For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Red Sky Reunion features Judith Roche and Charlie Burks, José Kozer visits the NW in February, Subtext, & GVR Board Elections among other things.
1) The Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series continues Sunday, December 7 at the Richard Hugo House. Suggested donation $5-$10. Judith Roche and Charlie Burks are featured. Judith is well-known for her award-winning poetry, her teaching at Seattle U and other venues and for her remarkable stewardship of Bumbershoot’s literary arts offerings until a couple of years ago. (Buy her books here.) Charlie is a long-time Seattle poet with a wicked wit and this is a rare public appearance for him. Signup starts at 6:30 and the reading begins at 7P. You can download a .pdf file flyer Clarice Keegan created here. Thanks to the Hugo House for donation of the space and to the WPA for help in publicizing it.
2) José Kozer is next for a workshop/Red Sky feature Sunday, Feb 1, 2009. The cost of the workshop is $100 and there will also be a workshop for poets writing in Spanish. Email pen@splab.org for details, or registration, or do it on-line. Details here: http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/Jose_Kozer_Workshop.htm
Not yet confirmed are readings at Seattle U, Mt. Vernon and Orcas Island, where we are also looking to do a workshop. If you can’t afford $100, please get in touch with me and suggest something feasible. José will take on a couple of scholarships for this workshop and he gives the best poetry critiques I have ever seen. Kind, compassionate, but real. You should be a part of this, so call or email me. Really. His visit is made possible in part by the Hugo House, Poets & Writers, the WPA and workshop participants like YOU, or your loved one who got the workshop as a holiday gift from YOU. (Hey don’t look over yr shoulder! I’m talkin’ to YOU!)
3) Subtext happens TONIGHT:
WHAT: SUBTEXT READING - Brenda IIJIMA & Brian CARPENTER
WHERE: CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE - 4th Floor of GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER, located at 4649 Sunnyside N, just south of 50th St in Wallingford.
WHEN: 7:30 PM, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 2008
TICKETS: Donations accepted at the door.
For info on these & other Subtext events, see their website at http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com
4) I finished Charles Olson At the Harbor last night. This book by Ralph Maud sets the record straight after Tom Clark’s hack job on Olson. Ralph’s remarkable scholarship also addresses Marjorie Perloff’s essay on Projective Verse a few years back, showing how the sources she said Olson lifted from Pound and WCW were not available by 1950 when he wrote PV and that she purposely took the Inferior Predecessors quote by him out of context. Ralph is gracious when Clark’s efforts are done well and accurate, but takes Clark to task on his fictional accounts of key events in Olson’s life. I recommend this book without reservation. Buy it at Abebooks.
5) The GVR Board is having elections soon and we’re in need of a quality Board Member or two. Global Voices Radio is the non-profit corporation that enables this E-Fishwrapper, the activities of the NW SPokenword LAB and used to create a syndicated radio program that went to as many as 18 stations over eleven years. Started as It Plays in Peoria Productions in December, 1993, we celebrate out 15th anniversary on the 14th. We’ll have a new Board President & at least three new board members coming on at our next Board meeting and you can “attend” meetings via phone. The new board will create a new agenda, so look to the E-Fishwrapper for details.
It has been a while since I last sent one of these missives. A torn muscle in my left leg the afternoon of November 4 has not helped. It is healing thank you. I still went down to celebrate the first White Sox fan elected POTUS and cried like a mfcking baby.
I DO find that I can easily post links to interesting literary and cultural events on my Facebook page. (Like that Sean Penn interview with Raul Castro.) I’d urge you to get on Facebook, but with the warning that it can be addictive and some people (some people) spend WAY TOO MUCH time on it. Still, it is a great way to keep connected. We’ll keep the Fishwrapper going, perhaps with a (GASP!) different author. Details soon.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
xoxo President Postcard.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Friday, October 03, 2008
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Sam Hamill/Red Sky Reunion, José Kozer next in line, Charles Olson info, Postcal Poetry & More.
1) Sam Hamill is featured as part of the Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series, on Sunday, October 5 at the Richard Hugo House. Suggested donation $5-$10. Paul Hunter is emcee and open mic readers will be asked to read one poem. The series will continue on Sunday, December 7 with Judith Roche and Charlie Burks. Signup starts at 6:30 and the reading begins at 7P. You can download a .pdf file flyer Clarice Keegan created here.
2) José Kozer is next for a workshop/Red Sky feature Sunday, Feb 1, 2009. Details coming soon. The cost of the workshop is $100 and there will also be a workshop for poets writing in Spanish. Email pen@splab.org for details, or early registration.
3) Hayden Carruth is dead. More info on his life and work here. NY Times obit here.
4) The fight for the soul of Gloucester, Mass is detailed at the Olson Now blog, along with info on upcoming conferences on the work of Charles Olson.
5) Postal Poetry does not mean disgruntled employees with automatic weapons, necessarily. postalpoetry.org & http://contest.postalpoetry.org/
6) from John Burgess: On Oct 9 - 12 at Centrum (details at: http://www.centrum.org/writing/autumn-writers-intensive.html, or call 360.385.3102, x114 for more info.) Ilya Kaminsky will be teaching a poetry workshop and Rebecca Brown will be teaching Fiction workshop at the same time and we expect lots of great overlap of energy, creativity, conversation and other good stuff. Tuition, room and board $595.
Jody Aliesan, via Phoebe Bosche, passed on this note which I read before the V.P. debate last night:
George Orwell, on how to avoid thinking when you speak:
You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. they will construct your sentences for you -- even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent -- and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connexion between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear...
It does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this, is that it is easy.
Who debases the language in an attempt to continue the rampant corruption of the last eight years? How does one deal with this beyond looking deep to root out any such behavior? To me, the Organic Poetry method speaks to this need to use the language with as much integrity, care and attention as possible.
That discipline allowed me to hold my own against a corporate lawyer in a hearing over my unemployment benefits, which I won, so it does come in handy, this discipline of daily writing and study even if the pay is less than that hired gun.
Meredith has a B-Day tomorrow. Join us tonight for the ceremonial spanking and wish her a Happy Day.
See you Sunday, I hope.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA
In this E-Fishwrapper, Sam Hamill/Red Sky Reunion, José Kozer next in line, Charles Olson info, Postcal Poetry & More.
1) Sam Hamill is featured as part of the Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series, on Sunday, October 5 at the Richard Hugo House. Suggested donation $5-$10. Paul Hunter is emcee and open mic readers will be asked to read one poem. The series will continue on Sunday, December 7 with Judith Roche and Charlie Burks. Signup starts at 6:30 and the reading begins at 7P. You can download a .pdf file flyer Clarice Keegan created here.
2) José Kozer is next for a workshop/Red Sky feature Sunday, Feb 1, 2009. Details coming soon. The cost of the workshop is $100 and there will also be a workshop for poets writing in Spanish. Email pen@splab.org for details, or early registration.
3) Hayden Carruth is dead. More info on his life and work here. NY Times obit here.
4) The fight for the soul of Gloucester, Mass is detailed at the Olson Now blog, along with info on upcoming conferences on the work of Charles Olson.
5) Postal Poetry does not mean disgruntled employees with automatic weapons, necessarily. postalpoetry.org & http://contest.postalpoetry.org/
6) from John Burgess: On Oct 9 - 12 at Centrum (details at: http://www.centrum.org/writing/autumn-writers-intensive.html, or call 360.385.3102, x114 for more info.) Ilya Kaminsky will be teaching a poetry workshop and Rebecca Brown will be teaching Fiction workshop at the same time and we expect lots of great overlap of energy, creativity, conversation and other good stuff. Tuition, room and board $595.
Jody Aliesan, via Phoebe Bosche, passed on this note which I read before the V.P. debate last night:
George Orwell, on how to avoid thinking when you speak:
You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. they will construct your sentences for you -- even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent -- and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connexion between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear...
It does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this, is that it is easy.
Who debases the language in an attempt to continue the rampant corruption of the last eight years? How does one deal with this beyond looking deep to root out any such behavior? To me, the Organic Poetry method speaks to this need to use the language with as much integrity, care and attention as possible.
That discipline allowed me to hold my own against a corporate lawyer in a hearing over my unemployment benefits, which I won, so it does come in handy, this discipline of daily writing and study even if the pay is less than that hired gun.
Meredith has a B-Day tomorrow. Join us tonight for the ceremonial spanking and wish her a Happy Day.
See you Sunday, I hope.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA
Sunday, August 24, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
pen@splab.org
Ilalqo, WA98002
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Sam Hamill workshop/Red Sky Reunion, José Kozer offers a poem critique service, Organic Poetry class and the Art of the Broadcast Interview offered at Evergreen this fall, Desolation Peak hike, Poetry Flash reading in Seattle, Hoh hike photos, Gary Snyder, Merwin, Nye, others do the Lectures series, Raven Chronicles party, Knockout seeks LGBTQ writing, Help the Institute for Community Leadership by shopping at Elliott Bay Books and more, more more (how do you like it, how do you like it?)
