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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)
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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.

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