For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/AuburnCommunityRadio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98001 253.735.6328

Dear Splab-Fan! In this edition of the luminous E-Fishwrapper, many things. For the first time in history someone asked when a new E-Fishwrapper was coming, stunning the Global Voices Radio staff into hasty action, which is generally how things happen around here in the midst of Slaughter. So hang on, this first E-Fishwrapper since the Fat Blackberry Moon is going to be juicy.

1) GVR turns Auburn Community Radio over to the City of Auburn.
2) Soul Food Books Poetry Series in Redmond continues Tuesday.
3) New 911 book by David Ray Griffin.

4) Striped Water Poets move to a disclosed location in the heart of Slaughter.

5) Mother Earth News Picks 12 Great Sustainable Places.

6) New Digital Poetry Device

7) New Philip Whalen Book.

8) Tighten your Socks, or Sockets, Jacket 30 is out.

9) Raven Chronicles seeks Submissions.

10) Additional items of interest.

1) GVR turns Auburn Community Radio over to the City of Auburn.

Thanks to the vision of Mayor Pete Lewis, the city of Auburn officially took control of Auburn Community Radio on Tuesday, August 8. Your humble correspondent, Paul Nelson, will stay on as a consultant, but the city makes the hard decisions as to how to serve the citizens of the town once known as Slaughter with community radio, including how/where to expand the signal to meet the needs of all local residents. After seven years invested in this project in one way or another, from working to bring LPFM to Auburn, to the development of this Part 15 station, burnout was becoming a distinct possibility for your humble ACR Founder, so there is now an attempt to avoid this condition and leave the radio to the Mayor’s office.

2) Soul Food Books Poetry Series in Redmond continues Tuesday.

This new eastside poetry series continues on Tuesday, August 15 with Elizabeth Austen, author of the new poetry CD Skin Prayers, and Christine Deavel, author Box of Little Spruce. An open-mic reading follows. Please join us August 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at SoulFood Books at www.soulfoodbooks.com or phone the store at 425-881-5309. For additional info, e-mail Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com or Lana Hechtman Ayers at moonlit.cloud@yahoo.com.

3) New 911 book by David Ray Griffin.

Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11:
A Call to Reflection and Action

David Ray Griffin
Westminster John Knox Press, 2006

"Professor David Ray Griffin has a well-deserved reputation for the thoroughness of his research. All Americans who love their country enough to dig into the facts of these critical times will be well rewarded by examining his books. 9/11 truth is a very important issue---one with the power to bring lasting change to our country.”-—The Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr, author of Credo: Letters to a Young Doubter and A Passion for the Possible: A Message to U.S. Churches

4) Striped Water Poets move to a disclosed location in the heart of Slaughter.

NEW MEETING PLACE:
STRIPED WATER POETS: We are now sponsored by the Auburn Downtown Association (ADA). We will be meeting in their office located on the B Street Plaza. 6 B St. SE.
Park in the Safeway parking lot next to the back entrances of the Main St. businesses, between Rottle's and the Rainbow Cafe. The ADA office is the first one on your right as you enter the Plaza. If you park on Main Street, enter B St. Plaza between Home Plate Pub on your left and Dollar Latino on your left. The ADA office will be the last door on your left. Tues., Aug. 15 - 7pm. YEAH! Thank you ADA.

5) Mother Earth News Picks 12 Great Sustainable Places.

TOPEKA, Kansas, (August 8, 2006) -- The August/September issue of Mother Earth News magazine features picks for '12 Great Places You've Never Heard Of' in the United States. Mother Earth News' highlights 12 cities that aren't as well-known as those that frequently appear on lists of "great places to live". The 12 are unique for their affordability, strong sense of community and emphasis on the environment, sustainability, alternative energy and local food. The 12 cities come from all over the United States and range in population from 2,300 to 60,000. They are: Blue Hill, Maine; Fairfield, Iowa; Athens, Ohio; Wimberley, Texas; Northfield, Minnesota; Sitka, Alaska; La Grande, Oregon; Grants Pass, Oregon; Grand Junction, Colorado; Decatur, Georgia; Ithaca, New York; and St. George, Utah. www.motherearthnews.com

6) New Digital Poetry Device

Announcing the first trial of a new digital poetry device. This is a beta, very rough version, for testing and exploration. So I invite all poets to come and play, test and critique, writing their own poems for this engine, or entering some of their old ones. The best will be archived permanently. Again this is designed to help poets
think of their writing in a 3-d, multi-linear/dimensional way.

URL: http://www.secrettechnology.com/poem_cube/poemcube.html

Please do offer thoughts on how it works, and it might be explained and work better. Cheers, Jason Nelson

7) New Philip Whalen Book.

The Unidentified Accomplice, or, The Transmissions of C W Moss
http://www.coyotesjournal.com/CB_Titles/CWMoss.html

Philip Whalen hand-wrote this book of "natural speech" in 1968 after having gone with Jim and Cass Koller to see the movie "Bonnie and Clyde." Spread the word! Maggie Brown and Jim Koller Coyote
http:www.coyotesjournal.com

8) Tighten your Socks, or Sockets, Jacket 30 is out.

Tighten your socks: Jacket 30 is now finalised: hundreds of pages of thrilling literature that will knock your socks off -- if you're unprepared!      http://jacketmagazine.com/30/index.shtml  Zukofsky - Chile - Flarf - etc.

Feature: Louis Zukofsky – John Tranter.

9) Raven Chronicles seeks Submissions.

--RAVEN CHRONICLES--

Journal of Art, Literature & the Spoken Word

at: The Richard Hugo House

1634 11th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122-2419 USA

Phone: 206.364-2045

www.ravenchronicles.org or editors@ravenchronicles.org

Call for Submissions

The Raven Chronicles

Volume 13, Number 2

Theme:  Citizen, Subject and Slave

What do these words mean to you?  What do they mean in the United States?  In other cultures? In a global society?  In a nations history? The roots of the word civil in three languages: Latin: civicus, "of a citizen" a derivation of civis "townsman."  Sanskrit: nagara  "townborn, town-bred" Old English: ceasterbend  "city-dweller, citizen."

10) Additional items of interest.

Thanks for reading this far down the E-Fishwrapper. Another epic, I know, but shorter than the version I would have sent out if I did not forget anything. Still giddy over the Sox sweep of the Tigers http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51526 and EndFest 15 which had the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the top of their game as well, despite the absence of the performance of a certain important personal mythological composition entitled: Under The Bridge. Anyway, Pop’s out of the hospital and his articulation is still affected with the exception of phrases designed to illustrate his frustration with his hospital stay, such as This Place Sucks which came out perfectly. I head to Chicago Thursday and return September 6, (yes, I’ll leave a wacky vacation auto-responder message) only to go to Wickaninnish Island for the latest Tibetan Bon workshop, this time on Kum Nye September 8-10. Then solo backpacking in the Olympics again (don’t worry, I’ll bring my goddamn celphone) and then the Victoria School of Writing reunion, facilitated by George Bowering (yes THAT George Bowering) October 3-9 and other events sprinkled in between. Anyway, thanks again for keeping Pop in your good thoughts.

Pablito