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
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
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Monday, May 28, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV was a HUGE success, 4 Million Iraq Refugees so far, Nu Quang's New Blog, UBU Web, Open Books and more.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 was a remarkable event. For the third year in a row attendance was up, with over 400 people, the event was organized better than ever, the headliners delivered BIG TIME and we made sure the weather did not interfere like in 2006.
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye had poems written in the voice of George Bush as letters she'd like to see him write. Letters written to Iraqi children who have lost limbs and must make sacrifices to bring Democracy to your country. It was quite touching. She is a first-class lady as well and we hope she'll be back someday.
George Bowering, the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, read work from his new book published by Talon, Vermeer's Light. Among them poems with him as The Answer Man. He was witty and professional and his poems written to his wife Jean were at once funny and moving. I loved his Friday workshop also. Danika Dinsmore's workshop had poets wandering like sheep, silently looking for images. Baaaaaaaaa! Christopher Luna had poems to his goddesses and one about how you can tell when you are REALLY poor. (When another poet makes you his charity case.) Christopher also facilitated a workshop, as did Tyrone Williams. Tyrone's covered Michael Palmer, among other innovators. Stephen Roxborough had a poem which electrified the Main Stage audience, with its refrain When Will We Wake Up? There were many other highlights as well and kudos go to the intelligent audiences AND all the Whidbey Island folks who stepped up as hosts. Gracias. This event is quickly becoming the premier annual West Coast poetry festival.
2) Nu Quang's New Blog
After living under Communist rule in Vietnam for almost a decade, Nu Quang came to the U.S. alone in 1985. In seven years, she transformed herself from a high-school dropout in Vietnam to a holder of an MFA in English and creative writing in America. Her new, weekly, online journal A Jade Lotus is the playwright/writer/poet's take on culture, religion, writing, and immigration.
3) AFSC Symposium on Iraqi Refugees
More than 4,000,000 Iraqis have been displaced by the war and occupation. Two million have fled the country with 50,000 Iraqis leaving each month.
Join AFSC in drawing attention to a growing, and vulnerable, population of Iraqis - the refugees and internally displaced people. Join us for a symposium on Iraqi refugees on May 19 in Philadelphia.
4) Zappa's Cartoonist May 12 at 6P.
We'd like to invite you down to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00 PM for our presentation of "The
Idiosyncratic Cinema of Bruce Bickford." You may know his work from
Frank Zappa's classic "Baby Snakes" film. If you haven't seen
Bickford's amazing clay animations, you're in for a real treat. The
reclusive animator doesn't get out much, so this is a rare
opportunity. The evening will be hosted by Jim Woodring, and Bruce
will discuss his work after the screening of four shorts - one of
which has never been seen. Free admission, as always. Spread the word.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located in Seattle's lively
Georgetown arts community at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.).
We're open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM (Sunday until 5:00 PM). See you all
soon.
5) David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg at Open Books:
OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Tuesday 5/8 at 7:30 PM DAVID MELTZER & MICHAEL ROTHENBERG
Tuesday 5/15 at 7:30 PM MARY SZYBIST
Tuesday 5/22 at 7:30 PM C. DALE YOUNG
Thursday 5/31 at 7:30 PM JEAN-PAUL PECQUER
Thursday 6/14 at 7:30 PM MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER
Open Books: A Poem Emporium / 2414 North 45th Street / Seattle, Washington 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com / www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday - Thursday, 12 - 6
Friday & Saturday, 12 - 7
First Sunday of the month, 12 - 4
6) New on Ubuweb.
UbuWeb Featured Resources:
May 2007
Selected by Adalaide Morris
1. Billie Whitelaw, "Not I" (1973)
http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett.html
2. Jonas Mekas - Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
http://www.ubu.com/film/mekas.html
3 Agnes Varda - Black Panthers, Huey! (1968)
http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html
4. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side B" (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/cage_john/cage_sun_ra/Cage-John_and_Ra-Sun_02.mp3
5. Henri Chopin - Le Ventre de Bertini, Audio-poème (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/chopin_henri/Chopin-Henri_Le-Ventre-de-Bertini.mp3
6. Philip Glass - Score of "1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top."
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen8/onePlusOne.html
7. Christian Bök - Eunoia, Chapter u
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia/Bok-Christian_Eunoia_06-Chapter-U.mp3
8a. Cecil Taylor - Chinampas 1987 (MP3)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/taylor.html
8b. Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor's Chinampas
http://www.ubu.com/papers/moten.html
9. Peter Greenaway - Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)
http://www.ubu.com/film/monk.html
10. Gregory Whitehead, "What Words Want"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-What_Words_Want_1984.mp3
Well, it was one hella party at Burning Word IV. (A poetry IV, now THERE'S an idea. Mainlining verse.) Who should feature NEXT year, besides YOU?
Looks like the Binghamton saga is coming in for a landing. I finished the paperwork and sent it in yesterday. Thank you if you helped solve that wicky sticket. (You know who you are, eh?)
I am sorry this Fishwrapper is late. My new job really gets in the way of my work. Who knew? OK, my Doc Prep tasks are waiting.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV was a HUGE success, 4 Million Iraq Refugees so far, Nu Quang's New Blog, UBU Web, Open Books and more.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 was a remarkable event. For the third year in a row attendance was up, with over 400 people, the event was organized better than ever, the headliners delivered BIG TIME and we made sure the weather did not interfere like in 2006.
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye had poems written in the voice of George Bush as letters she'd like to see him write. Letters written to Iraqi children who have lost limbs and must make sacrifices to bring Democracy to your country. It was quite touching. She is a first-class lady as well and we hope she'll be back someday.
George Bowering, the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, read work from his new book published by Talon, Vermeer's Light. Among them poems with him as The Answer Man. He was witty and professional and his poems written to his wife Jean were at once funny and moving. I loved his Friday workshop also. Danika Dinsmore's workshop had poets wandering like sheep, silently looking for images. Baaaaaaaaa! Christopher Luna had poems to his goddesses and one about how you can tell when you are REALLY poor. (When another poet makes you his charity case.) Christopher also facilitated a workshop, as did Tyrone Williams. Tyrone's covered Michael Palmer, among other innovators. Stephen Roxborough had a poem which electrified the Main Stage audience, with its refrain When Will We Wake Up? There were many other highlights as well and kudos go to the intelligent audiences AND all the Whidbey Island folks who stepped up as hosts. Gracias. This event is quickly becoming the premier annual West Coast poetry festival.
2) Nu Quang's New Blog
After living under Communist rule in Vietnam for almost a decade, Nu Quang came to the U.S. alone in 1985. In seven years, she transformed herself from a high-school dropout in Vietnam to a holder of an MFA in English and creative writing in America. Her new, weekly, online journal A Jade Lotus is the playwright/writer/poet's take on culture, religion, writing, and immigration.
3) AFSC Symposium on Iraqi Refugees
More than 4,000,000 Iraqis have been displaced by the war and occupation. Two million have fled the country with 50,000 Iraqis leaving each month.
Join AFSC in drawing attention to a growing, and vulnerable, population of Iraqis - the refugees and internally displaced people. Join us for a symposium on Iraqi refugees on May 19 in Philadelphia.
4) Zappa's Cartoonist May 12 at 6P.
We'd like to invite you down to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00 PM for our presentation of "The
Idiosyncratic Cinema of Bruce Bickford." You may know his work from
Frank Zappa's classic "Baby Snakes" film. If you haven't seen
Bickford's amazing clay animations, you're in for a real treat. The
reclusive animator doesn't get out much, so this is a rare
opportunity. The evening will be hosted by Jim Woodring, and Bruce
will discuss his work after the screening of four shorts - one of
which has never been seen. Free admission, as always. Spread the word.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located in Seattle's lively
Georgetown arts community at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.).
We're open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM (Sunday until 5:00 PM). See you all
soon.
5) David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg at Open Books:
OPEN BOOKS SHORT-FORM CALENDAR
Tuesday 5/8 at 7:30 PM DAVID MELTZER & MICHAEL ROTHENBERG
Tuesday 5/15 at 7:30 PM MARY SZYBIST
Tuesday 5/22 at 7:30 PM C. DALE YOUNG
Thursday 5/31 at 7:30 PM JEAN-PAUL PECQUER
Thursday 6/14 at 7:30 PM MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER
Open Books: A Poem Emporium / 2414 North 45th Street / Seattle, Washington 98103 / (206) 633-0811
store@openpoetrybooks.com / www.openpoetrybooks.com
Tuesday - Thursday, 12 - 6
Friday & Saturday, 12 - 7
First Sunday of the month, 12 - 4
6) New on Ubuweb.
UbuWeb Featured Resources:
May 2007
Selected by Adalaide Morris
1. Billie Whitelaw, "Not I" (1973)
http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett.html
2. Jonas Mekas - Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
http://www.ubu.com/film/mekas.html
3 Agnes Varda - Black Panthers, Huey! (1968)
http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html
4. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side B" (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/cage_john/cage_sun_ra/Cage-John_and_Ra-Sun_02.mp3
5. Henri Chopin - Le Ventre de Bertini, Audio-poème (MP3)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/chopin_henri/Chopin-Henri_Le-Ventre-de-Bertini.mp3
6. Philip Glass - Score of "1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top."
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen8/onePlusOne.html
7. Christian Bök - Eunoia, Chapter u
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia/Bok-Christian_Eunoia_06-Chapter-U.mp3
8a. Cecil Taylor - Chinampas 1987 (MP3)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/taylor.html
8b. Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor's Chinampas
http://www.ubu.com/papers/moten.html
9. Peter Greenaway - Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)
http://www.ubu.com/film/monk.html
10. Gregory Whitehead, "What Words Want"
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Whitehead/Gregory_Whitehead-What_Words_Want_1984.mp3
Well, it was one hella party at Burning Word IV. (A poetry IV, now THERE'S an idea. Mainlining verse.) Who should feature NEXT year, besides YOU?
Looks like the Binghamton saga is coming in for a landing. I finished the paperwork and sent it in yesterday. Thank you if you helped solve that wicky sticket. (You know who you are, eh?)
