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Contact: Paul E. Nelson.
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Ilalqo, WA 98002
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Red Sky Reunion, Human Rights Reading Sunday at Seattle Center, Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Hugo House, Burning Word V and other WPA news, and cool shit I was supposed to include, but forgot because I am at work and should be teaching Excel or something like that.
1) Red Sky Reunion tomorrow at Hugo House. For 25 years it was the longest continuously-running poetry open mic on the West Coast. Many a Seattle poet used it as a workshop, to refine their gesture and be in the company of some of the best Seattle poets from the 80's, 90's and 00's. Thanks to the work of Jesse Minkert and the gracious co-sponsorship of the Hugo House, Red Sky Poetry Theater rolls again. Read your best recent work and listen to what your contemporaries are doing. Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes are featured. Friday, December 14, 2007, 7PM signup at Hugo House, 1634 11th Av. Seattle. http://www.hugohouse.org/house/map/
2) APPROACHING 60 YEARS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Youth for Human Rights International Poet Laureate Lawrence Jaffe
Features in Seattle Reading & Celebration
Sunday, December 16th from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.
300 W. Harrison, Seattle, Free event with free brunch served.
Featuring award-winning poet Larry Jaffe. Reading with Larry will be Paul Nelson President of the Washington Poets Association, along with several other distinguished Seattle poets. Want to read? Email me back. An essential part of the event will be The Declaration of Human Rights Experience. This is a live dramatic reading performed by both the poets and the audience.
Contact Shelley at shelley@lgjaffe.com for more info.
3) Organic Poetry workshop offered at Richard Hugo House, starting January 24th. This is one of many fine workshops scheduled for the Winter session at the Hugo House. http://www.hugohouse.org/classes/listings/ for them all. I am partial to this one:
Organic Poetry
What's the force behind powerful poetry? Lorca called it “duende”; Charles Olson called it a “poem as high energy construct.” The process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment is sometimes called Organic Poetry, where composition is an occasion of experience or experiment in consciousness. This is an entertaining workshop for serious writers of all levels of experience who enjoy the sense of community. It includes oral interviews with poets of this tradition, lively discussions & writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.
Instructor: Paul Nelson Meets: Thursdays, Jan. 24–Feb. 28, 7–9 p.m. Min. 5 Max. 15
for obvious reasons, but take the six week deal and you'll learn things about a poetic process that may seem quite natural to you and may surprise you. See why this work reflects a paradigm shift now happening in our world, from the mechanistic to the Organismic and not a moment too soon.
4) Washington Poets Association announces Burning Word Headliners and On-Line Nomination process!
The Washington Poets Association has announced headliners for the 2008 Burning Word festival to be held April 26, 2008 on Whidbey Island. Leading the program will be Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Colorado 's Naropa University. Joining Waldman as headliners will be Cuban-born poet José Kozer; Canadian poet, essayist and professor Lionel Kearns; and poet, filmmaker, translator and poetry editor Mark Weiss of New York City. http://www.washingtonpoets.org/2008_burning_word_headliners_press_release.php
To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
Coming soon from WPA, a new on-line collection, the Bart Baxter Award (can YOU Bart?), the Porad Haiku contest and an opportunity to take a workshop from Anne Waldman. (Members get the information first. To join WPA, click: http://washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php
OK, off to Chicago in 8 days, but Red Sky is going to be an amazing evening tomorrow night. I can't tell you how important this reading was for my development as a writer and human and the two featured poets are two of the biggest reasons. We might hang out after at the Elysian for a beer or two. Please consider taking, or recommending to a friend, my Organic Poetry Workshop. I need 15 folks signed up for the classes which start on January 24th. I take all I have learned in my 13 year study of this process, including interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman and others and present that in an entertaining, paradigm-shifting experience.
Happy Solstice,Y'all. xoxo President Postcard.
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Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
For Immediate Release
(& don't you crave
immediate release?)
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word V!!! (Anne Waldman!), Write-to-yo-Mama at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, Crawlspace Reading with Comiskey and Putnam, Subtext goes Fluxus, Chap Books wanted, Oregon Short Line - New Periodical of poetry from the WEST seeks submissions, and I think that's about it.
1) Washington Poets Association announces Burning Word Headliners and On-Line Nomination process!
The Washington Poets Association has announced headliners for the 2008 Burning Word festival to be held April 26, 2008 on Whidbey Island. Leading the program will be Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Colorado's Naropa University, a noted performer and teacher.” Joining Waldman as headliners will be Cuban-born poet José Kozer; Canadian poet, essayist and professor Lionel Kearns; and poet, filmmaker, translator and poetry editor Mark Weiss of New York City. http://www.washingtonpoets.org
To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
2) Write-O-Rama!
This is the twice-a-year fundraising event Hugo House does to keep the place open. Not just a place but a thriving Writing Center, run by serious writers FOR serious writers. Dozens of writing sessions, two open mics and a party! 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; registration at 9:30 a.m. Like a walk-a-thon for your favorite writing center, meaning you go out and get pledges totaling no less than $35, but hopefully MORE. Questions to chrisleasure@hugohouse.org Saturday, December 1st, 2007, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. That Organic Poetry workshop you heard about will be offered twice, at 10A and 12N. Michael Welch has a Haibun workshop at 11A and 12N. See http://www.hugohouse.org/giving/writeorama/
3) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years. A reunion of Seattle's longest-running open mic, featuring Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House. aviaboss@msn.com
Cabaret
$2 Donation
Friday, December 14th, 2007, 7:00 PM
4) Crawlspace Book Launch Reading & CD Release Party: A Poem by Daniel Comiskey & C.E. Putnam, Sunday, December 2, 2007 -- 7:30 pm Rendezvous JewelBox Theater 2322 2nd Ave. -- Seattle, WA. Two of the most humorous SUBTEXT poets combine forces for what promises to be an engaging evening of poetry. See you Sunday.
5) Subtext Fluxus. (Speaking of Subtext)
WHAT: NONSEQUITUR & SUBTEXT READING SERIES PRESENT: Legendary Fluxus artist ALISON KNOWLES
WHEN: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 8 PM
WHERE: Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N (4th floor)
Seattle (in Wallingford, west of I-5, just south of 50th St.)
206-789-1939 and http://gschapel.blogspot.com
Alison Knowles, a pioneering visual/book/sound artist and key participant in the legendary Fluxus group, presents an intermedia performance of her text "North Water Song," accompanied by her daughter Jessica Higgins (movement) and Joshua Selman (sound). Knowles makes her first appearance in Seattle on Wednesday, December 5 at 7:30 PM at the Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation, at the door.
This performance is presented by Nonsequitur (http://nseq.blogspot.com; 206-789-1939) and Subtext Reading Series (http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com)
Born in New York in 1933, Knowles has been closely associated with Fluxus, an international group of artists concerned with blurring the boundaries between the various artistic disciplines and everyday life. For her first appearance in Seattle, she will present "North Water Song," originally composed as a tribute to John Cage on his 75th birthday and realized as a sound work commissioned by West German Radio.
A close friend and collaborator with Cage, Knowles uses chance operations to extract random fragments from a variety of texts, including her own writings as well as Thoreau's Journal, the I Ching, and other water-related publications. This performance will include three simultaneous realizations of the score, with spoken text by Alison Knowles, movement by her daughter Jessica Higgins, and sound by Joshua Selman. Nonsequitur is especially pleased to renew our association with Ms. Knowles, having previously released her only solo CD "Frijoles Canyon" on our What Next? Recordings label.
6) Poetry Books Wanted (Not a typo!)
Seeking poets who might have an extra copy of their chapbook or book they'd be willing to donate to a lucky student. Each week, during my 8-week undergraduate poetry class, there will be a drawing to see who wins the book a poet has been generous enough to donate. The winner will be responsible for reading your book, reviewing it, and selecting a favorite poem to read to the class the following week. If you like, contact information and book price should be included so that others in the class can buy your book. Students will be STRONGLY encouraged to buy the books of poets who, after all, were kind enough to contribute a book to their education. If you're willing, please send your book (autographed would be nice) and contact and price details to:
Jeff Winke
Upper Iowa University - Milwaukee Center
620 S 76th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53214
Thanks,
Jeff Winke
jeff_winke@yahoo.com
7) Shape the Dance this Friday and Saturday
What Goes into Dance and Design? Come and be a part of the creative process!
Dance Presentation with Audience Feedback
Highlighting the long term collaboration between Choreographer Maureen Whiting and Scene Designer Etta Lilienthal
Directions: Enter Seattle University at 10th and Madison (at the I-Hop) and take a left to get to the Fine Arts Building
Call The Fine Arts Department: 206-296-5360 or Maureen Whiting Dance: 206-323-9405 for more info!
8) Oregon Short Line, a new periodical, seeks Poetry of the West (From Charles Potts)
Submission Guidelines:
· Up to 5 pages of unpublished poems with the your name on each page
· Include short bio about your work with poetry (50 words max)
· Include self-addressed stamped envelope
· For electronic submissions make sure to put the subject as: “Submission for Oregon Short Line”
· Donations accepted
· Rights revert back to poet upon publishing
· Please send chapbooks and poetry collections for review
Send Submissions and Questions to:
Jeff Pearson, editor-in-chief
223 N. 15th Ave.
Pocatello, ID 83201
Email: legoverleg@gmail.com
9) New, Grupo Condor Mexican Xmas CD includes traditional Christmas songs such as “Jingle Bells” and “White Christmas” as well as Latin melodies.
· Uniquely arranged with Latin rhythms but retain their original melodies.
· Uses Latin American instrumentation: Zampoñas, Bombos, Charango, Quenas, and Guitar.
· Features the unique voice of Nelda Reyes, from Mexico.
· Sound samples at www.grupo-condor.com/recordings.htm
www.myspace.com/grupocondor
· To purchase the CD send a check or money order for $13.00 + $1.50 (SH) to: (See the form below)
Grupo Condor
P.O Box 1573
Beaverton, OR. 97075
· Or buy the CD or individual songs by going to:
www.cdbaby.com or www.myspace.com/grupocondor
Now here's the deal. Anne Waldman is doing a workshop the day before Burning Word. WPA members get first crack at the 20 slots, so if you ain't a member, you may want to consider dropping $20 our way, even on-line at: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php benefits GALORE and we're only getting started on that aspect of the quickly-evolving org. Nominate a poet for Burning Word. Who's a NW poet who deserves a shot? Do tell.
Ugh! Was knocked out of the Haiku d'etat in the first round by a woman who had a "haiku" about her toilet, after menstruation, looking like a Jackson Pollock painting. How can I top THAT?!? Anyway, the American Sentences project rolls on with news (soon) on a chapbook of those little 17 syllable poems which, today, look something like this:
11.27.07 - Yesterday, doctors gave Dick Cheney shock treatment on the wrong organ.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
(& don't you crave
immediate release?)
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word V!!! (Anne Waldman!), Write-to-yo-Mama at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, Crawlspace Reading with Comiskey and Putnam, Subtext goes Fluxus, Chap Books wanted, Oregon Short Line - New Periodical of poetry from the WEST seeks submissions, and I think that's about it.
1) Washington Poets Association announces Burning Word Headliners and On-Line Nomination process!
The Washington Poets Association has announced headliners for the 2008 Burning Word festival to be held April 26, 2008 on Whidbey Island. Leading the program will be Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Colorado's Naropa University, a noted performer and teacher.” Joining Waldman as headliners will be Cuban-born poet José Kozer; Canadian poet, essayist and professor Lionel Kearns; and poet, filmmaker, translator and poetry editor Mark Weiss of New York City. http://www.washingtonpoets.org
To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
2) Write-O-Rama!
This is the twice-a-year fundraising event Hugo House does to keep the place open. Not just a place but a thriving Writing Center, run by serious writers FOR serious writers. Dozens of writing sessions, two open mics and a party! 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; registration at 9:30 a.m. Like a walk-a-thon for your favorite writing center, meaning you go out and get pledges totaling no less than $35, but hopefully MORE. Questions to chrisleasure@hugohouse.org Saturday, December 1st, 2007, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. That Organic Poetry workshop you heard about will be offered twice, at 10A and 12N. Michael Welch has a Haibun workshop at 11A and 12N. See http://www.hugohouse.org/giving/writeorama/
3) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years. A reunion of Seattle's longest-running open mic, featuring Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House. aviaboss@msn.com
Cabaret
$2 Donation
Friday, December 14th, 2007, 7:00 PM
4) Crawlspace Book Launch Reading & CD Release Party: A Poem by Daniel Comiskey & C.E. Putnam, Sunday, December 2, 2007 -- 7:30 pm Rendezvous JewelBox Theater 2322 2nd Ave. -- Seattle, WA. Two of the most humorous SUBTEXT poets combine forces for what promises to be an engaging evening of poetry. See you Sunday.
5) Subtext Fluxus. (Speaking of Subtext)
WHAT: NONSEQUITUR & SUBTEXT READING SERIES PRESENT: Legendary Fluxus artist ALISON KNOWLES
WHEN: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 8 PM
WHERE: Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N (4th floor)
Seattle (in Wallingford, west of I-5, just south of 50th St.)
206-789-1939 and http://gschapel.blogspot.com
Alison Knowles, a pioneering visual/book/sound artist and key participant in the legendary Fluxus group, presents an intermedia performance of her text "North Water Song," accompanied by her daughter Jessica Higgins (movement) and Joshua Selman (sound). Knowles makes her first appearance in Seattle on Wednesday, December 5 at 7:30 PM at the Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation, at the door.
This performance is presented by Nonsequitur (http://nseq.blogspot.com; 206-789-1939) and Subtext Reading Series (http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com)
Born in New York in 1933, Knowles has been closely associated with Fluxus, an international group of artists concerned with blurring the boundaries between the various artistic disciplines and everyday life. For her first appearance in Seattle, she will present "North Water Song," originally composed as a tribute to John Cage on his 75th birthday and realized as a sound work commissioned by West German Radio.
A close friend and collaborator with Cage, Knowles uses chance operations to extract random fragments from a variety of texts, including her own writings as well as Thoreau's Journal, the I Ching, and other water-related publications. This performance will include three simultaneous realizations of the score, with spoken text by Alison Knowles, movement by her daughter Jessica Higgins, and sound by Joshua Selman. Nonsequitur is especially pleased to renew our association with Ms. Knowles, having previously released her only solo CD "Frijoles Canyon" on our What Next? Recordings label.
