Kathleen Yearwood, Canadian innovator of "folk - concrete" music, will make a rare Seattle appearance at Nectar Lounge Wednesday, November 11th.
She will be joined by local Seattle band, Stephanie Lee & the Northern Lights. Performance poet Noel Franklin will open the show.
Kathleen really is amazing, and I am personally enamored with Stephanie Lee & the Northern Lights--who evoke, at times, The Cowboy Junkies and Natalie Merchant. Kathleen is in a class of her own, and will be performing everything from 15th century french songs to her heart-rending ballad to Steven Jessie Bernstein.
Noel Franklin is coming out of retirement to read some poetry to kick off the set.
Come early! Nectar has great food and drinks. Doors are at 8:00. $3 cover.
Here's links to learn more about these great artists:
http://www.myspace.com/kathleenyearwoodordeal
http://www.myspace.com/stefanieleemusic
Nov 6, 2009
Oct 23, 2009
Poetry Marathon at King's Bookstore in Tacoma
Reading: King's Bookstore, Third Annual Open House and Poetry Marathon
When: Saturday, Nov 14th
Place: 218 St. Helens
Tacoma, WA
Schedule for Marathon
10:55-11:00 Welcome, MC: Maggie Kelly
11:00 -11:20 J. Glenn Evans
11:25 -11:45 Gonya Klein
11:45-12:05 Lin Swanson vocals in memory of Al Kamerzell (one of the founders)
12:10 -12:30 Open Mic - Gerald McBreen hosts
12:35-12:55 Jeanne Lohmann
1:00-1:20 Thomas Hubbard
1:25-1:45 Suma Subramaniam
1:50-2:10 Brendan McBreen
2:15-2:35 Lorraine Healy
2:40-3:00 Julene Tripp Weaver
3:05-3:25 Tammy Rohbacker
3:30-3:50 Open Mic - Tammy Rohbacker hosts
3:55-4:15 Michael Dylan Welch
4:20-4:40 Jim Bertolino
4:45-5:05 Marjorie Rommel
5:10-5:30 Josie Emmons Turner
5:35-6:00 Connie Walle and Maggie Kelly
Refreshments will be available
Oct 5, 2009
It's About Time Writers Reading Series #242
Thurs. Oct. 8, 2009
Ballard Library
6 pm - 7:45 pm
for more info visit It's About Time
Terry Grabstein,Julene Weaver, Susan Starbuck + Jane Alynn on The Writer's Craft
Jane Alynn’s chapbook, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, and StringTown, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she won a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. The title of Jane's craft talk is "Bright Smoke: Contradiction in Poetry"
Terry Grabstein earned a Certificate in Nonfiction Writing and a Certificate in Literary Fiction Writing from the University of Washington. She has contributed work to Writers in Performance Anthology, Mercer Island Reporter, The Leaflet, and Between the Lines. Silken Water, (Finishing Line Press, 2009), is her first poetry collection.
Julene Tripp Weaver moved to Seattle from NYC in 1989. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails her Blues, with poems inspired by her work during the past 18 years in HIV Services. Her poems are published in many journals on and off line.
Susan Starbuck, Ph.D., M.F.A., published a biography in 2002, Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. Then she turned her back on history and converted to fiction. She currently teaches writing and literature at Antioch University Seattle, and she grew two 12-inch diameter pumpkins in her garden.
Ballard Library
6 pm - 7:45 pm
for more info visit It's About Time
Terry Grabstein,Julene Weaver, Susan Starbuck + Jane Alynn on The Writer's Craft
Jane Alynn’s chapbook, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, and StringTown, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she won a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. The title of Jane's craft talk is "Bright Smoke: Contradiction in Poetry"
Terry Grabstein earned a Certificate in Nonfiction Writing and a Certificate in Literary Fiction Writing from the University of Washington. She has contributed work to Writers in Performance Anthology, Mercer Island Reporter, The Leaflet, and Between the Lines. Silken Water, (Finishing Line Press, 2009), is her first poetry collection.
Julene Tripp Weaver moved to Seattle from NYC in 1989. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails her Blues, with poems inspired by her work during the past 18 years in HIV Services. Her poems are published in many journals on and off line.
Susan Starbuck, Ph.D., M.F.A., published a biography in 2002, Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. Then she turned her back on history and converted to fiction. She currently teaches writing and literature at Antioch University Seattle, and she grew two 12-inch diameter pumpkins in her garden.
Sep 12, 2009
Key West Literary Seminar Awards
Passing along this invitation from Arlo Haskell:
I wanted to let you know about three awards for emerging writers offered by the Key West Literary Seminar. I thought you or someone you know might like to apply.
Our Johnson, Russo, and Merrill awards recognize excellence in a manuscript submission from an emerging writer. Each will provide full tuition to our Seminar and Writers' Workshop Program this January 7-14, as well as support for travel expenses to Key West and lodging and living expenses while here. Winners also have an opportunity to appear on stage during the Seminar and present their work to an influential audience of publishers, agents, and other literary professionals.
The deadline for applications is September 30. Our application guidelines can be found at the link below. To stay connected with the Seminar, check out Littoral, our online journal, or find us on Facebook or Twitter.
