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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.
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Paul E. Nelson

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