Bar None Group

22/05/2023

Calling all Geminis!

Tuesday May 23 marks the 70th orbit around the sun for our very own Curtis Graham.

Come join us for an evening of music, mirth, and merriment.

La Brisa is located at the end of Legazpi at the malecón in Barra de Navidad.

04/11/2021

Pop Up Poetry! This afternoon at Nelly’s 2:00. Mark and Russell will attempt to read all three Bar None books

20/09/2020

Local author BilliJo Doll explores murder in the Costalegre region of Mexico in latest novel, Murder in Melaque.

A mystery novel by BilliJo Doll uncovers death in the Costalegre region of Mexico. In a hotel full of suspects who is the next victim? Frenc...

01/08/2020

Two brothers take a roadtrip to discover America in 2020. Thank you Craig Rusert for allowing us to share the journey.

Brothers hit the road and discover America in 2020. Once upon a time in a land far way, Our spaceship broke down and we couldn’t fly ...

06/07/2020

Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo!

I had smiled. Nothing else. But suddenly I knew In the depth of my silence He was following me. Like my shadow, blameless and light...

04/07/2020

Happy Birthday America!

The poem that became the Black National Anthem. Lift ev'ry voice and sing 'Til earth and heaven ring Ring with the harmonies of Liberty Let ...

24/06/2020

Honored and proud to share the words of my friend Nikolai Tjongarero.

CAUTION: Do not proceed unless you want to be part of the solution. Born from the bloodlines of ones I'll never have the time to put i...

19/06/2020

Something to think about on Juneteenth...

"On July 27th, when I was a seventeen-year-old Negro boy, I drowned at the 29th Street Beach in Chicago. I had accidentally floated acro...

10/01/2020

10/01/2020

Kathrin Lake is one of the authors who will be speaking at the first ever Costalegre Book Fair on January 27 at CENAC in Melaque.

The Happy Hammock is the quintessential Costalegre romp by Kathrin Lake. Kathrin is one of the authors at the Costalegre Book Fair in Me...

02/01/2019

Rang in the New Year in the desert, started the year by hiking to the top of Alcoholic Pass (yeah, that's it's real name), made a snowball and made it back to the coast for a sunset. On the second day of the year I want to thank each of you for making 2018 special. Happy New Year!

Our journey this year began on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. What an incredible year! The first days of 2018 were spent in Mexico alo...

27/12/2018

Here are the eight most popular selections from 2018 on the Bar None Group website. Happy New Year!

Here's to smooth sailing in 2019. These are the poems, essays and more that resonated the most with you our readers in the past year. ...

23/04/2018

Readers in Boston and New York are advised to circle their calendars for April 25, 29-30 as English poet Matt Duggan will be reading from his latest volume of poetry — One Million Tiny Cuts.

The reading engagements kick off in Boston as part of the Cambridge Public Library Poetry Series on April 25. On April 29, Matt will be reading from One Million Tiny Cuts (Clare Songbirds Publishing House) at the Parkside Inn in New York. The following day on the 30th, Matt will be featured alongside fellow poets Peter V. Dugan and George Wallace at Sip This in Valley Stream, New York.

The cover of Matt Duggan's One Million Tiny Cuts. Readers in Boston and New York are advised to circle their calendars for April 25, 2...

21/03/2018

On World Poetry Day we feature the Peruvian poet, Blanca Segura!

Colgar de un hilo...hanging by a thread. Colgar de un hilo, como suspendida en el aire, flotando impaciente esperando que algo pase...

15/03/2018

Sometimes a hand up is a book...

Nelson Mandela, Eldridge Cleaver, Jean Genet, Angela Davis, and Gandhi have written about the great solace they received from books in p...

10/03/2018

We read about Maya Angelou's tenacity and accomplishment on a recent road trip that included a stop at the San Francisco Rail Museum. We thought it appropriate to mention Maya's barrier breaking moment during Women's History Month. "On the Road" is an occasional look at poets and poetry whose lives and works we come across traveling the highways and byways of America and points beyond.