6) Poetry Books Wanted (Not a typo!)
Seeking poets who might have an extra copy of their chapbook or book they'd be willing to donate to a lucky student. Each week, during my 8-week undergraduate poetry class, there will be a drawing to see who wins the book a poet has been generous enough to donate. The winner will be responsible for reading your book, reviewing it, and selecting a favorite poem to read to the class the following week. If you like, contact information and book price should be included so that others in the class can buy your book. Students will be STRONGLY encouraged to buy the books of poets who, after all, were kind enough to contribute a book to their education. If you're willing, please send your book (autographed would be nice) and contact and price details to:
Jeff Winke
Upper Iowa University - Milwaukee Center
620 S 76th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53214
Thanks,
Jeff Winke
jeff_winke@yahoo.com
7) Shape the Dance this Friday and Saturday
What Goes into Dance and Design? Come and be a part of the creative process!
Dance Presentation with Audience Feedback
Highlighting the long term collaboration between Choreographer Maureen Whiting and Scene Designer Etta Lilienthal
Directions: Enter Seattle University at 10th and Madison (at the I-Hop) and take a left to get to the Fine Arts Building
Call The Fine Arts Department: 206-296-5360 or Maureen Whiting Dance: 206-323-9405 for more info!
8) Oregon Short Line, a new periodical, seeks Poetry of the West (From Charles Potts)
Submission Guidelines:
· Up to 5 pages of unpublished poems with the your name on each page
· Include short bio about your work with poetry (50 words max)
· Include self-addressed stamped envelope
· For electronic submissions make sure to put the subject as: “Submission for Oregon Short Line”
· Donations accepted
· Rights revert back to poet upon publishing
· Please send chapbooks and poetry collections for review
Send Submissions and Questions to:
Jeff Pearson, editor-in-chief
223 N. 15th Ave.
Pocatello, ID 83201
Email: legoverleg@gmail.com
9) New, Grupo Condor Mexican Xmas CD includes traditional Christmas songs such as “Jingle Bells” and “White Christmas” as well as Latin melodies.
· Uniquely arranged with Latin rhythms but retain their original melodies.
· Uses Latin American instrumentation: Zampoñas, Bombos, Charango, Quenas, and Guitar.
· Features the unique voice of Nelda Reyes, from Mexico.
· Sound samples at www.grupo-condor.com/recordings.htm
www.myspace.com/grupocondor
· To purchase the CD send a check or money order for $13.00 + $1.50 (SH) to: (See the form below)
Grupo Condor
P.O Box 1573
Beaverton, OR. 97075
· Or buy the CD or individual songs by going to:
www.cdbaby.com or www.myspace.com/grupocondor
Now here's the deal. Anne Waldman is doing a workshop the day before Burning Word. WPA members get first crack at the 20 slots, so if you ain't a member, you may want to consider dropping $20 our way, even on-line at: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php benefits GALORE and we're only getting started on that aspect of the quickly-evolving org. Nominate a poet for Burning Word. Who's a NW poet who deserves a shot? Do tell.
Ugh! Was knocked out of the Haiku d'etat in the first round by a woman who had a "haiku" about her toilet, after menstruation, looking like a Jackson Pollock painting. How can I top THAT?!? Anyway, the American Sentences project rolls on with news (soon) on a chapbook of those little 17 syllable poems which, today, look something like this:
11.27.07 - Yesterday, doctors gave Dick Cheney shock treatment on the wrong organ.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, We Could Eat Gyros (Just for One Day), Brian Turner, Teach at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, IoNS One Minute Shift Video, A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA, Soul Food, Voices in Wartime, Open Books and something too disgusting to even reference here. Really. Lawd hep us!
1) Hugo House presents We Could Be Heroes
The poet Brian Turner will be writing something new on the topic of heroes (he said a few words about the project here: http://www.hugohouse.org/events/turner_interview/). He's joining Jack Hitt (journalist for This American Life and New York Times Magazine), Ellen Forney (graphic novelist - she did "I Love Led Zeppelin," and the young hip-hop duo Canary Sing. The reading is at 7:30 p.m. Friday - it's all brand new, never before heard work - and there is a party with food, live jazz and wonderful free Elysian beer. Then Brian is teaching a class the next day on writing poems from the ordinary (brianmcguigan@hugohouse.org is the contact for the class). Did I mention free beer?
Tickets are at www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/2500
2) Teach at Hugo House (from Alix Wilbur)
Dear Ones—I can’t believe it! The clocks *just* fell back an hour, yet here I am already leaping forward to solicit class proposals for the spring quarter in 2008!
Next year, spring quarter begins April 8 and runs (roughly) through May 17th. We’ll be looking for reading classes, writing classes, six-week and one- and two-day classes. Classes meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 4-6, and 7-9 (and on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the day, 10-12) and on Saturdays, 10-12 (six week classes) or 1-5 (one day classes). Ask Alix for the template for submitting a class proposal. I ask that you follow this format and return your proposal to me via email no later than December 3rd, 2007 .
If you know of someone who would like to teach a class at Hugo House but never has before, please feel free to forward this email, or have them go to our website, click on classes, and follow the link from there.
Alix Wilber
Program Director
Richard Hugo House
(206) 322-7030
3) A Win for Watada and Peace.
A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA
On Thursday, November 8th, supporters of Lt. Watada rejoiced to learn of the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle to halt any further court martial proceedings of Lt. Ehren Watada until the conclusion of the habeas corpus proceedings.
The court held that Lt. Watada is likely to succeed at demonstrating that the military judge acted 'irrationally, irresponsibly, precipitately' and abused his 'discretion,' that the judge failed to consider feasible alternatives to a mistrial and there was no good reason for having stopped the trial in February, 2007.
Incredibly, the Army has announced its intent to file briefs in U.S. District Court to try to prevent the injunction from becoming permanent.
VIGIL SATURDAY, NOV. 17 & SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE ARMY
Friends and Family of Lt. Watada encourage Watada supporters everywhere to organize vigils on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month until Lt. Watada is discharged from the Army.
LET'S MAKE THE NOVEMBER 17TH VIGIL ESPECIALLY NOTICEABLE AND SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE -- IT'S TIME FOR THE ARMY TO DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST LT. WATADA, AND IT'S TIME FOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ORGANIZATIONS & PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION TO SPEAK OUT:
* No 2nd court martial for Lt. Watada!
* Drop all charges against Lt. Watada!
* Release Lt. Watada and grant him an honorable discharge!
November 2007: "WRITE & THANK LT WATADA" Campaign
The season of Thanksgiving is the optimum time for us to express appreciation and stand tall with Lt. Ehren Watada. He remains the single military officer to very publicly oppose the war. Lt. Watada stated his reasons clearly and each day exhibits great courage in his lonely military environment.
For his act of conscience in refusing to deploy to Iraq, the military tried him once unsuccessfully. By attempting to convene a second trial, they violate his rights under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects any constituent -- military or civilian -- from being tried twice for the same charges, when the reason for ending the trial was arbitrary and an abuse of judicial discretion.
We thank Lt. Watada for remaining steadfast in his belief that the Iraq War is illegal and unconstitutional. Metaphorically, he is the lone person standing before the tank. As Lt. Watada continues to be prosecuted, let us tell him and the world that he is recognized. He is appreciated, and he is not alone.
At this time of Thanksgiving, keep Lt. Watada's case alive and vital! Send a note of thanks to acknowledge his true patriotism and ethical, responsible understanding of duty as a citizen and as a military officer.
Encourage others and convey your message to Lt. Watada via e-mail to action@thankyoult.org or via postcard addressed to:
Lt. Ehren Watada
P.O. Box 9727
Seattle, WA 98209-0727
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) IONS One Minute Shift
Take a minute to shift, with
“The Wonder of You,” featuring Deepak Chopra
In this one-minute video, Deepak explores the mystery of your body in its growth from a single cell to a symphony of activities guided by an inner intelligence that mirrors the wisdom of the universe.
Please share his beautiful message widely!
http://oneminuteshift.com/videos/wonder_of_you
Deepak Chopra
Author, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
www.deepakchopra.com
6) SOUL FOOD IN REDMOND? NO, POETRY. REALLY.
From J. Lana Ayers:
Join us for SoulFood Poetry Night and help spread the word!
Thursday, November 15th at 7pm
SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond , WA.
Featured readers Denise Calvetti Michaels and Suma Subramaniam. Open mic follows. Free. Contact SoulFood Books at 425-881-5309.
Denise Calvetti Michaels writes poetry and memoir with new work forthcoming in City Works Press, Crosscurrents, Dreams: Poetry on Buses (2007), Paterson Literary Review, and Kent State University Press. Her work can be found in anthologies such as: In Praise of Farmland (Whit Press, 2003) and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Woman on Food and Culture (Feminist Press, 2002). Denise teaches psychology and human relations at Cascadia Community College where she coordinates service learning. She earned an MA in human development from Pacific Oaks College and in 2004 received the Crosscurrents prize for poetry from the Washington Community College Humanities Association. In 2001 Denise and her colleagues at the King County Child Care Program received the Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for their work in King County Human Services to address institutional racism.
Suma Subramaniam’s beginnings as a poet and writer coincided with her meeting the man whom she was to marry in 2005 and who directly or indirectly appears in most of her writing. She has an MBA in human resources and lives in Woodinville, Washington with her husband and dog. She is a member of Striped Water Poets, a roundtable critique group that meets in Auburn and is also member of the editorial board of Kritya, a journal of poetry. She has been published in Kritya, Thanalonline, Muscadine Lines, and Edgz Poetry journals.
7) UBU Web
UbuWeb
http://ubu.com
UbuWeb Featured Resources: November 2007
Selected by Christof Migone
1. Brion Gysin "I Am" Machine-poem (1960)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gysin_brion/Gysin-Brion_I-Am.mp3
2. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter"
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/zweig/zweig1.html
3. Gregory Whitehead "Pressures of the Unspeakable"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-We_All_Scream_Alone_1992.mp3
4. R. Henry Nigl "Shout Art
"http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Nigl/R-Henry-Nigl_Shout-%20Art.mp3
5. Sam Taylor Wood, from "Stoppage"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/stoppage/Stoppage_05.mp3
6. François Dufrêne, "Tenu-tenu" Crirythme (1958)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dufrene_francois/Dufrene-Francois_Tenu-tenu.mp3
7. John Giorno "I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/Youre-The-Guy_06_dont_need_it.mp3
8. Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon "The Message"
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/365/08/365-Days-Project-08-01-dobson-georgina-and-simon-cupboard-the-message-1996.mp3
9. Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Television Interview" (1961)
http://www.ubu.com/film/celine.html
10. Adrian Piper "Here and Now"
http://www.ubu.com/concept/piper_here.html
8)Voices in Wartime Education Project (From Andy Himes)
"I want to share the words expressed by people in this and other wars. They come from a new book called "Voices in Wartime." It contains profoundly moving and often poetic thoughts from brave U.S. soldiers, loved ones and Iraqis....I urge every American to pick up a copy and read it."
Congressman Jim McDermott (WA) in a 2007 speech made on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
What priority should our nation give to healing the trauma of war and educating our youth to prevent future conflict? The Voices in Wartime Education Project has a simple, innovative, and powerful idea: Use art and education to transform the consciousness of young people. Give teachers and students a way to explore the most important and terrifying issues of our day. Create a dialogue in which all voices can be heard, and all points of view included, without engendering fear, hatred, or anger.
Would you please consider a gift to the Voices in Wartime Education Project today, and help us to change the world in 2008? Your investment can help create positive social change in the United States at the dawn of the most dangerous century in human history.
* $1000 - places the Voices in Wartime DVD and Curricula in ten school media centers, for use by up to 100 teachers
* $500 - provides a scholarship for ten teachers attending a workshop on using story, poetry, and oral history in the classroom
* $250 - connects a veteran from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq with a story to tell to engaged high school students
* $100 - enables a community college class to report on how the Voices in Wartime curricula has changed their understanding of war and trauma
PS. You can also make your gift online at http://voicesinwartime.org/donate.htm
9) Open Books
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
2414 N. 45th St. / Seattle, WA 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday-Thursday 12-6*
*early closure, Thursday, 11/15, 5 PM
Friday & Saturday 12-7
First Sunday of the Month 12-4
------------------------------------------------------
2007 OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Wednesday 11/14 at 7:30
MATTHEA HARVEY
Wednesday 11/28 at 7:30
MICHAEL DUMANIS
Thursday 12/6 at 7:30
DAVID MASON
10) Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work.
Back from the Garcia/Splabman road tour of Washington as Garcia gets his tortilla suit blown around by hurricane force winds! Thanks to Leonard Orr, Lorri Lambert-Smith Charles Potts, Dan Blunck, Ed Marquand, Sam Hamill and others for the gracious hospitality for me & my New Mexican amigo. Two fishwrappers in less than a week? Blame Hugo House, but do it after paying to see Brian Turner. The Iraq vet has a blistering book of poems about his experience there. And with the average family of four now in it for $21K, ain't this war getting kind of expensive? How many trillions does Halliburton need? OK, never enough. I hope you are taking notes. It is not every day you get to experience the end of an empire.
xoxo President Postcard.
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Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
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Ilalqo, WA
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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Slaughter, WA 98002
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, We Could Eat Gyros (Just for One Day), Brian Turner, Teach at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, IoNS One Minute Shift Video, A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA, Soul Food, Voices in Wartime, Open Books and something too disgusting to even reference here. Really. Lawd hep us!
1) Hugo House presents We Could Be Heroes
The poet Brian Turner will be writing something new on the topic of heroes (he said a few words about the project here: http://www.hugohouse.org/events/turner_interview/). He's joining Jack Hitt (journalist for This American Life and New York Times Magazine), Ellen Forney (graphic novelist - she did "I Love Led Zeppelin," and the young hip-hop duo Canary Sing. The reading is at 7:30 p.m. Friday - it's all brand new, never before heard work - and there is a party with food, live jazz and wonderful free Elysian beer. Then Brian is teaching a class the next day on writing poems from the ordinary (brianmcguigan@hugohouse.org is the contact for the class). Did I mention free beer?
