New Bowering, new M.A. and Subtext at 13.
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Kurdish Petition, new Bowering, Poems Around Greenlake, Writers in the Schools needed, Naropa Summer Program, Subtext Turns 13, A Night of Cheap Poet Winos at Hugo House & The Mighty Tieton.
1) Petition to Protest the Stoning of a Young Kurdish Woman.
To: Kurdistan Regional Government International Campaign against killings and stoning of women in Kurdistan
Condemn the brutal stoning to death of Doa - a young girl whose only crime was to fall in love ... petitiononline.com/kurdish/petition.html
2. George Bowering's U.S. Sonnets.
U.S. Sonnets - 30 poem chapbook by George Bowering from pooka press
printed in a numbered limited edition of 100 copies (the first 20 copies signed by George Bowering) $10.00 ; signed copies $15.00 - for fastest payments email paypal payment to editors@pookapress.ca or send cheque or money order to:
pooka press po box 2648 349 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6B 3W8
spread the word Warren Dean Fulton of pooka press
3) Your Poem Running Around Greenlake. (From A.K. Allin)
Dear Poets,
...I am organizing, now, "The Running Poets of Green Lake." As you know, The Green Lake pedestrian path is a 2.8 mile loop in the heart of Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood. It is wildly popular and thus a perfect place for poetry to go public. Participating runners will take a spin around the lake on Sunday 10 June 2007 while wearing poems written by local living poets.
I'd like "you" to participate.
1. Submit 1 short poem (max. 15 lines) to be printed on a cotton t-shirt
2. Include your name as you'd like it to appear
3. Include a short (5-10 line) bio to pass onto your runner
4. Send all info in the body of an e-mail to: mimiallin@gmail.com
5. Deadline: 5 June 2007!! That's soon.
100 shirts will be printed, each will have an RPGL logo on the front and a unique poem on the back. Artists retain all rights. If you are a runner or know runners who wish to participate, have them stop by on Sunday 10 June for a shirt (72nd & Aurora @ Green Lake).
I am dedicated to stewarding poetry to the masses via grass-roots methods, hand-to-hand gifting and instigations such as this. Thank you for your participation!
A. K. Allin
The Poetess at Green Lake
http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogspot.com
4) Writers in the Schools Needed.
This summer Writers in the Schools will be looking to hire several new writers-in-residence for next year's program. The job posting is attached. If you know of writers you think should apply, please encourage them to do
so. I would also greatly appreciate any forwarding, posting, or general talking-up of these openings. This is a good gig for the writer looking for a bit of extra income.
Let me know if you have any questions, and if you have any opportunities you want our writers to know about, send them on!
Thanks!
Rebecca Hoogs
Director of Education Seattle Arts & Lectures 105 S. Main St., Suite 201 Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 621-2230, ext. 18 www.lectures.org
rhoogs (at) lectures.org
5) Naropa Summer!
We're just a few weeks away from the start of our 33rd annual Summer Writing Program. We still have writing workshops open for enrollment every week and a very special Kerouac Festival Weekend celebrating 50 years of On the Road! For more information on this year’s SWP, plus our Kerouac extravaganza visit www.naropa.edu/swp 2007 Faculty Include: Anne Waldman, Wanda Coleman, 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 and others...
6) Subtext at 13.
From Nico: hello,
I wanted to invite you all to our NEW digs. We are moving to the Chapel Performance Space at The Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford (4649 Sunnyside). To celebrate our 13th anniversary Subtext will be having previous readers return for a full evening of words. Readers books will be available, as will some food and drink. So please do keep this date in mind : June 6th, 7:30pm (Your friendly E-Fishwrapperer, Paul E. Nelson, M.A. will read for three minutes. - Ed.)
http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext//index.html
7) A Night of Cheap Poetry and Wine.
from the ground up presents "A Night of Cheap Wine and Poetry" at the RIchard Hugo House, 1634 11th in Seattle. Featured readers: Lyall Bush, Dana Elkun, Jennifer Jasper, Jourdan Keith, Paul E. Nelson, M.A., and JT Stewart. Hosted by Charla Grenz. Wine $1/glass. Open mic. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House. Cabaret - FREE - Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 7PM.
