POETRY E-NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2009

Poets and poetry lovers, Summer is here, and poetry is in the air! As always, the PNW is positively brimming with events guaranteed to make you sweat and cry and beg for air conditioning. Allow me to begin by telling you about a few items near and dear to my heart. I’d like to announce an exciting event: “Words,” a show at Angst Gallery that will feature collaborations between poets, songwriters, and other artists. I am seeking poets and musicians who would like to perform during the opening reception on September 4. See item number 1 below for details on how to submit art for the show, or how to be matched up with a partner-in-crime. I can also send you a PDF file of the entry form if you’d like. On June 10, I will be among those who will help Sage Cohen celebrate her fantastic new book, Writing the Life Poetic, at the Vancouver Barnes & Noble, a great resource for new and experienced writers alike. I am proud to be among those who Sage consulted while preparing the book, and she has very graciously asked some of us to share the mic with her that night. See item number 2 below for more details. I am also writing a monthly blog on poetics and community for Sage’s companion e-zine, also available at http://www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com/. Let me know if you want to read a copy of the e-zine, or just send Sage an email and get on the list. Sage Cohen is a shining example of the generosity I called for at last month’s open mic: a warm, open, talented person who is always thinking of creative ways to spread the word and get as many people as possible involved in our poetry community. And of course, as always, I am really looking forward to: Open Mic Poetry hosted by Christopher Luna 7:00pm Thursday, June 11, 2009 (& every second Thursday) Cover to Cover Books 1817 Main Street, Vancouver McLoughlin Blvd. & Main Street “always all ages and uncensored” For more info call 514-0358 or 694-9653 christopherjluna@gmail.com http://christopherluna-poetry.blogspot.com With our featured reader, Jeff Lair: Seattle area poet Jeff Lair will read from his two lavishly illustrated books, TALL GRASS and BUCKING AND BRAYING AT THE DARK EDGE, both of which will be available at the reading for $15 each. His often humorous writings turn out poetry's pockets for the spare change of consciousness clinking against the keys of life's dissonant chords where he discovers the sweeter harmonies hidden. Laugh and cry, give death the finger. Don’t miss him! *if* I roll up the living room rug, remove it, will the cat still puke? Jeff Lair POETRY E-NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2009 (compiled by Christopher Luna) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. First Friday Artwalk in Vancouver June 5 Submission Call: WORDS 2. Writing the Life Poetic Reading at Barnes & Noble Vancouver with Sage Cohen and Friends June 10 3. Upcoming readings featuring Judith Arcana 4. Show and Tell Gallery Events June 1-15 5. Mountain Writers Series Columbia Gorge Writers Conference June 19-21 6. Green Poems Contest Guidelines 1. From Leah Jackson, Director of Angst Gallery: You are invited to attend the First Friday Artwalk Reception Hosted By 1220 Main Street Restaurant and Bar 1220 Main Street Corner of 12th and MainStreet First Independent Bank Building Vancouver, WA 98660 360.448.2020 www.1220main.com Friday, June 5th 5:00 - 7:00pm (please feel free to share this invitation with others - everyone is welcome) A free, fun evening of wine, hors d'oeuvres and guided tours of Vancouver's Fine Art Galleries! Come discover the art enthusiast in you! Please RSVP to Kristy Weaver at 360-735-3707 or firstfriday.artwalk@yahoo.com by June 4, 2009 Doing what you love is also good for you. Community Choices and Steps to a Healthier Clark County reminds us that: "Walking is for All Reasons and for All Seasons" Participating in First Friday Artwalk adds healthy steps to your life. ************************************************************ WORDS A juried show of art inspired by words (or words inspired by art) Have you been inspired by a word, a phrase, a speech, or a song? Have you written a poem, story, or song inspired by a work of art? All media are welcome, including the written word. Angst Gallery is currently accepting submissions for a juried show exploring the power of words. Accepted work will be on display in Angst Gallery for the month of September 2009. Work submitted and accepted must be available from August 24 – September 27, 2009. Entry Deadline is July 31. Show runs September 4-27. Opening night, September 4, will feature a live collaborative project. Are you interested in collaborating to create such a piece? Contact Angst Gallery by Saturday May 30 to be connected with another artist. How to enter: Fill out attached entry form and include a $20 jury fee made payable to Angst Gallery. Include up to 3 images that best represent each piece. A maximum of 3 pieces may be submitted. Images may be photos, slides, or digital images on CDR. These will be returned if you include a self-addressed stamped envelope. For further questions please email leah.angstgallery@gmail.com Official rules and regulations Entry form must be completed and returned with the $20 fee. Work submitted must be ready to hang if selected. Entries must be received by July 31. Artists will be notified by August 14 if accepted. Work must be at Angst Gallery by August 24. All art must be delivered to Angst Gallery and picked up when the show ends. If art is being shipped, return shipping must be included. Art that is not picked up 30 days after the show ends becomes property of Angst Gallery and may be sold (unless prior arrangements are made). Artists will receive 60% of the sale price of their work that is sold during the show. Angst Gallery will collect a 40% commission. An artist reception will be held on September 4 from 5-9pm. Angst Gallery 1015 Main St Vancouver WA 98660 360.253.1742 www.angstgallery.com Name______________________________________________ Address____________________________________________ City__________________State_________Zipcode__________ Email Address________________________________________ Phone number_______________________________________ Title #1_____________________________________________ Title #2_____________________________________________ Title #3_____________________________________________ Angst Gallery 1015 Main St Vancouver WA 98660 360.253.1742 Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat 12-5pm (or by appointment) 2. From Sage Cohen: I'll be taking the show on the road in June to discuss Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry in Newport, OR and Vancouver, WA! Come on out and join me, won't you? This Tuesday, June 2, I'll be leading a Writers-on-Writing Workshop at the monthly Willamette Writers meeting in Newport. We'll explore what it means to live and write a poetic life--and will do a few exercises to prime your poetry pump. Tuesday, June 2, 7:00 p.m. Oregon Chapter of Willamette Writers Writers-on-Writing Workshop: Writing the Life Poetic Newport Public Library McEntee Room 35 NW Nye St. Newport, OR For more information, contact Sue Lick at suelick@casco.net or Dorothy Blackcrow Mack at dmack@netportnet.com. * * * * * Next Wednesday, June 10, I'll be joined by seven Writing the Life Poetic contributors as we celebrate the publication of Writing the Life Poetic at Barnes & Noble, Vancouver, WA. You'll hear excerpts from the book as well as wisdom and poetry from: Lane Browning, Dale Favier, Sara Guest, Christopher Luna, Toni Partington, Shawn Sorensen and Steve Williams. The event will be hosted by the one and only Shawn Sorensen, master of ceremonies. Wednesday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. Book launch reading and celebration featuring Sage Cohen and special guest contributors to Writing the Life Poetic Barnes & Noble Vancouver 7700 NE 4th Plain Blvd. Vancouver, WA (easily accessible from both major freeways) For more information please email Shawn Sorensen at crm2679@bn.com. 