PoetsWest at KSER 90.7 FM Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m. (PST) #75 INFLUENCED BY ASIA

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PoetsWest #75

INFLUENCED BY ASIA

May is Asian Heritage Month

Heart of Bamboo—Sam Hamill

Temple as Cage—Rayn Roberts

Li Bai Tk6—Keith Holyoak

Li Bai Tk15—Vanessa Holyoak

Five Punk Poems—John Burgess

What the Sea Inside Remembers—Scott Galasso

In This Temple—Rayn Roberts

Ears of Seon Jin Castle—Rayn Roberts

Midsummer—Sam Hamill

Tibetan Prayer Wheel—Len Tews

Heart of Bamboo: Poetry & Music in the Zen Tradition

Parting at Yangguan Part I Chuen-Fung Wong

Parting at Yangguan Part II Chuen-Fung Wong

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From Connie Walle:

Deadline May 1 for accepting nominations for LitBridge Reading Series Contest. Winning reading series receives a $400 prize to help the winning series to expand and continue to serve its community. Guidelines at http://www.litbridge.com/litbridge-reading-series-contest/.

From Skagit River Poetry Foundation:

Dublin poet Tony Curtis performs at The Conway Muse May 3 from 7-8:30 p.m. The lyrical poet and guitar-carrying songwriter is the author of six warmly received collections of poetry, including his recent The Well in the Rain: New and Selected Poems. Curtis has also published a new book of poems for children, An Elephant Called Rex and a Dog Called Dumbo. The Muse is located at 18444 Spruce Street in Conway, just east of I-5 turnoff #221 (Error! Hyperlink reference not valid., 360-445-3000). Suggested donation of $7 supports the Skagit River Poetry Foundation’s Poets in the Schools program. Contact Skagit River Poetry Foundation Executive Director Molly McNulty: Error! Hyperlink reference not valid., 360-840-1452.

From John Sibley Williams:

My debut poetry book, Controlled Hallucinations, has just been published by FutureCycle Press, and I’d be honored if you were interested in a copy. I’m incredibly excited about this next creative step forward and wanted to share this excitement with you. Here’s the Amazon link.

From Sharmagne Leland-St John

Order now for Mother’s Day! An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood edited by Sharmagne Leland-St John and Rachelle Yousuf. Several PNW poets are included in this anthology.

219 poems / 258 pages / $18.99 plus S&H

ISBN: 0-9764244-5-2-978 / 0-9764244-5-1

Quill & Parchment Press www.quillandparchment.com

Reviewed by Ed Bennett
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2012/BookReview.html.

From Sharon Lia Robinson:

My documentary feature film, Edge of the Sea Gallery (1998-2003) is now on YouTube. Edge of the Sea Gallery (1998-2003) - YouTube Share this site with you and your friends. The film being on YouTube will provide more access. More info at www.sharonrobinson.org.

Vital Links:

www.poetswest.com/books.htm Books by J. Glenn Evans

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

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

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—Rather than incarcerate criminals created as a result inequality of opportunity we should incarcerate and rehabilitate those infected with the greed disease as they do far more damage to the environment and the social fabric—J. Glenn Evans—07 April 2013—

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