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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, the deaths of two Seattle giants in their fields, your Fishwrapping correspondent features in Tacoma, Friday, Feb 9 and some literary and culturally creative nuggets for your perusal.
1) Bill Mitchell, N.D. Dead.
Bill Mitchell, a naturopathic doctor who co-founded Bastyr University, died Tuesday of a heart attack after finding his 27 year old son Noah dead. Bill was my doctor and it is terrible that he died so soon and with the grief that must accompany seeing your child dead. I will miss Bill very much. A memorial is to be facilitated by Bastyr University. I wrote a short piece today. The P.I. has an article today and a discussion board.
2) Floyd Standifer dead.
He was a Seattle Jazz legend who played with Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, and a link from the current Jazz scene to the Jackson Street days. Floyd Standifer is dead at 78. P.I. Obit.
3) Paul Nelson features in Tacoma Friday, February 9 at 7P.
The City of Tacoma and The Puget Sound Poetry Connection present:
The Distinguished Writer Series and Open Mic
- NEW LOCATION -
Friday, Feb 9, 7:00 PM @ King's Books
218 St. Helens Avenue
This month's presentation features Paul Nelson
Free admission - not just poetry
2nd Friday of every month - sign up for open mic - 7:00
4) WA State Poet Laureate?
ATTENTION POETS AND SUPPORTERS OF POETRY
We need your help!
The Washington Poets Association has tried for years to convince our legislators to establish the position of Washington State Poet Laureate. While some legislators have supported our cause in the past, most recently 2003, our bill so far has failed to make the cut. This year, that is changing.
With our partners, the Washington State Arts Commission and Humanities Washington, we got the poet laureate into the Governor’s legislative package. Gov. Gregoire even gave it a mention in her State of the State Address on January 9. We have bipartisan support from senators and representatives from the major political parties. We are continuing to work with our partnering organizations on the legislative front. But we know and you know whose voice is really heard in Olympia.
That’s right, if our legislators know YOU feel it’s important to have a poet laureate carry the torch for literature and literacy to communities statewide, they’ll vote yes. If they hear of your concern that Washington is one of just 10 states in the United States that DOESN’T have a poet laureate, they’ll vote yes. If they know you believe in the power of poetry and the power of language as instruments of change, they’ll vote yes.
5) Bart Baxter performance poetry Contest.
You can win this thing. Really. And that means $300 clams. Just be a WPA member and send two poems in. Be able to perform on Tuesday, April 10 at 7PM at the Richard Hugo House and get your application in by March 1. Pretty simple. If you aren't a contest person, come to watch. http://www.washingtonpoets.org/2007_wpa_bart_baxter_contest_entry_form.php Look there for other contests as well.
6) What do Anne Waldman, Sonia Sanchez , Jerome Rothenberg, Shelley Jackson, Bernadette Mayer, Samuel R. Delany, C.S Giscombe, Daisy Zamora, Eileen Myles, Brian Evenson, Hettie Jones, Laird Hunt, Bill Berkson, Ken Mikolowski, Rebecca Brown, Peter Gizzi, Marjorie Welish, Clark Coolidge, Carla Harryman, Leslie Scalapino, Wang, Ping, Eleni Sikelianos, Jennifer Moxley, Myung Mi Kim, Mac Wellman, Heriberto Yépez, Sesshu Foster, Thomas Glave, Camille Roy, Mónica de la Torre have in common? AH, all Part of the next Naropa Summer.
www.naropa.edu/swp
Start reading about this summer's faculty and workshops (over 50 workshops
to chose from!), check out info on scholarships (applications due April 2),
download an application to take the SWP for academic credit (priority filing
date is March 15!).
No. Her latest book release party is Saturday, February 10 at 7:30PM at Elliott Bay Book Company. Reception to follow at Stir, around the corner.
8) 31 words.
FROM: Crane's Bill BooksCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a
very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly
thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop
artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this
announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
9) Cranky Independent Press Fair Cranky Literary Journal announces (pro)text: An Independent Press Fair. The date for the fair is Saturday, February 17, 2007, from noon until 5 p.m. at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and we invite all literary lovers to join us. It's free and everyone is going to be there.
10) Waging Peace
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED FACILITATOR TRAINING:
"WAGING PEACE - DESIGNING JUSTICE"
(A 6-day intensive workshop w/ community performance
for beginner as well as more experienced T.O. practitioners seeking to
deepen their work.) Facilitated by Marc Weinblatt
When: June 25 – 30, 2007
(M-Th 9:30 AM - 6 PM; Fri 1-10 PM; Sat 10 AM - 4 PM)
Where: Port Townsend, WA
For more info, contact:
360-344-3435
info@mandalaforchange.com
http://www.mandalaforchange.com
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-- Paul E. Nelson Global Voices Radio http://www.globalvoicesradio.org www.splab.org888.735.MEAT
