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In this E-Fishwrapper, Red Sky Reunion, Human Rights Reading Sunday at Seattle Center, Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Hugo House, Burning Word V and other WPA news, and cool shit I was supposed to include, but forgot because I am at work and should be teaching Excel or something like that.

1) Red Sky Reunion tomorrow at Hugo House. For 25 years it was the longest continuously-running poetry open mic on the West Coast. Many a Seattle poet used it as a workshop, to refine their gesture and be in the company of some of the best Seattle poets from the 80's, 90's and 00's. Thanks to the work of Jesse Minkert and the gracious co-sponsorship of the Hugo House, Red Sky Poetry Theater rolls again. Read your best recent work and listen to what your contemporaries are doing. Paul Hunter and Marion Kimes are featured. Friday, December 14, 2007, 7PM signup at Hugo House, 1634 11th Av. Seattle. http://www.hugohouse.org/house/map/

2) APPROACHING 60 YEARS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Youth for Human Rights International Poet Laureate Lawrence Jaffe

Features in Seattle Reading & Celebration
Sunday, December 16th from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.
300 W. Harrison, Seattle, Free event with free brunch served.
Featuring award-winning poet Larry Jaffe. Reading with Larry will be Paul Nelson President of the Washington Poets Association, along with several other distinguished Seattle poets. Want to read? Email me back. An essential part of the event will be The Declaration of Human Rights Experience. This is a live dramatic reading performed by both the poets and the audience.
Contact Shelley at shelley@lgjaffe.com for more info.

3) Organic Poetry workshop offered at Richard Hugo House, starting January 24th. This is one of many fine workshops scheduled for the Winter session at the Hugo House. http://www.hugohouse.org/classes/listings/ for them all. I am partial to this one:
Organic Poetry
What's the force behind powerful poetry? Lorca called it “duende”; Charles Olson called it a “poem as high energy construct.” The process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment is sometimes called Organic Poetry, where composition is an occasion of experience or experiment in consciousness. This is an entertaining workshop for serious writers of all levels of experience who enjoy the sense of community. It includes oral interviews with poets of this tradition, lively discussions & writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.
Instructor: Paul Nelson Meets: Thursdays, Jan. 24–Feb. 28, 7–9 p.m. Min. 5 Max. 15

for obvious reasons, but take the six week deal and you'll learn things about a poetic process that may seem quite natural to you and may surprise you. See why this work reflects a paradigm shift now happening in our world, from the mechanistic to the Organismic and not a moment too soon.

4) 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. 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/2008_burning_word_headliners_press_release.php

To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
Coming soon from WPA, a new on-line collection, the Bart Baxter Award (can YOU Bart?), the Porad Haiku contest and an opportunity to take a workshop from Anne Waldman. (Members get the information first. To join WPA, click: http://washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php

OK, off to Chicago in 8 days, but Red Sky is going to be an amazing evening tomorrow night. I can't tell you how important this reading was for my development as a writer and human and the two featured poets are two of the biggest reasons. We might hang out after at the Elysian for a beer or two. Please consider taking, or recommending to a friend, my Organic Poetry Workshop. I need 15 folks signed up for the classes which start on January 24th. I take all I have learned in my 13 year study of this process, including interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman and others and present that in an entertaining, paradigm-shifting experience.

Happy Solstice,Y'all. xoxo President Postcard.

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