1) Sam Hamill is facilitating a workshop, his first ever in Seattle, as part of the Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series, on Sunday, October 5 at the Richard Hugo House. Registration is limited to 16 and 13 slots are left. Details at: http://splab.org/Sam_Workshop.html) The series will continue on Sunday, December 7 with Judith Roche and Charlie Burks. Signup starts at 6:30 and the reading begins at 7P. You can download a .pdf file flyer Clarice Keegan created here.
2) José Kozer offers poem critique service.
He gave some of the most remarkable, kind, incisive poetry critiques I have ever witnessed this year at Burning Word. Now you can get that same wisdom via email… From José:
If you know people who might be interested in sending me a poem, in English or Spanish, not more than one to one a half pages, to be commented and corrected by me, once, and for the price of $30, please ask them to send the poem to my email address and to send first the money via paypal to my son Keysi, to do that they are to write to him for payment advise, to:
Keiselim.A.Montas@Dartmouth.edu
abrazotes grandes to be shared,
jk
3) Desolation Peak Photos
Yes, that same peak where Jack Kerouac was a fire lookout in 1956. Yes, it is a difficult climb. Yes, he wrote Desolation Blues there. Some great photos by Tom Gotchy, Christian Martin and John Burgess, with whom I wrote a 13th Chorus of Desolation Blues. The North Cascades Institute does a magnificent job & I’d suggest checking doing one of their literary arts or wilderness programs.
4) Meredith’s photos of our recent hike to Glacier Meadows.
Linked here.
5) New Raven Chronicles Release Party
Raven Chronicles Vol. 14, #1
Reading & Publication Party
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, Washington 98105
Thursday, September 4
7:00PM
Join us to celebrate Raven Chronicles' Vol 14, #1 Legacies Issue.
Contributors/readers:
Thomas Hubbard, Priscilla Long, Donna Miscolta, Larry Laurence, Kathleen Alcala, Paul Nelson, Michael Hureaux, Anna Balint, Jesse Minkert, Gary Greaves, Carolyn Wright, Trudy Mercer
6) Poetry Flash in Seattle Sunday
Poetry Flash presents Cynthia Kraman, aka Cynthia Genser, aka Chinas Comidas, in a rare return to Seattle from NYC. Author of Taking on the Local Color, Club 82, The Mexican Murals and forthcoming from Bob Holman's Bowery Books, NYC, The Touch.
and Joyce Jenkins, editor/publisher of Poetry Flash, A Review & Literary Calendar for the West (based in Berkeley, California) & www.poetryflash.org. Author of Joy Road, a chapbook and Portal.
Introduced by Judith Roche.
$5 suggested donation. Absolutely no one turned away for lack of funds!
Sunday, August 31, 7:00 pm
Cabaret _ Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue, Seattle
www.hugohouse.org.
7) From Roy Wilson of the Institute for Community Leadership:
Elliot Bay Books in Seattle has selected the Institute for Community Leadership as the organization that will receive 10% from each book they sell from their selected titles list during the month of August. Help support ICL, get a good book and support one of the West Coast’s best bookstores by getting to the store and purchasing a book. You can also call in an order! You can check out more at http://www.elliottbaybook.com/lists/bfac.jsp
Thank you. For a stronger democracy, Roy
8) Knockout seeks LGBTQ Writing.
KNOCKOUT LITERARY MAGAZINE POETRY CONTEST
Knockout, a print literary magazine that publishes a 50-50 mix of work
by LGBTQ and straight authors, announces its first poetry contest.
Judge: James Bertolino. Winner receives $100 gift certificate to
Powell's Books (redeemable online) and publication of their winning
poem. All poems submitted considered for publication in Knockout.
Submissions of up to three poems of any length must be received by
August 31, 2008. $5 entry fee per submission. Multiple submissions
allowed. Simultaneous submissions allowed (with prompt notification if
accepted elsewhere). For complete guidelines and for more information
about Knockout, visit www.knockoutlit.org/contest.htm
9)SEPTEMBER SUBTEXT
~ a writing event ~
SUBTEXT invites you to A WRITING EVENT on September 3rd. We hope you will CREATE NEW WORK that explores, disagrees, exploits, negates, parodies, riffs, amplifies, exonerates, extols, exemplifies and/or vilifies the quotations (and their sources, if you wish) below. You can choose to read your work in any of the sections where you think it fits. Please plan to read for no more than 3-4 minutes. Thanks and we’re looking forward to it.
I. Writing to Point
A point is that which has no part.
--Euclid, Elements: Book of Definitions
II. Writing to Enclave
Moving into elsewhere music moves us
to boulders.
These columns. Shadows secure in thunder.
As boats move thick against water, forests
contained by sky.
These are contents.
Loss gropes toward its vase. Etching the way
Driving horses around the Etruscan rim.
--Barbara Guest, Turler Losses
III. Writing to Point, Writing to Enclave
Literature is not innocent; it is guilty and should admit itself so.
--Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil
email Nico V. if you've any questions: shoehorns@msn.com
See Subtext's new blog for upcoming readings and history: http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/
10) New Issue of Roadrunner
Some pretty slick html erasure technique here.
www.roadrunnerjournal.net for the latest issue of Roadrunner!
11) A new Tinfish for your perusal:
Subject: Tinfish 18 out imminently! http://tinfishpress.com
As you may know, Tinfish Press is on a roll. They are about to launch a book by Craig Santos Perez, another by four Hawai`i poets (_Tinfish 18.5), a chapbook by Norman Fischer, as well as the latest issue of Tinfish's journal, the seedpod for our larger project. Please invest in our seedlings! Tinfish's journal is known for its eclectic, eccentric designs and for the use of recycled materials for its covers. In this case, all covers are made out of real estate advertising brochures.
Tinfish 18 airs it out, offering an issue devoted to the Long Poem. Contributors include Mani Rao, Alysha Wood, Lynn Xu, David Perry, Stephen Collis, Endi Bogue Hartigan, and Norman Fischer, engaging issues of translation, form (including collage, the sonnet sequence, and the elegy), contemporary politics, and more.
12) Poet Movies:
Rabbit Light Movies is now online with over 40 short films of poets reading from their work.
The newest episode includes:
sasha steensen | christopher stackhouse | claire becker | michael rerick | matthea harvey | john keene & christopher stackhouse | mary jo bang | k. silem mohammad | christine deavel | anthony hawley | juliana leslie | johannes göransson
http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com
13) From Nico V:
GEORGETOWN RADIO Part 1
by Tom Steffel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Pu_W4Nn7w&feature=email
please pass it around
thanks,
n
14) Don Kentop presents: Poetry In Fremont
The Fremont Public Library Presents another in its series of
Saturday, September 6th, 2:00 PM 731 North 35th St. Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 684-4084
Featuring poets: Sam Green, Washington State Poet Laureate, Richard Wakefield and Kathleen Flenniken
15) Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Expanded 2008-09 Poetry Season
Beginning November 7, Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) will present a roster of outstanding poets—both established and emerging—in an expanded 2008-09 Poetry Season.
SAL’s ninth annual Poetry Series will include Donald Hall, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Simon Armitage, and Naomi Shihab Nye. We will also hold two Poetry Special Events showcasing W.S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. All 2008-09 Poetry Season events will take place at 7:30pm in their new venue, Benaroya Hall, and will feature readings, moderated audience Q&As, and book signings.
Subscriptions to the five-part Poetry Series ($45-150) will go on sale August 4, 2008, at http://www.lectures.org or 206-621-2230 x10. Tickets to individual events in the Series, as well as to Poetry Special Events, will go on sale September 22, 2008. Poetry Series subscribers may purchase tickets to Poetry Special Events ($10-40) now, in advance of
the general September 22 on-sale date.
15 items?!? And you think sitting behind a pc is easy work, HA! You deserve a giant, inflatable turd crashing into your house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080811/od_afp/switzerlandoffbeatart
Back from Glacier Meadows, a 17.5 mile hike to get out in 11 hours and I gained a pound! Meredith said it’s all muscle and all in my neck, HA! (She did not.) Look for an Organic Poetry workshop at The Evergreen State College on October 9th, offered as Extended Education. Also, the Art of the Broadcast Interview will be offered there as well. Postcards are winding down, the rain coming early and Sam teaching a workshop! Synder back in Seattle! And Zappa, my cat, hurting. Keep good thoughts for him, for an end to war, for John McCain to remember how many houses he owns and also for our species. We need it.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
pen@splab.org
Ilalqo, WA98002
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Sam Hamill workshop/Red Sky Reunion, José Kozer offers a poem critique service, Organic Poetry class and the Art of the Broadcast Interview offered at Evergreen this fall, Desolation Peak hike, Poetry Flash reading in Seattle, Hoh hike photos, Gary Snyder, Merwin, Nye, others do the Lectures series, Raven Chronicles party, Knockout seeks LGBTQ writing, Help the Institute for Community Leadership by shopping at Elliott Bay Books and more, more more (how do you like it, how do you like it?)