3. From Judith Arcana: Come to these independent bookstores for evening readings by Judith Arcana from her new chapbook 4th Period English poems written in the voices of high school students talking about immigration arguing and thinking together about those always-attached themes: race, nation, class, border & language June 4, 7pm at Looking Glass Books in SE Portland and/or July 9, 7pm at Cover to Cover Books in Vancouver, WA (with its regionally renowned Second Thursday open mic series) Both readings include work-in-progress; pick one date or come to both - mark your calendar now! Reading and writing are sustainable and organic. Support your local independent booksellers to maintain the community you need. for more info: http://juditharcana.com/index.php/arc/events/ and http://juditharcana.com/index.php/writing/book/4th_period_english 4. From Melissa Sillitoe: Hi Friends! The Show and Tell Gallery is located at Everett Station Lofts: 625 NW Everett Street #231—a working/ living art space community in Portland. Featuring visual, literary, and musical programming, Show and Tell Gallery Productions hosts free artistic events in public places and promotes collaborations between indie artists. Find out more about Show and Tell Gallery: www.showandtellgallery.org or Keep up with event listings through Myspace: www.myspace.com/showandtellgalleryproductions or Check out reviews of our events at: http:/www.brokenhours.net/blog Show and Tell Gallery Productions 6/1/2009-6/15/2009 Mark your JUNE Calendar: 6/1/2009, 7:00pm, 3 Friends Mondays Caffeinated Art Series: Jason McBeth Friends Coffee House, 201 SE 12th Avenue Portland, US Cost:free The Lightning Bug Romantics are 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam runner-up Jason McBeth and Michael Roberts, author of the Puschcart Prize nominated collection "No More Poems About The Moon" (2008 Write Bloody Press). Teaming together to eradicate the lines between page and stage poetry, these two touring performance poets are polar opposites. Peanut butter and Jelly and siamese twins. Michael Roberts is trustworthy, heroically humble, and a recognized saint in seven different religions in 32 languages. Jason McBeth, on the other hand, is criminally insane. Formerly an award winning classical theater actor, McBeth grew up as a ’ward of the state’ of California, an upbringing which fostered in him a keen empathy for the plights of the downtrodden and dispossessed. He tackles these issues and more with a ferocious energy and passion that explode upon the page and stage. For more information, audio and writing samples, tour dates, and booking contact info, please visit www.myspace.com/lightningbugromanticstour or call 310-728-9904 Carrie Seitzinger has been featured in poetry venues throughout Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Diego. She self-published her first book of poetry, The Dots Don’t Connect, and one of her poems will be included in this year’s addition of the literary publication Mosaic. She recently has fallen in love with and moved to Portland, Or. 6/1/2009, 8:15pm, Show and Tell Open Mic Three Friends Coffee House 201 SE 12th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, US Cost: FREE You know, you know--this is the Portland community's open mic. With the casual comfort of the coffee shop as your backdrop, and a welcoming audience of artists and appreciators, standing on that stage is everything thrilling. You will be pod-cast so later you can show and tell with all your friends who couldn't make it. In the meantime, you'll enjoy the pleasure of performing with other passionate people and maybe make new friends in the process. Amateurs and verbal veterans alike are in high demand every Monday, so just jump and come do it. You know you're a star, so show us! 6/5/2009, 6:00pm, First Friday and Three Friends Coffee House 201 SE 12th Avenue Portland, US Cost:free Sarah Cruse is this month’s exhibiting artist! Check out her art and enjoy live music by Exosphere at 8 p.m. 6/8/2009, 7:00pm, Caffeinated Art Series: Casey Bush 3 Friends Coffee House, 201 SE 12th Avenue Portland, US Cost:free Casey Bush is a senior editor, book reviews and poetry, for The Bear Deluxe Magazine, the Pacific Northwest’s finest environmental arts magazine, and is Non-fiction editor for the on-line magazine www.WritersDojo.org. Casey will be accompanied by multi-percussionist and didgeridoo master Charles Sorgie. Bill Shively is bringing a host of new material and no musicians (save you in the audience) from Astoria. On the menu are a couple of participation pieces, a broadside about Central Oregon and some frogs. Leuth Novotny nee Bartels (recently married & 8-mo pregnant) has been on extended performance hiatus. The current massage school student & kitchen-witch-crafty domestic goddess-in-training has a variety of art projects in development. Her writing projects involve longer works & burlesque theater concepts, so the artist will be reading excerpts from a multiversal poem-in-perpetual-progress (detailing her love affair with the hyphen!). 6/8/2009, 8:15pm, Show and Tell Open Mic Three Friends Coffee House 201 SE 12th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, US Cost: FREE You know, you know--this is the Portland community's open mic. With the casual comfort of the coffee shop as your backdrop, and a welcoming audience of artists and appreciators, standing on that stage is everything thrilling. You will be pod-cast so later you can show and tell with all your friends who couldn't make it. In the meantime, you'll enjoy the pleasure of performing with other passionate people and maybe make new friends in the process. Amateurs and verbal veterans alike are in high demand every Monday, so just jump and come do it. You know you're a star, so show us! 6/15/2009, 7:00pm, Caffeinated Art Series: Blind Dates 201 SE 12th Avenue Portland, US Cost:free This week we match up James Williams; Kevin Nelson and local poet and open mic hostess, Jamondria Harris. Guest 1 "Jamondria Harris is a poet writing in Portland, Or. She is fighting an often difficult battle to write poems with real objects in them while not taking the "I" for granted.She is fascinated by the surreal aspects of things both outrageous and mundane, and is also the current host of the Alberta St. Broken Word poetry open mic on Tuesdays at the Alberta St. Pub." James Williams makes music that is a mixture of awkward genius and twisted humor that transcends genres and comes solely from the mind of one man, his guitar, his voice, and his computer. He writes: "I am one man in my apartment recording my songs on Garage Band. Kevin Nelson writes poems but prefers to call himself a poet since that’s what his poems do. He has avoided publication to date. As a poet, he crafts clean and tight imagery and delivers it with a powerful punch. On stage he has natural presence and is recognized around Portland and at other random open mic nights in other random states as a rare type of poet performer. He not only writes, he breathes the words in from the page and releases them into life. Show and Tell Open Mic, 6/15/2009 Three Friends Coffee House 201 SE 12th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, US Cost: FREE You know, you know--this is the Portland community's open mic. With the casual comfort of the coffee shop as your backdrop, and a welcoming audience of artists and appreciators, standing on that stage is everything thrilling. You will be pod-cast so later you can show and tell with all your friends who couldn't make it. In the meantime, you'll enjoy the pleasure of performing with other passionate people and maybe make new friends in the process. Amateurs and verbal veterans alike are in high demand every Monday, so just jump and come do it. You know you're a star, so show us! Where else is Show and Tell? * become a "Friend" of Show and Tell on Myspace; stay informally informed about indie art in our community: www.myspace.com/showandtellgalleryproductions If you missed Mondays, you can simply click this link and check out the talent that happened on Show and Tell's Three Friends Stage during