8) The Mighty Tieton!!!
I just got back from a visit to Walla Walla to see Charles Potts and Jeremy Gaulke and then hit Tieton, WA to meet with folks who have envisioned an Arts community in a small town NW of Yakima. This effort they call The Mighty Tieton. Touring the town and hearing Ed Marquand's vision for revitalizing the town through arts and artisan businesses, seeing Trimpin's raw materials sitting in the huge former fruit warehouse and discussing possibilities for the Literary Arts was quite exciting. An Artist Trust fundraiser, their first east of the Cascades, is happening on June 16th.
I was going to backpack to Glacier Basin, then St. Elmo's Pass, but didn't want to camp on snow, or go solo around a just flagged new trail, so bagged it, went car camping at Half Flats off 410 and hung out with Charles Potts and Jeremy Gaulke in Walla Walla. We did a morning hike at the South Fork of the Walla Walla River yesterday. What remarkable country it is there and what a great man Charles is. He's working hard on a new printing of Valga Krusa, of which Carl Rakosi said: Your chronicle takes me inside a Hippy mental ambiance. Next stop, tiny Tieton and then home back over 410 in the weirdest traffic jam ever. Some snowboarders had constructed a ramp made of snow to let their comrades fly over 410. I did not stop to see how/where they would land, but they were attracting a crowd as they shoveled snow shirtless.
Then, I get home and my diploma had arrived in the mail. My Masters is now official. I guess I am qualified to teach Word and the Internet.
I've two readings coming up in Seattle, June 6 at Subtext, June 7 at Hugo House. Subtext is 13, which is remarkable and makes them the longest-running literary series in the city. The most aesthetically ambitious, for sure. The Hugo House gig will have me reading a longer set than at Subtext, but they plan to remove all empty wine bottles quickly lest we re-enact the Binghamton caper.
Stay cool.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
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Monday, May 28, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV was a HUGE success, 4 Million Iraq Refugees so far, Nu Quang's New Blog, UBU Web, Open Books and more.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 was a remarkable event. For the third year in a row attendance was up, with over 400 people, the event was organized better than ever, the headliners delivered BIG TIME and we made sure the weather did not interfere like in 2006.
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye had poems written in the voice of George Bush as letters she'd like to see him write. Letters written to Iraqi children who have lost limbs and must make sacrifices to bring Democracy to your country. It was quite touching. She is a first-class lady as well and we hope she'll be back someday.
George Bowering, the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, read work from his new book published by Talon, Vermeer's Light. Among them poems with him as The Answer Man. He was witty and professional and his poems written to his wife Jean were at once funny and moving. I loved his Friday workshop also. Danika Dinsmore's workshop had poets wandering like sheep, silently looking for images. Baaaaaaaaa! Christopher Luna had poems to his goddesses and one about how you can tell when you are REALLY poor. (When another poet makes you his charity case.) Christopher also facilitated a workshop, as did Tyrone Williams. Tyrone's covered Michael Palmer, among other innovators. Stephen Roxborough had a poem which electrified the Main Stage audience, with its refrain When Will We Wake Up? There were many other highlights as well and kudos go to the intelligent audiences AND all the Whidbey Island folks who stepped up as hosts. Gracias. This event is quickly becoming the premier annual West Coast poetry festival.
2) Nu Quang's New Blog
After living under Communist rule in Vietnam for almost a decade, Nu Quang came to the U.S. alone in 1985. In seven years, she transformed herself from a high-school dropout in Vietnam to a holder of an MFA in English and creative writing in America. Her new, weekly, online journal A Jade Lotus is the playwright/writer/poet's take on culture, religion, writing, and immigration.
3) AFSC Symposium on Iraqi Refugees
More than 4,000,000 Iraqis have been displaced by the war and occupation. Two million have fled the country with 50,000 Iraqis leaving each month.
Join AFSC in drawing attention to a growing, and vulnerable, population of Iraqis - the refugees and internally displaced people. Join us for a symposium on Iraqi refugees on May 19 in Philadelphia.