1) Sam Hamill is facilitating a workshop, his first ever in Seattle, as part of the Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series, on Sunday, October 5 at the Richard Hugo House. Registration is limited to 16 and 13 slots are left. Details at: http://splab.org/Sam_Workshop.html) The series will continue on Sunday, December 7 with Judith Roche and Charlie Burks. Signup starts at 6:30 and the reading begins at 7P. You can download a .pdf file flyer Clarice Keegan created here.
2) José Kozer offers poem critique service.
He gave some of the most remarkable, kind, incisive poetry critiques I have ever witnessed this year at Burning Word. Now you can get that same wisdom via email… From José:
If you know people who might be interested in sending me a poem, in English or Spanish, not more than one to one a half pages, to be commented and corrected by me, once, and for the price of $30, please ask them to send the poem to my email address and to send first the money via paypal to my son Keysi, to do that they are to write to him for payment advise, to:
Keiselim.A.Montas@Dartmouth.edu
abrazotes grandes to be shared,
jk
3) Desolation Peak Photos
Yes, that same peak where Jack Kerouac was a fire lookout in 1956. Yes, it is a difficult climb. Yes, he wrote Desolation Blues there. Some great photos by Tom Gotchy, Christian Martin and John Burgess, with whom I wrote a 13th Chorus of Desolation Blues. The North Cascades Institute does a magnificent job & I’d suggest checking doing one of their literary arts or wilderness programs.
4) Meredith’s photos of our recent hike to Glacier Meadows.
Linked here.
5) New Raven Chronicles Release Party
Raven Chronicles Vol. 14, #1
Reading & Publication Party
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, Washington 98105
Thursday, September 4
7:00PM
Join us to celebrate Raven Chronicles' Vol 14, #1 Legacies Issue.
Contributors/readers:
Thomas Hubbard, Priscilla Long, Donna Miscolta, Larry Laurence, Kathleen Alcala, Paul Nelson, Michael Hureaux, Anna Balint, Jesse Minkert, Gary Greaves, Carolyn Wright, Trudy Mercer
6) Poetry Flash in Seattle Sunday
Poetry Flash presents Cynthia Kraman, aka Cynthia Genser, aka Chinas Comidas, in a rare return to Seattle from NYC. Author of Taking on the Local Color, Club 82, The Mexican Murals and forthcoming from Bob Holman's Bowery Books, NYC, The Touch.
and Joyce Jenkins, editor/publisher of Poetry Flash, A Review & Literary Calendar for the West (based in Berkeley, California) & www.poetryflash.org. Author of Joy Road, a chapbook and Portal.
Introduced by Judith Roche.
$5 suggested donation. Absolutely no one turned away for lack of funds!
Sunday, August 31, 7:00 pm
Cabaret _ Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue, Seattle
www.hugohouse.org.
7) From Roy Wilson of the Institute for Community Leadership:
Elliot Bay Books in Seattle has selected the Institute for Community Leadership as the organization that will receive 10% from each book they sell from their selected titles list during the month of August. Help support ICL, get a good book and support one of the West Coast’s best bookstores by getting to the store and purchasing a book. You can also call in an order! You can check out more at http://www.elliottbaybook.com/lists/bfac.jsp
Thank you. For a stronger democracy, Roy
8) Knockout seeks LGBTQ Writing.
KNOCKOUT LITERARY MAGAZINE POETRY CONTEST
Knockout, a print literary magazine that publishes a 50-50 mix of work
by LGBTQ and straight authors, announces its first poetry contest.
Judge: James Bertolino. Winner receives $100 gift certificate to
Powell's Books (redeemable online) and publication of their winning
poem. All poems submitted considered for publication in Knockout.
Submissions of up to three poems of any length must be received by
August 31, 2008. $5 entry fee per submission. Multiple submissions
allowed. Simultaneous submissions allowed (with prompt notification if
accepted elsewhere). For complete guidelines and for more information
about Knockout, visit www.knockoutlit.org/contest.htm
9)SEPTEMBER SUBTEXT
~ a writing event ~
SUBTEXT invites you to A WRITING EVENT on September 3rd. We hope you will CREATE NEW WORK that explores, disagrees, exploits, negates, parodies, riffs, amplifies, exonerates, extols, exemplifies and/or vilifies the quotations (and their sources, if you wish) below. You can choose to read your work in any of the sections where you think it fits. Please plan to read for no more than 3-4 minutes. Thanks and we’re looking forward to it.
I. Writing to Point
A point is that which has no part.
--Euclid, Elements: Book of Definitions
II. Writing to Enclave
Moving into elsewhere music moves us
to boulders.
These columns. Shadows secure in thunder.
As boats move thick against water, forests
contained by sky.
These are contents.
Loss gropes toward its vase. Etching the way
Driving horses around the Etruscan rim.
--Barbara Guest, Turler Losses
III. Writing to Point, Writing to Enclave
Literature is not innocent; it is guilty and should admit itself so.
--Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil
email Nico V. if you've any questions: shoehorns@msn.com
See Subtext's new blog for upcoming readings and history: http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/
10) New Issue of Roadrunner
Some pretty slick html erasure technique here.
www.roadrunnerjournal.net for the latest issue of Roadrunner!
11) A new Tinfish for your perusal:
Subject: Tinfish 18 out imminently! http://tinfishpress.com
As you may know, Tinfish Press is on a roll. They are about to launch a book by Craig Santos Perez, another by four Hawai`i poets (_Tinfish 18.5), a chapbook by Norman Fischer, as well as the latest issue of Tinfish's journal, the seedpod for our larger project. Please invest in our seedlings! Tinfish's journal is known for its eclectic, eccentric designs and for the use of recycled materials for its covers. In this case, all covers are made out of real estate advertising brochures.
Tinfish 18 airs it out, offering an issue devoted to the Long Poem. Contributors include Mani Rao, Alysha Wood, Lynn Xu, David Perry, Stephen Collis, Endi Bogue Hartigan, and Norman Fischer, engaging issues of translation, form (including collage, the sonnet sequence, and the elegy), contemporary politics, and more.
12) Poet Movies:
Rabbit Light Movies is now online with over 40 short films of poets reading from their work.
The newest episode includes:
sasha steensen | christopher stackhouse | claire becker | michael rerick | matthea harvey | john keene & christopher stackhouse | mary jo bang | k. silem mohammad | christine deavel | anthony hawley | juliana leslie | johannes göransson
http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com
13) From Nico V:
GEORGETOWN RADIO Part 1
by Tom Steffel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Pu_W4Nn7w&feature=email
please pass it around
thanks,
n
14) Don Kentop presents: Poetry In Fremont
The Fremont Public Library Presents another in its series of
Saturday, September 6th, 2:00 PM 731 North 35th St. Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 684-4084
Featuring poets: Sam Green, Washington State Poet Laureate, Richard Wakefield and Kathleen Flenniken
15) Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Expanded 2008-09 Poetry Season
Beginning November 7, Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) will present a roster of outstanding poets—both established and emerging—in an expanded 2008-09 Poetry Season.
SAL’s ninth annual Poetry Series will include Donald Hall, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Simon Armitage, and Naomi Shihab Nye. We will also hold two Poetry Special Events showcasing W.S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. All 2008-09 Poetry Season events will take place at 7:30pm in their new venue, Benaroya Hall, and will feature readings, moderated audience Q&As, and book signings.
Subscriptions to the five-part Poetry Series ($45-150) will go on sale August 4, 2008, at http://www.lectures.org or 206-621-2230 x10. Tickets to individual events in the Series, as well as to Poetry Special Events, will go on sale September 22, 2008. Poetry Series subscribers may purchase tickets to Poetry Special Events ($10-40) now, in advance of
the general September 22 on-sale date.
15 items?!? And you think sitting behind a pc is easy work, HA! You deserve a giant, inflatable turd crashing into your house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080811/od_afp/switzerlandoffbeatart
Back from Glacier Meadows, a 17.5 mile hike to get out in 11 hours and I gained a pound! Meredith said it’s all muscle and all in my neck, HA! (She did not.) Look for an Organic Poetry workshop at The Evergreen State College on October 9th, offered as Extended Education. Also, the Art of the Broadcast Interview will be offered there as well. Postcards are winding down, the rain coming early and Sam teaching a workshop! Synder back in Seattle! And Zappa, my cat, hurting. Keep good thoughts for him, for an end to war, for John McCain to remember how many houses he owns and also for our species. We need it.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, George Bowering and Marion Kines at Subtext.
