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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper


In this E-Fishwrapper, Spicy Words, Felicia Gonzalez' - Recollection Graffiti, Microsoft Art, Julene Tripp Weaver AIDS Case Manager book, a Jared Leising's new Writer's Resource Site & assorted notes.


1) Spicy Words

Los Norteños and the Seattle Public Library present:
Spicy Words & Voices II/ Palabras y Voces Picantes II
Seattle Public Library Main Branch Microsoft Auditorium
1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle 98104 (206)386-4667

Saturday June 16, 2007, 3PM to 5PM, Free Admission

Featuring: J. Andrew Rodriguez, Angela Martinez Dy, Maria Victoria Muguíra and others including Youth Speaks along with some Norteño members.

Musical entertainment by: Los Flacos Refreshement by Starbucks Coffee Company Book Sales by Elliott Bay Book Company Parking available at the Library.

Spicy Words & Voices II promises to be yet another very rich and entertaining journey into the Latino spirit. A new, second edition of the Los Norteños Chapbook, including some of the selections you will hear at this reading will be published and offered to the public.


2. Felicia Gonzalez Presents “Recollection Graffiti”

A multi-cultural literary reading in celebration of her chapbook release with Laurel Albina, Toni Bajado, and Gita Mehrotra. Tomorrow, June 14 at Richard Hugo House

Seattle, WA—join Palestinian/American, Filipina, Cuban, and South Asian writers Laurel Albina, Toni Bajado, Felicia Gonzalez, and Gita Mehrotra for “Recollection Graffiti,” a reading that draws together the threads of family life and identity amidst cultural shifts and confusions on Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 7:30pm at Richard Hugo House. Admission is Free. Richard Hugo House is located at 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.

About The Artists:
Laurel Albina is a Canadian born Palestinian/American writer and artist. In her spare time she is a union organizer and volunteers with the GI Rights hotline. She hates how strip malls make people drive everywhere, how TV sucks our creativity and how we put our elders in old folk homes.
Toni Bajado is the daughter of Filipino immigrants. Her poems have appeared in Calapooya Collage, Crosscurrents, when it rains from the ground up and others. This year, she was a featured reader at the Burning Word Poetry Festival. A section of her play, Fish, will be presented at the Pagdiriwang Filipino Festival on Sunday, June 10 at 3:00 pm at the Seattle Center House.
Felicia Gonzalez, was born and raised in Cuba. She has had poems published in various anthologies, including Word Thursdays. An alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers Retreat and the Jack Straw Writers Program, Felicia was a 2006 recipient of an individual artists grant from the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle for the newly released chapbook, Recollection Graffiti.
Gita Rani Mehrotra is a South Asian queer femme who writes to make sense of the complex intersections of heart, mind, self, and place, and to share creative narratives to make visible what has been erased by multiple forms of oppression. Gita has worked in the domestic violence movement for eleven years and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the UW. In March, she performed at Yoni Ki Baat ("the South Asian Vagina Monologues").
With MC Gitana Garofalo, Director of alumna relations, Hedgebrook Writers Retreat for Women. 206.380.9209
feliciargonzalez@yahoo.com

3. Microsoft Art Collection


Microsoft's art collection grows up
06/11/07 02:39 PM, EDT
Leah Erickson let out an exasperated growl when she spotted a banner advertising "Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007" crookedly thumbtacked above a row of photographs framed and lit with museumlike care.
FULL STORY http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/06/11/microsoft.art.ap/index.html


4) AIDS Case Manager Wails


Julene Tripp Weaver's first chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues is available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. Advance sales are in effect now and go up to July 18th. Publication date is August 17th.

"There is much to behold and admire, much to be moved by, in these passionate and engaged poems that-individually and collectively-comprise a report from the front in the valiant war against AIDS, a report delivered by a poet with an unflinching heart and an all-seeing eye." Roy Jacobstein, M.D., M.P.H., author of A Form of Optimism, winner of the 2006 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize

Assuming you are interested in getting a copy and that your recreational reading includes subjects such as social work, the state of AIDS in America, secondary trauma, grief, loss and memorials for our many losses, then it is to your advantage to order during the advance sales period since shipping, within the United States, is free.

You can order directly from the Finishing Line website (www.finishinglinepress.com) by selecting "New Releases" from the menu on the left and using PayPal. Please contact Julene at newroots@drizzle.com if you would like a post card or an order form to mail a check to the press.

5) Open Books: A Poem Emporium


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
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Thursday 6/14 at 7:30 PM MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER Tuesday 6/19 at 7:30 PM ALAN CHONG LAU with SUSIE KOZAWA
Thursday 6/28 at 7:30 PM LUCIA PERILLO Thursday 9/13 at 7:30 NANCE VAN WINKEL
Thursday 10/4 at 7:30 ELLEN BASS & ELOISE KLEIN HEALY Tuesday 10/9 at 7:30 PAUL HUNTER & DAN MORRIS

6) Writers Resource Site

Hi, I'm writing to get your input on a resource site I've been working on with a UW-Bothell librarian, Leslie Bussert (who's done most of the
heavy lifting on this project).

We're attempting to create a community literature collection at the UWB/Cascadia Comm College library and one component of this involves
the following online resource: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/subjects/literature/communitylit/index.html.

In particular, we're having a hard time with the "authors page" because as Leslie says:
"I'm still struggling with the authors page - mainly because I had a heck of a time tracking down local author blogs. I think that's
because a) not everyone uses their names in their blogs, making them hard to find via a search engine, or b) they're not from our area. So
I've listed about 12 regional author sites/blogs, and basically my criteria for including them is that I actually found them and they had
content beyond a writing sample and contact info."

If you have any suggestions regarding this particular aspect of the site (or other parts of it) please send them. It's a work in progress
and I'm sure we're missing some things. Also, if you're a local writer and would like to be listed on the author site please send a link to your site or blog, and if you are listed and would prefer not to be, please let me know that as well.

Thanks for your time,

Jared Leising - jleising@gmail.com

I had fun at the Cheap Wine and Poetry and also the Subtext anniversary. Wish you were there. On to Tieton Saturday for the Artist Trust Fund-raiser. Thanks to all those who axed me to put their events on this here E-Fishwrapper. I am your humble servant, but will defend myself with an empty wine bottle if attacked, and will hitch a ride with an Army helicopter if offered one, but would you expect anything else?

Paul E. "Waiting for the White Sox to Start Hitting" 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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253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328