Poets' West - Thr 6:30pm

 December 17, 2012
PoetsWest at KSER 90.7 FM Thursday, December 20 at 6:30 p.m. (PST)

#149 THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

POETSWEST #149

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Christmas Morning—RaynRoberts

Hungry Heart—Dan Williams

Drop In—Michael Magee

Soup Kitchen—Jean Musser

Edge of Night—Ellaraine Lockie

Midnight Shopping—Dennis Bernstein

A Cold December Night—J. Glenn Evans

Christmas Truce narrative—J. Glenn Evans

On the Western Front—Mike Dillon

Wilfred Owen poem read by J. Glenn Evans

Adagio by Carlo Farina Tks 9, 11

Sonatina from Cantata 106 by J.S. Bach Tk15

Largo e piano from Concerto grosso IV by Handel Tk18

©2012 PoetsWest

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PoetsWest #241 Human Rights Day

PoetsWest #242 The Poet’s Language

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POETSWEST will commemorate the birthday of one of America’s most important poets, William Stafford, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 12 at 4 p.m., at Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library, 7364 E Greenlake Dr. N, Seattle

The public is invited to attend this free event. The featured readers are Nancy Dahlberg, Michael Schein, Griffith Williams. Jointly sponsored by the Friends of William Stafford and PoetsWest, we will ask poets and/or participants to read a poem by Stafford and/or one of their own poems written in the spirit of Stafford's work. Members of the audience will be invited to read one of their favorite Stafford poems at the open mic as well as some of their own poetry. If you would like to participate, please bring a copy of one or two of your favorite Stafford poems. For further information, contact J. Glenn Evans at 206.682.1268 and/or jge@poetswest.com.

From Tomás Gayton:

Companeros, Please check out the e-book of my memoir, Long Journey Home, now available at the Amazon Kindle store. Would love to get back some of your favorable reviews. Paz y Luz, Tomás

From Olivia Diamond:

My two latest publications on Kindle are The Cat Who Would Be a Woman (kaleidoscope of tales, mostly short and The Wheels of Being (novel). Between Rod and me, we now have 19 titles on Kindle. The poetry collections include: Playground, Please Trespass Here, Novenas for Grandmother, Geography of My Bones, Women at the Well, Land of the Four Quarters (prices 0.99 to $2.99). Also check out my blog at http://oliviadiamond.wordpress.com/ which has topics of interest to all writers. I invite the PoetsWest community to visit me there.

From Joanne Clarkson:

Free Poetry Workshop Tuesday, January 8 at 7 p.m. at the Olympia Senior Center, 222 Columbia St. NW, Olympia, WA 98501

"Publish Your Poetry" is the topic for the January Paul Gillie Memorial Workshop co-sponsored by the Olympia Poetry Network. Workshop includes resources for locating journals, websites, contests and other venues that match your poetic style, tips for successful submissions and tactics for revision.
Presenter is Joanne Clarkson, author of 3 books of poems. Workshops are named in honor of Paul Gillie who brought poetry to the South Sound as a poet, educator and advocate. More info at OPN website: http://home.comcast.net/~yake/opn.html.

From Wry Ink Publishing:

Good reading for the readers on your list:

The Killer Poet's Guide to Immortality by AB Bard

Bones Beneath Our Feet (a historical novel of Puget Sound) by Michael Schein

Just Deceits: A Historical Legal Mystery

Available from Amazon.com or Secret Garden Books www.secretgardenbooks.com/. Contact wryink@gmail.com. Buy local!

Dennis Caswell’s first full-length poetry collection, Phlogiston (pronounced FLOW-ji-stahn) has been published by Floating Bridge Press. Seattle poet Peter Pereira describes Phlogiston as “brimful with humor, intelligence, love of language, pop culture references, science factoids, and sexiness,” balancing “joyful hilarity” against “a deeply personal and thoughtful poignancy.” The book ranges from the playfulness of a cycle of five univocals (poems that restrict themselves to a single vowel) to a series of poems about the author’s relationship with his deceased father. Dennis Caswell will be reading with Floating Bridge Chapbook Award winner Jodie Marion at Open Books on Friday, January 11th at 7:30 p.m. More info at http://www.floatingbridgepress.org/ or denniscaswell.com.

Rayn Roberts will be featured at C & P Coffee @ 7pm on Dec 26. He writes about peace, war, social issues, humor and more. He is found in print at Rattle, The Sow's Ear Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Pedestal Magazine and Voices in Wartime. Since 2000, he has appeared in several Arts and Poetry anthologies including The Book of Hope, The World Healing Book and Illuminations from Evolving Editions in New York. In 2003, he toured the U.S. to promote Jazz Cocktails and Soapbox Songs. He is also the author of The Fires of Spring, a Buddhist collection written in South Korea. Open mic to follow the reading. https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/C-P-Coffee-Company/54958593949?fref=ts

Art Song Lab, founded by composer Michael Park and poet, Ray Hsu, is part of the Vancouver International Song Institute Composers are paired with poets to create new art songs as. Six poets/writers will have the opportunity to have their poem made into a song by two different composers. The week-long program from June 2-7, 2013 rehearses and workshops the new songs, features public performances, opportunities for poets to network with composers and other poets, and an in-depth exploration of how the poet, composer, and audience interpret the poems. They are looking to contact as many writers as possible. Email: artsonglab@gmail.com.

From Tina Schumann:

Call for submissions: Were you born in the U.S. and raised by immigrant mother/father/grandparents? The anthology, Two-Countries: Sons and Daughters of Immigrant Parents, (working title) seeks poems, personal essays and flash memoir on this subject. Editor is a prize-winning poet raised by a U.S.-born father and an immigrant mother from El Salvador. No deadline right now and Word docs or pdf attachments are fine. Previously published work ok. Please submit no more than four poems, two essays (1,400 word limit) or two flash memoir essays (750 word limit) to twocountriesanthology@gmail.com.

Vital Links:

http://www.peoplescongress.org Let’s take our government back

The National Initiative for Democracy Let’s take our government back legally

—I love the fiction of what my country stands for. Being the eternal dreamer, I pray that someday we will get there—J. Glenn Evans—24July2005—

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