Arlo Haskell
media director
Key West Literary Seminar
718 Love Lane
Key West, FL, 33040
www.kwls.org
office: 305-293-9291
I wanted to let you know about three awards for emerging writers offered by the Key West Literary Seminar. I thought you or someone you know might like to apply.
Our Johnson, Russo, and Merrill awards recognize excellence in a manuscript submission from an emerging writer. Each will provide full tuition to our Seminar and Writers' Workshop Program this January 7-14, as well as support for travel expenses to Key West and lodging and living expenses while here. Winners also have an opportunity to appear on stage during the Seminar and present their work to an influential audience of publishers, agents, and other literary professionals.
The deadline for applications is September 30. Our application guidelines can be found at the link below. To stay connected with the Seminar, check out Littoral, our online journal, or find us on Facebook or Twitter.
Arlo Haskell
media director
Key West Literary Seminar
718 Love Lane
Key West, FL, 33040
www.kwls.org
office: 305-293-9291
Sep 6, 2009
It's About Time Writers Reading Series #241
Thurs. Sept. 10, 2009
Ballard Library
6 pm - 7:45 pm
for more info visit It's About Time
Sarah Vap, Todd Fredson, Susan Rich + Jeff Encke on The Writer's Craft
Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards. Jeff will be reading from his essay Unwinding the Given: On Linda Bierds originally published in Octopus magazine.
Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband and their two sons on the Olympic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner’s Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.
Todd Fredson's poems have appeared in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, Gulf Coast, First Intensity, Pistola, Puerto del Sol, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He has received several awards in support of his work. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 2007. He is the director of programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal and a writer for Read Right Systems in Shelton, WA. Todd lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their two sons.
Susan Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times (of London) Literary Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Recent poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. Susan Rich grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and now makes her home in Seattle.
Ballard Library
6 pm - 7:45 pm
for more info visit It's About Time
Sarah Vap, Todd Fredson, Susan Rich + Jeff Encke on The Writer's Craft
Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards. Jeff will be reading from his essay Unwinding the Given: On Linda Bierds originally published in Octopus magazine.
Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband and their two sons on the Olympic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner’s Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.
Todd Fredson's poems have appeared in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, Gulf Coast, First Intensity, Pistola, Puerto del Sol, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He has received several awards in support of his work. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 2007. He is the director of programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal and a writer for Read Right Systems in Shelton, WA. Todd lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their two sons.
Susan Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times (of London) Literary Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Recent poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. Susan Rich grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and now makes her home in Seattle.
Aug 21, 2009
Chrysanthemum Literary Society Presents: A Poetry Reading
Free & open to the public!
Featuring:
Dana Guthrie Martin
Noel Franklin
Elizabeth Myhr
Kristen McHenry
Cathy (Cat) Ruiz
with host Koon Woon and special guest Martin Ingerson!
This event is the Inaugaural Poetry Reading of the Chrysanthemum Literary Society Society.
Please join us for poetry, refreshments, and great company!
Time:
Saturday, September 19th
10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m.
Place:
The Beacon Hill branch of
the Seattle Public Library:
2821 Beacon Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144
(206) 684 - 4711
The location is on bus routes #36 and #60 and the light rail depot, and there is plenty of parking in the library parking lot or on the street.
For further information contact: Koon Woon at 206 - 723 - 6854 or email nooknoow@aol.com
Featuring:
Dana Guthrie Martin
Noel Franklin
Elizabeth Myhr
Kristen McHenry
Cathy (Cat) Ruiz
with host Koon Woon and special guest Martin Ingerson!
This event is the Inaugaural Poetry Reading of the Chrysanthemum Literary Society Society.
Please join us for poetry, refreshments, and great company!
Time:
Saturday, September 19th
10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m.
Place:
The Beacon Hill branch of
the Seattle Public Library:
2821 Beacon Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144
(206) 684 - 4711
The location is on bus routes #36 and #60 and the light rail depot, and there is plenty of parking in the library parking lot or on the street.
For further information contact: Koon Woon at 206 - 723 - 6854 or email nooknoow@aol.com
Aug 19, 2009
Call for Submissions: 100 Words or Fewer Writing Contest
Deadline: October 20, 2009
This is our third contest, our third opportunity to receive inspiring short fiction. We are celebrating with two prizes for a total of five. An innovation is the posting, on our website, of our checkmark evaluation grid. Now entrants will see what the "grid" is all about.
The theme is open--We welcome whimsy, allegory, mystery, romance, fable, humor, love, fantasy, even horror.
Awards: $400 (first), $200 (second), $100 (third) $50 (fourth) and $50 (fifth).
Winning stories are published on the website and ten Honorable Mentions listed by name of author and name of story.
Entry Fee: $15; with Scored checkmark evaluation: $18. A critique is $12, or with entry and checkmark, $30.
Please look into our website for guidelines, plus past winning stories and examples of critiques.
http://www.100wordsorfewerwritingcontest.com/
This is our third contest, our third opportunity to receive inspiring short fiction. We are celebrating with two prizes for a total of five. An innovation is the posting, on our website, of our checkmark evaluation grid. Now entrants will see what the "grid" is all about.
The theme is open--We welcome whimsy, allegory, mystery, romance, fable, humor, love, fantasy, even horror.
Awards: $400 (first), $200 (second), $100 (third) $50 (fourth) and $50 (fifth).