previous weeks: http://www.brokenhours.net/podcasts/3F/3F.html Hugs, Melissa Sillitoe, Host/Producer and Nikia Cummings, Marketing Coordinator Show and Tell Gallery: “Art. Caffeine. Collaboration. Good times.” www.showandtellgallery.org 5. June 19-June 21, Mountain Writers Series Columbia Gorge Writers Conference will be held at Columbia Gorge Community College’s Hood River-Indian Creek Campus and will feature award-winning authors William Kittredge, Annick Smith, Vern Rutsala, Tom Crawford, Monica Drake, Ceiridwen Terrill and Gerald Costanzo, the Director of Carnegie Mellon University Press. In addition to three days of workshops and classes, the public may attend readings both Friday and Saturday evenings at the Columbia Center for the Arts, located at 215 Cascade Street, in Hood River. For workshop descriptions and registration, go to www.mountainwriters.org Contact person: Tim Schell at tschell@cgcc.cc.or.us (541) 506-6171. Mountain Writers Series 2804 SE 27th Avenue, #2 Portland OR 97202 503.232.4517 pdxmws@mountainwriters.org 6. Green Poems Contest http://www.virginiabookarts.org/2009/04/green-poems-submit-your-green-poem/ posted by Kevin McFadden: Green. It’s the color of our money and the banner of our environment. It can be drab as olive or sharp as spring. Green Poems is a contest whose name says it all…but not so much that you can’t further the conversation. Envy? Pastures? Miles? Acres? We don’t mind where you take it–the ecological, the economical, the ecologonomical—just not too far afield of the low 500 nms of wavelength. Supported by Poetry Daily and the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Green Poems is a contest whose prize is a limited edition letterpress broadside and an appearance on Poetry Daily’s internationally reviewed website. Grand Prize: 30 limited edition, letterpressed broadsides, created by artists at the VABC, and special publication of the winning poem on Poetry Daily (poems.com). Contest Guidelines Submission size: Two poems per submission. Each submission should have a separate entry form. Multiple submissions may be sent in the same entry packet, with appropriate forms and fees enclosed. Entry fee: $15 per submission made payable to the “Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.” (The VABC is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.) Entry form: Get form by clicking HERE. For a printed form, send an SASE to: Green Poems-Form Request / Virginia Foundation for the Humanities /145 Ednam Drive / Charlottesville, VA 22903. Submissions received without a completed entry form will not be eligible. Eligibility: Contest open to any poet(s) living and writing in the United States who are not employees, affiliates, or students of Poetry Daily, or the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Rights to works must reside with the submitting poets, though they may have been previously published. Poems must be original work by eligible submitters. Considerations: No poem should be no longer than one 8.5”x11” page in 12 pt font. Poems should be stapled together and submitted “blind,” with identifying information appearing only on the entry form. Winning poems and honorable mentions may be made available online for a limited time on the VABC website, pending permission of the author. Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked by July 1, 2009. Notification: Winners will be announced in September 2009. Judges: Poets and artists of the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. Selections will be made on literary merit, engagement of theme, and visual interest as a broadside. Judges are poets whose backgrounds are in publishing and book arts. Each has editorial experience with nationally recognized journals, anthologies, and/or prize committees, including the Virginia Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Little Big Form, and recent VABC Companion Poems, Belle Letters, and Taste ‘Test contests.

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH E-NEWSLETTER

Hello, all, It’s national poetry month, and so there are many events, too many to list here. We have workshops, readings, and two poetry festivals to look forward to. I am also constantly adding new links. Just in the past few days I have linked to David Ronen, Full of Crow Press, Portland’s Writers Dojo, and others. Tammy Robacker is holding things down in Tacoma. If you’d like to read her National Poetry Month blog, go to http://weeklyvolcano.typepad.com/spew/2009/04/welcome-to-poematacoma.html In May, the Vancouver, WA poetry community will welcome California poets Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer, and Michael Rothenberg. We will be one stop on a poetry road trip. Kyger, Meltzer, and Rothenberg will appear at Clark College and cover to Cover Books. This is an event that is not to be missed. Please contact me if you are able to donate any money toward their expenses. Meltzer and Rothenberg are also scheduled to be at the WPA Spring Festival (see below). If enough people don’t sign up, these great workshops will have to be canceled. April’s featured reader at Cover to Cover will be the Spare Room Collective’s David Abel, one of Portland’s most active poetry event organizers. Info below: Open Mic Poetry hosted by Christopher Luna 7:00pm Thursday, April 9, 2009 (and every second Thursday) Cover to Cover Books 1817 Main Street, Vancouver (McLoughlin Blvd. & Main Street) For more info call 514-0358 or 694-9653 or email christopherjluna@gmail.com “always all ages and uncensored” Featuring David Abel: David Abel is a writer, performer, and multidisciplinary artist, as well as an editor, bookseller, and curator/organizer. Born in Salt Lake City in 1956, he has lived in Utah, Florida, New York, California, New Mexico, and Oregon. As an undergraduate at Deep Springs College, Bard College, and New Mexico State University, he studied language, literature, and music; in 1984 he was a member of the first class to graduate from the interdisciplinary MFA program of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, where he pursued studies in poetry, music, and video. Abel was involved in the “downtown” literary and music communities in New York City in the 1980s, appearing often with composers and artists such as Jackson Mac Low, Franz Kamin, Charlie Morrow, and others. He edited the newsletter for the New Wilderness Ocarina Orchestra and assembled the book-and-media store for the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival in 1980; opened and operated the Bridge Bookshop from 1987–89; and co-directed Granary Books gallery and shop in 1990–91. From 1994–96 Abel maintained Passages Bookshop and Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he also organized the Tangents Reading Series. In 1997, he moved to Portland, Oregon. In Portland, he has collaborated with many individuals and organizations on literary, music, film, theater, and intermedia projects. Abel was a member of the Four Wall Cinema Collective (2002–03), and is a founder and member of the Spare Room reading series (www.flim.com/spareroom), now in its eighth year. Abel is the author of numerous chapbooks and artist’s books including Twenty- (Crane’s Bill Books), Let Us Repair (with Anna Daedalus; wax paper scissors), Black Valentine (Chax), and Threnos (with Katherine Kuehn). In the spring of 2007 he curated the exhibition By All Means: Artist’s Books and Objects for the New American Art Union (www.newamericanartunion.com), and produced and edited the collection of artists’ multiples that served as the catalogue of the exhibition. He has also contribued poems, essays, and reviews to magazines, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues. This is the word before the word is by David Abel There is no word before this; that is, before this is the word nothing like the word is. The words before the word is become the words after the word after the word is. Before before the word was after this is. After the word before the word before the word is before before the word is. After the words after the word is are the words before the words before the word is.