I don’t know if I can stress how important these two poets are, for much different reasons in one sense, and because they are heart-attack serious about poetry. (I guess at their age, maybe that’s not a good metaphor.)
George Bowering is much more than the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. He’s perhaps the most prolific writer I’ve ever known, a pure poet (to use Michael McClure’s phrase) and a generous teacher.
Part of the legendary TISH group of early 60’s Vancouver, which created an original Canadian poetry, influenced by some of the best of the postmodern poets who began to visit them in 1963 just before and after the seminal Vancouver Poetry Conference, including Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and others.
For more, look at Rob McLennan’s excellent essay on Jacket Magazine:
And to realize that THIS is his first reading in Seattle shows that we need to pay more attention to the space just beyond our collective nose.
Marion Kimes has been in Seattle for a couple of decades. She has quietly become, in my view, the Matriarch of Seattle poetry. This is not only because of her remarkable poems, but also because of her commitment to the community. She almost single-handedly kept Red Sky Theater humming for many of its final ten years at the Globe Café. She mentored young poets with simple lines, such as the one to a beginner poet who had mostly angry poems when she said: Can I ask you a question? What is your commitment to beauty?
Her own beauty is revealed over & over sometimes in simple poems, like the one that chronicles the luminous details about making ends meet:
ON FISTFULLS OF NOT-MUCH-IN-THE-END
Medicare’s A B C & D dwarf my pile of pills,
the bills. reading to page 109 (choices, lists
& co-pays, limits & penalties, forms & deadlines)
rouses my fury. challenged and chastened,
I whisper new vows (open and amendable):
walk upright. eat organic. take naps.
season with wine & laughter.
WHAT: SUBTEXT READING - George Bowering (Vancouver) & Marion Kimes
WHERE: CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE - 4th Floor of GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER
located at 4649 Sunnyside N, just south of 50th St in Wallingford
WHEN: 7:30 PM, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 2008
TICKETS: Donations accepted at the door.
Subtext continues its monthly reading series with readings by George Bowering & Marion Kimes at our new home at the Chapel Performance Space on the 6th of August 2008. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.
George Bowering is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. His most recent books include Baseball Love (Talonbooks, 2006), and Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006.
Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who were together at the UBC in the 1950s. There they founded the journal Tish. Bowering lives in Vancouver, BC and is Emeritus at Simon Fraser, where he has worked for more than 25 years. He describes himself as a Protestant agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Poet Laureate.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bowering/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bowering
Marion Kimes brought her love of the live reading here in 1981. Over the years a fine pile of small-press books & broadsides has accumulated beside a long list of readings, fests & projects. Her books include CROW'S EYES, of multiplication & light (Nine Muses), Whirled, and NAMORATUNG'A (Woodworks). She has been a driving force in Red Sky Theatre for many years.
http://www.ravenchronicles.org/nwwriter/index/kimes/kimes.htm
Happy Postcarding & Happy August.
Paolo
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, George Bowering and Marion Kines at Subtext.
I don’t know if I can stress how important these two poets are, for much different reasons in one sense, and because they are heart-attack serious about poetry. (I guess at their age, maybe that’s not a good metaphor.)
George Bowering is much more than the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. He’s perhaps the most prolific writer I’ve ever known, a pure poet (to use Michael McClure’s phrase) and a generous teacher.
Part of the legendary TISH group of early 60’s Vancouver, which created an original Canadian poetry, influenced by some of the best of the postmodern poets who began to visit them in 1963 just before and after the seminal Vancouver Poetry Conference, including Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and others.
For more, look at Rob McLennan’s excellent essay on Jacket Magazine:
Throughout the 1960s onward, whatever the avant was at the time, somehow Bowering was almost always at the front of it, whether leading it through his poetry, fiction, critical work, editing or publishing, all the while still working on his sports writing, that he had started as a high school columnist for the local paper.
And to realize that THIS is his first reading in Seattle shows that we need to pay more attention to the space just beyond our collective nose.
Marion Kimes has been in Seattle for a couple of decades. She has quietly become, in my view, the Matriarch of Seattle poetry. This is not only because of her remarkable poems, but also because of her commitment to the community. She almost single-handedly kept Red Sky Theater humming for many of its final ten years at the Globe Café. She mentored young poets with simple lines, such as the one to a beginner poet who had mostly angry poems when she said: Can I ask you a question? What is your commitment to beauty?
Her own beauty is revealed over & over sometimes in simple poems, like the one that chronicles the luminous details about making ends meet:
ON FISTFULLS OF NOT-MUCH-IN-THE-END
Medicare’s A B C & D dwarf my pile of pills,
the bills. reading to page 109 (choices, lists
& co-pays, limits & penalties, forms & deadlines)
rouses my fury. challenged and chastened,
I whisper new vows (open and amendable):
walk upright. eat organic. take naps.
season with wine & laughter.
WHAT: SUBTEXT READING - George Bowering (Vancouver) & Marion Kimes
WHERE: CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE - 4th Floor of GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER
located at 4649 Sunnyside N, just south of 50th St in Wallingford
WHEN: 7:30 PM, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 2008
TICKETS: Donations accepted at the door.
Subtext continues its monthly reading series with readings by George Bowering & Marion Kimes at our new home at the Chapel Performance Space on the 6th of August 2008. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.
George Bowering is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. His most recent books include Baseball Love (Talonbooks, 2006), and Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006.
Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who were together at the UBC in the 1950s. There they founded the journal Tish. Bowering lives in Vancouver, BC and is Emeritus at Simon Fraser, where he has worked for more than 25 years. He describes himself as a Protestant agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Poet Laureate.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bowering/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bowering
Marion Kimes brought her love of the live reading here in 1981. Over the years a fine pile of small-press books & broadsides has accumulated beside a long list of readings, fests & projects. Her books include CROW'S EYES, of multiplication & light (Nine Muses), Whirled, and NAMORATUNG'A (Woodworks). She has been a driving force in Red Sky Theatre for many years.
http://www.ravenchronicles.org/nwwriter/index/kimes/kimes.htm
Happy Postcarding & Happy August.
Paolo
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Monday, June 30, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Sam Hamill & Ian Boyden's Habitations, 1st Thursday, Pioneer Square, Call for AUGUST POETRY POSTCARD FEST, Sustainable Auburn, Red Sky Reunion, DANCE OF THE FLANEUR Sunday 6 July, noon – 9pm.
1) Sam Hamill & Ian Boyden's Habitations, 1st Thursday, Pioneer Square.
(from the website) Davidson Contemporary is proud to release the newest Crab Quill Press publication, Habitations. This unique artist book of original paintings represents a collaboration of the artist Ian Boydenand the poet Sam Hamill (founding editor of Copper Canyon Press and Poets Against War). The artist sees this work as a major extension of ideas central to the “Northwest School”. The pigments used in the paintings contain fossilized whale ear bone, fossilized shark tooth, fossilized cave bear tooth, cuttlefish ink, freshwater pearl, opal, loess, basalt, granite, lava, and petrified wood. The words and images are deeply grounded in our region on multiple levels. (This is the most remarkable book I have ever seen and Sam will be there this Thursday on 1st Thursday, July 3rd, 6-8P, at 313 Occidental Avenue S.)
2) Year Two August Poetry Postcard Fest
When is the U.S.P.S. going to give us the dough we need for the fancy marketing campaign to have thousands of these little poems flying all over the freakin' planet?!? (Who knows? Til then the sturdy, but irregular, E-Fishwrapper will have to do. Anyway, we're doing it again. Last year we had 95 poets sending a card a day (whether they liked it or not) to another poet on a list. We're making that list, officially, NOW. Details HERE. God Bless Lana Ayers. Really.
3) Sustainable Auburn
Stop laughing you snooty Yuppie. Seriously, my non-profit efforts to help create awareness about sustainability in the former Slaughter are getting more official as we launch this effort. Nice little blog here. If you live around here and want to be on the steering committee, send me an email. I am Paul Nelson and I approved this message.
4) Red Sky Reunion
It's not yet official, but it's looking quite good for a series of Red Sky Reunion events in Seattle. There will be two workshops, one with Sam Hamill (no lie) and one with Jose Kozer. (Have I ever kidded you?) If you want details, email and I'll tell you what else is official so far, what's almost official and what, at this point, is either a wet dream or fevered hallucination, or both.
5) Did I mention the new film on Charles Olson, entitled Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place.
6) Mimi is at it again.
DANCE OF THE FLANEUR Sunday 6 July, noon – 9pm @ the SW corner of Green Lake (where Aurora meets Green Lake N, near the Shell Gas Station)
.........................................................
DANCE OF THE FLANEUR is an urban maneuver being undertaken in the Green Lake area of Seattle as a means to a more visible poetry-public interface.
