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Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper

In this E-Fishwrapper, two Organic Poetry workshops (one in the islands and one six weeks long), David Meltzer in Seattle, Red Sky Reunion features two fine Portland poets on Sunday, subtext, Cheap Poetry and Wine/Dead Poet’s Society, a review on Etheblbert Miller’s new memoir, and a FLASH workshop by Kathleen Alcalá, among other things I did not forget this time.

1) Organic Poetry Workshops
facilitated by Paul Nelson:
Saturday, April 4, 2009, 1-4PM, San Juan Island Library. 1010 Guard St., Friday Harbor. Free!
The Personal Mythology of Organic Poetry
6 week course starts Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at the Richard Hugo House 1634 11th.

To what do you train your attention? Organic Poetry is one way to describe the process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment, to make composition an occasion of experience. This entertaining workshop for serious writers of all levels of experience includes lively discussions and sound from interviews with poets McClure, Myles, Rothenberg, Ginsberg, Waldman. Through a series of intensifying creative writing exercises over the six week course, you will develop an understanding of your own personal mythology and write at that deeper level of consciousness. Register via the Hugo House now: http://hugohouseservices.org/home/Class/DisplayClass.aspx?ClassID=218

2) The Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series continues Sunday, April 5, at the Richard Hugo House. 2 Poetland poets are featured, Dan Raphael and David Abel. Suggested donation $5. Thanks to the Hugo House for donation of the space. Signup 6:30, open mic 7P. The last Red Sky reunion until October.

3) David Meltzer is facilitating a workshop in Seattle, BUT ONLY IF THERE ARE TEN SIGNUPS BEFORE FRIDAY! David (born February 17, 1937) is an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians.” Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960.
Two-Way Mirror with David Meltzer: Using Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook as a central text, David Meltzer will consider the rich, often unexplored territories of the genealogy of our poetic tradition, which encompasses the concept of “Before and After Writing.” This workshop will investigate both the voice fixed on the page and the voice freed from the page, as well as the triumph of language to remain unknowable. Meltzer writes, “The poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication. It illuminates and conceals. It is as precise and as vague as a mirror.” Students are welcome, immediately after class, to the Hugo House Cabaret for an open mic. To register: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55226

4) SUBTEXT READING - Danny SNELSON and Christopher DeLAURENTI
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 APRIL 1, 2009
TICKETS: Donations accepted at the door.
WHY ATTEND? BECAUSE CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI IS A NEW MUSIC RABBLE ROUSER AND SHOULD BE INTERESTING AT LEAST.

5) From Amanda Earl at Angel House Press in CA:
AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca, a celebration of the nation of poetry. Each day during the month of April, a new poem will be published on the site.

Poetry is a land of risk, play, meditation, provocation and delight. It cannot be contained within borders and should not be restricted by boundaries of any kind.

Through the month of April, you will find poems that explore boundaries and break through barriers: narrative, lyrical, visual, sound. The writers of these poems come from the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and the United States. This is only the first year of an annual project that will include varieties of poetry from all over the world.

Ideally the poems will inspire more poetry, will serve to continue the conversation that poetry creates, a conversation that is not limited by time, place, form, age, gender, sexual orientation, political orientation, religion or financial constraints. The site is free and all of the poets have graciously given their poems without payment in any type of currency except your reading pleasure.

Please visit www.nationalpoetrymonth.ca each day in April.

The League of Canadian Poets celebrates the month with readings across Canada and a daily poetry site: http://lcpnationalpoetrymonth2009.wordpress.com/

Let's celebrate poetry together.

