For Immediate Release
(& don't you crave
immediate release?)
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word V!!! (Anne Waldman!), Write-to-yo-Mama at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, Crawlspace Reading with Comiskey and Putnam, Subtext goes Fluxus, Chap Books wanted, Oregon Short Line - New Periodical of poetry from the WEST seeks submissions, and I think that's about it.
1) Washington Poets Association announces Burning Word Headliners and On-Line Nomination process!
The Washington Poets Association has announced headliners for the 2008 Burning Word festival to be held April 26, 2008 on Whidbey Island. Leading the program will be Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Colorado's Naropa University, a noted performer and teacher.” Joining Waldman as headliners will be Cuban-born poet José Kozer; Canadian poet, essayist and professor Lionel Kearns; and poet, filmmaker, translator and poetry editor Mark Weiss of New York City. http://www.washingtonpoets.org
To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
2) Write-O-Rama!
This is the twice-a-year fundraising event Hugo House does to keep the place open. Not just a place but a thriving Writing Center, run by serious writers FOR serious writers. Dozens of writing sessions, two open mics and a party! 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; registration at 9:30 a.m. Like a walk-a-thon for your favorite writing center, meaning you go out and get pledges totaling no less than $35, but hopefully MORE. Questions to chrisleasure@hugohouse.org Saturday, December 1st, 2007, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. That Organic Poetry workshop you heard about will be offered twice, at 10A and 12N. Michael Welch has a Haibun workshop at 11A and 12N. See http://www.hugohouse.org/giving/writeorama/
3) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years. A reunion of Seattle's longest-running open mic, featuring Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House. aviaboss@msn.com
Cabaret
$2 Donation
Friday, December 14th, 2007, 7:00 PM
4) Crawlspace Book Launch Reading & CD Release Party: A Poem by Daniel Comiskey & C.E. Putnam, Sunday, December 2, 2007 -- 7:30 pm Rendezvous JewelBox Theater 2322 2nd Ave. -- Seattle, WA. Two of the most humorous SUBTEXT poets combine forces for what promises to be an engaging evening of poetry. See you Sunday.
5) Subtext Fluxus. (Speaking of Subtext)
WHAT: NONSEQUITUR & SUBTEXT READING SERIES PRESENT: Legendary Fluxus artist ALISON KNOWLES
WHEN: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 8 PM
WHERE: Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N (4th floor)
Seattle (in Wallingford, west of I-5, just south of 50th St.)
206-789-1939 and http://gschapel.blogspot.com
Alison Knowles, a pioneering visual/book/sound artist and key participant in the legendary Fluxus group, presents an intermedia performance of her text "North Water Song," accompanied by her daughter Jessica Higgins (movement) and Joshua Selman (sound). Knowles makes her first appearance in Seattle on Wednesday, December 5 at 7:30 PM at the Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation, at the door.
This performance is presented by Nonsequitur (http://nseq.blogspot.com; 206-789-1939) and Subtext Reading Series (http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com)
Born in New York in 1933, Knowles has been closely associated with Fluxus, an international group of artists concerned with blurring the boundaries between the various artistic disciplines and everyday life. For her first appearance in Seattle, she will present "North Water Song," originally composed as a tribute to John Cage on his 75th birthday and realized as a sound work commissioned by West German Radio.
A close friend and collaborator with Cage, Knowles uses chance operations to extract random fragments from a variety of texts, including her own writings as well as Thoreau's Journal, the I Ching, and other water-related publications. This performance will include three simultaneous realizations of the score, with spoken text by Alison Knowles, movement by her daughter Jessica Higgins, and sound by Joshua Selman. Nonsequitur is especially pleased to renew our association with Ms. Knowles, having previously released her only solo CD "Frijoles Canyon" on our What Next? Recordings label.
6) Poetry Books Wanted (Not a typo!)
Seeking poets who might have an extra copy of their chapbook or book they'd be willing to donate to a lucky student. Each week, during my 8-week undergraduate poetry class, there will be a drawing to see who wins the book a poet has been generous enough to donate. The winner will be responsible for reading your book, reviewing it, and selecting a favorite poem to read to the class the following week. If you like, contact information and book price should be included so that others in the class can buy your book. Students will be STRONGLY encouraged to buy the books of poets who, after all, were kind enough to contribute a book to their education. If you're willing, please send your book (autographed would be nice) and contact and price details to:
Jeff Winke
Upper Iowa University - Milwaukee Center
620 S 76th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53214
Thanks,
Jeff Winke
jeff_winke@yahoo.com
7) Shape the Dance this Friday and Saturday
What Goes into Dance and Design? Come and be a part of the creative process!
Dance Presentation with Audience Feedback
Highlighting the long term collaboration between Choreographer Maureen Whiting and Scene Designer Etta Lilienthal
Directions: Enter Seattle University at 10th and Madison (at the I-Hop) and take a left to get to the Fine Arts Building
Call The Fine Arts Department: 206-296-5360 or Maureen Whiting Dance: 206-323-9405 for more info!
8) Oregon Short Line, a new periodical, seeks Poetry of the West (From Charles Potts)
Submission Guidelines:
· Up to 5 pages of unpublished poems with the your name on each page
· Include short bio about your work with poetry (50 words max)
· Include self-addressed stamped envelope
· For electronic submissions make sure to put the subject as: “Submission for Oregon Short Line”
· Donations accepted
· Rights revert back to poet upon publishing
· Please send chapbooks and poetry collections for review
Send Submissions and Questions to:
Jeff Pearson, editor-in-chief
223 N. 15th Ave.
Pocatello, ID 83201
Email: legoverleg@gmail.com
9) New, Grupo Condor Mexican Xmas CD includes traditional Christmas songs such as “Jingle Bells” and “White Christmas” as well as Latin melodies.
· Uniquely arranged with Latin rhythms but retain their original melodies.
· Uses Latin American instrumentation: Zampoñas, Bombos, Charango, Quenas, and Guitar.
· Features the unique voice of Nelda Reyes, from Mexico.
· Sound samples at www.grupo-condor.com/recordings.htm
www.myspace.com/grupocondor
· To purchase the CD send a check or money order for $13.00 + $1.50 (SH) to: (See the form below)
Grupo Condor
P.O Box 1573
Beaverton, OR. 97075
· Or buy the CD or individual songs by going to:
www.cdbaby.com or www.myspace.com/grupocondor
Now here's the deal. Anne Waldman is doing a workshop the day before Burning Word. WPA members get first crack at the 20 slots, so if you ain't a member, you may want to consider dropping $20 our way, even on-line at: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php benefits GALORE and we're only getting started on that aspect of the quickly-evolving org. Nominate a poet for Burning Word. Who's a NW poet who deserves a shot? Do tell.
