What happens to a dream deferred? Fortunately for the bidders and dreamers at the 33rd annual Possible Dreams auction last night, they’ll never have to know.

Beneath the canopy of a beautiful sunset in Oak Bluffs, the audience rallied to raise over $251,350 before the final tally for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services despite the troubled economic times.

The painted wooden sign resting on the base of the podium in Ocean Park read Savor the Moment, and when celebrated poet Sonia Sanchez stepped to the microphone to begin her program during Della Hardman Day on Saturday, it was impossible to imagine doing anything else. Words on a page are poor conveyors of the rhythms and intonations of Mrs. Sanchez’s commanding voice, which has been holding audiences rapt for decades.

Book lovers flocked to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School this past weekend for the 54th annual West Tisbury Book Sale. Vineyarders and vacationers of all ages perused the well-organized stacks for literary treasures. Sections included travel, gardening, architecture, mystery, children’s books (perhaps the most extensive of all), art, nonfiction, fiction, there was even a Vineyard authors table.

As a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured many of the most famous images of the 20th century, from wars to movie stars. He was, in a sense, the world’s photographer. But he was also the Vineyard’s own, taking numerous photos during his many summer spent on the Island.

How did Tina Chang become the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn? By writing the following words:

“I walk the streets of Brooklyn looking at this storefront and that, buy a pair of shoes I can’t afford, pumps from London, pointed at the tip and heartbreakingly high, hear my new heels clicking, crushing the legs of my shadow.”

Well, actually that is a mere sampling of her work taken from her poem Duality. There is so much more to choose from.