Late May Wrapper
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, signup for Hugo House classes, Subtext next Wednesday, In Tahoma’s Shadow reading this Thursday, also Cheap Wine & Poetry, Write-O-Rama next Saturday, Andrew Schelling’s new book Old Tale Road and his Post-Coyote Poetics essay and Sonya Sotomayor!
1) Hugo House opened registration for its summer classes today! May I suggest:
Keeping Your Hand (Foot, Spleen) In It: Poetry Writing Exercises
Finding time to write in this chaotic era can be challenging, but by experiencing a variety of writing methods (postcards, American Sentences) we’ll have more possibilities of finding that one project that defines us as a person/poet. Charles Olson, Jose Kozer, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Pablo Neruda, Ed Sanders and Lorine Niedecker are among the poets whose work or methods we’ll examine or use as examples. Participants will leave the course with at least 10 new poems.
Instructor: Paul Nelson
Meets: Thursday, July 09, 2009 - Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Register: http://hugohouseservices.org/home/Class/DisplayClass.aspx?CatalogID=11
2) Subtext: Wednesday, June 3, 2009,
Jim McCrary & Paul Nelson @ 7:30 p.m.
http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com
You know the warm-up act, awaiting the publication of his first book o pomes. The headliner: “has lived in and around and off and on Lawrence, Kansas for 40 years. His book All That (the collected chapbooks) is recently available from Many Penny Press. Publications include limited editions of the following titles: Hotter than and now; Holbox; My Book and Being Frida Kahlo, and Mayaland.
McCrary studied under David Bromige at California State University-Sonoma. Four earlier books of poetry include: Coon Creek (Cottonwood Books, 1970), Edible Pets, (Tansy Books, 1987), West of Mass (Tansy Books, 1991). He is editor of Smelt Money, and has received a Phoenix Award.”
While Subtexting, note: Thursday May 28 - 7 pm
at Seattle Public Library (downtown)
C.E. Putnam & Daniel Comiskey
plus Peter Culley.
3) In Tahoma's Shadow: Poems from the City of Destiny
Thursday, May 28 7:00p to 9:00p
at Tacoma Public Library: Tacoma Public Library Main Branch, Olympic Room, Tacoma, WA
Thursday, May 28 @ 7 p.m.
Olympic Room, Main Library.
1102 Tacoma Avenue South
Published by Exquisite Disarray, this anthology features the work of approximately 75 poets - established and previously unpublished - from throughout Pierce County. The reading features poets included in the new anthology. featuring, Michael McGee, Jean Musser, Josie Turner, Connie Walle, Paul Nelson & others. The book is pretty cool.
4) Cheap Wine & Poetry
“Cheap Wine and Poetry” rings in summer with a bang Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m. at
Richard Hugo House with poets Larry Crist and Storme Webber, novelist
Stacey Levine and performer Ilvs Strauss. As always, the funky Charla
Grenz hosts, and the wine is a buck per glass. Open mic follows the
features, if the wine doesn’t end your night sooner.
Hope we’ll see you there.
The “Cheap Wine and Poetry” Crew
www.cheapwineandpoetry.com
5) Write-O-Rama:
Write-O-Rama is a full day of more than 40 one-hour workshops offered by HH creative writing teachers to anyone who wants to write. To sustain you as you write we supply you with free food and drink, two open mics and a wrap party following the last session. You will come away with new writing, make new friends, sample Hugo House classes and find fresh inspiration.
How does it work?
Write-O-Rama is a benefit for Hugo House. Participants must raise at least $45 through pledges. If 100 people raise $100 each, fireworks will ensue--let's be clear about that. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. and the first workshops start at 10 a.m. The wrap party begins at 5 p.m., right after the last sessions of the day.
http://www.hugohouse.org/giving/writeorama
6) Andrew Schelling’s new book Old Tale Road is remarkable, a book whose end fills you with a bit of melancholy, who’s turns surprise you, whose inspirations are Buddhist, Native American and Bioregionalist thought and whose Haibun may be the best ever in American. See his excellent essay on Post-Coyote Poetics here:
http://jacketmagazine.com/36/schelling-seventies.shtml
and buy his new book here: http://www.amazon.com/Old-Tale-Road-Andrew-Schelling/dp/1929355475/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243366356&sr=1-10 or at Open Books. Really.
7) Kudos to 44 for nominating the perfect person to be Supreme Court Justice, Sonya Sotomayor. Let’s see the racist demons expose themselves with her nomination!
My days in Slaughter/Ilalqo are numbered as my daughter reminds me less than 20 to her graduation from Auburn High. Despite being a kid who takes off on Senior Skip Day, as I did 30 years ago on National Cut Day, her GPA is a little more than twice mine and is headed to Northwestern U in Evanston, IL to study Journalism. It shall be reinvented within her four years to something much more credible than the info-tainment it has been for the last 25.
