3.19.07 E-Fishwrapper: Baxter Finalists, Organic Poetry, Into Great Silence, Binghamton.

Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper


In this E-Fishwrapper, Bart Baxter Finalists, Organic Poetry, Eileen Myles, Nico V, Binghamton and one long, mostly quiet movie.


1) Bart Baxter finalists chosen, to battle at 7P, April 10 at Richard Hugo House.


The Washington Poets Association invites you to attend the Bart Baxter
performance poetry competition on Tuesday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the
Hugo House Cabaret. Eight finalists will compete in head-to-head
Taos-style poetry bouts with the overall champ getting $300. Finalists
scheduled to perform are Miryam Gordon, Jared Leising, Jack McCarthy,
Rebecca Meredith, Jeremy Richards, Roy Seitz, M. Anne Sweet and D.D.
Wigley. FREE, although donations will be accepted to help the WPA
continue its programming.

Co-Sponsored by Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.
http://www.hugohouse.org. Come see who is the best performance poet in the state of Washington! Washington Poets Association.

2) Into Great Silence

In 1984 Philip Groning wrote to the Carthusian Order seeking permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him and they did 16 years later. The resulting film is truly form as content, a mesmerizing movie with no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. Indeed a transformative experience. Starts March 30 at the Varsity. I saw the press screening today. Not for Rambo fans.


3) Untitled [Intersection], 2007

A monthly poetry & contemporary performance art series in Seattle

This Friday 23 March, 7 -9 pm, in the Phinney Center Gallery, celebrate the work of featured artists Rebecca Loudon, Jared Leising and Sheri Brown. Suggested donation, $5. Wine reception.

On the 4th Friday of every month, Untitled [Intersection] presents one
performance artist alongside two featured poets. Untitled [Intersection] invites recognized poets to promote and introduce younger poets whose work they admire. The two read alongside one another, as colleagues, in a gallery setting. The series was conceived by A. K. Allin as a live art event, designed to strengthen the Seattle arts community by cross-fertilizing, fostering dialog between genres and bringing fresh talent to the fore.

4) Wave Books poets in town - Eileen Myles & Dara Weir.

Friday, March 23 @ 7:00 pm, Bailey Coy Books
Eileen Myles will read from her collection Sorry, Tree, brand new from Wave Books.

Saturday, March 24 @ 3 pm, Henry Art Gallery
Eileen Myles will give a talk: "Everything is Not Enough" on the various communities she has been part of and the intersection of art and literature in these scenes and her practice.

Saturday, March 24 @ 5 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company
Dara Wier will read from her recent Wave Books collection, Remnants of Hannah with Lisa Olstein, whose collection Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is new from Copper Canyon Press.

5) Hugo House Teachers Reading


Tuesday, Mar. 27, 6:30 p.m. FREE.
Hugo Writing Classes teacher reading, featuring teachers from the upcoming spring quarter, including Anna Balint, Wendy Call, Angela Jane Fountas, Dickey Nesenger, Cheryl Slean and others (Paul Nelson is an other, but you knew that.) Register for spring quarter courses at the reading, like the Organic Poetry workshop, Thursday mornings from 10A-12N starting April 12. Cabaret. registrar@hugohouse.org


6) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology


Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Have you ever experienced a really good poem that seems to write itself? Ever consider training yourself to write that way? There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called "Organic." In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others.
Hugo House (Where else?) Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members)


7) New Golden Handcuffs Review
Dear Colleagues, This issue, dedicated to Gilbert Sorrentino, includes chapters from his final novel; it features also a selection by Michael Rothenberg of work by Bay Area writers AND new poems from the Jack Spicer archive.
The lineup: Mark Axelrod, Robin Blaser, David Bromige & Richard Denner, Bill Dorn, Paul Eluard, George Economou, Gloria Frym, Eckhard Gerdes, Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Paul Griffiths, Katherine Hastings, Jack Hirschman, Bernard Hoepffner, Leslie Kaplan, Larry
Kearney, Hank Lazer, Ron Loewinsohn, Douglas James Martin, David Matlin, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Douglas Messerli, Thomas Meyer, Robert Mittenthal, Susan Smith Nash, Pat Nolan, Peter O'Leary, Toby Olson, Rochelle Owens, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Judith Skillman, Christopher Sorrentino, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jack Spicer, James Tierney, Norman Weinstein, Dallas Wiebe, Jonathan Williams.
$6.95 US, 8.95 Canada. Subscriptions $12/annum at Golden Handcuffs Review, Box 20158, Seattle, WA 98102. The website will include excerpts from the new issue soon.

8) 31 Words

A reminder: April 1 deadline

CALL 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.

J.A. Lee - Crane's Bill Books

cranesbill@cybermesa.com
www.torriblezone.com/cp2.html

9) SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES
with Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Jim Andrews, Nico Vassilakis

MARCH 30th, 7:30pm

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle
(in Wallingford, just south of 50th St.)

http://gschapel.blogspot.com

10) There has been a break in the Binghamton saga. Did you hear about my October experience? Email or call if you want details.

Thanks to 4 Culture and individual contributors like Charlie Stobert, Reading, UK, Michael Schein, Seattle, WA, David Rizzi, Seattle, WA, Robert Forbes, Kimberly, BC, Augusto Romano, Seattle, WA, Nick Weber, Seattle, WA, Jeremy Richards, Seattle, WA, Robin Cherney, Redmond, WA, Bobbie Landmesser, Castro Valley, CA, Linda Nelson, Chicago, IL and folks like YOU for supporting this work.

Paul E. Nelson
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