Poetry for the people, Christopher Luna APRIL POETRY E-NEWSLETTER TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Upcoming readings featuring Judith Arcana (Portland) 2. Austrian poet Lilian Faschinger at the Univ. of Portland’s Buckley Center April 8 3. Dan Fisher & Rodney Koeneke at The Waypost (Portland) April 11 4. David Ronen reads from "Your Face Is a Kiss" at Mint Tea (Vancouver) April 11 5. BRAVE NEW WORDS POETRY FESTIVAL on Whidbey Island April 18 6. WPA Spring Festival at the Hugo House April 25 7. DOWNSTREAM: WRITING WITH THE CURRENT workshop with Paulann Petersen Sundays, 12-3 pm, April 26-May 31 SUBMISSION CALLS: ProtestPoems.org, The Chiron Review, The Other Journal 1. From Judith Arcana Hello Everybody ........ I trust you all are planning to be even more lyrical than usual in APRIL, National Poetry Month. There'll be many occasions to celebrate by committing poetry; this note is about a few of them. On April 1st, the day annually consecrated to fools (and therefore poets, I guess), I'll be part of a quartet: Verlena Orr, Valentina Gnup, Liz Nakazawa & I are reading at the Blackbird Wineshop in Portland at 7pm ....... On April 7th, I'll be part of a duet: at Broadway Books in Portland, Judith Barrington and I will read from Grace Paley's last book, FIDELITY, first published seven months after her death and right this minute coming out in paperback .....with the aid of remarkable devices, we'll also play a recording of Grace herself, reading one of her best-loved poems. On April 24th, I'll be one of this year's featured poets at the excellent & delightful Silverton Poetry Festival at 7pm ..... join us in Silverton! Check my website EVENTS page for info/details on these + other stuff: http://juditharcana.com/index.php/arc/events/ 2. From Laura McLary: A reading by Lilian Faschinger Wednesday, April 8 4:30 p.m. Buckley Center, Room 310 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. University of Portland www.up.edu Free and open to the public Austrian writer Lilian Faschinger is a prolific author, poet, and translator. Faschinger typically incorporates into her works a rigorous critique of Austrian society and customs, as viewed from a woman's perspective. She will read from her most recent work. Faschinger has written three novels, two radio plays, two volumes of short stories, a volume of poetry, and completed multiple translations from English-speaking authors. Her first novel "Die Neue Scheherazade" (The New Scheherazade, 1985) attracted considerable critical recognition. Her 2007 novel, "Stadt der Verlierer," (Town Full of Losers), written in 2007, won the Friedrich Glauser Prize for best (German) crime novel of the year in 2008. Presented by the University's Foreign Languages Department. For more information, call professor Laura McLary at 503.943.7264 or email mclary@up.edu. 3. from Jesse Morse: Smorg presents a reading by Dan Fisher & Rodney Koeneke Saturday, April 11 7:30 pm The Waypost 3120 N. Williams Ave. Free Food, beer, wine, and espresso all available at The Waypost. http://www.smorgreadingseries.blogspot.com http://www.thewaypost.com Dan Fisher lives on the island in the East Bay. An island that has 4 bridges and a tunnel. He makes poems and some of them have appeared in Bay Poetics, Viz, Work, Cricket Online Review, Lament, and some other places too. He also makes collages under the name Fish Fishtofferson. He works for Upward Bound at Mills College in Oakland. He's never been to Portland. Rodney Koeneke is the author of the poetry collections Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). A new chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties, is just out from Cy Press. His poems have been included in Abraham Lincoln, Jacket, New American Writing, ZYZZYVA, and other publications, and in the anthologies Bay Poetics and the Flarf primer due out this fall. He lives in Portland, where he curates the Tangent Reading Series with poets Kaia Sand and Jules Boykoff. This reading will be the Portland launch for Rules for Drinking Forties. 4. Poetry Reading, Singing, and Book Signing with Afternoon Tea with David Ronen reading from "Your Face Is a Kiss" Saturday, April 11, 3-4pm Mint Tea 2014 Main St., Uptown Village Vancouver, WA ATTN PDX'ers: Very Easy to get to from Portland! :-) Just 3 minutes from the I-5 Bridge!!! Here's the write-up: You're invited to you enjoy David Ronen, local author, healer, and creative mystic share selections from his inspiring book of poem-meditations, "Your Face Is a Kiss : Discovering the Miracles of Being". David (and perhaps a mystery guest!) will read selected poems with flair and passion - requests welcome. David has also written some lovely and engaging music to go with some of his poems and will sing them accompanied by acoustic guitar. Signed books will be available for purchase from Mint Tea, as well a wonderful selection of organic and ethically harvested teas and yummy sweet and savory treats. Some of the poems include: "Who's Going to Tell You You're Beautiful" "At the Gate of My Beloved" "Blue Chains (Anchor into Nothing)" "We Both Doubt and Secretly Cherish Our Divinity" and more! "David shares his heart in a joyful and loving manner that inspires self-reflection and self-acceptance. Lyrical and moving!" Rick Marshall All welcome, including kids. The reading is Free. Tea and treats available for purchase from Mint Tea Restaurant. 5. Brave New Words Saturday April 18, 2009 The Celebration of Inspiration! All-Day, All-Event Tickets Only $15 for Adults, $5 for Students! At Whidbey Island's historic Greenbank Farm. An exceptional event in an exceptional location! Performers in Order of Appearance Morning and Early Afternoon 10:00 AM - 1 PM 10 AM to 11:30 AM "Page to the Stage" Workshop taught by Matt Gano 11:30 AM to 1 PM Open Mic - Hosted by David Ossman, Judith Walcutt & Preston Ossman ----------------------- 30 Minute Break 1 PM to 1:45 PM A break to mingle, eat, and stretch ----------------------- Mid-Afternoon Performers 1:45 PM - 4 PM … Emcee Molly Cook … Swil Kamin … Arianne Bergman … Terry Martin … Kim-An Lieberman … Whidbey Youth Poetry Idol Winners … Michael Daley ----------------------- Late-Afternoon Performers 4 PM - 6 PM … Tim McNulty … MC John Burgess … Whidbey Youth Poetry Idol Winners … "La Jefa": Pesha Gertler, Felicia Gonzalez, Jourdan Keith, and JT Stewart ----------------------- Evening Performers 6 PM - 8:00 PM … Stephen Roxborough … Lorraine Healy … Oleh Lysiak … Colleen McElroy … Suheir Hammad Brave New Words operates under the auspices of Greenbank Farm, a qualified 501 C-3. All donations to BNW are tax deductible. Please send donations to: Brave New Words 765 Wonn Road - #C-103 Greenbank, WA 98253 … Please make out checks to: "Greenbank Farm / BNW" … Under "memo" please write: "For Brave New Words" Greenbank Farm, is located on Whidbey Island, at the corner of State Highway 525 and Wonn Road in Greenbank, 18 miles north of the Clinton Ferry dock. Accommodations: (Langley, Freeland and Greenbank Addresses will be closest to the festival site) For more information: Victory Lee Schouten 360-331-7099 or 360-222-3070 victory@robschoutengallery.com 6. WPA Spring Festival at the Hugo House Around the World in Poetry: A Translation Experiment Saturday 25 