4) Zappa's Cartoonist May 12 at 6P.
We'd like to invite you down to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00 PM for our presentation of "The
Idiosyncratic Cinema of Bruce Bickford." You may know his work from
Frank Zappa's classic "Baby Snakes" film. If you haven't seen
Bickford's amazing clay animations, you're in for a real treat. The
reclusive animator doesn't get out much, so this is a rare
opportunity. The evening will be hosted by Jim Woodring, and Bruce
will discuss his work after the screening of four shorts - one of
which has never been seen. Free admission, as always. Spread the word.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located in Seattle's lively
Georgetown arts community at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.).
We're open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM (Sunday until 5:00 PM). See you all
soon.
5) David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg at Open Books:
OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Tuesday 5/8 at 7:30 PM DAVID MELTZER & MICHAEL ROTHENBERG
Tuesday 5/15 at 7:30 PM MARY SZYBIST
Tuesday 5/22 at 7:30 PM C. DALE YOUNG
Thursday 5/31 at 7:30 PM JEAN-PAUL PECQUER
Thursday 6/14 at 7:30 PM MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER
Open Books: A Poem Emporium / 2414 North 45th Street / Seattle, Washington 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com / www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday - Thursday, 12 - 6
Friday & Saturday, 12 - 7
First Sunday of the month, 12 - 4
6) New on Ubuweb.
UbuWeb Featured Resources:
May 2007
Selected by Adalaide Morris
1. Billie Whitelaw, "Not I" (1973)
http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett.html
2. Jonas Mekas - Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
http://www.ubu.com/film/mekas.html
3 Agnes Varda - Black Panthers, Huey! (1968)
http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html
4. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side B" (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/cage_john/cage_sun_ra/Cage-John_and_Ra-Sun_02.mp3
5. Henri Chopin - Le Ventre de Bertini, Audio-poème (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/chopin_henri/Chopin-Henri_Le-Ventre-de-Bertini.mp3
6. Philip Glass - Score of "1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top."
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen8/onePlusOne.html
7. Christian Bök - Eunoia, Chapter u
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia/Bok-Christian_Eunoia_06-Chapter-U.mp3
8a. Cecil Taylor - Chinampas 1987 (MP3)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/taylor.html
8b. Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor's Chinampas
http://www.ubu.com/papers/moten.html
9. Peter Greenaway - Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)
http://www.ubu.com/film/monk.html
10. Gregory Whitehead, "What Words Want"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-What_Words_Want_1984.mp3
Well, it was one hella party at Burning Word IV. (A poetry IV, now THERE'S an idea. Mainlining verse.) Who should feature NEXT year, besides YOU?
Looks like the Binghamton saga is coming in for a landing. I finished the paperwork and sent it in yesterday. Thank you if you helped solve that wicky sticket. (You know who you are, eh?)
I am sorry this Fishwrapper is late. My new job really gets in the way of my work. Who knew? OK, my Doc Prep tasks are waiting.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV was a HUGE success, 4 Million Iraq Refugees so far, Nu Quang's New Blog, UBU Web, Open Books and more.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 was a remarkable event. For the third year in a row attendance was up, with over 400 people, the event was organized better than ever, the headliners delivered BIG TIME and we made sure the weather did not interfere like in 2006.
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye had poems written in the voice of George Bush as letters she'd like to see him write. Letters written to Iraqi children who have lost limbs and must make sacrifices to bring Democracy to your country. It was quite touching. She is a first-class lady as well and we hope she'll be back someday.
George Bowering, the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, read work from his new book published by Talon, Vermeer's Light. Among them poems with him as The Answer Man. He was witty and professional and his poems written to his wife Jean were at once funny and moving. I loved his Friday workshop also. Danika Dinsmore's workshop had poets wandering like sheep, silently looking for images. Baaaaaaaaa! Christopher Luna had poems to his goddesses and one about how you can tell when you are REALLY poor. (When another poet makes you his charity case.) Christopher also facilitated a workshop, as did Tyrone Williams. Tyrone's covered Michael Palmer, among other innovators. Stephen Roxborough had a poem which electrified the Main Stage audience, with its refrain When Will We Wake Up? There were many other highlights as well and kudos go to the intelligent audiences AND all the Whidbey Island folks who stepped up as hosts. Gracias. This event is quickly becoming the premier annual West Coast poetry festival.