At noon, on Sunday 6 July, this participatory, site-specific performance will take over Green Lake. 60+ umbrellas have been prepared with favorite lines from poems (painted, printed & trailing from ribbons). Volunteers will hand umbrellas to passersby who will carry them, with as much flair as they dare, around the lake. For the next 9 hours, they'll be passed from person to person in a constant parade. Local artists will present short dances with umbrellas and poets will read from them.
Walter Benjamin calls flanerie "a desperate attempt to fill the emptiness." Let us fill the empty somehow. Walk, dance, read, watch, picnic, nap –– do whatever, but do it with poetry.
Dance of the Flaneur commemorates the first anniversary of the year-long performance, "The Poetess at Green Lake," undertaken by A. K. Allin. Information on that project can be found at: http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogstpot.com. Allin is a Seattle resident and artist with strong ties to the Green Lake area.
Dancers, poets, umbrella decorators & others, please get in touch by e-mail (mimiallin@gmail.com) or phone (617.460.6110).
7)SEPTEMBER SUBTEXT
~ a writing event ~
SUBTEXT invites you to A WRITING EVENT on September 3rd. We hope you will CREATE NEW WORK that explores, disagrees, exploits, negates, parodies, riffs, amplifies, exonerates, extols, exemplifies and/or vilifies the quotations (and their sources, if you wish) below. You can choose to read your work in any of the sections where you think it fits. Please plan to read for no more than 3-4 minutes. Thanks and we’re looking forward to it.
I. Writing to Point
A point is that which has no part.
--Euclid, Elements: Book of Definitions
II. Writing to Enclave
Moving into elsewhere music moves us
to boulders.
These columns. Shadows secure in thunder.
As boats move thick against water, forests
contained by sky.
These are contents.
Loss gropes toward its vase. Etching the way
Driving horses around the Etruscan rim.
--Barbara Guest, Turler Losses
III. Writing to Point, Writing to Enclave
Literature is not innocent; it is guilty and should admit itself so.
--Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil
a permanent Riotocracy
--Herman Melville, The Encantadas
email Nico V. if you've any questions: shoehorns@msn.com
and don't forget Mickey O'Connor this Wednesday at Subtext
Subtext's new blog for upcoming readings and history: http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/
So back to the non-profit activities which leave me inspired, with time for creativity and golf. (I could have broken 90 today if not for the two balls hit into the water! ARGH! Hey, cool little article on MY LITTLE GIRL! So pleased about her accomplishments. Also pleasing, the Sox sweeping the Cubs and the return of POSTCARDS. The coolest thing ever. Try it, you'll like it and will give your letter carrier something to talk about. One of them said last year: Hey, these are pretty good! If you are interested in the Sam Hamill workshop (October) or the Jose Kozer workshop (late January, with one in Spanish in early February, email me. Guy on the golf course today asked if my balls were sticky. I told him I just adjust my stance and it works out.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Sam Hamill & Ian Boyden's Habitations, 1st Thursday, Pioneer Square, Call for AUGUST POETRY POSTCARD FEST, Sustainable Auburn, Red Sky Reunion, DANCE OF THE FLANEUR Sunday 6 July, noon – 9pm.
1) Sam Hamill & Ian Boyden's Habitations, 1st Thursday, Pioneer Square.
(from the website) Davidson Contemporary is proud to release the newest Crab Quill Press publication, Habitations. This unique artist book of original paintings represents a collaboration of the artist Ian Boydenand the poet Sam Hamill (founding editor of Copper Canyon Press and Poets Against War). The artist sees this work as a major extension of ideas central to the “Northwest School”. The pigments used in the paintings contain fossilized whale ear bone, fossilized shark tooth, fossilized cave bear tooth, cuttlefish ink, freshwater pearl, opal, loess, basalt, granite, lava, and petrified wood. The words and images are deeply grounded in our region on multiple levels. (This is the most remarkable book I have ever seen and Sam will be there this Thursday on 1st Thursday, July 3rd, 6-8P, at 313 Occidental Avenue S.)
2) Year Two August Poetry Postcard Fest
When is the U.S.P.S. going to give us the dough we need for the fancy marketing campaign to have thousands of these little poems flying all over the freakin' planet?!? (Who knows? Til then the sturdy, but irregular, E-Fishwrapper will have to do. Anyway, we're doing it again. Last year we had 95 poets sending a card a day (whether they liked it or not) to another poet on a list. We're making that list, officially, NOW. Details HERE. God Bless Lana Ayers. Really.
3) Sustainable Auburn
Stop laughing you snooty Yuppie. Seriously, my non-profit efforts to help create awareness about sustainability in the former Slaughter are getting more official as we launch this effort. Nice little blog here. If you live around here and want to be on the steering committee, send me an email. I am Paul Nelson and I approved this message.
4) Red Sky Reunion
It's not yet official, but it's looking quite good for a series of Red Sky Reunion events in Seattle. There will be two workshops, one with Sam Hamill (no lie) and one with Jose Kozer. (Have I ever kidded you?) If you want details, email and I'll tell you what else is official so far, what's almost official and what, at this point, is either a wet dream or fevered hallucination, or both.
5) Did I mention the new film on Charles Olson, entitled Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place.
6) Mimi is at it again.
DANCE OF THE FLANEUR Sunday 6 July, noon – 9pm @ the SW corner of Green Lake (where Aurora meets Green Lake N, near the Shell Gas Station)
.........................................................
DANCE OF THE FLANEUR is an urban maneuver being undertaken in the Green Lake area of Seattle as a means to a more visible poetry-public interface.
At noon, on Sunday 6 July, this participatory, site-specific performance will take over Green Lake. 60+ umbrellas have been prepared with favorite lines from poems (painted, printed & trailing from ribbons). Volunteers will hand umbrellas to passersby who will carry them, with as much flair as they dare, around the lake. For the next 9 hours, they'll be passed from person to person in a constant parade. Local artists will present short dances with umbrellas and poets will read from them.
Walter Benjamin calls flanerie "a desperate attempt to fill the emptiness." Let us fill the empty somehow. Walk, dance, read, watch, picnic, nap –– do whatever, but do it with poetry.
Dance of the Flaneur commemorates the first anniversary of the year-long performance, "The Poetess at Green Lake," undertaken by A. K. Allin. Information on that project can be found at: http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogstpot.com. Allin is a Seattle resident and artist with strong ties to the Green Lake area.
Dancers, poets, umbrella decorators & others, please get in touch by e-mail (mimiallin@gmail.com) or phone (617.460.6110).
7)SEPTEMBER SUBTEXT
~ a writing event ~
SUBTEXT invites you to A WRITING EVENT on September 3rd. We hope you will CREATE NEW WORK that explores, disagrees, exploits, negates, parodies, riffs, amplifies, exonerates, extols, exemplifies and/or vilifies the quotations (and their sources, if you wish) below. You can choose to read your work in any of the sections where you think it fits. Please plan to read for no more than 3-4 minutes. Thanks and we’re looking forward to it.
I. Writing to Point
A point is that which has no part.
--Euclid, Elements: Book of Definitions
II. Writing to Enclave
Moving into elsewhere music moves us
to boulders.
These columns. Shadows secure in thunder.
As boats move thick against water, forests
contained by sky.
These are contents.
Loss gropes toward its vase. Etching the way
Driving horses around the Etruscan rim.
--Barbara Guest, Turler Losses
III. Writing to Point, Writing to Enclave
Literature is not innocent; it is guilty and should admit itself so.
--Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil
a permanent Riotocracy
--Herman Melville, The Encantadas
email Nico V. if you've any questions: shoehorns@msn.com
and don't forget Mickey O'Connor this Wednesday at Subtext
Subtext's new blog for upcoming readings and history: http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/
So back to the non-profit activities which leave me inspired, with time for creativity and golf. (I could have broken 90 today if not for the two balls hit into the water! ARGH! Hey, cool little article on MY LITTLE GIRL! So pleased about her accomplishments. Also pleasing, the Sox sweeping the Cubs and the return of POSTCARDS. The coolest thing ever. Try it, you'll like it and will give your letter carrier something to talk about. One of them said last year: Hey, these are pretty good! If you are interested in the Sam Hamill workshop (October) or the Jose Kozer workshop (late January, with one in Spanish in early February, email me. Guy on the golf course today asked if my balls were sticky. I told him I just adjust my stance and it works out.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Free Acupuncture Session, David Rizzi wins Lohman Prize, Call for Burning Word Committee Members and a Monday Meeting, Office Space for Writers, Subito Press Annual Book Competition, a new CD from Vancouver's Heather Haley and news about Sam Hamill.
1) Augusto Romano is the best Italian Acupuncturist in Kent.