April 10am – 10pm On Saturday 25 April 2009, the WPA brings its annual Spring Festival to The Richard Hugo House in Seattle with a full day of workshops – a morning workshop in translation and two afternoon workshops in poetry - followed by a participatory, main-stage event showcasing poetry in multiple languages and a multi-genre translation experiment, mixing poetry, performance, drawing, dance, sound and floral arts. Don’t miss this experiment! Pre-register for all morning and afternoon workshops online at Brown Paper Tickets or by calling (206) 225-6555. The main-stage event begins at 8pm. Cost is $10 at the door. All are welcome to attend a very special, pre-show reading & panel discussion on translation, moderated by literary journalist Dave Jarcki, with visiting guests David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg and with local literary translator Andrea Lingenfelter. The pre-show, at 7pm in the Hugo House Theatre, is included in your evening ticket cost. Please join us! Festival Activities & Fees 10am 2-hr Translation Workshop Andrea Lingenfelter Meet at Hugo House 9:45am Pre-Registration required / Register now $60 workshop There are at least as many ways to translate a poem as there are readers of that poem. Work through a poem from the source language (Chinese) to English with an experienced translator of Chinese poetry. We will look at different aspects of the poem and the discuss some of the problems, both practical and theoretical, that translators encounter in the course of the translation process. No knowledge of a foreign language required. Instructor will bring materials. Supplies: students should bring paper and something to write with. This class will meet at Hugo House at 9:45am on Saturday 25 April. This is the first workshop of the 2009 Spring Poetry Festival. Afterward this class, students are invited to return to The Hugo House for a welcome message and a social with poets Sam Green, David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. They are also welcome at the 4pm open mic. 12pm Welcome & Social Hour Sam Green, David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg Hugo House Cabaret / Refreshments / Address by WPA president Angel Latterell Open to the public 1pm 3-hr Poetry Workshop with Sam Green Meet at Hugo House Pre-Registration required / Register now $100 per workshop This workshop will concentrate on the intimate art of observation in the every day. How do we translate the abstract preoccupations of our lives (love, anger, political estrangement, grief) into concrete terms? How do we translate our relationship with the physical world into comprehensible order? The workshop will explore both methodology and forms for approaching these and other concerns. We will be looking at African forms, Irish forms, the small forms of Japanese and Chinese poets, as well as certain contemporary Americans. 1pm 3-hr Poetry Workshop with David Meltzer Meet at Hugo House Pre-Registration required / Register now $100 per workshop 1pm 3-hr Poetry Workshop with Michael Rothenberg Meet at Hugo House Pre-Registration required / Register now $100 per workshop 4pm Open Mic (Featuring workshop students & teachers) Hugo House Cabaret Open to the public 7pm PRE-SHOW Meltzer / Rothenberg Reading & Translation Panel Discussion moderated by Dave Jarecki Hugo House Theatre Open to the public 8-10pm THE MAIN EVENT Around the World of Poetry: An Experiment in Translation Christian Swenson, Keely Isaak Meehan, Linden Ontjes & Barbara Ann Allin Hugo House Theatre $10 at the door / Reserve a ticket MAIN EVENT Around the World of Poetry: An Experiment in Translation Featuring: Christian Swenson, Keely Isaak Meehan, Linden Ontjes & Barbara Ann Allin 8-10 pm/Hugo House Theatre $10 at the door or at Brown Paper Tickets Pre-purchase recommended “The words on paper are only a tool, they are only a medium, they are only something that is meant to help me get to the original language, to the original poem” -Kai Nieminen On Translation a lecture a Naropa University Sit back and listen to the sounds of poetry as we bring you a stage full of international readers (Mongolian poetry, Mandarin poetry, Italian poetry…) followed by a cross-genre experimentation in translation (movement, voice, sound, flowers…). Our aim will be to carry a single poem across multiple genres. How many times can you translate a thing without losing its meaning? The source-poem, chosen in secret by our performers, will be revealed to you at the end of the evening. If someone were to dance you a poem, or draw one, or make it into a floral arrangement, would you be able to write it again? Would its message carry across? We want to know. Come listen, watch and feel a poem as it moves across genres with artists Christian Swenson, Keely Isaak Meehan and Linden Ontjes. Afterwards, we’ll ask you to rewrite that poem and contribute it to a 3-d poetry sculpture. Special "whispering" appearances by David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. This event produced by A. K. “Mimi” Allin. Open to the public for a fee of $10. Wine bar. WORKSHOP TEACHER BIOS Samuel Green, Washington State Poet Laureate SAMUEL GREEN was born in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, and raised in the nearby fishing and mill town of Anacortes. After four years in the military, including service in Antarctica and South Vietnam, he attended college under the Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Program, earning degrees from Highline Community College and Western Washington University (B.A. & M.A.). A 30-year veteran of the Poetry-in-the-Schools program, he has taught in literally hundreds of classrooms. He has also taught at Southern Utah University, Western Wyoming Community College, and served six terms as Distinguished Visiting Northwest Writer at Seattle University, including six summers in Ireland. Poems have appeared in hundreds of journals, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poet & Critic, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Puerto del Sol. Among his ten collections of poems are Vertebrae: Poems 1972-1994 (Eastern Washington University Press) and The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), which won the 2008 Washington State Book Award for Poetry. He has lived for 26 years off the grid on remote Waldron Island off the Washington coast in a log house he built himself, and is, with his wife, Sally, Co-Editor of the award-winning Brooding Heron Press. In December, 2007, he was named by Governor Christine Gregoire to a two-year term as the first Poet Laureate for the State of Washington, and in January of 2009, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. David Meltzer DAVID MELTZER is one of the key poets of the Beat generation. Meltzer is also a jazz guitarist and Cabalist scholar and the author of more than 50 books of poetry and prose. 2005 saw the publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (edited by Michael Rothenberg, with an introduction by Jerome Rothenberg), which provides a current "overview" of Meltzer's work. Meltzer's Beat Thing (La Alameda Press) is his epic poem on the Beat generation. Meltzer teaches at the New College of California in the Poetics Program, which was originally founded by Duncan. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael Rothenberg MICHAEL ROTHENBERG is an American poet, songwriter, editor, and active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Rothenberg received his Bachelor of Arts in English at UNC-Chapel Hill. Afterward, he moved to California in 1976, where he began "Shelldance Nursery", an orchid and bromeliad nursery. In 1993 he received his MA in Poetics at New College of California. In 1989, Rothenberg and artist Nancy Davis began Big Bridge Press, a fine print literary press, publishing works by Jim Harrison, Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen and others. Rothenberg is co-editor and co-founder of Jack Magazine. His books include Unhurried Vision, Paris Journals, What The Fish Saw, Nightmare Of The Violins, Man/Woman w/Joanne Kyger, and Favorite Songs. Andrea Lingenfelter ANDREA LINGENFELTER is a poet and translator of contemporary Chinese poetry, fiction and film subtitles. She has lived and worked in China and travels there regularly to meet with writers and buy books. Her translations of contemporary Chinese poetry have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She is the translator of the novels Candy by Mian Mian (Back Bay Books), and Farewell My Concubine by Lilian Lee (William Morrow and Company). In the spring of 2008, she received a Pen Translation Fund Grant to translate Annie Baobei's 2006 novel, Padma. She is currently working on a collection of translations of poetry by Zhai Yongming for Zephyr Press. Future projects include Wang Anyi's novel Qimeng shidai (The Age of Enlightenment) and a volume of translations of work by Shanghai poet Wang Yin. MAIN EVENT ARTIST BIOS BARBARA ANN ALLIN is an artist, designer and gardener specializing in found and stolen materials. She has the knack for composing pieces that impact entire communities. Her work is often small and random, some might say a gift. She lives in Pennsylvania. KEELY ISAAK MEEHAN is a Seattle-based movement and video artist and the founding artistic director of Manifold Motion. Focusing on collaborative and interdisciplinary temporal art, her work is frequently improvisational, exploring the use of structure and fluidity as a means to draw great performance out of the moment. Keely has earned a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre: London, a BA in Dance from Oberlin College, and a Certificate in Arts Management from the University of Washington. She is currently studying to become a Certified Movement Analyst with Laban/Bartenieff & Somatic Studies International. In addition to her work with Manifold Motion, Keely works as a solo movement artist and has performed recently with the Asterisk Project and Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies. Her newest production with Manifold Motion, Woolgatherer, premieres May 2-10, 2009 at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. LINDEN ONTJES creates poetry installations that include visual, theatrical, and literary elements. Her most recent poetry installations include: Three Confessional Poets and the Dirty Laundry Machine at Artopia; Alfred Jarry’s Interior Designs and Window Treatments at the Smoke Farm Festival; A Cup o’ Joe at Bumbershoot; Miss Fortune and the Misfortune Cookies at Synchronicity: An Indie Press Sideshow; The National Grilled Cheese Poetry Booth at the Seattle Poetry Festival at the Richard Hugo House; and Limericks on Sticks, an installation of John Haines’ political protest limericks on ersatz Burma Shave signs along the route to the Dredge Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska. Linden served as General Director of Eleventh Hour Productions, a literary arts nonprofit from 2005 – 2008; as Arts Representative on the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce from 2006 – 2007; and as a current member of the Smoke Farm steering committee COW. From 2004 -2006, she served as the Poetry Editor of the Seattle Review. Currently, she teaches poetry at the Hutch School for Seattle Arts & Lectures’ WITS program. Linden received individual artist awards in 2008 from 4Culture and Poets & Writers. Her many poetry publication credits include Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Arcade, Phoebe, The Louisville Review, The Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Daily, Cranky, Filter, The Comstock Review, RE:AL, and Atlanta Review. She has published literary criticism in The Writer’s Chronicle, the Seattle Review, Cranky, Fairbanks Daily News Mine, and Page to Page: Retrospectives of Writers from the Seattle Review. She is the author of an illustrated novel-in-verse, Muluc. For more information. www.mulucthehero.com. CHRISTIAN SWENSON has an extensive background in dance, mime, voice and improvisation. He is known for his pioneering work in what he calls "Human Jazz", a global fusion of dance/drama/music for body and voice. In 1977 he received a BA in Theater from the University of New Hampshire and moved to Seattle to work with the Bill Evans Dance Company. Further training has included work with Tony Montanaro; Diane Schenker; Ruth Zapora; Korean shaman, Hi-ah Park, and with the late Pakistani master-singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He has performed with Bill Irwin, The Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and The Jay Clayton/Jim Knapp Collective and in Europe with Jim Nollman of Interspecies Communication Inc. He presently teaches in the Theater programs at Seattle University. For the past 25 years he has been performing creations for the body and voice searching for a more global aesthetic. Since 1980 he has been a touring artist visiting communities and schools in the Northwest and beyond. He has performed and taught throughout North America and in Europe, and Asia. Christian released his first compact disc, “Off-Road Vocals” in 2000. As a guest artist he has been seen as: The Monster in The Minnesota Opera's production of "Frankenstein", at New York's "Serious Fun at Lincoln Center" and "The New York Improvisation Festival", with The Flying Karamazov Brother's "New Old Time Chautauqua " and the 2002 “Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour” and has been heard on National Public Radio's "Sandy Bradley's Potluck. He was a teacher/ performer at the 2005 American College Dance Festival in Buffalo, NY and at the 1998 "Body & Soul Northwest" Conference. For three years he has been a Vocalist with the Integrated Music Program at two Seattle hospitals and is a founding member of the improvisational ensemble Molten Vocals. He is also a member of the PlayBack Theater group, Threshold Ensemble. Christian has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington State Arts Commission and Artist Trust of Washington. He resides happily in Seattle with his wife, Abigail, and two children. 