2) Nu Quang's New Blog
After living under Communist rule in Vietnam for almost a decade, Nu Quang came to the U.S. alone in 1985. In seven years, she transformed herself from a high-school dropout in Vietnam to a holder of an MFA in English and creative writing in America. Her new, weekly, online journal A Jade Lotus is the playwright/writer/poet's take on culture, religion, writing, and immigration.
3) AFSC Symposium on Iraqi Refugees
More than 4,000,000 Iraqis have been displaced by the war and occupation. Two million have fled the country with 50,000 Iraqis leaving each month.
Join AFSC in drawing attention to a growing, and vulnerable, population of Iraqis - the refugees and internally displaced people. Join us for a symposium on Iraqi refugees on May 19 in Philadelphia.
4) Zappa's Cartoonist May 12 at 6P.
We'd like to invite you down to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00 PM for our presentation of "The
Idiosyncratic Cinema of Bruce Bickford." You may know his work from
Frank Zappa's classic "Baby Snakes" film. If you haven't seen
Bickford's amazing clay animations, you're in for a real treat. The
reclusive animator doesn't get out much, so this is a rare
opportunity. The evening will be hosted by Jim Woodring, and Bruce
will discuss his work after the screening of four shorts - one of
which has never been seen. Free admission, as always. Spread the word.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located in Seattle's lively
Georgetown arts community at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.).
We're open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM (Sunday until 5:00 PM). See you all
soon.
5) David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg at Open Books:
OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Tuesday 5/8 at 7:30 PM DAVID MELTZER & MICHAEL ROTHENBERG
Tuesday 5/15 at 7:30 PM MARY SZYBIST
Tuesday 5/22 at 7:30 PM C. DALE YOUNG
Thursday 5/31 at 7:30 PM JEAN-PAUL PECQUER
Thursday 6/14 at 7:30 PM MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER
Open Books: A Poem Emporium / 2414 North 45th Street / Seattle, Washington 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com / www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday - Thursday, 12 - 6
Friday & Saturday, 12 - 7
First Sunday of the month, 12 - 4
6) New on Ubuweb.
UbuWeb Featured Resources:
May 2007
Selected by Adalaide Morris
1. Billie Whitelaw, "Not I" (1973)
http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett.html
2. Jonas Mekas - Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
http://www.ubu.com/film/mekas.html
3 Agnes Varda - Black Panthers, Huey! (1968)
http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html
4. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side B" (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/cage_john/cage_sun_ra/Cage-John_and_Ra-Sun_02.mp3
5. Henri Chopin - Le Ventre de Bertini, Audio-poème (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/chopin_henri/Chopin-Henri_Le-Ventre-de-Bertini.mp3
6. Philip Glass - Score of "1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top."
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen8/onePlusOne.html
7. Christian Bök - Eunoia, Chapter u
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia/Bok-Christian_Eunoia_06-Chapter-U.mp3
8a. Cecil Taylor - Chinampas 1987 (MP3)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/taylor.html
8b. Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor's Chinampas
http://www.ubu.com/papers/moten.html
9. Peter Greenaway - Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)
http://www.ubu.com/film/monk.html
10. Gregory Whitehead, "What Words Want"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-What_Words_Want_1984.mp3
Well, it was one hella party at Burning Word IV. (A poetry IV, now THERE'S an idea. Mainlining verse.) Who should feature NEXT year, besides YOU?
Looks like the Binghamton saga is coming in for a landing. I finished the paperwork and sent it in yesterday. Thank you if you helped solve that wicky sticket. (You know who you are, eh?)
I am sorry this Fishwrapper is late. My new job really gets in the way of my work. Who knew? OK, my Doc Prep tasks are waiting.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Burning Word IV 4.28.07
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV is Saturday, African-American Film Festival through the weekend, WA gets a Poet Laureate, Writers go Hollywood.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 is taking place this Saturday, April 28 from 9 AM to 7 PM at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island you will know you have to be there!
