Hugo House Teachers Reading tonight, Into Great Silence opens at Varsity Friday night, Organic Poetry, IoNS, Peace Art, and Binghamton funds update.

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In this E-Fishwrapper, Hugo House Teachers Reading tonight, Into Great Silence opens at Varsity Friday night, Organic Poetry, IoNS, Peace Art, and Binghamton funds update.


1) Hugo House Teacher's Reading tonight at 6:30.


Mar. 27
Hugo Writing Classes teacher reading
Sample our teachers before choosing what class to take this spring at the teacher reading featuring: Anna Balint, Wendy Call, Angela Jane Fountas, Dickey Nesenger, Cheryl Slean and others. Register for spring quarter courses at the reading! 6:30 p.m. Cabaret. Free. http://www.hugohouse.org

Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.

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 Friday, March 30 at the Varsity. This is the most remarkable cinema experience I've had in years.


3) Institute of Noetic Sciences President speaks.

IONS Northwest Announcement
Live at Seattle Unity
May 4, 2007 - IONS President James O'Dea

May 4 - IONS is pleased to announce that President James O'Dea speaks on An Emerging Science of Peace and Transformation at Seattle Unity, May 4, 2007, 7:30 PM. Live Music at 7 PM. Co-Sponsored by Seattle Unity and supported by many organizations.

More details on both events at www.ionsnw.org/events.htm.

4) PEACE ART April 7th Though the 14th

April 7 through 14, 2007, a unique art exhibit will take place in Skagit Valley.

20-plus well known artists from all over the region will display their heartfelt expressions about War and Peace in today’s world. The show is not all paintings and drawings, but will also include photography, sculpture, the written word, and music. The location is The Other Roadside Attraction Gallery, 18791 Cedardale Road, Mt Vernon, WA.

The gallery owners, Pam Hom and Jim Sherburne, are donating the use of the space for this exhibit.

Leading artists from the Skagit Valley and elsewhere include Clayton James, Anne Martin McCool, Jack Gunter, Trish Harding, Sue Roberts, Toni Ann Rust, Chris Elliott, Lavonne Newell Reim, Pam Hom, Verena Schwippert, Thais Armstrong, Brian Berman, Susan Farrell, Audrey Roll, Duane Simshauser, Larry and Marcia Huber, Maralyne Powell, and Tracy Powell, who is putting the show together. More artists are expected to join in before the opening.

Headlining the music is Holly Gwinn Graham, renowned in Skagit County and around the country as a gifted singer, song writer, actress, and advocate for peace, love, and justice. Holly will perform excerpts from her one-woman show at last years International Peace Conference in Vancouver BC, as well as favorites from her original album “Earth Anthem”, which is now being re-released as a CD. She will sing from 2-3 PM, Saturday, April 7.

The closing celebration one week later will feature the brilliant performance poet Steve Roxborough, who now resides in Anacortes. Some of Rox’s poems have been put to music on his 2002 CD “Spiritual Demons”. He will read from that collection and other poems during the final day’s activities on Saturday April 14.

More music and poetry may happen at any time during the exhibit, which will be open from 10AM to 5PM, every day from April 7 through 14, 2007.

Although most of the artwork is for sale, that is not the focus of this exhibit. All the artists hope that their images and ideas will promote thought and dialogue about the issues confronting us as a nation, and as human beings. Visitors should expect to be challenged by some pieces, comforted by others, and stimulated by all of them.

5) Judith Roche with a new Book.

ANNOUNCING
The Wisdom of the Body
a new poetry collection by Judith Roche from Black
Heron Press

These poems are polyphonies-—formal, elegant,
majestic, elegiac. Themes of sacred beauty. At the
same time they are driven by a wild passion, 'the
beauty of pure pluck.' – Sharon Doubiago

Readings
April 5
Greenwood Senior Center
525 N. 85th, Seattle, 206 297-0815
Judith Roche with Greenwood Poets
lunch 12:30, contact Greenwood Senior Center for reservations
Readings 1:00 pm, poetry workshop 1:45- 2:30 pm. Free

April 11
Elliott Bay Book Company reading
104 S. Main, Seattle, 206
7:30 pm

April 23
“An Evening with Judith Roche,” produced by Raven Chronicles
Hugo House, 7:00 pm
1632 11th, Seattle, 206 322-7030
co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House and Raven
Chronicles

April 28
Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island
www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word.php
9:00 am workshop
5:25 pm reading
Only $15.00 admission for festival which also features George Bowering.

May 1
Seattle University reading and reception, 4:00 – 6:00
900 Broadway, Seattle, Casey Atrium,
206 296-5420 (English Department)

May 4
Judith Roche reading and poetry workshop. Free
Central Area Senior Center, 503 30th S, Seattle, 206
726-4926,1:00-2:30

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) Call for Submissions for Arabesques Review

Celebrating the International Poetry Day, the Arabesques Review is
now accepting submissions for two upcoming special issues:

Vol 03, Issue 02 Contemporary Women Literature

>>> Submissions Deadline: April 30, 2007

Vol 03, Issue 03 Globalization

>>> Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2007

We would be very honored to read and consider your contribution for
these upcoming anthologies

To SUBMIT TO THE ARABESQUES REVIEW


Click here

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

Friday, 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) Over $2K raised to end the Binghamton saga. Thank you for your generosity. 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, Jim Teeters, Kent, WA, Lana Ayers, Kirkland, John Beniaris, Park Ridge, IL, Connie Hutchison, Kirkland, WA, Betsey Beckman, Mountlake Terrace, Susanne Hare, Tofino, BC and folks like YOU for supporting this work.

Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328

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