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1100 University St., #17A

Seattle WA 98101

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206.682.1268

16 May 2012

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J. Glenn Evans

PoetsWest at KSER 90.7 FM Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 p.m. (PST) #108 PALESTINE LIVES!

If you are out of range for this station, the broadcast is available worldwide via streaming by going to http://www.kser.org/ and following the Listen Live links.

PoetsWest #108

PALESTINE LIVES!

Poetic Arrangements (Darwish)—Ed Mast

A Moment (Tuqan)—Meg Savlov

Sunstroke (Mohammed)—Ed Mast

Martyr (al Aziz)—Meg Savlov

Night (Khazindar)—Ed Mast

Four Sisters (Zaqtan) 0.34 Savlov

Knocking on Doors of Peace—Hanna Eady

Emigration (Mohammed)—Meg Savlov

Rita & Rifle (Darwish)—Hanna Eady & Ed Mast

Poets (Nasrallah)—Meg Savlov

Passport (Darwish)—Hanna Eady & Ed Mast

After Birth—(Tuffaha) Meg Savlov

In the Land of Palestine—Hanna Eady

Hanna Eady on the Oud

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Haiku with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival! Deadline June 4 to submit up to 2 poems.

http://www.vcbf.ca/haiku/haiku-invitational-2012. Contact carina@vcbf.ca or 778 995 9882.

Wednesday, May 16 at 7:00 pm

The Creekside, 18200 Woodinville-Snohomish Rd NE, (Intersection of Woodinville-Snohomish Rd NE and 140th Avenue NE), Woodinville, WA

PoetsWest @ The Creekside features Ann Spiers. Open mic. Hosted by Clark Crouch and Virginia Cook. Emceed by Terry Busch. Contact ccrouch@thecreekside.net.

Saturday, June 9 at 4:00 p.m.

Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library, 7364 E Greenlake Dr. N, Seattle

Reader’s Choice features Ann Spiers and friends. Open mike. Contact J. Glenn Evans 206.682.1268 or JGE@poetswest.com.

Thursday, May 17 at 7 p.m.

Common Good Café at University Temple United Methodist, 1415 NE 43rd St., Seattle (Across from Univ Bookstore) Featuring Craig Salins (WA Public Campaigns), “Money & Politics: Fixing Democracy”  COME AND SHARE YOUR IDEAS.

(We attended this program series last week and it was marvelous.  Public discussion with neighbors sharing idea—J. Glenn Evans)

End Corporate Personhood in Seattle www.i103.org

Saturday, May 19 at 4 p.m.

PoetsWest Poets for Justice in association with JPWA (Justice Party of Washington State) is hosting a meeting on "Progressive Coalition Building - 2012 and Beyond" this Saturday May 19, 2012 at 4pm at the Green Lake Library, 7364 E Greenlake Drive North, Seattle. There will be a statewide conference call via Skype with Rocky Anderson, Justice Party candidate for president, who will speak.. Following Rocky Anderson’s presentation there will be a general discussion and Q/A session. The public is invited.

Saturday, May 19 at 3:30 p.m.

Museum of Northwest Art, 121 First Street in La Conner. WA

Oregon Poet Clemens Starck will be Honorary Robert Sund Memorial Reader at the Skagit River Poetry Festival. For information on the festival, visit www.skagitriverpoetry.org which runs from May 17-20.

Thursday, May 24 at 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle

Public reading by the original poet of the Chicano Movement, Alurista, author of many books and co- founder of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) chapter at SDSU, and helped to establish the Chicano Studies program there two years later. In 1969, he attended the First National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in Denver and read a poem that became the preamble to the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, the political manifesto of the Chicano Movement. Contact 206-543-5401 or aes@uw.edu.

The Pongo Teen Writing Project is pleased to offer scholarships to our upcoming one-day training on how to facilitate poetry with teens who are leading difficult lives. Afterward, we want to support the participants in their schools and agencies as they start their own poetry programs with youth. The training is Saturday, May 19. People should send us an email to hold a place. More info & registration form at http://www.pongoteenwriting.org/training-for-counselors-and-teachers.html.

Pongo is wrapping up its 17th year in helping youth to write therapeutic poetry about their lives. Check out our work at http://www.pongoteenwriting.org & http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Poetry-flows-from-teens-behind-bars-141111313.html.

—Is it not treason against the sovereign people of the United States when the legislators pass laws that trash our Constitution, and the president fails to veto such laws and the Supreme Court fails to declare such laws as unconstitutional when each has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic—J. Glenn Evans—03 Jan 2012—

LAND FOR A DUWAMISH RESERVATION NOW

150-YEAR WAIT FOR AN UNFULFILLED PROMISE

SHOULD BE SEATTLE’S SHAME WHEN MAGNUSON PARK

COULD BE A TOKEN RETURN OF THE LANDTAKEN FROM THEM