http://www.mileswriter.com Thoughts, observations and conversations on things literary and not so Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:04:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some photos from Spongepad's Flickr Photostream got my attention this morning, and sent me out into the cool March Cleveland day to check out the space around the old Cold Storage building on the edge of  Tremont. Demolition of some parts of the building began recently, while the main part technically ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/03/and-now-a-few-photos/ This Saturday night, February 20th, I'll be co-reading with Azalea Tidwell and movin' to the block-rockin' beats of Blackwell at Blue Arrow Records in the Collinwood neighborhood, a few doors down from the Beachland Ballroom. Come early. Stay late. Surprises abound. http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/02/the-blue-arrow-reading/ This Wednesday February 10th at Arts Collinwood. A benefit to help the people of Haiti: Arts Collinwood + The Haiti Emergency Village Project in conjunction w/ NEONAC + Cleveland Tapes Join us Wednesday February 10 from 6-10pm at Arts Collinwood for the Art for Haiti Benefit, including a live art auction from top local ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/02/art-for-haiti-live-auctionbenefit-at-arts-collinwood/ for a lot of things. Since I last posted on the blog. Since I've kept to my new year's resolution. Since I've dared to dream. And since I've seen some old friends. I promised myself I'd visit B Spot again, and I did yesterday to have lunch with a really good ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/been-a-long-time/ Enduring Questions Lecture Series Enduring Questions Lecture and Martin Luther King Jr.,  Keynote presentation Friday, January 22, 8:00 p.m, Lou Higgins Center 136 E. Bagley Rd. Dr. Cornel West Cornell West, professor of religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University, is one of the most provocative and insightful public intellectuals of our time. As author, ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/dr-cornel-west-at-b-w/ http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/fog/ A lot of people make New Year’s resolutions that somehow involve food. Mostly this involves eating far less of it, particularly stuff like donuts, potato chips, or just about anything that can be had at a vending machine. This year, I, too, made a resolution of sorts that has to do ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/a-new-years-resolution/ Apparently, there's something about January. For the 2nd year in a row, I've been asked to feature read in this frozen lead-off month, to get the ball rolling on the 2010 literary year here in town. Or so I tell myself. This Wednesday January 13th, I'll be reading at Mac's Backs ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/first-poetry-reading-of-2010/ For the next few days, my family and I will be celebrating Christmas. Yes, Christmas, in accordance with the old Julian calendar. (And who knew that there's an entry for Bozic (the Serbian word for Christmas) on the Urban Dictionary page.) At least it's a white Christmas this year... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/christmas-break/ I was in a sports coma yesterday, with the genius NHL Winter Classic game in Boston and the Buckeye's Rose Bowl win, and so too preoccupied to post something on the first day of 2010. So now that the sports frenzy has subsided, I want to take a moment and ... http://www.mileswriter.com/2010/01/happy-day-after-the-new-year/