Tickets are at www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/2500
2) Teach at Hugo House (from Alix Wilbur)
Dear Ones—I can’t believe it! The clocks *just* fell back an hour, yet here I am already leaping forward to solicit class proposals for the spring quarter in 2008!
Next year, spring quarter begins April 8 and runs (roughly) through May 17th. We’ll be looking for reading classes, writing classes, six-week and one- and two-day classes. Classes meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 4-6, and 7-9 (and on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the day, 10-12) and on Saturdays, 10-12 (six week classes) or 1-5 (one day classes). Ask Alix for the template for submitting a class proposal. I ask that you follow this format and return your proposal to me via email no later than December 3rd, 2007 .
If you know of someone who would like to teach a class at Hugo House but never has before, please feel free to forward this email, or have them go to our website, click on classes, and follow the link from there.
Alix Wilber
Program Director
Richard Hugo House
(206) 322-7030
3) A Win for Watada and Peace.
A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA
On Thursday, November 8th, supporters of Lt. Watada rejoiced to learn of the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle to halt any further court martial proceedings of Lt. Ehren Watada until the conclusion of the habeas corpus proceedings.
The court held that Lt. Watada is likely to succeed at demonstrating that the military judge acted 'irrationally, irresponsibly, precipitately' and abused his 'discretion,' that the judge failed to consider feasible alternatives to a mistrial and there was no good reason for having stopped the trial in February, 2007.
Incredibly, the Army has announced its intent to file briefs in U.S. District Court to try to prevent the injunction from becoming permanent.
VIGIL SATURDAY, NOV. 17 & SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE ARMY
Friends and Family of Lt. Watada encourage Watada supporters everywhere to organize vigils on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month until Lt. Watada is discharged from the Army.
LET'S MAKE THE NOVEMBER 17TH VIGIL ESPECIALLY NOTICEABLE AND SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE -- IT'S TIME FOR THE ARMY TO DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST LT. WATADA, AND IT'S TIME FOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ORGANIZATIONS & PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION TO SPEAK OUT:
* No 2nd court martial for Lt. Watada!
* Drop all charges against Lt. Watada!
* Release Lt. Watada and grant him an honorable discharge!
November 2007: "WRITE & THANK LT WATADA" Campaign
The season of Thanksgiving is the optimum time for us to express appreciation and stand tall with Lt. Ehren Watada. He remains the single military officer to very publicly oppose the war. Lt. Watada stated his reasons clearly and each day exhibits great courage in his lonely military environment.
For his act of conscience in refusing to deploy to Iraq, the military tried him once unsuccessfully. By attempting to convene a second trial, they violate his rights under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects any constituent -- military or civilian -- from being tried twice for the same charges, when the reason for ending the trial was arbitrary and an abuse of judicial discretion.
We thank Lt. Watada for remaining steadfast in his belief that the Iraq War is illegal and unconstitutional. Metaphorically, he is the lone person standing before the tank. As Lt. Watada continues to be prosecuted, let us tell him and the world that he is recognized. He is appreciated, and he is not alone.
At this time of Thanksgiving, keep Lt. Watada's case alive and vital! Send a note of thanks to acknowledge his true patriotism and ethical, responsible understanding of duty as a citizen and as a military officer.
Encourage others and convey your message to Lt. Watada via e-mail to action@thankyoult.org or via postcard addressed to:
Lt. Ehren Watada
P.O. Box 9727
Seattle, WA 98209-0727
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) IONS One Minute Shift
Take a minute to shift, with
“The Wonder of You,” featuring Deepak Chopra
In this one-minute video, Deepak explores the mystery of your body in its growth from a single cell to a symphony of activities guided by an inner intelligence that mirrors the wisdom of the universe.
Please share his beautiful message widely!
http://oneminuteshift.com/videos/wonder_of_you
Deepak Chopra
Author, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
www.deepakchopra.com
6) SOUL FOOD IN REDMOND? NO, POETRY. REALLY.
From J. Lana Ayers:
Join us for SoulFood Poetry Night and help spread the word!
Thursday, November 15th at 7pm
SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond , WA.
Featured readers Denise Calvetti Michaels and Suma Subramaniam. Open mic follows. Free. Contact SoulFood Books at 425-881-5309.
Denise Calvetti Michaels writes poetry and memoir with new work forthcoming in City Works Press, Crosscurrents, Dreams: Poetry on Buses (2007), Paterson Literary Review, and Kent State University Press. Her work can be found in anthologies such as: In Praise of Farmland (Whit Press, 2003) and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Woman on Food and Culture (Feminist Press, 2002). Denise teaches psychology and human relations at Cascadia Community College where she coordinates service learning. She earned an MA in human development from Pacific Oaks College and in 2004 received the Crosscurrents prize for poetry from the Washington Community College Humanities Association. In 2001 Denise and her colleagues at the King County Child Care Program received the Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for their work in King County Human Services to address institutional racism.
Suma Subramaniam’s beginnings as a poet and writer coincided with her meeting the man whom she was to marry in 2005 and who directly or indirectly appears in most of her writing. She has an MBA in human resources and lives in Woodinville, Washington with her husband and dog. She is a member of Striped Water Poets, a roundtable critique group that meets in Auburn and is also member of the editorial board of Kritya, a journal of poetry. She has been published in Kritya, Thanalonline, Muscadine Lines, and Edgz Poetry journals.
7) UBU Web
UbuWeb
http://ubu.com
UbuWeb Featured Resources: November 2007
Selected by Christof Migone
1. Brion Gysin "I Am" Machine-poem (1960)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gysin_brion/Gysin-Brion_I-Am.mp3
2. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter"
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/zweig/zweig1.html
3. Gregory Whitehead "Pressures of the Unspeakable"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-We_All_Scream_Alone_1992.mp3
4. R. Henry Nigl "Shout Art
"http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Nigl/R-Henry-Nigl_Shout-%20Art.mp3
5. Sam Taylor Wood, from "Stoppage"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/stoppage/Stoppage_05.mp3
6. François Dufrêne, "Tenu-tenu" Crirythme (1958)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dufrene_francois/Dufrene-Francois_Tenu-tenu.mp3
7. John Giorno "I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/Youre-The-Guy_06_dont_need_it.mp3
8. Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon "The Message"
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/365/08/365-Days-Project-08-01-dobson-georgina-and-simon-cupboard-the-message-1996.mp3
9. Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Television Interview" (1961)
http://www.ubu.com/film/celine.html
10. Adrian Piper "Here and Now"
http://www.ubu.com/concept/piper_here.html
8)Voices in Wartime Education Project (From Andy Himes)
"I want to share the words expressed by people in this and other wars. They come from a new book called "Voices in Wartime." It contains profoundly moving and often poetic thoughts from brave U.S. soldiers, loved ones and Iraqis....I urge every American to pick up a copy and read it."
Congressman Jim McDermott (WA) in a 2007 speech made on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
What priority should our nation give to healing the trauma of war and educating our youth to prevent future conflict? The Voices in Wartime Education Project has a simple, innovative, and powerful idea: Use art and education to transform the consciousness of young people. Give teachers and students a way to explore the most important and terrifying issues of our day. Create a dialogue in which all voices can be heard, and all points of view included, without engendering fear, hatred, or anger.
Would you please consider a gift to the Voices in Wartime Education Project today, and help us to change the world in 2008? Your investment can help create positive social change in the United States at the dawn of the most dangerous century in human history.
* $1000 - places the Voices in Wartime DVD and Curricula in ten school media centers, for use by up to 100 teachers
* $500 - provides a scholarship for ten teachers attending a workshop on using story, poetry, and oral history in the classroom
* $250 - connects a veteran from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq with a story to tell to engaged high school students
* $100 - enables a community college class to report on how the Voices in Wartime curricula has changed their understanding of war and trauma
PS. You can also make your gift online at http://voicesinwartime.org/donate.htm
9) Open Books
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
2414 N. 45th St. / Seattle, WA 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday-Thursday 12-6*
*early closure, Thursday, 11/15, 5 PM
Friday & Saturday 12-7
First Sunday of the Month 12-4
------------------------------------------------------
2007 OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Wednesday 11/14 at 7:30
MATTHEA HARVEY
Wednesday 11/28 at 7:30
MICHAEL DUMANIS
Thursday 12/6 at 7:30
DAVID MASON
10) Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work.
Back from the Garcia/Splabman road tour of Washington as Garcia gets his tortilla suit blown around by hurricane force winds! Thanks to Leonard Orr, Lorri Lambert-Smith Charles Potts, Dan Blunck, Ed Marquand, Sam Hamill and others for the gracious hospitality for me & my New Mexican amigo. Two fishwrappers in less than a week? Blame Hugo House, but do it after paying to see Brian Turner. The Iraq vet has a blistering book of poems about his experience there. And with the average family of four now in it for $21K, ain't this war getting kind of expensive? How many trillions does Halliburton need? OK, never enough. I hope you are taking notes. It is not every day you get to experience the end of an empire.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Golden Handcuffs Fishwrapper
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Subtext TONIGHT (Golden Handcuffs Review release party), Blue Begonia Press First Book Award, Judith Roche wins American Book Award, Red Sky Reunion, Call for Duncan papers, FCC Hearing, new Carla Bley! Whatcom Poetry Series & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) Subtext continues its monthly reading series with a special evening to celebrate the Golden Handcuffs Review - Seattle Issue Launch. This issue of GHR was edited by Lou Rowan and Joe Donahue. The reading is at the Chapel Performance Space on 7 November 2007. The reading starts at 7:30pm. Subtext invites you to join the authors and artists, most of whom will be there to meet you and read from their work, tonight, November 7th.
About Golden Handcuffs Review: The world-renowned Harry Mathews has written about Seattle's own Golden Handcuffs Review, "In letters, there is nothing like Golden Handcuffs Review, and nothing better." Rick Moody adds, "Golden Handcuffs is among the handful of truly important contemporary literary magazines. It fights the good fight for work that would otherwise want for a champion, and for this reason I read each issue with great enthusiasm."
The new issue of Golden Handcuffs celebrates Seattle writers and artists, with new essays, fiction, poetry by Curtis Bonney, Rebecca Brown, Daniel Comiskey, April De Nonno, Christine Deavel, Joseph Donahue, Diana George, Randy Hayes, Jeanne Heuving, Sarah Mangold, Ezra Mark, J.W. Marshall, Bryant Mason, Robert Mittenthal, Paul Nelson, Doug Nufer, John Olson, Roberta Olson, Deniz Perin, C.E. Putnam, Cathleen Shattuck, Craig Van Riper, Nico Vassilakis, and Maged Zaher. The artwork is by: Jaq Chartier, Randy Hayes, Brian Smale, and Alice Wheeler. See http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com At the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor, Seattle, WA; in Wallingford, 1/2 block south of 50th St., 1 block east of Meridian; 206-789-1939
2) Blue Begonia Press First Book Award
Yakima - (from Dan Peters)
I'm sending this out in my capacity as an unpaid intern at Blue Begonia Press in Yakima. We’re trying to get this out to as many poets as possible.
This is a first for Blue Begonia Press and a great opportunity for first books out there.
Here's a video of Terry Martin (who will pick the mss) and Jim Bodeen talking about the invitation (Details below)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KihtTyXW_5E
and also at
www.bluebegoniapress.blogspot.com
Pass it on and on --Dan Peters
Call for Book Manuscripts
Blue Begonia Press, independent publisher of poetry for thirty years, is accepting submissions of full-length manuscripts for publication in 2008 from poets residing in Washington State who have never published a full-length poetry book. (Chapbooks OK). We’re looking for well-crafted work that transcends the page, that moves us, that takes our breath away—poems of meditation, testimony, praise, exploration, protest, reflection, witness. Collaborative design process. Poet receives publication, 30 copies, regional distribution/promotion of book, and assistance scheduling/advertising featured readings. Deadline March 31, 2008. Send manuscript with cover sheet, title page, paginated table of contents, acknowledgments, #10 SASE for results, and $20 reading fee in form of check made out to Blue Begonia Press. Reading fee includes one copy of the book selected for publication. For complete submission guidelines and more information about Blue Begonia Press visit www.bluebegoniapress.com
3) Judith Roche Wins American Book Award!
The Before Columbus Foundation announces
Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Saturday, December 2nd, 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Oakland, CA — The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards. The 2007 winners will be formally recognized on Saturday, December 2 at Laney College Theatre, 900 Fallon Street in Oakland. The awards will take place from 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.
One 2007 American Book Award Winner:
Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body (Black Heron Press)
For more information, images, or to arrange an interview, contact Kim McMillon at (510) 228-6775.
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) READING DUNCAN READING: ESSAYS ON THE POETICS OF DERIVATION
(Edited by Stephen Collis & Graham Lyons)
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and
artists” -T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
“I draw my ‘own’ thought in reading Dante as from a well-spring.”
-Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan’s penchant for referring to himself as a ‘derivative” poet is well documented if not notorious—and the extent of his poetic derivations is readily apparent in his published works, where poem after poem enters into dialogue with a wide array of precursors and companions, great and small. Far from a
Bloomian striving against received tradition, however, Duncan’s derivations function simultaneously as poetics, as literary criticism, as self-reflection, indeed as reading. Whether read as a matter of influence, homage, or appropriation, Duncan’s poetics is clearly situated on a blurred line between the processes of reading and writing—a space where (self) expression and derivation (from others) blend so that
the poet’s “own” thought is, in practice, difficult to discern from the poet’s sources in “others” writing.What are the implications of this difficulty, this ambiguity? What possibilities issue from Duncan’s stance as at once reader and poet? How might Duncan’s derivations open out to a politics? An ethics?
READING DUNCAN READING will gather essays addressing both Duncan’s derivations from the work of other writers (the uses he makes of his sources), and derivations from Duncan’s work (the work of writers who have themselves drawn upon Duncan’s “well-spring”). The list of the former could include (but is certainly not limited to): Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Robin Blaser, Paul Celan, Jean Cocteau,
T. S. Eliot, Dante, Sigmund Freud, Thom Gunn, George Herbert, H.D., James Joyce, Denise Levertov, George MacDonald, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Olson, Edith Sitwell, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. The list of those writers whose work may in some ways be read
as flowing from Duncan’s could include: Robin Blaser, Michael Davidson, Peter Gizzi, Susan Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Ronald Johnson, Robert Kelley, Michael Palmer, Peter O’Leary, and John Tranter, amongst others.
