Inspiring Poets

San Antonio area poets and lovers of poetry: Come to an evening of Inspiring Poets on Friday, February 15 from 7-9 pm. Your spoken word helps to heal, to inspire, to speak out, to guide and to entertain. Many are hungry to hear the words from your heart. Come out and enjoy the poetry from the creative minds and voices of our time. Let’s serenade each other…

Also, during open mic night, enjoy wine tasting and our first ever pairing with sushi!

WineStyles is now featured in San Antonio’s Poet Magazine. Stop by for the latest edition!
16535 Huebner, STE 112
San Antonio, TX 78249
(210) 479-5955

Posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 05:13 PM

Members of the Austin Poetry Society

Forwarded Message

Members of the Austin Poetry Society,

I just returned from the post office where I dispatched paper copies of
the APS
Newsletter for December to most of you (all of you who have not
requested
e-mail delivery). If you want to see it before you get the paper copy,
Mimi
Boral has already posted it online:

http://www.austinpoetrysociety.org/PDF_files/December2007Newsletter.pdf

The Newsletter announces our upcoming open mic meeting, this Saturday,
December
15, at 1:15 in the Howson Branch Library, 2500 Exposition Boulevard in
Austin.
We’ll also be deciding in this meeting whether to go forward on the
Executive
Committee proposal to become a non-profit organization.

Keep writing,

Rob

Second Saturdays, 4:30-6:30 p.m. On January 12th, Mitchie’s Gallery, a
Black
and African art store, has its monthly poetry reading. Near Carrabba’s
in the
Lincoln Village shopping center, 6406 N. IH 35, Suite #2800, Austin
Texas,
78752. Website: http://www.mitchie.com. For more information, contact Reggie
Goodwin,
. From personal experience, I strongly recommend
Mitchie’s
for holiday gifts and for framing of pictures. It’s run by a STRONG
woman.

Take a break and watch a five-minute video:
http://warongreed.org/?utm_source=rgemail—then write a poem about
it.

If you would rather feed the hungry, try http://freerice.com/index.php.
Each
time you choose the right definition for a word, an advertiser will
donate rice
to the U.N. World Food Program.

Posted on Dec 12, 2007 - 11:13 AM

Austin Teen Program

Austin_Teen_Program.pdf

Posted on Nov 25, 2007 - 06:04 PM

Carrots, Eggs, & Coffee

This was sent to me today and I was thinking of my life in the past year. All the
challenges and adversity that engulfed me, and just how easy it would have
been to give up. The Poet Magazine came my way and how blessed I am
to read and enjoy all the wonderful poems and get lost in works of art.
Thanks to all the wonderful people.

- Salome Salter
Publisher of The Poet

A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee...

You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.

A young woman went to her mother and told her
about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how
she was going to make it and wanted to give up She was tired of fighting
and struggling. Itseemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled
three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon, the pots came to
boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and
in the last she boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the
burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl.
She pulled the eggs out and placed them
in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed
it in a bowl.

Turning to her daughter, she asked, ‘Tell me what you see.’

‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,‘ she replied.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to
feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft.
The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it.
After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the
coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, ‘What does it mean, mother?’

Her mother explained that each of these objects
had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being
subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg
had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid
interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became
hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they
were in the boiling water , they had changed the water.
‘Which are you?’ she asked her daughter. ‘When
adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg
or a coffee bean?

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that
seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and
lose my strength.

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart,
but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death,
a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I
become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the
inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually
changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain.
When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like
the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the
situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their
greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle
adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human
and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the
best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along
their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten
past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past
failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling.

Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who
is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

May we all be COFFEE!!!!!!!!!

Posted on Oct 26, 2007 - 08:26 AM

Poetry Book Drive for Youth Centers in San Antonio

Poet magazine is having a poetry book drive to help our poets
that teach in youth centers accross San Antonio. If you have books other than
poetry, we will be delighted to take it.
Thank you.
Salome Salter
Publisher of The Poet

The poets volunteer their time in order to make a
difference in the lives of our children.

Special Thanks to these businesses.

Drop Off Locations:
North Central
WineStyles
16535 Huebner Rd. Suite 112
210-479-5955

Alamo Height Area
AnArte Gallery
5800 Broadway suite 202
210-826-5674

Central Aea
VIVA Bookstores
8407 Broadway
210-826-1143

South of Downtown
Gallery 1906
1916 S. Flores
210-227-5718

North Central
Clay Casa
502 Embassy Oaks Suite 107
210-402-6656

By Helotes/1604
JPEGS
11881 Bandera Rd. Suite 102
210-695-6500

Posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 01:55 PM

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