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

Mar
21
Thu
The Play That Goes Wrong @ Waldron Auditorium
Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – Apr 7 @ 7:30 pm

Constellation Stage & Screen

presents

The Play That Goes Wrong

“The funniest play Broadway has ever seen” is coming to Bloomington! Constellation Stage & Screen presents The Play That Goes Wrong, on stage March 21-April 7 at the Waldron Auditorium.
Monty Python meets Noises Off in this slapstick farce! Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s comic gold that is sure to bring down the house.
For a detailed performance schedule, please visit our website. Learn more and find tickets at https://seeconstellation.org/mainstage/play-that-goes-wrong/
Apr
7
Sun
First Sunday Prose April 7th 2024 – featuring Local Students and Teachers @ Juniper Art Gallery
Apr 7 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

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!!

 

Apr
11
Thu
Doris Jean Lynch and Nancy Chen Long at Brown County Public Library @ Brown County Public Library
Apr 11 @ 5:30 pm

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 @ Backspace Gallery, inside Bonne Fête on the square
Apr 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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.

Apr
19
Fri
Stormwash: Climate Awareness Program (Spoken Word, Dance & Music) @ The Arts Alliance Center Flex Space in College Mall (next to Foot Locker)
Apr 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

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)

Stormwash is an inter-arts program presented by the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington, Artists for Climate Awareness, the Writers Guild at Bloomington, Windfall Dancers, Inc., and Julian Douglas.

 

Ray Zdonek will independently publish Stormwash: Environmental Poems (ed. Hiromi Yoshida). Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the Arts Alliance Center store.

 

Stormwash poems, such as Thomas Tokarski’s “Ashes,” will be performed as spoken word with dance accompaniment by KaraLynn Hayes and Kay Olges; Ray Zdonek’s “Over the Ageless” by Joanne Shank; and Tony Brewer’s “Pretty Sneaky Sis,” April Ridge’s “Mother Nature Flexes,” and Peter Kaczmarczyk’s “Rebellion” by Erin Strole.

 

Percussionist Julian Douglas will provide musical accompaniment for these spoken word + dance performances.

 

In Stormwash, 40 poets address the climate crisis and its various effects. From the editor’s Foreword:

“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…

Apr
20
Sat
Writers Guild at Bloomington Business Meeting @ Monroe County Public Library - Downtown Room 2A
Apr 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

 

Writers Guild at Bloomington

Business Meeting

April 20, 2024

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Monroe County Public Library – Downtown

Meeting Room 2A

Email to attend virtually at

contact@writersguildbloomington.com

Apr
28
Sun
Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic – Patsy Rahn and Rosaleen Crowley @ Morgenstern's Bookstore & Café
Apr 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic

April 28th, 2024

7 – 8:30 p.m.

Morgenstern Books at 849 S Auto Mall Rd

The Writers Guild @ Bloomington presents Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic, featuring Patsy Rahn and Rosaleen Crowley.

PATSY RAHN’s poetry and prose have been published in various journals and anthologies. Her nonfiction has been published in the United States and in Britain. Her first book of poetry, The Grainy Wet Soul, was independently published in 2018. In 2021 she received the People’s Choice Award from the 5th Open Eurasion Literary Festival of Festivals “LIFT”. She continues to give public readings and has read for festivals, literary events, and with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.
Author website: www.patsyrahn.com

ROSALEEN CROWLEY is a poet, artist and educator. She is a graduate of University College Cork, Ireland. Currently she is Co-founder/President, Carmel Creative Writers, Inc and past president/interest group leader of the Writing Group, International Women Indiana. She is the author of six poetry books, her most recent being Be Prepared To Be Luminous, a collection of poems written in Indiana. The book has four sections: Surroundings, People, Gratitude, and Contemplation. Rosaleen is enrolled as a student in the MFA Creative Writing-Poetry program at Butler University.
Amazon author page:
Emerging poets who need a supportive audience, and established poets, who want to promote published works: Sign up for open mic! Your words are precious.

The Writers Guild @ Bloomington is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusivity.

Nov
2
Sat
Local Author Book Fair @ Monroe County History Center
Nov 2 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

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