From Charles Alexander of Chax Press

Notice the two Seattle writers included below and consider supporting this innovative publisher:

Dear Poetry Readers and Friends of Chax Press:

Poetry, for me, is a community of writers, readers, ideas, words, shapes, and sounds arranged or just appearing in space and time in such a way as to invite others to enter, to open the spaces words occupy. In this way, the work of Chax Press is part of this poetic endeavor, as well as a practice that expands and deepens the community of contemporary literature.

Chax is once again binding up a year rich in print. Our hand bound volume of Drum Hadley’s poems has been published, and pages of words and machine images by Nico Vassilakis are on the Vandercook Press as I write this. We are about to complete a year with lots of good news, like our summer Book Arts Workshop, and some fourteen book publications, including books by Alice Notley, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Olson, Tenney Nathanson, Jonathan Stalling, and many more…

Our upcoming books, that you will help to print with your contribution, come from diverse voices: Nico Vassilakis, Will Alexander, Eileen Myles, Andrew Levy, Linh Dinh, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Mittenthal, Maureen Owen, and others that together form a distinct, unreplicated corps of authors whose work needs to be present in our time.

No amount of giving is too small or too large. For every gift over $60, we will even send you one of our earliest books, chosen specifically with you in mind…Chax Press is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and your contribution is tax deductible.

To donate via paypal, go to http://chax.org/donate.htm
Or send a check to Chax Press, 411 N 7th Ave Ste 103, Tucson, AZ 85705

Charles Alexander, Executive Director

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The Individual in the World (Living Room, Tue 12.21.10, 7P, plus an extra big holiday raffle)

glass citySince New Yorker Alex Bleecker won’t be spending the holidays back home, he decided to bring New York to the Living Room.  This Tuesday, participants will engage in a brief, yet meaningful look at the first seven sections of the title poem of self-declared Objectivist poet George Oppen’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection Of Being Numerous (1968), originally titled A Language of New York. (Don’t worry – you won’t have to have lived in an uber-metropolis to be able to contribute to the conversation.  Google images of contemporary Tokyo – you’ll get a sense of it.)

We will examine “The sad marvels” of what it means to be a conscious, emotional human being engaged in defining the self in the midst of a modern, urban “city of the corporations” – a simultaneously dehumanizing and life-affirming space where “the emotions are engaged” even when “Glassed / In dreams / And images.”  We will look at the text of the poem in addition to listening to a reading by Oppen himself.

And did we mention we’ll be celebrating the holidays with our big raffle? You must be present to win awesome prizes from Columbia City Cinema, Island Soul, Full Tilt Ice Cream & More!

Living Room happens in the Cultural Corner of the old Columbia School, between Rainier AV S and 36th AV S, on Edmunds. We’re 2 blocks from the Columbia City Link Light Rail Station. Parking is available on the school grounds. Suggested donation is $5 or more so we can keep the doors open.

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Nathaniel Mackey Workshop and Talk Descriptions

Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey

Talk, Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:30PM, venue TBA:

Descent Beckons

Composer/multi-instrumentalist N. writes in Bedouin Hornbook, “What I’m proposing is that we hear into what has up to now only been overheard (if I can put it that way), that we can awaken resources whereby, for example, assent can be heard to carry undertones or echoes of ascent (accents of ascent).”  This talk will say the same of dissent and descent.

Workshop, Saturday, March 12, 2011, 1-4P @ SPLAB: Participants will bring poems for presentation and discussion.  Each participant’s work will be discussed and each participant will take part in discussion of the work of other participants. Space for the workshop is limited and can be reserved for $75 by emailing pen@splab.org or calling Paul Nelson at (206)422.5002.

Sponsored by 4Culture, Poets and Writers, Richard Hugo House, CD Forum, The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and WESTAF.

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Solitary Plover Call for Submissions


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The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are now accepting submissions for the Winter 2011 issue of The Solitary Plover. We accept submissions from the public for the newsletter. Items considered for publication include: essays, book reviews, events related to poetry and/or Niedecker, and news items related to poetry and/or Niedecker. In addition, we will consider excellent original poetry which honors Lorine Niedecker in theme, style, or content. We have not yet established limits on the size of submissions.

The deadline is 5 p.m. CST Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Please send all submissions to: newsletter@lorineniedecker.org. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Amy Lutzke at (920) 563-7790. In addition, the Friends of Lorine Niedecker have completed an update to the Lorine Niedecker Web site. Take a look and let us know what you think.

Friends of Lorine Niedecker
102 E. Milwaukee Ave.
Fort Atkinson, WI  53538
(920) 563-7790

contact@lorineniedecker.org
http://www.lorineniedecker.org
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