Winning stories are published on the website and ten Honorable Mentions listed by name of author and name of story.
Entry Fee: $15; with Scored checkmark evaluation: $18. A critique is $12, or with entry and checkmark, $30.
Please look into our website for guidelines, plus past winning stories and examples of critiques.
http://www.100wordsorfewerwritingcontest.com/
Jul 30, 2009
Call for Submissions: Reginald Shepherd Memorial Prize
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO ENTER): The 2009 Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. Final judge: Carl Phillips. Deadline: 8/1/09. Prizes include $300, $50, and $25 gift certificates to Powell's Books and publication of winning poems in Knockout. Guidelines: http://www.knockoutlit.org/rsprize.htm
Jul 10, 2009
Note: Change of Venue
Last weekend, the few of us who met at Grey Gallery found the cafe closed -- open to install art, but closed to people wanting beer, wine, and crepes. Apparently they weren't getting much afternoon business.
For the time being, we're relocating the Capitol Hill meetings to the Elysian Brewing Company a couple blocks away.
We're meeting at Brouwer's July 19. The Elysian August 2.
For the time being, we're relocating the Capitol Hill meetings to the Elysian Brewing Company a couple blocks away.
We're meeting at Brouwer's July 19. The Elysian August 2.
Jul 4, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009 #239
Authur Tulee, Jeff Encke, Jane Alynn + Laura McKee on The Writer's Craft
Laura McKee holds a B.A. in French and English from the University of Utah, and an M.F.A from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in Rhino, Mid-American Review, Campbell’s Corner, Identity Theory, Konundrum, Cutbank, and Denver Quarterly. Her book, Uttermost Paradise Place, was chosen this year by Claudia Keelan for the APR Honickman 1st Book Prize and will be published in the fall. She works at Cornish College of the Arts.
Arthur Tulee was born and raised on the Yakama Indian Reservation and graduated from Washington State University in 1990, receiving a B.A. in English. He is currently living and working in the Seattle metropolitan area. He is excited to read all brand new material for this It's About Time.
Jane Alynn is a poet and fine-art photographer. Alynn’s first collection of poems, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, Manorborn, Snowy Egret, StringTown, and Switched-on Gutenberg, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she was awarded a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and currently lives in Anacortes.
Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards.
Laura McKee holds a B.A. in French and English from the University of Utah, and an M.F.A from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in Rhino, Mid-American Review, Campbell’s Corner, Identity Theory, Konundrum, Cutbank, and Denver Quarterly. Her book, Uttermost Paradise Place, was chosen this year by Claudia Keelan for the APR Honickman 1st Book Prize and will be published in the fall. She works at Cornish College of the Arts.
Arthur Tulee was born and raised on the Yakama Indian Reservation and graduated from Washington State University in 1990, receiving a B.A. in English. He is currently living and working in the Seattle metropolitan area. He is excited to read all brand new material for this It's About Time.
Jane Alynn is a poet and fine-art photographer. Alynn’s first collection of poems, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, Manorborn, Snowy Egret, StringTown, and Switched-on Gutenberg, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she was awarded a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and currently lives in Anacortes.
Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards.
Jul 2, 2009
Wave Books Poetry Weekend, Aug 14-16
Here's a note Matt Zapruder posted on Facebook. They're offering an amazing lineup of readers, including my friends Rachel Zucker and Maggie Nelson. Not to be missed.
Purchase tix here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79
*******************
Hello to you all. We are writing to you with an update about the Wave Books three-day poetry event, this coming August. We've received enthusiastic responses, both from people who have confirmed their attendance, and also from some of you who are excited to attend, but are finding yourselves unable to afford the current price. We want to make it possible for as many of our readers and supporters to attend, so we are reducing the price, and have added an additional option for attending:
Festival tickets grant you access to:
READINGS -- in the Henry Auditorium, with smaller, exclusive readings in the James Turrell Skyspace -- featuring Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Lasky, Anthony McCann, Richard Meier, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Ruefle, Dara Wier, Jon Woodward, Matthew Zapruder and Rachel Zucker;
SCREENINGS OF FILMS starring John Ashbery, Robin Blaser, Jane Freilicher, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Wieners, and others;
poetry book DISCOUNTS at fourteen participating local, independent bookstores (a map will be provided);
a BOOK ARTS PRESENTATION by Sandra Kroupa, the Book Arts and Rare Book Curator in Special Collections at the University of Washington;
the Henry Art Gallery and EXHIBITIONS, including exhibitions of work by Chio Aoshima, Jasper Johns, Ann Lislegaard, Jeffrey Mitchell & Tivon Rice; new video from China; and photographic work by Imogen Cunningham, Nan Goldin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, and others, from the Henry's permanent collection;
and more, to be discovered...
We are REDUCING THE PRICE OF THE EVENT PASSES to $75 ($50 students). The passes will get you into all of the readings, the film screenings, book arts presentation, with access to the Henry Art Gallery and exhibitions. The pass also grants you local bookstore discounts, and includes a welcome packet with additional information and materials.
We are also offering a FULL SCHOLARSHIP to 10 people who would be otherwise unable to attend, and who can confirm they will be in attendance for all three days. Through the generosity of a donor, we are able to offer 10 Full Scholarships, which include all of the benefits and materials for a regular Event Pass. We are hoping that these Scholarships will make it possible for those who cannot otherwise attend to be there for the entire weekend. Please email us at wavepoetryweekend@gmail.com, and let us know a little bit about yourselves. Act soon, as this offer will disappear quickly.