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a "wandering poet." She has spent 33 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. She is the author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress), and numerous other honors.
George Bowering is a major Canadian literary figure and one of the most prolific writers in the country: over 70 books published to date not including editions he has edited or contributed to. Two-time winner of the Governor General¹s Award, his most recent collection of poetry, Changing on the Fly, was also short-listed for the Griffin Prize for Poetry. In November 2002 he was appointed the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same month he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. He is a respected poet, novelist, essayist, critic, teacher, historian and editor.
Jack Prelutsky has been making words rhyme for over 35 years. In 1967 he published his first book of humorous verse, A Gopher in the Garden. Since then, he has gone on to produce over 50 books of poetry. A resident of Seattle, Prelutsky was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation this year, and will receive The Washington Poet Association¹s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Burning Word Festival.
Workshops: Inviting the Muse - Judith Roche, Make-Believe Ball Room - Michael C. Ford, Walking and Talking Poetics - Danika Dinsmore, and others.
Readers: Jourdan Keith, J.W. Marshall, David Rizzi, Terry Martin, Clemens Starck, C.E. Putnam, Charles Potts, Howard Robertson, Molly Tenenbaum, Los Nortenos: Jose Carrillo Carmen Carrion Raul Sanchez, Shin Yu Pai, Michael C. Ford, Judith Roche, Tyrone Williams & many others...
2) Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival.
April 21-27.
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is just around the corner and this years festival marks the most ambitious collection of films yet! A remarkable festival suitable to a remarkable culture, you really should get to the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center this week.
This years festival provides a bountiful array of 45 (and counting) narratives, documentaries, shorts, animated films and a host of filmmaker talk-backs, special workshops and activities highlighting films by and about black folk from around the world and in our own backyard. Highlights include a 'revolutionary' Opening Night with Sam Greenlee which was awesome, and a special family-friendly closing night featuring a Black Cowboy demonstration. Check out the schedule
3) Washington State Poet Laureate
It’s official!
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed Substitute House Bill 1279, the long-awaited legislation that creates the position of Washington State
Poet Laureate. The signing makes Washington the 41st state to have such a post.
“It’s about time,” exclaimed Karen Bonaudi, who, with WPA secretary Ed Stover, co-chaired the WPA committee that has worked for months with
the state Arts Commission and Humanities Washington, a nonprofit, to steer the bill through the legislative process.
Bonaudi, a former WPA president, has seen that process falter at least four times in the past 10 years. “We could never get it passed out of
commmittee before--the interest just wasn’t there.”
Not so this year, and certainly not on Thursday, April 19, at about 1:30 p.m. when Bonaudi, Stover, Kris Tucker of the Arts Commission,
Karen Munro of Humanities Washington, and a host of others were ushered into the Governor’s Conference Room for the big moment.
“Everybody who comes in has to have a poem for me,” joked Gregoire as the group filed in. Now who will be the first P.L.? Any suggestions???
4) Weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide
Hi - I'm David and I'd like to share an opportunity with you
and your group as we are reaching out to like minded groups
inclusive of beginners and pros. I am the Artistic Director of
Riprap Studio Theatre in North Hollywood, California and I co-
produce a weekly television broadcast - RIPRAP ENTERTAINMENT TV
with Sandra Nutt (the owner / operator of Riprap Studio
Theatre). We are reaching out to colleges and students and
groups like yours to invite you and your group to submit; or
just watch and learn and take part in our evolution.
Our weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide.
It's designed to find the next great stage play to mount at our
theatre in North Hollywood, CA and we would love to share the
opportunity with your group. It's free and will always be free
since our inception in 1999.
We accept stage plays, screenplays, novels, short stories,
teleplays and musicals for discussion, critique, feedback
and/or award. Sandra, the owner adapted her screenplay for the
stage and HBO requested the original script.