So, our plans continue to point toward re-opening SPLAB! in Seattle and we’ll need volunteers and Board Members of the parent org Global Voices Radio. We are creating some exciting plans for that effort and would love your expert help.
Blessings.
Hey! Want off this email list? Just ask.
xoxo President Postcard.
P.S. the postcard website is still down for the time being, but if you want to participate, send me an email and I can send you the current perennial postcard addresses.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
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, Robin Blaser’s passing, lots of Hugo House events and an announcement re: their new Director, Andrew Schelling TONIGHT in Port Townsend (with the Hood Canal Bridge closed for repairs until 6.12,) a Black Earth Institute reading, WITS opportunity for writing teachers and In Tahoma’s Shadow readings in Tacoma.
1) Since our last E-Fishwrapper, we were informed that Robin Blaser died. One of the most remarkable men I have ever met, I was fortunate enough to have been granted the last interview he ever gave, which Lou Rowan was kind enough to edit and shape into something quite useful. Lou published it in the Golden Handcuffs Review: http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/gh9content/16.html
Charles Bernstein wrote this about Robin:
“…Blaser’s work constitutes a fundamental part of the fabric of the North American poetry and poetics of “interrogation,” to use his term. Compared to his most immediate contemporaries, Blaser has pursued a different, distinctly refractory, willfully diffuse, course that has led him to be circumspect about publication. As a result, it was almost 40 years from his first poems to the time when The Holy Forest began to emerge as one of the key poetic works of the present. Indeed, Blaser’s lyric collage (what he calls “the art of combinations” in a poem of that title, alluding to Leibnitz) seems today to be remarkably fresh, even while his engagement with (I don’t say commitment to) turbulence and turbulent thought seems ever more pressingly exemplary. Blaser’s work seems to me more a part of the future of poetry than the past…” http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/
and there is this: http://damnthecaesars.blogspot.com/2009/05/robin-blaser-1925-2009.html
and this:
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Kitsilano+poet+remembered+sense+humour/1583011/story.html
2) Empty Bowl Press and the Salal Cafe are pleased to announce a reading by the poet, essayist, and translator Andrew Schelling. The reading is scheduled for TONIGHT Friday the 15th at 7:00 pm at the Salal Cafe on Water Street.
Poet Andrew Schelling, a Zen practitioner and wilderness advocate, is the author or editor of sixteen books and numerous chapbooks. He is the preeminent translator into English of India’s early poetry from Sanskrit and related vernaculars, most of which is secular, erotic, and grounded in close observation of the natural world. His first book of translations, Dropping the Bow: Poems from Ancient India has just been released from White Pine Press in a revised edition. When the book came out in 1991 it received the Academy of American Poets translation award, the first volume of Asian poetry to receive that prestigious award. His own poetry is notable for its engagement with natural history, bioregional studies, and watershed issues. A book of poems, Old Tale Road, has just come out from Empty Bowl Press. Schelling lived in Northern California for most of the 1970s and ‘80s, active with poets in the Bay Area, where he co-edited one of the period’s defining publications, the poetics journal Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K.” He moved to Colorado’s Front Range in 1990 to join the faculty of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Other recent titles of his include a collection of essays, Wild Form, Savage Grammar, The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry, and Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry. He teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University and is a founding member of the arts faculty at Deer Park Institute.
3) Subtext: Wednesday, June 3, 2009,
Jim McCrary & Paul Nelson @ 7:30 p.m.
http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com
4) From Meredith A. Sedlachek:
…I can't believe it's been a year since the last Write-O-Rama event, where nearly $10,000 was raised to support the Richard Hugo House and its programs. Thanks to your generosity, I was the top fundraiser and won a free 6 week writing class!
I know the economy sucks and times are even tougher than they were a year ago, but I hope you will consider donating again this year to a worthy cause. Every little bit helps. If you can afford $5 or $50, it all HELPS, AND it's tax-deductible! I will attend a marathon day of writing workshops on June 6, 2009, and all proceeds go to the Richard Hugo House.
The mission of Richard Hugo House is to support writers of all ages and backgrounds with the resources they need, to connect audiences to the world of writing and to promote the literary arts through the work of social justice. Hugo House nurtures writers and readers and brings innovative writing classes to people from every background.
It's EASY to donate, simply follow the link below and be sure to include MY NAME in the DEDICATION FIELD, so it counts toward my pledge total. DONATE ANYTIME BEFORE JUNE 5th!
THANK YOU!
DONATE NOW
For non-HTML e-mail:
http://partners.guidestar.org/controller/searchResults.gs?action_donateReport=1&partner=networkforgood&ein=91-1718383
5) Another Hugo House thing:
Keeping Your Hand (Foot, Spleen) In It: Poetry Writing Exercises
Finding time to write in this chaotic era can be challenging, but by experiencing a variety of writing methods (postcards, American Sentences) we’ll have more possibilities of finding that one project that defines us as a person/poet. Charles Olson, Jose Kozer, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Pablo Neruda, Ed Sanders and Lorine Niedecker are among the poets whose work or methods we’ll examine or use as examples. Participants will leave the course with at least 10 new poems.