San Francisco today runs historic street cars from many cities, like this one from Toronto. Some notable people, in life, get to write...

13/02/2018

5Pointz was one of my favorite places to view street art in NYC. The owner whitewashed the building in 2013. Artists were awarded $6.7 million in 2018 and these pictures are from 2011.

5Pointz was a popular destination for graffiti artists until 2013. The "world's largest open air aerosol museum" known as 5Pointz was ...

31/12/2017

Happy New Year!

What made the Top Eight in 2017? Here's a clue. These are the poems, essays and more that resonated the most with you our readers in t...

28/12/2017

As the sun sets on 2017 we share the words of a great young Peruvian poet, Blanca Segura.

Puesta del sol en Lima, Perú. Me dicen que tú eres quién le pondrá fin a esta era. Aparecerás bañado en aguas saladas reluciente a...

13/12/2017

If you are unfamiliar with the work of iconoclast William Joyce, A Xmas Poem is a great introduction...

Xmas turkey and all the poetic fixings. The Xmas my father went to New Mexico To an A.A. home to dry out Was the same Xmas my brothe...

13/11/2017

The Poets' Corner, dedicated to American Literature honors poet Jean Toomer in 2017. The poet Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was inducted in...

31/03/2017

Calling all Dharma Bums of Barra de Navidad! You are invited to the 7th birthday bash of the Backstage Bar and Blue Wave Cafe on April 1, 2017 -- the official home of the Bar None Group! Congratulations on seven memory making years Chynna!

Close your eyes and make a wish... Ya know if you’re feeling frozen, lonesome or blue I think I know a remedy just for you. Come to B...

15/03/2017

For International Women’s Day 2017, Liz Parkin shared her poem Rising on the local Bar None Group page to address, "sexual/spousal/emotional/physical abuses are daily affecting women’s lives..." through her poetry and art — Liberation 2011. We are honored to share Liz's art and poetry on the Bar None Group website during Women's History Month 2017.

Liberation 2011 by Liz Parkin. I’ve HAD the silent TREATMENT It BEGS for ME to SHOUT I can’t take all the QUIET RIOT! Get IT out!...

13/02/2017

A Bar None Group interview with the inspirational artist Marylou Falstreau about her Women and the Hourglass series of art and poetry.

One Day She Woke Up to Share Art and Poetry. How do you quench your thirst in the desert? I guess it all depends on what you are thirs...

28/01/2017

On this day -- January 28, 1948 -- 28 Mexican migrants perished in a plane crash in Los Gatos, California. They were being deported.

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps; They're flying 'em back to the Mexican ...

21/12/2016

At the winter solstice we visit Canada's oldest song. A Christmas song written not in French or English but in Wyandot.

Canada's oldest Christmas hymn was written in the Wyandot language of its Huron First Nation people in 1642. 'Twas in the moon of wint...

19/12/2016

It was a week before Christmas...

There was a book written a long time ago That talked about a new kind of sound The pages between the covers are now yellow and brittl...

12/12/2016

Pamela Sayers of Puebla, Mexico writes of hope on the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The Virgin of Guadalupe is celebrated on December 12. I do not know anything but that slow fall aurora over the world and all the th...

01/12/2016

Do you believe in angels? Angels who write Christmas poetry! I do. Especially since this is a call out for Christmas poems. I'm looking to share your Christmas (seasonal) poetry on the Bar None website in the month of December. Send us your poem in an email to [email protected] or post it here and I'll migrate it there! Happy Holidays! In the meantime, enjoy this poem by Russell Rosander.

A Poem for Christmas. It seems no one has seen one For a very long time. It may seem unlikely That an old reprobate, like me, Woul...

10/11/2016

With Veterans Day upon us I wanted to share one of the most brilliant pieces of war poetry that I have ever come across. I don't think this poem has been shared since 1945.

The view from Paul Wilhelm's Vagabond House. So let me live where I may hear The silken whisper of the sand The singing music of th...