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.

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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.