Ugh! Was knocked out of the Haiku d'etat in the first round by a woman who had a "haiku" about her toilet, after menstruation, looking like a Jackson Pollock painting. How can I top THAT?!? Anyway, the American Sentences project rolls on with news (soon) on a chapbook of those little 17 syllable poems which, today, look something like this:
11.27.07 - Yesterday, doctors gave Dick Cheney shock treatment on the wrong organ.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, We Could Eat Gyros (Just for One Day), Brian Turner, Teach at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, IoNS One Minute Shift Video, A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA, Soul Food, Voices in Wartime, Open Books and something too disgusting to even reference here. Really. Lawd hep us!
1) Hugo House presents We Could Be Heroes
The poet Brian Turner will be writing something new on the topic of heroes (he said a few words about the project here: http://www.hugohouse.org/events/turner_interview/). He's joining Jack Hitt (journalist for This American Life and New York Times Magazine), Ellen Forney (graphic novelist - she did "I Love Led Zeppelin," and the young hip-hop duo Canary Sing. The reading is at 7:30 p.m. Friday - it's all brand new, never before heard work - and there is a party with food, live jazz and wonderful free Elysian beer. Then Brian is teaching a class the next day on writing poems from the ordinary (brianmcguigan@hugohouse.org is the contact for the class). Did I mention free beer?
Tickets are at www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/2500
2) Teach at Hugo House (from Alix Wilbur)
Dear Ones—I can’t believe it! The clocks *just* fell back an hour, yet here I am already leaping forward to solicit class proposals for the spring quarter in 2008!
Next year, spring quarter begins April 8 and runs (roughly) through May 17th. We’ll be looking for reading classes, writing classes, six-week and one- and two-day classes. Classes meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 4-6, and 7-9 (and on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the day, 10-12) and on Saturdays, 10-12 (six week classes) or 1-5 (one day classes). Ask Alix for the template for submitting a class proposal. I ask that you follow this format and return your proposal to me via email no later than December 3rd, 2007 .
If you know of someone who would like to teach a class at Hugo House but never has before, please feel free to forward this email, or have them go to our website, click on classes, and follow the link from there.
Alix Wilber
Program Director
Richard Hugo House
(206) 322-7030
3) A Win for Watada and Peace.
A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA
On Thursday, November 8th, supporters of Lt. Watada rejoiced to learn of the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle to halt any further court martial proceedings of Lt. Ehren Watada until the conclusion of the habeas corpus proceedings.
The court held that Lt. Watada is likely to succeed at demonstrating that the military judge acted 'irrationally, irresponsibly, precipitately' and abused his 'discretion,' that the judge failed to consider feasible alternatives to a mistrial and there was no good reason for having stopped the trial in February, 2007.
Incredibly, the Army has announced its intent to file briefs in U.S. District Court to try to prevent the injunction from becoming permanent.
VIGIL SATURDAY, NOV. 17 & SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE ARMY
Friends and Family of Lt. Watada encourage Watada supporters everywhere to organize vigils on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month until Lt. Watada is discharged from the Army.
LET'S MAKE THE NOVEMBER 17TH VIGIL ESPECIALLY NOTICEABLE AND SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE -- IT'S TIME FOR THE ARMY TO DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST LT. WATADA, AND IT'S TIME FOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ORGANIZATIONS & PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION TO SPEAK OUT:
* No 2nd court martial for Lt. Watada!
* Drop all charges against Lt. Watada!
* Release Lt. Watada and grant him an honorable discharge!
November 2007: "WRITE & THANK LT WATADA" Campaign
The season of Thanksgiving is the optimum time for us to express appreciation and stand tall with Lt. Ehren Watada. He remains the single military officer to very publicly oppose the war. Lt. Watada stated his reasons clearly and each day exhibits great courage in his lonely military environment.
For his act of conscience in refusing to deploy to Iraq, the military tried him once unsuccessfully. By attempting to convene a second trial, they violate his rights under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects any constituent -- military or civilian -- from being tried twice for the same charges, when the reason for ending the trial was arbitrary and an abuse of judicial discretion.
We thank Lt. Watada for remaining steadfast in his belief that the Iraq War is illegal and unconstitutional. Metaphorically, he is the lone person standing before the tank. As Lt. Watada continues to be prosecuted, let us tell him and the world that he is recognized. He is appreciated, and he is not alone.
At this time of Thanksgiving, keep Lt. Watada's case alive and vital! Send a note of thanks to acknowledge his true patriotism and ethical, responsible understanding of duty as a citizen and as a military officer.
Encourage others and convey your message to Lt. Watada via e-mail to action@thankyoult.org or via postcard addressed to:
Lt. Ehren Watada
P.O. Box 9727
Seattle, WA 98209-0727
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) IONS One Minute Shift
Take a minute to shift, with
“The Wonder of You,” featuring Deepak Chopra
In this one-minute video, Deepak explores the mystery of your body in its growth from a single cell to a symphony of activities guided by an inner intelligence that mirrors the wisdom of the universe.
Please share his beautiful message widely!
http://oneminuteshift.com/videos/wonder_of_you
Deepak Chopra
Author, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
www.deepakchopra.com
6) SOUL FOOD IN REDMOND? NO, POETRY. REALLY.
From J. Lana Ayers:
Join us for SoulFood Poetry Night and help spread the word!
Thursday, November 15th at 7pm
SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond , WA.
Featured readers Denise Calvetti Michaels and Suma Subramaniam. Open mic follows. Free. Contact SoulFood Books at 425-881-5309.
Denise Calvetti Michaels writes poetry and memoir with new work forthcoming in City Works Press, Crosscurrents, Dreams: Poetry on Buses (2007), Paterson Literary Review, and Kent State University Press. Her work can be found in anthologies such as: In Praise of Farmland (Whit Press, 2003) and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Woman on Food and Culture (Feminist Press, 2002). Denise teaches psychology and human relations at Cascadia Community College where she coordinates service learning. She earned an MA in human development from Pacific Oaks College and in 2004 received the Crosscurrents prize for poetry from the Washington Community College Humanities Association. In 2001 Denise and her colleagues at the King County Child Care Program received the Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for their work in King County Human Services to address institutional racism.
Suma Subramaniam’s beginnings as a poet and writer coincided with her meeting the man whom she was to marry in 2005 and who directly or indirectly appears in most of her writing. She has an MBA in human resources and lives in Woodinville, Washington with her husband and dog. She is a member of Striped Water Poets, a roundtable critique group that meets in Auburn and is also member of the editorial board of Kritya, a journal of poetry. She has been published in Kritya, Thanalonline, Muscadine Lines, and Edgz Poetry journals.
