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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper


In this E-Fishwrapper, Subtext Tonight, new Bowering, Cheap Wino Poets at Hugo House Tomorrow, SPokenword Classes, Poems Around Greenlake & assorted notes.


1) Subtext turns 13 Tonight! Or 12!


From Nico: Come celebrate the launch of the reading series at our new home at the Chapel Performance Space at the Home Of The Good Shepherd. We're very excited to be working with Nonsequitur. Donations for admission will be taken at the door. The event starts at 7:30pm.

Performers for the evening include: Curtis Bonney, Joseph Bradshaw, Daniel Comiskey, Christine Deavel, April Denonno, Diana George, Adriana Grant, Marion Kimes, Drew Kunz, Sarah Mangold, Ezra Mark, Bryant Mason, Robert, Mittenthal, Paul Nelson, Mickey O'Connor, John Olson, Roberta Olson, C.E. Putnam, Willie Smith, Craig Van Riper, Nico Vassilakis, Maged Zaher.

previous readers:

David Abel,Charles Alexander,Will Alexander,Charles Altieri,Rae Armantrout,Eric Baus,Dodie Bellamy,Anselm Berrigan,Robin Blaser,Rachel Blau DuPlessis,Christian Bok,Charles Borkhuis,Jules Boykoff,Joseph Bradshaw,Jonathan Brannen,David Bromige,Lee Ann Brown,Rebecca Brown,Laynie Browne,Mary Burger,Clint Burnham,Avery Burns,Gerald Burns,Brian Carpenter,Tyler Carter,Maxine Chernoff,Susan Clark,Allison Cobb,Alicia Cohen,Norma Cole,Jen Coleman,Steve Collis,Daniel Comiskey,Lucy Corin,Peter Culley,KT Cutler,Jean Day,Christine Deavel,April DeNonno,Jeff Derksen,Vanessa DeWolf,Danika Dinsmore,Joseph Donahue,Stacy Doris,Buck Downs,kari Edwards,Zhang Er,Brian Evenson,Steve Farmer,Dan Farrell,Laura Feldman,Deanna Ferguson,Robert Fitterman,Ed Foster,William Fox,Kathleen Fraser,Ethan Fugate,Drew Gardner,Diana George,Peter Gizzi,Dale Going,Phil Good,Adriana Grant,Barbara Guest,Alan Halsey,Carla Harryman,Kreg Hasegawa,Jeanne Heuving,Crag Hill,Gary Hill,Jen Hofer,Anselm Hollo,Paul Hoover,Bill Horist-Steve Potter,Francois Houle,Susan Howe,However Quartet,Lisa Jarnot,Philip Jenks,Jim Jones,Andrew Joron,Joe Keppler,Steven Kessler,Kevin Killian,Marion Kimes,Maris Kundzins,Drew Kunz,Susan Landers,MaryRose Larkin,Jill Levine,Stacey Levine,Jodi Lundgren,Bill Luoma,Kathryn MacLeod,Michael Magoolaghan,David Maitlin,Rob Manery,Sarah Mangold,Chris Mann,Ezra Mark,Bryant Mason,Noemie Maxwell,Bernadette Mayer,David McAleavey,Meg McHutchison,Myung Mi Kim,Robert Mittenthal,Geraldine Monk,Laura Moriarty,Rusty Morrison,Charles Mudede,Harryette Mullen,NBB,Paul Nelson,Sianne Ngai,Alice Notley,Doug Nufer,Mickey O'Connor,Peter O'Leary,Douglas Oliver,Andi Olsen,Lance Olsen,John Olson,Roberta Olson,Mark Owens,Marjorie Perloff,David Perry,C.E. Putnam,Meredith Quartermain,Peter Quartermain,Reuben Radding,Judy Radul,Brett Ralph Belle Randall,Dan Raphael,Tom Raworth,Ed Roberson,Lisa Robertson,Elizabeth Robinson,Judith Roche,Janet Rodney,Martha Ronk,Rhoda Rosenfeld,Lou Rowan,Joe Safdie,Kaia Sand,Leslie Scalapino,Susan Schultz,Leonard Schwartz,Seattle School,Spencer Selby,Cathleen Shattuck,Steven Shaviro,Nancy Shaw,Aaron Shurin,Ron Silliman,Stephanie Skura,Mary Margaret Sloan,Rod Smith,Willie Smith,Maya Sonenberg,Kerri Sonnenberg,Juliana Spahr,Matthew Stadler,Staggered Thirds,Ron Starr,Christine Stewart,Donna Stonecipher,Catriona Strang,Chris Stroffolino,Mark Tardi,Nathaniel Tarn,Sharon Thesen,James Tierney,Lynne Tillman,Dorothy Trujillo Lusk,Jacqueline Turner,Craig Van Riper,Nico Vassilakis,Aaron Vidaver,Liz Waldner,Betsy Warland,Margareta Waterman,Jacqueline Waters,Barrett Watten,Karen Weiser,Elizabeth Willis,Melissa Wolsak,Kenji Yuda ,Lidia Yuknavitch Maged Zaher,Joseph Zitt