7. DOWNSTREAM: WRITING WITH THE CURRENT Join Paulann Petersen in a poetry workshop dedicated to creation, reflection, and craft. Using notable poems as springboards, we'll turn ourselves loose in the river of words, letting language carry us along in its current. Each session, we’ll generate some new work. We’ll also look at your poems (either ones you’ve written in our workshop, or earlier ones you’ve brought with you) for possible ways to strengthen them through revision. The word “revision” offers us a bracing truth. To truly revise is to do much more than mere editing and tinkering: it’s learning to see our poems anew, moving them toward their strengths. I’ll use critiques as opportunities for short lessons, addressing issues of craft raised by the particular poem we’re looking at. We'll be lingering in a few eddies, examining significant elements of craft such as line integrity, dramatic strategy, voice and trope. My goal is to have each participant leave the workshop with both an outpouring of new material, and some new­--or newly honed­--tools for revision. This workshop is open to writers of all levels of experience. Sundays, 12-3 pm, April 26th to May 31st Please go to http://atticwritersworkshop.com/workshop/downstream-writing-current SUBMISSION CALLS 1. Call for poems: protestpoems.org http://web.mac.com/renkat/Site/Protest_Poems.html About us: protestpoems.org is a poetry journal entirely devoted to, and fully committed to, new poetry that tackles human rights issues worldwide. The journal strives to present the best poems of protest written to promote freedom of speech and human rights. It is updated fortnightly. We publish a maximum six poems a month to keep a steady flow of relevant protests. Although we update the journal often, we are very selective. We are looking for edge. The website and mailing lists provide information about persecuted writers, along with letters of protest ready for our subscribers to cut and paste. To receive emails (once a month, on average) with protest information focused on a specific persecuted writer, send an email to (replace (at) with @). Please write SUBSCRIBE in your subject line. Submission guidelines: It’s simple. We’re not looking for partisan propganda. We’re not looking for party-political mouthings. We’re not looking for sentimental depictions of what you see on the TV. We’re not looking for rhyming greetings card verses. We want you to champion, not yourselves, but human rights; the rights of those who don’t have the freedom to write and speak as we do. Rage. Celebrate. Mourn. Demand. Scream. Dance. Formal complaints are especially exciting. There’s something wonderfully subversive about a villanelle that attacks a government deliberately making the same mistake over and over again. If you need to be inspired, read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Then check out any objective newsfeed or news site. Paste your poems (a maximum of 3 one-page poems), into the body of an email and send to write(at)protestpoems.org. If necessary, you can email a single .doc or .rtf file containing all the poems you are submitting. Include a brief bio. We will accept poems previously published on paper, as long as you hold the copyright. We will not accept poems which are already (or have previously been) published online (including blogs). We will publish a poet only once a year. If your poem deals with a specific call for action, or commemorates a specific person, please let us know. Publication dates for the first half of 2009 are : 11 Apr 25 Apr 09 May 23 May 06 Jun 20 Jun 2. The editors of CHIRON REVIEW are reading submissions for an "All Punk Poetry" issue to be published Dec. 2009. Poetry, fiction, b/w line art, comics/cartoons, photos, nonfiction, whatever should be sent via snailmail with self-addressed, stamped envelope for reply/return to: Chiron Review, Attn: PUNK, 522 E. South Ave., St. John, KS 67576. Name and complete mailing address should appear on every poem, story, etc. Deadline: Sept. 1, 2009. Material is copyrighted in author's/artist's name. Payment: one contributor's copy with 50% discount on additional copies. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1748/chiron1.htm Chiron Review is open for submissions year-round. Postal submissions with name, complete mailing address (on every poem), and SASE are welcome at Chiron Review, 522 E. South Ave., St. John, KS 67576-2212. Writers are invited to send up to 5 poems, 1 long poem, or 1 short-story. We're also open to reviews, interviews, black and white art and photography, and essays of interest to writers and the small press literary community. We ask writers to limit submissions to four times a year or less. We do not consider simultaneous or previously published submissions; nor do we consider e-mail submissions though exception is made for book reviews and foreign/overseas submissions. CR copyrights in author's name, all rights revert to author upon publication. Pay is one contributor's copy. 3. The Other Journal seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our upcoming issue on Beauty and Aesthetics. http://www.theotherjournal.com/ Deadline has been extended from March 15 to April 10, 2009 We seek poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction that explore the beauty, especially its cultural and theological incarnations. As we navigate the many faces of beauty, we will explore the nature, function, and end of beauty. We expect this issue to address such questions as How is the body understood in Western culture? Why does beauty matter? And what does beauty have to do with issues of justice and reconciliation? All submissions should be sent via email to (replace (at) with @) with "TOJ Submission" written in the subject line. Please indicate the genre of your submission in the subject line of your email and submit your work as Microsoft Word or rich text format documents. Submissions that are pasted directly into the text of an email rather than an attached document may not be considered. Send up to six poems or one piece of prose at a time. Fiction submissions may include short stories or self-contained novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction submissions may include personal essays or memoirs. Because we are an online journal, we take a special interest in short prose submissions, especially pieces that are less than 2,500 words. We will consider simultaneous submissions, but please indicate they have been simultaneously submitted elsewhere and let us know right away if you are withdrawing them from consideration. For more info: http://theotherjournal.com/info.php?page=submissions Editorial statement: The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. We are particularly interested in works which present creative, alternative views that may otherwise fall outside the margins of mainstream narratives. And although we primarily focus on perspectives within the Christian tradition, we invite dialogue with all who are interested in exploring the ongoing role of faith and spirituality in the world. The Other Journal Mars Hill Graduate School 2501 Elliott Ave Seattle, WA 98121

Call for Chapters: The Way Out of Now Way: The Arts as Social Justice in Education