Abstracts of 250-500 words with contact information
should be sent to Stephen Collis, scollis@sfu.ca by no
later than January 31st 2008.
6) FCC HEARINGS IN SEATTLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 from 4-11 pm!
From J. Glenn Evans: Urge all your friends to write the FCC opposing these proposed rules changes. Attend the hearing! The Federal Communications Commission is again attempting to rewrite America's media ownership rules. Potentially, companies could be allowed to own more TV and radio stations, giving us more commercialism, less independent journalism and music, and fewer diverse voices on the air. The consolidation of our media into even smaller number of owners will further endanger our democracy. It’s important that we fill the Town Hall and let the commissioners know how the Northwest feels about this. Hope to see you there!
The FCC will hold a public hearing on the issue at Town Hall Seattle on Friday, November 9 from 4-11 pm, giving you an opportunity to voice your opinion. More information on these issues, as well as this public FCC hearing and how you can testify, is available online at www.reclaimthemedia.org. I believe it is of utmost importance that you be aware of this FCC hearing so am forwarding this message on to you.
Sincerely,
J. Glenn Evans
Activist for a Better World
The Federal Communications Commission will hold the sixth and final public hearing on media ownership issues in Seattle on Friday, November 9, 2007. The hearing time, and location are as follows: 4:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Town Hall Seattle Great Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle WA 98101
7) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell)
Intersection: a spoken word opera
Friday & Saturday, December 7-8, 2007
Hugo House Theater
7:30pm
Tickets $12 at brownpapertickets.com , $14 at the door
more info www.spokenwordopera.org
We are wandering amongst ourselves
in a dark corner of brightness,
balancing on sidewalk stage lights.
At a bus stop in anywhere urban Seattle Intersection is a soup & sandwich moment served on daily life's ever changing menu. We cross paths with others on the street everyday, caught in the storyline of our own mind – but what is going on in the lives of the persons we pass? What brought them to this moment? How does our smile, our simple greeting of hello, or lack there of impact their own day-to-day play? Who are these strangers and what are we to them?
Through the combination of spoken word, modern dance, original jazz, blues and soul music Intersection is a new kind of performance art. Poetry speaks the heart, dance & music move us into recognition of the shared experience of urban existence. The three mediums together bring and undeniable synergy of feel to our unexamined sidewalk life.
Intersection includes a large cast of artists all amazing in their distinct fields. Featuring the original compositions of jazz artist and composer Dave Marriott, the oak-strong rhythms of Bassist Lamar Lofton, the percolating tunes of Tom Miller, and the soulful songs of Flora McGill – the music will be anything but background. Dancer/Choreographers Sarah Parton & Adrienne White shall display the poetics of movement to enlighten this sidewalk scene, bringing the spoken word of Angel Latterell, Amber Flame, and Seattle's own Spoonman to the narrative crescendo that is nothing less than opera.
Intersection will be an experience open for all to breathe into their recognition pours. As an accessible interaction drawing from what we think and feel.
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.
Angel
8) New Carla Bley! Keith Jarrett! Manu Katche!!!
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn
Andy Sheppard: soprano and tenor saxophones
Carla Bley: piano
Steve Swallow: bass
Billy Drummond: drums
U.S. Release date: November 6, 2007
From Carla: The closeness of sound that Andy Sheppard and Paolo Fresu share on this recording is a remarkable thing. They sound very much like one unit, extremely compatible in their approaches to their instruments. Was this a consideration from the outset, in inviting Fresu into the band?
Carla Bley is one of the most important figures in Jazz today. The intelligence of her compositions, the wit of her playing, the consciousness and sense of play she brings to the interplay of her groups is all quite remarkable. More on new releases from Keith Jarrett and Manu Katche in future Fishwrappers. http://www.ecmrecords.com ECM may be the coolest label in the world. Really. Who's #2?
9) Olympia Poetry Network: Please feel free to pass the e-mail on to other poets. Also, forgive me if you received this twice (or more!). I wanted to make sure everyone that is interested in entering the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for 2008 receives a notice. The following are the 2008 rules.
Cynthia R. Pratt
Olympia Poetry Network Board Member
Contest Rules
□ Poet must be a current resident of Washington State.
□ Contest begins: December 1, 2007.
□ Postmark deadline: January 31, 2008.
□ Limit of one poem per author, up to 2 pages in length, double spaced.
□ Must be original work submitted by author; no previously published works or works already accepted for publication.
□ Author's name must not appear on the poem.
□ Include a cover sheet containing the poem’s title, author's name, full address, phone, fax (if available), and e-mail.
□ “Lohmann Prize” should be indicated on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet.
□ Poems will not be returned.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped postcard to acknowledge receipt of the poem.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish to receive a list of winners.
□ Winners will be announced in April 2008. They will be invited and urged to read their work at the awards ceremony on June 18, 2008, in Olympia , Washington . Please keep your calendar open for that date.
□ There is no fee to enter this contest.
□ Send poems to: OPN P.O. Box 1312 Olympia , WA 98501
10) Whatcom Poetry Series now 501(c)(3)
Board of Directors— James Bertolino, Pres. • Anita K. Boyle • Susan J. Erickson
5581 Noon Road, Bellingham, WA 98226 • 360-398-7870
Dear Fans of the Whatcom Poetry Series:
We are excited to announce that in early September we applied to the Internal Revenue
Service for federal non-profit status––501(c)(3)––for the Whatcom Poetry Series. The
early response from the IRS suggests that non-profit status should soon be granted.
This means that we can apply for grant support for Whatcom Poetry Series readings
and workshops. We would then be able to pay the featured poets, and won’t need to
continually dig into our own shallow pockets to cover the various expenses involved in
putting together a poetry series––one that has become known around Washington as
first-rate. We want to schedule three events for Winter and Spring, 2008––starting in late
January. In the past few days, our committee has sent out grant applications to two local
agencies, and will continue searching for other grant possibilities.
You can help us get the series going again. We may not have grant money as soon as
January, so we are asking our poetry-loving community to pitch-in as sponsors for one or
more readings. Those who can donate $100 or more will be identified as a sponsor for a
reading, be listed on the posters and other promotional materials, be thanked personally at
the reading, and receive a special, personalized poetry gift.
Depending on such variables as travel expenses for our featured poets, we expect the cost
for each reading will run from $600 to $1000. If you can help us, please send your check,
in any amount, made out to “Whatcom Poetry Series.” Mail it to:
James Bertolino
Whatcom Poetry Series
P.O. Box 28907
Bellingham, WA 98228
As an addition to The Poet As Art reading series, the Whatcom Poetry Series plans to hold
workshops taught by well-known poets from around the Pacific Northwest, often by the
featured poets from our series. Keep your journals ready and your pens handy, for you
won’t want to miss these energizing writing opportunities.
Sincerely,
James Bertolino
October 23, 2007
10) 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts.
OK, Lit Fuse lived up to its billing. It was good to gather with other NW poet/teacher/writers and connect with folks from East of the Cascades. We do not do it often enough, although I am doing my part, traveling to the Tri-Cities to read for Leonard Orr at WSU Tri-Cities on Friday.
Subtext, consistently the most provocative and intelligent reading in Seattle, features the best literary magazine based in Seattle tonight and I am delighted to be a part of it. I hope to see you in their gorgeous space tonight.
It was great to meet Susan Schultz of Tinfish Press and see the Tinfish nook while I was on O'ahu. Some of those sunset pictures came out quite well. See my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16473&l=6c47f&id=752038625 for details.
Hey, I am officially competent in my job! It is so good to get that reinforcement! I am the best Office Skills manager on the Rez!
Finally, Ma & Pa would be celebrating 50 years of wedded bliss tonight if it weren't for the simple fact that, though they live under the same roof, they've been divorced for years. Still, Happy would-be 50th Ma & Pa!
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." --Artaud
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Subtext TONIGHT (Golden Handcuffs Review release party), Blue Begonia Press First Book Award, Judith Roche wins American Book Award, Red Sky Reunion, Call for Duncan papers, FCC Hearing, new Carla Bley! Whatcom Poetry Series & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) Subtext continues its monthly reading series with a special evening to celebrate the Golden Handcuffs Review - Seattle Issue Launch. This issue of GHR was edited by Lou Rowan and Joe Donahue. The reading is at the Chapel Performance Space on 7 November 2007. The reading starts at 7:30pm. Subtext invites you to join the authors and artists, most of whom will be there to meet you and read from their work, tonight, November 7th.
About Golden Handcuffs Review: The world-renowned Harry Mathews has written about Seattle's own Golden Handcuffs Review, "In letters, there is nothing like Golden Handcuffs Review, and nothing better." Rick Moody adds, "Golden Handcuffs is among the handful of truly important contemporary literary magazines. It fights the good fight for work that would otherwise want for a champion, and for this reason I read each issue with great enthusiasm."
The new issue of Golden Handcuffs celebrates Seattle writers and artists, with new essays, fiction, poetry by Curtis Bonney, Rebecca Brown, Daniel Comiskey, April De Nonno, Christine Deavel, Joseph Donahue, Diana George, Randy Hayes, Jeanne Heuving, Sarah Mangold, Ezra Mark, J.W. Marshall, Bryant Mason, Robert Mittenthal, Paul Nelson, Doug Nufer, John Olson, Roberta Olson, Deniz Perin, C.E. Putnam, Cathleen Shattuck, Craig Van Riper, Nico Vassilakis, and Maged Zaher. The artwork is by: Jaq Chartier, Randy Hayes, Brian Smale, and Alice Wheeler. See http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com At the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor, Seattle, WA; in Wallingford, 1/2 block south of 50th St., 1 block east of Meridian; 206-789-1939
2) Blue Begonia Press First Book Award
Yakima - (from Dan Peters)
I'm sending this out in my capacity as an unpaid intern at Blue Begonia Press in Yakima. We’re trying to get this out to as many poets as possible.
This is a first for Blue Begonia Press and a great opportunity for first books out there.
Here's a video of Terry Martin (who will pick the mss) and Jim Bodeen talking about the invitation (Details below)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KihtTyXW_5E
and also at
www.bluebegoniapress.blogspot.com
Pass it on and on --Dan Peters
Call for Book Manuscripts
Blue Begonia Press, independent publisher of poetry for thirty years, is accepting submissions of full-length manuscripts for publication in 2008 from poets residing in Washington State who have never published a full-length poetry book. (Chapbooks OK). We’re looking for well-crafted work that transcends the page, that moves us, that takes our breath away—poems of meditation, testimony, praise, exploration, protest, reflection, witness. Collaborative design process. Poet receives publication, 30 copies, regional distribution/promotion of book, and assistance scheduling/advertising featured readings. Deadline March 31, 2008. Send manuscript with cover sheet, title page, paginated table of contents, acknowledgments, #10 SASE for results, and $20 reading fee in form of check made out to Blue Begonia Press. Reading fee includes one copy of the book selected for publication. For complete submission guidelines and more information about Blue Begonia Press visit www.bluebegoniapress.com
3) Judith Roche Wins American Book Award!
The Before Columbus Foundation announces
Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Saturday, December 2nd, 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Oakland, CA — The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards. The 2007 winners will be formally recognized on Saturday, December 2 at Laney College Theatre, 900 Fallon Street in Oakland. The awards will take place from 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.
One 2007 American Book Award Winner:
Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body (Black Heron Press)
For more information, images, or to arrange an interview, contact Kim McMillon at (510) 228-6775.
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) READING DUNCAN READING: ESSAYS ON THE POETICS OF DERIVATION
(Edited by Stephen Collis & Graham Lyons)
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and
artists” -T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
“I draw my ‘own’ thought in reading Dante as from a well-spring.”
-Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan’s penchant for referring to himself as a ‘derivative” poet is well documented if not notorious—and the extent of his poetic derivations is readily apparent in his published works, where poem after poem enters into dialogue with a wide array of precursors and companions, great and small. Far from a
Bloomian striving against received tradition, however, Duncan’s derivations function simultaneously as poetics, as literary criticism, as self-reflection, indeed as reading. Whether read as a matter of influence, homage, or appropriation, Duncan’s poetics is clearly situated on a blurred line between the processes of reading and writing—a space where (self) expression and derivation (from others) blend so that
the poet’s “own” thought is, in practice, difficult to discern from the poet’s sources in “others” writing.What are the implications of this difficulty, this ambiguity? What possibilities issue from Duncan’s stance as at once reader and poet? How might Duncan’s derivations open out to a politics? An ethics?
READING DUNCAN READING will gather essays addressing both Duncan’s derivations from the work of other writers (the uses he makes of his sources), and derivations from Duncan’s work (the work of writers who have themselves drawn upon Duncan’s “well-spring”). The list of the former could include (but is certainly not limited to): Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Robin Blaser, Paul Celan, Jean Cocteau,
T. S. Eliot, Dante, Sigmund Freud, Thom Gunn, George Herbert, H.D., James Joyce, Denise Levertov, George MacDonald, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Olson, Edith Sitwell, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. The list of those writers whose work may in some ways be read
as flowing from Duncan’s could include: Robin Blaser, Michael Davidson, Peter Gizzi, Susan Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Ronald Johnson, Robert Kelley, Michael Palmer, Peter O’Leary, and John Tranter, amongst others.
Abstracts of 250-500 words with contact information
should be sent to Stephen Collis, scollis@sfu.ca by no
later than January 31st 2008.
6) FCC HEARINGS IN SEATTLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 from 4-11 pm!
From J. Glenn Evans: Urge all your friends to write the FCC opposing these proposed rules changes. Attend the hearing! The Federal Communications Commission is again attempting to rewrite America's media ownership rules. Potentially, companies could be allowed to own more TV and radio stations, giving us more commercialism, less independent journalism and music, and fewer diverse voices on the air. The consolidation of our media into even smaller number of owners will further endanger our democracy. It’s important that we fill the Town Hall and let the commissioners know how the Northwest feels about this. Hope to see you there!
The FCC will hold a public hearing on the issue at Town Hall Seattle on Friday, November 9 from 4-11 pm, giving you an opportunity to voice your opinion. More information on these issues, as well as this public FCC hearing and how you can testify, is available online at www.reclaimthemedia.org. I believe it is of utmost importance that you be aware of this FCC hearing so am forwarding this message on to you.