2. A Night of Cheap Poets and Wine Bottles

From Brian at the Hugo House: On June 7th, that experience will only grow stronger at the next "Cheap Wine and Poetry." Rain or shine, we'll be joined by Richard Hugo House Executive Director Lyall Bush, performer extraordinaire Jennifer Jasper, Seattle Poet Populist Jourdan Keith, Organic Poetry facilitator (what!?!) Paul Nelson, (who!?!) and poet and Clarion West co-founder JT Stewart for a night of readings, performances, and maybe even a bit of the preternatural. As always, the uber-sassy Charla Grenz hosts, and the cheap wine flows for a buck a glass. So join us June 7th 7PM for a taste of transcendence.

WHAT: "A Night of Cheap Wine and Poetry" Featured readers: Lyall Bush, Jennifer Jasper, Jourdan Keith, Paul Nelson, (who?) and JT Stewart. Hosted by Charla Grenz.
WHEN: Tomorrow, Thursday, June 7th 7PM
WHERE: Richard Hugo House (1634 11th Ave. Seattle)
ETC: Wine: $1/glass, Open mic (Come early to sign-up!) FREE "Cheap Wine and Poetry" Tees for sale

3. George Bowering's U.S. Sonnets.


I received my copy of U.S. Sonnets - the new chapbook by George Bowering from pooka press. It is 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 check or money order to: pooka press po box 2648 349 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 3W8. Makes me proud to be a U.S.A.merican. (Well, not all the poems. Well, really none of the poems. Amurka, ARGH!)


3) Your Poem Running Around Greenlake Deadline TODAY!!! (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: 6 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). A.K. Allin ,

4) Spokenword and Performance Poetry class from the SLAMMASTER.


Explore the art of performance poetry, engage in critique and analysis of past and present performers and poetic styles through text, video and audio samplings, find, develop, and refine your own voice through writing exercises and take written poems on the journey to become spoken word pieces/performance poems. Taught by Daemond Arrindell, Slammaster of the Seattle Poetry Festival.



July 7-August 1 $225.00

Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.



There may not be a more humble and committed member of the local slam community than Daemond Arrindell. The Seattle Slammaster and producer of the longest running weekly show in Seattle - the Seattle Poetry Slam. Daemond is a 5-time coach of the Seattle National Poetry Slam Team, currently ranked 6th in the nation. A Workshop facilitator, community organizer, advocate and poet. 5% discount for registering before June 15, 2007. For more information, contact our registrar at (206) 323-7499x12 email: registrar@freeholdtheatre.org. To look at all of their classes: www.freeholdtheatre.org



5) WPA Contest Winners Reading and Faith Beamer Cooke Award this Sunday at BAM.


Washington Poets Association presents the 2007 Poetry Contest Winners! on Sunday, June 10, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
at Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA

At this event certificates and checks will be awarded, the contest judges will speak, and the winning poets will be invited to read their
prize-winning poems. All Washington Poets Association members are encouraged to come early and attend the Annual WPA Membership Meeting, at 1 p.m. in the same location. Sunday, June 10th promises to be a beautiful day for poetry in Washington! Come out and enjoy the unfolding wonder of poetry in the Northwest! www.bellevuearts.org

I've two readings coming up in Seattle this week. Tonight at Subtext, at the Good Shepherd Center, I help Subtext celebrate 13 years of existence, making them (I think) the oldest local reading series. They have crafted and maintained what is easily the most intellectually challenging reading in Seattle. The Hugo House gig tomorrow night has three other fine writers and should be fun. Hugo House won the Faith Beamer Cooke Award for service to the literary community from the WPA and gets it on Sunday at the BAM reading. They have been the nexus of the local lit scene for over ten years and we owe them a great deal.

A.K. (Mimi) Allin is coming up with some very creative ways to get poetry to civilians and needs a few more good ones to hit her goal. Try to send her a short one today and watch it Sunday racing around Greenlake.

Stay outta trouble.

Paul E. Nelson, M.A.

Paul E. Nelson
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