7) UBU Web
UbuWeb
http://ubu.com
UbuWeb Featured Resources: November 2007
Selected by Christof Migone
1. Brion Gysin "I Am" Machine-poem (1960)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gysin_brion/Gysin-Brion_I-Am.mp3
2. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter"
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/zweig/zweig1.html
3. Gregory Whitehead "Pressures of the Unspeakable"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-We_All_Scream_Alone_1992.mp3
4. R. Henry Nigl "Shout Art
"http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Nigl/R-Henry-Nigl_Shout-%20Art.mp3
5. Sam Taylor Wood, from "Stoppage"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/stoppage/Stoppage_05.mp3
6. François Dufrêne, "Tenu-tenu" Crirythme (1958)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dufrene_francois/Dufrene-Francois_Tenu-tenu.mp3
7. John Giorno "I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/Youre-The-Guy_06_dont_need_it.mp3
8. Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon "The Message"
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/365/08/365-Days-Project-08-01-dobson-georgina-and-simon-cupboard-the-message-1996.mp3
9. Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Television Interview" (1961)
http://www.ubu.com/film/celine.html
10. Adrian Piper "Here and Now"
http://www.ubu.com/concept/piper_here.html
8)Voices in Wartime Education Project (From Andy Himes)
"I want to share the words expressed by people in this and other wars. They come from a new book called "Voices in Wartime." It contains profoundly moving and often poetic thoughts from brave U.S. soldiers, loved ones and Iraqis....I urge every American to pick up a copy and read it."
Congressman Jim McDermott (WA) in a 2007 speech made on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
What priority should our nation give to healing the trauma of war and educating our youth to prevent future conflict? The Voices in Wartime Education Project has a simple, innovative, and powerful idea: Use art and education to transform the consciousness of young people. Give teachers and students a way to explore the most important and terrifying issues of our day. Create a dialogue in which all voices can be heard, and all points of view included, without engendering fear, hatred, or anger.
Would you please consider a gift to the Voices in Wartime Education Project today, and help us to change the world in 2008? Your investment can help create positive social change in the United States at the dawn of the most dangerous century in human history.
* $1000 - places the Voices in Wartime DVD and Curricula in ten school media centers, for use by up to 100 teachers
* $500 - provides a scholarship for ten teachers attending a workshop on using story, poetry, and oral history in the classroom
* $250 - connects a veteran from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq with a story to tell to engaged high school students
* $100 - enables a community college class to report on how the Voices in Wartime curricula has changed their understanding of war and trauma
PS. You can also make your gift online at http://voicesinwartime.org/donate.htm
9) Open Books
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
2414 N. 45th St. / Seattle, WA 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday-Thursday 12-6*
*early closure, Thursday, 11/15, 5 PM
Friday & Saturday 12-7
First Sunday of the Month 12-4
------------------------------------------------------
2007 OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Wednesday 11/14 at 7:30
MATTHEA HARVEY
Wednesday 11/28 at 7:30
MICHAEL DUMANIS
Thursday 12/6 at 7:30
DAVID MASON
10) Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work.
Back from the Garcia/Splabman road tour of Washington as Garcia gets his tortilla suit blown around by hurricane force winds! Thanks to Leonard Orr, Lorri Lambert-Smith Charles Potts, Dan Blunck, Ed Marquand, Sam Hamill and others for the gracious hospitality for me & my New Mexican amigo. Two fishwrappers in less than a week? Blame Hugo House, but do it after paying to see Brian Turner. The Iraq vet has a blistering book of poems about his experience there. And with the average family of four now in it for $21K, ain't this war getting kind of expensive? How many trillions does Halliburton need? OK, never enough. I hope you are taking notes. It is not every day you get to experience the end of an empire.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, We Could Eat Gyros (Just for One Day), Brian Turner, Teach at Hugo House, Red Sky Reunion, IoNS One Minute Shift Video, A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA, Soul Food, Voices in Wartime, Open Books and something too disgusting to even reference here. Really. Lawd hep us!
1) Hugo House presents We Could Be Heroes
The poet Brian Turner will be writing something new on the topic of heroes (he said a few words about the project here: http://www.hugohouse.org/events/turner_interview/). He's joining Jack Hitt (journalist for This American Life and New York Times Magazine), Ellen Forney (graphic novelist - she did "I Love Led Zeppelin," and the young hip-hop duo Canary Sing. The reading is at 7:30 p.m. Friday - it's all brand new, never before heard work - and there is a party with food, live jazz and wonderful free Elysian beer. Then Brian is teaching a class the next day on writing poems from the ordinary (brianmcguigan@hugohouse.org is the contact for the class). Did I mention free beer?
Tickets are at www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/2500
2) Teach at Hugo House (from Alix Wilbur)
Dear Ones—I can’t believe it! The clocks *just* fell back an hour, yet here I am already leaping forward to solicit class proposals for the spring quarter in 2008!
Next year, spring quarter begins April 8 and runs (roughly) through May 17th. We’ll be looking for reading classes, writing classes, six-week and one- and two-day classes. Classes meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 4-6, and 7-9 (and on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the day, 10-12) and on Saturdays, 10-12 (six week classes) or 1-5 (one day classes). Ask Alix for the template for submitting a class proposal. I ask that you follow this format and return your proposal to me via email no later than December 3rd, 2007 .
If you know of someone who would like to teach a class at Hugo House but never has before, please feel free to forward this email, or have them go to our website, click on classes, and follow the link from there.
Alix Wilber
Program Director
Richard Hugo House
(206) 322-7030
3) A Win for Watada and Peace.
A WIN IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR LT. EHREN WATADA
On Thursday, November 8th, supporters of Lt. Watada rejoiced to learn of the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle to halt any further court martial proceedings of Lt. Ehren Watada until the conclusion of the habeas corpus proceedings.
The court held that Lt. Watada is likely to succeed at demonstrating that the military judge acted 'irrationally, irresponsibly, precipitately' and abused his 'discretion,' that the judge failed to consider feasible alternatives to a mistrial and there was no good reason for having stopped the trial in February, 2007.
Incredibly, the Army has announced its intent to file briefs in U.S. District Court to try to prevent the injunction from becoming permanent.
VIGIL SATURDAY, NOV. 17 & SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE ARMY
Friends and Family of Lt. Watada encourage Watada supporters everywhere to organize vigils on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month until Lt. Watada is discharged from the Army.
LET'S MAKE THE NOVEMBER 17TH VIGIL ESPECIALLY NOTICEABLE AND SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE -- IT'S TIME FOR THE ARMY TO DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST LT. WATADA, AND IT'S TIME FOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ORGANIZATIONS & PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION TO SPEAK OUT:
* No 2nd court martial for Lt. Watada!
* Drop all charges against Lt. Watada!
* Release Lt. Watada and grant him an honorable discharge!
November 2007: "WRITE & THANK LT WATADA" Campaign
The season of Thanksgiving is the optimum time for us to express appreciation and stand tall with Lt. Ehren Watada. He remains the single military officer to very publicly oppose the war. Lt. Watada stated his reasons clearly and each day exhibits great courage in his lonely military environment.
