Every Last Word - A Copper Canyon Press Event at Hugo House

Join Copper Canyon Press for their annual poetry mixer, reading, and book sale. This year the theme is EVERY LAST WORD and the featured author is Jericho Brown. The evening will be a celebration of the gift that is given between the poem and the poetry reader. Copper Canyon staff will be on hand to chat with guests about what they do, and more importantly to play poetry matchmaker, searching for the right book to light up each reader. The first 200 people to RSVP (link below) will receive a complimentary book of poetry at the door. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.

Featured author Jericho Brown is an award winning, roof-raising, highly dynamic poet. He won the American Book Award for his first collection, Please, and will read from his highly anticipated second book, New Testament. Executive Editor Michael Weigers will join Brown on stage to do a bit of dialoging about the making of the book. After the reading, attendees are invited to stick around, shop from our table for holiday gifts, and raise a glass to another great year of poetry.

RSVP link: 

http://www.artscrush.org/event/detail/441882347/EVERY_LAST_WORD_A_celebration_of_poetry_readers

Venue: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle WA 98122

Date/Time: December 7, 2014 / 7 - 10 pm

Call for Submissions—Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem

HUMMINGBIRD: Magazine of the Short Poem is looking for work that expands our understanding of the short poem and poetically shorts our understanding of expansion.

We certainly encourage you to peruse our back issues—not so much to understand our aesthetic, but rather to make (or shove) your way into our conversation as you feel inclined.

We do of course admire the short poem its many formalized incarnations. We're also drawn to experimental and contemporary forms and non-forms. As it so happens, we're especially partial to the long poem and long lines. But then, we're also partial to restrictions, and the restriction of this particular space is brevity.

We edit our white space (or lack of it) as much as we edit the text.

If your poem can do its work in a 4¼” x 5½” space, we'll consider it.

Click here for submission guidelines.

Tinderbox Poetry Journal Seeks Submissions

Tinderbox, a promising new journal brought to us by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins and Molly Sutton Kiefer, is seeking submissions. All forms of poetry welcome (formal to experimental, free verse to hybrid voices, lyric and narrative, language and visual, and all else). They also welcome essays on craft or poetic issues, interviews, conversations, and the like.

Tinderbox launches on June 21 and its first issues will include work by DA Powell, Ed Skoog, Amy Gerstler, Rachel Richardson, Farrah Field, Leslie Harrison, Jennifer Firestone, Kelli Russell Agodon, and Ray Gonzalez, among others.

Submit to Tinderbox here.

CityArtists Funding Program - Deadline July 16

CityArtists is an annual funding program providing support for individual Seattle artists to research, develop and present new, in-progress or remounted work that is taken to the next level. Projects must include a public presentation within the city limits of Seattle. The 2015 cycle will award grants to artists working in dance, music and theater (including scriptwriting) arts. The program encourages a broad range of artistic and cultural expression that reflects Seattle's diversity. Eligibility: Seattle artists/curators working in dance, music and theater (including scriptwriting) arts. Deadline: 11:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2014 (Pacific Daylight Time) Funding Level: Applicants may request up to $8,000. Apply: Online application and guidelines available here. Information Sessions: Informational Workshop Tuesday, June 3, 5—7 p.m. Including tips from past CityArtist recipients Amontaine Woods & John Teske Seattle Public Library-Douglass-Truth Branch: 2300 E. Yesler Way (Central District) Draft Review Monday, June 26, 5—7 p.m. (Call 206-684-7310 for appointment) Richard Hugo House: 1634 11th Ave (Capitol Hill) Info: For questions about the program and application, contact Irene Gómez, (206) 684-7310. For technical support for the online application, call (206) 684-7171.

Drunken Boat Book Contest (Poetry, Hybrid & Translation

Drunken Boat seeks entries for its inaugural book contest in poetry, open to any work of poetry in English (hybrid, multi-authored, and translations into English are welcome). Winner receives publication, $500, 20 author copies, a debut reading at AWP, and ads in print and online sources. Drunken Boat books are distributed by SPD. Excerpts from all finalists judged in house by the Drunken Boat staff will be featured in a special folio in an issue of Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts.

Judge: Forrest Gander
Deadline: June 25, 2014

Open book competition for all writers with no limitations on the amount of work a writer has published. Manuscripts must be between 30 and 120 pages. Manuscripts are judged anonymously. Manuscripts must be previously unpublished as a whole (including self-publishing), but individual works may have been published.

Colleagues, current and recent students, and close friends of the judge are not eligible. Current Drunken Boat staff and interns are not eligible. Entries must be received by June 25, 2014. Reading fee is $25.