We would like to expose novice and veteran writers to the same
opportunity - that is our concept - for those who might not
otherwise have a chance in Hollywood. No promises, just a fun
show designed to entertain and educate the public about the
writing process, while providing a valuable opportunity.
We have a segment called SCRIPT ANALYSIS wherein we read,
discuss, critique new works for consideration for possible
production on our stage in North Hollywood. We recently added
RIPRAP UNIVERSITY tutorials - also free and I notice you are
writing a book chapter by chapter, our first endeavor is to
write a screenplay three pages at a time on video on our web
site. Perhaps that will be valuable to you and your members as
well.
I'll keep the email short, but if you think you or your members
would be interested in this opportunity, please distribute our
flyer to your members and email me with ANY questions that you
may have.
We also post segments of our broadcast on our web site every
week after the show and you can see them at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/
FLYER is at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/invitation.pdf
Thank you very much for your time Mike and best of luck and
continued success in your group and endeavors.
Kind regards,
David L. Stewart, Artistic Director
Riprap Studio Theatre & Riprap Entertainment TV
5755 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Tel: (818) 990-7498
davidls2004@yahoo.com
6) Nico Vassilakis'ssss new You Tube po vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iyBIQDihFM
from Harry Mathews' story "The Way Home"
OK, I have to get back to work, yes, work. You heard me right. For the first time since the 1st Bush Administration, I have a full-time job teaching Vocational Ed (word,e xcel, etc.) to students at the Muckleshoot Tribal College. 8 miles from my house. This means good things for my financial picture and FINALLY will publish A Time Before Slaughter, hopefully by the Fall. Thanks to all for your blessings of contributions, moral support and/or bail money. HA! Also, my masters thesis is complete and on-line at http://www.Organicpoetry.org as individual essays. Thanks to Judith Roche, David Thomson, Judith Cohen, Amalio Madueno, Sam Hamill, Debra Van Tuinen, Paul E. Nelson I, George Bowering, Robin Blaser, Michael McClure and all who helped make the masters happen. I graduate on May 20 from Lesley University. I can recommend their Independent Study Program.
See you at Burning Word.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV is Saturday, African-American Film Festival through the weekend, WA gets a Poet Laureate, Writers go Hollywood.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 is taking place this Saturday, April 28 from 9 AM to 7 PM at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island you will know you have to be there!
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a "wandering poet." She has spent 33 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. She is the author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress), and numerous other honors.
George Bowering is a major Canadian literary figure and one of the most prolific writers in the country: over 70 books published to date not including editions he has edited or contributed to. Two-time winner of the Governor General¹s Award, his most recent collection of poetry, Changing on the Fly, was also short-listed for the Griffin Prize for Poetry. In November 2002 he was appointed the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same month he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. He is a respected poet, novelist, essayist, critic, teacher, historian and editor.
Jack Prelutsky has been making words rhyme for over 35 years. In 1967 he published his first book of humorous verse, A Gopher in the Garden. Since then, he has gone on to produce over 50 books of poetry. A resident of Seattle, Prelutsky was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation this year, and will receive The Washington Poet Association¹s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Burning Word Festival.
Workshops: Inviting the Muse - Judith Roche, Make-Believe Ball Room - Michael C. Ford, Walking and Talking Poetics - Danika Dinsmore, and others.
Readers: Jourdan Keith, J.W. Marshall, David Rizzi, Terry Martin, Clemens Starck, C.E. Putnam, Charles Potts, Howard Robertson, Molly Tenenbaum, Los Nortenos: Jose Carrillo Carmen Carrion Raul Sanchez, Shin Yu Pai, Michael C. Ford, Judith Roche, Tyrone Williams & many others...
2) Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival.
April 21-27.
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is just around the corner and this years festival marks the most ambitious collection of films yet! A remarkable festival suitable to a remarkable culture, you really should get to the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center this week.
This years festival provides a bountiful array of 45 (and counting) narratives, documentaries, shorts, animated films and a host of filmmaker talk-backs, special workshops and activities highlighting films by and about black folk from around the world and in our own backyard. Highlights include a 'revolutionary' Opening Night with Sam Greenlee which was awesome, and a special family-friendly closing night featuring a Black Cowboy demonstration. Check out the schedule
3) Washington State Poet Laureate
It’s official!