I am sorry this Fishwrapper is late. My new job really gets in the way of my work. Who knew? OK, my Doc Prep tasks are waiting.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Burning Word IV 4.28.07
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV is Saturday, African-American Film Festival through the weekend, WA gets a Poet Laureate, Writers go Hollywood.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 is taking place this Saturday, April 28 from 9 AM to 7 PM at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island you will know you have to be there!
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a "wandering poet." She has spent 33 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. She is the author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress), and numerous other honors.
George Bowering is a major Canadian literary figure and one of the most prolific writers in the country: over 70 books published to date not including editions he has edited or contributed to. Two-time winner of the Governor General¹s Award, his most recent collection of poetry, Changing on the Fly, was also short-listed for the Griffin Prize for Poetry. In November 2002 he was appointed the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same month he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. He is a respected poet, novelist, essayist, critic, teacher, historian and editor.
Jack Prelutsky has been making words rhyme for over 35 years. In 1967 he published his first book of humorous verse, A Gopher in the Garden. Since then, he has gone on to produce over 50 books of poetry. A resident of Seattle, Prelutsky was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation this year, and will receive The Washington Poet Association¹s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Burning Word Festival.
Workshops: Inviting the Muse - Judith Roche, Make-Believe Ball Room - Michael C. Ford, Walking and Talking Poetics - Danika Dinsmore, and others.
Readers: Jourdan Keith, J.W. Marshall, David Rizzi, Terry Martin, Clemens Starck, C.E. Putnam, Charles Potts, Howard Robertson, Molly Tenenbaum, Los Nortenos: Jose Carrillo Carmen Carrion Raul Sanchez, Shin Yu Pai, Michael C. Ford, Judith Roche, Tyrone Williams & many others...
2) Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival.
April 21-27.
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is just around the corner and this years festival marks the most ambitious collection of films yet! A remarkable festival suitable to a remarkable culture, you really should get to the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center this week.
This years festival provides a bountiful array of 45 (and counting) narratives, documentaries, shorts, animated films and a host of filmmaker talk-backs, special workshops and activities highlighting films by and about black folk from around the world and in our own backyard. Highlights include a 'revolutionary' Opening Night with Sam Greenlee which was awesome, and a special family-friendly closing night featuring a Black Cowboy demonstration. Check out the schedule
3) Washington State Poet Laureate
It’s official!
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed Substitute House Bill 1279, the long-awaited legislation that creates the position of Washington State
Poet Laureate. The signing makes Washington the 41st state to have such a post.
“It’s about time,” exclaimed Karen Bonaudi, who, with WPA secretary Ed Stover, co-chaired the WPA committee that has worked for months with
the state Arts Commission and Humanities Washington, a nonprofit, to steer the bill through the legislative process.
Bonaudi, a former WPA president, has seen that process falter at least four times in the past 10 years. “We could never get it passed out of
commmittee before--the interest just wasn’t there.”
Not so this year, and certainly not on Thursday, April 19, at about 1:30 p.m. when Bonaudi, Stover, Kris Tucker of the Arts Commission,
Karen Munro of Humanities Washington, and a host of others were ushered into the Governor’s Conference Room for the big moment.
“Everybody who comes in has to have a poem for me,” joked Gregoire as the group filed in. Now who will be the first P.L.? Any suggestions???
4) Weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide
Hi - I'm David and I'd like to share an opportunity with you
and your group as we are reaching out to like minded groups
inclusive of beginners and pros. I am the Artistic Director of
Riprap Studio Theatre in North Hollywood, California and I co-
produce a weekly television broadcast - RIPRAP ENTERTAINMENT TV
with Sandra Nutt (the owner / operator of Riprap Studio
Theatre). We are reaching out to colleges and students and
groups like yours to invite you and your group to submit; or
just watch and learn and take part in our evolution.
Our weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide.
It's designed to find the next great stage play to mount at our
theatre in North Hollywood, CA and we would love to share the
opportunity with your group. It's free and will always be free
since our inception in 1999.
We accept stage plays, screenplays, novels, short stories,
teleplays and musicals for discussion, critique, feedback
and/or award. Sandra, the owner adapted her screenplay for the
stage and HBO requested the original script.
We would like to expose novice and veteran writers to the same
opportunity - that is our concept - for those who might not
otherwise have a chance in Hollywood. No promises, just a fun
show designed to entertain and educate the public about the
writing process, while providing a valuable opportunity.
We have a segment called SCRIPT ANALYSIS wherein we read,
discuss, critique new works for consideration for possible
production on our stage in North Hollywood. We recently added
RIPRAP UNIVERSITY tutorials - also free and I notice you are
writing a book chapter by chapter, our first endeavor is to
write a screenplay three pages at a time on video on our web
site. Perhaps that will be valuable to you and your members as
well.
I'll keep the email short, but if you think you or your members
would be interested in this opportunity, please distribute our
flyer to your members and email me with ANY questions that you
may have.
We also post segments of our broadcast on our web site every
week after the show and you can see them at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/
FLYER is at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/invitation.pdf
Thank you very much for your time Mike and best of luck and
continued success in your group and endeavors.
Kind regards,
David L. Stewart, Artistic Director
Riprap Studio Theatre & Riprap Entertainment TV
5755 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Tel: (818) 990-7498
davidls2004@yahoo.com
6) Nico Vassilakis'ssss new You Tube po vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iyBIQDihFM
from Harry Mathews' story "The Way Home"
OK, I have to get back to work, yes, work. You heard me right. For the first time since the 1st Bush Administration, I have a full-time job teaching Vocational Ed (word,e xcel, etc.) to students at the Muckleshoot Tribal College. 8 miles from my house. This means good things for my financial picture and FINALLY will publish A Time Before Slaughter, hopefully by the Fall. Thanks to all for your blessings of contributions, moral support and/or bail money. HA! Also, my masters thesis is complete and on-line at http://www.Organicpoetry.org as individual essays. Thanks to Judith Roche, David Thomson, Judith Cohen, Amalio Madueno, Sam Hamill, Debra Van Tuinen, Paul E. Nelson I, George Bowering, Robin Blaser, Michael McClure and all who helped make the masters happen. I graduate on May 20 from Lesley University. I can recommend their Independent Study Program.
See you at Burning Word.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Burning Word IV is Saturday, African-American Film Festival through the weekend, WA gets a Poet Laureate, Writers go Hollywood.
1) Burning Word Festival Saturday at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island.
WPA's Burning Word 4 is taking place this Saturday, April 28 from 9 AM to 7 PM at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island you will know you have to be there!
Headliners:
Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a "wandering poet." She has spent 33 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. She is the author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress), and numerous other honors.
George Bowering is a major Canadian literary figure and one of the most prolific writers in the country: over 70 books published to date not including editions he has edited or contributed to. Two-time winner of the Governor General¹s Award, his most recent collection of poetry, Changing on the Fly, was also short-listed for the Griffin Prize for Poetry. In November 2002 he was appointed the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same month he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. He is a respected poet, novelist, essayist, critic, teacher, historian and editor.
Jack Prelutsky has been making words rhyme for over 35 years. In 1967 he published his first book of humorous verse, A Gopher in the Garden. Since then, he has gone on to produce over 50 books of poetry. A resident of Seattle, Prelutsky was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation this year, and will receive The Washington Poet Association¹s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Burning Word Festival.
Workshops: Inviting the Muse - Judith Roche, Make-Believe Ball Room - Michael C. Ford, Walking and Talking Poetics - Danika Dinsmore, and others.
Readers: Jourdan Keith, J.W. Marshall, David Rizzi, Terry Martin, Clemens Starck, C.E. Putnam, Charles Potts, Howard Robertson, Molly Tenenbaum, Los Nortenos: Jose Carrillo Carmen Carrion Raul Sanchez, Shin Yu Pai, Michael C. Ford, Judith Roche, Tyrone Williams & many others...
2) Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival.
April 21-27.
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is just around the corner and this years festival marks the most ambitious collection of films yet! A remarkable festival suitable to a remarkable culture, you really should get to the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center this week.
This years festival provides a bountiful array of 45 (and counting) narratives, documentaries, shorts, animated films and a host of filmmaker talk-backs, special workshops and activities highlighting films by and about black folk from around the world and in our own backyard. Highlights include a 'revolutionary' Opening Night with Sam Greenlee which was awesome, and a special family-friendly closing night featuring a Black Cowboy demonstration. Check out the schedule
3) Washington State Poet Laureate
It’s official!
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed Substitute House Bill 1279, the long-awaited legislation that creates the position of Washington State
Poet Laureate. The signing makes Washington the 41st state to have such a post.
“It’s about time,” exclaimed Karen Bonaudi, who, with WPA secretary Ed Stover, co-chaired the WPA committee that has worked for months with
the state Arts Commission and Humanities Washington, a nonprofit, to steer the bill through the legislative process.
Bonaudi, a former WPA president, has seen that process falter at least four times in the past 10 years. “We could never get it passed out of
commmittee before--the interest just wasn’t there.”
Not so this year, and certainly not on Thursday, April 19, at about 1:30 p.m. when Bonaudi, Stover, Kris Tucker of the Arts Commission,
Karen Munro of Humanities Washington, and a host of others were ushered into the Governor’s Conference Room for the big moment.
“Everybody who comes in has to have a poem for me,” joked Gregoire as the group filed in. Now who will be the first P.L.? Any suggestions???
4) Weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide
Hi - I'm David and I'd like to share an opportunity with you
and your group as we are reaching out to like minded groups
inclusive of beginners and pros. I am the Artistic Director of
Riprap Studio Theatre in North Hollywood, California and I co-
produce a weekly television broadcast - RIPRAP ENTERTAINMENT TV
with Sandra Nutt (the owner / operator of Riprap Studio
Theatre). We are reaching out to colleges and students and
groups like yours to invite you and your group to submit; or
just watch and learn and take part in our evolution.
Our weekly televised broadcast promotes writers world-wide.
It's designed to find the next great stage play to mount at our
theatre in North Hollywood, CA and we would love to share the
opportunity with your group. It's free and will always be free
since our inception in 1999.
We accept stage plays, screenplays, novels, short stories,
teleplays and musicals for discussion, critique, feedback
and/or award. Sandra, the owner adapted her screenplay for the
stage and HBO requested the original script.
We would like to expose novice and veteran writers to the same
opportunity - that is our concept - for those who might not
otherwise have a chance in Hollywood. No promises, just a fun
show designed to entertain and educate the public about the
writing process, while providing a valuable opportunity.