Please let us know if you have any questions at all. You can reach us at wavepoetryweekend@gmail.com, or visit the Wave website at http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79. We greatly appreciate your interest, and we look forward to seeing you here in Seattle this August!
Sincerely,
Wave Books
1938 Fairview Avenue East, Suite 201
Seattle, Washington 98102
http://www.wavepoetry.com
http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79
http://www.henryart.org/
Purchase tix here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79
*******************
Hello to you all. We are writing to you with an update about the Wave Books three-day poetry event, this coming August. We've received enthusiastic responses, both from people who have confirmed their attendance, and also from some of you who are excited to attend, but are finding yourselves unable to afford the current price. We want to make it possible for as many of our readers and supporters to attend, so we are reducing the price, and have added an additional option for attending:
Festival tickets grant you access to:
READINGS -- in the Henry Auditorium, with smaller, exclusive readings in the James Turrell Skyspace -- featuring Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Lasky, Anthony McCann, Richard Meier, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Ruefle, Dara Wier, Jon Woodward, Matthew Zapruder and Rachel Zucker;
SCREENINGS OF FILMS starring John Ashbery, Robin Blaser, Jane Freilicher, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Wieners, and others;
poetry book DISCOUNTS at fourteen participating local, independent bookstores (a map will be provided);
a BOOK ARTS PRESENTATION by Sandra Kroupa, the Book Arts and Rare Book Curator in Special Collections at the University of Washington;
the Henry Art Gallery and EXHIBITIONS, including exhibitions of work by Chio Aoshima, Jasper Johns, Ann Lislegaard, Jeffrey Mitchell & Tivon Rice; new video from China; and photographic work by Imogen Cunningham, Nan Goldin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, and others, from the Henry's permanent collection;
and more, to be discovered...
We are REDUCING THE PRICE OF THE EVENT PASSES to $75 ($50 students). The passes will get you into all of the readings, the film screenings, book arts presentation, with access to the Henry Art Gallery and exhibitions. The pass also grants you local bookstore discounts, and includes a welcome packet with additional information and materials.
We are also offering a FULL SCHOLARSHIP to 10 people who would be otherwise unable to attend, and who can confirm they will be in attendance for all three days. Through the generosity of a donor, we are able to offer 10 Full Scholarships, which include all of the benefits and materials for a regular Event Pass. We are hoping that these Scholarships will make it possible for those who cannot otherwise attend to be there for the entire weekend. Please email us at wavepoetryweekend@gmail.com, and let us know a little bit about yourselves. Act soon, as this offer will disappear quickly.
Please let us know if you have any questions at all. You can reach us at wavepoetryweekend@gmail.com, or visit the Wave website at http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79. We greatly appreciate your interest, and we look forward to seeing you here in Seattle this August!
Sincerely,
Wave Books
1938 Fairview Avenue East, Suite 201
Seattle, Washington 98102
http://www.wavepoetry.com
http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79
http://www.henryart.org/
Jun 12, 2009
Pongo Press looking for volunteers
Pongo is doing wonderfully and looking for volunteers for the fall. Pongo volunteers will make a six-month commitment (once a week for three hours plus), and they will learn our techniques for helping abused, neglected, and other traumatized youth to express themselves therapeutically through poetry. More information is included below.
[PLEASE FORWARD this email to individuals and organizations who might be interested!]
WHAT IS PONGO? Since 1992, the Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project has worked with teens who are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading difficult lives. We help young people express themselves through poetry, and the teens often write about traumatic life experiences. Through creative writing, Pongo helps its authors communicate feelings, build self-esteem, and take better control of their lives. Each summer we publish chapbook compilations of the teens’ work. The chapbooks are distributed free to incarcerated youth and others. You can find out more about us at www.pongopublishing.org.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AND FREE TRAINING: Are you interested in learning how to use creative writing therapeutically with incarcerated, homeless, and other distressed youth? The Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project is offering volunteer opportunities and trainings at several sites this fall, to run mid-September 2006 to mid-April 2007. The sites and possible schedules include:
King County Juvenile Detention, Seattle, Tuesdays, noon-3:15 PM
Child Study and Treatment Center (state psychiatric hospital), Tacoma, Mondays, noon-3:15 PM
(Please feel free to contact us if you will not be available on these schedules but would like to be informed about schedule changes or other volunteer opportunities.)
People who join the Pongo program will be well-trained and well-supervised, and they will work as part of a close-knit team of four to six people, under the direction of a Pongo project leader. Every weekly session includes one hour of training (with discussion about poetry, traumatized youth, and writing activities).
We are looking for mature individuals who have a clear understanding of personal boundaries and an ability to adapt to institutional rules. Ideal candidates will write poetry, have education as teachers or counselors, and have experience working with distressed youth. Candidates must make a commitment to attending the weekly Pongo sessions, being on time, and staying with the program until its completion in
April.
If you are interested in becoming a Pongo volunteer, please contact us soon. Spaces are limited, and the application and interview process must be completed in early August. You can begin this process by emailing us a copy of your resume and samples of your poetry. Our address is info@pongopublishing.org. We welcome your questions, too.
