICKETS: $12/$10 seniors & students w/ID. To purchase, please call: 603.924.7676 or stop by Sharon Arts downtown, 20-40 Depot Sq.

Show time is 7:30, doors at 7.

THE FEVER
While traveling in a poor country, a sensitive, well educated, arts loving and consumption-driven man or woman of any age discovers that his/her life-affirming existence is related to the often brutal suffering of others. In the bathroom of a hotel our “anti-hero” feverishly defends and relentlessly attacks his own way of life. Inner voices and imagined characters fuel his fever as he narrates and often attempts to enact his story.

About Wallace Shawn
The popular Wallace (Wally) Shawn has shared his talents with audiences as an actor, comedian, voice artist, essayist and Obie-Winning Playwright. Most famous for his roles as the devious Vizzini in “The Princes Bride” and more recently as the voice of Rex the dinosaur in “The Toy Story,” or in his role in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.” THE FEVER is part of a body of plays many of Wallace’s his fans are not aware of. Often politically charged, these works include:
“The Designated Mourner,” “ My Dinner with André,” (co-written with André Gregory;) “Our Late Night” and “Tea Time.”

Originally written to be performed for small audiences, Wallace Shawn first performed THE FEVER at the Public Theatre in 1990, then Second Stage Theatre, & La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, in New York City in 1991.

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Samples from the last few events. You may find the full photo...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:02:02 -0400

Samples from the last few events. You may find the full photo albums here:

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Things You Need To Know

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:47:59 -0400

A lot has been happening here at the Good Neighbor and Sharon Arts and I have been falling asleep at the wheel. My sincerest apologies.

The past two weekends we have had some great events: David Kontak and his musical machines and Donlin & Jenny Foreman’s next-level dance performance! It’s just out of control, but in control.

Anyway, April is among us and the Good Neighbor is going local. We have three high school students who will be doing a reading. I have been working with them for the past two weeks and with two more workshops they will be on their way. It has been too much fun! Join us April 21st to get in on that action!

For the first time ever, we will be presenting a theatrical production of Wallace Shawn’s Obie Award-winning play, “The Fever,” featuring actor Jerry Levy. April 28th! You can find more info about that here: http://www.facebook.com/events/343001552400735/?ref=ts, or on our Theater page.

More more more to come. Pictures will be up soon! Stay active, support your friends, support the arts, be a local champion.

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I think you might love this. Saturday, March 24th!

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:29:28 -0400

I think you might love this. Saturday, March 24th!

Wendy read here just a few weeks ago. Get her awesome chapbook...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:50:00 -0500

Wendy read here just a few weeks ago. Get her awesome chapbook from H_N_G_M_N books!

extrahumanarchitecture:

print copies of The Hero Poems are here! If you live in Western Mass, stop me on the street and I will give you one. or, you don’t have to do that at all!

(via Wednesday February 22nd: Experimental Musical Instruments -...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:06:00 -0500

Come join us Sat., April 7th to hear Dave Kontak's wild world of sound!

(via Wednesday February 22nd: Experimental Musical Instruments - New Hampshire Chronicle News Story - WMUR New Hampshire)

Heather Christle Makes the Believer Short List!

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:51:00 -0500

Heather Christle Makes the Believer Short List!:

http://believermag.com/issues/201203/?read=believer_

The Believer Poetry Award

Editors’ Shortlist

The winner will be announced in the next issue.

This year heralds the second annual Believer Poetry Award. As with the Book Award, each year the editors of the Believer select five poetry collections from the past year that they thought were the finest and most deserving of greater recognition. The finalists for the 2011 award appear below. The winner, along with responses from last month’s reader write-in survey, will appear in the May 2012 issue.

The Trees The Trees

by Heather Christle (Octopus Books)

The Trees The Trees is Heather Christle’s follow-up volume to her popular debut, The Difficult Farm. She presents sixty prose poems—center-justified, and without punctuation—written with minimalist diction and bare-bones sentence structure. Flirtatiously surreal chronicles of the slippage and blur of personal identity, Christle’s poems are constructed from apparently simple—often apparently disconnected—sentiments and observations to create miniature, vibrating kaleidoscopes of language. This is post-disillusionment poetry (unsettling references to the natural world are everywhere)—the poems occurring as flashing afterimages searching for their source.

Ted Powers and Mark Leidner (Wendy Xu not pictured here)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:49:38 -0500

extrahumanarchitecture:

of two people I had a lot of fun reading with tonight.

Gwarlingo reppin' the Good Neighbor

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:35 -0500

Gwarlingo reppin' the Good Neighbor

WENDY XU: things but mostly upcoming readings

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:59:30 -0500

WENDY XU: things but mostly upcoming readings:

extrahumanarchitecture:

AWP Chicago is going to happen next week, so here are some things about that:

On Thursday, March 1, from from 5-8 pm in the Harold Washington Library Authors Room (2 blocks from conference site) I’ll be reading for THIS. It is free, and it will also be the first place you can come and get a…

Good Neighbor Series: Live Music MARCH 3rd - SAYON CAMARA West...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:00:20 -0500

Good Neighbor Series: Live Music

MARCH 3rd - SAYON CAMARA West African Drumming

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Traci Brimhall on her reading and "The Living Room Revolution"

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:35:02 -0500

Traci Brimhall on her reading and "The Living Room Revolution":

Our friends in Chicago, making everyone love them!

thedollhousereads:

“Poetry should reach as many people as possible in as many ways as is possible—including on couches with a good beer in hand, and perhaps a cat or two. Whatever creates space for fellowship and language.”

Read more here.

extrahumanarchitecture: video trailer by Nick Sturm for WHAT A...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:28 -0500

extrahumanarchitecture:

video trailer by Nick Sturm for WHAT A TREMENDOUS TIME WE’RE HAVING! forthcoming February 2012, at AWP Chicago.

Yeah, it’s happening.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:03:02 -0500

Yeah, it’s happening.

The Latest From the Greatest

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:48 -0500

Wendy’s most recent publication:

http://interrupture.com/archives/feb_2012/wendy_xu/

Catch Ted’s latest here:

http://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-two/ted-powers/

Sprinkle some Mark on that:

http://www.thermosmag.com/poetry/leidner.html

Mark Leidner, Ted Powers, and Wendy Xu will be reading in the...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:18:00 -0500

Mark Leidner

Ted Powers

Wendy Xu

Mark Leidner, Ted Powers, and Wendy Xu will be reading in the gallery Feb. 25th. 7-9:30pm,

30 Grove St., Peterborough, N.H.

$6 suggested donation.

Wine, cheese, and baked goods!

From our first poetry reading. Heather Christle and Christopher...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:00 -0500

From our first poetry reading. Heather Christle and Christopher DeWeese swung into town to share work from their new books, What is Amazing (Octopus Books, 2012) and The Black Forest (Octopus Books, 2012).