by Ryukan | Mar 23, 2010 | Sponsors
Dear friends and listeners, The Jim Knapp Orchestra will no longer be performing on a regular basis. We have been going 18 years and that seems to be the lifespan for this group as a regular performing organization. I am eternally grateful for the musicians of such...
by Ryukan | Mar 22, 2010 | Sponsors
The Artsmith Salon Series is full of it this spring. 7pm, Mondays, Doe Bay Resort cafe. March 29: poet and American Book Award winner Judith Roche. Judith is the author of three collections of poetry, Myrrh/My Life as a Screamer, Ghosts, and Wisdom of the Body. Judith...
by Ryukan | Mar 22, 2010 | Sponsors
Auntmama’s Storycorner This Thursday Night March 25, 2009 Madison Ave Starbucks 7 PM- 8 PM Kathya Alexander and Auntmama have new work to pilot and… Paul Nelson reads from his book A Time Before Slaughter…a politically poetic story of Auburn as in...
by Ryukan | Mar 21, 2010 | Sponsors
News: Exquisite Disarray Publishing Announces Contest for Washington State Poets { First Book Poetry Contest, Deadline 5/15 } Exquisite Disarray Publishing, in Tacoma, is asking for submission of poetry manuscripts for its first annual First Book Poetry Contest....
by Ryukan | Mar 20, 2010 | Sponsors
Jack Kerouac had his ’49 Hudson; Leonard Cohen had his tower of song; Al Purdy had his humble A-frame cabin in Ameliasburgh, Ontario on the edge of Roblin Lake. The poet George Bowering writes that Prince Edward County, in which Ameliasburgh is situated, reminded him...
by Ryukan | Mar 19, 2010 | Sponsors
The Beat Goes On:Lookout Poets and Backcountry Tales on Ross Lake Gerry Cook; Saul Weisberg; Hannah Sullivan August 26 – 29, 2010 (Thur eve – Sun) 1C / 21 clock hours Learning Center/Ross Lake $255 Cost includes one night shared lodging and four meals at...
by Ryukan | Mar 18, 2010 | Sponsors
Nice work by Mark Weiss here, interviewing the remarkable Jerome Rothenberg: Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet and the author of over eighty books of poetry and ten breakthrough anthologies of experimental and traditional poetries including...
by Ryukan | Mar 17, 2010 | Sponsors
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010 Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location: Jack Straw Foundation’s Studio, Seattle Description Myths, legends & Urban folklore Readings and Performances by Marion Kimes Michael Hureaux Perez Judith Roche David Lloyd Whited April 2,...
by Ryukan | Mar 17, 2010 | Sponsors
Dear Friends, Spring is just around the corner, and Hedgebrook’s six cottages are humming with life. Our 2010 season opened in February with two Master Classes led by Theresa Rebeck and Carolyn Forché, and our first enthusiastic group of writers-in-residence. We...
by Ryukan | Mar 16, 2010 | Sponsors
Dark Coast Quarterly For all submissions to the quarterly e-journal Dark Coast Quarterly please send 1 – 5 pieces of work in short fiction, poetry, essay, or experimental writing with a query letter summarizing your work, your literary history, and your personal...
by Ryukan | Mar 16, 2010 | Sponsors
Take your feet off the sofa, we have a guest coming to Living Room, Tuesday, March 23rd at 7P. He’ll start by discussing his method and reading a few poems, but you’re welcome to join the dialog and read some of your own writing. Suggested donation $3-$10....
by Ryukan | Mar 16, 2010 | Sponsors
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941310,00.html “If he still calls for nothing less than a complete revolution, he also insists that his role within it will be a compassionate and bloodless one. “I’m willing to die for freedom,”...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2010 | Sponsors
Poetry Reading with Paul Nelson Saturday, March 20th, 2010 Father/Poet/Teacher Paul Nelson, co founder of the Northwest SPokenwordLab is author of the recently published Time Before Slaughter, his first book of poetry. He writes one American Sentence every day. Paul...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2010 | Sponsors
Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson Wednesday, March 17, 5-7 p.m. Is the universe a machine based on competition, or an organism based on process, interdependence and relationship? Organic Poetry, a stance toward poem making dubbed by Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov,...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2010 | Sponsors
Event: Red Sky Poetry Theater 2010 Series “Always Open Mic” Start Time: Monday, March 22 at 7:00pm Where: Richard Hugo House Richard Hugo House Street: 1634 11th Avenue City/Town: Seattle, WA View Map Hope to see you there. I’ll be reading work from...