Cheers!
Richard Gold
Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project
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The Pongo Teen Writing Project was the subject of a recent radio story and several newspaper articles, and these are available at
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=14624
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com:80/local/360589_juviepoets25.html
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/increasing-the-vocabulation-reducing-the-distress/Content?oid=1540629#comment-1622338
[PLEASE FORWARD this email to individuals and organizations who might be interested!]
WHAT IS PONGO? Since 1992, the Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project has worked with teens who are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading difficult lives. We help young people express themselves through poetry, and the teens often write about traumatic life experiences. Through creative writing, Pongo helps its authors communicate feelings, build self-esteem, and take better control of their lives. Each summer we publish chapbook compilations of the teens’ work. The chapbooks are distributed free to incarcerated youth and others. You can find out more about us at www.pongopublishing.org.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AND FREE TRAINING: Are you interested in learning how to use creative writing therapeutically with incarcerated, homeless, and other distressed youth? The Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project is offering volunteer opportunities and trainings at several sites this fall, to run mid-September 2006 to mid-April 2007. The sites and possible schedules include:
King County Juvenile Detention, Seattle, Tuesdays, noon-3:15 PM
Child Study and Treatment Center (state psychiatric hospital), Tacoma, Mondays, noon-3:15 PM
(Please feel free to contact us if you will not be available on these schedules but would like to be informed about schedule changes or other volunteer opportunities.)
People who join the Pongo program will be well-trained and well-supervised, and they will work as part of a close-knit team of four to six people, under the direction of a Pongo project leader. Every weekly session includes one hour of training (with discussion about poetry, traumatized youth, and writing activities).
We are looking for mature individuals who have a clear understanding of personal boundaries and an ability to adapt to institutional rules. Ideal candidates will write poetry, have education as teachers or counselors, and have experience working with distressed youth. Candidates must make a commitment to attending the weekly Pongo sessions, being on time, and staying with the program until its completion in
April.
If you are interested in becoming a Pongo volunteer, please contact us soon. Spaces are limited, and the application and interview process must be completed in early August. You can begin this process by emailing us a copy of your resume and samples of your poetry. Our address is info@pongopublishing.org. We welcome your questions, too.
Cheers!
Richard Gold
Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project
======
The Pongo Teen Writing Project was the subject of a recent radio story and several newspaper articles, and these are available at
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=14624
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com:80/local/360589_juviepoets25.html
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/increasing-the-vocabulation-reducing-the-distress/Content?oid=1540629#comment-1622338
Jun 8, 2009
It's About Time Writers Reading Series #238
Beginning & Experienced Writers & Poets Read Their Work
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089
Thurs. June 11, 2009 #238
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Wheelchair accessible. Free
open mike before and in between scheduled readers
open mike readers have 3 minutes to read
scheduled writers read 15 minutes
writer's craft talk 20 min
Thurs. June 11, 2009 #238 Deborah Woodard, Michael Daley, Priscilla Long + Bethany Reid on The Writer's Craft
Bethany Reid is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Coyotes and My Mom (1990), and the co-author, with Thomas M. Gaskin, of Everett and Snohomish County (Wyndham Press, 2005). Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous small presses and literary journals, including Calyx, Santa Clara Review, Cairn, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, and Twins. Bethany earned her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she was a poetry editor and later interview and essay editor of The Seattle Review.
Michael Daley published The Straits (Empty Bowl, Port Townsend) in 1983, Way Out There, essays (Pleasure Boat Studio, New York), in 2007, and To Curve (Word, Cincinnati) in 2008. Moonlight In The Redemptive Forest, including an Artist Trust sponsored cd, is due from Pleasure Boat in 2009.
Priscilla Long's work appears widely in journals, including Passages North and The American Scholar. Her honors include a National Magazine Award. She is author of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry. She serves as Senior Editor of www.historylink.org http://www.historylink.org/, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
Deborah Woodard’s first full-length collection is Plato’s Bad Horse (Bear Star, 2006). Her chapbook Hunter Mnemonics (hemel press, 2008) was illustrated by artist Heide Hinrichs. Her co-translation from the Italian of Amelia Rosselli in conjunction with Giuseppe Leporace, The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems 1953-1981, was recently published by Chelsea Editions (2009). Deborah teaches at the Richard Hugo House, a community literary center in Capitol Hill.
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089
Thurs. June 11, 2009 #238
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Wheelchair accessible. Free
open mike before and in between scheduled readers
open mike readers have 3 minutes to read
scheduled writers read 15 minutes
writer's craft talk 20 min
Thurs. June 11, 2009 #238 Deborah Woodard, Michael Daley, Priscilla Long + Bethany Reid on The Writer's Craft
Bethany Reid is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Coyotes and My Mom (1990), and the co-author, with Thomas M. Gaskin, of Everett and Snohomish County (Wyndham Press, 2005). Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous small presses and literary journals, including Calyx, Santa Clara Review, Cairn, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, and Twins. Bethany earned her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she was a poetry editor and later interview and essay editor of The Seattle Review.
Michael Daley published The Straits (Empty Bowl, Port Townsend) in 1983, Way Out There, essays (Pleasure Boat Studio, New York), in 2007, and To Curve (Word, Cincinnati) in 2008. Moonlight In The Redemptive Forest, including an Artist Trust sponsored cd, is due from Pleasure Boat in 2009.
