In this E-Fishwrapper, August Poetry Postcard Fest Ends and the Perennial Postcard Fest is set to Begin, September 22 Cafe Vega Postcard Party, Lit Fuse in Tieton, November 3-4, Charles Potts' 60's classic Valga Krusa Re-Issued, The 911 Film they Won't Show in the U.S., several things I forgot to send and will be dated when I remember & more than you'll actually read.
1) August Poetry Postcard Fest Ends
This experiment in consciousness and community was successful beyond what the wilds of my imagination could conjure. One of the participants, John Olson, gives his thoughts on the Fest on the blog: http://www.poetrypostcards.blogspot.com. We also have a group on Facebook with many of the cards visible, along with comments by participants. Register for Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com.
1a) Lana Ayers, my partner in crime, is helping me continue this project on a slower basis. Those interested in sending one poem a week are welcome to join in. You can email her Lana Hechtman Ayers
1c) There will be a September 22 event at Cafe Vega starting at 7PM to discuss the project and share some of the best work. Postcarders and non-participants are welcome to attend. The cafe is at 1918 E. Yesler Way and is donating the space and will document the evening. This cafe is a small, locally-owned neighborhood business and you are encouraged to support it by attending our event, or just stopping there for coffee or soup.
2. UNTITLED [INTERSECTION], 2007
Poetry & Performance Art 7pm Friday 28 September 2007
there will be bottled water
there will be a wine table
there will be Paul Nelson performing poetry
with bread and cheese and fruit both before and after the event
there will be Angel Laterrell performing poetry
everyone who comes gets a manifesto
hand-printed and signed
there will be Dan Blunck playing alto with Paul
we ask for a donation of $5 from audience members
to help cover the cost of food and printing
there will be laughter and mirth and pathos and invention
it is untitled and run by the ever-inventive postcard poet ak allin.
Here are directions to Phinney Neighborhood Center: http://www.phinneycenter.org/directions.shtml
3) Voices in Wartime, Friday, September 26, 2007, 7pm, South Puget Sound Community College 2011 Mottman Rd SW Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts Olympia.
Dunya Mikhail, Bill Ransom, Sarah Zane and Roy Seitz read poetry in a fundraiser that launches the Voices in Wartime program in South Sound colleges, universities and high schools. Funds will support faculty workshops, which have been well received by schools at Bellevue Community College, Aviation High and other locations. Voices in Wartime Executive Director, Andy Himes, will introduce a clip from the powerful film of the same title. Paul Nelson emcees and facilitates the panel. Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/18376
4) An Important New Book from Jim Bodeen's Blue Begonia Press. From Jim:
Jody Aliesan’s True North/Nord Vrai has just been released from Blue Begonia Press. Jody’s story, and the story of the book are compelling in many of the ways that the book is compelling. Blue Begonia Press stretches out believing in the larger story Jody carries. Here’s part of the story.
"Jody Aliesan left the US three years ago. We expect that her longtime readers in the Pacific Northwest and farther afield will be interested in knowing what she's doing now, both personally and in her writing. A library service in New York ordered copies of True North/Nord Vrai immediately after we registered it with the Library of Congress. University Book Store in Seattle posted the book online two months ago and is collecting orders. Last week we received a request from a professor of political science in Tennessee who heard of the book word of mouth. Canadians have become aware of Aliesan's presence in their midst; without our approaching them, the Vancouver public library and the city's independent and chain bookstores already offer her most recent books. Aliesan has said she will not be crossing the border south again and that True North/Nord Vrai is such an exposure that personal appearances would be excessive. We will market her reticence and principle to pique curiosity and to focus readers on the book itself.”
It can be ordered directly from the press, at http://Bluebegoniapress.com
Jim Bodeen, President
5) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop
• Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
• Featuring: Susan Rich
• http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime. Carla Schultz, printer at Marquand Editions.
Carol Trenga, Ph.D, teacher of yoga, somatic movement and meditation. Cody Walker, English professor at the University of Washington, teacher of poetry through Writers in the Schools and Hugo House writer-in-residence programs.
6) From Charles Potts:
At last Valga Krusa, a book David Bromige in his introduction to the first volume, The Yellow Christ calls "a neglected classic," is back in print in two volumes from Green Panda Press in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. You can obtain both YC and volume two, Laffing Water, for the ridiculously low price of $10 each with one $4 shipping and handling fee through paypal. Or if you want to buy them one at a time, they're still only $10 + 4 for shipping. Absent paypal send checks and MOs directly to the PO Box below. The books have the same size and feel, 4.5 by 7 paperback, as Kiot, and The Portable Potts, two other "classics" you can't have too many of. We no longer maintain or use a snail mail mailing list, so this may be the only notice you receive. After 30 years, (VK was first published in 1977), don't neglect it any longer. Your commands are our wish.
6) "The Power of Nightmares" will be shown at the Washington State History Museum on Tuesday, September 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. It is a provocative BBC documentary that has been shown on television in Canada, most European, Asian and Middle Eastern countries, but not in the U.S.
In 2005 Adam Curtis, the British politics teacher who left Oxford University to go into documentary filmmaking, released this documentary, called "arguably the most important film about the 'war on terrorism' since the events of September 11" (Nation, June 20, 2005). It traces the history of two radical movements that have changed our world: American neo-conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists. Without a knowledge of how these movements developed, became allies, and then turned on each other, it would be difficult to understand the world today.
The evening is free and open to the public. The Washington State Museum is located at 1911 Pacific Ave. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and seating is limited. Sponsored by People for Peace Justice & Healing. For more information, call 253-535-7219.
7) The Declaration of Peace Nine-Point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq
8) The OTHER 911
The Other September 11th * El Otro 11 de Septiembre
A Bilingual Evening of Poetry, Song, Empanadas, Wine, Witness & Reflection
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 7 - 9 p.m., Richard Hugo House Cabaret
Featuring Seattle Poets Eugenia Toledo-Keyser and Carolyne Wright
Music by Chilean Composer and Guitarist Marco Cortés
Back now 6 days from the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, yes, 40 freakin' years, bub! Took the Redwood Highway down from Grants Pass again and saw giant ceramic bears. Photos at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10927&l=865b6&id=752038625
The literary season is kicking back into gear now that September is here, so the shitload of events listed above. Please feel free to pass this info around. Blunck & I don't get to gig together much anymore and ak allin runs a pretty cool reading on Phinney Ridge, so come and say hello, have some wine and enjoy Dan's translation of American Sentences.
Tieton is a pretty place and what they are attempting to do with The Mighty Tieton is way cool, so consider that weekend of poetry workshops. I am working to get my powerpoint file of postcards on-line, so hang in there.
Summer is not over til the 22nd and the day after is the B-day of John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen and Lana Ayers, so come celebrate at Cafe Vega the night before and let's all give Lana the spanking she craves. xoxo Postcard Paul.
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