VENT’s DAY….Farmer’s Market Update, Poets on Fire, and FREE COFFEE (potentially)

Wednesday is Vent’s Day here at Ageless-Northshore. It’s our day to digitally let off steam. To catch up and or rave out.

Because it’s Vent’s Day, we want to hear from YOU!!!!

Next Wednesday or Vent’s Day, we’ll award a gift card to one of our readers… worth at least one Venti beverage.

Because we don’t have our sponsorship deals in place, the gift card could come from anywhere coffee is served.

Today, it’s more about sharing.

Firstly, thanks to our readers for these updates on our Farmer’s Market listings:

Northbrook will have a new Farmer’s Market this summer, starting on June 24 at Our Lady of the Brook Church, on Dundee just East of Sanders on the North side of the street

and we neglected to included Lake Bluff in our listings, but a reader said,
“I love it for many reasons, including the vendor who sells the most beautiful gladiolas.”
gave us the info:
Lake Bluff Farmers’ Market runs on Fridays, June 12th through October 9th
7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
On the Village Green: accessible parking near the Central Business District at the Walnut Avenue Parking Lot, the Train Station Lot, and at Artesian Park.

Please see our complete list for more information.

We’re looking forward to enjoying a WARM DAY at the markets. Soon and in our time!!

"Poetry?" drawing by Peggy Shearn

On Saturday, we ate lunch with Beth Snyder and Stacey Foisy of The New Studio, a Creative Showcase for Artists and Writers 45 and over. We’ll be featuring them in a post in the next few weeks. Beth is a poet and has been invited to read at the AWP conference at Links Hall, 2007 Chicago Poetry Fest and other area events. We joked about the cut throat world of poetry and how the “The New Studio” wants to establish “a respectful and open-minded community for…artists and writers to showcase their work.”

And sure enough…today we read that a poet, Ruth Padel chosen 10 days ago to a prestigious position at Oxford had to resign. Her offense…sending emails to two reporters about the sexual impropriety of one on her rivals for the post.

The story in the New York Times ends with this paragraph…“Michael Deacon in The Telegraph cited Lord Byron (“womanizer”), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (“drug fiend”), John Keats (“smackhead”), Rudyard Kipling (“imperialist”), T. S. Eliot (“lines that could be construed as racist”) and Dylan Thomas (“drank like a drain, begged and stole from friends”), among others, and concluded, “Not one of them, were they alive today, could hope to land the Oxford post — they just don’t meet the exacting moral standards set by people who conduct smear campaigns.”

The novelist, Amy Shearn wrote a piece for the March/April 2009  Poets and Writers magazine entitled “Revenge of the Nerds: Where are the Badly Behaved Writers?” In the magazine (back issues still available) she suggests that “that successful writers aren’t drunks and/or eccentrics anymore, but tend to be really hard-working and on top of things.”

Have the moral standards of poets and writers gone up as society’s has gone down? Maybe it’s just another form of rebellion? Or eccentricity?

Anyone care to weigh in? It could be worth a coffee.