For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328

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1) FREE Organic Poetry Workshop in Olympia this Thursday night.

In the latest of a series of free workshops organized by the Olympia Poetry Network, Thursday (December 14) at 7PM, your humble, wine-bottle wielding correspondent/poetry workshop facilitator leads participants in reading/writing and conversation on the Open/ Organic/Projective, etc. Sound from interviews done over the years with Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Eileen Myles and others may be used. It is at the Timberland Library in Olympia.

2) Organic Poetry Workshop Series at Park Place Books Tuesday nights starting Jan 23.
January 23 we start a unique six week workshop series at Park Place Books in Kirkland with an in-depth look at this stance-toward-poem-making and cosmology. There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called Organic. It is a continuum, and is in-sync with a holistic (organismic) world view. In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews, and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others. The six week format will allow us to get to a serious depth with this work, though it will also be quite fun. There have already been some signups and the class limit is 15. I'd LOVE to have 15 cool Eastside people, or people willing to go to the Eastside for this series. Please consider.
Instructor: Paul Nelson Meets: Tuesdays, Jan. 23-Feb. 27, 6-8 p.m. Min. 5 Max. 15
Please register today at 206.322.7030.

3) Washington Poets Association Newsletter.
Washington Poets Association Members, Friends, and Subscribers: What did Langston Hughes write? What do editors want? What is Naropa? Find the answers to these questions and other useful information in the latest issue of Word!, the newsletter of the Washington Poets Association, now on the WPA website at http://www.washingtonpoets.org/wpa_newsletter.html (click on the "current issue" link.)

4) TARPAULIN SKY V4n2
Guest-edited by Selah Saterstrom http://www.tarpaulinsky.com

NEW WORK BY Matthea Harvey, Eleni Sikelianos, Bin Ramke, Laird Hunt, Rebecca Brown, Joan Fiset, Elizabeth Rollins, Peter Markus, Brian Kiteley, Jindrich Styrsky, Tama Baldwin & Noah Saterstrom, Leisure Projects (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Bushwick Farms (Tara Cuthbert & Stuart Solzberg), and artist Cynthia Ona Innis. INTERVIEWS WITH Chris Kraus, Matthea Harvey, Rebecca Brown, Joan Fiset, Elizabeth Rollins, Brian Kiteley, Peter Markus, and Cynthia Ona Innis. & A LOOK AT Clear Cut Press: an interview with co-founder Matthew Stadler, and excerpts
by Clear Cut authors Danielle Dutton, Robert Glück, and Lisa Robertson.

SUBMISSIONS TO THE JOURNAL & PRESS http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/guidelines.html

5) César Vallejo: The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
Poet and essayist Clayton Eshleman is a recipient of the National Book Award and the Landon Translation Prize. He is the cotranslator
of César Vallejo: The Complete Posthumous Poetry and Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, both from UC Press. Among Mario Vargas Llosa's
prestigious literary awards are the National Critics' Prize, the Peruvian National Prize, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. He is the author
of more than twenty books. Efrain Kristal is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College, London. http://go.ucpress.edu/VallejoComplete

"Only the dauntless perseverance and the love with which the translator has dedicated so many years of his life to this task can explain why the English version conveys, in all its boldness and vigor, the unmistakable voice of César Vallejo."-Mario Vargas Llosa

6) New Essays/Interviews peN w/ Blaser, Bowering, Hamill, at: http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/studyplan5.5.06.html

7) Jeanne Lohmann Contest for 2007

The Olympia Poetry Network invites Washington poets to enter the 4th Annual Lohmann Contest. This year, thanks to the generosity of the San Francisco poets that judge the contest, the award for the top 3 winners is now $200.00 each. In 2003, to honor Jeanne's birthday and mentoring, her poet friends from San Francisco (Friends) approached the Olympia Poetry Network (OPN) and asked us to coordinate a contest in Jeanne's name. The Friends would judge the poems, and provide the awards (equal amounts to 3 top poets), while OPN would provide the coordination of the contest. OPN and Friends invite you to enter 1 poem (up to 2 pages, double-spaced). The submittal period begins December 1, 2006 and runs through January 31, 2007. For additional contest information see below or go to our website at http://home.comcast.net/~yake/opn.lohmann.htm

Thanks to 4 Culture and individual contributors like you for supporting this work.
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Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
www.AmericanSentences.com
908 I. St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
toll-free 888.735.6328

Richard Hugo House
Eastside Winter 2007 Classes
Parkplace Books, Kirkland, WA

Special thanks to Parkplace Books and The Publishing Institute.

Registration for Hugo House members starts Dec. 5; for non-members, registration starts Dec. 12. For more info on classes, registration, and scholarships, contact Registrar at (206) 322-7030, or email registrar@hugohouse.org. Classes take place at Parkplace Books, 348 Parkplace Center
Kirkland, WA 98033 (425-828-6546).

Interview/Reading: Paul Nelson will talk about “organic poetry” and read from his work on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, at Parkplace Books, 7-8:30 pm. Interview by Michael Dylan Welch.

Organic Poetry
Ever have the experience of a really good poem that writes itself? Ever consider training yourself to write that way? There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called Organic. In our workshop we’ll hear clips of interviews, and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others.
Instructor: Paul Nelson
Meets: Tuesdays, Jan. 23–Feb. 27, 6–8 p.m. Min. 5 Max. 15
Cost: $180 Members; $195 General

Paul Nelson, co-founder of SPLAB, is author of "A Time Before Slaughter" an epic poem re-enacting Auburn history. His voice has been heard on KPLU, KMTT and other local radio stations. He's interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Wanda Coleman, Diane di Prima, Jerome Rothenberg, Eileen Myles and Victor Hernandez Cruz, has facilitated over 200 poetry workshops, is doing his graduate work on "Open Form in North American Poetry: A Path to Liberation," and writes an American Sentence daily.