Instructor: Paul Nelson
Meets: Thursday, July 09, 2009 - Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Min: 5 Max: 15
http://www.hugohouseservices.org/home/Class/DisplayClass.aspx?CatalogID=11
6) One last bit of Hugo House News:
Richard Hugo House Announces New Executive Director
Sue Joerger accepts position as head of the nation’s third largest literary center
SEATTLE – Richard Hugo House is pleased to announce that Sue Joerger has been hired as its executive director. In her new position, Joerger will bring significant nonprofit management and leadership experience to an organization that has gained national renown for its inventive programming over the last two years.
Joerger was most recently the executive director of the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit working to protect and preserve the Puget Sound. During her tenure, Joerger helped grow the organization—tripling the size of its budget and staff—and significantly raised its profile. Joerger has lived on her sailboat in waters of the Puget Sound, off and on, for the past ten years, where she enjoys writing poetry and playing drums. Her educational background includes a B.A. from Mills College and an M.S. from the University of Washington.
7) From Judith Roche:
EARTH’S ORACLES
A Reading by Fellows and Scholars of
THE BLACK EARTH INSTITUTE
Brenda Peterson
Judith Roche
Patricia Monaghan
7 pm Sunday, June 7
AT RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Black Earth Institute is a progressive think-tank for artists dedicated to re-forging the connections between spirituality, social justice and environment. Join us for readings by the featured writers and a spirited discussion of Black Earth’s goals and aims. www.blackearthinstitute.org
www.hugohouse.org
8) From Rebecca Hoogs:
Job Opportunities @ Writers in the Schools
WITS is looking for creative writers who are passionate about teaching the power and pleasure of writing to young people and who are excited to collaborate with public school teachers. Employment is contract and part-time. Writers-in-residence typically teach one day a week from September through June for a total of 84 direct teaching hours. A yearlong commitment is required. For more information about WITS, visit http://www.lectures.org
How to apply
Send the following via mail or email:
• Cover letter
• Teaching and artistic resume with 3 references
• 3-5 page creative writing sample in the genre you most like to teach
• 1 page describing three specific writing goals you might have for a residency
and two specific teaching exercises/lesson plans you would use to help students
achieve those goals. Please identify if the exercises are intended for elementary,
middle, or high school students.
Application materials are due by July 20, 2009 to Elizabeth@lectures.org. Feel free to apply in advance of the deadline, but be advised that we do not begin to review
applications until after the July 20 deadline. Applicants selected for interviews will be contacted in August.
9) In Tahoma’s Shadow, a new anthology of Tacoma area poets, is having the first two readings in a series to publicize the anthology:
First reading
Thursday, May 21 at 7 p.m.
King’s Books, 218 St. Helen’s Avenue, Tacoma
Featuring: Carl Palmer, Kevin Miller, Brendan McBreen, Emilie Rommel and others.
Then, a
Second reading
Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m.
Main Branch of the Tacoma Public Library
1102 Tacoma Avenue South, featuring, Michael McGee, Jean Musser, Josie Turner, Connie Walle, Paul Nelson & others. The book is pretty cool.
Finally Spring today, sheesh! The dogwoods and English Heather seemed to like all the rain, so I won’t complain…anymore…Hope to see you at one of the above events, especially Andrew Schelling tonight. Gotta drive around, but did the whole circuit last weekend (I-5 to Deception Pass, down to Keystone, then to PT, dinner with Sam on his 66th, then back down 101 to the former Slaughter.) Today, up 101 from down here. With my daughter’s graduation from Auburn High on June 14, Meredith and I will be looking to move to South Seattle as I am SICK of driving up & down I-5. Rebecca will be majoring in Journalism at Northwestern in September and my period of Slaughter will be coming to an end. Know a house for rent in Columbia City, or Othello? We want to be near the light rail line. Please support my reading at Subtext. This is an important series to me and I would love to see your smiling face in the crowd. Hell, I hope there’s a crowd! The Slaughter book won’t be published in time for that, but it looks like it’s set for sometime in the summer. Right before I move! HA! Come get me!
Once last thing, a proposal for another poetry class:
Investigative Poetry (4 Hour class)
“News is the first draft of history.” Pity if it turns out to be Fox News, eh? Well, don’t let those fuckers get the last word, do it yourself with a template from Ed Sanders, Joanne Kyger, Lorine Niedecker or Allen Ginsberg. We’ll look at some post-modern examples of history in verse form, do some writing exercises to warm us up, then spend a good hunk of the time working on a poem that includes history. Bring a book you’ve read (biographies are good,) a news story, or a whole file of stories on a subject along with an open mind.
Blessings.
Hey! Want off this email list? Just ask.
xoxo President Postcard.
P.S. the poetry postcard website is down for the time being, but if you want to participate, send me an email and I can send you the current perennial postcard addresses.
