Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 67
March 9, 2012
My Festival of Faith & Writing Festival Circle: Holy Grounds — The Role of Place in Your Spiritual and Literary Life
As I mentioned a while back, I'll be leading a Festival Circle this year at the Festival of Faith & Writing held at Calvin College. It's a tremendous honor to have been selected to facilitate a discussion group at this prestigious writing conference, where so many authors I admire will be speaking. In case you're [...]
March 8, 2012
Behind the Curtain: A Magazine Roundtable
Everyone complains about the cost of living in New York City, but I've never lived in any other town or city that offered such amazing free events. It was a Leap Day miracle when McNally Jackson's Bookstore held a free literary event featuring the esteemed literary editors of top magazines. Behind the Curtain: A Magazine [...]
March 7, 2012
Remembering Philips Lamantia
Beat poet Philip Lamantia passed away on this day 2005. He read at the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco in which Allen Ginsberg debuted Howl. Instead of reading his own poetry, though, Lamantia read poems by his friend John Hoffman, who had recently passed away. His own poems were erotic, surrealist, Catholic. You [...]
March 2, 2012
I Love Menominee: Student Speaks Endangered Language
A middle school student was reprimanded recently for saying "I love you" in her the Menominee language while at school. Miranda Washinawatok was benched from her basketball game because her teacher couldn't understand what she was saying. The teacher said the Wisconsin student could not speak in the endangered Native American language because it kept [...]
March 1, 2012
Post-Valentine's Day Book Club: Sexy Travel, Wedding Magazines, and Mysterious Photographs
It was the day after Valentine's Day. The night before, the subway became a roving flower shop as roses crammed between eager bodies heading toward their better half. By morning, last night's couples sat side-by-side, staring blankly out the subway car windows. The streets were a lot less crowded that evening. No one was carrying [...]
February 28, 2012
Dreaming of Coney Island
Winter doldrums, and I'm dreaming of Coney Island. I took these pictures over the summer, when I went to lay in the sand and read a book. What are you dreaming of? Here's a snippet from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind." Filed under: Beat Generation, Life Tagged: Coney Island, dreams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
February 27, 2012
Writer on Pinterest
I'm involved in social media at the publishing house in which I work, and we're obsessed right now with Pinterest. Have you heard of it? It's basically a virtual corkboard to "pin" ideas to, an inspiration board. Galleycat has a great (and ever-evolving) write up on it called Pinterest Tips for Writers. I decided to [...]
