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  • Author: The Bagel Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1430316543
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 95

It all came to fruition the day we made our first bagel, after a few energetic drafts of the thing. It got up from the table, shook its rolling shoulders, yawned from the hollow core mouth of itself, and began to dance. At that precise moment, the miracle came as sure as the Matrix Oracle would have predicted from over her pan of cookies. Sunlight hit the bagel, and it became lines on the floor, long lines that would have been perfect for any chorus line, but instead filled themselves with words, words that made promises to all of us. These words spoke the premise. The poet is a baker although he may never have the dough. We looked at each other and knew this was our creation myth, this dance of language on some piece of paper, or in our hearts, or in the burrowed brow of the manager trying to wrap his head around the idea that poets gather in the corner of his place on Saturdays and spend a few hours living, living, living. O bard, a bagel has become a poem.


Bagels with the Bards

Bagels with the Bards

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  • Author: The Bagel Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1411686500
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 52

So it came to pass that a couple of poets a a congenially munching their bagels in the spacious basement refectory of a bagelry called Finaglea aa Bagel on JFK in Harvard Square, all the while conjecturing upon the potential mental, spiritual and perhaps even physical salubriousness of occasional social interface with other human beings likewise blest or cused to pursue the word, to ply their craft or sullen art, in isolation a a gave birth to the idea of Bagelbards. At any rate, here it is: The First Annual Bagelbards Anthology, in celebration of the first full year of informal weekly Saturday morning gatherings of Bagelbards in the aforementioned spacius basement of Finaglea aa Bagel. Read it, and eat.


Bagels with the Bards #7

Bagels with the Bards #7

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  • Author: The bagel Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1105785661
  • Category : American poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 74

So it came to pass that a couple of poets a a congenially munching their bagels in the spacious basement refectory of a bagelry called Finaglea aa Bagel on JFK in Harvard Square, all the while conjecturing upon the potential mental, spiritual and perhaps even physical salubriousness of occasional social interface with other human beings likewise blest or cused to pursue the word, to ply their craft or sullen art, in isolation a a gave birth to the idea of Bagelbards. - Tomas O'Leary The Bagel Bards, a wide-open and ever-expanding group of writers- including several award-winning poets-have met for coffee, tea, bagels, muffins, socializing, literary gossip, and networking at Cambridge and Somerville cafes. (Their current home is Au Bon Pain in Davis Square, and any writer is welcome.)


Bagels with the Bards #8

Bagels with the Bards #8

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  • Author: The Bagel Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1304043290
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 81


Bagels with the Bards #9

Bagels with the Bards #9

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  • Author: Bagel Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1312263334
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 70

The scene.7:45 AM, Au Bon Pain, Davis Square, Somerville. The lone figure of Dennis Daly, at a table seemingly praying over a poetry book. This is how Saturday morning breaks for the Bagel Bards. By 10 AM there is a cacophony. 90-something Joe Cohen, on his wheelchair, bites into his cheese danish, drinks his black coffee, and shows us his latest photographs. Krikor arrives, tall and regal, looking for all the world like a refugee from a Russian novel. And Harris Gardner, a shock of white hair, an impresario of verse, an Einstein with a bag of books from Salvation Army bins - offers all of us a share of his pastry. And so it goes with Luke and Zvi and Lawrence and Paul - and all the others. We are regulars. We are kibbitzers-old, middle-aged, rarely young. Stumblebums, friends, writers, poets. We cross our stage-give our soliloquies, our Sermon on the Mount, the stunningly bad jokes, the salient points. Then...we call it a day... and drift away....