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed Substitute House Bill 1279, the long-awaited legislation that creates the position of Washington State
Poet Laureate. The signing makes Washington the 41st state to have such a post.
“It’s about time,” exclaimed Karen Bonaudi, who, with WPA secretary Ed Stover, co-chaired the WPA committee that has worked for months with
the state Arts Commission and Humanities Washington, a nonprofit, to steer the bill through the legislative process.
Bonaudi, a former WPA president, has seen that process falter at least four times in the past 10 years. “We could never get it passed out of
commmittee before--the interest just wasn’t there.”
Not so this year, and certainly not on Thursday, April 19, at about 1:30 p.m. when Bonaudi, Stover, Kris Tucker of the Arts Commission,
Karen Munro of Humanities Washington, and a host of others were ushered into the Governor’s Conference Room for the big moment.
“Everybody who comes in has to have a poem for me,” joked Gregoire as the group filed in. Now who will be the first P.L.? Any suggestions???
4) Weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide
Hi - I'm David and I'd like to share an opportunity with you
and your group as we are reaching out to like minded groups
inclusive of beginners and pros. I am the Artistic Director of
Riprap Studio Theatre in North Hollywood, California and I co-
produce a weekly television broadcast - RIPRAP ENTERTAINMENT TV
with Sandra Nutt (the owner / operator of Riprap Studio
Theatre). We are reaching out to colleges and students and
groups like yours to invite you and your group to submit; or
just watch and learn and take part in our evolution.
Our weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide.
It's designed to find the next great stage play to mount at our
theatre in North Hollywood, CA and we would love to share the
opportunity with your group. It's free and will always be free
since our inception in 1999.
We accept stage plays, screenplays, novels, short stories,
teleplays and musicals for discussion, critique, feedback
and/or award. Sandra, the owner adapted her screenplay for the
stage and HBO requested the original script.
We would like to expose novice and veteran writers to the same
opportunity - that is our concept - for those who might not
otherwise have a chance in Hollywood. No promises, just a fun
show designed to entertain and educate the public about the
writing process, while providing a valuable opportunity.
We have a segment called SCRIPT ANALYSIS wherein we read,
discuss, critique new works for consideration for possible
production on our stage in North Hollywood. We recently added
RIPRAP UNIVERSITY tutorials - also free and I notice you are
writing a book chapter by chapter, our first endeavor is to
write a screenplay three pages at a time on video on our web
site. Perhaps that will be valuable to you and your members as
well.
I'll keep the email short, but if you think you or your members
would be interested in this opportunity, please distribute our
flyer to your members and email me with ANY questions that you
may have.
We also post segments of our broadcast on our web site every
week after the show and you can see them at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/
FLYER is at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/invitation.pdf
Thank you very much for your time Mike and best of luck and
continued success in your group and endeavors.
Kind regards,
David L. Stewart, Artistic Director
Riprap Studio Theatre & Riprap Entertainment TV
5755 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Tel: (818) 990-7498
davidls2004@yahoo.com
6) Nico Vassilakis'ssss new You Tube po vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iyBIQDihFM
from Harry Mathews' story "The Way Home"
OK, I have to get back to work, yes, work. You heard me right. For the first time since the 1st Bush Administration, I have a full-time job teaching Vocational Ed (word,e xcel, etc.) to students at the Muckleshoot Tribal College. 8 miles from my house. This means good things for my financial picture and FINALLY will publish A Time Before Slaughter, hopefully by the Fall. Thanks to all for your blessings of contributions, moral support and/or bail money. HA! Also, my masters thesis is complete and on-line at http://www.Organicpoetry.org as individual essays. Thanks to Judith Roche, David Thomson, Judith Cohen, Amalio Madueno, Sam Hamill, Debra Van Tuinen, Paul E. Nelson I, George Bowering, Robin Blaser, Michael McClure and all who helped make the masters happen. I graduate on May 20 from Lesley University. I can recommend their Independent Study Program.
See you at Burning Word.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
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