We have a segment called SCRIPT ANALYSIS wherein we read,
discuss, critique new works for consideration for possible
production on our stage in North Hollywood. We recently added
RIPRAP UNIVERSITY tutorials - also free and I notice you are
writing a book chapter by chapter, our first endeavor is to
write a screenplay three pages at a time on video on our web
site. Perhaps that will be valuable to you and your members as
well.
I'll keep the email short, but if you think you or your members
would be interested in this opportunity, please distribute our
flyer to your members and email me with ANY questions that you
may have.
We also post segments of our broadcast on our web site every
week after the show and you can see them at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/
FLYER is at:
http://www.riprapentertain.com/invitation.pdf
Thank you very much for your time Mike and best of luck and
continued success in your group and endeavors.
Kind regards,
David L. Stewart, Artistic Director
Riprap Studio Theatre & Riprap Entertainment TV
5755 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Tel: (818) 990-7498
davidls2004@yahoo.com
6) Nico Vassilakis'ssss new You Tube po vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iyBIQDihFM
from Harry Mathews' story "The Way Home"
OK, I have to get back to work, yes, work. You heard me right. For the first time since the 1st Bush Administration, I have a full-time job teaching Vocational Ed (word,e xcel, etc.) to students at the Muckleshoot Tribal College. 8 miles from my house. This means good things for my financial picture and FINALLY will publish A Time Before Slaughter, hopefully by the Fall. Thanks to all for your blessings of contributions, moral support and/or bail money. HA! Also, my masters thesis is complete and on-line at http://www.Organicpoetry.org as individual essays. Thanks to Judith Roche, David Thomson, Judith Cohen, Amalio Madueno, Sam Hamill, Debra Van Tuinen, Paul E. Nelson I, George Bowering, Robin Blaser, Michael McClure and all who helped make the masters happen. I graduate on May 20 from Lesley University. I can recommend their Independent Study Program.
See you at Burning Word.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
April 12, 2007 E-Fishwrapper, Bart Baxter
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Bart Baxter Finals tonight, Organic Poetry, Frida Kahlo in Tacoma, Alexandra Oliver, Nico Vassilakis, Bill Ransom & African-American Film Festival.
1) Bart Baxter is alive and Hosting the Bart Baxter Performance Poetry Competition Finals tonight at Baxter Hall at 7 p.m.
The Washington Poets Association invites you to attend the Bart Baxter performance poetry competition tonight, Tuesday, April 10, at 7 pm in the Hugo House Cabaret, not Baxter Hall as previously suggested. We apologize for this error. Eight finalists will compete in head-to-head Taos-style poetry bouts with the overall champ getting $300. Finalists scheduled to perform are: Miryam Gordon, Jared Leising, Jack McCarthy, Rebecca Meredith, Jeremy Richards, Roy Seitz, M. Anne Sweet and D.D. Wigley
Admission is FREE, although donations will be accepted to help the WPA continue its programming and to keep the Board of Directors supplied with gin, beef jerky and mescaline.
Tuesday, April 10, at 7 pm, Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA
2) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry Workshop Series with Paul Nelson
Is the universe a machine with a dominant ethos of competition, or an organism based on interdependence, process and relationship? A stance-toward-poem-making based on the latter, Organic Poetry, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, or an experiment in consciousness. Workshops starts Thursday at 10A and you can still sign up.
This workshop for serious people of all levels of writing experience includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, sound from these poets discussing poetics and reading their poems, and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.
Hugo House, 1634 11th, Seattle. Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members) Some scholarships may be available. Five more days to sign up. Please tell someone who may want to take this. I will not be facilitating this class again until Fall.
3) Frida Kahlo Lives at T.A.M.
Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon
February 3 – June 10, 2007
Images of an Icon offers a means of seeing Frida Kahlo’s world through the eyes of those who surrounded her. Modern masters of the camera such as Lucienne Bloch, Emmy Lou Packard, Florence Arquin, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, as well as leading photojournalists such as Giselle Freund, Bernard Silberstein, and Fritz Henle captured her in their lenses. Kahlo’s relatives, lovers, and friends, including Guillermo Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, and Lola Alvarez Bravo were witness to a more intimate Frida. The images span Kahlo’s life and follow the artist from precocious child to famous artist. They permit a look into her bedroom, a seat at her table, a visit to her hospital room, a stroll through her garden, and a view into her collections. There is an ancillary component to the exhibition featuring the work of Northwest artists who have been inspired by Kahlo, the artist and icon. A Paul Nelson poem inspired by this exhibit.
4) Alexandra Oliver does not have an iconic unibrow, BUT makes up for it in wit and, unlike Frida, is Canadian and has a new book coming out. From Alexandra:
Hi Everyone,
As you may (or may not) know, I'll be launching my first book on May 11 in Vancouver. As I'm an old-fashioned sort, I'm sending out non-virtual invites. If you haven't sent me your snail mail address, please do so ASAP! For more information, check out http://vancouverevents.blogspot.com I look forward to seeing you. It's going to be a humdinger of an evening.
Alexandra
5) Write in the Woods 2007 Bill Ransom, keynoter.
Saturday, May 19, also Derek Sheffield, Tim McNulty, Elizabeth She, Allen Braden and others. Shelton, WA 8:30-4:30, gourmet lunch and only $49 bucks. Really. No website, but email WritingConference@oc.ctc.edu. At Olympic College Shelton.
6) "SPF07 Workshop 8: Sound Poetry - Christine Hume and Nico Vassilakis"
April 22nd, 12:00 to 1:00am, Hug-O-House
Workshop only $5
(Admission for the Seattle Poetry Festival is required in addition to your workshop ticket.)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/10795
(for tix and/or more info)
Instructors Christine Hume and Nico Vassilakis introduce students to multiple ways of approaching the relationship between sound and poetry. We will listen to poetry as soundscapes, training our attention to acoustic and phonetic aspects of language and speech. We will indulge ourselves in the kinesthetic pleasures, the ecstatic spiraling repetition and rhyme, the alchemy of articulations and de-articulations in performed and concrete poetry. This workshop will consider how we might renovate the traditional poetry reading--and conventional notions of poetry itself--by making use of a broad range of media. The instructors will present a variety of listening experiences, followed by a sound poetry experiment.
Max Number of Participants: 15
7) Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival.
April 21-27.
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is just around the corner and this years festival marks the most ambitious collection of films yet!
This years festival provides a bountiful array of 45 (and counting) narratives, documentaries, shorts, animated films and a host of filmmaker talk-backs, special workshops and activities highlighting films by and about black folk from around the world and in our own backyard. Highlights include a 'revolutionary' Opening Night and a special family-friendly closing night featuring a Black Cowboy demonstration. Check out the schedule
8) Madeline DeFrees in Redmond.
SoulFood Poetry Night, Thursday April 19, 7 to 9 pm at SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond , WA. Featured readers this year’s Pulitzer Nominee Madeline DeFrees and her former student, Thomas Aslin. Open mic follows. Free. For directions, visit www.soulfoodbooks.com or call the store at 425-881-5309. For further info contact welchm@aol.com or moonlit.cloud@yahoo.com.
9) www.poetsencyclopedia.com
Charles Potts and Jeremy Gaulke are providing an exemplary service to the Poetry Community. Check out their handiwork and get your bio to them.
OK, I am off to Baxterland to introduce Bart, wish the finalists luck and answer any pre-event questions, make sure sacrificial poets Lyn Coffin (reigning champ) and Alexandra Oliver don't scratch each other's eyes out, have my daily 30 minute walk, perhaps around Cal Anderson Park and kick myself for forgetting some cool events which coulda been e-fishwrapped.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Bart Baxter Finals tonight, Organic Poetry, Frida Kahlo in Tacoma, Alexandra Oliver, Nico Vassilakis, Bill Ransom & African-American Film Festival.
1) Bart Baxter is alive and Hosting the Bart Baxter Performance Poetry Competition Finals tonight at Baxter Hall at 7 p.m.
The Washington Poets Association invites you to attend the Bart Baxter performance poetry competition tonight, Tuesday, April 10, at 7 pm in the Hugo House Cabaret, not Baxter Hall as previously suggested. We apologize for this error. Eight finalists will compete in head-to-head Taos-style poetry bouts with the overall champ getting $300. Finalists scheduled to perform are: Miryam Gordon, Jared Leising, Jack McCarthy, Rebecca Meredith, Jeremy Richards, Roy Seitz, M. Anne Sweet and D.D. Wigley
Admission is FREE, although donations will be accepted to help the WPA continue its programming and to keep the Board of Directors supplied with gin, beef jerky and mescaline.
Tuesday, April 10, at 7 pm, Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA
2) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry Workshop Series with Paul Nelson
Is the universe a machine with a dominant ethos of competition, or an organism based on interdependence, process and relationship? A stance-toward-poem-making based on the latter, Organic Poetry, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, or an experiment in consciousness. Workshops starts Thursday at 10A and you can still sign up.
This workshop for serious people of all levels of writing experience includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, sound from these poets discussing poetics and reading their poems, and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.
Hugo House, 1634 11th, Seattle. Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members) Some scholarships may be available. Five more days to sign up. Please tell someone who may want to take this. I will not be facilitating this class again until Fall.
3) Frida Kahlo Lives at T.A.M.
Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon
February 3 – June 10, 2007
Images of an Icon offers a means of seeing Frida Kahlo’s world through the eyes of those who surrounded her. Modern masters of the camera such as Lucienne Bloch, Emmy Lou Packard, Florence Arquin, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, as well as leading photojournalists such as Giselle Freund, Bernard Silberstein, and Fritz Henle captured her in their lenses. Kahlo’s relatives, lovers, and friends, including Guillermo Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, and Lola Alvarez Bravo were witness to a more intimate Frida. The images span Kahlo’s life and follow the artist from precocious child to famous artist. They permit a look into her bedroom, a seat at her table, a visit to her hospital room, a stroll through her garden, and a view into her collections. There is an ancillary component to the exhibition featuring the work of Northwest artists who have been inspired by Kahlo, the artist and icon. A Paul Nelson poem inspired by this exhibit.