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Robin Blaser’s passing, lots of Hugo House events and an announcement re: their new Director, Andrew Schelling TONIGHT in Port Townsend (with the Hood Canal Bridge closed for repairs until 6.12,) a Black Earth Institute reading, WITS opportunity for writing teachers and In Tahoma’s Shadow readings in Tacoma.
1) Since our last E-Fishwrapper, we were informed that Robin Blaser died. One of the most remarkable men I have ever met, I was fortunate enough to have been granted the last interview he ever gave, which Lou Rowan was kind enough to edit and shape into something quite useful. Lou published it in the Golden Handcuffs Review: http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/gh9content/16.html
Charles Bernstein wrote this about Robin:
“…Blaser’s work constitutes a fundamental part of the fabric of the North American poetry and poetics of “interrogation,” to use his term. Compared to his most immediate contemporaries, Blaser has pursued a different, distinctly refractory, willfully diffuse, course that has led him to be circumspect about publication. As a result, it was almost 40 years from his first poems to the time when The Holy Forest began to emerge as one of the key poetic works of the present. Indeed, Blaser’s lyric collage (what he calls “the art of combinations” in a poem of that title, alluding to Leibnitz) seems today to be remarkably fresh, even while his engagement with (I don’t say commitment to) turbulence and turbulent thought seems ever more pressingly exemplary. Blaser’s work seems to me more a part of the future of poetry than the past…” http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/
and there is this: http://damnthecaesars.blogspot.com/2009/05/robin-blaser-1925-2009.html
and this:
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Kitsilano+poet+remembered+sense+humour/1583011/story.html
2) Empty Bowl Press and the Salal Cafe are pleased to announce a reading by the poet, essayist, and translator Andrew Schelling. The reading is scheduled for TONIGHT Friday the 15th at 7:00 pm at the Salal Cafe on Water Street.
Poet Andrew Schelling, a Zen practitioner and wilderness advocate, is the author or editor of sixteen books and numerous chapbooks. He is the preeminent translator into English of India’s early poetry from Sanskrit and related vernaculars, most of which is secular, erotic, and grounded in close observation of the natural world. His first book of translations, Dropping the Bow: Poems from Ancient India has just been released from White Pine Press in a revised edition. When the book came out in 1991 it received the Academy of American Poets translation award, the first volume of Asian poetry to receive that prestigious award. His own poetry is notable for its engagement with natural history, bioregional studies, and watershed issues. A book of poems, Old Tale Road, has just come out from Empty Bowl Press. Schelling lived in Northern California for most of the 1970s and ‘80s, active with poets in the Bay Area, where he co-edited one of the period’s defining publications, the poetics journal Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K.” He moved to Colorado’s Front Range in 1990 to join the faculty of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Other recent titles of his include a collection of essays, Wild Form, Savage Grammar, The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry, and Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry. He teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University and is a founding member of the arts faculty at Deer Park Institute.
3) Subtext: Wednesday, June 3, 2009,
Jim McCrary & Paul Nelson @ 7:30 p.m.
http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com
4) From Meredith A. Sedlachek:
…I can't believe it's been a year since the last Write-O-Rama event, where nearly $10,000 was raised to support the Richard Hugo House and its programs. Thanks to your generosity, I was the top fundraiser and won a free 6 week writing class!
I know the economy sucks and times are even tougher than they were a year ago, but I hope you will consider donating again this year to a worthy cause. Every little bit helps. If you can afford $5 or $50, it all HELPS, AND it's tax-deductible! I will attend a marathon day of writing workshops on June 6, 2009, and all proceeds go to the Richard Hugo House.
The mission of Richard Hugo House is to support writers of all ages and backgrounds with the resources they need, to connect audiences to the world of writing and to promote the literary arts through the work of social justice. Hugo House nurtures writers and readers and brings innovative writing classes to people from every background.
It's EASY to donate, simply follow the link below and be sure to include MY NAME in the DEDICATION FIELD, so it counts toward my pledge total. DONATE ANYTIME BEFORE JUNE 5th!
THANK YOU!
DONATE NOW
For non-HTML e-mail:
http://partners.guidestar.org/controller/searchResults.gs?action_donateReport=1&partner=networkforgood&ein=91-1718383
5) Another Hugo House thing:
Keeping Your Hand (Foot, Spleen) In It: Poetry Writing Exercises
Finding time to write in this chaotic era can be challenging, but by experiencing a variety of writing methods (postcards, American Sentences) we’ll have more possibilities of finding that one project that defines us as a person/poet. Charles Olson, Jose Kozer, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Pablo Neruda, Ed Sanders and Lorine Niedecker are among the poets whose work or methods we’ll examine or use as examples. Participants will leave the course with at least 10 new poems.
