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NEWS AND NOTES from PoetsWest
Updated July 7, 2010
CALLING ALL NATURE POETS:
Camano Action for a Rural Environment (C.A.R.E.) is looking for poets and poetry lovers, for a Nature Poetry reading at Camano Honors Earth. We hope to have both selected poets as well as open mic that day. We will have a judging committee to select poetry submissions to be read the day of the event. Please contact Allison 425-344-7829 or allisivy@gmail.com if you are interested in submitting poetry or attending the event. The poetry reading will be one of the main features of the event and will be on the main stage.
Camano Honors Earth, Sat., Sept. 11, 2010 is a daylong event of learning, sharing, community and inspiration. The event celebrates the opening of an environmental/nature art show.
This educational and inspirational event will be held at Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island, where the art gallery, sculpture and grounds are a gorgeous community gathering place that exemplifies taking good care of our island. http://www.matzkefineart.com/ On this Day of National Service, we feel the best thing we can be doing for the future security of our nation and our local community is through protecting our water, promoting responsible land use, encouraging good stewardship, and preserving the integrity of our natural habitats.
Event schedule: Poetry reading at 2 or 3 pm, still to be scheduled.
12-4 pm: -Short interactive presentations about ways island dwellers can take action to reduce non-point pollution and preserve resources. Our featured speaker is Hugh Shipman, Coastal Geologist with Department of Ecology, speaking about shorelines and climate change- what does this mean to you?
-Poetry reading, Native American flute music, drumming
-View original art and sculpture in a park-like setting that inspires people to appreciate and preserve the land, trees, resources
-Contribute your response to the question " what does honoring earth mean to you?" in an interactive art exhibit that will be created during this event.
-View others' responses on the video release of Camano Honors Earth Video Project
4-7 pm: - Camano Honors Earth Art environmental art opening/ fundraising reception for CARE with artists speaking about their art.
See: www.camanohonorsearth.org; www.camanocare.org
UW PROFESSIONAL & CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS
The University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education Programs are taught by published authors, and are designed to help you gain skills and make progress on your own writing. Most fall programs begin in late September or early October; others begin in Winter. Evening writers’ programs are offered on the University of Washington main campus, in downtown Seattle and in Bellevue.
Choose Your Writing Program
Do you have a story, article or memoir waiting to be born?
The UW Professional & Continuing Education Programs have helped hundreds of writers craft popular and literary fiction, memoirs, children's literature, and nonfiction works. Many writers who participated in these programs have established themselves as professionals with published works to their credit. Each program is designed with the adult learner in mind, which allows students to collaborate with fellow writers in developing their writing abilities. Courses in all programs are taught by published authors, and most programs feature notable guest speakers.
Writers' Programs
All programs build creative and technical skills. The following programs are open admission, meaning you simply register for the first-term course:
Related Certificate Programs:
If you have questions about your eligibility for any of these programs, please give us a call at 888-469-6499. Additional information is available at http://www.pce.uw.edu
The UW Educational Outreach has a Twitter presence at http://Twitter.com. Follow “UW_ContinuingEd”.
NEW CITY THEATER in a shoebox 1404 18th Ave., Seattle 98122 is a FORUM for SOCIAL, POLITICAL, SPIRITUAL, and EDUCATIONAL ENGAGEMENT. The mission of the 26-year-old, artist-run New City Theater is to serve as a cultural incubator for individual, independent Seattle artists & remains under the continuous artist leadership of producer/director John Kazanjian. Contact mailto:newcitytheater@comcast.net & www.newcitytheater.org.
New City plays its Productions for only a two week run. If audience interest & attendance demands, the Production Run will be extended. The Shoebox seats 38 people.
Playing for Change http://www.playingforchange.com/. These are live recordings by more than 100 singers and musicians from around the world in songs for peace. A small film crew traveled to Native American reservations, Africa, the Himalayas, Europe, Russia, Middle East, India, Nepal, and elsewhere to find and record the musicians. Roger Ridley, Grandpa Elliott and others in “Stand by Me” will steal your heart. More songs with Bono, Bob Marley, Clayton Gibb, and so many others. Check it out! Their CD/DVD combo is a bargain.
Dan Oestreich of Oestreich Associates Weblog devoted to leadership topics called Unfolding Leadership (http://www.unfoldingleadership.com/blog). I am soliciting original poems from people who might like to submit their material. See guidelines at http://www.unfoldingleadership.com/blog/?page_id=426. Please also see this page http://www.unfoldingleadership.com/blog/?page_id=98 where poems are displayed permanently.