4) Alexandra Oliver does not have an iconic unibrow, BUT makes up for it in wit and, unlike Frida, is Canadian and has a new book coming out. From Alexandra:
Hi Everyone,
As you may (or may not) know, I'll be launching my first book on May 11 in Vancouver. As I'm an old-fashioned sort, I'm sending out non-virtual invites. If you haven't sent me your snail mail address, please do so ASAP! For more information, check out http://vancouverevents.blogspot.com I look forward to seeing you. It's going to be a humdinger of an evening.
Alexandra
5) Write in the Woods 2007 Bill Ransom, keynoter.
Saturday, May 19, also Derek Sheffield, Tim McNulty, Elizabeth She, Allen Braden and others. Shelton, WA 8:30-4:30, gourmet lunch and only $49 bucks. Really. No website, but email WritingConference@oc.ctc.edu. At Olympic College Shelton.
6) "SPF07 Workshop 8: Sound Poetry - Christine Hume and Nico Vassilakis"
April 22nd, 12:00 to 1:00am, Hug-O-House
Workshop only $5
(Admission for the Seattle Poetry Festival is required in addition to your workshop ticket.)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/10795
(for tix and/or more info)
Instructors Christine Hume and Nico Vassilakis introduce students to multiple ways of approaching the relationship between sound and poetry. We will listen to poetry as soundscapes, training our attention to acoustic and phonetic aspects of language and speech. We will indulge ourselves in the kinesthetic pleasures, the ecstatic spiraling repetition and rhyme, the alchemy of articulations and de-articulations in performed and concrete poetry. This workshop will consider how we might renovate the traditional poetry reading--and conventional notions of poetry itself--by making use of a broad range of media. The instructors will present a variety of listening experiences, followed by a sound poetry experiment.
Max Number of Participants: 15
7) Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival.
April 21-27.
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is just around the corner and this years festival marks the most ambitious collection of films yet!
This years festival provides a bountiful array of 45 (and counting) narratives, documentaries, shorts, animated films and a host of filmmaker talk-backs, special workshops and activities highlighting films by and about black folk from around the world and in our own backyard. Highlights include a 'revolutionary' Opening Night and a special family-friendly closing night featuring a Black Cowboy demonstration. Check out the schedule
8) Madeline DeFrees in Redmond.
SoulFood Poetry Night, Thursday April 19, 7 to 9 pm at SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond , WA. Featured readers this year’s Pulitzer Nominee Madeline DeFrees and her former student, Thomas Aslin. Open mic follows. Free. For directions, visit www.soulfoodbooks.com or call the store at 425-881-5309. For further info contact welchm@aol.com or moonlit.cloud@yahoo.com.
9) www.poetsencyclopedia.com
Charles Potts and Jeremy Gaulke are providing an exemplary service to the Poetry Community. Check out their handiwork and get your bio to them.
OK, I am off to Baxterland to introduce Bart, wish the finalists luck and answer any pre-event questions, make sure sacrificial poets Lyn Coffin (reigning champ) and Alexandra Oliver don't scratch each other's eyes out, have my daily 30 minute walk, perhaps around Cal Anderson Park and kick myself for forgetting some cool events which coulda been e-fishwrapped.
Ciao,
Paulo
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Luis Rodriguez Reading tonight, Organic Poetry, Internet Connections (Jim Andrews, Bob Marcacci), Judith Rolche, Alexandra Oliver & AG anniversary.
1) Luis Rodriguez Reading tonight at Town Hall at 7 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
Award-winning poet, author, activist, publisher, and teacher Luis J. Rodriguez for talk, reading, and conversation. "Imagining Peace and Community in a Time of Violence and Chaos" Free admission. For more info, call 206.386.4636.
2) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Is the universe a machine with a dominant ethos of competition, or an organism based on interdependence, process and relationship? A stance-toward-poem-making based on the latter, Organic Poetry, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, or an experiment in consciousness.
This workshop for serious people of all levels of writing experience includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, sound from these poets discussing poetics and reading their poems, and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.
Hugo House, 1634 11th, Seattle. Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members) Some scholarships may be available. Five more days to sign up. Please tell someone who may want to take this. I will not be facilitating this class again until Fall.
3) How Connections are Made On-Line.
Last Friday at the Good Shepherd Center on Sunnyside in Seattle, I attended the night of Visual and Sound Poetry. Nico Vassilakis, Geof Huth, Crag Hill and Jim Andrews were featured and it was an incredible evening of challenging and engaging poetry. Jim Andrews lives in Victoria, but speaks highly of his time in Seattle, saying it helped open him up to multi-media poetry possibilities.
His unfinished (interactive) sound poem Nio is addictive, so you have been warned. His on-line essay on Lionel Kearns is also remarkable in terms of content and presentation. Quite engaging, and it includes two short films featuring Lionel's work. It requires Shockwave and Quicktime. (Once you download Quicktime say NO to Apple updates. They want to I-Pod you. ARGH!) Lionel was in attendance Friday night and had copies of his new selected poems A Few Words Will Do and I love this work. http://www.TalonBooks.com
4) How Connections are Made On-Line II.
So, browsing Jim's site I came across the name of a man who recently saw my post on the Suny-Buffalo listserv and axed to be added to the E-Fishwrapper. Bob Marcacci has this poetry podcast in a style that is part cool late night jazz d.j. and part world music, world poetry, global interconnection extraordinaire.
5) Write in the Woods 2007 Bill Ransom, keynoter.
Saturday, May 19, also Derek Sheffield, Tim McNulty, Elizabeth She, Allen Braden and others. Shelton, WA 8:30-4:30, gourmet lunch and only $49 bucks. Really. No website, but email WritingConference@oc.ctc.edu. At Olympic College Shelton.
6) Judith Roche with a new Book.
ANNOUNCING
The Wisdom of the Body
a new poetry collection by Judith Roche from Black Heron Press
Readings
today! April 5
Greenwood Senior Center
525 N. 85th, Seattle, 206 297-0815
Judith Roche with Greenwood Poets
lunch 12:30, contact Greenwood Senior Center for reservations
Readings 1:00 pm, poetry workshop 1:45- 2:30 pm. Free
April 11
Elliott Bay Book Company reading
104 S. Main, Seattle, 206
7:30 pm
April 24 (corrected date!)
“An Evening with Judith Roche,” produced by Raven Chronicles
Hugo House, 7:00 pm
1632 11th, Seattle, 206 322-7030
co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House and Raven
Chronicles
April 28
Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island
www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word.php
9:00 am workshop
5:25 pm reading
Only $15.00 admission for festival which also features George Bowering.
7) Alexandra Oliver, Elizabeth Austen, Michael Spence, Aaron Silverberg at Fremont Library Saturday.
Saturday, April 7 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Fremont Library, 731 N 35th St., Seattle
Washington Poets Association presents a poetry reading featuring Elizabeth Austen, Alexandra Oliver, Michael Spence, and Aaron Silverberg. Followed by open mike. Refreshments compliments of Starbucks Coffee. Contact 206.684.4084 in celebration of Barbara K. Nelson's 42nd birthday.
8) Presidential Candidate Poetry.
Not Hillary!
9) Allen Ginsberg died ten years ago today.
Thanks to J. Glen Evans and his Poets West calendar for some of these events. http://poetswest.org/venues.htm
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Luis Rodriguez Reading tonight, Organic Poetry, Internet Connections (Jim Andrews, Bob Marcacci), Judith Rolche, Alexandra Oliver & AG anniversary.
1) Luis Rodriguez Reading tonight at Town Hall at 7 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
Award-winning poet, author, activist, publisher, and teacher Luis J. Rodriguez for talk, reading, and conversation. "Imagining Peace and Community in a Time of Violence and Chaos" Free admission. For more info, call 206.386.4636.
2) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Is the universe a machine with a dominant ethos of competition, or an organism based on interdependence, process and relationship? A stance-toward-poem-making based on the latter, Organic Poetry, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, or an experiment in consciousness.
This workshop for serious people of all levels of writing experience includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, sound from these poets discussing poetics and reading their poems, and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.
Hugo House, 1634 11th, Seattle. Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members) Some scholarships may be available. Five more days to sign up. Please tell someone who may want to take this. I will not be facilitating this class again until Fall.
3) How Connections are Made On-Line.
Last Friday at the Good Shepherd Center on Sunnyside in Seattle, I attended the night of Visual and Sound Poetry. Nico Vassilakis, Geof Huth, Crag Hill and Jim Andrews were featured and it was an incredible evening of challenging and engaging poetry. Jim Andrews lives in Victoria, but speaks highly of his time in Seattle, saying it helped open him up to multi-media poetry possibilities.
His unfinished (interactive) sound poem Nio is addictive, so you have been warned. His on-line essay on Lionel Kearns is also remarkable in terms of content and presentation. Quite engaging, and it includes two short films featuring Lionel's work. It requires Shockwave and Quicktime. (Once you download Quicktime say NO to Apple updates. They want to I-Pod you. ARGH!) Lionel was in attendance Friday night and had copies of his new selected poems A Few Words Will Do and I love this work. http://www.TalonBooks.com
4) How Connections are Made On-Line II.
So, browsing Jim's site I came across the name of a man who recently saw my post on the Suny-Buffalo listserv and axed to be added to the E-Fishwrapper. Bob Marcacci has this poetry podcast in a style that is part cool late night jazz d.j. and part world music, world poetry, global interconnection extraordinaire.
5) Write in the Woods 2007 Bill Ransom, keynoter.
Saturday, May 19, also Derek Sheffield, Tim McNulty, Elizabeth She, Allen Braden and others. Shelton, WA 8:30-4:30, gourmet lunch and only $49 bucks. Really. No website, but email WritingConference@oc.ctc.edu. At Olympic College Shelton.
6) Judith Roche with a new Book.
ANNOUNCING
The Wisdom of the Body
a new poetry collection by Judith Roche from Black Heron Press
Readings
today! April 5
Greenwood Senior Center
525 N. 85th, Seattle, 206 297-0815
Judith Roche with Greenwood Poets
lunch 12:30, contact Greenwood Senior Center for reservations
Readings 1:00 pm, poetry workshop 1:45- 2:30 pm. Free
April 11
Elliott Bay Book Company reading
104 S. Main, Seattle, 206
7:30 pm
April 24 (corrected date!)