Sincerely,
J. Glenn Evans
Activist for a Better World
The Federal Communications Commission will hold the sixth and final public hearing on media ownership issues in Seattle on Friday, November 9, 2007. The hearing time, and location are as follows: 4:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Town Hall Seattle Great Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle WA 98101
7) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell
Intersection: a spoken word opera
Friday & Saturday, December 7-8, 2007
Hugo House Theater
7:30pm
Tickets $12 at brownpapertickets.com , $14 at the door
more info www.spokenwordopera.org
We are wandering amongst ourselves
in a dark corner of brightness,
balancing on sidewalk stage lights.
At a bus stop in anywhere urban Seattle Intersection is a soup & sandwich moment served on daily life's ever changing menu. We cross paths with others on the street everyday, caught in the storyline of our own mind – but what is going on in the lives of the persons we pass? What brought them to this moment? How does our smile, our simple greeting of hello, or lack there of impact their own day-to-day play? Who are these strangers and what are we to them?
Through the combination of spoken word, modern dance, original jazz, blues and soul music Intersection is a new kind of performance art. Poetry speaks the heart, dance & music move us into recognition of the shared experience of urban existence. The three mediums together bring and undeniable synergy of feel to our unexamined sidewalk life.
Intersection includes a large cast of artists all amazing in their distinct fields. Featuring the original compositions of jazz artist and composer Dave Marriott, the oak-strong rhythms of Bassist Lamar Lofton, the percolating tunes of Tom Miller, and the soulful songs of Flora McGill – the music will be anything but background. Dancer/Choreographers Sarah Parton & Adrienne White shall display the poetics of movement to enlighten this sidewalk scene, bringing the spoken word of Angel Latterell, Amber Flame, and Seattle's own Spoonman to the narrative crescendo that is nothing less than opera.
Intersection will be an experience open for all to breathe into their recognition pours. As an accessible interaction drawing from what we think and feel.
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.
Angel
8) New Carla Bley! Keith Jarrett! Manu Katche!!!
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn
Andy Sheppard: soprano and tenor saxophones
Carla Bley: piano
Steve Swallow: bass
Billy Drummond: drums
U.S. Release date: November 6, 2007
From Carla: The closeness of sound that Andy Sheppard and Paolo Fresu share on this recording is a remarkable thing. They sound very much like one unit, extremely compatible in their approaches to their instruments. Was this a consideration from the outset, in inviting Fresu into the band?
Carla Bley is one of the most important figures in Jazz today. The intelligence of her compositions, the wit of her playing, the consciousness and sense of play she brings to the interplay of her groups is all quite remarkable. More on new releases from Keith Jarrett and Manu Katche in future Fishwrappers. http://www.ecmrecords.com ECM may be the coolest label in the world. Really. Who's #2?
9) Olympia Poetry Network: Please feel free to pass the e-mail on to other poets. Also, forgive me if you received this twice (or more!). I wanted to make sure everyone that is interested in entering the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for 2008 receives a notice. The following are the 2008 rules.
Cynthia R. Pratt
Olympia Poetry Network Board Member
Contest Rules
□ Poet must be a current resident of Washington State.
□ Contest begins: December 1, 2007.
□ Postmark deadline: January 31, 2008.
□ Limit of one poem per author, up to 2 pages in length, double spaced.
□ Must be original work submitted by author; no previously published works or works already accepted for publication.
□ Author's name must not appear on the poem.
□ Include a cover sheet containing the poem’s title, author's name, full address, phone, fax (if available), and e-mail.
□ “Lohmann Prize” should be indicated on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet.
□ Poems will not be returned.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped postcard to acknowledge receipt of the poem.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish to receive a list of winners.
□ Winners will be announced in April 2008. They will be invited and urged to read their work at the awards ceremony on June 18, 2008, in Olympia , Washington . Please keep your calendar open for that date.
□ There is no fee to enter this contest.
□ Send poems to: OPN P.O. Box 1312 Olympia , WA 98501
10) Whatcom Poetry Series now 501(c)(3)
Board of Directors— James Bertolino, Pres. • Anita K. Boyle • Susan J. Erickson
5581 Noon Road, Bellingham, WA 98226 • 360-398-7870
Dear Fans of the Whatcom Poetry Series:
We are excited to announce that in early September we applied to the Internal Revenue
Service for federal non-profit status––501(c)(3)––for the Whatcom Poetry Series. The
early response from the IRS suggests that non-profit status should soon be granted.
This means that we can apply for grant support for Whatcom Poetry Series readings
and workshops. We would then be able to pay the featured poets, and won’t need to
continually dig into our own shallow pockets to cover the various expenses involved in
putting together a poetry series––one that has become known around Washington as
first-rate. We want to schedule three events for Winter and Spring, 2008––starting in late
January. In the past few days, our committee has sent out grant applications to two local
agencies, and will continue searching for other grant possibilities.
You can help us get the series going again. We may not have grant money as soon as
January, so we are asking our poetry-loving community to pitch-in as sponsors for one or
more readings. Those who can donate $100 or more will be identified as a sponsor for a
reading, be listed on the posters and other promotional materials, be thanked personally at
the reading, and receive a special, personalized poetry gift.
Depending on such variables as travel expenses for our featured poets, we expect the cost
for each reading will run from $600 to $1000. If you can help us, please send your check,
in any amount, made out to “Whatcom Poetry Series.” Mail it to:
James Bertolino
Whatcom Poetry Series
P.O. Box 28907
Bellingham, WA 98228
As an addition to The Poet As Art reading series, the Whatcom Poetry Series plans to hold
workshops taught by well-known poets from around the Pacific Northwest, often by the
featured poets from our series. Keep your journals ready and your pens handy, for you
won’t want to miss these energizing writing opportunities.
Sincerely,
James Bertolino
October 23, 2007
10) 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts.
OK, Lit Fuse lived up to its billing. It was good to gather with other NW poet/teacher/writers and connect with folks from East of the Cascades. We do not do it often enough, although I am doing my part, traveling to the Tri-Cities to read for Leonard Orr at WSU Tri-Cities on Friday.
Subtext, consistently the most provocative and intelligent reading in Seattle, features the best literary magazine based in Seattle tonight and I am delighted to be a part of it. I hope to see you in their gorgeous space tonight.
It was great to meet Susan Schultz of Tinfish Press and see the Tinfish nook while I was on O'ahu. Some of those sunset pictures came out quite well. See my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16473&l=6c47f&id=752038625 for details.
Hey, I am officially competent in my job! It is so good to get that reinforcement! I am the best Office Skills manager on the Rez!
Finally, Ma & Pa would be celebrating 50 years of wedded bliss tonight if it weren't for the simple fact that, though they live under the same roof, they've been divorced for years. Still, Happy would-be 50th Ma & Pa!
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." --Artaud
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Lit Fuse (weekend of poetry workshops) in Tieton, Lynne McTaggart TONIGHT at East West Books, a cool WIKIPEDIA video, link to Sam Hamill interview, CALL for Artists & Stage Techs, JOB OPENING for folks interested in LOCAL BUSINESSES, SPD Poets Theater CALL, Jack Straw Writer's Program seeks applications, Cascadia Convergence, Bus Poems, Gabriola Island Poetry Festival & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop (With a much lower price and home-stay opportunities to make it quite inexpensive.)
* Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
* Featuring: Susan Rich
* http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime and others.
2) Washington Poets Name New Director to Lead Burning Word Festival
SEATTLE—The Washington Poets Association has named Sue Ellen White as the new director of the Burning Word festival. The festival is held the last Saturday of April at Whidbey Island’s scenic Greenbank Farm and produced annually by the poets organization. White is a communications professional with long experience in journalism and editing and served as communication manager at Hedgebrook writers retreat. A resident of Whidbey Island, she will lead the fifth annual festival on April 26, 2008, as it becomes the largest such event in the state. Eleventh Hour Productions, which produced the Seattle Poetry Festival, announced in September it was closing the organization.
“In the wake of the Seattle Poetry Festival's demise, Sue Ellen's expertise is even more critical to the Northwest literary arts community and for those interested in experiencing world class poetry in this part of the world,” said Paul Nelson, board president of the WPA. The organization is the largest association of poets in Washington. http://www.WashingtonPoets.org
3) Donate to Wikipedia. http://wikimediafoundation.org/donate/2007/psa/ for a very inspiring video featuring Wikipedia's Founder. In an time when it seems hopeless to act in a time of endless war, this video shows that things are changing and the Internet is playing an important role.
4)Lynne McTaggart Tonight at East West Books in Seattle, 7PM, 6500 Roosevelt Way N.E.
“Intention” has become the latest New Age buzzword. But what does it mean? And how exactly can one become an efficient “intender”? LYNNE MCTAGGART’S new book, The Intention Experiment, picks up where her groundbreaking bestseller The Field left off. It offers some of the very latest scientific evidence about the power of your own thoughts and mind-blowing new evidence about the nature of reality. http://www.ewbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=356275
5) Sam Hamill interviewed in Connecticut http://www.connpost.com/ci_7227174?source=most_emailed
..."You have to be open to the experience of the poetry and allow things to happen organically, so the political references in 'Measured by Stone' arise naturally They are basically the politics I've embodied my entire adult life," he added.
Although Hamill founded Poets Against War and oversees the quarterly publication of the group's Internet newsletter, he doesn't believe "messages" should stick out of good poetry. "If you approach the writing of a poem with a determined agenda you're really in deep poop," the writer said, with one of the many hearty laughs that
punctuated the interview.
6) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell)
I am emailing you all to tell you about my production scheduled for December 7 &8th at the Hugo House Theater, or you are already working on it. Below is a brief description of what the performance piece will be and involve. Attached is a work sample from the piece for those really curious. Below the description is the list of artists and techs I am still looking for volunteers for. If you could pass the information below to anyone in your respective circles who you may think will be interested I would greatly appreciate it.
many thanks! Angel
7) Job Announcement from Michael Shuman shuman@igc.org
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please forgive this impersonal message, but I’d be grateful if you could circulate, post, or otherwise share the attached job announcement. It might be of interest to people in the fields of social enterprise, community development, economics, and public policy.
I’m now working under two grants that follow up some of the arguments I made in my recent book, “The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition.” One of the grants is from the Gates Foundation compiling global case studies of local food businesses; and the other from the Kellogg Foundation analyzing the harmful effects of state business subsidies of rural local businesses.
I’m looking for a Project Associate who will help with research, writing, web-site building, blogging, and marketing. The position pays in the $40-50k range, lasts one year (possibly longer), and will be based in my office in downtown Takoma Park , Maryland . While I don’t have a budget to fly people in from around the country, I’d welcome applications from outside the Washington area.
Many thanks for your help!
Best, Michael
Michael H. Shuman
Vice President for Enterprise Development
Training & Development Corporation
3713 Warren St., NW
Washington, DC 20016
202-669-1220
shuman@igc.org
www.smallmart.org
www.tdc-use.org
8) Small Press Traffic 2008 Poets Theater Cabaret: Call for Proposals
For several years now, Small Press Traffic has been organizing an annual Poets' Theater Festival as our yearly fundraiser, with each year's event showcasing
new innovative works, often staged for the first time here in San Francisco. The festival has each year gathered huge audiences that come out to see writers & artists on stage, in innovative performance works, pushing the boundaries of theater and poetry in staged readings, musicals, neo-benshi film screenings, performance writing pieces, and the like.
This year we are excited to have three nights of new programming, including a PoetsTheater revival night and a cabaret, as well as a night of newly commissioned plays and performance works. We would like to invite you to consider contributing work for this year's cabaret - a full night of innovative performance works currently scheduled for Sunday Feb 3 at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA. We are looking for innovative performances in the avant-garde cabaret tradition. This could range from brief skits to musical acts, improvised performance to conceptual magic tricks, impromptu tableux vivants to feats of aesthetic daring. We could imagine instructional pieces a la Yoko Ono (to be performed by yourself or members of the audience), cross-genre collaborations, puppet shows, etc. The main constraints are that each piece be less than 5 minutes long, require little-to-no technical support (beyond a microphone), and adhere to this year's theme, which is:
"PERFORM YOUR SYMPTOM(S)"...
If you are interested, we would ask for a proposal for a work of NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES in length by NOVEMBER 1ST, to poetstheater@gmail.com . If you are unable to attend but would like to send in a proposal for someone else to perform on your behalf, that'd be great too. You should know that the Poets Theater Festival is out major fundraising vehicle for this year's budget, and we will thus be unable to offer you any money to participate. However, we can offer this unique opportunity to perform or have your work staged in front of a packed house of enthusiastic audience members, in the context of an ongoing and evolving community of avant-garde writers and performers. Please let us know as soon as you can if you are interested, and please don't hesitate to email with questions and the like. all best, David Buuck, Stephanie Young, and Cynthia Sailers, SPT PT 08 Committee
poetstheater@gmail.com
9) Application Workshop for 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
Jack Straw Writers Program
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts. If you are interested in having your literary work recorded and produced for a CD, you should apply to the Artist Support Program.
Jack Straw Productions has been a community resource since 1962. As a nonprofit, multidisciplinary audio arts center, our mission is to foster the communication of art, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to more than one program, but must submit a complete and separate set of applications for each. We do not offer cash grants.
10) Kevin Miller reads in Tacoma.
Kevin Miller reads November 2nd, at 7:00 pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402. Miller will read from his manuscript The Old Town Poems in fulfillment of a grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Free Admission.
11) Cascadia Convergence.
Citizens and Community Groups Collaborate Toward a Sustainable Future
Sustainable Cascadia emerges forming alliances of efforts across the bioregion.
Seattle, Washington - Involved Citizens, businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations across the Pacific Northwest will gather on October 26 and 27 at the first annual Cascadia Convergence addressing the theme ‘Climate Action and Citizen Engagement.’ The event begins a five-year process of community discussion to take stock of diverse sustainability efforts and to make plans accelerating progress toward common goals. The purpose is to foster long-term cooperation and collaboration in the sustainability movement and develop community task forces.
