For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
SPLAB!
C. City, WA98118
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Investigative Poetry class at Hugo House, Creole Celebration tomorrow (Sunday) in C City, Talon Books Fred Wah Party, Red Sky returns, Pacific Rim Review of Books, Kerouac Film, something new from Nico & Seattle Bookfest 4 weeks away.
From the Hugo House: On Saturday, October 17, (yep, only one afternoon this time) try Investigative Poetry with that wily Splabman, Paul Nelson. You’ll look at some postmodern examples of history in verse form, do some writing exercises, then spend a good hunk of the time working on a poem that includes history. http://www.hugohouseservices.org/home/Class/DisplayClass.aspx?CatalogID=12
Louisiana Creole Celebration @ Rainier Valley Cultural Center, Alaska & Rainier Av S, Sunday, September 27, 5 – 10pm
Presented by NW Zydeco Music and Dance Association
5:00pm - BAYOU BLAST playing French Creole and Zydeco tunes from the Bayou.
6:00pm - MARDI GRAS LINE/PARADE with beads music and more.
6:30pm - Free samples of outrageous gumbo from the KING CREOLE Restaurant and gumbo-making demonstration.
7:30pm - Sample Louisiana culture through face painting, Rub board playing, All about Accordions workshop, and Zydeco dancing downstairs.
Talonbooks Poetry Event: Fred Wah and Friends
The success of our (Talon Books) summer poetry event has inspired us to host an even bigger poetry event this month. The amazing line-up of poets features Fred Wah plus Daphne Marlatt, Colin Browne, Jeff Derksen, Roy Miki, and George Bowering, who will emcee the event.
Fred Wah and Friends
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Upstairs at the ANZA Club (3 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver)
www.talonbooks.com
Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion
"Always Open Mic"
What: Performance
Start Time: Sunday, October 4 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, October 4 at 10:00pm
Where: Hugo House
Featuring: Featuring select Jack Straw Writers Anna Balint, Priscilla Long, and Michael Magee.
The next of the Pacific Rim Review of Books is going to press and should be ready for printing by Thursday, October 1st. This issue will also be available in pdf format at http://www.prrb.ca soon afterwards.
Here are some of the contents of issue 12:
“‘The Holy Curse of Poetry: On Jack Gilbert”: The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert Reviewed by David Day
What Is Canadian Literature? By Mike Doyle
“Evolving the Organic: Duncan, Levertov, Olson”: The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Robert Bertholf & Albert Gelpi, eds. Reviewed by Paul Nelson
“On the Road in the Middle Kingdom”: Zen Baggage by Bill Porter, Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
“Writing the ‘Life’ in Writing”: Choose: Selected Poems by Michael Rothenberg, Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, Reviewed by Linda Rogers
“The Oosumich of Open Form: Writing as Vision Quest” By Paul Nelson
Unnecessary talking: the Montesano Stories by Mike O’Connor, Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
Hello from KEROUAC FILMS!
Here is an update regarding the distribution of One Fast Move Or I'm Gone:Kerouac's Big Sur.
As some of you may know already, we produced a feature-length documentary and a 12 cut soundtrack album about Jack Kerouac's novel "Big Sur". The documentary features notable people including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Dar Williams, Aram Saroyan, Sam Shepard and 25 more. The song lyrics on the soundtrack album were written by Jay Farrar by using Kerouac's prose from the book. Performing with Jay on this album is Ben Gibbard.
We recently signed a distribution agreement with Atlantic Records to distribute both the film and album worldwide.
So now is your chance to see the film and listen to the music. The film will be shown theatrically in 40 cities in United States on October 20th which is also the release date of the film. The film will also premiere in Los Angeles and New York City on October 15th. There will be other screenings in various venues that we will be sure to let you know about.
The music album will also be released on October 20th and a 4 city concert tour will begin on October 23rd. http://www.kerouacfilms.com/
From Nico V:
notes on staring
...
http://wordforword.info/vol15/Vassilakis.htm
Seattle Bookfest: October 24 & 25
Remember the old Northwest Bookfestival on the waterfront? Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood is bringing it back October 24-25 at the Columbia City Event Center, a former school that's one block from the new Columbia City light rail station.