“An Evening with Judith Roche,” produced by Raven Chronicles
Hugo House, 7:00 pm
1632 11th, Seattle, 206 322-7030
co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House and Raven
Chronicles
April 28
Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island
www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word.php
9:00 am workshop
5:25 pm reading
Only $15.00 admission for festival which also features George Bowering.
7) Alexandra Oliver, Elizabeth Austen, Michael Spence, Aaron Silverberg at Fremont Library Saturday.
Saturday, April 7 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Fremont Library, 731 N 35th St., Seattle
Washington Poets Association presents a poetry reading featuring Elizabeth Austen, Alexandra Oliver, Michael Spence, and Aaron Silverberg. Followed by open mike. Refreshments compliments of Starbucks Coffee. Contact 206.684.4084 in celebration of Barbara K. Nelson's 42nd birthday.
8) Presidential Candidate Poetry.
Not Hillary!
9) Allen Ginsberg died ten years ago today.
Thanks to J. Glen Evans and his Poets West calendar for some of these events. http://poetswest.org/venues.htm
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Hugo House Teachers Reading tonight, Into Great Silence opens at Varsity Friday night, Organic Poetry, IoNS, Peace Art, and Binghamton funds update.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Hugo House Teachers Reading tonight, Into Great Silence opens at Varsity Friday night, Organic Poetry, IoNS, Peace Art, and Binghamton funds update.
1) Hugo House Teacher's Reading tonight at 6:30.
Mar. 27
Hugo Writing Classes teacher reading
Sample our teachers before choosing what class to take this spring at the teacher reading featuring: Anna Balint, Wendy Call, Angela Jane Fountas, Dickey Nesenger, Cheryl Slean and others. Register for spring quarter courses at the reading! 6:30 p.m. Cabaret. Free. http://www.hugohouse.org
Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.
2) Into Great Silence
In 1984 Philip Groning wrote to the Carthusian Order seeking permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him and they did 16 years later. The resulting film is truly form as content, a mesmerizing movie with no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. Indeed a transformative experience. Starts Friday, March 30 at the Varsity. This is the most remarkable cinema experience I've had in years.
3) Institute of Noetic Sciences President speaks.
IONS Northwest Announcement
Live at Seattle Unity
May 4, 2007 - IONS President James O'Dea
May 4 - IONS is pleased to announce that President James O'Dea speaks on An Emerging Science of Peace and Transformation at Seattle Unity, May 4, 2007, 7:30 PM. Live Music at 7 PM. Co-Sponsored by Seattle Unity and supported by many organizations.
More details on both events at www.ionsnw.org/events.htm.
4) PEACE ART April 7th Though the 14th
April 7 through 14, 2007, a unique art exhibit will take place in Skagit Valley.
20-plus well known artists from all over the region will display their heartfelt expressions about War and Peace in today’s world. The show is not all paintings and drawings, but will also include photography, sculpture, the written word, and music. The location is The Other Roadside Attraction Gallery, 18791 Cedardale Road, Mt Vernon, WA.
The gallery owners, Pam Hom and Jim Sherburne, are donating the use of the space for this exhibit.
Leading artists from the Skagit Valley and elsewhere include Clayton James, Anne Martin McCool, Jack Gunter, Trish Harding, Sue Roberts, Toni Ann Rust, Chris Elliott, Lavonne Newell Reim, Pam Hom, Verena Schwippert, Thais Armstrong, Brian Berman, Susan Farrell, Audrey Roll, Duane Simshauser, Larry and Marcia Huber, Maralyne Powell, and Tracy Powell, who is putting the show together. More artists are expected to join in before the opening.
Headlining the music is Holly Gwinn Graham, renowned in Skagit County and around the country as a gifted singer, song writer, actress, and advocate for peace, love, and justice. Holly will perform excerpts from her one-woman show at last years International Peace Conference in Vancouver BC, as well as favorites from her original album “Earth Anthem”, which is now being re-released as a CD. She will sing from 2-3 PM, Saturday, April 7.
The closing celebration one week later will feature the brilliant performance poet Steve Roxborough, who now resides in Anacortes. Some of Rox’s poems have been put to music on his 2002 CD “Spiritual Demons”. He will read from that collection and other poems during the final day’s activities on Saturday April 14.
More music and poetry may happen at any time during the exhibit, which will be open from 10AM to 5PM, every day from April 7 through 14, 2007.
Although most of the artwork is for sale, that is not the focus of this exhibit. All the artists hope that their images and ideas will promote thought and dialogue about the issues confronting us as a nation, and as human beings. Visitors should expect to be challenged by some pieces, comforted by others, and stimulated by all of them.
5) Judith Roche with a new Book.
ANNOUNCING
The Wisdom of the Body
a new poetry collection by Judith Roche from Black
Heron Press
These poems are polyphonies-—formal, elegant,
majestic, elegiac. Themes of sacred beauty. At the
same time they are driven by a wild passion, 'the
beauty of pure pluck.' – Sharon Doubiago
Readings
April 5
Greenwood Senior Center
525 N. 85th, Seattle, 206 297-0815
Judith Roche with Greenwood Poets
lunch 12:30, contact Greenwood Senior Center for reservations
Readings 1:00 pm, poetry workshop 1:45- 2:30 pm. Free
April 11
Elliott Bay Book Company reading
104 S. Main, Seattle, 206
7:30 pm
April 23
“An Evening with Judith Roche,” produced by Raven Chronicles
Hugo House, 7:00 pm
1632 11th, Seattle, 206 322-7030
co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House and Raven
Chronicles
April 28
Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island
www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word.php
9:00 am workshop
5:25 pm reading
Only $15.00 admission for festival which also features George Bowering.
May 1
Seattle University reading and reception, 4:00 – 6:00
900 Broadway, Seattle, Casey Atrium,
206 296-5420 (English Department)
May 4
Judith Roche reading and poetry workshop. Free
Central Area Senior Center, 503 30th S, Seattle, 206
726-4926,1:00-2:30
6) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Have you ever experienced a really good poem that seems to write itself? Ever consider training yourself to write that way? There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called "Organic." In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others.
Hugo House (Where else?) Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members)
7) Call for Submissions for Arabesques Review
Celebrating the International Poetry Day, the Arabesques Review is
now accepting submissions for two upcoming special issues:
Vol 03, Issue 02 Contemporary Women Literature
>>> Submissions Deadline: April 30, 2007
Vol 03, Issue 03 Globalization
>>> Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2007
We would be very honored to read and consider your contribution for
these upcoming anthologies
To SUBMIT TO THE ARABESQUES REVIEW
Click here
8) 31 Words
A reminder: April 1 deadline
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
J.A. Lee - Crane's Bill Books
cranesbill@cybermesa.com
www.torriblezone.com/cp2.html
9) SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES
with Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Jim Andrews, Nico Vassilakis
Friday, March 30th, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle
(in Wallingford, just south of 50th St.)
http://gschapel.blogspot.com
10) Over $2K raised to end the Binghamton saga. Thank you for your generosity. Email or call if you want details.
Thanks to 4 Culture and individual contributors like Charlie Stobert, Reading , UK , Michael Schein, Seattle , WA , David Rizzi, Seattle , WA , Robert Forbes, Kimberly , BC , Augusto Romano, Seattle , WA , Nick Weber, Seattle , WA , Jeremy Richards, Seattle , WA , Robin Cherney, Redmond , WA , Bobbie Landmesser, Castro Valley , CA , Linda Nelson, Chicago , IL, Jim Teeters, Kent, WA, Lana Ayers, Kirkland, John Beniaris, Park Ridge, IL, Connie Hutchison, Kirkland, WA, Betsey Beckman, Mountlake Terrace, Susanne Hare, Tofino, BC and folks like YOU for supporting this work.
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Hugo House Teachers Reading tonight, Into Great Silence opens at Varsity Friday night, Organic Poetry, IoNS, Peace Art, and Binghamton funds update.
1) Hugo House Teacher's Reading tonight at 6:30.
Mar. 27
Hugo Writing Classes teacher reading
Sample our teachers before choosing what class to take this spring at the teacher reading featuring: Anna Balint, Wendy Call, Angela Jane Fountas, Dickey Nesenger, Cheryl Slean and others. Register for spring quarter courses at the reading! 6:30 p.m. Cabaret. Free. http://www.hugohouse.org
Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.
2) Into Great Silence
In 1984 Philip Groning wrote to the Carthusian Order seeking permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him and they did 16 years later. The resulting film is truly form as content, a mesmerizing movie with no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. Indeed a transformative experience. Starts Friday, March 30 at the Varsity. This is the most remarkable cinema experience I've had in years.
3) Institute of Noetic Sciences President speaks.
IONS Northwest Announcement
Live at Seattle Unity
May 4, 2007 - IONS President James O'Dea
May 4 - IONS is pleased to announce that President James O'Dea speaks on An Emerging Science of Peace and Transformation at Seattle Unity, May 4, 2007, 7:30 PM. Live Music at 7 PM. Co-Sponsored by Seattle Unity and supported by many organizations.
More details on both events at www.ionsnw.org/events.htm.
4) PEACE ART April 7th Though the 14th
April 7 through 14, 2007, a unique art exhibit will take place in Skagit Valley.
20-plus well known artists from all over the region will display their heartfelt expressions about War and Peace in today’s world. The show is not all paintings and drawings, but will also include photography, sculpture, the written word, and music. The location is The Other Roadside Attraction Gallery, 18791 Cedardale Road, Mt Vernon, WA.
The gallery owners, Pam Hom and Jim Sherburne, are donating the use of the space for this exhibit.
Leading artists from the Skagit Valley and elsewhere include Clayton James, Anne Martin McCool, Jack Gunter, Trish Harding, Sue Roberts, Toni Ann Rust, Chris Elliott, Lavonne Newell Reim, Pam Hom, Verena Schwippert, Thais Armstrong, Brian Berman, Susan Farrell, Audrey Roll, Duane Simshauser, Larry and Marcia Huber, Maralyne Powell, and Tracy Powell, who is putting the show together. More artists are expected to join in before the opening.
Headlining the music is Holly Gwinn Graham, renowned in Skagit County and around the country as a gifted singer, song writer, actress, and advocate for peace, love, and justice. Holly will perform excerpts from her one-woman show at last years International Peace Conference in Vancouver BC, as well as favorites from her original album “Earth Anthem”, which is now being re-released as a CD. She will sing from 2-3 PM, Saturday, April 7.
