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“Poetry for Women” reading today Artist captures nature in sketches “Poetry for a Change,” the 2013-2014 poetry reading series sponsored By S. D. Green by 621 Gallery, Apalachee Special to the Democrat Review, and Anhinga Press will hold a reading Trips to the doctor’s from 4-6 p.m. at 621 Gal- office are infamous for lery at Railroad Square. agonizingly long waits. Readers will include local But artist Mark Fletcher poet Allie Batts, author of turns every moment into “You Might Curse Before an opportunity to see the You Bless,” Katya Saba- beauty in his environ- roff Taylor, author of ment. Once he started “My Haiku Life” and sketching the intricate Johana-Marie Williams. Author Thomas Heise reads details of the phoropter The event is free, but at The Warehouse on — the goggle-like ma- donations will be accept- Tuesday. chine the eye doctor ed to benefit the Chelsea uses to update eyeglass House. Call 224-6163. prescriptions. son’s uncle. The event is “I had to wait an hour Author event today free and open to the pub- with that equipment and lic. Call 524-0080. I started thinking, ‘This Dave Horner, author is neat, I’m starting to of “The Earhart Enigma: Haiku workshop see a design sense Retracing Amelia’s Last Thursday here,’ ” Fletcher said. Flight,” which combines “Once you start draw- interviews, folklore, Participants will cre- ing, anything you draw first-hand accounts and ate ancient Japanese will become interesting official documents from “essence” poems that to you. civilian and military celebrate one moment, “I started doing this sources will meet read- one image in only 17 syl- when I was really young. ers from 1-5 p.m. at lables. Katya Taylor will I was less than 6 years Barnes & Noble in the offer guidance in this old and we were moving. Artist Mark Fletcher prefers to sketch nature from life. SARA CHANG/SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT Tallahassee Mall. The simple, yet profound I had this panic that we event is free. Call 383- form from 7:45-9 p.m. at were never coming back 0600. New Leaf Market Co-op, and I started sketching 1235 Apalachee Parkway. everything I could. I was Literary Night at Bring a notebook and sketching my friends. I Black Dog tonight pen. Taylor’s book, “My tried to draw every Haiku Life” will be avail- house on the street.” Every Sunday night, able for purchase. The Now Fletcher’s work Black Dog Cafe hosts workshop is free. Call reflects on nature and IF YOU GO readings by local writers. 942-2557. wildlife, and he often This week, Bob Parke, includes poems in his » What: “Sketchcrawling @ the Museum” exhibit author of “Staying Safe in Friends of the drawings and paintings » When: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. an Unsafe World: A Gadsden County that help draw the view- Guide for College Wom- er in. Monday through en” is the guest reader. Public Library “For me, drawing Saturday, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. Drawing from his years author dinner on from life is what it’s all Sunday through April 20 in law enforcement, civil Thursday about. It gives you an » Where: Phipps Gallery, investigations and pri- excuse to get out there. Tallahassee Museum, 3945 vate security, in the book Panama City native, You notice some things Fletcher sketched Jim Gary's sculpture on grounds of Museum Drive Parke covers rape and New Orleans resident more if you draw them Tallahassee Museum during this year’s “Sketchcrawl.” » Cost: Free with paid sexual assault, date rape and European traveler than if you take pic- museum admission of $9, drugs, personal safety, Timothy A. Weeks is the tures.” there and provided an he said. “When I first $8.50 for seniors and alcohol use, ATM tips and guest author at the Fletcher’s work has exhibition to go with it. I encountered them I college students, $6 for self-defense tools. The Friends of the Gadsden been featured in art kind of encourage peo- thought, ‘No way I can children ages 4-15. event starts at 7:30 p.m. County Public Library exhibitions throughout ple to show up. For our handle them, it’s just so Children age 3 and under at 229 Lake Ella Drive Author Dinner from 6-8 the country. Currently January Sketchcrawl we complicated,’ but you and members are free. and it’s free. Call 224- p.m. Thursday at the his work can be seen at had about 20 artists