The resurrected fair will feature more than 70 local authors, including poets and writers of fiction, nonfiction, mystery, romance, fantasy, and children's books. In addition, the fair will showcase over 50 area bookstores, nonprofits, and small but influential publishers as exhibitors. http://www.seattlebookfest.com/authors.php
Sunday’s panel at 1PM on the poetry stage will be Is Seattle Hostile to Innovative Writing? Panelists include Sam Hamill, Judith Roche, J.W. Marshall, John Olson and Sarah Mangold. Emcee, your humble Splabman. By the way, the SPLAB! booth needs volunteers to pass out bookmarks and help spread the news about SPLAB!’s move from Auburn to C. City (finally!) Call 206.422.5002 if you can volunteer.
Yes, SPLAB! is coming back. Details are being ironed out, BUT, we’ll have Living Room – a writer’s critique circle every Tuesday night in downtown Columbia City and we’re working on a 2009/2010 schedule. If you want the details, call me. For all those smart asses who axe if I ever go backpacking after my LOST episode, well, yeah. I hiked to Appleton Pass & back and had three days, two nights in the beautiful Olympics with bell-shaped wild blueberries warmed by September afternoon sun. You should try it sometime. There will be some changes to this org coming soon. Meantime, Mer & I are in Seattle and would love to get caught up with you if you want the info on SPLAB!
Blessings.
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xoxo President Postcard.
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Wednesday, June 03, 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, Fifteen years of Subtext, John Olson review, June at Open Books, Red Sky Reunion dates, Gary Snyder on KUOW, ICL rental space and the ramblings of a man about to see his daughter graduate high school.
1) Subtext is 15 this year and it is a remarkable accomplishment. It has become internationally known for its commitment for avant garde poetics and I have been blessed to see many remarkable readers there, including Barrett Watten, Anselm Hollo, Lissa Wolsak, Fred Wah, George Bowering and many more, as well as local poets Nico Vassilakis, Robert Mittenthal, C.E. Putnam, Daniel Comiskey, John and Roberta Olson, Willie Smith and many, many more. I last did a feature there about 9 years ago and have been attending the readings as often as I could make the 60 mile round trip drive since they were at the old Speakeasy Café before the fire.
So, tonight, with Kansas poet Jim McCrary, I return for a feature. I had been hoping the Slaughter book would be out, but will be reading poems from that and a couple of new poems from a current project. It’s at the Good Shepard Center at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N in Wallingford, in the Chapel, a remarkable place for a performance and folks gather at 7:30.
http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/
2) Speaking of one of those Subtext folks, one of the brightest and more creative poets in town is John Olson. See a review of a recent John Olson interview here:
http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/05/john-olson-poetics.html
With this excerpt, comparing his poems: . . . to clouds. The philosopher Karl Popper once said, ‘life is not a clock, it is a cloud.’ Clocks are predictable: mechanical, orderly, and rational. Clouds are capricious. Their being is circumstantial. Clouds are the products of multiple events: temperature, humidity, wind direction, altitude. No two clouds will ever be alike. It is the same with experience. Experience is always interactive. The prose poem is obviously the best vehicle for simulating life and consciousness as they are experienced.
3) June events at Open Books:
Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 PM, CHRIS FORHAN reads from his just published collection, "Black Leapt In"; he is joined by ALESSANDRA LYNCH, whose most recent book is "A Terrible Cloud at Twilight."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000359.html
Tuesday, June 16, at 7:30 PM, JOSHUA BECKMAN reads from "Take It."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000363.html
Thursday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, VICTORIA CHANG joins us to read from
"Salvinia Molesta."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000360.html
Sunday afternoon, June 28, at 3 PM, we'll be hosting A READING FOR THE BIRDS. Judith Kitchen, Duane Niatum, Rick Barot, Christianne Balk, Pamela Gross, and Stan Sanvel Rubin read from the anthology "A Poets Guide to the Birds." We'll be making a donation of at least 10% of sales to the Seattle Audubon Society to honor the day.
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000362.html
4) Red Sky Reunion series will continue Sunday, October 5 and into 2010, on Mondays, 7 - 10 pm: January 25th, February 22nd, March 22nd & April 19th.
5) Did you miss Gary Snyder on KUOW? I caught the last half, have downloaded the whole thing, but have not yet heard Gary READ A POEM! (Did he?) http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17633
6) ICL Rental Space
The Institute for Community Leadership seeks your assistance in passing the word along!
