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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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New Bowering, new M.A. and Subtext at 13.

Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper

In this E-Fishwrapper, Kurdish Petition, new Bowering, Poems Around Greenlake, Writers in the Schools needed, Naropa Summer Program, Subtext Turns 13, A Night of Cheap Poet Winos at Hugo House & The Mighty Tieton.


1) Petition to Protest the Stoning of a Young Kurdish Woman.


To: Kurdistan Regional Government International Campaign against killings and stoning of women in Kurdistan

Condemn the brutal stoning to death of Doa - a young girl whose only crime was to fall in love ... petitiononline.com/kurdish/petition.html

2. George Bowering's U.S. Sonnets.


U.S. Sonnets - 30 poem chapbook by George Bowering from pooka press
printed in a numbered limited edition of 100 copies (the first 20 copies signed by George Bowering) $10.00 ; signed copies $15.00 - for fastest payments email paypal payment to editors@pookapress.ca or send cheque or money order to:

pooka press po box 2648 349 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6B 3W8

spread the word Warren Dean Fulton of pooka press


3) Your Poem Running Around Greenlake. (From A.K. Allin)


Dear Poets,

...I am organizing, now, "The Running Poets of Green Lake." As you know, The Green Lake pedestrian path is a 2.8 mile loop in the heart of Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood. It is wildly popular and thus a perfect place for poetry to go public. Participating runners will take a spin around the lake on Sunday 10 June 2007 while wearing poems written by local living poets.

I'd like "you" to participate.
1. Submit 1 short poem (max. 15 lines) to be printed on a cotton t-shirt
2. Include your name as you'd like it to appear
3. Include a short (5-10 line) bio to pass onto your runner
4. Send all info in the body of an e-mail to: mimiallin@gmail.com
5. Deadline: 5 June 2007!! That's soon.

100 shirts will be printed, each will have an RPGL logo on the front and a unique poem on the back. Artists retain all rights. If you are a runner or know runners who wish to participate, have them stop by on Sunday 10 June for a shirt (72nd & Aurora @ Green Lake).

I am dedicated to stewarding poetry to the masses via grass-roots methods, hand-to-hand gifting and instigations such as this. Thank you for your participation!

A. K. Allin
The Poetess at Green Lake
http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogspot.com

4) Writers in the Schools Needed.


This summer Writers in the Schools will be looking to hire several new writers-in-residence for next year's program. The job posting is attached. If you know of writers you think should apply, please encourage them to do
so. I would also greatly appreciate any forwarding, posting, or general talking-up of these openings. This is a good gig for the writer looking for a bit of extra income.

Let me know if you have any questions, and if you have any opportunities you want our writers to know about, send them on!

Thanks!

Rebecca Hoogs
Director of Education Seattle Arts & Lectures 105 S. Main St., Suite 201 Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 621-2230, ext. 18 www.lectures.org
rhoogs (at) lectures.org

5) Naropa Summer!


We're just a few weeks away from the start of our 33rd annual Summer Writing Program. We still have writing workshops open for enrollment every week and a very special Kerouac Festival Weekend celebrating 50 years of On the Road! For more information on this year’s SWP, plus our Kerouac extravaganza visit www.naropa.edu/swp 2007 Faculty Include: Anne Waldman, Wanda Coleman, Jerome Rothenberg, Shelley Jackson, Bernadette Mayer, Samuel R. Delany, C.S Giscombe, Daisy Zamora, Eileen Myles, Brian Evenson, Hettie Jones, Laird Hunt, Bill Berkson, Ken Mikolowski, Rebecca Brown, Peter Gizzi, Marjorie Welish, Clark Coolidge, Carla Harryman, Leslie Scalapino, Wang, Ping, Eleni Sikelianos, Jennifer Moxley, Myung Mi Kim, Mac Wellman, Heriberto Yépez, Sesshu Foster, Thomas Glave, Camille Roy, Mónica de la Torre and others...

6) Subtext at 13.

From Nico: hello,

I wanted to invite you all to our NEW digs. We are moving to the Chapel Performance Space at The Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford (4649 Sunnyside). To celebrate our 13th anniversary Subtext will be having previous readers return for a full evening of words. Readers books will be available, as will some food and drink. So please do keep this date in mind : June 6th, 7:30pm (Your friendly E-Fishwrapperer, Paul E. Nelson, M.A. will read for three minutes. - Ed.)
http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext//index.html

7) A Night of Cheap Poetry and Wine.

from the ground up presents "A Night of Cheap Wine and Poetry" at the RIchard Hugo House, 1634 11th in Seattle. Featured readers: Lyall Bush, Dana Elkun, Jennifer Jasper, Jourdan Keith, Paul E. Nelson, M.A., and JT Stewart. Hosted by Charla Grenz. Wine $1/glass. Open mic. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House. Cabaret - FREE - Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 7PM.

8) The Mighty Tieton!!!

I just got back from a visit to Walla Walla to see Charles Potts and Jeremy Gaulke and then hit Tieton, WA to meet with folks who have envisioned an Arts community in a small town NW of Yakima. This effort they call The Mighty Tieton. Touring the town and hearing Ed Marquand's vision for revitalizing the town through arts and artisan businesses, seeing Trimpin's raw materials sitting in the huge former fruit warehouse and discussing possibilities for the Literary Arts was quite exciting. An Artist Trust fundraiser, their first east of the Cascades, is happening on June 16th.

I was going to backpack to Glacier Basin, then St. Elmo's Pass, but didn't want to camp on snow, or go solo around a just flagged new trail, so bagged it, went car camping at Half Flats off 410 and hung out with Charles Potts and Jeremy Gaulke in Walla Walla. We did a morning hike at the South Fork of the Walla Walla River yesterday. What remarkable country it is there and what a great man Charles is. He's working hard on a new printing of Valga Krusa, of which Carl Rakosi said: Your chronicle takes me inside a Hippy mental ambiance. Next stop, tiny Tieton and then home back over 410 in the weirdest traffic jam ever. Some snowboarders had constructed a ramp made of snow to let their comrades fly over 410. I did not stop to see how/where they would land, but they were attracting a crowd as they shoveled snow shirtless.

Then, I get home and my diploma had arrived in the mail. My Masters is now official. I guess I am qualified to teach Word and the Internet.

I've two readings coming up in Seattle, June 6 at Subtext, June 7 at Hugo House. Subtext is 13, which is remarkable and makes them the longest-running literary series in the city. The most aesthetically ambitious, for sure. The Hugo House gig will have me reading a longer set than at Subtext, but they plan to remove all empty wine bottles quickly lest we re-enact the Binghamton caper.

Stay cool.

Paul E. Nelson, M.A.

Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
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Slaughter, WA 98002
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