The closing celebration one week later will feature the brilliant performance poet Steve Roxborough, who now resides in Anacortes. Some of Rox’s poems have been put to music on his 2002 CD “Spiritual Demons”. He will read from that collection and other poems during the final day’s activities on Saturday April 14.
More music and poetry may happen at any time during the exhibit, which will be open from 10AM to 5PM, every day from April 7 through 14, 2007.
Although most of the artwork is for sale, that is not the focus of this exhibit. All the artists hope that their images and ideas will promote thought and dialogue about the issues confronting us as a nation, and as human beings. Visitors should expect to be challenged by some pieces, comforted by others, and stimulated by all of them.
5) Judith Roche with a new Book.
ANNOUNCING
The Wisdom of the Body
a new poetry collection by Judith Roche from Black
Heron Press
These poems are polyphonies-—formal, elegant,
majestic, elegiac. Themes of sacred beauty. At the
same time they are driven by a wild passion, 'the
beauty of pure pluck.' – Sharon Doubiago
Readings
April 5
Greenwood Senior Center
525 N. 85th, Seattle, 206 297-0815
Judith Roche with Greenwood Poets
lunch 12:30, contact Greenwood Senior Center for reservations
Readings 1:00 pm, poetry workshop 1:45- 2:30 pm. Free
April 11
Elliott Bay Book Company reading
104 S. Main, Seattle, 206
7:30 pm
April 23
“An Evening with Judith Roche,” produced by Raven Chronicles
Hugo House, 7:00 pm
1632 11th, Seattle, 206 322-7030
co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House and Raven
Chronicles
April 28
Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island
www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word.php
9:00 am workshop
5:25 pm reading
Only $15.00 admission for festival which also features George Bowering.
May 1
Seattle University reading and reception, 4:00 – 6:00
900 Broadway, Seattle, Casey Atrium,
206 296-5420 (English Department)
May 4
Judith Roche reading and poetry workshop. Free
Central Area Senior Center, 503 30th S, Seattle, 206
726-4926,1:00-2:30
6) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Have you ever experienced a really good poem that seems to write itself? Ever consider training yourself to write that way? There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called "Organic." In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others.
Hugo House (Where else?) Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members)
7) Call for Submissions for Arabesques Review
Celebrating the International Poetry Day, the Arabesques Review is
now accepting submissions for two upcoming special issues:
Vol 03, Issue 02 Contemporary Women Literature
>>> Submissions Deadline: April 30, 2007
Vol 03, Issue 03 Globalization
>>> Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2007
We would be very honored to read and consider your contribution for
these upcoming anthologies
To SUBMIT TO THE ARABESQUES REVIEW
Click here
8) 31 Words
A reminder: April 1 deadline
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
J.A. Lee - Crane's Bill Books
cranesbill@cybermesa.com
www.torriblezone.com/cp2.html
9) SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES
with Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Jim Andrews, Nico Vassilakis
Friday, March 30th, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle
(in Wallingford, just south of 50th St.)
http://gschapel.blogspot.com
10) Over $2K raised to end the Binghamton saga. Thank you for your generosity. Email or call if you want details.
Thanks to 4 Culture and individual contributors like Charlie Stobert, Reading , UK , Michael Schein, Seattle , WA , David Rizzi, Seattle , WA , Robert Forbes, Kimberly , BC , Augusto Romano, Seattle , WA , Nick Weber, Seattle , WA , Jeremy Richards, Seattle , WA , Robin Cherney, Redmond , WA , Bobbie Landmesser, Castro Valley , CA , Linda Nelson, Chicago , IL, Jim Teeters, Kent, WA, Lana Ayers, Kirkland, John Beniaris, Park Ridge, IL, Connie Hutchison, Kirkland, WA, Betsey Beckman, Mountlake Terrace, Susanne Hare, Tofino, BC and folks like YOU for supporting this work.
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Monday, March 19, 2007
3.19.07 E-Fishwrapper: Baxter Finalists, Organic Poetry, Into Great Silence, Binghamton.
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Bart Baxter Finalists, Organic Poetry, Eileen Myles, Nico V, Binghamton and one long, mostly quiet movie.
1) Bart Baxter finalists chosen, to battle at 7P, April 10 at Richard Hugo House.
The Washington Poets Association invites you to attend the Bart Baxter
performance poetry competition on Tuesday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the
Hugo House Cabaret. Eight finalists will compete in head-to-head
Taos-style poetry bouts with the overall champ getting $300. Finalists
scheduled to perform are Miryam Gordon, Jared Leising, Jack McCarthy,
Rebecca Meredith, Jeremy Richards, Roy Seitz, M. Anne Sweet and D.D.
Wigley. FREE, although donations will be accepted to help the WPA
continue its programming.
Co-Sponsored by Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.
http://www.hugohouse.org. Come see who is the best performance poet in the state of Washington! Washington Poets Association.
2) Into Great Silence
In 1984 Philip Groning wrote to the Carthusian Order seeking permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him and they did 16 years later. The resulting film is truly form as content, a mesmerizing movie with no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. Indeed a transformative experience. Starts March 30 at the Varsity. I saw the press screening today. Not for Rambo fans.
3) Untitled [Intersection], 2007
A monthly poetry & contemporary performance art series in Seattle
This Friday 23 March, 7 -9 pm, in the Phinney Center Gallery, celebrate the work of featured artists Rebecca Loudon, Jared Leising and Sheri Brown. Suggested donation, $5. Wine reception.
On the 4th Friday of every month, Untitled [Intersection] presents one
performance artist alongside two featured poets. Untitled [Intersection] invites recognized poets to promote and introduce younger poets whose work they admire. The two read alongside one another, as colleagues, in a gallery setting. The series was conceived by A. K. Allin as a live art event, designed to strengthen the Seattle arts community by cross-fertilizing, fostering dialog between genres and bringing fresh talent to the fore.
4) Wave Books poets in town - Eileen Myles & Dara Weir.
Friday, March 23 @ 7:00 pm, Bailey Coy Books
Eileen Myles will read from her collection Sorry, Tree, brand new from Wave Books.
Saturday, March 24 @ 3 pm, Henry Art Gallery
Eileen Myles will give a talk: "Everything is Not Enough" on the various communities she has been part of and the intersection of art and literature in these scenes and her practice.
Saturday, March 24 @ 5 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company
Dara Wier will read from her recent Wave Books collection, Remnants of Hannah with Lisa Olstein, whose collection Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is new from Copper Canyon Press.
5) Hugo House Teachers Reading
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 6:30 p.m. FREE.
Hugo Writing Classes teacher reading, featuring teachers from the upcoming spring quarter, including Anna Balint, Wendy Call, Angela Jane Fountas, Dickey Nesenger, Cheryl Slean and others (Paul Nelson is an other, but you knew that.) Register for spring quarter courses at the reading, like the Organic Poetry workshop, Thursday mornings from 10A-12N starting April 12. Cabaret. registrar@hugohouse.org
6) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Have you ever experienced a really good poem that seems to write itself? Ever consider training yourself to write that way? There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called "Organic." In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others.
Hugo House (Where else?) Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members)
7) New Golden Handcuffs Review
Dear Colleagues, This issue, dedicated to Gilbert Sorrentino, includes chapters from his final novel; it features also a selection by Michael Rothenberg of work by Bay Area writers AND new poems from the Jack Spicer archive.
The lineup: Mark Axelrod, Robin Blaser, David Bromige & Richard Denner, Bill Dorn, Paul Eluard, George Economou, Gloria Frym, Eckhard Gerdes, Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Paul Griffiths, Katherine Hastings, Jack Hirschman, Bernard Hoepffner, Leslie Kaplan, Larry
Kearney, Hank Lazer, Ron Loewinsohn, Douglas James Martin, David Matlin, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Douglas Messerli, Thomas Meyer, Robert Mittenthal, Susan Smith Nash, Pat Nolan, Peter O'Leary, Toby Olson, Rochelle Owens, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Judith Skillman, Christopher Sorrentino, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jack Spicer, James Tierney, Norman Weinstein, Dallas Wiebe, Jonathan Williams.
$6.95 US, 8.95 Canada. Subscriptions $12/annum at Golden Handcuffs Review, Box 20158, Seattle, WA 98102. The website will include excerpts from the new issue soon.
8) 31 Words
A reminder: April 1 deadline
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
J.A. Lee - Crane's Bill Books
cranesbill@cybermesa.com
www.torriblezone.com/cp2.html
9) SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES
with Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Jim Andrews, Nico Vassilakis
MARCH 30th, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle
(in Wallingford, just south of 50th St.)
http://gschapel.blogspot.com
10) There has been a break in the Binghamton saga. Did you hear about my October experience? Email or call if you want details.
Thanks to 4 Culture and individual contributors like Charlie Stobert, Reading, UK, Michael Schein, Seattle, WA, David Rizzi, Seattle, WA, Robert Forbes, Kimberly, BC, Augusto Romano, Seattle, WA, Nick Weber, Seattle, WA, Jeremy Richards, Seattle, WA, Robin Cherney, Redmond, WA, Bobbie Landmesser, Castro Valley, CA, Linda Nelson, Chicago, IL and folks like YOU for supporting this work.
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Bart Baxter Finalists, Organic Poetry, Eileen Myles, Nico V, Binghamton and one long, mostly quiet movie.
1) Bart Baxter finalists chosen, to battle at 7P, April 10 at Richard Hugo House.
The Washington Poets Association invites you to attend the Bart Baxter
performance poetry competition on Tuesday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the
Hugo House Cabaret. Eight finalists will compete in head-to-head
Taos-style poetry bouts with the overall champ getting $300. Finalists
scheduled to perform are Miryam Gordon, Jared Leising, Jack McCarthy,
Rebecca Meredith, Jeremy Richards, Roy Seitz, M. Anne Sweet and D.D.
Wigley. FREE, although donations will be accepted to help the WPA
continue its programming.
Co-Sponsored by Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle.
http://www.hugohouse.org. Come see who is the best performance poet in the state of Washington! Washington Poets Association.