Planning a work gathering or special family event? The O’Dell Center now has rental facilities for weddings, family gatherings, business and spiritual retreats, workshops or classes. Facilities include meetings rooms, classrooms, kitchen, staging rooms, outdoor gazebos, meditation hut, walking paths, salmon bearing stream, welcoming totem, large meadow and Spiritwood Forest. Facilities uniquely feature the nature and diversity of the Pacific Northwest.
For more information, please see our website: http://www.odellcenter.org
7) Poets on Whidbey: Michael C. Ford & David Ossman
At the Rob Schouten Gallery
Saturday, June 13
7:00 PM, Free.
Michael C. Ford and David Ossman met in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, fellow poets in a city not then known as a community of writers and artists. In the forty years since, they have both received Grammy nominations (for Spoken Word) and Ford¹s Emergency Exits was honored with a 1998 Pulitzer nomination. Ossman has gone on to perform and broadcast his work in many venues, including "All Things Considered" on NPR.
Surprisingly, the two poets have never shared the same evening, until now. Their joint reading begins at 7:00 PM on Saturday, June 13 at the Rob Schouten Gallery at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
The Rob Schouten Gallery is located on Whidbey Island at Greenbank Farm at 765 Wonn Rd. C-103, Greenbank, WA. For more information call 222-3070 or email info@robschoutengallery.com
8) Pub Crawl in Burien?
I want to let everyone know about an event some friends of mine are organizing:
Summer Poetry Pub Crawl 2009 - Sat June 13th at 6:45 pm in Burien
Poets, Performance Artists, Friends and many others will bring poetry to the streets of Burien Washington as we eat and drink, read poetry and then drink some more!
Poets and friends will descend upon the Burien Neighborhood and visit up to 10 pubs in a 6 block vicinity. Dress up (like your favorite real or imagined poet…"look it's Emily Dickinson, Ann Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Bill Shakespeare, Chuck Bukowski, the Unknown Poet!") and bring poems to recite to the crowd. A few guitar pickers and singers may join us as well.
We will bring POETRY to the PUB people of Burien on Saturday June 13th!!
[Details online at: http://www.meetup.com/seattlesingles/calendar/10512107/]
RR graduates in 11 days and can then demand my car FULL TIME! ARGH! As you know, she’ll be attending Northwestern in Evanston, IL to study Journalism and graduate in four years to resume her Starbucks career. NO! That’s a Joke, son. Perhaps the financial model of journalism will be sorted out and we won’t have as much INFOTAINMENT as now. Lawd have Mercy!
So. we’re preparing for that fiesta and a visit by Ma & Pop, which should be good entertainment for the first few hours.
Oh, check out my latest Hugo Class offering, four nights in July with lots of writing:
http://www.hugohouse.org/news/#107
and remember Write-O-Rama at HH this Saturday.
Ciao,
xoxo President Postcard.
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Ilalqo, WA98002
http://splabman.blogspot.com/
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Fifteen years of Subtext, John Olson review, June at Open Books, Red Sky Reunion dates, Gary Snyder on KUOW, ICL rental space and the ramblings of a man about to see his daughter graduate high school.
1) Subtext is 15 this year and it is a remarkable accomplishment. It has become internationally known for its commitment for avant garde poetics and I have been blessed to see many remarkable readers there, including Barrett Watten, Anselm Hollo, Lissa Wolsak, Fred Wah, George Bowering and many more, as well as local poets Nico Vassilakis, Robert Mittenthal, C.E. Putnam, Daniel Comiskey, John and Roberta Olson, Willie Smith and many, many more. I last did a feature there about 9 years ago and have been attending the readings as often as I could make the 60 mile round trip drive since they were at the old Speakeasy Café before the fire.
So, tonight, with Kansas poet Jim McCrary, I return for a feature. I had been hoping the Slaughter book would be out, but will be reading poems from that and a couple of new poems from a current project. It’s at the Good Shepard Center at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N in Wallingford, in the Chapel, a remarkable place for a performance and folks gather at 7:30.
http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/
2) Speaking of one of those Subtext folks, one of the brightest and more creative poets in town is John Olson. See a review of a recent John Olson interview here:
http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/05/john-olson-poetics.html
With this excerpt, comparing his poems: . . . to clouds. The philosopher Karl Popper once said, ‘life is not a clock, it is a cloud.’ Clocks are predictable: mechanical, orderly, and rational. Clouds are capricious. Their being is circumstantial. Clouds are the products of multiple events: temperature, humidity, wind direction, altitude. No two clouds will ever be alike. It is the same with experience. Experience is always interactive. The prose poem is obviously the best vehicle for simulating life and consciousness as they are experienced.