Instructor: Paul Nelson
Meets: Thursday, July 09, 2009 - Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Min: 5 Max: 15
http://www.hugohouseservices.org/home/Class/DisplayClass.aspx?CatalogID=11
6) One last bit of Hugo House News:
Richard Hugo House Announces New Executive Director
Sue Joerger accepts position as head of the nation’s third largest literary center
SEATTLE – Richard Hugo House is pleased to announce that Sue Joerger has been hired as its executive director. In her new position, Joerger will bring significant nonprofit management and leadership experience to an organization that has gained national renown for its inventive programming over the last two years.
Joerger was most recently the executive director of the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit working to protect and preserve the Puget Sound. During her tenure, Joerger helped grow the organization—tripling the size of its budget and staff—and significantly raised its profile. Joerger has lived on her sailboat in waters of the Puget Sound, off and on, for the past ten years, where she enjoys writing poetry and playing drums. Her educational background includes a B.A. from Mills College and an M.S. from the University of Washington.
7) From Judith Roche:
EARTH’S ORACLES
A Reading by Fellows and Scholars of
THE BLACK EARTH INSTITUTE
Brenda Peterson
Judith Roche
Patricia Monaghan
7 pm Sunday, June 7
AT RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Black Earth Institute is a progressive think-tank for artists dedicated to re-forging the connections between spirituality, social justice and environment. Join us for readings by the featured writers and a spirited discussion of Black Earth’s goals and aims. www.blackearthinstitute.org
www.hugohouse.org
8) From Rebecca Hoogs:
Job Opportunities @ Writers in the Schools
WITS is looking for creative writers who are passionate about teaching the power and pleasure of writing to young people and who are excited to collaborate with public school teachers. Employment is contract and part-time. Writers-in-residence typically teach one day a week from September through June for a total of 84 direct teaching hours. A yearlong commitment is required. For more information about WITS, visit http://www.lectures.org
How to apply
Send the following via mail or email:
• Cover letter
• Teaching and artistic resume with 3 references
• 3-5 page creative writing sample in the genre you most like to teach
• 1 page describing three specific writing goals you might have for a residency
and two specific teaching exercises/lesson plans you would use to help students
achieve those goals. Please identify if the exercises are intended for elementary,
middle, or high school students.
Application materials are due by July 20, 2009 to Elizabeth@lectures.org. Feel free to apply in advance of the deadline, but be advised that we do not begin to review
applications until after the July 20 deadline. Applicants selected for interviews will be contacted in August.
9) In Tahoma’s Shadow, a new anthology of Tacoma area poets, is having the first two readings in a series to publicize the anthology:
First reading
Thursday, May 21 at 7 p.m.
King’s Books, 218 St. Helen’s Avenue, Tacoma
Featuring: Carl Palmer, Kevin Miller, Brendan McBreen, Emilie Rommel and others.
Then, a
Second reading
Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m.
Main Branch of the Tacoma Public Library
1102 Tacoma Avenue South, featuring, Michael McGee, Jean Musser, Josie Turner, Connie Walle, Paul Nelson & others. The book is pretty cool.
Finally Spring today, sheesh! The dogwoods and English Heather seemed to like all the rain, so I won’t complain…anymore…Hope to see you at one of the above events, especially Andrew Schelling tonight. Gotta drive around, but did the whole circuit last weekend (I-5 to Deception Pass, down to Keystone, then to PT, dinner with Sam on his 66th, then back down 101 to the former Slaughter.) Today, up 101 from down here. With my daughter’s graduation from Auburn High on June 14, Meredith and I will be looking to move to South Seattle as I am SICK of driving up & down I-5. Rebecca will be majoring in Journalism at Northwestern in September and my period of Slaughter will be coming to an end. Know a house for rent in Columbia City, or Othello? We want to be near the light rail line. Please support my reading at Subtext. This is an important series to me and I would love to see your smiling face in the crowd. Hell, I hope there’s a crowd! The Slaughter book won’t be published in time for that, but it looks like it’s set for sometime in the summer. Right before I move! HA! Come get me!
Once last thing, a proposal for another poetry class:
Investigative Poetry (4 Hour class)
“News is the first draft of history.” Pity if it turns out to be Fox News, eh? Well, don’t let those fuckers get the last word, do it yourself with a template from Ed Sanders, Joanne Kyger, Lorine Niedecker or Allen Ginsberg. We’ll look at some post-modern examples of history in verse form, do some writing exercises to warm us up, then spend a good hunk of the time working on a poem that includes history. Bring a book you’ve read (biographies are good,) a news story, or a whole file of stories on a subject along with an open mind.
Blessings.
Hey! Want off this email list? Just ask.
xoxo President Postcard.
P.S. the poetry postcard website is down for the time being, but if you want to participate, send me an email and I can send you the current perennial postcard addresses.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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, three Poetry events tonight (WTF!), a new book from Nico V!, Naomi Shihab Nye, North Cascades Institute events, Vashon Poetry Fest, Open Books, how to make word clouds & other shit I just remembered to send.
