Peter LoPilato was the alpha/omega lo these many decades of The Ryder Magazine and Film Series.
Peter was a dear friend of many Guild members and a stalwart print publisher of many of us, including both annual fiction and poetry issues, edited by Joan Hawkins and Tony Brewer, respectively. We also regularly collaborated with Peter on many, many screenings of “literary adjacent films.”
Peter also participated in The Burroughs Century and Wounded Galaxies 1968, two major multi-media conferences and symposia. He has always been a good friend and made many kind contributions to the Guild. He was just down for anything and had a generous capacity for helping artists as well as a tremendous knowledge of culture and Bloomington lore. Thanks, Peter!
In lieu of flowers, Peter’s family is asking that donations be made to Friends of the Monroe County Public Library or the Monroe County Animal Shelter.
Events Calendar
Constellation Stage & Screen
presents
The Play That Goes Wrong
Writers Guild at Bloomington
Presents
First Sunday Prose Series
Featuring
Local Students and Teachers
Sunday, April 7, 2024
2-3:30pm
The Juniper Gallery
615 W. Kirkwood
This month the Writers Guild is honoring students and teachers. Students from Bloomington High School North will read, as well as teachers from Bloomington North, Harmony, VITAL, and a penitentiary.
Please come early, as April 7 is the day before the Solar Eclipse. Bloomington is expecting 300,000 people, and traffic will be heavy.
Sign Up for Open Mic!
The Juniper Gallery has a lovely cafe! Please no outside food or drink.
A $5 donation to The Juniper Gallery is suggested.
Please, support the venue, grab a drink, and bring a friend!
First 20 people in the door get FREE solar eclipse glasses!!
Doris Jean Lynch and Nancy Chen Long Reading!
Celebrate Poetry Month
at
Brown County Public Library
Thursday, April 11, 2024 5:30 PM
205 Locust Lane, Nashville, IN
Second Thursday Spoken Word and Open Mic
The Ryder’s Fiction Issue Showcase
Presented by the Writers Guild
Dedicated to Peter LoPilato, Ryder Founder and Director
Featured readers:
James Dorr, Laura Lasuertmer, Paula Sunderman
Musical Guest:
Brendan Keller
Thursday, DATE April 11, 2024
6:00-8:30 P.M.
BackSpace (in Bonne Fête) 112 W 6th st.
Come early to sign up for Open Mic!
James Dorr specializes in dark fantasy/horror, with forays into mystery and science fiction. His The Tears of Isis was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® nominee for Fiction Collection, with his most recent book, Avoid Seeing a Mouse and Other Tales of the Real and Surreal, a January 2024 release from Alien Buddha Press. Dorr has been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician. He currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht. For more information, Dorr invites readers to visit his blog at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com
Laura Lasuertmer is a writer, mother, gardener, and a co-founder of Common Home Farm, an interfaith community in Bloomington, Indiana. Her writing has appeared in About Place Journal, The Limestone Post, The Ryder Magazine, and the New York Catholic Worker newspaper. She works for Women Writing for (a) Change, where she facilitates creative writing classes for a variety of groups in Bloomington, including elementary students and men incarcerated in the Monroe County jail. Her favorite place to write is in front of the window looking out over the garden. You can find her writing at https://commonhomefarm.org.
Paula W. Sunderman was raised in south Texas seven miles from the border of México. She considers México her second home as she has traveled throughout the state from Monterrey to Oaxaca, including one memorable vacation touring historical sites in Yucatán. A retired Associate Professor Emerita in English and linguistics from Mississippi State University, she returned to Bloomington where she had earned her B.A. from IU. She is a docent at the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art and writes whenever she can.
Brendan Keller-Tuberg is a forward-thinking bassist, composer and educator from Canberra, Australia. Armed with comprehensive experience in contemporary music-making of all forms, Brendan writes and performs music that blurs the lines between popular and art music, combining and recontextualising innumerable genre aesthetics to create a hybridist, unclassifiable whole.
Stormwash: Climate Awareness Program
April 19, 2024
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Art Alliance Center Flex Space
2894 E. 3rd St. in College Mall (next to Foot Locker)
“Invariably, these poems suggest an uncanny attunement with nature: Something in the air, a shift in carbon molecules foreshadowing an ominous onslaught, an accumulating avalanche, some kind of storm—the stink of destruction. In either case, these poems enable us to hope that the survival of future generations is not so tenuous after all.”
–Hiromi Yoshida
Stormwash poets include: K Ann Sea, Jonathan S Baker, Zilia Balkansky-Sellés, Jeffrey Bean, Walter Biskupski, Josh A. Brewer, Michael Brockley, Mary Brown, James Dorr, Dina Elenbogen, Marjie Gates Giffin, Jenny Anderson Kalahar, David Keppel, Joseph Kerschbaum, David Alec Knight, Nate Logan, Antonia Matthew, Snow Mathews, Lylanne Musselman, Linda Neal Reising, Jessica Reed, April Ridge, Peggy Squires, Nick ‘Frick’ Wentzel
Performances will be staged in a gallery space where the exhibition “Depictions: Earth, Life, and Our Shared Responsibility,” presented by Artists for Climate Change, will be viewable 4/3 – 4/28.
Artists for Climate Awareness
https://artistsforclimateawareness.org/events/
Writers Guild at Bloomington
https://writersguildbloomington.com/
Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington (directory)
https://www.bloomingtonarts.org/directory
Windfall Dancers, Inc.
https://windfalldancers.org/
Julian Douglas
https://juliandouglas.bandcamp.com/
Ray Zdonek
https://www.amazon.com/…/Ray-Zdonek/author/B00F7NLQH6…