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Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper

In this E-Fishwrapper, Luis Rodriguez Reading tonight, Organic Poetry, Internet Connections (Jim Andrews, Bob Marcacci), Judith Rolche, Alexandra Oliver & AG anniversary.

1) Luis Rodriguez Reading tonight at Town Hall at 7 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
Award-winning poet, author, activist, publisher, and teacher Luis J. Rodriguez for talk, reading, and conversation. "Imagining Peace and Community in a Time of Violence and Chaos" Free admission. For more info, call 206.386.4636.

2) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology

Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Is the universe a machine with a dominant ethos of competition, or an organism based on interdependence, process and relationship? A stance-toward-poem-making based on the latter, Organic Poetry, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, or an experiment in consciousness.

This workshop for serious people of all levels of writing experience includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, sound from these poets discussing poetics and reading their poems, and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.

Hugo House, 1634 11th, Seattle. Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members) Some scholarships may be available. Five more days to sign up. Please tell someone who may want to take this. I will not be facilitating this class again until Fall.

3) How Connections are Made On-Line.

Last Friday at the Good Shepherd Center on Sunnyside in Seattle, I attended the night of Visual and Sound Poetry. Nico Vassilakis, Geof Huth, Crag Hill and Jim Andrews were featured and it was an incredible evening of challenging and engaging poetry. Jim Andrews lives in Victoria, but speaks highly of his time in Seattle, saying it helped open him up to multi-media poetry possibilities.

His unfinished (interactive) sound poem Nio is addictive, so you have been warned. His on-line essay on Lionel Kearns is also remarkable in terms of content and presentation. Quite engaging, and it includes two short films featuring Lionel's work. It requires Shockwave and Quicktime. (Once you download Quicktime say NO to Apple updates. They want to I-Pod you. ARGH!) Lionel was in attendance Friday night and had copies of his new selected poems A Few Words Will Do and I love this work. http://www.TalonBooks.com

4) How Connections are Made On-Line II.

So, browsing Jim's site I came across the name of a man who recently saw my post on the Suny-Buffalo listserv and axed to be added to the E-Fishwrapper. Bob Marcacci has this poetry podcast in a style that is part cool late night jazz d.j. and part world music, world poetry, global interconnection extraordinaire.

5) Write in the Woods 2007 Bill Ransom, keynoter.

Saturday, May 19, also Derek Sheffield, Tim McNulty, Elizabeth She, Allen Braden and others. Shelton, WA 8:30-4:30, gourmet lunch and only $49 bucks. Really. No website, but email WritingConference@oc.ctc.edu. At Olympic College Shelton.

6) Judith Roche with a new Book.

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

Readings
today! 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 24 (corrected date!)
“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.

7) Alexandra Oliver, Elizabeth Austen, Michael Spence, Aaron Silverberg at Fremont Library Saturday.

Saturday, April 7 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Fremont Library, 731 N 35th St., Seattle
Washington Poets Association presents a poetry reading featuring Elizabeth Austen, Alexandra Oliver, Michael Spence, and Aaron Silverberg. Followed by open mike. Refreshments compliments of Starbucks Coffee. Contact 206.684.4084 in celebration of Barbara K. Nelson's 42nd birthday.

8) Presidential Candidate Poetry.

Not Hillary!

9) Allen Ginsberg died ten years ago today.

Thanks to J. Glen Evans and his Poets West calendar for some of these events. http://poetswest.org/venues.htm

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

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