For his act of conscience in refusing to deploy to Iraq, the military tried him once unsuccessfully. By attempting to convene a second trial, they violate his rights under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects any constituent -- military or civilian -- from being tried twice for the same charges, when the reason for ending the trial was arbitrary and an abuse of judicial discretion.
We thank Lt. Watada for remaining steadfast in his belief that the Iraq War is illegal and unconstitutional. Metaphorically, he is the lone person standing before the tank. As Lt. Watada continues to be prosecuted, let us tell him and the world that he is recognized. He is appreciated, and he is not alone.
At this time of Thanksgiving, keep Lt. Watada's case alive and vital! Send a note of thanks to acknowledge his true patriotism and ethical, responsible understanding of duty as a citizen and as a military officer.
Encourage others and convey your message to Lt. Watada via e-mail to action@thankyoult.org or via postcard addressed to:
Lt. Ehren Watada
P.O. Box 9727
Seattle, WA 98209-0727
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) IONS One Minute Shift
Take a minute to shift, with
“The Wonder of You,” featuring Deepak Chopra
In this one-minute video, Deepak explores the mystery of your body in its growth from a single cell to a symphony of activities guided by an inner intelligence that mirrors the wisdom of the universe.
Please share his beautiful message widely!
http://oneminuteshift.com/videos/wonder_of_you
Deepak Chopra
Author, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
www.deepakchopra.com
6) SOUL FOOD IN REDMOND? NO, POETRY. REALLY.
From J. Lana Ayers:
Join us for SoulFood Poetry Night and help spread the word!
Thursday, November 15th at 7pm
SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond , WA.
Featured readers Denise Calvetti Michaels and Suma Subramaniam. Open mic follows. Free. Contact SoulFood Books at 425-881-5309.
Denise Calvetti Michaels writes poetry and memoir with new work forthcoming in City Works Press, Crosscurrents, Dreams: Poetry on Buses (2007), Paterson Literary Review, and Kent State University Press. Her work can be found in anthologies such as: In Praise of Farmland (Whit Press, 2003) and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Woman on Food and Culture (Feminist Press, 2002). Denise teaches psychology and human relations at Cascadia Community College where she coordinates service learning. She earned an MA in human development from Pacific Oaks College and in 2004 received the Crosscurrents prize for poetry from the Washington Community College Humanities Association. In 2001 Denise and her colleagues at the King County Child Care Program received the Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for their work in King County Human Services to address institutional racism.
Suma Subramaniam’s beginnings as a poet and writer coincided with her meeting the man whom she was to marry in 2005 and who directly or indirectly appears in most of her writing. She has an MBA in human resources and lives in Woodinville, Washington with her husband and dog. She is a member of Striped Water Poets, a roundtable critique group that meets in Auburn and is also member of the editorial board of Kritya, a journal of poetry. She has been published in Kritya, Thanalonline, Muscadine Lines, and Edgz Poetry journals.
7) UBU Web
UbuWeb
http://ubu.com
UbuWeb Featured Resources: November 2007
Selected by Christof Migone
1. Brion Gysin "I Am" Machine-poem (1960)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gysin_brion/Gysin-Brion_I-Am.mp3
2. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter"
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/zweig/zweig1.html
3. Gregory Whitehead "Pressures of the Unspeakable"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-We_All_Scream_Alone_1992.mp3
4. R. Henry Nigl "Shout Art
"http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Nigl/R-Henry-Nigl_Shout-%20Art.mp3
5. Sam Taylor Wood, from "Stoppage"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/stoppage/Stoppage_05.mp3
6. François Dufrêne, "Tenu-tenu" Crirythme (1958)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dufrene_francois/Dufrene-Francois_Tenu-tenu.mp3
7. John Giorno "I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It"
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/Youre-The-Guy_06_dont_need_it.mp3
8. Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon "The Message"
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/365/08/365-Days-Project-08-01-dobson-georgina-and-simon-cupboard-the-message-1996.mp3
9. Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Television Interview" (1961)
http://www.ubu.com/film/celine.html
10. Adrian Piper "Here and Now"
http://www.ubu.com/concept/piper_here.html
8)Voices in Wartime Education Project (From Andy Himes)
"I want to share the words expressed by people in this and other wars. They come from a new book called "Voices in Wartime." It contains profoundly moving and often poetic thoughts from brave U.S. soldiers, loved ones and Iraqis....I urge every American to pick up a copy and read it."
Congressman Jim McDermott (WA) in a 2007 speech made on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
What priority should our nation give to healing the trauma of war and educating our youth to prevent future conflict? The Voices in Wartime Education Project has a simple, innovative, and powerful idea: Use art and education to transform the consciousness of young people. Give teachers and students a way to explore the most important and terrifying issues of our day. Create a dialogue in which all voices can be heard, and all points of view included, without engendering fear, hatred, or anger.
Would you please consider a gift to the Voices in Wartime Education Project today, and help us to change the world in 2008? Your investment can help create positive social change in the United States at the dawn of the most dangerous century in human history.
* $1000 - places the Voices in Wartime DVD and Curricula in ten school media centers, for use by up to 100 teachers
* $500 - provides a scholarship for ten teachers attending a workshop on using story, poetry, and oral history in the classroom
* $250 - connects a veteran from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq with a story to tell to engaged high school students
* $100 - enables a community college class to report on how the Voices in Wartime curricula has changed their understanding of war and trauma
PS. You can also make your gift online at http://voicesinwartime.org/donate.htm
9) Open Books
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
2414 N. 45th St. / Seattle, WA 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday-Thursday 12-6*
*early closure, Thursday, 11/15, 5 PM
Friday & Saturday 12-7
First Sunday of the Month 12-4
------------------------------------------------------
2007 OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Wednesday 11/14 at 7:30
MATTHEA HARVEY
Wednesday 11/28 at 7:30
MICHAEL DUMANIS
Thursday 12/6 at 7:30
DAVID MASON
10) Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work.
Back from the Garcia/Splabman road tour of Washington as Garcia gets his tortilla suit blown around by hurricane force winds! Thanks to Leonard Orr, Lorri Lambert-Smith Charles Potts, Dan Blunck, Ed Marquand, Sam Hamill and others for the gracious hospitality for me & my New Mexican amigo. Two fishwrappers in less than a week? Blame Hugo House, but do it after paying to see Brian Turner. The Iraq vet has a blistering book of poems about his experience there. And with the average family of four now in it for $21K, ain't this war getting kind of expensive? How many trillions does Halliburton need? OK, never enough. I hope you are taking notes. It is not every day you get to experience the end of an empire.
xoxo President Postcard.