Subtext TONIGHT: Wednesday, May 6, 2009,
BEVERLY DAHLEN & EZRA MARK @ 7:30 p.m.
Beverly Dahlen, a native of Portland, Oregon, has lived in San Francisco for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo’s Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie’s Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1—7, Momo’s Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared. Chax Press published A Reading 8—10 (1992); Potes and Poets Press: A Reading 11—17 (1989); Instance Press: A Reading 18—20 (2006). Chax Press also published the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets in 2004.
Ezra Mark writes between things. He is author of the prose work Intention, with Retention forthcoming. Current projects are Slow Motion (completing the arc of the previous two books) and Clairefontaine. He lives and works in Seattle.
Poetography
TONIGHT, Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Poets are often defined by their geographic region. A writer living in Minnesota is referred to as a Midwestern poet, and a Seattle writer is a poet of the Pacific Northwest. Does geographical pigeonholing have an impact on a poet's identification with her work or career? How do we determine whether these definitions of locality limit or expand our possibilities?
Poetography is meant to explore issues of regionalism, poetry and our shared similarity and difference. In this two-city event, presented in partnership with The Loft Literary Center and sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, poets Jim Moore, of Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Judith Roche, of Seattle, will read and discuss writing, locality and identity.
http://www.hugohouse.org/events/
From Felicia Gonzalez:
Dear Paul,
You may have seen that Seattle Arts & Lectures is presenting Naomi Shihab Nye. As you know, she's such a dynamic presence as well as staunch supporter of arts education. Naomi has graciously agreed to participate in a reception and dinner to help support our Writers in the Schools program which brings local writers/poets into 25 classrooms in three different districts. This is also a unique opportunity to gather with Nye and fans of poetry in the region.
TONIGHT: 6:00-7:30 p.m. Reception--$45
Mingle with Naomi Shihab Nye while enjoying
wine and hors d' oeuvres.
fgonzalez@lectures.org
http://www.lectures.org/poetry.html
From Christian Martin of the North Cascades Institute:
Got this, thought you might want to spread the word around. Also, based on our Beats on the Peaks crew's enthusiasm for last summer's Kerouac pilgrimage, we've developed a sort of Beats on the Peaks II program focused on Snyder and Sourdough Mtn -- featuring the fearless Jeff Muse and the wise Tim McNulty and a special Beat Expert from across the border:
http://www.ncascades.org/programs/seminars/course.html?workshop_id=980
We'd also love help getting the word out about our 11th Annual Writing Retreat, featuring 2 big-name nature writers and 2 local WA poets:
http://www.ncascades.org/programs/seminars/course.html?workshop_id=970
Oh yes, and do you know about this?:
http://www.ncascades.org/get_outside/events/snyder.html
We're gearing up for an exciting summer!
Best wishes,
Christian Martin
Communications Coordinator
From Open Books:
May Readers and Their Books
Tuesday, May 12th, at 7:30 PM CAROL LEVIN reads from "Red Rooms and
Others." http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000356.html
Thursday, May 28th, at 7:30 PM PETER LUDWIN reads from "A Guest in All
Your Houses" and MICHAEL SPENCE reads from "Crush Depth."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000357.html
CANCELLATION -- Sadly, Robyn Schiff, who was to read here on May 21st, will
not be coming to Seattle.
A Bit of What's New in the Store
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/thegoods/archives/2009_05.html
Coming up at Open Books in June
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/
From C.E. Putnam:
C.E. invited you to "Crawlspace: a reading by Daniel Comiskey and C.E. Putnam" on Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm.
Event: Crawlspace: a reading by Daniel Comiskey and C.E. Putnam
"It seems that more than one egg hatched! "
What: Performance
Host: Seattle Public Library
Start Time: Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm
End Time: Thursday, May 28 at 8:30pm
Where: Seattle Public Library - Central Library | Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
From Bernadette Mayer:
BERNADETTE MAYER & PHILIP GOOD invite you to participate in a weekend workshop on Experimental Poetics. Their home, once a synagogue in days of yore, is located in rural Upstate New York on the historic acreage between Kinderhook and Tsatsawassa creeks at the foothills of the Berkshires.
. . Exclusive weekend workshop sessions begin May 22 and continue throughout the summer months culminating on the weekend of Oct 10-12. The fee, which includes accommodations, as well as all meals & activities, is $400 (double reservation) or $225 (per person). Since each weekend session is limited to four participants, please RSVP well in-advance. Any inquiries may be sent to the contact information provided below. Guests arrive Friday afternoon and depart Sunday after lunch.
. . There will be writing assignments with plenty of time for casual conversation. Bernadette Mayer will discuss her Experiments List and encourage participants to expand their poetics to greater levels. The central focus in the workshop will be in-depth Investigations of Traditional Forms Made New. In addition, each participant will receive constructive feedback about their overall work through individual consultation; and all participants will be given an expansive list of reading recommendations. At the conclusion of the weekend the group will collate their new poems into a stapled poetry magazine.
