Poetry is coming back to Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven. The popular music venue has hosted several poetry events including Vineyard Slam, Hot Words, and the Warrior Writers (Iraq Veterans against the War). Linda Black and Michael West, organizers of the new Island Voices series, invite Island poets of all ages, styles, and levels of accomplishment to come and share their work in celebration of National Poetry Month.

G rateful Vineyarders will long remember the dazzling musical high wire act performed so superbly last weekend by Peter Boak and the inspired Island Community Chorus in their thrilling Spring 2009 concert.

A family-friendly Circus Yoga workshop will be held on the Vineyard on Saturday, April 11, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Island Co-housing common house on State Road in West Tisbury.

The workshop comes from Anita McFarlane is an actress, dance theatre artist, certified Kripalu yoga teacher, circusyoga teacher and children’s theatre educator.

ArtFarm Enterprises will be holding auditions for their inaugural production of Kim & Delia, an original full length play by Islander and ArtFarm co-founder Brian Ditchfield, on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Farm Institute. Most of the roles have already been cast, but producers are still looking for an actress between the ages of 10 and 12 to play the lead role of Kim, and a non-Equity actress to play several ensemble roles.

Audition sides are available online at artfarmenterprises.com.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (Call me Becca) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the chief executive of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Aquinnah

Gay Head Community Baptist Church. The Rev. Roger H. Spinney, pastor. Organist, Mrs. A. Douglas Stewart. Sunday worship services at 9 a.m. Tel. 508-693-1539.

Chilmark

Chilmark Community Church, 9 Menemsha Cross Road. Sunday worship at 9 a.m.

Edgartown

LONDON — The newspaper industry is ailing; but I do not think that newspapers will altogether die.

— Tom Driberg, one of Fleet Street’s premier

journalists, is also a Member of Parliament.

In February, 2006, while traveling from Australia to the United States, one of my children became ill with a chest infection. Upon arrival here, my wife took her to the Martha’s Vineyard hospital.

Some hours and $600 later, they emerged with a prescription for antibiotics.

Worthwhile Cause

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

On April 14, at Tisbury town meeting, you will be asked once again to vote on whether or not to place the issue of allowing full service restaurants containing at least 30 seats to sell beer and wine on the ballot in 2010.

Take This Poem

Take this poem. No. Really

take it. It belongs to you.

Like anything you read.

It belongs. Like Hawaii’s

swaying palms, weighted

coconuts, rungs tying

the trunk of the tree. All.

Yours for free.

What did you think

your first grade teacher

was giving to you? Letters,

words, a dog with spots,