Cascadia Convergence provides a forum where the public will join with businesses, government, nonprofits, particularly social justice and environmental groups, to explore more sustainable ways to live now and in the future. It is supported by a growing list of over 35 participating organizations, including Sustainable Seattle, King County EcoConsumer, Interra project and has been endorsed by Seattle City Council.
Friday, October 26 kicks off the Convergence with Dr. David Suzuki, well-known scientist and environmental activist. He will address “Sustainability within a Generation” and the urgent need for climate action. The evening concludes with a panel discussion of local voices on how to accelerate a path forward. Saturday, October 27 participants will meet at the Seattle center for a day-long program where interested parties can converge to create dialog and action plans to lead the bio region towards a sustainable future. . The day concludes with a harvest of critical and immediate next steps toward achieving sustainability in one generation.
Sustainable Cascadia (www.sustainablecascadia.org) is the organization behind the Cascadia Convergence. It is a new project under the fiscal sponsorship of Sustainable Seattle, with a mission to foster ongoing collaboration toward sustainability in one generation across the Pacific Northwest bioregion of Cascadia.
Cascadia Convergence is one of many events occurring during Green October 2007 (www.greenoctober2007.com), a community campaign to highlight sustainability related events.
12) Poetry On the Bus (From Denise Calvetti Michaels)
I just wanted you to know that in March 2007 I was able to spend one week in New Orleans with eleven students from Cascadia Community College.
While there, we gutted houses and repaired around the clock. I served as adviser and assisted with transportation, coordination of work assignments, and wielded a sledge hammer and paint brush. The students worked extremely hard, and successfully gutted three houses and contributed to the re-roofing and painting of two other homes on Dauphine Street. Because I keep a journal, I found myself jotting down fragments of personal impressions that resulted in the following poem that has been accepted among forty others out of a field of 3000 for the latest King County Poetry on Buses project. You are invited to attend what looks to be a fun-filled event at the Moore Theatre on Wednesday, November 14th.
Though I've lost touch with many of you, and also understand that most of you live out of the area, I hope to include you in this experience that brings forward the importance of action combined with reflection....and honors the work of volunteers in New Orleans that must continue, and serve to inspire and connect us to our humanity.
Please find the poem below and best wishes to all of you,
Denise Calvetti Michaels
13) Poetry Gabriola Festival 2007 Program of Events: (The new web site for 2007 is not up yet.)
Saturday, November 17: at the Surf Lodge
From Glasgow, Scotland, revolutionary balladeer Alasdair Roberts and from Austin, Texas, dreamy hipster duo Charalambides. In the Surf Great Room. Great dinner hipster-concert combo…will it be haggis flamed with bourbon??? Tickets $20 at Artworks. $5 off dinner at the Surf with your ticket. Dinner reservations required: 247-9231. and lots more...
OK, Lit Fuse looks like one of the coolest gatherings of poet/teachers in the state and what they are doing in Tieton looks VERY interesting. Please consider attending this event. I'll be facilitating my Organic Poetry workshop and hope to stretch out with that class. I get to facilitate the Org Po workshop in Hawaii at the National Indian Education Association Conference on Friday, and did a workshop in Enumclaw last Saturday, so I am getting out a lot.
The Perennial Postcard project is off and running and I am trying to average a little more than one card a week. George Bowering has joined the fray and expect to see some Red Sox cards, or at least references, as they knock off the Rockies.
Please apply for the Jack Straw Writer's program. Looks like a poet will be curator this year, as they tend to alternate between prose writers and poets and Matt Briggs was curator last year.
We still need some good Board Members to help continue the evolution of WPA and increase membership. Please call or email if you'd like to get involved. It is a working Board, so come only if you have time to oversee, or assist, one of the WPA's many fine projects, such as Burning Word or the Cascade Journal. Soon we'll announce the headliners for next year's Burning Word, but Naropa-ites will be very happy that the headliner is a Fast Speaking Woman.
xoxo President Postcard.
P.S. I have moved from Slaughter to Ilalqo. Please make a note of it.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." --Artaud
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Lit Fuse (weekend of poetry workshops) in Tieton, Lynne McTaggart TONIGHT at East West Books, a cool WIKIPEDIA video, link to Sam Hamill interview, CALL for Artists & Stage Techs, JOB OPENING for folks interested in LOCAL BUSINESSES, SPD Poets Theater CALL, Jack Straw Writer's Program seeks applications, Cascadia Convergence, Bus Poems, Gabriola Island Poetry Festival & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop (With a much lower price and home-stay opportunities to make it quite inexpensive.)
* Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
* Featuring: Susan Rich
* http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime and others.
2) Washington Poets Name New Director to Lead Burning Word Festival
SEATTLE—The Washington Poets Association has named Sue Ellen White as the new director of the Burning Word festival. The festival is held the last Saturday of April at Whidbey Island’s scenic Greenbank Farm and produced annually by the poets organization. White is a communications professional with long experience in journalism and editing and served as communication manager at Hedgebrook writers retreat. A resident of Whidbey Island, she will lead the fifth annual festival on April 26, 2008, as it becomes the largest such event in the state. Eleventh Hour Productions, which produced the Seattle Poetry Festival, announced in September it was closing the organization.
“In the wake of the Seattle Poetry Festival's demise, Sue Ellen's expertise is even more critical to the Northwest literary arts community and for those interested in experiencing world class poetry in this part of the world,” said Paul Nelson, board president of the WPA. The organization is the largest association of poets in Washington. http://www.WashingtonPoets.org
3) Donate to Wikipedia. http://wikimediafoundation.org/donate/2007/psa/ for a very inspiring video featuring Wikipedia's Founder. In an time when it seems hopeless to act in a time of endless war, this video shows that things are changing and the Internet is playing an important role.
4)Lynne McTaggart Tonight at East West Books in Seattle, 7PM, 6500 Roosevelt Way N.E.
“Intention” has become the latest New Age buzzword. But what does it mean? And how exactly can one become an efficient “intender”? LYNNE MCTAGGART’S new book, The Intention Experiment, picks up where her groundbreaking bestseller The Field left off. It offers some of the very latest scientific evidence about the power of your own thoughts and mind-blowing new evidence about the nature of reality. http://www.ewbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=356275
5) Sam Hamill interviewed in Connecticut http://www.connpost.com/ci_7227174?source=most_emailed
..."You have to be open to the experience of the poetry and allow things to happen organically, so the political references in 'Measured by Stone' arise naturally They are basically the politics I've embodied my entire adult life," he added.
Although Hamill founded Poets Against War and oversees the quarterly publication of the group's Internet newsletter, he doesn't believe "messages" should stick out of good poetry. "If you approach the writing of a poem with a determined agenda you're really in deep poop," the writer said, with one of the many hearty laughs that
punctuated the interview.
6) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell
many thanks! Angel
7) Job Announcement from Michael Shuman shuman@igc.org
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please forgive this impersonal message, but I’d be grateful if you could circulate, post, or otherwise share the attached job announcement. It might be of interest to people in the fields of social enterprise, community development, economics, and public policy.
I’m now working under two grants that follow up some of the arguments I made in my recent book, “The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition.” One of the grants is from the Gates Foundation compiling global case studies of local food businesses; and the other from the Kellogg Foundation analyzing the harmful effects of state business subsidies of rural local businesses.
I’m looking for a Project Associate who will help with research, writing, web-site building, blogging, and marketing. The position pays in the $40-50k range, lasts one year (possibly longer), and will be based in my office in downtown Takoma Park , Maryland . While I don’t have a budget to fly people in from around the country, I’d welcome applications from outside the Washington area.
Many thanks for your help!
Best, Michael
Michael H. Shuman
Vice President for Enterprise Development
Training & Development Corporation
3713 Warren St., NW
Washington, DC 20016
202-669-1220
shuman@igc.org
www.smallmart.org
www.tdc-use.org
8) Small Press Traffic 2008 Poets Theater Cabaret: Call for Proposals
For several years now, Small Press Traffic has been organizing an annual Poets' Theater Festival as our yearly fundraiser, with each year's event showcasing
new innovative works, often staged for the first time here in San Francisco. The festival has each year gathered huge audiences that come out to see writers & artists on stage, in innovative performance works, pushing the boundaries of theater and poetry in staged readings, musicals, neo-benshi film screenings, performance writing pieces, and the like.
This year we are excited to have three nights of new programming, including a PoetsTheater revival night and a cabaret, as well as a night of newly commissioned plays and performance works. We would like to invite you to consider contributing work for this year's cabaret - a full night of innovative performance works currently scheduled for Sunday Feb 3 at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA. We are looking for innovative performances in the avant-garde cabaret tradition. This could range from brief skits to musical acts, improvised performance to conceptual magic tricks, impromptu tableux vivants to feats of aesthetic daring. We could imagine instructional pieces a la Yoko Ono (to be performed by yourself or members of the audience), cross-genre collaborations, puppet shows, etc. The main constraints are that each piece be less than 5 minutes long, require little-to-no technical support (beyond a microphone), and adhere to this year's theme, which is:
"PERFORM YOUR SYMPTOM(S)"...
If you are interested, we would ask for a proposal for a work of NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES in length by NOVEMBER 1ST, to poetstheater@gmail.com . If you are unable to attend but would like to send in a proposal for someone else to perform on your behalf, that'd be great too. You should know that the Poets Theater Festival is out major fundraising vehicle for this year's budget, and we will thus be unable to offer you any money to participate. However, we can offer this unique opportunity to perform or have your work staged in front of a packed house of enthusiastic audience members, in the context of an ongoing and evolving community of avant-garde writers and performers. Please let us know as soon as you can if you are interested, and please don't hesitate to email with questions and the like. all best, David Buuck, Stephanie Young, and Cynthia Sailers, SPT PT 08 Committee
poetstheater@gmail.com
9) Application Workshop for 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
Jack Straw Writers Program
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts. If you are interested in having your literary work recorded and produced for a CD, you should apply to the Artist Support Program.
Jack Straw Productions has been a community resource since 1962. As a nonprofit, multidisciplinary audio arts center, our mission is to foster the communication of art, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to more than one program, but must submit a complete and separate set of applications for each. We do not offer cash grants.
10) Kevin Miller reads in Tacoma.
Kevin Miller reads November 2nd, at 7:00 pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402. Miller will read from his manuscript The Old Town Poems in fulfillment of a grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Free Admission.
11) Cascadia Convergence.
Citizens and Community Groups Collaborate Toward a Sustainable Future
Sustainable Cascadia emerges forming alliances of efforts across the bioregion.
Seattle, Washington - Involved Citizens, businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations across the Pacific Northwest will gather on October 26 and 27 at the first annual Cascadia Convergence addressing the theme ‘Climate Action and Citizen Engagement.’ The event begins a five-year process of community discussion to take stock of diverse sustainability efforts and to make plans accelerating progress toward common goals. The purpose is to foster long-term cooperation and collaboration in the sustainability movement and develop community task forces.
Cascadia Convergence provides a forum where the public will join with businesses, government, nonprofits, particularly social justice and environmental groups, to explore more sustainable ways to live now and in the future. It is supported by a growing list of over 35 participating organizations, including Sustainable Seattle, King County EcoConsumer, Interra project and has been endorsed by Seattle City Council.
Friday, October 26 kicks off the Convergence with Dr. David Suzuki, well-known scientist and environmental activist. He will address “Sustainability within a Generation” and the urgent need for climate action. The evening concludes with a panel discussion of local voices on how to accelerate a path forward. Saturday, October 27 participants will meet at the Seattle center for a day-long program where interested parties can converge to create dialog and action plans to lead the bio region towards a sustainable future. . The day concludes with a harvest of critical and immediate next steps toward achieving sustainability in one generation.
Sustainable Cascadia (www.sustainablecascadia.org) is the organization behind the Cascadia Convergence. It is a new project under the fiscal sponsorship of Sustainable Seattle, with a mission to foster ongoing collaboration toward sustainability in one generation across the Pacific Northwest bioregion of Cascadia.
Cascadia Convergence is one of many events occurring during Green October 2007 (www.greenoctober2007.com), a community campaign to highlight sustainability related events.
12) Poetry On the Bus (From Denise Calvetti Michaels)
I just wanted you to know that in March 2007 I was able to spend one week in New Orleans with eleven students from Cascadia Community College.
While there, we gutted houses and repaired around the clock. I served as adviser and assisted with transportation, coordination of work assignments, and wielded a sledge hammer and paint brush. The students worked extremely hard, and successfully gutted three houses and contributed to the re-roofing and painting of two other homes on Dauphine Street. Because I keep a journal, I found myself jotting down fragments of personal impressions that resulted in the following poem that has been accepted among forty others out of a field of 3000 for the latest King County Poetry on Buses project. You are invited to attend what looks to be a fun-filled event at the Moore Theatre on Wednesday, November 14th.
Though I've lost touch with many of you, and also understand that most of you live out of the area, I hope to include you in this experience that brings forward the importance of action combined with reflection....and honors the work of volunteers in New Orleans that must continue, and serve to inspire and connect us to our humanity.
Please find the poem below and best wishes to all of you,
Denise Calvetti Michaels
13) Poetry Gabriola Festival 2007 Program of Events: (The new web site for 2007 is not up yet.)
Saturday, November 17: at the Surf Lodge
From Glasgow, Scotland, revolutionary balladeer Alasdair Roberts and from Austin, Texas, dreamy hipster duo Charalambides. In the Surf Great Room. Great dinner hipster-concert combo…will it be haggis flamed with bourbon??? Tickets $20 at Artworks. $5 off dinner at the Surf with your ticket. Dinner reservations required: 247-9231. and lots more...
OK, Lit Fuse looks like one of the coolest gatherings of poet/teachers in the state and what they are doing in Tieton looks VERY interesting. Please consider attending this event. I'll be facilitating my Organic Poetry workshop and hope to stretch out with that class. I get to facilitate the Org Po workshop in Hawaii at the National Indian Education Association Conference on Friday, and did a workshop in Enumclaw last Saturday, so I am getting out a lot.
The Perennial Postcard project is off and running and I am trying to average a little more than one card a week. George Bowering has joined the fray and expect to see some Red Sox cards, or at least references, as they knock off the Rockies.
Please apply for the Jack Straw Writer's program. Looks like a poet will be curator this year, as they tend to alternate between prose writers and poets and Matt Briggs was curator last year.