Priscilla Long's work appears widely in journals, including Passages North and The American Scholar. Her honors include a National Magazine Award. She is author of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry. She serves as Senior Editor of www.historylink.org http://www.historylink.org/, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
Deborah Woodard’s first full-length collection is Plato’s Bad Horse (Bear Star, 2006). Her chapbook Hunter Mnemonics (hemel press, 2008) was illustrated by artist Heide Hinrichs. Her co-translation from the Italian of Amelia Rosselli in conjunction with Giuseppe Leporace, The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems 1953-1981, was recently published by Chelsea Editions (2009). Deborah teaches at the Richard Hugo House, a community literary center in Capitol Hill.
Jun 6, 2009
An Impasse of Poets @ SAM
Live installation with 100 poets
SAM Downtown | Seattle Art Museum
8-9PM Thursday 11 June 2009
Line drawing by Richard C. Allin after Matisse
Event Details
Experience guerilla poetry at The Seattle Art Museum this summer. At 8pm on Thursday June 11, artist and poet A. K. “Mimi” Allin will present her first of three events at SAM Downtown – An Impasse of Poets.
The above list of local poets will move through the museum, gather around specific works and drape themselves over The Grand Staircase while reciting poetry from memory and in response to the artwork. The poet will physically and verbally embody SAM's galleries and artworks. Their voices will come together to form whispering walls—impasses—of poetry here and there.
Do Ho Suh’s artwork, “Some/One,” currently on display in SAM’s Ebsworth Gallery, is one of the works the group will address. The group hopes to bring this and other works to life through their words. “Some/One” takes the shape of an emperor’s jacket made of stainless steel military dog-tags. The parts symbolize the individuals that came together to make the larger whole. They also signify loss, but the result it a glorious jacket, larger and grander than its parts.
Come to the SAM on June 11th. Experience "An Impasse" first-hand in the galleries or hang out in the lobby and listen for free. Wireless microphones will broadcast the group’s poetic output, in live time, to the main lobby (Brotman Forum). As you listen, imagine the above mass of poets enveloping your favorite work, zigzagging down the halls and infusing the art you love with their words. An Impasse of Poets will perform 6 times over the course of an hour, creating impasses with their bodies and words on all 4 levels of the SAM.
Event Schedule
8:00pm – ESCALATORS b/w Level 2 & 3 (behind ticket booth in lobby)
8:15pm – 3 groups simultaneously address 3 areas
* Group #1 – TACK & JIBE EXHIBIT – hallway NE corner – Level 3
* Group #2 – THE PORCELAIN ROOM – Level 4
* Group #3 – THE ITALIAN ROOM – NE corner – Level 4
8:30pm – SOME/ONE by DO HO SUH – Ebsworth Gallery – Level 3
8:45pm – THE GRAND STAIRCASE inside 1st Ave & University St.
Why an Impasse?
It is a mission of Allin’s to bring poetry to unexpected places. She uses performance, visual art and participation as ways of inviting the public to think, act and create. Allin is looking not only for ways to interject poetry into our public and social spaces, but into our culture and daily lives.
Thank you
The poets of Seattle dedicate this performance to the Seattle Art Museum, to its permanent and special collections and to Mimi Gates.
SAM Downtown | Seattle Art Museum
8-9PM Thursday 11 June 2009
Line drawing by Richard C. Allin after MatisseEvent Details
Experience guerilla poetry at The Seattle Art Museum this summer. At 8pm on Thursday June 11, artist and poet A. K. “Mimi” Allin will present her first of three events at SAM Downtown – An Impasse of Poets.
The above list of local poets will move through the museum, gather around specific works and drape themselves over The Grand Staircase while reciting poetry from memory and in response to the artwork. The poet will physically and verbally embody SAM's galleries and artworks. Their voices will come together to form whispering walls—impasses—of poetry here and there.
Do Ho Suh’s artwork, “Some/One,” currently on display in SAM’s Ebsworth Gallery, is one of the works the group will address. The group hopes to bring this and other works to life through their words. “Some/One” takes the shape of an emperor’s jacket made of stainless steel military dog-tags. The parts symbolize the individuals that came together to make the larger whole. They also signify loss, but the result it a glorious jacket, larger and grander than its parts.
Come to the SAM on June 11th. Experience "An Impasse" first-hand in the galleries or hang out in the lobby and listen for free. Wireless microphones will broadcast the group’s poetic output, in live time, to the main lobby (Brotman Forum). As you listen, imagine the above mass of poets enveloping your favorite work, zigzagging down the halls and infusing the art you love with their words. An Impasse of Poets will perform 6 times over the course of an hour, creating impasses with their bodies and words on all 4 levels of the SAM.
Event Schedule
8:00pm – ESCALATORS b/w Level 2 & 3 (behind ticket booth in lobby)
8:15pm – 3 groups simultaneously address 3 areas
* Group #1 – TACK & JIBE EXHIBIT – hallway NE corner – Level 3
* Group #2 – THE PORCELAIN ROOM – Level 4
* Group #3 – THE ITALIAN ROOM – NE corner – Level 4
8:30pm – SOME/ONE by DO HO SUH – Ebsworth Gallery – Level 3
8:45pm – THE GRAND STAIRCASE inside 1st Ave & University St.