2) Into Great Silence
In 1984 Philip Groning wrote to the Carthusian Order seeking permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him and they did 16 years later. The resulting film is truly form as content, a mesmerizing movie with no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. Indeed a transformative experience. Starts March 30 at the Varsity. I saw the press screening today. Not for Rambo fans.
3) Untitled [Intersection], 2007
A monthly poetry & contemporary performance art series in Seattle
This Friday 23 March, 7 -9 pm, in the Phinney Center Gallery, celebrate the work of featured artists Rebecca Loudon, Jared Leising and Sheri Brown. Suggested donation, $5. Wine reception.
On the 4th Friday of every month, Untitled [Intersection] presents one
performance artist alongside two featured poets. Untitled [Intersection] invites recognized poets to promote and introduce younger poets whose work they admire. The two read alongside one another, as colleagues, in a gallery setting. The series was conceived by A. K. Allin as a live art event, designed to strengthen the Seattle arts community by cross-fertilizing, fostering dialog between genres and bringing fresh talent to the fore.
4) Wave Books poets in town - Eileen Myles & Dara Weir.
Friday, March 23 @ 7:00 pm, Bailey Coy Books
Eileen Myles will read from her collection Sorry, Tree, brand new from Wave Books.
Saturday, March 24 @ 3 pm, Henry Art Gallery
Eileen Myles will give a talk: "Everything is Not Enough" on the various communities she has been part of and the intersection of art and literature in these scenes and her practice.
Saturday, March 24 @ 5 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company
Dara Wier will read from her recent Wave Books collection, Remnants of Hannah with Lisa Olstein, whose collection Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is new from Copper Canyon Press.
5) Hugo House Teachers Reading
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 6:30 p.m. FREE.
Hugo Writing Classes teacher reading, featuring teachers from the upcoming spring quarter, including Anna Balint, Wendy Call, Angela Jane Fountas, Dickey Nesenger, Cheryl Slean and others (Paul Nelson is an other, but you knew that.) Register for spring quarter courses at the reading, like the Organic Poetry workshop, Thursday mornings from 10A-12N starting April 12. Cabaret. registrar@hugohouse.org
6) Organic Poetry, Organismic Cosmology
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson (The testimonial to end all testimonials. Really.)
Have you ever experienced a really good poem that seems to write itself? Ever consider training yourself to write that way? There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called "Organic." In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others.
Hugo House (Where else?) Thursdays, April 12-May 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $195 ($180 members)
7) New Golden Handcuffs Review
Dear Colleagues, This issue, dedicated to Gilbert Sorrentino, includes chapters from his final novel; it features also a selection by Michael Rothenberg of work by Bay Area writers AND new poems from the Jack Spicer archive.
The lineup: Mark Axelrod, Robin Blaser, David Bromige & Richard Denner, Bill Dorn, Paul Eluard, George Economou, Gloria Frym, Eckhard Gerdes, Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Paul Griffiths, Katherine Hastings, Jack Hirschman, Bernard Hoepffner, Leslie Kaplan, Larry
Kearney, Hank Lazer, Ron Loewinsohn, Douglas James Martin, David Matlin, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Douglas Messerli, Thomas Meyer, Robert Mittenthal, Susan Smith Nash, Pat Nolan, Peter O'Leary, Toby Olson, Rochelle Owens, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Judith Skillman, Christopher Sorrentino, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jack Spicer, James Tierney, Norman Weinstein, Dallas Wiebe, Jonathan Williams.
$6.95 US, 8.95 Canada. Subscriptions $12/annum at Golden Handcuffs Review, Box 20158, Seattle, WA 98102. The website will include excerpts from the new issue soon.
8) 31 Words
A reminder: April 1 deadline
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
J.A. Lee - Crane's Bill Books
cranesbill@cybermesa.com
www.torriblezone.com/cp2.html
9) SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES
with Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Jim Andrews, Nico Vassilakis
MARCH 30th, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle
(in Wallingford, just south of 50th St.)
http://gschapel.blogspot.com
10) There has been a break in the Binghamton saga. Did you hear about my October experience? Email or call if you want details.
Thanks to 4 Culture and individual contributors like Charlie Stobert, Reading, UK, Michael Schein, Seattle, WA, David Rizzi, Seattle, WA, Robert Forbes, Kimberly, BC, Augusto Romano, Seattle, WA, Nick Weber, Seattle, WA, Jeremy Richards, Seattle, WA, Robin Cherney, Redmond, WA, Bobbie Landmesser, Castro Valley, CA, Linda Nelson, Chicago, IL and folks like YOU for supporting this work.
Paul E. Nelson
www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org
www.SPLAB.org
Slaughter, WA 98002
253.735.6328 or 888.735.6328
Want off this email list? Just ask.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Feb 5 E-Fishwrapper
For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
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In this E-Fishwrapper, Robin Blaser's snow-cancelled appearance at The Evergreen State University is re-scheduled for tonight and your humble E-Fishwrapperer reads in Tacoma Friday night.
1) Robin Blaser at Evergreen tonight, 7PM, Seminar II Building, room A 1105.
Robin was part of the Berkeley Renaissance with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, an essential part of the New American Poetry and has two brilliant books just released on California Press, The Fire (essays) and the definitive edition of his life work The Holy Forest. How many more chances will you get to see him in an intimate environment? Call me if you want to carpool from Auburn.
2) Paul Nelson reads in Tacoma Friday night, Febuary 9.
Connie Walle keeps her series going despite yet ANOTHER venue change. Friday at 7PM at King's Books, 218 St. Helens, Tacoma. Your humble E-Fishwrapping correspondent will read some of the Slaughter poems, some American Sentences, perhaps that new series of poems inspired by the late Bengali Poet Binoy Majumdar and who knows what else? Not me. A great independent bookstore, a reading that persists due to the commitment and stubbornness of Connie Walle and drinks after the show. There will be open mic, as usual.
3) ARTIST TRUST ANNOUNCES 2007
EDGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ARTISTS
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Application Deadline: March 30, 2007
Artists who reside in Washington State are encouraged to apply to participate in the 2007 EDGE Professional Development Training Program.
The EDGE Program provides artists with a comprehensive survey of professional practices through a hands-on, interactive curriculum that includes instruction by professionals in the field as well as specialized presentations, panel discussions, and assignments. The EDGE Program focuses on providing artists with the relevant and necessary entrepreneurial skills to achieve their personal career goals, as well as to develop peer support and exchange among the participating artists.
Contact: Heather Joy Helbach-Olds, Director of Programs at heatherjoy@artisttrust.org, 206/467-8734 x10; toll free 1/866/218-7878
4) Subtext on Wednesday.
by Lindsay Hill & Chris Putnam at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, February 7, 2007. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of
the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.
Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco in 1952. Graduate of Bard College. Began writing under influence of Robert Duncan, Tarn, Rexroth and Rilke. First book Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley 1974). Work has appeared in numerous journals including Sulfur, Caliban and New American Writing. Four other books including most recent Contango (Singing Horse). Past co-editor of poetry/poetics journal Facture. Current focus on sentence-based collage writing. Living in Portland, OR with wife, Nita, and children Ian and Helena. Member of the Spare Room poetry collective.
C.E. Putnam maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research). Some of his chapbooks include Manic Box (2001), Did you ever hear of a thing like that? (2001), Things Keep Happening (2003), and Crawlspace, a forthcoming collaboration with Daniel Comiskey. For this February reading, C.E. Putnam will read cosmic-sex/earthly-love poems. See http://www.pisor-industries.org
5) Bart Baxter performance poetry Contest.
You can win this thing. Really. And that means $300 clams. You can apply now. Just be a WPA member and send two poems in. Be able to perform on Tuesday, April 10 at 7PM at the Richard Hugo House and get your application in by March 1. Pretty simple. If you aren't a contest person, come to watch. http://www.washingtonpoets.org/2007_wpa_bart_baxter_contest_entry_form.php Look there for other contests as well.
6) Search for Peace Art
Contact: Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss 503 646-5449
Calling all Artists, Poets, and Peacemakers, Parents and Teachers!
The 2007 Search For Peace Art Events invites any original artwork relating to peace and non-violence, by artists of all ages. Exhibits are Saturday, March 3, 4 to 7 PM and Sunday, March 4, 10:30 to 3 PM in the St. Andrew Community Center, NE 9th Ave. and Alberta, Portland, and in the St. Pius X Community Center, 1280 NW Saltzman Rd. Portland 97229, in Cedar Mill, March 10, 6 to 7PM and March 11, 8:30AM to 3 PM.
A Poetry and Prose Reading is Saturday, March 10, 7 PM, in the St. Pius X Community Center. For Entry Forms and more information, and to see art works from last years exhibit, go to www.SearchForPeaceArt.org or call 503 646-5449. We encourage parents and teachers to talk with their children and students about peace and nonviolence, and to create related art works. The exhibit theme is "We Search For Peace in our Hearts, Peace in our Families, Peace in the World." Entries must be received by February 26, 2007. Search For Peace engraved Peace Medals, ribbons, and many other prizes, will be awarded for each of the 4 age divisions. Everyone is a winner in the Search For Peace!
Check the web site www.searchforpeaceart.org See photos of the March 2006 Art Exhibit! and information about the 2007 Search For Peace events in March 2007.
Our hope is that as Idiolexicon grows, it will become a harbor for serious argument and dialogue through poetry. Send responses to other poems that have been featured in Idiolexicon. Send responses to other poems that have not been featured in Idiolexicon. Send your notes from yesterday's football game. Send your annotated version of the State of
the Union address. Send the rejection letter you'd send Harold Bloom if you had the chance.
Poetry and short prose pieces, mainly poetry. Slam poets are welcome here. Just don't break anything. Send 3-7 poems, or one long poem. We're interested in doing longer stints with sets of poems that we like, so it might be good to send poems that fit together well. Previously published is fine, if you tell us that it's been previously published, and where.
Simultaneous subs are fine, just let us know if someone good accepts it. If at all possible, send your poems in the body of your email. If that's not possible, send your poems as a PDF file. If that's not possible either, explain in your email why we should trust your Word document not to have a virus in it. We're also interested in mp3 recordings of featured poems (studio-quality or live performance). Send files via yousendit. Send submissions to submissions at idiolexicon dot com.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a
very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly
thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop
artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this
announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
908 I St. N.E. #4
Slaughter, WA 98002 253.735.6328
Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, the deaths of two Seattle giants in their fields, your Fishwrapping correspondent features in Tacoma, Friday, Feb 9 and some literary and culturally creative nuggets for your perusal.