Amanda Earl

6) From Brian McGuigan, one of the hardest working men in Seattle Po Business
Dear Friends:

I'm writing to let you know about several great readings I'll be participating in during National Poetry Month as well as make a request of you:

1) "Hill Poems" Reading and Release Party on Thursday, April 2, 7 p.m.
at Hugo House, is an anthology of poetry about Capitol Hill put together
by two friends of mine, Nicole Lowman and Steve Barker. Come,
listen to some poems about the ever-changing Hill and have a few beers
with me at the Hugo bar…

2) "Dead Poets Society" on Thursday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. at Hugo House
The reading will feature T.S. Eliot (played by the Jeremy Richards),
Langston Hughes (played by Hugo writer-in-residence Storme Webber),
Getrude Stein (played by Felicia Gonzalez), Sylvia Plath (played by
Kate Lebo, co-organizer of the event) and Charles Bukowski (played by
me (Who freaking else!))…as Bukowski, I promise dirty drunkenness and possibly beer-tossing. I know my compatriots will all be bringing their A-games as their respective poets too. I hope you'll come see the show.

3) "Cheap Wine and Poetry" on Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m. at Hugo House
Now here's one of those "other events" I was just talking about:
"Cheap Wine and Poetry," the best of the bunch. This month features
all-poets; the coochie-fied Christa Bell, the sharp and funny Peter
Pereira, the lovely Judith Roche and the truth-spitter Matt Gano. As
always, hosted by Charla Grenz, the event is free and the wine is
$1/glass.

7) Ethelbert Miller:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/JonettaRoseBarras/A-poets-confession-42089168-42187612.html


I know this man, I assert, picking up E. Ethelbert Miller’s new memoir, “The 5th Inning” (PM Press/Busboys and Poets), released earlier this month. I have known him since I first arrived in the District wearing a wild Afro hairstyle and an attitude to match.

But after reading the book, I realize the fallacy about the breadth of my knowledge. Everyone has secrets, deep and personal, aggressively protected from others’ discovery. And then, there is the soul, a shy, intensely private creature.

8) Los Norteños Flash Workshop
Los Norteños Flash Workshop #1: Memoir
Saturday, May 9, 1-3 pm.
Raven Chronicles Office
Warren Building
909 N.E. 43rd St., #205
(Corner of 43rd St. and Roosevelt, 3-storied Green Building),
Seattle, WA 98105
Author Kathleen Alcalá will offer a two hour workshop on all prose forms. Writers are encouraged to write in English, Spanish or both. For this workshop, we will concentrate on memoir and testimonios. Memoir can be personal memoir, family memoir, or history with an emphasis on the individual. Testimonio is bearing witness and addresses writing as social activism – what can we change through our writing? Bring paper and pens, or laptop, and be prepared to contribute to the whole. The workshop will cost $20 for paid members of Los Norteños (annual dues are $20, payable that day), or $25 for nonmembers. We need a minimum of five people, and can accommodate up to ten. If there is sufficient interest, we will offer two or three workshops a year in various forms. This workshop will be held in the University District at the offices of The Raven Chronicles, upstairs from Jack Straw Audio Productions. If interested, or if you have questions, please contact Kathleen at kalcala@earthlink.net or 206-780-0756.

9) WPA Spring Festival at Hugo House
Around the World in Poetry: A Translation Experiment
Saturday 25 April
10am – 10pm
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House
On Saturday, 25 April 2009, the WPA brings its annual Spring Poetry Festival to Hugo House in Seattle, with a full day of workshops by Sam Green, David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Andrea Lingenfelter - workshops in literary translation and in thinking about poetry as a translation of the everyday, working from our experiences, journals and from the mysterious. Followed by a participatory, main-stage event, showcasing poetry in multiple languages and a multi-genre translation experiment, mixing poetry, performance, dance, sound and floral arts. Don’t miss this experiment! Pre-register for workshops online at Brown Paper Tickets or by calling (206) 225-6555. The main-stage event begins at 8pm. Cost is $10 at the door. All are welcome to attend a very special, pre-show reading & panel discussion on translation moderated by literary journalist Dave Jarecki and a special reading by Beat Poets David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg at 7pm. The pre-show, at 7pm in the Hugo House Theatre, is included in your ticket cost. Please join us! BROWN PAPER TICKETS - EVENT # 55226

I have a friend wanting to sell a letter press. If you, or someone you know is interested, please let me know. It comes with all the trimmings and needs a loving home. Like me, it is waiting for Spring and it’s almost April? Will there be golf this year? Did anyone ever hear the woodfrogs? Where can I get a bailout? Now that Obama has been in power 67 days, why isn’t everything fixed? Who are the Brain Police? When will all these questions stop?