Why an Impasse?
It is a mission of Allin’s to bring poetry to unexpected places. She uses performance, visual art and participation as ways of inviting the public to think, act and create. Allin is looking not only for ways to interject poetry into our public and social spaces, but into our culture and daily lives.
Thank you
The poets of Seattle dedicate this performance to the Seattle Art Museum, to its permanent and special collections and to Mimi Gates.
THE FIELD 2009 Summer Sessions
The Field | Seattle
The Field is the most liberating thing an artist, poet or performer can do for themselves. It's a way of owning your work. It keeps us from asking others to fix our work and begins with the assumption that our work is as we intend it to be. Then, we can begin to dialog about the affect it is having on others and determine where next to take our art. The cost of a Field Session certainly won't be what inhibits you. Sessions are facilitated by working artists who show and give feedback right along with the other participants.
Mostly Poets Session
Sundays, 2 to 4 p.m.
July 12 to August 30 2009
Facilitated by A. K. Mimi Allin
This is our first mostly for poets session. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to enroll. Mimi is an accomplished poet, as well as a performance artist and organizer of extraordinary events.
Mixed Disciplines
Wednesdays 7 to 9:30 p.m.
July 8 to August 26 6
Co-facilitated by Karen Kinch and Karl Thunemann
Mixed disciplines is a summer tradition at The Field - Seattle. Come and do the work that you love,
or explore the work that you would love to try.
THE FIELD is a place for artists to learn more about their work, develop their ability to give feedback, and to join a community of artistic peers. The goal of The Field is to provide structure and support for an artist’s process. It is a place where artists develop their own craft at their own pace. The Field is open to artists at all levels and disciples, Field Sessions are aesthetically diverse.
The Details
To enroll or ask questions, email thefieldseattle@gmail.com. Sessions are filled on a first-come first-served basis. Fees for participating in an 8-week session are $60 if it's your first, and $50 if you have participated before. If you enroll in two sessions, the fees are $100 and $80, respectively.
Location
All sessions are held at
Studio Current
1417 10th Ave,
btwn E. Pike & E. Union,
Go through door to Sweatbox Yoga and follow hallways to back
The Field is the most liberating thing an artist, poet or performer can do for themselves. It's a way of owning your work. It keeps us from asking others to fix our work and begins with the assumption that our work is as we intend it to be. Then, we can begin to dialog about the affect it is having on others and determine where next to take our art. The cost of a Field Session certainly won't be what inhibits you. Sessions are facilitated by working artists who show and give feedback right along with the other participants.
Mostly Poets Session
Sundays, 2 to 4 p.m.
July 12 to August 30 2009
Facilitated by A. K. Mimi Allin
This is our first mostly for poets session. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to enroll. Mimi is an accomplished poet, as well as a performance artist and organizer of extraordinary events.
Mixed Disciplines
Wednesdays 7 to 9:30 p.m.
July 8 to August 26 6
Co-facilitated by Karen Kinch and Karl Thunemann
Mixed disciplines is a summer tradition at The Field - Seattle. Come and do the work that you love,
or explore the work that you would love to try.
THE FIELD is a place for artists to learn more about their work, develop their ability to give feedback, and to join a community of artistic peers. The goal of The Field is to provide structure and support for an artist’s process. It is a place where artists develop their own craft at their own pace. The Field is open to artists at all levels and disciples, Field Sessions are aesthetically diverse.
The Details
To enroll or ask questions, email thefieldseattle@gmail.com. Sessions are filled on a first-come first-served basis. Fees for participating in an 8-week session are $60 if it's your first, and $50 if you have participated before. If you enroll in two sessions, the fees are $100 and $80, respectively.
Location
All sessions are held at
Studio Current
1417 10th Ave,
btwn E. Pike & E. Union,
Go through door to Sweatbox Yoga and follow hallways to back
May 30, 2009
Request for collaboration with photographers in Los Angeles
Jeff,
Hello ! My name is Jerome, and I help organize a new, small photography group here in Los Angeles. I have an idea for a project involving poetry. Maybe we could collaborate? Basically we could take poems written or selected by your member artists and attempt to expose photographs that capture what the essence of the poem means to us, or a message given directly by the poet/writer? And vice versa! We expose photographs, be they abstract, macro, street or any other genre, and your group attempts to expose them through words?
Photographs narrated by the master poets?
What's do you think ?! These clubs are great, but lets collaborate !
Jerome 'Ro'
The Lens Society
877-828-7786
thelenssociety@yahoo.com
Hello ! My name is Jerome, and I help organize a new, small photography group here in Los Angeles. I have an idea for a project involving poetry. Maybe we could collaborate? Basically we could take poems written or selected by your member artists and attempt to expose photographs that capture what the essence of the poem means to us, or a message given directly by the poet/writer? And vice versa! We expose photographs, be they abstract, macro, street or any other genre, and your group attempts to expose them through words?
Photographs narrated by the master poets?
What's do you think ?! These clubs are great, but lets collaborate !
Jerome 'Ro'
The Lens Society
877-828-7786
thelenssociety@yahoo.com
May 28, 2009
Call for submissions: Villanelle anthology
Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali re co-editing an anthology of villanelles. Previously published, experimental use of the form, variations, and recommendations for villanelles from any era all welcome. Please send no more than three to Marie Elizabeth at mem@floweringlotus.com with contact info on each page and publication credit, if previously published, by June 1st.