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Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Golden Handcuffs Fishwrapper
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Subtext TONIGHT (Golden Handcuffs Review release party), Blue Begonia Press First Book Award, Judith Roche wins American Book Award, Red Sky Reunion, Call for Duncan papers, FCC Hearing, new Carla Bley! Whatcom Poetry Series & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) Subtext continues its monthly reading series with a special evening to celebrate the Golden Handcuffs Review - Seattle Issue Launch. This issue of GHR was edited by Lou Rowan and Joe Donahue. The reading is at the Chapel Performance Space on 7 November 2007. The reading starts at 7:30pm. Subtext invites you to join the authors and artists, most of whom will be there to meet you and read from their work, tonight, November 7th.
About Golden Handcuffs Review: The world-renowned Harry Mathews has written about Seattle's own Golden Handcuffs Review, "In letters, there is nothing like Golden Handcuffs Review, and nothing better." Rick Moody adds, "Golden Handcuffs is among the handful of truly important contemporary literary magazines. It fights the good fight for work that would otherwise want for a champion, and for this reason I read each issue with great enthusiasm."
The new issue of Golden Handcuffs celebrates Seattle writers and artists, with new essays, fiction, poetry by Curtis Bonney, Rebecca Brown, Daniel Comiskey, April De Nonno, Christine Deavel, Joseph Donahue, Diana George, Randy Hayes, Jeanne Heuving, Sarah Mangold, Ezra Mark, J.W. Marshall, Bryant Mason, Robert Mittenthal, Paul Nelson, Doug Nufer, John Olson, Roberta Olson, Deniz Perin, C.E. Putnam, Cathleen Shattuck, Craig Van Riper, Nico Vassilakis, and Maged Zaher. The artwork is by: Jaq Chartier, Randy Hayes, Brian Smale, and Alice Wheeler. See http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com At the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor, Seattle, WA; in Wallingford, 1/2 block south of 50th St., 1 block east of Meridian; 206-789-1939
2) Blue Begonia Press First Book Award
Yakima - (from Dan Peters)
I'm sending this out in my capacity as an unpaid intern at Blue Begonia Press in Yakima. We’re trying to get this out to as many poets as possible.
This is a first for Blue Begonia Press and a great opportunity for first books out there.
Here's a video of Terry Martin (who will pick the mss) and Jim Bodeen talking about the invitation (Details below)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KihtTyXW_5E
and also at
www.bluebegoniapress.blogspot.com
Pass it on and on --Dan Peters
Call for Book Manuscripts
Blue Begonia Press, independent publisher of poetry for thirty years, is accepting submissions of full-length manuscripts for publication in 2008 from poets residing in Washington State who have never published a full-length poetry book. (Chapbooks OK). We’re looking for well-crafted work that transcends the page, that moves us, that takes our breath away—poems of meditation, testimony, praise, exploration, protest, reflection, witness. Collaborative design process. Poet receives publication, 30 copies, regional distribution/promotion of book, and assistance scheduling/advertising featured readings. Deadline March 31, 2008. Send manuscript with cover sheet, title page, paginated table of contents, acknowledgments, #10 SASE for results, and $20 reading fee in form of check made out to Blue Begonia Press. Reading fee includes one copy of the book selected for publication. For complete submission guidelines and more information about Blue Begonia Press visit www.bluebegoniapress.com
3) Judith Roche Wins American Book Award!
The Before Columbus Foundation announces
Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Saturday, December 2nd, 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Oakland, CA — The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards. The 2007 winners will be formally recognized on Saturday, December 2 at Laney College Theatre, 900 Fallon Street in Oakland. The awards will take place from 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.
One 2007 American Book Award Winner:
Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body (Black Heron Press)
For more information, images, or to arrange an interview, contact Kim McMillon at (510) 228-6775.
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) READING DUNCAN READING: ESSAYS ON THE POETICS OF DERIVATION
(Edited by Stephen Collis & Graham Lyons)
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and
artists” -T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
“I draw my ‘own’ thought in reading Dante as from a well-spring.”
-Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan’s penchant for referring to himself as a ‘derivative” poet is well documented if not notorious—and the extent of his poetic derivations is readily apparent in his published works, where poem after poem enters into dialogue with a wide array of precursors and companions, great and small. Far from a
Bloomian striving against received tradition, however, Duncan’s derivations function simultaneously as poetics, as literary criticism, as self-reflection, indeed as reading. Whether read as a matter of influence, homage, or appropriation, Duncan’s poetics is clearly situated on a blurred line between the processes of reading and writing—a space where (self) expression and derivation (from others) blend so that
the poet’s “own” thought is, in practice, difficult to discern from the poet’s sources in “others” writing.What are the implications of this difficulty, this ambiguity? What possibilities issue from Duncan’s stance as at once reader and poet? How might Duncan’s derivations open out to a politics? An ethics?
READING DUNCAN READING will gather essays addressing both Duncan’s derivations from the work of other writers (the uses he makes of his sources), and derivations from Duncan’s work (the work of writers who have themselves drawn upon Duncan’s “well-spring”). The list of the former could include (but is certainly not limited to): Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Robin Blaser, Paul Celan, Jean Cocteau,
T. S. Eliot, Dante, Sigmund Freud, Thom Gunn, George Herbert, H.D., James Joyce, Denise Levertov, George MacDonald, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Olson, Edith Sitwell, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. The list of those writers whose work may in some ways be read
as flowing from Duncan’s could include: Robin Blaser, Michael Davidson, Peter Gizzi, Susan Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Ronald Johnson, Robert Kelley, Michael Palmer, Peter O’Leary, and John Tranter, amongst others.
Abstracts of 250-500 words with contact information
should be sent to Stephen Collis, scollis@sfu.ca by no
later than January 31st 2008.
6) FCC HEARINGS IN SEATTLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 from 4-11 pm!
From J. Glenn Evans: Urge all your friends to write the FCC opposing these proposed rules changes. Attend the hearing! The Federal Communications Commission is again attempting to rewrite America's media ownership rules. Potentially, companies could be allowed to own more TV and radio stations, giving us more commercialism, less independent journalism and music, and fewer diverse voices on the air. The consolidation of our media into even smaller number of owners will further endanger our democracy. It’s important that we fill the Town Hall and let the commissioners know how the Northwest feels about this. Hope to see you there!
The FCC will hold a public hearing on the issue at Town Hall Seattle on Friday, November 9 from 4-11 pm, giving you an opportunity to voice your opinion. More information on these issues, as well as this public FCC hearing and how you can testify, is available online at www.reclaimthemedia.org. I believe it is of utmost importance that you be aware of this FCC hearing so am forwarding this message on to you.