Dan Oestreich of Oestreich Associates
17525 NE 40th Street, E-122 •Redmond WA
425-881-6336 • 425-922-2859 (cell)
http://unfoldingleadership.com
http://unfoldingleadership.com/blog
The Nature of Words (NOW), Central Oregon's premier literary organization, announces the call for submissions to the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition for young writers. The literary festival is scheduled for November 3-7, 2010 in Bend, Oregon. Prizes will be awarded in two age categories, 15-18 and 19-25. Open to writers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. More information about the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition and The Nature of Words at www.thenatureofwords.org, or contact Ellen Waterston, Director email info@thenatureofwords.org or call 541.330.4381.
The Nature of Words also needs your Support! This annual literary festival depends on the generous sponsors and donors who value the literary arts and their contribution to the quality of life in Central Oregon. Your contribution in any amount will help to ensure The Nature of Words offers opportunities for readers, writers, young writers, and anyone who enjoys great literature. Donating is easy. You can mail a check to The Nature of Words, PO Box 56, Bend OR 97709 or donate via the PayPal link on our website.
Reed College in Portland OR
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Reed (http://www.reed.edu/MALS/). The MALS program is a flexible, interdisciplinary graduate program for lifetime students of all ages. Contact Barbara Amen, MALS director, at 503.777.7259 or bamen@reed.edu.
Call for submissions to Page Boy Magazine by Thomas Walton
Poetry, prose, essays. Stylistic concerns are unimportant. Preference given to works that are strangely lovely, inexplicably beautiful, musical much more so than moral, logical or 'straight.' Confessional, Sentimental, Angry work not accepted. No deadlines, no entry fees. We pay a couple of contributor’s copies. I’ve never liked the idea of poets having to pay other people to read their work.
Send 3-5 poems, prose 10 pages or less, essays on any subject to pageboymagazine@hotmail.com.
Call for poems: protestpoems.org
http://web.mac.com/renkat/Site/Protest_Poems.html
Protestpoems.org is a twice-monthly poetry journal committed to poetry that tackles human rights issues worldwide. The website provides information about persecuted writers, with letters of protest ready for our subscribers to cut and paste. To receive emails with protest information focused on a specific writer, email us at write@protestpoems.org with SUBSCRIBE in subject line.
Submission guidelines
We’re not looking for partisan propaganda, party-political mouthings, sentimental depictions of what you see on the TV, or rhyming greetings card verses. We want you to champion human rights; the rights of those who don’t have the freedom to write and speak. Formal complaints are especially exciting. Paste your poems (a maximum of 3 one-page poems) and brief bio into the body of an email and send to mailto:write@protestpoems.org. Ok to email a single .doc or .rtf file with all the poems.
We accept poems previously published on paper, if you hold the copyright. We don’t accept poems currently or previously published online (including blogs). We publish a poet only once a year. If your poem deals with a specific call for action or specific person, let us know.
Modoc Forum, a 501c3 nonprofit and host to the Surprise Valley Writers' Conference each year in Cedarville, CA, will be holding the Surprise Valley Writers' Conference Sept. 16-19. Information on this event may be found at www.surprisevalleywritersconf.blogspot.com and www.modocforum.org.
The Northwest Author Series, is sponsored by the Wilsonville Public Library, Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council & Friends of the Wilsonville Library. See blog for more information about NAS authors at http://northwestauthorseries.wordpress.com/. Hosted by Christina Katz christinakatz@earthlink.net. If you'd like to apply as a presenter for 08/09, please e-mail Christina Katz. Mailing address: Northwest Author Series / PO Box 1354 / Wilsonville OR 97070.
News from the Mukilteo Arts Guild:
Open Mic Night on Wednesdays from 6-8 pm
Whidbey Coffee and Café, 619-4th St., Mukilteo WA
Venue for musicians, bands and performers. Open mike. Free and open to all ages.
Contact Steve or Christine Schmalz 425.423.0450 or theartworkshop7@aol.com. Open Mic Night is presented by the Mukilteo Arts Guild and co-sponsored by the City of Mukilteo.
Mukilteo Arts Guild and city of Mukilteo sponsor a number of activities.