OK, maybe that's not saying much, but a free introductory session does. He's at it again, that crazy Paisan, who says Hello Xi! when the needle frees up a blockage. He wants YOU, the dedicated Fishwrapper Fiend, to call him and set up a free appointment at his Kent or Queen Anne office. Is he giddy because his beloved Celtics just won their 17th NBA Title? Probably, but I told him I would Fishwrap this weeks ago and I'll want a free session down the line when my Medical Insurance lapses. Any minute now. Call 206. 229.7219. Get a session before he moves to California. (WTF?!)
2) Jeanne Lohmann Contest Prize Winners' Reading Tomorrow (Wednesday) night
June 18, 2008- Sean Brendan-Brown - Olympia - David Rizzi - Seattle, Olympia Poetry Network Reading only, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Traditions Café and World Folk Art 300 - 5th Avenue SW, Olympia
July 16, 2008 - Michael Magee, featured reader
3) Poetry Festival Committee Needed
In April of 2009 the WPA will be hosting a poetry festival in Seattle,
Washington. The exact details of what this festival will look like are
completely undecided as of this time and awaiting a committee's input.
One thing is certain, it will be a reinvention of the poetic word like
a phoenix rising from the Seattle concrete.
One need not be a member of the WPA to be on this committee, but it is
highly encouraged that one become one. All that is desired is people
willing to commit at least 40 hours of their life to doing actual
work on this festival between now and April, an open mind, and a
dedication to poetry.
First meeting will be June 23rd at Faire Gallery & Coffee at Melrose
and Olive Way in Capitol Hill at 6:30pm. Contact Angel Latterell, WPA
President, for details at angellatterell@gmail.com.
4) Shared Office Space with Literary Organizations:
Need one or two writers, or grant writers, or non-profit literary organizations to share office space with 2 Seattle-based literary organizations. Excellent University District location at 43rd and Roosevelt; light-filled space. $165/month and $165
deposit. A wonderful deal for right party. For more information, e-mail Phoebe Bosche, editors@ravenchronicles.org, or phone her at 206-364-2045. Available now.
5) Subito Press of the University of Colorado announces its Annual Book Competition. We will publish two books of innovative writing, one each of fiction and poetry. Submissions will be accepted from June 2 to August 15 (postmark date).
Submit manuscripts of up to 70 pages of poetry or up to 100 pages of (double spaced) fiction along with a $20 reading fee and an 8.5 x 11 SASE if you would like a copy of the winning entry in your genre. Manuscripts should include two cover sheets: one with title only, the other with title, author's name, address, e-mail, and phone number. All submissions will be judged anonymously by the creative writing faculty at the University of Colorado; friends, relatives, and former students of University of Colorado creative writing faculty are not eligible. Simultaneous submissions o.k.; please notify Subito immediately if your ms. is accepted elsewhere. Winners will give a reading at the University of Colorado. Notifications of winners will occur by December of 2008.
Send mss. to :
Subito Press
Department of English
226 University of Colorado, Boulder,
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0226
6) I had a chance to go to Vancouver to check out the new film on Charles Olson, entitled Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place. Henry Ferrini, Vince's nephew, created the film and worked for 12 years to get it financed and produced, and while it is aimed at an audience that does not know who Olson was, this is a must-see for any poet. It'd be nice to see this in Seattle sometime. (Subtext? Are you listening?)
I hung out with Heather Haley while in Vancouver, the most beautiful city I have ever seen, and Heather's new CD is a cross between poetry and Joy Division. Of her work, Karen Solie said: "What I see as one of your big strengths, your originality, has to do with the content you choose but perhaps more so your tone with it....Your work resists any simplistic approach toward it as settled in a particular emotion. You tend to write a lot about domestic situations-families, home lives and relationships of one variety or another, familiar natural environments-but the work isn't domesticated. It reflects the nature of language as both a domestic product and as wild-impossible to fully manage or control. You take a lot of risks in your poems...You have a good instinct for the weirdness of language, the sound and rhythm...
Click above for the link to Heather's beautiful website and listen to cuts from the CD.
7) Sam Hamill is involved in a magnificent poetry/painting project that will be featured at the Davidson Gallery, at 301 Occidental Avenue South on the first Thursday of July, the 3rd. I hope to see you there.
So long since the last E-Fishwrapper, so sorry for that lapse. I have MUCH MORE free time these days. Running the WPA Board drained me of almost every last bit of creative energy and almost all my desire to see another poet, ever, but tequila and golf with Sam helped ease those concerns (he warned me about the task) and here I am with more poetry stuff.
Some in the WPA would change the name of the Burning Word Festival, which may move to Seattle next year. Get on the committee and make the Festival happen in 2009. Angel Latterell is going to do some cool things with that cranky, old organization.
Lana Ayers axed me about the August Poetry Postcard Fest and I am in. Details coming soon, so if you want IN to the postcard thing, drop Lana an email. I have cc'd her at a couple of different addresses and one of them must be current, eh?
Well, life on the Rez wasn't what I imagined, so here I am back in job search mode, but some good things are coming up on the radar screen and details soon, I hope.
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog
Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Free Acupuncture Session, David Rizzi wins Lohman Prize, Call for Burning Word Committee Members and a Monday Meeting, Office Space for Writers, Subito Press Annual Book Competition, a new CD from Vancouver's Heather Haley and news about Sam Hamill.
1) Augusto Romano is the best Italian Acupuncturist in Kent.
OK, maybe that's not saying much, but a free introductory session does. He's at it again, that crazy Paisan, who says Hello Xi! when the needle frees up a blockage. He wants YOU, the dedicated Fishwrapper Fiend, to call him and set up a free appointment at his Kent or Queen Anne office. Is he giddy because his beloved Celtics just won their 17th NBA Title? Probably, but I told him I would Fishwrap this weeks ago and I'll want a free session down the line when my Medical Insurance lapses. Any minute now. Call 206. 229.7219. Get a session before he moves to California. (WTF?!)
2) Jeanne Lohmann Contest Prize Winners' Reading Tomorrow (Wednesday) night
June 18, 2008- Sean Brendan-Brown - Olympia - David Rizzi - Seattle, Olympia Poetry Network Reading only, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Traditions Café and World Folk Art 300 - 5th Avenue SW, Olympia
July 16, 2008 - Michael Magee, featured reader
3) Poetry Festival Committee Needed
In April of 2009 the WPA will be hosting a poetry festival in Seattle,
Washington. The exact details of what this festival will look like are
completely undecided as of this time and awaiting a committee's input.
One thing is certain, it will be a reinvention of the poetic word like
a phoenix rising from the Seattle concrete.
One need not be a member of the WPA to be on this committee, but it is
highly encouraged that one become one. All that is desired is people
willing to commit at least 40 hours of their life to doing actual
work on this festival between now and April, an open mind, and a
dedication to poetry.
First meeting will be June 23rd at Faire Gallery & Coffee at Melrose
and Olive Way in Capitol Hill at 6:30pm. Contact Angel Latterell, WPA
President, for details at angellatterell@gmail.com.
4) Shared Office Space with Literary Organizations:
Need one or two writers, or grant writers, or non-profit literary organizations to share office space with 2 Seattle-based literary organizations. Excellent University District location at 43rd and Roosevelt; light-filled space. $165/month and $165
deposit. A wonderful deal for right party. For more information, e-mail Phoebe Bosche, editors@ravenchronicles.org, or phone her at 206-364-2045. Available now.
5) Subito Press of the University of Colorado announces its Annual Book Competition. We will publish two books of innovative writing, one each of fiction and poetry. Submissions will be accepted from June 2 to August 15 (postmark date).
Submit manuscripts of up to 70 pages of poetry or up to 100 pages of (double spaced) fiction along with a $20 reading fee and an 8.5 x 11 SASE if you would like a copy of the winning entry in your genre. Manuscripts should include two cover sheets: one with title only, the other with title, author's name, address, e-mail, and phone number. All submissions will be judged anonymously by the creative writing faculty at the University of Colorado; friends, relatives, and former students of University of Colorado creative writing faculty are not eligible. Simultaneous submissions o.k.; please notify Subito immediately if your ms. is accepted elsewhere. Winners will give a reading at the University of Colorado. Notifications of winners will occur by December of 2008.
Send mss. to :
Subito Press
Department of English
226 University of Colorado, Boulder,
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0226
6) I had a chance to go to Vancouver to check out the new film on Charles Olson, entitled Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place. Henry Ferrini, Vince's nephew, created the film and worked for 12 years to get it financed and produced, and while it is aimed at an audience that does not know who Olson was, this is a must-see for any poet. It'd be nice to see this in Seattle sometime. (Subtext? Are you listening?)