Submit here. 

~ Book of Kells: Big Poetry Giveaway! 2014: (Celebrating Year 5!)

~ Book of Kells: Big Poetry Giveaway! 2014: (Celebrating Year 5!)



http://blog.seattlepi.com/witnessingalzheimers/2014/04/05/april-2014s-big-poetry-giveaway/

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

Five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $25,800 each (previously $15,000), will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry.

Submissions will be accepted from March 1 – April 30 of this year, via the online submissions system.

• Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
• Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and no older than 31 years of age as of April 30, 2014.
• Applications must be submitted by April 30, 2014.
• Applications must be made through our submissions website, according to the guidelines below.
• Application materials sent via e-mail or standard mail will not be considered.

To apply, assemble your application materials as a single Word document. This document must include:

• An approximately 250-word introduction to your work (not to exceed one page).
• Ten pages of poems, in standard font and size (Times New Roman, 12pt). You may include multiple poems on one page, but total pages of poems must not exceed ten.
• Publication list. (Optional. If you choose to include it, please do so as the last page of your document.)
• Name this document [LAST NAME]_[FIRST NAME].doc (example: Doe_John.doc).

Finalists will be notified by e-mail by August 1.

Winners will be announced on September 1.

If you have any questions, contact Holly Amos at hamos@poetrymagazine.org.

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About the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Program
Established in 1989 by Ruth Lilly to encourage the further writing and study of poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program has dramatically expanded since its inception. Until 1995, university writing programs nationwide each nominated one student poet for a single fellowship; from 1996 until 2007, two fellowships were awarded. In 2008 the competition was opened to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age, and the number of fellowships increased to five, totaling $75,000. In 2014, the Poetry Foundation received a generous gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund to create the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships, which increased the fellowship amount from $15,000 to $25,800.

Plague Narratives: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe (@Richard Hugo House, beginning Feb 1)

This six-week reading course will look at the rhetorical challenge of representing current and future catastrophic harm and risk, using plague narratives as a point of departure.

Full reading list below.

Meets: Saturday, February 1, 2014 – Saturday, March 8, 2014
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Richard Hugo House

General: $245.00
Members of Hugo House: $220.50

Information on registration and financial aid.

Readings

Week 1 – Introduction to History of the Plague

• John Kelly, The Great Mortality (chapters 1-5)

Week 2 – Some Key Plague Narratives

• Procopius, History of the Wars (Book II, xxii-xxxiii) – 542 AD*
• Boccaccio, The Decameron (Introduction) – 1353 AD**
• Rosemary Horrox (trans. And ed.), The Black Death (various accounts) – 14th Century**
• Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys Diary (1665-1667) (http://www.pepys.info/1665/plague.html)*
• Nathaniel Hodges, Loimologia (sections I-III) – 1672 AD*

Week 3 – Daniel Defoe – A Journal of the Plague Year

• Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year – 1722 AD*

Week 4 – Visions of End Times – Real and Imagined

• Clear and present threats: global warming, new pandemics, Malthusian catastrophe, mass extinction, genetic uniformity and crop blights, bioterrorism, supervolcanic eruptions, megatsunamis
  • Damian Carrington, “Planet likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn” (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/31/planet-will-warm-4c-2100-climate)*
  • Bellamy Pailthorp, “Sea Level Rise Map Shows 30 Wash. Towns Inundated” (http://www.kplu.org/post/sea-level-rise-map-shows-30-wash-towns-inundated)*
  • Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (Chapter 7) – 1798*
  • Molly Billings, “The Influenza Pandemic of 1918” (http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/)*
  • Martin Fackler, “Powerful Quake and Tsunami Devastate Northern Japan” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12japan.html)*
  • Edward Ortiz, “Bioterrorism concerns keep genetic code for new strain of botulism under wraps” (http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/12/18/3674754/bioterrorism-concerns-keep-genetic.html)*
  • University of California Berkeley’s Understanding Evolution website, “Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: cases of missing genetic variation” (http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/agriculture_02)*
  • Rebecca Morelle, “Yellowstone supervolcano ‘even more colossal’” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25312674)*
  • Jim Galasyn, “50 doomiest graphs of 2013” – December 31, 2013 (http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2013/12/50-doomiest-graphs-of-2013.html)*
• Distant and imagined threats: black holes, impact events (asteroids), decline in atmospheric oxygen, experimental accidents (e.g., high-energy physics), technological singularity, extraterrestrial invasion, zombie apocalypse
  • Eben Harrell, “Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears” (http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1838947,00.html)*
  • Phil Plait, “NASA’s Wise Asteroid Hunter Back in Business” (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/20/neowise_nasa_s_asteroid_hunter_is_back_in_business.html)*
  • Peter Tatchell, “The oxygen crisis” (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/13/carbonemissions.climatechange)*
  • Fay Schlesinger, “Stephen Hawking: Earth could be at risk of an invasion by aliens living in ‘massive ships’” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1268712/Stephen-Hawking-Aliens-living-massive-ships-invade-Earth.html)*
  • Ben Popper, “Rapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?” (http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race)*
  • David Wong, “5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen” (http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html)*
• Linear religious eschatology
  • Judaic: various books of the Hebrew  Bible – dating back to the 10th century AD (summary)
  • Christian: Book of Revelation (King James Bible) – 95 AD*
  • Zoroastrian (Persian): Bahman Yasht (or Zand of the Vohuman Yast) – 6th century AD  (read summary)*
  • Islamic: Sūrat al-Qiyāma (75th chapter of the Quran) – 7th century AD