3) June events at Open Books:
Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 PM, CHRIS FORHAN reads from his just published collection, "Black Leapt In"; he is joined by ALESSANDRA LYNCH, whose most recent book is "A Terrible Cloud at Twilight."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000359.html
Tuesday, June 16, at 7:30 PM, JOSHUA BECKMAN reads from "Take It."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000363.html
Thursday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, VICTORIA CHANG joins us to read from
"Salvinia Molesta."
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000360.html
Sunday afternoon, June 28, at 3 PM, we'll be hosting A READING FOR THE BIRDS. Judith Kitchen, Duane Niatum, Rick Barot, Christianne Balk, Pamela Gross, and Stan Sanvel Rubin read from the anthology "A Poets Guide to the Birds." We'll be making a donation of at least 10% of sales to the Seattle Audubon Society to honor the day.
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000362.html
4) Red Sky Reunion series will continue Sunday, October 5 and into 2010, on Mondays, 7 - 10 pm: January 25th, February 22nd, March 22nd & April 19th.
5) Did you miss Gary Snyder on KUOW? I caught the last half, have downloaded the whole thing, but have not yet heard Gary READ A POEM! (Did he?) http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17633
6) ICL Rental Space
The Institute for Community Leadership seeks your assistance in passing the word along!
Planning a work gathering or special family event? The O’Dell Center now has rental facilities for weddings, family gatherings, business and spiritual retreats, workshops or classes. Facilities include meetings rooms, classrooms, kitchen, staging rooms, outdoor gazebos, meditation hut, walking paths, salmon bearing stream, welcoming totem, large meadow and Spiritwood Forest. Facilities uniquely feature the nature and diversity of the Pacific Northwest.
For more information, please see our website: http://www.odellcenter.org
7) Poets on Whidbey: Michael C. Ford & David Ossman
At the Rob Schouten Gallery
Saturday, June 13
7:00 PM, Free.
Michael C. Ford and David Ossman met in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, fellow poets in a city not then known as a community of writers and artists. In the forty years since, they have both received Grammy nominations (for Spoken Word) and Ford¹s Emergency Exits was honored with a 1998 Pulitzer nomination. Ossman has gone on to perform and broadcast his work in many venues, including "All Things Considered" on NPR.
Surprisingly, the two poets have never shared the same evening, until now. Their joint reading begins at 7:00 PM on Saturday, June 13 at the Rob Schouten Gallery at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
The Rob Schouten Gallery is located on Whidbey Island at Greenbank Farm at 765 Wonn Rd. C-103, Greenbank, WA. For more information call 222-3070 or email info@robschoutengallery.com
8) Pub Crawl in Burien?
I want to let everyone know about an event some friends of mine are organizing:
Summer Poetry Pub Crawl 2009 - Sat June 13th at 6:45 pm in Burien
Poets, Performance Artists, Friends and many others will bring poetry to the streets of Burien Washington as we eat and drink, read poetry and then drink some more!
Poets and friends will descend upon the Burien Neighborhood and visit up to 10 pubs in a 6 block vicinity. Dress up (like your favorite real or imagined poet…"look it's Emily Dickinson, Ann Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Bill Shakespeare, Chuck Bukowski, the Unknown Poet!") and bring poems to recite to the crowd. A few guitar pickers and singers may join us as well.
We will bring POETRY to the PUB people of Burien on Saturday June 13th!!
[Details online at: http://www.meetup.com/seattlesingles/calendar/10512107/]
RR graduates in 11 days and can then demand my car FULL TIME! ARGH! As you know, she’ll be attending Northwestern in Evanston, IL to study Journalism and graduate in four years to resume her Starbucks career. NO! That’s a Joke, son. Perhaps the financial model of journalism will be sorted out and we won’t have as much INFOTAINMENT as now. Lawd have Mercy!
So. we’re preparing for that fiesta and a visit by Ma & Pop, which should be good entertainment for the first few hours.
Oh, check out my latest Hugo Class offering, four nights in July with lots of writing:
http://www.hugohouse.org/news/#107
and remember Write-O-Rama at HH this Saturday.
Ciao,
xoxo President Postcard.
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