wonderful things all summer

[Elliot Harmon]

Hello, friends! It's your old pal Elliot. I hope you're having a great summer, or whatever season it is where you are. I have a number of tasty things to tell you about. And now, some tildes:

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IN THIS ISSUE:
(1) Fresh Voices opera festival
(2) Elliot reads in Berkeley
(3) NOO Journal
(4) Idiolexicon
(5) San Francisco Poetry Marathon
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(1) Fresh Voices opera festival

If you live in the Bay Area and are interested in music, you really ought to know about Goat Hall productions. Goat Hall has been putting on new and in-progress operas and choral pieces by local composers for several years, and has become an essential part of the independent opera scene. Offerings range from the traditional to things Berkeley Opera wouldn't touch with a pole.

This weekend and next weekend are Goat Hall's biggest event, the Fresh Voices Festival. This year, the FVF is focusing on operatic adaptations of well-known literary works. Texts include Updike, Garcia Lorca, Beckett, the Bible, and more.

There are two programs, one this weekend and one next weekend. Tickets are a $20 donation, or more if you want a table.

Friday 6/15, 8 PM. Saturday 6/16, 8 PM. Friday 6/22, 8 PM. Sunday 6/24, 7 PM.
Goat Hall, 400 Missouri St at 19th St, SF
http://www.goathall.org/
Flyer: http://graphics.idiolexicon.com/blog/FreshVoicesVII.doc


(2) Elliot reads in Berkeley

Mark your calendar, I'll be reading at Pegasus Books in Berkeley on July 7, along with Logan Ryan Smith and Mike Young.

I don't know Logan (http://theredgummibear.blogspot.com/ ), but his new book The Singers has been getting lots of love from all sorts of people.

Mike (http://www.noojournal.com/blog/) is poetry editor of NOO Journal, and a nice guy to a fault. I first met him when he came through SF on the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, and I was totally blown away by his poems. This will be a super rad reading.

Saturday 7/7, 7:30 PM.
Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/


(3) NOO Journal

Speaking of Mike, if you're not reading NOO Journal, you should be reading NOO Journal. But as extra incentive, rumor has it that the forthcoming issue 7 will feature a poem by Elliot Harmon. You never know.

http://www.noojournal.com/


(4) Idiolexicon

Clicking through all of the old poems on Idiolexicon is a great way to blow a Saturday morning. Most recently, we've got a strange, beautiful series by this guy Glenn Bach. I think you'll like it.

Some big things will be happening on Idiolexicon over the summer, including a first annual compilation CD, as well as some other surprises. Watch out.

http://www.idiolexicon.com/


(5) San Francisco Poetry Marathon

For the past three years, Donna de la Perriere and Joseph Lease have been hosting a fantastic series of readings every summer at The Lab in SF. With a fine-tuned combination of good poets you've heard of and good poets you haven't heard of, these are very special readings.

You've missed the first one, but there are three to go: 6/30, 7/28, and 8/25

http://www.thelab.org/




That's all I've got. Maybe I'll see some of you at these events. Be good.