Global Voices Radio continues to evolve and look for some cool things to happen in the Fall. Hey, my Slaughter book is scheduled to come out in May, so there will be some readings for it this summer and fall. Hope to see you.

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xoxo President Postcard.

Paul E. Nelson

Global Voices Radio
SPLAB!
American Sentences
Organic Poetry
Poetry Postcard Blog

Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328

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, two Organic Poetry workshops (one a benefit and one six weeks long), book release party for Marion Kimes, Red Sky Reunion features two fine Portland poets on Sunday, April 5, festival on Whidbey Island, NEA vision, WPA Spring Poetry Festival and a memorial to one of the darkest chapters in US history…

1) Organic Poetry Workshops
facilitated by Paul Nelson:
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 1-4PM, a benefit for the Subud House 1101 15th Avenue, Seattle . Suggested Donation—$25. Poets of all levels of writing are welcome. To register, email pen@splab.org.

The Personal Mythology of Organic Poetry
6 week course starts Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at the Richard Hugo House 1634 11th.

To what do you train your attention? Organic Poetry is one way to describe the process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment, to make composition an occasion of experience. This entertaining workshop for serious writers of all levels of experience includes lively discussions and sound from interviews with poets McClure, Myles, Rothenberg, Ginsberg, Waldman. Through a series of intensifying creative writing exercises over the six week course, you will develop an understanding of your own personal mythology and write at that deeper level of consciousness. Register via the Hugo House now.

2) The Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series continues Sunday, April 5, at the Richard Hugo House. 2 Poetland poets are featured, Dan Raphael and David Abel. Suggested donation $5. Thanks to the Hugo House for donation of the space.

3) Marion Kimes book release party (from Margareta W.)
come celebrate with us
sunday march 29 2009
all day from 2:00 PM
1619 E. JOHN, #111

Marion Kimes has been a flaming light for poets and poetry in seattle now for nearly 30 years. we who have heard the voice she reads with over time and time know what she is about and love her dearly. now from her whole body of work she has collected poems, read to many audiences, but never before in books, 173 pages worth. making clearly visible the central flame through the miscellaneous directions of her attention.

4) Brave New Words – Greenbank Farm, Whidbey Island
Saturday, April 18, 2009
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
All-Day, All-Event Tickets
Only $15 for Adults, $5 for Students!
Suheir Hammad
Def Poetry Jam Tony Award Winner
http://www.suheirhammad.com/
http://www.thescreamonline.com/poetry/poetry2-1/hammad/

Colleen McElroy, others.

5) From Kaurab:
Dear Reader
We are excited to announce that Kaurab is distributing some really interesting books of poetry & poetics.
Each month we will announce a fresh set of books for you to look at.

Our MARCH 09 title is “chaturangik/SQUARES”, a very unusual book of collaborative poetry by Aryanil
Mukherjee and American poet Pat Clifford. To read more about this book or to order it please visit the links below -

http://kaurab.tripod.com/aryanil/chaturangik-english.html
http://www.kaurab.com/books/

Please note, all proceeds from this book will be donated to the school for tribal children at Bhalopahar.

Many of you have ordered books from us in the recent past. We are sorry we have not been able to reach you all. The Kolkata Bookfair kept us busy. We will soon respond to all of you who have ordered books.

