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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.

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For Immediate Release
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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:

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

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