Sincerely,
J. Glenn Evans
Activist for a Better World
The Federal Communications Commission will hold the sixth and final public hearing on media ownership issues in Seattle on Friday, November 9, 2007. The hearing time, and location are as follows: 4:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Town Hall Seattle Great Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle WA 98101
7) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell)
Intersection: a spoken word opera
Friday & Saturday, December 7-8, 2007
Hugo House Theater
7:30pm
Tickets $12 at brownpapertickets.com , $14 at the door
more info www.spokenwordopera.org
We are wandering amongst ourselves
in a dark corner of brightness,
balancing on sidewalk stage lights.
At a bus stop in anywhere urban Seattle Intersection is a soup & sandwich moment served on daily life's ever changing menu. We cross paths with others on the street everyday, caught in the storyline of our own mind – but what is going on in the lives of the persons we pass? What brought them to this moment? How does our smile, our simple greeting of hello, or lack there of impact their own day-to-day play? Who are these strangers and what are we to them?
Through the combination of spoken word, modern dance, original jazz, blues and soul music Intersection is a new kind of performance art. Poetry speaks the heart, dance & music move us into recognition of the shared experience of urban existence. The three mediums together bring and undeniable synergy of feel to our unexamined sidewalk life.
Intersection includes a large cast of artists all amazing in their distinct fields. Featuring the original compositions of jazz artist and composer Dave Marriott, the oak-strong rhythms of Bassist Lamar Lofton, the percolating tunes of Tom Miller, and the soulful songs of Flora McGill – the music will be anything but background. Dancer/Choreographers Sarah Parton & Adrienne White shall display the poetics of movement to enlighten this sidewalk scene, bringing the spoken word of Angel Latterell, Amber Flame, and Seattle's own Spoonman to the narrative crescendo that is nothing less than opera.
Intersection will be an experience open for all to breathe into their recognition pours. As an accessible interaction drawing from what we think and feel.
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.
Angel
8) New Carla Bley! Keith Jarrett! Manu Katche!!!
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn
Andy Sheppard: soprano and tenor saxophones
Carla Bley: piano
Steve Swallow: bass
Billy Drummond: drums
U.S. Release date: November 6, 2007
From Carla: The closeness of sound that Andy Sheppard and Paolo Fresu share on this recording is a remarkable thing. They sound very much like one unit, extremely compatible in their approaches to their instruments. Was this a consideration from the outset, in inviting Fresu into the band?
Carla Bley is one of the most important figures in Jazz today. The intelligence of her compositions, the wit of her playing, the consciousness and sense of play she brings to the interplay of her groups is all quite remarkable. More on new releases from Keith Jarrett and Manu Katche in future Fishwrappers. http://www.ecmrecords.com ECM may be the coolest label in the world. Really. Who's #2?
9) Olympia Poetry Network: Please feel free to pass the e-mail on to other poets. Also, forgive me if you received this twice (or more!). I wanted to make sure everyone that is interested in entering the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for 2008 receives a notice. The following are the 2008 rules.
Cynthia R. Pratt
Olympia Poetry Network Board Member
Contest Rules
□ Poet must be a current resident of Washington State.
□ Contest begins: December 1, 2007.
□ Postmark deadline: January 31, 2008.
□ Limit of one poem per author, up to 2 pages in length, double spaced.
□ Must be original work submitted by author; no previously published works or works already accepted for publication.
□ Author's name must not appear on the poem.
□ Include a cover sheet containing the poem’s title, author's name, full address, phone, fax (if available), and e-mail.
□ “Lohmann Prize” should be indicated on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet.
□ Poems will not be returned.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped postcard to acknowledge receipt of the poem.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish to receive a list of winners.
□ Winners will be announced in April 2008. They will be invited and urged to read their work at the awards ceremony on June 18, 2008, in Olympia , Washington . Please keep your calendar open for that date.
□ There is no fee to enter this contest.
□ Send poems to: OPN P.O. Box 1312 Olympia , WA 98501
10) Whatcom Poetry Series now 501(c)(3)
Board of Directors— James Bertolino, Pres. • Anita K. Boyle • Susan J. Erickson
5581 Noon Road, Bellingham, WA 98226 • 360-398-7870
Dear Fans of the Whatcom Poetry Series:
We are excited to announce that in early September we applied to the Internal Revenue
Service for federal non-profit status––501(c)(3)––for the Whatcom Poetry Series. The
early response from the IRS suggests that non-profit status should soon be granted.
This means that we can apply for grant support for Whatcom Poetry Series readings
and workshops. We would then be able to pay the featured poets, and won’t need to
continually dig into our own shallow pockets to cover the various expenses involved in
putting together a poetry series––one that has become known around Washington as
first-rate. We want to schedule three events for Winter and Spring, 2008––starting in late
January. In the past few days, our committee has sent out grant applications to two local
agencies, and will continue searching for other grant possibilities.
You can help us get the series going again. We may not have grant money as soon as
January, so we are asking our poetry-loving community to pitch-in as sponsors for one or
more readings. Those who can donate $100 or more will be identified as a sponsor for a
reading, be listed on the posters and other promotional materials, be thanked personally at
the reading, and receive a special, personalized poetry gift.
Depending on such variables as travel expenses for our featured poets, we expect the cost
for each reading will run from $600 to $1000. If you can help us, please send your check,
in any amount, made out to “Whatcom Poetry Series.” Mail it to:
James Bertolino
Whatcom Poetry Series
P.O. Box 28907
Bellingham, WA 98228
As an addition to The Poet As Art reading series, the Whatcom Poetry Series plans to hold
workshops taught by well-known poets from around the Pacific Northwest, often by the
featured poets from our series. Keep your journals ready and your pens handy, for you
won’t want to miss these energizing writing opportunities.
Sincerely,
James Bertolino
October 23, 2007
10) 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts.
OK, Lit Fuse lived up to its billing. It was good to gather with other NW poet/teacher/writers and connect with folks from East of the Cascades. We do not do it often enough, although I am doing my part, traveling to the Tri-Cities to read for Leonard Orr at WSU Tri-Cities on Friday.
Subtext, consistently the most provocative and intelligent reading in Seattle, features the best literary magazine based in Seattle tonight and I am delighted to be a part of it. I hope to see you in their gorgeous space tonight.
It was great to meet Susan Schultz of Tinfish Press and see the Tinfish nook while I was on O'ahu. Some of those sunset pictures came out quite well. See my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16473&l=6c47f&id=752038625 for details.
Hey, I am officially competent in my job! It is so good to get that reinforcement! I am the best Office Skills manager on the Rez!
Finally, Ma & Pa would be celebrating 50 years of wedded bliss tonight if it weren't for the simple fact that, though they live under the same roof, they've been divorced for years. Still, Happy would-be 50th Ma & Pa!
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson, M.A.