who see enough of it and it’s » Call: 575-8684 or visit 2518. Sawano Country Club, the Tallahassee Museum actually got their work just this pattern and you tallahasseemuseum.org Attapulgus Highway in in an exhibit created together and exhibited start doodling and it’s Warehouse Reading Quincy. Weeks is journal- with “Sketchcrawl,” an it.” there.” Series Tuesday ist, storyteller and cre- informal community of This year Fletcher’s Fletcher has devel- subject, even if the ator of three children artists from around the work includes sketches oped a patience and whole thing is not de- Thomas Heise will be books: “The Wise Mullet world. of an old friend who stillness that helps him picted, that’s OK.” the guest reader at 8 p.m. of Cook Bayou,” “Ol’ “I came across the lives at the museum that render paintings and For Fletcher, those Tuesday at The Ware- Middler Saves the Day” Sketchcrawl almost by he has been drawing for drawings that capture down moments in a house, 706 W. Gaines St. and “Goldie’s Search for accident,” he said. years — Penny the pig. the spirit of the Florida doctor’s waiting room An alumnus of FSU, Silver.” Tickets are $40. “When my wife and I “She has such person- wilderness. can be full of surprises Heise is the author of Call 539-5689. came back from Japan, I ality,” he said. Fletcher “A lot of the animals, because they give him three books: “Moth; or met up with my old first drew Penny years if you don’t scare them, an opportunity to slow how I came to be with Interfaith Book Club friend Jeff Zenick. I was ago when she was still a hang around for a cou- down and take in the you again,” “Horror Va- meets Thursday thinking how to get a little piglet. ple minutes for a wonder of the everyday cui: Poems” and “Urban foothold back in Amer- “I did some sketches sketch,” he said. “I things around him. Underworlds: A Geog- The Interfaith Book ica after three years in of her when I had an might do 20 little sketch- “With our busy lives raphy of Twentieth-Cen- Club, sponsored by Holo- Japan, and he and I put opportunity to sit with es in an hour that add up we spend a lot of time tury American Literature caust Education Re- our drawings up on her in her little cage and to something so if I want filtering out the world,” and Culture.” He is an source Council and co- Sketchcrawl.” then she grew up really to do an emu painting, he said. “There’s a lot of associate professor at hosted by St. John’s Epis- The group hosts four fast and now she’s this for example, it’s all in stuff you don’t need to McGill University and copal Church and Temple worldwide “crawls” rough, pushy, obnoxious my mind.” know or don’t want to splits his time between Israel, will discuss “The each year, where artists pig,” he said. Drawing from memo- know, but the best way Montreal and New York Lost Wife” by Alyson gather on a specific day Apart from pigs, ry is about capturing a to slow down is to get City. The event is spon- Richman at 7 p.m. Thurs- and draw whatever they some of Fletcher’s favor- feeling more than all of out there and draw, sored by Florida State’s day at St John’s Episcopal see; Fletcher organizes ite subjects include the technical details. because it makes you Creative Writing Pro- Church, 211 N. Monroe St. artists in Tallahassee for alligators and other “Some people want to feel relaxed and you see gram and is free. Visit Visit www.holocaustre- the events. creatures he sees in the be the camera,” he said. more of the world.” facebook.com/ sources.org. “I lead them in choos- Florida environment. “For me, it’s all about WarehouseReading ing a location,” he said. The environment, he the experience: what do Series. “The past three years said, provides intricate you see, how do you feel The Council on Culture & Arts Post literary events at (COCA) is the capital area’s um- Tallahassee.com/calendar. To submit the museum has gener- details that reward the about the subject? If I brella agency for arts and culture. Local author talk on literary news, email ously offered us free patient artist. can capture the feeling For more information visit Tuesday [email protected]. admission if we draw “Mangroves are fun,” or the movement of the www.cocanet.org. Herb Donaldson dis- cuss his book, “Southern ARNOLD’S Shock Americana: The Copyright © 2014 Tallahassee Democrat. All rights reserved. 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