We still need some good Board Members to help continue the evolution of WPA and increase membership. Please call or email if you'd like to get involved. It is a working Board, so come only if you have time to oversee, or assist, one of the WPA's many fine projects, such as Burning Word or the Cascade Journal. Soon we'll announce the headliners for next year's Burning Word, but Naropa-ites will be very happy that the headliner is a Fast Speaking Woman.
xoxo President Postcard.
P.S. I have moved from Slaughter to Ilalqo. Please make a note of it.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." --Artaud
Friday, September 21, 2007
Autumn Equinox Poetry Stuff
In this E-Fishwrapper, Poetry Postcard Party tomorrow night (September 22) at Cafe Vega, New Books by Sam Hamill, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nico Vassilakis, and Jerome Rotherberg, Lit Fuse in Tieton, November 3-4,WCW Symposium & more than you'll actually read.
1) There will be an event tomorrow night at 7P at Cafe Vega to discuss the August Poetry Postcard project and share some of the best work. Postcarders and non-participants are welcome to attend. The cafe is at 1918 E. Yesler Way and is donating the space and will document the evening. This cafe is a small, locally-owned neighborhood business and you are encouraged to support it by attending our event, or just stopping there for coffee or soup.
2) Sam Hamill's new Book of Poems, Measured By Stone:
"Written from the point of view of a cranky, wandering poet of the old kind - part sage, part soul of the Buddha, and part rascal...Sam Hamill is one of the essential poetics and political voices of our time..." - Bruce Weigl
Curbstone Press has released Measured By Stone, Sam's latest work. A Pacific Northwest icon, now free to write, is back with poems inspired by some of his literary heroes like Tu Fu, Li Po, Denise Levertov and others, visits to Buenos Aires, at least one love poem and some Lessons From Thieves. A beautiful book
What is friendship in poetry, after all,
but it sweetens the soul and
thickens one's skin? I don't know the answer
to the questions that go unasked.
But I've seen the face behind the mask.
http://www.curbstone.org/bookdetail.cfm?BookID=199
3. UNTITLED [INTERSECTION], 2007
Poetry & Performance Art 7pm Friday 28 September 2007
your humble E-Fishwrapperer performs poetry w/ sax player extraordinaire Dan Blunck
there will be bread and cheese and fruit both before and after the event
there will be Angel Laterrell performing poetry
everyone who comes gets a manifesto
hand-printed and signed
suggested donation $5
it is untitled and run by the ever-inventive postcard poet ak allin.
Here are directions to Phinney Neighborhood Center: http://www.phinneycenter.org/directions.shtml
4) New Lawrence Ferlinghetti book Poetry as Insurgent Art
The former poet laureate of San Francisco and founder of City Lights Bookstore, Ferlinghetti starts the new edition of this ongoing project with three quotes, one of which is from Subcomandante Marcos: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution." His first line is I am signaling you through the flames. A collection mostly made of epigraphs, some pithy, some funny, some corny, some you'll disagree with, this small book also contains two 1978 essays, one of which "Modern Poetry is Prose" points out that modern poetry is prose because it "doesn't have much duende." Indeed. This book is his ars poetica and well worth your time. http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/ferlinghettipoetryasinsurgentart.html
5) Voices in Wartime, Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 7pm, South Puget Sound Community College at 2011 Mottman Rd SW Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts Olympia.
Dunya Mikhail, Bill Ransom and Sarah Zane read poetry in a fundraiser that launches the Voices in Wartime program in South Sound colleges, universities and high schools. Funds will support faculty workshops, which have been well received by schools at Bellevue Community College, Aviation High and other locations. Voices in Wartime Executive Director, Andy Himes, will introduce a clip from the powerful film of the same title. Paul Nelson emcees and facilitates the panel. Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/18376
6) ANNOUNCING NICO VASSILAKIS’ TEXT LOSES TIME
ManyPenny Press is pleased to announce the release of TEXT LOSES TIME by Nico Vassilakis. This necessary work spans roughly 15 years of the author’s efforts in both textual and visual writing. It is Vassilakis’ first full-length book.
TEXT LOSES TIME
Afterword by Nick Piombino
188 pp.
AUTHOR’S STATEMENT:
This book intends to present both verbal and visual poetries as equal. Though notions of poetics have shifted and swerved, what has stayed solid throughout is that the alphabet, the word – however arranged – contains, within it, dual significance. First, the proto-historic role of the visual conveyance of represented fact. Second, the overriding desire of human utterance to substantiate existence. In conjoining these two models this book hopes to form a third, blurred value. Thought and experience are factors that accrue, while staring and writing help resolve and conclude. Text itself is an amalgam of units of meaning. As you stare at text you notice the visual aspects of letters. As one stares further, meaning loses its hierarchy and words discorporate and the alphabet itself begins to surface. Shapes, spatial relations and visual associations emerge as one delves further. Alphabetic bits or parts or snippets of letters can create an added visual vocabulary amidst the very text one is reading. One aim, to this end, is to merge and hinge visual and textual writing into workable forms. This book collects some of these experiments.
Nico Vassilakis was born in New York City in 1963. He has co-written and performed a one-man play about experimental composer Morton Feldman. Vassilakis is co-founder and curator for the Subtext Reading Series and editor of Clear-Cut: Anthology (A Collection of Seattle Writers).
7) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop
* Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
* Featuring: Susan Rich
* http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime and others.
8) Raven Chronicles says g'bye to Hugo House. From Phoebe Bosche:
Dear Raven contributors, subscribers, supporters:
Please join us on Tuesday, September 25th, for a special reading/gathering.
Raven Chronicles, along with Floating Bridge Press, will lose its office space
at Hugo House in the next few months. We've been here 10 years, since the
birth of HH, and it has been an adventure; every year different. Since this will
probably be the last reading we do at HH this year, we're inviting all past
contributors to join us, read a poem published in Raven, or read a short excerpt
from a prose piece published. We'll have a huge selection of books to sell ($1 each!):
books, local and national writers, we've received over the year. Bring a bag!
When: September 25, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle
Contact: Phoebe Bosche 206-323-4316; cell: 941-2955 editors@ravenchronicles.org
9) Kevin Miller reads in Tacoma.
Kevin Miller reads November 2nd, at 7:00 pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402. Miller will read from his manuscript The Old Town Poems in fulfillment of a grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Free Admission.
10) Jerome Rothenberg's new Book.
The following is new and not in general circulation, but it can be had through Small Press Distribution, as follows:
THREE POEMS AFTER IMAGES BY NANCY TOBIN
Publisher: Hawk's Well Press
Price: $15.00
The latest of Jerome Rothenberg's many collaborations with artists, Three Poems takes off from Nancy Tobin's brilliantly colored and constructed paintings, to create a mutual celebration of the familiar and familial. The initiatory act here follows from Tobin's quasi-abstract images and her assessment of the mysteries and revelations that her art provides her.
11) WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS POETRY SYMPOSIUM
The William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium (WCWPS) proudly announces
a special poetry reading to commemorate its annual celebration of WCW's
birthday in September and to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the
renaming of the Williams Center.
The WCWPS reading will take place Sunday September 16, 2007 on the
Terrace of Rutherford's Williams Center from 1 PM to 4:30 PM. A
champagne reception will follow and the poets will be available to
sign books.
Four of WCW's family members will be attending and sharing
reminiscences.
OK, the postcard party tomorrow night at Cafe Vega and my 46th. Damn! My daughter Rebecca will be joining us and we'll be signing up a few more people for the Perennial Postcard List which starts next week.
I was elected President of the Washington Poets Association Sunday and we need some good Board Members to help continue the evolution of WPA and increase membership. Please call or email if you'd like to get involved. It is a working Board, so come only if you have time to oversee, or assist, one of the WPA's many fine projects, such as Burning Word or the Cascade Journal. Soon we'll announce the headliners for next year's Burning Word.
xoxo President Postcard.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
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In this E-Fishwrapper, Poetry Postcard Party tomorrow night (September 22) at Cafe Vega, New Books by Sam Hamill, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nico Vassilakis, and Jerome Rotherberg, Lit Fuse in Tieton, November 3-4,WCW Symposium & more than you'll actually read.
1) There will be an event tomorrow night at 7P at Cafe Vega to discuss the August Poetry Postcard project and share some of the best work. Postcarders and non-participants are welcome to attend. The cafe is at 1918 E. Yesler Way and is donating the space and will document the evening. This cafe is a small, locally-owned neighborhood business and you are encouraged to support it by attending our event, or just stopping there for coffee or soup.
2) Sam Hamill's new Book of Poems, Measured By Stone:
"Written from the point of view of a cranky, wandering poet of the old kind - part sage, part soul of the Buddha, and part rascal...Sam Hamill is one of the essential poetics and political voices of our time..." - Bruce Weigl
Curbstone Press has released Measured By Stone, Sam's latest work. A Pacific Northwest icon, now free to write, is back with poems inspired by some of his literary heroes like Tu Fu, Li Po, Denise Levertov and others, visits to Buenos Aires, at least one love poem and some Lessons From Thieves. A beautiful book
What is friendship in poetry, after all,
but it sweetens the soul and
thickens one's skin? I don't know the answer
to the questions that go unasked.
But I've seen the face behind the mask.
http://www.curbstone.org/bookdetail.cfm?BookID=199
3. UNTITLED [INTERSECTION], 2007
Poetry & Performance Art 7pm Friday 28 September 2007
your humble E-Fishwrapperer performs poetry w/ sax player extraordinaire Dan Blunck
there will be bread and cheese and fruit both before and after the event
there will be Angel Laterrell performing poetry
everyone who comes gets a manifesto
hand-printed and signed
suggested donation $5
it is untitled and run by the ever-inventive postcard poet ak allin.
Here are directions to Phinney Neighborhood Center: http://www.phinneycenter.org/directions.shtml
4) New Lawrence Ferlinghetti book Poetry as Insurgent Art
The former poet laureate of San Francisco and founder of City Lights Bookstore, Ferlinghetti starts the new edition of this ongoing project with three quotes, one of which is from Subcomandante Marcos: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution." His first line is I am signaling you through the flames. A collection mostly made of epigraphs, some pithy, some funny, some corny, some you'll disagree with, this small book also contains two 1978 essays, one of which "Modern Poetry is Prose" points out that modern poetry is prose because it "doesn't have much duende." Indeed. This book is his ars poetica and well worth your time. http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/ferlinghettipoetryasinsurgentart.html
5) Voices in Wartime, Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 7pm, South Puget Sound Community College at 2011 Mottman Rd SW Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts Olympia.
Dunya Mikhail, Bill Ransom and Sarah Zane read poetry in a fundraiser that launches the Voices in Wartime program in South Sound colleges, universities and high schools. Funds will support faculty workshops, which have been well received by schools at Bellevue Community College, Aviation High and other locations. Voices in Wartime Executive Director, Andy Himes, will introduce a clip from the powerful film of the same title. Paul Nelson emcees and facilitates the panel. Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/18376
6) ANNOUNCING NICO VASSILAKIS’ TEXT LOSES TIME
ManyPenny Press is pleased to announce the release of TEXT LOSES TIME by Nico Vassilakis. This necessary work spans roughly 15 years of the author’s efforts in both textual and visual writing. It is Vassilakis’ first full-length book.
TEXT LOSES TIME
Afterword by Nick Piombino
188 pp.
AUTHOR’S STATEMENT:
This book intends to present both verbal and visual poetries as equal. Though notions of poetics have shifted and swerved, what has stayed solid throughout is that the alphabet, the word – however arranged – contains, within it, dual significance. First, the proto-historic role of the visual conveyance of represented fact. Second, the overriding desire of human utterance to substantiate existence. In conjoining these two models this book hopes to form a third, blurred value. Thought and experience are factors that accrue, while staring and writing help resolve and conclude. Text itself is an amalgam of units of meaning. As you stare at text you notice the visual aspects of letters. As one stares further, meaning loses its hierarchy and words discorporate and the alphabet itself begins to surface. Shapes, spatial relations and visual associations emerge as one delves further. Alphabetic bits or parts or snippets of letters can create an added visual vocabulary amidst the very text one is reading. One aim, to this end, is to merge and hinge visual and textual writing into workable forms. This book collects some of these experiments.
Nico Vassilakis was born in New York City in 1963. He has co-written and performed a one-man play about experimental composer Morton Feldman. Vassilakis is co-founder and curator for the Subtext Reading Series and editor of Clear-Cut: Anthology (A Collection of Seattle Writers).
7) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop
* Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
* Featuring: Susan Rich
* http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime and others.
8) Raven Chronicles says g'bye to Hugo House. From Phoebe Bosche:
Dear Raven contributors, subscribers, supporters:
Please join us on Tuesday, September 25th, for a special reading/gathering.
Raven Chronicles, along with Floating Bridge Press, will lose its office space
at Hugo House in the next few months. We've been here 10 years, since the
birth of HH, and it has been an adventure; every year different. Since this will
probably be the last reading we do at HH this year, we're inviting all past
contributors to join us, read a poem published in Raven, or read a short excerpt
from a prose piece published. We'll have a huge selection of books to sell ($1 each!):
books, local and national writers, we've received over the year. Bring a bag!
When: September 25, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle
Contact: Phoebe Bosche 206-323-4316; cell: 941-2955 editors@ravenchronicles.org
9) Kevin Miller reads in Tacoma.
Kevin Miller reads November 2nd, at 7:00 pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402. Miller will read from his manuscript The Old Town Poems in fulfillment of a grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Free Admission.
10) Jerome Rothenberg's new Book.
The following is new and not in general circulation, but it can be had through Small Press Distribution, as follows:
THREE POEMS AFTER IMAGES BY NANCY TOBIN
Publisher: Hawk's Well Press
Price: $15.00
The latest of Jerome Rothenberg's many collaborations with artists, Three Poems takes off from Nancy Tobin's brilliantly colored and constructed paintings, to create a mutual celebration of the familiar and familial. The initiatory act here follows from Tobin's quasi-abstract images and her assessment of the mysteries and revelations that her art provides her.
11) WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS POETRY SYMPOSIUM
The William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium (WCWPS) proudly announces
a special poetry reading to commemorate its annual celebration of WCW's
birthday in September and to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the
renaming of the Williams Center.
