Burning Word IV 4.28.07

For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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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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