May 25, 2009
Summer Readings: Julene Tripp Weaver & others
Julene Tripp Weaver is pleased to announce her poem, "Over Here, Over There," has been published in Drash! This poem was written in a variation of a 12th Century Arabic form, Zajal, a call and response form traditionally sang. Come hear me read it at a series of Drash publication readings, coming near you soon!
The First Drash Northwest Mosaic Journal, Publication Reading is this Sunday:
May 31, 3 - 4 pm, Ravenna 3rd Place Books, 6504 – 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA
Additional Drash publication readings where Julene will read:
Saturday, June 6, 7-8:45 pm
Temple Beth Hatfiloh, 201 Eighth Ave SE, Olympia, WA
Saturday, July 25, 4-5:15 pm
Fremont Library, 731 N. 35th St, Seattle, WA
Also coming up, Ginsberg's Birthday Party reading! Come and celebrate Ginsberg & hear some smoking hot poetry!
Thursday, June 4, 7:30- 9 pm
Celebrate Ginsberg's Birthday at “Zen & Poetry”
Featuring: Matt Watts, Deborah Woodard, Julene Tripp Weaver, Dana Guthrie Martin & Brian McGuigan
Richard Hugo House,1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA
Sunday, June 28, 2009, 1-5 pm
Celebrate the third anniversary of the SoulFood Poetry Night with a special party and performances of music and poetry, featuring music and poetry by Band of Poets plus past featured poets!
Complete info at
May 20, 2009
Call for submissions: Bone Bouquet
Bone Bouquet is a biannual online journal of women's poetry. We seek to publish the best new writing by female poets, from artists both established and emerging. We are especially interested in work that is unpredictable, poems that have both sass and authority.
We are currently seeking submissions for our first issue, which will appear as a downloadable .pdf at bonebouquet.wordpress.com in January 2010.
Please send up to five pages of your best work to bonebouquet@gmail.com. Your work should appear as an .rtf attachment or in the body of the email. Also include a short (50 word) biographical note. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as we are notified when work is accepted elsewhere. The reading period will remain open through October 15, 2009.
Some female poets we admire include Catherine Bowman, Mary Ruefle, Eula Biss, and Denise Duhamel.
Krystal Languell
Editor, Bone Bouquet
We are currently seeking submissions for our first issue, which will appear as a downloadable .pdf at bonebouquet.wordpress.com in January 2010.
Please send up to five pages of your best work to bonebouquet@gmail.com. Your work should appear as an .rtf attachment or in the body of the email. Also include a short (50 word) biographical note. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as we are notified when work is accepted elsewhere. The reading period will remain open through October 15, 2009.
Some female poets we admire include Catherine Bowman, Mary Ruefle, Eula Biss, and Denise Duhamel.
Krystal Languell
Editor, Bone Bouquet
Call for submissions: Packingtown Review
The editors of Packingtown Review, a journal of the University of Illinois at Chicago, published by the University of Illinois Press, invite submissions for its second issue to be released in 2010. The journal publishes creative work including: drama, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary translation.
We also seek submission of scholarly papers, including interdisciplinary scholarship, literary criticism, comparative literature, critical theory, rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and political theory.
We also accept for consideration interviews; critical reviews of books, films and the arts in general; genre-bending work that explores or challenges form; and graphic art and photographs.
Whether scholarly or literary, we welcome edgy, fresh writing that may be experimental or that explores boundary crossings of/between genre(s) and form(s). What does it mean when poetry and prose are indistinguishable? What is lost (or found) in translation? When literary form is fluid, what happens to the relationship between art and criticism? Between the creative and the scholarly?
Please send up to 8,000 words (excerpts of longer works are acceptable) of prose (or genre-bending pieces), 40 pages of drama, or 3 to 5 poems (no more than 10 pages) to:
Packingtown Review
UH 2027 M/C 162
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
Deadline: Review of submissions for the second issue continues through September 1. Response time is approximately three months. For more information, visit www.packingtownreview.com or email us at: editors@packingtownreview.com.
To order Issue 1, visit http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/pr.html
We also seek submission of scholarly papers, including interdisciplinary scholarship, literary criticism, comparative literature, critical theory, rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and political theory.
We also accept for consideration interviews; critical reviews of books, films and the arts in general; genre-bending work that explores or challenges form; and graphic art and photographs.
Whether scholarly or literary, we welcome edgy, fresh writing that may be experimental or that explores boundary crossings of/between genre(s) and form(s). What does it mean when poetry and prose are indistinguishable? What is lost (or found) in translation? When literary form is fluid, what happens to the relationship between art and criticism? Between the creative and the scholarly?
Please send up to 8,000 words (excerpts of longer works are acceptable) of prose (or genre-bending pieces), 40 pages of drama, or 3 to 5 poems (no more than 10 pages) to:
Packingtown Review
UH 2027 M/C 162
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
Deadline: Review of submissions for the second issue continues through September 1. Response time is approximately three months. For more information, visit www.packingtownreview.com or email us at: editors@packingtownreview.com.
To order Issue 1, visit http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/pr.html
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