The WCWPS reading will take place Sunday September 16, 2007 on the
Terrace of Rutherford's Williams Center from 1 PM to 4:30 PM. A
champagne reception will follow and the poets will be available to
sign books.
Four of WCW's family members will be attending and sharing
reminiscences.
OK, the postcard party tomorrow night at Cafe Vega and my 46th. Damn! My daughter Rebecca will be joining us and we'll be signing up a few more people for the Perennial Postcard List which starts next week.
I was elected President of the Washington Poets Association Sunday and we need some good Board Members to help continue the evolution of WPA and increase membership. Please call or email if you'd like to get involved. It is a working Board, so come only if you have time to oversee, or assist, one of the WPA's many fine projects, such as Burning Word or the Cascade Journal. Soon we'll announce the headliners for next year's Burning Word.
xoxo President Postcard.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, August Poetry Postcard Fest Ends and the Perennial Postcard Fest is set to Begin, September 22 Cafe Vega Postcard Party, Lit Fuse in Tieton, November 3-4, Charles Potts' 60's classic Valga Krusa Re-Issued, The 911 Film they Won't Show in the U.S., several things I forgot to send and will be dated when I remember & more than you'll actually read.
1) August Poetry Postcard Fest Ends
This experiment in consciousness and community was successful beyond what the wilds of my imagination could conjure. One of the participants, John Olson, gives his thoughts on the Fest on the blog: http://www.poetrypostcards.blogspot.com. We also have a group on Facebook with many of the cards visible, along with comments by participants. Register for Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com.
1a) Lana Ayers, my partner in crime, is helping me continue this project on a slower basis. Those interested in sending one poem a week are welcome to join in. You can email her Lana Hechtman Ayers.
1c) There will be a September 22 event at Cafe Vega starting at 7PM to discuss the project and share some of the best work. Postcarders and non-participants are welcome to attend. The cafe is at 1918 E. Yesler Way and is donating the space and will document the evening. This cafe is a small, locally-owned neighborhood business and you are encouraged to support it by attending our event, or just stopping there for coffee or soup.
2. UNTITLED [INTERSECTION], 2007
Poetry & Performance Art 7pm Friday 28 September 2007
there will be bottled water
there will be a wine table
there will be Paul Nelson performing poetry
with bread and cheese and fruit both before and after the event
there will be Angel Laterrell performing poetry
everyone who comes gets a manifesto
hand-printed and signed
there will be Dan Blunck playing alto with Paul
we ask for a donation of $5 from audience members
to help cover the cost of food and printing
there will be laughter and mirth and pathos and invention
it is untitled and run by the ever-inventive postcard poet ak allin.
Here are directions to Phinney Neighborhood Center: http://www.phinneycenter.org/directions.shtml
3) Voices in Wartime, Friday, September 26, 2007, 7pm, South Puget Sound Community College 2011 Mottman Rd SW Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts Olympia.
Dunya Mikhail, Bill Ransom, Sarah Zane and Roy Seitz read poetry in a fundraiser that launches the Voices in Wartime program in South Sound colleges, universities and high schools. Funds will support faculty workshops, which have been well received by schools at Bellevue Community College, Aviation High and other locations. Voices in Wartime Executive Director, Andy Himes, will introduce a clip from the powerful film of the same title. Paul Nelson emcees and facilitates the panel. Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/18376
4) An Important New Book from Jim Bodeen's Blue Begonia Press. From Jim:
Jody Aliesan’s True North/Nord Vrai has just been released from Blue Begonia Press. Jody’s story, and the story of the book are compelling in many of the ways that the book is compelling. Blue Begonia Press stretches out believing in the larger story Jody carries. Here’s part of the story.
"Jody Aliesan left the US three years ago. We expect that her longtime readers in the Pacific Northwest and farther afield will be interested in knowing what she's doing now, both personally and in her writing. A library service in New York ordered copies of True North/Nord Vrai immediately after we registered it with the Library of Congress. University Book Store in Seattle posted the book online two months ago and is collecting orders. Last week we received a request from a professor of political science in Tennessee who heard of the book word of mouth. Canadians have become aware of Aliesan's presence in their midst; without our approaching them, the Vancouver public library and the city's independent and chain bookstores already offer her most recent books. Aliesan has said she will not be crossing the border south again and that True North/Nord Vrai is such an exposure that personal appearances would be excessive. We will market her reticence and principle to pique curiosity and to focus readers on the book itself.”
It can be ordered directly from the press, at http://Bluebegoniapress.com
Jim Bodeen, President
5) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop
• Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
• Featuring: Susan Rich
• http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime. Carla Schultz, printer at Marquand Editions.
Carol Trenga, Ph.D, teacher of yoga, somatic movement and meditation. Cody Walker, English professor at the University of Washington, teacher of poetry through Writers in the Schools and Hugo House writer-in-residence programs.
6) From Charles Potts:
At last Valga Krusa, a book David Bromige in his introduction to the first volume, The Yellow Christ calls "a neglected classic," is back in print in two volumes from Green Panda Press in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. You can obtain both YC and volume two, Laffing Water, for the ridiculously low price of $10 each with one $4 shipping and handling fee through paypal. Or if you want to buy them one at a time, they're still only $10 + 4 for shipping. Absent paypal send checks and MOs directly to the PO Box below. The books have the same size and feel, 4.5 by 7 paperback, as Kiot, and The Portable Potts, two other "classics" you can't have too many of. We no longer maintain or use a snail mail mailing list, so this may be the only notice you receive. After 30 years, (VK was first published in 1977), don't neglect it any longer. Your commands are our wish.
6) "The Power of Nightmares" will be shown at the Washington State History Museum on Tuesday, September 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. It is a provocative BBC documentary that has been shown on television in Canada, most European, Asian and Middle Eastern countries, but not in the U.S.
In 2005 Adam Curtis, the British politics teacher who left Oxford University to go into documentary filmmaking, released this documentary, called "arguably the most important film about the 'war on terrorism' since the events of September 11" (Nation, June 20, 2005). It traces the history of two radical movements that have changed our world: American neo-conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists. Without a knowledge of how these movements developed, became allies, and then turned on each other, it would be difficult to understand the world today.
The evening is free and open to the public. The Washington State Museum is located at 1911 Pacific Ave. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and seating is limited. Sponsored by People for Peace Justice & Healing. For more information, call 253-535-7219.
7) The Declaration of Peace Nine-Point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq
8) The OTHER 911
The Other September 11th * El Otro 11 de Septiembre
A Bilingual Evening of Poetry, Song, Empanadas, Wine, Witness & Reflection
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 7 - 9 p.m., Richard Hugo House Cabaret
Featuring Seattle Poets Eugenia Toledo-Keyser and Carolyne Wright
Music by Chilean Composer and Guitarist Marco Cortés
Back now 6 days from the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, yes, 40 freakin' years, bub! Took the Redwood Highway down from Grants Pass again and saw giant ceramic bears. Photos at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10927&l=865b6&id=752038625
The literary season is kicking back into gear now that September is here, so the shitload of events listed above. Please feel free to pass this info around. Blunck & I don't get to gig together much anymore and ak allin runs a pretty cool reading on Phinney Ridge, so come and say hello, have some wine and enjoy Dan's translation of American Sentences.
Tieton is a pretty place and what they are attempting to do with The Mighty Tieton is way cool, so consider that weekend of poetry workshops. I am working to get my powerpoint file of postcards on-line, so hang in there.
Summer is not over til the 22nd and the day after is the B-day of John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen and Lana Ayers, so come celebrate at Cafe Vega the night before and let's all give Lana the spanking she craves. xoxo Postcard Paul.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Slaughter, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
In this E-Fishwrapper, August Poetry Postcard Fest Ends and the Perennial Postcard Fest is set to Begin, September 22 Cafe Vega Postcard Party, Lit Fuse in Tieton, November 3-4, Charles Potts' 60's classic Valga Krusa Re-Issued, The 911 Film they Won't Show in the U.S., several things I forgot to send and will be dated when I remember & more than you'll actually read.
1) August Poetry Postcard Fest Ends
This experiment in consciousness and community was successful beyond what the wilds of my imagination could conjure. One of the participants, John Olson, gives his thoughts on the Fest on the blog: http://www.poetrypostcards.blogspot.com. We also have a group on Facebook with many of the cards visible, along with comments by participants. Register for Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com.
1a) Lana Ayers, my partner in crime, is helping me continue this project on a slower basis. Those interested in sending one poem a week are welcome to join in. You can email her Lana Hechtman Ayers
1c) There will be a September 22 event at Cafe Vega starting at 7PM to discuss the project and share some of the best work. Postcarders and non-participants are welcome to attend. The cafe is at 1918 E. Yesler Way and is donating the space and will document the evening. This cafe is a small, locally-owned neighborhood business and you are encouraged to support it by attending our event, or just stopping there for coffee or soup.
2. UNTITLED [INTERSECTION], 2007
Poetry & Performance Art 7pm Friday 28 September 2007
there will be bottled water
there will be a wine table
there will be Paul Nelson performing poetry
with bread and cheese and fruit both before and after the event
there will be Angel Laterrell performing poetry
everyone who comes gets a manifesto
hand-printed and signed
there will be Dan Blunck playing alto with Paul
we ask for a donation of $5 from audience members
to help cover the cost of food and printing
there will be laughter and mirth and pathos and invention
it is untitled and run by the ever-inventive postcard poet ak allin.
Here are directions to Phinney Neighborhood Center: http://www.phinneycenter.org/directions.shtml
3) Voices in Wartime, Friday, September 26, 2007, 7pm, South Puget Sound Community College 2011 Mottman Rd SW Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts Olympia.
Dunya Mikhail, Bill Ransom, Sarah Zane and Roy Seitz read poetry in a fundraiser that launches the Voices in Wartime program in South Sound colleges, universities and high schools. Funds will support faculty workshops, which have been well received by schools at Bellevue Community College, Aviation High and other locations. Voices in Wartime Executive Director, Andy Himes, will introduce a clip from the powerful film of the same title. Paul Nelson emcees and facilitates the panel. Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/18376
4) An Important New Book from Jim Bodeen's Blue Begonia Press. From Jim:
Jody Aliesan’s True North/Nord Vrai has just been released from Blue Begonia Press. Jody’s story, and the story of the book are compelling in many of the ways that the book is compelling. Blue Begonia Press stretches out believing in the larger story Jody carries. Here’s part of the story.
"Jody Aliesan left the US three years ago. We expect that her longtime readers in the Pacific Northwest and farther afield will be interested in knowing what she's doing now, both personally and in her writing. A library service in New York ordered copies of True North/Nord Vrai immediately after we registered it with the Library of Congress. University Book Store in Seattle posted the book online two months ago and is collecting orders. Last week we received a request from a professor of political science in Tennessee who heard of the book word of mouth. Canadians have become aware of Aliesan's presence in their midst; without our approaching them, the Vancouver public library and the city's independent and chain bookstores already offer her most recent books. Aliesan has said she will not be crossing the border south again and that True North/Nord Vrai is such an exposure that personal appearances would be excessive. We will market her reticence and principle to pique curiosity and to focus readers on the book itself.”
It can be ordered directly from the press, at http://Bluebegoniapress.com
Jim Bodeen, President
5) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop
• Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
• Featuring: Susan Rich
• http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime. Carla Schultz, printer at Marquand Editions.
Carol Trenga, Ph.D, teacher of yoga, somatic movement and meditation. Cody Walker, English professor at the University of Washington, teacher of poetry through Writers in the Schools and Hugo House writer-in-residence programs.
6) From Charles Potts:
At last Valga Krusa, a book David Bromige in his introduction to the first volume, The Yellow Christ calls "a neglected classic," is back in print in two volumes from Green Panda Press in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. You can obtain both YC and volume two, Laffing Water, for the ridiculously low price of $10 each with one $4 shipping and handling fee through paypal. Or if you want to buy them one at a time, they're still only $10 + 4 for shipping. Absent paypal send checks and MOs directly to the PO Box below. The books have the same size and feel, 4.5 by 7 paperback, as Kiot, and The Portable Potts, two other "classics" you can't have too many of. We no longer maintain or use a snail mail mailing list, so this may be the only notice you receive. After 30 years, (VK was first published in 1977), don't neglect it any longer. Your commands are our wish.
6) "The Power of Nightmares" will be shown at the Washington State History Museum on Tuesday, September 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. It is a provocative BBC documentary that has been shown on television in Canada, most European, Asian and Middle Eastern countries, but not in the U.S.
In 2005 Adam Curtis, the British politics teacher who left Oxford University to go into documentary filmmaking, released this documentary, called "arguably the most important film about the 'war on terrorism' since the events of September 11" (Nation, June 20, 2005). It traces the history of two radical movements that have changed our world: American neo-conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists. Without a knowledge of how these movements developed, became allies, and then turned on each other, it would be difficult to understand the world today.
The evening is free and open to the public. The Washington State Museum is located at 1911 Pacific Ave. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and seating is limited. Sponsored by People for Peace Justice & Healing. For more information, call 253-535-7219.
7) The Declaration of Peace Nine-Point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq
8) The OTHER 911
The Other September 11th * El Otro 11 de Septiembre
A Bilingual Evening of Poetry, Song, Empanadas, Wine, Witness & Reflection
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 7 - 9 p.m., Richard Hugo House Cabaret
Featuring Seattle Poets Eugenia Toledo-Keyser and Carolyne Wright
Music by Chilean Composer and Guitarist Marco Cortés
Back now 6 days from the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, yes, 40 freakin' years, bub! Took the Redwood Highway down from Grants Pass again and saw giant ceramic bears. Photos at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10927&l=865b6&id=752038625
The literary season is kicking back into gear now that September is here, so the shitload of events listed above. Please feel free to pass this info around. Blunck & I don't get to gig together much anymore and ak allin runs a pretty cool reading on Phinney Ridge, so come and say hello, have some wine and enjoy Dan's translation of American Sentences.
Tieton is a pretty place and what they are attempting to do with The Mighty Tieton is way cool, so consider that weekend of poetry workshops. I am working to get my powerpoint file of postcards on-line, so hang in there.
Summer is not over til the 22nd and the day after is the B-day of John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen and Lana Ayers, so come celebrate at Cafe Vega the night before and let's all give Lana the spanking she craves. xoxo Postcard Paul.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Slaughter, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
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