Week 5 – Risk Perception and Coping Mechanisms

• Albert Camus, The Plague
• William S. Burroughs, “Twilight’s Last Gleamings” (from The Paris Review, No. 109, Winter 1988)**
• Kristin Jackson, “Exploring the tragic beauty of Hawaii’s remote Kalaupapa” (http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2020308049_kalaupapahawaiixml.html)*
• David Quammen, “Anticipating the Next Pandemic” (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/anticipating-the-next-pandemic.html?pagewanted=all)*
• Anthony Costello et al, “Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action” (http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1942/1866.full)*
• Coral Davenport, “The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change” (http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-coming-gop-civil-war-over-climate-change-20130509)*
• Helen Thomson, “Japanese fatalistic about risk of death from earthquake” (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20267-japanese-fatalistic-about-risk-of-death-from-earthquake.html)*
• Kenneth Worthy, “Despair, Courage, & Hope in an Age of Environmental Turmoil” (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-green-mind/201311/despair-courage-hope-in-age-environmental-turmoil)*
• James Wesley Rawles, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times(chapter 1, “The Survival Mind-set for Living in Uncertain Times”)**
• Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (chapters 1-2)**
• Emily Matchar, “Boom Times” (http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/outdoor-skills/survival/Boom-Times-20120801.html)*
• Alan Feuer, “The Preppers Next Door” (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregion/the-doomsday-preppers-of-new-york.html?_r=0)*
• Richard Morgan, “Life After Earth: Imagining Survival Beyond This Terra Firma” (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/science/01arc.html)*
• Roger Highfield, “Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1359562/Colonies-in-space-may-be-only-hope-says-Hawking.html)*
• Margaret Hartmann, “The ‘End Times’ Are Upon Us, According to Michele Bachmann” (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/end-times-bachmann.html)*

Week 6 – Understanding Resistance and Inspiring Action

• Stephan Dickert and Paul Slovic, “Unstable values in lifesaving decisions” (http://www.frontiersin.org/cognition/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00294/full)*
• Paul Slovic et al, “Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life” (http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227004861_Insensitivity_to_the_Value_of_Human_Life_A_Study_of_Psychophysical_Numbing/file/50463529ac0c0cac90.pdf)*
• George Marshall, “Why We Find It So Hard to Act Against Climate Change” (http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/climate-action/why-we-find-it-so-hard-to-act-against-climate-change)*
• Dan Gilbert, “If only gay sex caused global warming” (http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/02/opinion/op-gilbert2)*
• Fiza Salim, “Culture, Politics, and Religion: Exploring Resistance to Vaccinations in South Asia” (http://www.academia.edu/3158834/Culture_Politics_and_Religion_Exploring_Resistance_to_Vaccinations_in_South_Asia)*
• Kharunya Paramaguru, “The Battle Over Global Warming Is All in Your Head” (http://science.time.com/2013/08/19/in-denial-about-the-climate-the-psychological-battle-over-global-warming)*
• Dan M. Kahan et al, “The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change” (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1871503_code45442.pdf?abstractid=1871503&mirid=5)*
• Richard Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response (chapter 2, “Why so little is being done about the catastrophic risks”)**
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “World Social Science Report: Changing global environments” (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002233/223388e.pdf)*
• Adam Corner, “Why the World Won’t Listen” (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/ipcc_climate_change_denial_psychology_and_human_nature_trump_science_and.html)*
• Al Gore, “Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?” (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622)*

*Available online

**Will be included in course reader