I hung out with Heather Haley while in Vancouver, the most beautiful city I have ever seen, and Heather's new CD is a cross between poetry and Joy Division. Of her work, Karen Solie said: "What I see as one of your big strengths, your originality, has to do with the content you choose but perhaps more so your tone with it....Your work resists any simplistic approach toward it as settled in a particular emotion. You tend to write a lot about domestic situations-families, home lives and relationships of one variety or another, familiar natural environments-but the work isn't domesticated. It reflects the nature of language as both a domestic product and as wild-impossible to fully manage or control. You take a lot of risks in your poems...You have a good instinct for the weirdness of language, the sound and rhythm...
Click above for the link to Heather's beautiful website and listen to cuts from the CD.
7) Sam Hamill is involved in a magnificent poetry/painting project that will be featured at the Davidson Gallery, at 301 Occidental Avenue South on the first Thursday of July, the 3rd. I hope to see you there.
So long since the last E-Fishwrapper, so sorry for that lapse. I have MUCH MORE free time these days. Running the WPA Board drained me of almost every last bit of creative energy and almost all my desire to see another poet, ever, but tequila and golf with Sam helped ease those concerns (he warned me about the task) and here I am with more poetry stuff.
Some in the WPA would change the name of the Burning Word Festival, which may move to Seattle next year. Get on the committee and make the Festival happen in 2009. Angel Latterell is going to do some cool things with that cranky, old organization.
Lana Ayers axed me about the August Poetry Postcard Fest and I am in. Details coming soon, so if you want IN to the postcard thing, drop Lana an email. I have cc'd her at a couple of different addresses and one of them must be current, eh?
Well, life on the Rez wasn't what I imagined, so here I am back in job search mode, but some good things are coming up on the radar screen and details soon, I hope.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Hugo House starts Thursday night, Hedgebrook Alumnae at Burning Word, a great deal on a Key Peninsula waterfront rental property and the Cascade Journal Release Party.
1) Please consider taking my Organic Poetry workshop offered at Richard Hugo House, starting this Thursday, January 24th. Organic Poetry
Ever have the experience where a poem seems to write itself? Why not learn to write that way? 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 sound from allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman and other 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
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. Register at: http://019035e.netsolhost.com/classes/registration
2) Washington Poets Association announces Hedgebrook Alumnae slot at Burning Word
Joining headliner Anne Waldman on the Main Stage will be Felicia Gonzalez, Rebecca Meredith, Molly Tenenbaum and Carletta Carrington Wilson. The WPA is thrilled to continue and deepen our working relationship with this amazing local women's writing institution. Please make a note to join us at Burning Word and support these and other local poets. Burning Word.org
To join WPA, click: http://washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php
3) Poet's Dream House for Rent on Key Peninsula
Are you or any poet/non-profit group interested in renting a beautiful ($1m value) home with a dock on Key Peninsula? Will go for $500-$1k per month to the right organization or org-person. For details, please email amalio Madueno.
4) One more WPA announcement - Cascade Journal Reading.
Cascade Journal Published
The Washington Poets Association is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of its new annual member journal, Cascade. Copies will soon be sent out to all WPA members. If you'd like to order additional
copies, look for the order form in each copy.
Cascade Launch Reading on February 9, 2008
The first of a series of readings featuring poets published in the first issue of Cascade will take place at the Bellevue Arts Museum at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2008. We invite all contributors to the journal (who have already been notified of being included) to come and read. If you can make it and are interested in reading, send an email to Jeremy Gaulke (jsgaulke@gmail.com) to let us know you're coming. We'll also have an open-mike reading, so everyone is welcome to come and celebrate the launch of Cascade.
Cascade Launch Reading
Saturday, February 9, 2008
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Auditorium
Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, Washington
http://www.bellevuearts.org/
Pop's in town with Cousin Steve who is dragging him across the country via Amtrak. The dinner I cooked for them at Doe Bay was given high praise by Pop who called it Better than Amtrak! Steve suggests a new nickname for Pop, and that would be GRUMPA. Nonetheless, it's good to have him out here even if I have to heat the apartment to 83 degrees. By the way, Doe Bay is looking better than ever and the cafe is top notch. What a great place for a poetry gathering. I am hoping to do some kind of postcard thing there in the Fall.
Please consider taking, or recommending to a friend, my Organic Poetry Workshop. I need 15 folks signed up for the classes which start Thursday. 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.
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
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Hugo House starts Thursday night, Hedgebrook Alumnae at Burning Word, a great deal on a Key Peninsula waterfront rental property and the Cascade Journal Release Party.
1) Please consider taking my Organic Poetry workshop offered at Richard Hugo House, starting this Thursday, January 24th. Organic Poetry
Ever have the experience where a poem seems to write itself? Why not learn to write that way? 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 sound from allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman and other 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
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. Register at: http://019035e.netsolhost.com/classes/registration
2) Washington Poets Association announces Hedgebrook Alumnae slot at Burning Word
Joining headliner Anne Waldman on the Main Stage will be Felicia Gonzalez, Rebecca Meredith, Molly Tenenbaum and Carletta Carrington Wilson. The WPA is thrilled to continue and deepen our working relationship with this amazing local women's writing institution. Please make a note to join us at Burning Word and support these and other local poets. Burning Word.org
To join WPA, click: http://washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php
3) Poet's Dream House for Rent on Key Peninsula
Are you or any poet/non-profit group interested in renting a beautiful ($1m value) home with a dock on Key Peninsula? Will go for $500-$1k per month to the right organization or org-person. For details, please email amalio Madueno
4) One more WPA announcement - Cascade Journal Reading.
Cascade Journal Published
The Washington Poets Association is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of its new annual member journal, Cascade. Copies will soon be sent out to all WPA members. If you'd like to order additional
copies, look for the order form in each copy.
Cascade Launch Reading on February 9, 2008
The first of a series of readings featuring poets published in the first issue of Cascade will take place at the Bellevue Arts Museum at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2008. We invite all contributors to the journal (who have already been notified of being included) to come and read. If you can make it and are interested in reading, send an email to Jeremy Gaulke (jsgaulke@gmail.com) to let us know you're coming. We'll also have an open-mike reading, so everyone is welcome to come and celebrate the launch of Cascade.
Cascade Launch Reading
Saturday, February 9, 2008
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Auditorium
Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, Washington
http://www.bellevuearts.org/
Pop's in town with Cousin Steve who is dragging him across the country via Amtrak. The dinner I cooked for them at Doe Bay was given high praise by Pop who called it Better than Amtrak! Steve suggests a new nickname for Pop, and that would be GRUMPA. Nonetheless, it's good to have him out here even if I have to heat the apartment to 83 degrees. By the way, Doe Bay is looking better than ever and the cafe is top notch. What a great place for a poetry gathering. I am hoping to do some kind of postcard thing there in the Fall.
Please consider taking, or recommending to a friend, my Organic Poetry Workshop. I need 15 folks signed up for the classes which start Thursday. 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.
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
Sunday, January 06, 2008
New E-Fishwrap Year
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Hugo House, WPA On-Line Poetry Collection, New State Poet Laureate, Cascade Journal Release Party, Crispen Glover in Seattle, H.D. Marathon in Portland and Rebecca Meredith reads in Kirkland.
1) Please consider taking my 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:
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
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. Register at: http://019035e.netsolhost.com/classes/registration/ You can also register there for Judith Roche's "writingreading/readingwriting" also starting on January 24th, Thursdays 4-6:00PM.
2) Washington Poets Association announces On-Line Poetry collection.
The Washington Poets Association seeks poetry submissions for their new online collection.
online whispers & [Shouts] seeks poetry that is crafted, urgent, and compelling. This is an ongoing project without deadline. No fees. For full guidelines, rules, and other information, please see the online whispers & [Shouts] web site at: http://washingtonpoets.org/owas
To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
To join WPA, click: http://washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php
3) The State's First Poet Laureate
Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that she has named Samuel Green as the Washington State Poet Laureate, a position established by the Legislature this year to build awareness and appreciation of poetry across the state. Green, who lives on Waldron Island, is a native of Washington. He has served as editor of a small press focusing on the work of Washington poets for more than 30 years.
4) H.D. Marathon in Portland
Spare Room presents a marathon reading of H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
Saturday, January 12 7:00 pm -- ??
free admission 4932 NE 16th Avenue, Apartment A (just below Alberta)
Scheduled readers include: * David Abel * Sarah Bartlett * Joseph Bradshaw * Gale Czerski * Ashley Edwards * Laura Feldman * Endi Hartigan * Patrick Hartigan * Rodney Koeneke * Maryrose Larkin * Sam Lohmann * Chris Piuma * Dan Raphael * margareta waterman
Hear H.D.s booklength narrative poem Helen in Egypt (published in 1960) read aloud by a dozen or so Portland poets and writers. We'll also listen to a 1955 recording of H.D. reading excerpts from the text. Drop in for an hour or two at any point, or stay for the entire book. (Estimated duration of the reading is 4-6 hours.) Light snacks and beverages will be available.
5) Crispen Hellion Glover in Seattle Saturday at Broadway Performance Hall.
