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Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
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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
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xoxo President Postcard.

Paul E. Nelson

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