Writers Group: A literary salon for writers and open to writers from all genres. Meets on Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at The Art Building, Upper Level in The Art Workshop Studio, 724 1st Street, Mukilteo WA 98275. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact 425.423.0450.
Nye Beach Writers' Series
The Nye Beach Writers' Series showcases authors of diverse types of writing including fiction, nonfiction, plays, songs, Oregon history, memoir, poetry, essays, and investigative journalism. Readings and performances are appropriate for writers and readers who appreciate good writing and diversity of thought.
More information is available at www.writersontheedge.org. To receive email notification of upcoming events contact Carla Perry at 541-574-7708, or send an email to info@writersontheedge.org. All donations to Writers On The Edge are fully tax-deductible. Contact: Carla Perry info@writersontheedge.org or 541-574-7708. Mailing address: PO Box 85 / Newport OR 97365.
Willamette Writers monthly meetings are held each First Tuesday during 2008 in the McEntee Room at the Newport Public Library in Newport, Oregon from 7-8:30 p.m. Admission is free. The Writers-on-Writing series is also sponsored by the Newport Public Library and the Sylvia Beach Hotel. Contacts: Sue Lick, 541.867.4692, suelick@casco.net; Dorothy Blackcrow Mack, 541.765.2383, dmack@netportnet.com; www.willamettewriters.com.
The Pongo Teen Writing Project is a therapeutic poetry project that sends teams of trained volunteers into sites such as the state psychiatric hospital and juvenile detention. We particularly seek out teens who have difficulty expressing themselves. Sadly, a consistent theme in the teens' poetry is early childhood trauma, such as abandonment, abuse, and neglect. But, even though the teens often express profound emotional struggles, their writing is also a joyful and healing process. See their web site www.pongoteenwriting.org.
The International Poetry Museum in San Francisco wants to create a facility that will illuminate the universality and diversity of world poetry, with equal emphasis being given to the ancient heritage of folk poetry as well as contemporary international work. Its Poetry Library accepts donations of poems, books and subscriptions to The National Poetry Assoc. 934 Brannan St., San Francisco CA 94911. Check out its web site http://www.internationalpoetrymuseum.org.
Field’s End Winter 2010 Writing Classes
Registration is open for three remaining Field’s End Winter Writing Classes, to be held February through April. On the roster: Want Versus Need: A Character's Double Dilemma with Dickey Nesenger; Speculative Fiction with Cat Rambo, and Point of View in Practice with Margaret Nevinski. Registration forms and details are online at http://www.fieldsend.org/ and at the Bainbridge Public Library. Contact Cindy Vandersluis 206.780.2575 or cindyvandersluis@yahoo.com.
Spalding University of Louisville, KY, offers a two-year brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program with concentrations in poetry and five other areas of writing. Each semester begins with a 10-day residency of workshops, lectures, classes, and readings, followed by an at-home semester of individualized study with a faculty mentor by correspondence. Poetry faculty include Molly Peacock, Greg Pape, Rane Arroyo, Barbara Hamby, Debra Kang Dean, Richard Cecil, Maureen Morehaed, and Kathleen Driskell. For more information email mfa@spalding.edu or call 800-896-8941x2423.
THE WARS GO ON (and so does poetsagainstthewar.org).
Submit your antiwar poetry! Help PAW make a powerful statement for peace, joining with thousands of other poets around the world. Go to http://poetsagainstthewar.org/submitpoem.asp.
Join and support Poets Against War! Your membership donation of $10 or more can help us publish the web site and continue building a broad-based movement against war. With a donation of $100 or more, you'll get a free PAW T-shirt. Go to http://poetsagainstthewar.org/donate.asp.
Organize a poetry reading against the war! Gather with other poets to make a public statement for peace with your poetry. Announce your reading at http://poetsagainstthewar.org/createreading.asp.
Mountain Writers Series Upcoming Readings & Events
For details or other information, contact:
Mountain Writers Center
3624 SE Milwaukie Avenue
Portland OR 97202
503.236.4854
pdxmws@mountainwriters.org
www.mountainwriters.org.
SEATTLE FREE LANCES, a social and professional networking group, is one of the oldest associations in Seattle for published writers of the Northwest. They meet the first Tuesday of each month (September-June) at 5:30 p.m. at the Lake City Elks Club, 14540 Lake City Way NE, Seattle WA. For membership information and application form, call 206.363.3832 or email m-gutteridge@msn.com.
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