Staff, KAURAB
www.kaurab.com

6) SEE THE VOICE:
Visible Verse 2009 Call For Entries

Pacific Cinémathèque and curator Heather Haley are seeking videopoem submissions from around the world for the annual Visible Verse screening and performance poetry celebration. SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse is North America's sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant poetry video and film. Send, at your own risk, videopoems and poetry films/preview copies (which cannot be returned) in DVD NTSC format to: VISIBLE VERSE c/o Pacific Cinémathèque, 200--1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2L7, Canada. Selected artists will be notified and receive a standard screening fee. For more information contact Heather Haley at: hshaley@emspace.com

7) A vision for the NEA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-baitz/the-future-of-the-nationa_b_170834.html
Were I to throw my hat in the ring as culture czar/NEA head, I would start with the following:
I would attempt to pass legislation on a special tax dedicated to the NEA for all artists who make over half a million dollars a year from their work.
I would create a new version of the Federal Arts Project of the 1930s and '40s, which would also be funded by this surtax from the artists who have succeeded.
I would attempt to create a superfund from private donations from all studios or Apple, for instance, in order to replenish the coffers. That money would go to school arts programs, which have been slashed for years…

8) Happy Birthday, Fred Anderson
Posted: 15 Mar 2009 07:56 PM PDT
Fred Anderson, tenor saxophonist, is one of America's less-acknowledged Jazz Masters, a man of deep musicality who has had enormous influence on three generations of players and listeners drawn by his brawny, free-wheeling Chicago sound. He turns 80 on March...
http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2009/03/happy_birthday_fred_anderson.html


9) Two links from Nashira Priester:
http://www.americanviolet.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgdCfTXrl8

10) WPA Spring Festival at Hugo House
Around the World in Poetry: A Translation Experiment
Saturday 25 April
10am – 10pm
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House
On Saturday, 25 April 2009, the WPA brings its annual Spring Poetry Festival to Hugo House in Seattle, with a full day of workshops by Sam Green, David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Andrea Lingenfelter - workshops in literary translation and in thinking about poetry as a translation of the everyday, working from our experiences, journals and from the mysterious. Followed by a participatory, main-stage event, showcasing poetry in multiple languages and a multi-genre translation experiment, mixing poetry, performance, dance, sound and floral arts. Don’t miss this experiment! Pre-register for workshops online at Brown Paper Tickets or by calling (206) 225-6555. The main-stage event begins at 8pm. Cost is $10 at the door. All are welcome to attend a very special, pre-show reading & panel discussion on translation moderated by literary journalist Dave Jarecki and a special reading by Beat Poets David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg at 7pm. The pre-show, at 7pm in the Hugo House Theatre, is included in your ticket cost. Please join us! BROWN PAPER TICKETS - EVENT # 55226

11) Event: Groundbreaking Ceremony - Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial
"67th Anniversary of the first Japanese Americans sent to internment camps in World War II"
What: Ceremony
Host: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial Committee
Start Time: Monday, March 30 at 10:00am
End Time: Monday, March 30 at 11:00am
Where: West end of Pritchard Park

It was an intense experience going to Baltimore, where I left in 1985. The first stop on my RADIO ROULETTE WHEEL, I understood how much I missed my family and how amazing life can be if you are open to new possibilities. Great to check in with old WGRX co-worker Michael Butscher and GREAT to check in with my publisher, Gregg Wilhelm at Apprentice House. The Slaughter book is set for a May release, more details when I get them.

Bus Boys & Poets is a thriving literary arts/community activism center in DC, with a collection of shoes to throw at W next time he rears his ugly rear in that town. Too funny! Almondina has many photos of the trip, the best of which are kept here: http://meredithpaulspics.shutterfly.com/47
Finally, we’re working on a Latino Poetry Festival to happen at the end of Summer in Mt. Vernon. Want to help? Email pen@splab.org
Hey! 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 or 888.735.6328

SPLAB!, along with the Richard Hugo House and Poets & Writers is proud to announce more dates in the Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion series. A tribute to the late Irene Drennan, with Esther Helfgott, Priscilla Long, Denise Calvetti-Michaels, Anne Sweet and Diane Westergaard, tonight at 7P, 6:30 signup. Emcee - Marion Kimes. 1634 11th St, Seattle. Plan on bringing one poem or two short ones, depending on open mic signup.

Download pdf flyer here: http://splab.org/Reunion_Flyer3-2.pdf

The last Red Sky Reunion event in this season features Portland poets Dan Raphael and David Abel on April 5.

http://www.splab.org for more info...