To Reserve/Confirm availabilities, please email poetswksp@yahoo.com, or call(518) 794 - 0234.
Vashon Island Poetry Fest:
Contact: Devon Atkins, 206 353-9227
Many thanks.
Vashon Poetry Fest will celebrate a weekend of poets and poetry on Vashon Island, Thursday, May 21st through Monday, May 25th. This is no quiet little reading; with open mics, workshops, readings, and events, the Fest will be laced with plenty of food and drink, music, and fun. But, the real draw of the weekend will be the poetry with headliners Washington State Poet Laureate Samuel Green and award-winning Irish poet, Tony Curtis; mythologist, Michael Meade; and some of the best local and regional favorites. Both day and evening events are free or very reasonably priced “at the door.” An ideal getaway, relaxed and beautiful Vashon Island is easily reached by ferry (just minutes from Seattle, Tacoma, and the Kitsap Peninsula) and each venue will be just steps from the next in downtown Vashon. Check out info@vashonpoetryfest.com for information about this fun-filled, word-loving Memorial Day Weekend event, and call Stranger Than Fiction (206-408-7268), Vashon’s newest bookstore, to register for (limited seating) weekend workshops.
From Nico V, a New Book:
A new book of poems:
Disparate Magnets by Nico Vassilakis
BlazeVox Press, 2009
http://www.blazevox.org/bk-nv2.htm
Create your own word clouds, like I did with my Slaughter MS: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/817217/ATBS_II
http://www.wordle.net/
From Scott Howard:
Dear Contributors, Colleagues, and Friends of Reconfigurations,
I'm writing with our current call for work for Volume Three. See below, and also attached.
I hope you'll consider submitting something. Please share the CFW with others.
Best wishes,
Scott Howard
///
RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture
ISSN: 1938-3592,
http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/
Volume 3: Immanence / Imminence
Submissions: April thru August, 2009
Global Voices Radio continues to evolve and look for some cool things to happen in the Fall. Looks like we’re moving to Seattle and considering re-opening SPLAB! at some point. Want to help? Email your friendly neighborhood E-Fishwrapperer. Hey, my Slaughter book is scheduled to come out in summer now and I got some KILLER blurbs, so things move forward. Ham having a GAS in my latest Hugo House class. Hope you can do Write-O-Rama on June 6 and support their work. Blessings.
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
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, three Poetry events tonight (WTF!), a new book from Nico V!, Naomi Shihab Nye, North Cascades Institute events, Vashon Poetry Fest, Open Books, how to make word clouds & other shit I just remembered to send.
Subtext TONIGHT: Wednesday, May 6, 2009,
BEVERLY DAHLEN & EZRA MARK @ 7:30 p.m.
Beverly Dahlen, a native of Portland, Oregon, has lived in San Francisco for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo’s Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie’s Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1—7, Momo’s Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared. Chax Press published A Reading 8—10 (1992); Potes and Poets Press: A Reading 11—17 (1989); Instance Press: A Reading 18—20 (2006). Chax Press also published the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets in 2004.
Ezra Mark writes between things. He is author of the prose work Intention, with Retention forthcoming. Current projects are Slow Motion (completing the arc of the previous two books) and Clairefontaine. He lives and works in Seattle.
Poetography
TONIGHT, Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Poets are often defined by their geographic region. A writer living in Minnesota is referred to as a Midwestern poet, and a Seattle writer is a poet of the Pacific Northwest. Does geographical pigeonholing have an impact on a poet's identification with her work or career? How do we determine whether these definitions of locality limit or expand our possibilities?
Poetography is meant to explore issues of regionalism, poetry and our shared similarity and difference. In this two-city event, presented in partnership with The Loft Literary Center and sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, poets Jim Moore, of Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Judith Roche, of Seattle, will read and discuss writing, locality and identity.
http://www.hugohouse.org/events/
From Felicia Gonzalez:
Dear Paul,
You may have seen that Seattle Arts & Lectures is presenting Naomi Shihab Nye. As you know, she's such a dynamic presence as well as staunch supporter of arts education. Naomi has graciously agreed to participate in a reception and dinner to help support our Writers in the Schools program which brings local writers/poets into 25 classrooms in three different districts. This is also a unique opportunity to gather with Nye and fans of poetry in the region.
TONIGHT: 6:00-7:30 p.m. Reception--$45
Mingle with Naomi Shihab Nye while enjoying
wine and hors d' oeuvres.
fgonzalez@lectures.org
http://www.lectures.org/poetry.html
From Christian Martin of the North Cascades Institute:
Got this, thought you might want to spread the word around. Also, based on our Beats on the Peaks crew's enthusiasm for last summer's Kerouac pilgrimage, we've developed a sort of Beats on the Peaks II program focused on Snyder and Sourdough Mtn -- featuring the fearless Jeff Muse and the wise Tim McNulty and a special Beat Expert from across the border:
http://www.ncascades.org/programs/seminars/course.html?workshop_id=980
We'd also love help getting the word out about our 11th Annual Writing Retreat, featuring 2 big-name nature writers and 2 local WA poets:
http://www.ncascades.org/programs/seminars/course.html?workshop_id=970
Oh yes, and do you know about this?:
http://www.ncascades.org/get_outside/events/snyder.html
We're gearing up for an exciting summer!
