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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

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