On JAN 12, Saturday at 7pm, for ONE NIGHT ONLY
WHAT IS IT? (Crispin Hellion Glover, USA, 2007, 35mm, 72 min)
ALL SCREENINGS AT BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL $17/NWFF members, $20/general
Crispin Hellion Glover returns with the second installment of a trilogy that began with WHAT IS IT?. Glover's latest film is another mind-bending foray into unexplored territory that will challenge expectations and defy conventions. Glover uses his visionary cinematic skills to bring to life the graphically explicit psychosexual fantasy world of a man shunned by women and society who lusts after intimacy, acceptance, and a full head of long hair. The beauty of Glover's direction lies in his ability to create an atmosphere that is strange and unsettling, sensual and erotic. All performances proceeded by Glover’s one-hour slide show, which consists of ten different stories dramatically narrated by Glover himself. The slides are from pages of books that he has reworked with original and transformed art. It is Fine, Everything is Fine will be screened Thursday, Friday and Sunday, with Glover in person Saturday for the What Is It? screening. http://www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/crispinglover.php
6) Poetry at ParkPlace starts its 2008 season this Wednesday, 7pm with featured poet Rebecca Meredith and an open mic. Park Place Books, Kirkland, WA.
Rebecca Meredith , Seattle poet, writer and psychotherapist, has had poetry published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including CALYX, Chrysanthemum, Pontoon Nine, Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range (Rose Alley Press), and Cascade Journal. She has been featured on KUOW’s “The Beat” and was first runner up in Seattle’s Bart Baxter Performance Poetry Competition. Her chapbook, Intergenerational Delta Blues, was published in 2006 by Pudding House Press.
7) Remembering Sylvester Pollet
Donna Gold has written a lovely tribute to Sylvester Pollet for the pages of his hometown newspaper, the Ellsworth American. His Backwoods Broadsides were remarkable.
http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12036&Itemid=185
8) One more WPA announcement - Cascade Journal Reading.
Cascade Journal Published
The Washington Poets Association is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of its new annual member journal, Cascade. Copies will soon be sent out to all WPA members. If you'd like to order additional
copies, look for the order form in each copy.
Cascade Launch Reading on February 9, 2008
The first of a series of readings featuring poets published in the first issue of Cascade will take place at the Bellevue Arts Museum at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2008. We invite all contributors to the journal (who have already been notified of being included) to come and read. If you can make it and are interested in reading, send an email to Jeremy Gaulke (jsgaulke@gmail.com) to let us know you're coming. We'll also have an open-mike reading, so everyone is welcome to come and celebrate the launch of Cascade.
Can't make it to Bellevue on February 9? We're planning a series of regional readings throughout February and March -- more details to come soon.
Cascade Launch Reading
Saturday, February 9, 2008
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Auditorium
Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, Washington
http://www.bellevuearts.org/
For a poem one letter at a time, see this cool link: http://www.horselesspress.com/stefans/i_know_index.htm
Back from Chicago for 5 days, but Ken Vandermark was amazing at the Hideout. Pic of my trip are on Facebook here. 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.
Please join me in keeping good thoughts for Marjorie Rommel whose Father David Baker died on Friday, two days after his 89th birthday. His funeral is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8 in the First United Methodist Church, 100 N Street Southeast, Auburn, at the intersection of N Street and East Main.
Happy New Year. 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
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA 98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Hugo House, WPA On-Line Poetry Collection, New State Poet Laureate, Cascade Journal Release Party, Crispen Glover in Seattle, H.D. Marathon in Portland and Rebecca Meredith reads in Kirkland.
1) Please consider taking my 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:
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
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. Register at: http://019035e.netsolhost.com/classes/registration/ You can also register there for Judith Roche's "writingreading/readingwriting" also starting on January 24th, Thursdays 4-6:00PM.
2) Washington Poets Association announces On-Line Poetry collection.
The Washington Poets Association seeks poetry submissions for their new online collection.
online whispers & [Shouts] seeks poetry that is crafted, urgent, and compelling. This is an ongoing project without deadline. No fees. For full guidelines, rules, and other information, please see the online whispers & [Shouts] web site at: http://washingtonpoets.org/owas
To nominate a poet to read at BWv: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word_nomination.php
To join WPA, click: http://washingtonpoets.org/join_wpa.php
3) The State's First Poet Laureate
Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that she has named Samuel Green as the Washington State Poet Laureate, a position established by the Legislature this year to build awareness and appreciation of poetry across the state. Green, who lives on Waldron Island, is a native of Washington. He has served as editor of a small press focusing on the work of Washington poets for more than 30 years.
4) H.D. Marathon in Portland
Spare Room presents a marathon reading of H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
Saturday, January 12 7:00 pm -- ??
free admission 4932 NE 16th Avenue, Apartment A (just below Alberta)
Scheduled readers include: * David Abel * Sarah Bartlett * Joseph Bradshaw * Gale Czerski * Ashley Edwards * Laura Feldman * Endi Hartigan * Patrick Hartigan * Rodney Koeneke * Maryrose Larkin * Sam Lohmann * Chris Piuma * Dan Raphael * margareta waterman
Hear H.D.s booklength narrative poem Helen in Egypt (published in 1960) read aloud by a dozen or so Portland poets and writers. We'll also listen to a 1955 recording of H.D. reading excerpts from the text. Drop in for an hour or two at any point, or stay for the entire book. (Estimated duration of the reading is 4-6 hours.) Light snacks and beverages will be available.
5) Crispen Hellion Glover in Seattle Saturday at Broadway Performance Hall.
On JAN 12, Saturday at 7pm, for ONE NIGHT ONLY
WHAT IS IT? (Crispin Hellion Glover, USA, 2007, 35mm, 72 min)
ALL SCREENINGS AT BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL $17/NWFF members, $20/general
Crispin Hellion Glover returns with the second installment of a trilogy that began with WHAT IS IT?. Glover's latest film is another mind-bending foray into unexplored territory that will challenge expectations and defy conventions. Glover uses his visionary cinematic skills to bring to life the graphically explicit psychosexual fantasy world of a man shunned by women and society who lusts after intimacy, acceptance, and a full head of long hair. The beauty of Glover's direction lies in his ability to create an atmosphere that is strange and unsettling, sensual and erotic. All performances proceeded by Glover’s one-hour slide show, which consists of ten different stories dramatically narrated by Glover himself. The slides are from pages of books that he has reworked with original and transformed art. It is Fine, Everything is Fine will be screened Thursday, Friday and Sunday, with Glover in person Saturday for the What Is It? screening. http://www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/crispinglover.php
6) Poetry at ParkPlace starts its 2008 season this Wednesday, 7pm with featured poet Rebecca Meredith and an open mic. Park Place Books, Kirkland, WA.
Rebecca Meredith , Seattle poet, writer and psychotherapist, has had poetry published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including CALYX, Chrysanthemum, Pontoon Nine, Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range (Rose Alley Press), and Cascade Journal. She has been featured on KUOW’s “The Beat” and was first runner up in Seattle’s Bart Baxter Performance Poetry Competition. Her chapbook, Intergenerational Delta Blues, was published in 2006 by Pudding House Press.
7) Remembering Sylvester Pollet
Donna Gold has written a lovely tribute to Sylvester Pollet for the pages of his hometown newspaper, the Ellsworth American. His Backwoods Broadsides were remarkable.
http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12036&Itemid=185
8) One more WPA announcement - Cascade Journal Reading.
Cascade Journal Published
The Washington Poets Association is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of its new annual member journal, Cascade. Copies will soon be sent out to all WPA members. If you'd like to order additional
copies, look for the order form in each copy.
Cascade Launch Reading on February 9, 2008
The first of a series of readings featuring poets published in the first issue of Cascade will take place at the Bellevue Arts Museum at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2008. We invite all contributors to the journal (who have already been notified of being included) to come and read. If you can make it and are interested in reading, send an email to Jeremy Gaulke (jsgaulke@gmail.com) to let us know you're coming. We'll also have an open-mike reading, so everyone is welcome to come and celebrate the launch of Cascade.
Can't make it to Bellevue on February 9? We're planning a series of regional readings throughout February and March -- more details to come soon.
Cascade Launch Reading
Saturday, February 9, 2008
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Auditorium
Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, Washington
http://www.bellevuearts.org/
For a poem one letter at a time, see this cool link: http://www.horselesspress.com/stefans/i_know_index.htm
Back from Chicago for 5 days, but Ken Vandermark was amazing at the Hideout. Pic of my trip are on Facebook here. 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.
Please join me in keeping good thoughts for Marjorie Rommel whose Father David Baker died on Friday, two days after his 89th birthday. His funeral is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8 in the First United Methodist Church, 100 N Street Southeast, Auburn, at the intersection of N Street and East Main.
Happy New Year. 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
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