WPA President
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Washington Poets Association
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." --Artaud
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Subtext TONIGHT (Golden Handcuffs Review release party), Blue Begonia Press First Book Award, Judith Roche wins American Book Award, Red Sky Reunion, Call for Duncan papers, FCC Hearing, new Carla Bley! Whatcom Poetry Series & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) Subtext continues its monthly reading series with a special evening to celebrate the Golden Handcuffs Review - Seattle Issue Launch. This issue of GHR was edited by Lou Rowan and Joe Donahue. The reading is at the Chapel Performance Space on 7 November 2007. The reading starts at 7:30pm. Subtext invites you to join the authors and artists, most of whom will be there to meet you and read from their work, tonight, November 7th.
About Golden Handcuffs Review: The world-renowned Harry Mathews has written about Seattle's own Golden Handcuffs Review, "In letters, there is nothing like Golden Handcuffs Review, and nothing better." Rick Moody adds, "Golden Handcuffs is among the handful of truly important contemporary literary magazines. It fights the good fight for work that would otherwise want for a champion, and for this reason I read each issue with great enthusiasm."
The new issue of Golden Handcuffs celebrates Seattle writers and artists, with new essays, fiction, poetry by Curtis Bonney, Rebecca Brown, Daniel Comiskey, April De Nonno, Christine Deavel, Joseph Donahue, Diana George, Randy Hayes, Jeanne Heuving, Sarah Mangold, Ezra Mark, J.W. Marshall, Bryant Mason, Robert Mittenthal, Paul Nelson, Doug Nufer, John Olson, Roberta Olson, Deniz Perin, C.E. Putnam, Cathleen Shattuck, Craig Van Riper, Nico Vassilakis, and Maged Zaher. The artwork is by: Jaq Chartier, Randy Hayes, Brian Smale, and Alice Wheeler. See http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com At the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor, Seattle, WA; in Wallingford, 1/2 block south of 50th St., 1 block east of Meridian; 206-789-1939
2) Blue Begonia Press First Book Award
Yakima - (from Dan Peters)
I'm sending this out in my capacity as an unpaid intern at Blue Begonia Press in Yakima. We’re trying to get this out to as many poets as possible.
This is a first for Blue Begonia Press and a great opportunity for first books out there.
Here's a video of Terry Martin (who will pick the mss) and Jim Bodeen talking about the invitation (Details below)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KihtTyXW_5E
and also at
www.bluebegoniapress.blogspot.com
Pass it on and on --Dan Peters
Call for Book Manuscripts
Blue Begonia Press, independent publisher of poetry for thirty years, is accepting submissions of full-length manuscripts for publication in 2008 from poets residing in Washington State who have never published a full-length poetry book. (Chapbooks OK). We’re looking for well-crafted work that transcends the page, that moves us, that takes our breath away—poems of meditation, testimony, praise, exploration, protest, reflection, witness. Collaborative design process. Poet receives publication, 30 copies, regional distribution/promotion of book, and assistance scheduling/advertising featured readings. Deadline March 31, 2008. Send manuscript with cover sheet, title page, paginated table of contents, acknowledgments, #10 SASE for results, and $20 reading fee in form of check made out to Blue Begonia Press. Reading fee includes one copy of the book selected for publication. For complete submission guidelines and more information about Blue Begonia Press visit www.bluebegoniapress.com
3) Judith Roche Wins American Book Award!
The Before Columbus Foundation announces
Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Saturday, December 2nd, 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Oakland, CA — The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Twenty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards. The 2007 winners will be formally recognized on Saturday, December 2 at Laney College Theatre, 900 Fallon Street in Oakland. The awards will take place from 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.
One 2007 American Book Award Winner:
Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body (Black Heron Press)
For more information, images, or to arrange an interview, contact Kim McMillon at (510) 228-6775.
4) Red Sky Reunion, Friday, December 14, 2007 at the Hugo House. 7P Signup for Open Mic. Come to read your best recent work. Join features Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes as we reunite folks who miss what was the longest-running open mic on the West Coast for 25 years.
5) READING DUNCAN READING: ESSAYS ON THE POETICS OF DERIVATION
(Edited by Stephen Collis & Graham Lyons)
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and
artists” -T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
“I draw my ‘own’ thought in reading Dante as from a well-spring.”
-Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan’s penchant for referring to himself as a ‘derivative” poet is well documented if not notorious—and the extent of his poetic derivations is readily apparent in his published works, where poem after poem enters into dialogue with a wide array of precursors and companions, great and small. Far from a
Bloomian striving against received tradition, however, Duncan’s derivations function simultaneously as poetics, as literary criticism, as self-reflection, indeed as reading. Whether read as a matter of influence, homage, or appropriation, Duncan’s poetics is clearly situated on a blurred line between the processes of reading and writing—a space where (self) expression and derivation (from others) blend so that
the poet’s “own” thought is, in practice, difficult to discern from the poet’s sources in “others” writing.What are the implications of this difficulty, this ambiguity? What possibilities issue from Duncan’s stance as at once reader and poet? How might Duncan’s derivations open out to a politics? An ethics?
READING DUNCAN READING will gather essays addressing both Duncan’s derivations from the work of other writers (the uses he makes of his sources), and derivations from Duncan’s work (the work of writers who have themselves drawn upon Duncan’s “well-spring”). The list of the former could include (but is certainly not limited to): Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Robin Blaser, Paul Celan, Jean Cocteau,
T. S. Eliot, Dante, Sigmund Freud, Thom Gunn, George Herbert, H.D., James Joyce, Denise Levertov, George MacDonald, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Olson, Edith Sitwell, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. The list of those writers whose work may in some ways be read
as flowing from Duncan’s could include: Robin Blaser, Michael Davidson, Peter Gizzi, Susan Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Ronald Johnson, Robert Kelley, Michael Palmer, Peter O’Leary, and John Tranter, amongst others.
Abstracts of 250-500 words with contact information
should be sent to Stephen Collis, scollis@sfu.ca by no
later than January 31st 2008.
6) FCC HEARINGS IN SEATTLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 from 4-11 pm!
From J. Glenn Evans: Urge all your friends to write the FCC opposing these proposed rules changes. Attend the hearing! The Federal Communications Commission is again attempting to rewrite America's media ownership rules. Potentially, companies could be allowed to own more TV and radio stations, giving us more commercialism, less independent journalism and music, and fewer diverse voices on the air. The consolidation of our media into even smaller number of owners will further endanger our democracy. It’s important that we fill the Town Hall and let the commissioners know how the Northwest feels about this. Hope to see you there!
The FCC will hold a public hearing on the issue at Town Hall Seattle on Friday, November 9 from 4-11 pm, giving you an opportunity to voice your opinion. More information on these issues, as well as this public FCC hearing and how you can testify, is available online at www.reclaimthemedia.org. I believe it is of utmost importance that you be aware of this FCC hearing so am forwarding this message on to you.
