Feb 5 E-Fishwrapper
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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In this E-Fishwrapper, Robin Blaser's snow-cancelled appearance at The Evergreen State University is re-scheduled for tonight and your humble E-Fishwrapperer reads in Tacoma Friday night.
1) Robin Blaser at Evergreen tonight, 7PM, Seminar II Building, room A 1105.
Robin was part of the Berkeley Renaissance with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, an essential part of the New American Poetry and has two brilliant books just released on California Press, The Fire (essays) and the definitive edition of his life work The Holy Forest. How many more chances will you get to see him in an intimate environment? Call me if you want to carpool from Auburn.
2) Paul Nelson reads in Tacoma Friday night, Febuary 9.
Connie Walle keeps her series going despite yet ANOTHER venue change. Friday at 7PM at King's Books, 218 St. Helens, Tacoma. Your humble E-Fishwrapping correspondent will read some of the Slaughter poems, some American Sentences, perhaps that new series of poems inspired by the late Bengali Poet Binoy Majumdar and who knows what else? Not me. A great independent bookstore, a reading that persists due to the commitment and stubbornness of Connie Walle and drinks after the show. There will be open mic, as usual.
3) ARTIST TRUST ANNOUNCES 2007
EDGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ARTISTS
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Application Deadline: March 30, 2007
Artists who reside in Washington State are encouraged to apply to participate in the 2007 EDGE Professional Development Training Program.
The EDGE Program provides artists with a comprehensive survey of professional practices through a hands-on, interactive curriculum that includes instruction by professionals in the field as well as specialized presentations, panel discussions, and assignments. The EDGE Program focuses on providing artists with the relevant and necessary entrepreneurial skills to achieve their personal career goals, as well as to develop peer support and exchange among the participating artists.
Contact: Heather Joy Helbach-Olds, Director of Programs at heatherjoy@artisttrust.org, 206/467-8734 x10; toll free 1/866/218-7878
4) Subtext on Wednesday.
by Lindsay Hill & Chris Putnam at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, February 7, 2007. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of
the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.
Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco in 1952. Graduate of Bard College. Began writing under influence of Robert Duncan, Tarn, Rexroth and Rilke. First book Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley 1974). Work has appeared in numerous journals including Sulfur, Caliban and New American Writing. Four other books including most recent Contango (Singing Horse). Past co-editor of poetry/poetics journal Facture. Current focus on sentence-based collage writing. Living in Portland, OR with wife, Nita, and children Ian and Helena. Member of the Spare Room poetry collective.
C.E. Putnam maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research). Some of his chapbooks include Manic Box (2001), Did you ever hear of a thing like that? (2001), Things Keep Happening (2003), and Crawlspace, a forthcoming collaboration with Daniel Comiskey. For this February reading, C.E. Putnam will read cosmic-sex/earthly-love poems. See http://www.pisor-industries.org
5) Bart Baxter performance poetry Contest.
You can win this thing. Really. And that means $300 clams. You can apply now. 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) Search for Peace Art
Contact: Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss 503 646-5449
Calling all Artists, Poets, and Peacemakers, Parents and Teachers!
The 2007 Search For Peace Art Events invites any original artwork relating to peace and non-violence, by artists of all ages. Exhibits are Saturday, March 3, 4 to 7 PM and Sunday, March 4, 10:30 to 3 PM in the St. Andrew Community Center, NE 9th Ave. and Alberta, Portland, and in the St. Pius X Community Center, 1280 NW Saltzman Rd. Portland 97229, in Cedar Mill, March 10, 6 to 7PM and March 11, 8:30AM to 3 PM.
A Poetry and Prose Reading is Saturday, March 10, 7 PM, in the St. Pius X Community Center. For Entry Forms and more information, and to see art works from last years exhibit, go to www.SearchForPeaceArt.org or call 503 646-5449. We encourage parents and teachers to talk with their children and students about peace and nonviolence, and to create related art works. The exhibit theme is "We Search For Peace in our Hearts, Peace in our Families, Peace in the World." Entries must be received by February 26, 2007. Search For Peace engraved Peace Medals, ribbons, and many other prizes, will be awarded for each of the 4 age divisions. Everyone is a winner in the Search For Peace!
Check the web site www.searchforpeaceart.org See photos of the March 2006 Art Exhibit! and information about the 2007 Search For Peace events in March 2007.
Our hope is that as Idiolexicon grows, it will become a harbor for serious argument and dialogue through poetry. Send responses to other poems that have been featured in Idiolexicon. Send responses to other poems that have not been featured in Idiolexicon. Send your notes from yesterday's football game. Send your annotated version of the State of
the Union address. Send the rejection letter you'd send Harold Bloom if you had the chance.
Poetry and short prose pieces, mainly poetry. Slam poets are welcome here. Just don't break anything. Send 3-7 poems, or one long poem. We're interested in doing longer stints with sets of poems that we like, so it might be good to send poems that fit together well. Previously published is fine, if you tell us that it's been previously published, and where.
Simultaneous subs are fine, just let us know if someone good accepts it. If at all possible, send your poems in the body of your email. If that's not possible, send your poems as a PDF file. If that's not possible either, explain in your email why we should trust your Word document not to have a virus in it. We're also interested in mp3 recordings of featured poems (studio-quality or live performance). Send files via yousendit. Send submissions to submissions at idiolexicon dot com.
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