Bagels with the Bards

Bagels with the Bards

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  • Author: The Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 0615207626
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 90

Bagel Bard - noun. 1. A poet that is glazed and ring-shaped whose poetry has a tough, chewy texture usually made of leavened words and images dropped briefly into nearly boiling conversations on Saturday mornings- often baked to a golden brown. 2. -verb. To come together in writership over breakfast. To laugh so hard at an irreverent statement that the sesame seeds of the bagel you've just eaten explode from your mouth like grenade shrapnel. Welcome to the third Bagelbard Anthology. As some of you know (or can guess from the above definition) the Bagel Bards meet every Saturday morning at a designated spot. We breakfast in the original sense of eating, but also, because most of us are so busy working on our writing careers that we often find ourselves starved for great conversation. Well, the Bagel Bards breakfast hang is not only a place in which to do the aforementioned, but also to observe characters who themselves could be the subjects of poems and fiction.


Bagels With the Bards #13

Bagels With the Bards #13

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  • Author: Steve Glines
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 035986211X
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 64

The Bagel Bards (or Bagels with the Bards) (are) a group of poets varied in age, race, gender meet, share poems, discuss poetry, drink lots of coffee, chew a bagel if so desired, sometimes sell their books. The atmosphere is generous and open to all, and you don�t have to be a poet to attend. What I find most exciting about the Bards, people here are not conscious of reputation and achievement, but love the poem and good friendly unpretentious talk. That doesn�t mean that pretensions don�t exist if that�s what you desire, but the coffee is strong, the people sincere and are publishers of small press magazines, pamphlets and books. If you want to be in an atmosphere that is intelligent without self-involved, convoluted literary talk of people who need to prove themselves and announce themselves as artists, here is a place to and the pleasure that good literary company may offer. � Sam Cornish


Bagels with the Bards

Bagels with the Bards

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  • Author: Steve Glines
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 0557075939
  • Category : American poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 102

The Bagel Bards are a group of poets varied in age, race, gender, who meet, share poems, discuss poetry, drink lots of coffee, chew a bagel if so desired, sometimes sell their books. The atmosphere is generous and open to all, and you don’t have to be a poet to attend. What I find most exciting about the Bards, people here are not conscious of reputation and achievement, but love the poem and good friendly unpretentious talk. That doesn’t mean that pretensions don’t exist if that’s what you desire, but the coffee is strong, the people sincere and are publishers of small press magazines, pamphlets and books. If you want to be in an atmosphere that is intelligent without self-involved, convoluted literary talk of people who need to prove themselves and announce themselves as artists,here is a place to find the pleasure that good literary company may offer. — Sam Cornish, Poet Laureate of Boston, MA


Bagels with the Bards #15

Bagels with the Bards #15

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  • Author: Steve Glines
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781678128074
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76

Like the many varieties of bagels for sale at a Bagel Bard meet up, the poems in the Bagel Bard anthology offer an astonishing range: pumpernickel, asiago, jalapeño, cinnamon raisin, sesame, plain, everything, you name it! These poems encompass a dazzling array of registers and styles from elegiac to humorous. If you wish to acquaint yourself with the literary landscape of Greater Boston, take a bite out of this anthology of poetry by the Bagel Bards. There's something for everyone. - James Fraser, bookseller at Grolier Poetry Book Shop Supposedly no one cares about poetry anymore. But here, every week, poets rule - feeding their muse with shop talk and cinnamon-chip scones. - The Boston Globe


Bagels with the Bards #10

Bagels with the Bards #10

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  • Author: The Bagel Bards
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1329399579
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72

The Bagel Bards (or Bagels with the Bards) (are) a group of poets varied in age, race, gender meet, share poems, discuss poetry, drink lots of coffee, chew a bagel if so desired, sometimes sell their books. The atmosphere is generous and open to all, and you don't have to be a poet to attend. What I find most exciting about the Bards, people here are not conscious of reputation and achievement, but love the poem and good friendly unpretentious talk. That doesn't mean that pretensions don't exist if that's what you desire, but the coffee is strong, the people sincere and are publishers of small press magazines, pamphlets and books. If you want to be in an atmosphere that is intelligent without self-involved, convoluted literary talk of people who need to prove themselves and announce themselves as artists, here is a place to and the pleasure that good literary company may offer. - Sam Cornish