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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS
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Currently on Display
Artwork by Phil Kurtz
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AUTHOR READINGS & TALKS
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Thursday, May 8, 7:30pm
Massud Alemi
will read and discuss his novel Interruptions
www.massudalemi.com
UPCOMING AUTHOR READINGS
Thursday, May 22, 7:30pm - Cynthia Polansky will read and discuss her nover Remote Control
www.cynthiapolansky.com
Do you have an interesting topic to talk about, or do you know anyone who would like to give a talk, please stop by the shop or call/email 301-949-9416 or kensington.books@verizon.net
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KENSINGTON ROW STORY SALON
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Storytelling is not just for kids!
An evening of stories for grown-ups.
Telling Stories
Wednesday, April 2
Featured Tellers:
Jane Dorfman and Elizabeth Wallace
Usually meets the First Wednesday of each month, at 7:30pm
FREE! No reservations needed!
Also Open mic storytelling!
(Open Mic limited to 5 minutes per person)
For more information visit argyleroad.blogspot.com
Featured in the Gazette!
"Stories are finding an audience in Kensington..."
Read Full story here
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KENSINGTON ROW BOOKSHOP
POETRY SERIES
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Usually meets the Last Wednesday of each month, at 7pm
(Jan-June and Sept.-Nov.)
Wednesday, April 30th, 7pm
Featuring:
Richard McCann has work in Atlantic, Esquire, O. Henry Prize Stories 2007; and has won Guggenheim, NEA, and Rockefeller fellowships. He co-edited Things Shaped in Passing, poetry written from the AIDS pandemic. His Ghost Letters poems won Capricorn and Beatrice Hawley Awards; his linked stories, Mother of Sorrows, won the Ploughshares Zacharis Award. www.RichardMcCann.net
Rosemary Winslow teaches at Catholic University of America, and taught at a homeless women’s shelter, co-editing their Heart of the Oasis poems. She has poems in Beltway, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, Southern Review; and in her Green Bodies, with cover by her husband, the artist John Winslow.
Upcoming Readings:
*Wednesday, May 28th, 7 pm, Jean Nordhaus and John Surowiecki will read their poetry.
*Wednesday, June 25th, 7 pm, Gretchen Primack and Judy Neri will read their poetry.
Open Reading follows featured poets.
Open readers are limited to one poem, no longer than one page.
Please sign up when you come in.
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Would you like to start a monthly book club meeting, or does your book club need a place to meet?
We are happy to host book clubs, speakers, art or literary events.
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THE ERASMUS GROUP
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Meets every other Wednesday
at 7:00pm
next meeting: Wednesday, May 14
Dr. Gonzalo T. Palacios invites your participation in discussing spiritual and/or religious topics of general interest. Everyone is welcome (over the age of 18): there will be no limitations to the topics discussed. There are no fees of any kind and street parking is available.
Gonzalo T. Palacios received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America and his Ph.L. from the Gregorian University in Rome. He has taught at various universities in Washington DC and presently teaches Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion at Prince George's Community College. Dr. Palacios is married and has 7 grandchildren.
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SPANISH READING GROUP
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Will begin meeting again in the Fall
Jacquie Borda a French/Colombian, with residence in the USA, is a retired
Systems Software Engineer with studies in Math, Management, Computer Sciences,
and Languages at the University of Southern California and UMUC. She has
conducted language training and life planning seminars, and reads extensively in
French, Spanish, and English, specifically history and politics. She has lived
and traveled in LA, Europe, the Middle and Far East.
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THE PROGRESSIVE-ACTION BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
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"Friendly debate with like-minded liberal/progressive people about important issues and how to bring about change.
No arguments please."
Usually meets the
Third Monday
of each month at 7pm
March 17 book selection:
Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration, by Deepa Fernandes
Past Book Selections:
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defnining Crisis of the 21st Century, by Fred Pearce
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming, by Paul Hawken
Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, by Jan Crawford Greenberg
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It, by Paul Collier
For more information, email Pam Rasmussen at rasmussen.pa@comcast.net
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POTOMAC POLYMER CLAY GUILD
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Meets on the
3rd Monday of each month.
at 7:30pm
Serves southern Maryland, the District of Columbia, and northern Virginia. Offers monthly meetings, clay days, & workshops
Click for more information
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Welcome to our new next door neighbor PUMPERNICKEL'S DELI !!
Coming to a Kensington Row Bookshop event? Have a bite to eat at Pumernickel's before the event and get a complimentary drink!
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POSTERS, ADS, PRINTS!
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We now carry a wide selection of:
Georgetown Book Shop posters
A Rare View Books
vintage ads, posters, and prints
Old postcards and photographs, ephemera
New vintage-style greeting cards
And local scenes by historic preservation artist
Joan Zwack
(Limited ed. prints & packaged cards)
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Catalan Library
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Residing within our shop, on the second floor, is the Catalan library and reading room of the Fundacio Pauli Bellet, a collection of books in Catalan of interest to Catalan speakers and students. Catalan language classes offered...inquire for more information.
Visit www.catalansdc.com for more information on events, activities, language classes, and news of the Catalan community of the DC area, and to subscribe to their email list. |
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DIRECTIONS
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We are located one and one-half blocks east of Connecticut Ave on Kensington's Antique Row. Look for the red and blue building.
Driving Directions from Yahoo
3786 Howard Ave.
Kensington, MD 20895
Phone: (301) 949-9416
kensington.books@verizon.net
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STORE HOURS
Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm
Sunday: 12pm-5pm
Later or earlier by
chance or by appointment
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RICHARD MARTIN
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
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A gentle person of sensitive spirit
You gave yourself to our town
Enriching the culture of learning, growing,
From the Tea Room to the book store
Helping in any way you could.
Volunteering at the Day of the Book;
Monitoring crowds and activities on Labor Day
Always taking time to listen
From your heart and soul.
Laughing and telling jokes,
Chipping away stone on stone
Creating simple art from rock.
Living every moment to its fullest
Loving life as you found it.
Genuine, honest and thoughtful of creation
The treasure of nature spoke
Inspired, you smiled and the world was brighter.
We were all blessed by your spirit.
LAID ON MY HEART,
November 7, 2006
by Richard H. Rice
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HILARY THAM
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
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Sonnet written by Mel Belin on the occasion of the December 7th poetry reading in memory of Hilary Tham...
For Hilary Tham
--who was always there for us.
No seance for us, only this reading!
Enough come on a night in December -
your friends - six months after, still needing . . .
Celebrate your last book's launch, to remember.
Maybe what's done can't be un-. Still, it's as if
an energy to and from who's at the mic,
with feelings unexpected as ever riff
or revenant sensed: they play through us, take
off . . . From outside, a train shakes the bookstore
window, accelerates along the icy track
to crush with its accelerating roar
our elegiac. Yet still we're back,
sifting as it fades, for whatever ore
is in the words, and you there too, to fill our lack!
by Mel Belin
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THEREMIN
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Art Harrison plays his Theremin in front of the shop Visit Art's website:
http://home.att.net/~theremin1/
Come to the shop to see and buy Theremins made by Art!
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