Sincerely,
J. Glenn Evans
Activist for a Better World
The Federal Communications Commission will hold the sixth and final public hearing on media ownership issues in Seattle on Friday, November 9, 2007. The hearing time, and location are as follows: 4:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Town Hall Seattle Great Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle WA 98101
7) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell
Intersection: a spoken word opera
Friday & Saturday, December 7-8, 2007
Hugo House Theater
7:30pm
Tickets $12 at brownpapertickets.com , $14 at the door
more info www.spokenwordopera.org
We are wandering amongst ourselves
in a dark corner of brightness,
balancing on sidewalk stage lights.
At a bus stop in anywhere urban Seattle Intersection is a soup & sandwich moment served on daily life's ever changing menu. We cross paths with others on the street everyday, caught in the storyline of our own mind – but what is going on in the lives of the persons we pass? What brought them to this moment? How does our smile, our simple greeting of hello, or lack there of impact their own day-to-day play? Who are these strangers and what are we to them?
Through the combination of spoken word, modern dance, original jazz, blues and soul music Intersection is a new kind of performance art. Poetry speaks the heart, dance & music move us into recognition of the shared experience of urban existence. The three mediums together bring and undeniable synergy of feel to our unexamined sidewalk life.
Intersection includes a large cast of artists all amazing in their distinct fields. Featuring the original compositions of jazz artist and composer Dave Marriott, the oak-strong rhythms of Bassist Lamar Lofton, the percolating tunes of Tom Miller, and the soulful songs of Flora McGill – the music will be anything but background. Dancer/Choreographers Sarah Parton & Adrienne White shall display the poetics of movement to enlighten this sidewalk scene, bringing the spoken word of Angel Latterell, Amber Flame, and Seattle's own Spoonman to the narrative crescendo that is nothing less than opera.
Intersection will be an experience open for all to breathe into their recognition pours. As an accessible interaction drawing from what we think and feel.
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.
Angel
8) New Carla Bley! Keith Jarrett! Manu Katche!!!
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn
Andy Sheppard: soprano and tenor saxophones
Carla Bley: piano
Steve Swallow: bass
Billy Drummond: drums
U.S. Release date: November 6, 2007
From Carla: The closeness of sound that Andy Sheppard and Paolo Fresu share on this recording is a remarkable thing. They sound very much like one unit, extremely compatible in their approaches to their instruments. Was this a consideration from the outset, in inviting Fresu into the band?
Carla Bley is one of the most important figures in Jazz today. The intelligence of her compositions, the wit of her playing, the consciousness and sense of play she brings to the interplay of her groups is all quite remarkable. More on new releases from Keith Jarrett and Manu Katche in future Fishwrappers. http://www.ecmrecords.com ECM may be the coolest label in the world. Really. Who's #2?
9) Olympia Poetry Network: Please feel free to pass the e-mail on to other poets. Also, forgive me if you received this twice (or more!). I wanted to make sure everyone that is interested in entering the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for 2008 receives a notice. The following are the 2008 rules.
Cynthia R. Pratt
Olympia Poetry Network Board Member
Contest Rules
□ Poet must be a current resident of Washington State.
□ Contest begins: December 1, 2007.
□ Postmark deadline: January 31, 2008.
□ Limit of one poem per author, up to 2 pages in length, double spaced.
□ Must be original work submitted by author; no previously published works or works already accepted for publication.
□ Author's name must not appear on the poem.
□ Include a cover sheet containing the poem’s title, author's name, full address, phone, fax (if available), and e-mail.
□ “Lohmann Prize” should be indicated on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet.
□ Poems will not be returned.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped postcard to acknowledge receipt of the poem.
□ Include either your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish to receive a list of winners.
□ Winners will be announced in April 2008. They will be invited and urged to read their work at the awards ceremony on June 18, 2008, in Olympia , Washington . Please keep your calendar open for that date.
□ There is no fee to enter this contest.
□ Send poems to: OPN P.O. Box 1312 Olympia , WA 98501
10) Whatcom Poetry Series now 501(c)(3)
Board of Directors— James Bertolino, Pres. • Anita K. Boyle • Susan J. Erickson
5581 Noon Road, Bellingham, WA 98226 • 360-398-7870
Dear Fans of the Whatcom Poetry Series:
We are excited to announce that in early September we applied to the Internal Revenue
Service for federal non-profit status––501(c)(3)––for the Whatcom Poetry Series. The
early response from the IRS suggests that non-profit status should soon be granted.
This means that we can apply for grant support for Whatcom Poetry Series readings
and workshops. We would then be able to pay the featured poets, and won’t need to
continually dig into our own shallow pockets to cover the various expenses involved in
putting together a poetry series––one that has become known around Washington as
first-rate. We want to schedule three events for Winter and Spring, 2008––starting in late
January. In the past few days, our committee has sent out grant applications to two local
agencies, and will continue searching for other grant possibilities.
You can help us get the series going again. We may not have grant money as soon as
January, so we are asking our poetry-loving community to pitch-in as sponsors for one or
more readings. Those who can donate $100 or more will be identified as a sponsor for a
reading, be listed on the posters and other promotional materials, be thanked personally at
the reading, and receive a special, personalized poetry gift.
Depending on such variables as travel expenses for our featured poets, we expect the cost
for each reading will run from $600 to $1000. If you can help us, please send your check,
in any amount, made out to “Whatcom Poetry Series.” Mail it to:
James Bertolino
Whatcom Poetry Series
P.O. Box 28907
Bellingham, WA 98228
As an addition to The Poet As Art reading series, the Whatcom Poetry Series plans to hold
workshops taught by well-known poets from around the Pacific Northwest, often by the
featured poets from our series. Keep your journals ready and your pens handy, for you
won’t want to miss these energizing writing opportunities.
Sincerely,
James Bertolino
October 23, 2007
10) 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts.
OK, Lit Fuse lived up to its billing. It was good to gather with other NW poet/teacher/writers and connect with folks from East of the Cascades. We do not do it often enough, although I am doing my part, traveling to the Tri-Cities to read for Leonard Orr at WSU Tri-Cities on Friday.
Subtext, consistently the most provocative and intelligent reading in Seattle, features the best literary magazine based in Seattle tonight and I am delighted to be a part of it. I hope to see you in their gorgeous space tonight.
It was great to meet Susan Schultz of Tinfish Press and see the Tinfish nook while I was on O'ahu. Some of those sunset pictures came out quite well. See my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16473&l=6c47f&id=752038625 for details.
Hey, I am officially competent in my job! It is so good to get that reinforcement! I am the best Office Skills manager on the Rez!
Finally, Ma & Pa would be celebrating 50 years of wedded bliss tonight if it weren't for the simple fact that, though they live under the same roof, they've been divorced for years. Still, Happy would-be 50th Ma & Pa!
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