1) Bill Mitchell, N.D. Dead.
Bill Mitchell, a naturopathic doctor who co-founded Bastyr University, died Tuesday of a heart attack after finding his 27 year old son Noah dead. Bill was my doctor and it is terrible that he died so soon and with the grief that must accompany seeing your child dead. I will miss Bill very much. A memorial is to be facilitated by Bastyr University. I wrote a short piece today. The P.I. has an article today and a discussion board.
2) Floyd Standifer dead.
He was a Seattle Jazz legend who played with Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, and a link from the current Jazz scene to the Jackson Street days. Floyd Standifer is dead at 78. P.I. Obit.
3) Paul Nelson features in Tacoma Friday, February 9 at 7P.
The City of Tacoma and The Puget Sound Poetry Connection present:
The Distinguished Writer Series and Open Mic
- NEW LOCATION -
Friday, Feb 9, 7:00 PM @ King's Books
218 St. Helens Avenue
This month's presentation features Paul Nelson
Free admission - not just poetry
2nd Friday of every month - sign up for open mic - 7:00
4) WA State Poet Laureate?
ATTENTION POETS AND SUPPORTERS OF POETRY
We need your help!
The Washington Poets Association has tried for years to convince our legislators to establish the position of Washington State Poet Laureate. While some legislators have supported our cause in the past, most recently 2003, our bill so far has failed to make the cut. This year, that is changing.
With our partners, the Washington State Arts Commission and Humanities Washington, we got the poet laureate into the Governor’s legislative package. Gov. Gregoire even gave it a mention in her State of the State Address on January 9. We have bipartisan support from senators and representatives from the major political parties. We are continuing to work with our partnering organizations on the legislative front. But we know and you know whose voice is really heard in Olympia.
That’s right, if our legislators know YOU feel it’s important to have a poet laureate carry the torch for literature and literacy to communities statewide, they’ll vote yes. If they hear of your concern that Washington is one of just 10 states in the United States that DOESN’T have a poet laureate, they’ll vote yes. If they know you believe in the power of poetry and the power of language as instruments of change, they’ll vote yes.
You can demonstrate that power by writing a short note to your district legislators (and any others you have a relationship with) asking them to support the bills. They are numbered HB 1279 in the House and SB 5649 in the Senate. The legislative hotline is 1.800.562.6000. (Lobbying tips.)
5) Bart Baxter performance poetry Contest.
You can win this thing. Really. And that means $300 clams. Just be a WPA member and send two poems in. Be able to perform on Tuesday, April 10 at 7PM at the Richard Hugo House and get your application in by March 1. Pretty simple. If you aren't a contest person, come to watch. http://www.washingtonpoets.org/2007_wpa_bart_baxter_contest_entry_form.php Look there for other contests as well.
6) What do Anne Waldman, Sonia Sanchez , 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 have in common? AH, all Part of the next Naropa Summer.
www.naropa.edu/swp
Start reading about this summer's faculty and workshops (over 50 workshops
to chose from!), check out info on scholarships (applications due April 2),
download an application to take the SWP for academic credit (priority filing
date is March 15!).
7) Can Mary Lou Sanelli be stopped?!?
No. Her latest book release party is Saturday, February 10 at 7:30PM at Elliott Bay Book Company. Reception to follow at Stir, around the corner.
No. Her latest book release party is Saturday, February 10 at 7:30PM at Elliott Bay Book Company. Reception to follow at Stir, around the corner.
8) 31 words.
FROM: Crane's Bill BooksCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a
very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly
thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.
THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop
artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this
announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
9) Cranky Independent Press Fair Cranky Literary Journal announces (pro)text: An Independent Press Fair. The date for the fair is Saturday, February 17, 2007, from noon until 5 p.m. at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and we invite all literary lovers to join us. It's free and everyone is going to be there.
10) Waging Peace
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED FACILITATOR TRAINING:
"WAGING PEACE - DESIGNING JUSTICE"
(A 6-day intensive workshop w/ community performance
for beginner as well as more experienced T.O. practitioners seeking to
deepen their work.) Facilitated by Marc Weinblatt
When: June 25 – 30, 2007
(M-Th 9:30 AM - 6 PM; Fri 1-10 PM; Sat 10 AM - 4 PM)
Where: Port Townsend, WA
For more info, contact:
360-344-3435
info@mandalaforchange.com
http://www.mandalaforchange.com
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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this Fat-Ass E-Fishwrapper:
1) Michael Dylan Welch talks with your humble E-Fishwrapper Scribe tomorrow night at Park Place Books in Redmond. 7PM.
Captain Haiku probes the latent crannies of SPLABMAN and you can watch. Seriously, this is a teaser for the six week Organic Poetry workshop coordinated by the Richard Hugo House at Park Place Books:
348 Parkplace Ctr
Kirkland, WA 98033
(425) 828-6546Kirkland, WA 98033
as the North American tradition spanning from Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams, to Charles Olson, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Wanda Coleman, Eileen Myles, George Bowering and others Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Eileen Myles and others is discussed, debated and, hopefully, explained (to some extent.)
2) Organic Poetry Workshop Series at Park Place Books Tuesday nights starting Jan 23.
January 23 we start a unique six week workshop series at Park Place Books in Kirkland with an in-depth look at this stance-toward-poem-making and cosmology. There is a tradition of poem-making in North America that Robert Duncan (in dialog with Denise Levertov) called Organic. It is a continuum, and is in-sync with a holistic (organismic) world view. In our workshop we'll hear clips of interviews, and/or poems from poets partial to this approach, experience the state of consciousness that brings such poems into being and see if we can write some. Poets who may be covered include Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, George Bowering, Charles Olson and others. The six week format will allow us to get to a serious depth with this work, though it will also be quite fun. There have already been some signups and the class limit is 15. I'd LOVE to have 15 cool Eastside people, or people willing to go to the Eastside for this series. Please consider.
Instructor: Paul Nelson Meets: Tuesdays, Jan. 23-Feb. 27, 6-8 p.m. Min. 5 Max. 15
Please register today at 206.322.7030.
3) Nico Vassilakis has a new vidpoem out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WNzLcHm8WY
4) Introducing Cascade.
<http://www.washingtonpoets.org/wpa_cascade_journal.php>
All members of the Washington Poets Association are eligible to submit poems to its annual, juried collection of poetry. Poetry will be blind-judged by a panel of independent judges. Top selections (one poem per selected poet) will be published in the journal.
The submission period begins February 1. If you're not currently a member of WPA, the entry form provides an opportunity to join.
5) Announcing Jacket 31
As the shades of 2006 gather to bid us farewell...
the glow of a gleaming new Jacket lights up the night sky...
Jacket 31 - October 2006 - via
http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml
Featuring the late great Robert Creeley...
poetry from the Low Countries...
the Letter to Poets project...
more on the Phlarf Phenomenon...
and millions of poems, reviews, articles, and interviews.
6) Death Poems, from Thomas Devaney: I recently had the pleasure to spend a week listening my way through the PennSound achieves to select the Winter 2006-2007 "featured mp3s." The feature tracks include poems by: Elizabeth Willis, James Tate, Joe Brainard, Fanny Howe, Bob Holman, CK Williams, Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan, John Yau, Aaron Kunin, Susan Stewart, Peter Gizzi, Jennifer Moxley, Allen Ginsberg.PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
The loose theme for the selection is: Death Poetry. Here is the link to my headnote essay and brief comments about the poems: Death Poems & PennSound:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/devaney-featured-text.html
-Thomas Devaney
7) Jeanne Lohmann Contest for 2007
The Olympia Poetry Network invites Washington poets to enter the 4th Annual Lohmann Contest. This year, thanks to the generosity of the San Francisco poets that judge the contest, the award for the top 3 winners is now $200.00 each. In 2003, to honor Jeanne's birthday and mentoring, her poet friends from San Francisco (Friends) approached the Olympia Poetry Network (OPN) and asked us to coordinate a contest in Jeanne's name. The Friends would judge the poems, and provide the awards (equal amounts to 3 top poets), while OPN would provide the coordination of the contest. OPN and Friends invite you to enter 1 poem (up to 2 pages, double-spaced). The submittal period begins December 1, 2006 and runs through January 31, 2007. For additional contest information see below or go to our website at http://home.comcast.net/~yake/opn.lohmann.htm
The Olympia Poetry Network invites Washington poets to enter the 4th Annual Lohmann Contest. This year, thanks to the generosity of the San Francisco poets that judge the contest, the award for the top 3 winners is now $200.00 each. In 2003, to honor Jeanne's birthday and mentoring, her poet friends from San Francisco (Friends) approached the Olympia Poetry Network (OPN) and asked us to coordinate a contest in Jeanne's name. The Friends would judge the poems, and provide the awards (equal amounts to 3 top poets), while OPN would provide the coordination of the contest. OPN and Friends invite you to enter 1 poem (up to 2 pages, double-spaced). The submittal period begins December 1, 2006 and runs through January 31, 2007. For additional contest information see below or go to our website at http://home.comcast.net/~yake/opn.lohmann.htm
8) Citizens’ Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq: The Case of Lt. Ehren Watada.
When: Saturday and Sunday, January 20-21, exact times to follow.
Where: Evergreen State College, Tacoma Campus (1210 6th Avenue)
Free and Open to the Public
Testifying thus far:
*Daniel Ellsberg, military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers in the Vietnam War; *Denis Halliday, Former UN Assistant Secretary General, coordinated Iraq humanitarian aid; *Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University; *Nadia McCaffrey, Gold Star Families Speak Out; Brussels Tribunal advisory board; *Harvey Tharp, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant and JAG stationed in Iraq; *Antonia Juhasz, policy-analyst and author on U.S. economic policies in Iraq and others.
The Citizens’ Hearing will function as a tribunal to put the Iraq War on trial and will present the case Lt. Watada will not be able to at his court martial. The event will have a format similar to a congressional hearing. For more information, check out www.wartribunal.org <http://www.wartribunal.org/>
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10) Dante gets posthumous nose job - 700 years on - now Paul Nelson awaits his own nasty, nasal fate.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/sc_nm/italy_dante_dc
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