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Please note below a call for chapters for an exciting new book placing emphasis on the use of the arts in social justice education. The editor, Dr. Mary Stone Hanley at George Mason University, is a long time Seattleite, now living in WA DC. She has worked with Justin Laing at the Heinz Fdn on this important topic. Please forward this request to your colleagues who are working to use the arts in a progressive social justice education for youth. best wishes, Mayumi Tsutakawa Mayumi Tsutakawa, Manager Grants to Organizations Washington State Arts Commission Phone 360-586-0424 We envision a Washington where the arts are thriving and celebrated throughout the state - woven into the fabric of vital and vibrant communities. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: MSH mhanley1@gmu.edu Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:35:13 AM Subject: call for chapters Hello,Below is a call for chapters for an upcoming book. Please consider writing for it or if you prefer, at least helping me to circulate the call. I would so appreciate your assistance in getting it out there. I think it's an exciting possibility and needed in the field.Thanks,Mary. CALL FOR CHAPTERS Chapter Proposal Due: May 29, 2009 Full Chapters Due: February 1, 2010 A Way Out of No Way : The Arts as Social Justice in Education Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, George Mason University; George Noblit, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Thomas Barone, Arizona State University Objective of the book The arts continue to be marginalized in educational policy and practice. However, time and again art production and aesthetics have provided meaning amidst chaotic conditions in a quickly and constantly changing multicultural world replete with hierarchies of injustice based on a myriad of differences. The arts give the powerless engaged in the flow of creation and meaning-making an experience of empowerment and expression. Consciousness and conceptualization are heightened through the production and perception of the arts, which are much needed in the education of children, youth, and adults, especially those who are endangered by current educational practices. This text is an effort to center the need for social justice in education and the value of the arts in that endeavor through arts education, arts integration, and aesthetics. AudienceThe book is intended for researchers, theorists, teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, and policy makers who are interested in the ways that the arts might address issues of equity and excellence in education. The book will include conceptual work and examples of practice and experience. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Section I Theory about and practice in the arts as they relate to social justice in P-adult education. Theories about the arts and: Social justice Equity Critical consciousness Critical literacy Agency Multicultural theory Critical race theory Creativity and Imagination in a democratic society Creativity in learning, teaching, or citizenship Transformative learning Student ownership of learning Freedom and democracy, and/or high stakes testing, etc Popular culture in the transformation of society The role of the artist Social justice through the practice of: Arts Integration The arts in informal education Culturally relevant instruction Museum Education Etc. Section II Empirical studies in the arts as social justice in: Drama Dance Music Visual arts Film Popular culture Creative writing Technology Section III Models--educator and learner narratives that include stories of experiences of research, teaching, or learning through the arts and popular culture that have transformed lives, experience, culture, and knowledge in P-12 formal and informal educational settings and in post secondary institutions and communities. This may include memoirs, counter-narratives, autoethnographies, curricula, discussions of lessons, and other forms of representation. The book may also include a DVD for multiple forms of representation. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 29, 2009, a 1-2 page chapter proposal clearly explaining your proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by September 18, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 1, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Inquiries and submissions should be forwarded electronically to each of the editors: Dr. Mary Stone Hanley College of Education and Human Development George Mason University mhanley1@gmu.edu Dr. George Noblit School of Education University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill gwn@unc.edu Dr. Thomas Barone College of Education Arizona State University barone@asu.edu

Submission call: The Wild (Deadline May 15, 2009)

from Michael Nicoloff (via David Abel): THE WILD: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The human animal distinguishes itself from the common animal by driving cars and baking pies, sleeping in beds and slurping strawberry juliuses. The human animal keeps household pets like the sphinx cat, the chihuahua and the canary, while fearing panthers, spiders and other underminers of civilization. The human animal defines its borders with and against natural space, cutting paths through the wilderness to build homes and roads, and sprouting seeds on windowsills. Civilization makes incursions into the wild, and the wild makes incursions into civilization. The Wild is a project that investigates ideas about animals, wilderness, nature and their intersections with humans and culture. We have questions: What do we mean when we use the word wilderness? What is animal intelligence and/or emotion to humans? Where is the porous border between civilization and nature? Why do you love Fluffy so much? Please help us answer these questions, and ask some more. The Wild is a journal of literature and art. We are currently open to submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism around the theme of animals, wilderness, household pets, nature/culture, protozoa, parasites, etc. Submissions, questions and queries can be sent to the.wild.editors@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2009. Please feel free to re-post this call for submissions.-- Alex Dumont & Laura Jaramillo, Editors

Submission Call: Heavy Bear

A submission call forwarded by Jason Mashak: Today I am sending out a second call for submissions to *Heavy Bearmagazine;* Spring edition. We have had some awesome commentary about issue 1,and am pleased to say it's been a pleasure to have you all a part of it! Some of you heard from me last time about me holding onto your poems I did not use from the last submission, no worries..if you have sent some previous, I will be going overthem for issue 2. I would like to encourage everyone to forward this call to all your very talented colleagues. It is going to again, be a fifty poet collective,with a feature artist. I look forward to seeing your unpublished material for this round. I'd like to clarify the guidelines for the process- Five poems only,no pdf's or word files, NO attachments-please simply embed inthe body of your email. Your deadline is May 15th, I have extended it by a month's time to get all of you wonderful authors in! Bios are still something I encourage you send, though at present there is no bio area,there may be in future as we expand, however..it also enables me to considerwriters for my shows,and get to know something more about you ! *http://www.heavybear.janecrown.com/ *Good luck, and send a query if you have any further questions.*Your publishing editor and comrade,**Jane Crown*