Best wishes,
Christian Martin
Communications Coordinator
From Open Books:
May Readers and Their Books
Tuesday, May 12th, at 7:30 PM CAROL LEVIN reads from "Red Rooms and
Others." http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000356.html
Thursday, May 28th, at 7:30 PM PETER LUDWIN reads from "A Guest in All
Your Houses" and MICHAEL SPENCE reads from "Crush Depth."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000357.html
CANCELLATION -- Sadly, Robyn Schiff, who was to read here on May 21st, will
not be coming to Seattle.
A Bit of What's New in the Store
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/thegoods/archives/2009_05.html
Coming up at Open Books in June
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/
From C.E. Putnam:
C.E. invited you to "Crawlspace: a reading by Daniel Comiskey and C.E. Putnam" on Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm.
Event: Crawlspace: a reading by Daniel Comiskey and C.E. Putnam
"It seems that more than one egg hatched! "
What: Performance
Host: Seattle Public Library
Start Time: Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm
End Time: Thursday, May 28 at 8:30pm
Where: Seattle Public Library - Central Library | Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
From Bernadette Mayer:
BERNADETTE MAYER & PHILIP GOOD invite you to participate in a weekend workshop on Experimental Poetics. Their home, once a synagogue in days of yore, is located in rural Upstate New York on the historic acreage between Kinderhook and Tsatsawassa creeks at the foothills of the Berkshires.
. . Exclusive weekend workshop sessions begin May 22 and continue throughout the summer months culminating on the weekend of Oct 10-12. The fee, which includes accommodations, as well as all meals & activities, is $400 (double reservation) or $225 (per person). Since each weekend session is limited to four participants, please RSVP well in-advance. Any inquiries may be sent to the contact information provided below. Guests arrive Friday afternoon and depart Sunday after lunch.
. . There will be writing assignments with plenty of time for casual conversation. Bernadette Mayer will discuss her Experiments List and encourage participants to expand their poetics to greater levels. The central focus in the workshop will be in-depth Investigations of Traditional Forms Made New. In addition, each participant will receive constructive feedback about their overall work through individual consultation; and all participants will be given an expansive list of reading recommendations. At the conclusion of the weekend the group will collate their new poems into a stapled poetry magazine.
To Reserve/Confirm availabilities, please email poetswksp@yahoo.com, or call(518) 794 - 0234.
Vashon Island Poetry Fest:
Contact: Devon Atkins, 206 353-9227
Many thanks.
Vashon Poetry Fest will celebrate a weekend of poets and poetry on Vashon Island, Thursday, May 21st through Monday, May 25th. This is no quiet little reading; with open mics, workshops, readings, and events, the Fest will be laced with plenty of food and drink, music, and fun. But, the real draw of the weekend will be the poetry with headliners Washington State Poet Laureate Samuel Green and award-winning Irish poet, Tony Curtis; mythologist, Michael Meade; and some of the best local and regional favorites. Both day and evening events are free or very reasonably priced “at the door.” An ideal getaway, relaxed and beautiful Vashon Island is easily reached by ferry (just minutes from Seattle, Tacoma, and the Kitsap Peninsula) and each venue will be just steps from the next in downtown Vashon. Check out info@vashonpoetryfest.com for information about this fun-filled, word-loving Memorial Day Weekend event, and call Stranger Than Fiction (206-408-7268), Vashon’s newest bookstore, to register for (limited seating) weekend workshops.
From Nico V, a New Book:
A new book of poems:
Disparate Magnets by Nico Vassilakis
BlazeVox Press, 2009
http://www.blazevox.org/bk-nv2.htm
Create your own word clouds, like I did with my Slaughter MS: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/817217/ATBS_II
http://www.wordle.net/
From Scott Howard:
Dear Contributors, Colleagues, and Friends of Reconfigurations,
I'm writing with our current call for work for Volume Three. See below, and also attached.
I hope you'll consider submitting something. Please share the CFW with others.
Best wishes,
Scott Howard
///
RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture
ISSN: 1938-3592,
http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/
Volume 3: Immanence / Imminence
Submissions: April thru August, 2009
Global Voices Radio continues to evolve and look for some cool things to happen in the Fall. Looks like we’re moving to Seattle and considering re-opening SPLAB! at some point. Want to help? Email your friendly neighborhood E-Fishwrapperer. Hey, my Slaughter book is scheduled to come out in summer now and I got some KILLER blurbs, so things move forward. Ham having a GAS in my latest Hugo House class. Hope you can do Write-O-Rama on June 6 and support their work. Blessings.
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
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