Raven Chronicles Seeks Submissions

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Splabman

From Phoebe Bosche:

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RAVEN NOTES, June 17, 2010
1. UPCOMING DEADLINES:
The Raven Chronicles publishes work which reflects the cultural diversity of the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and other areas of America. We promote art, literature and the spoken word for an audience that is hip, literate, funny, informed, and lives in a society that has a multicultural sensibility. We publish fiction, talk art/spoken word, poetry, essays, reflective articles, reviews, interviews and contemporary art. We look for work that reflects the author’s experiences, perceptions and insights.
We seek uncommon poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, b/w art, interviews.
We publish work by emerging and veteran writers.All work submitted must include a SASE (or we cannot return your work or reply to your submissions).International submissions are welcome via e-mail to editors@ravenchronicles.org.
Cover letters should contain your contact information. Send BRIEF bios with submission.
We sometimes publish previously published work: inquire about it.


Submissions for Volume 16, No 1:
Theme: Matters of the Spirit; Faith; Grace; Religious or Spiritual beliefs; Nature and Meaning of life.
Deadline for submissions: July 1 through August 1, 2010.

Editors for this issue: Anna Bálint. Non-Fiction editor:
Kathleen Alcalá & Stephanie Lawyer: Fiction editors; Thomas Hubbard: Poetry Editor.

2. READINGS/TALKS IN July, 2010:
JULY 26, 2010, MONDAY: WISH YOU WERE THERE!
Readings by:
Wish You Were There! Essayists Tiffany Midge, Priscilla Long & Jeannie Berwick.
Poetry from Peter Ludwin.
Cultural Geography: Anna Balint
Food & Culture: Tina Schumann
In Memoriam: Readings by JT Stewart and Judith Roche
Nature Writing: Cal Kinnear
MC: Michael Hureaux Perez
July, 26th, Monday: 7-9:30 p.m.,
Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue.
Free to $5, sliding scale
 Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.
Partially supported by grants from 4Culture and the City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Raven Chronicles
Mailing Address:
12346 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98125
Office Address:
909 N.E. 43rd St., #205
Seattle, WA 98105

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Review of John Olson’s “The Nothing That Is”

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Splabman

Steven Fama, the world’s #1 John Olson fan, is at it again with a brilliant new review of Olson’s latest. How bout this cherry-picked quote on poetics:

“You favored a type of poetry that was wild and surreal. A poetry full of phantasmagoria and fugitive meaning. The poetry of delirium. A poetry that did not point in one direction but in many directions. A poetry that capitalized on the inherently hallucinatory properties of language. It had been your experience that most people did not care for this type of poetry. People preferred a more transparent poetry which presented a single lyrical emotion in an anecdotal setting. The bland and acceptable poetry which was generally featured on NPR, read by Garrison Keillor, and got all the NEA grants.

http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2010/06/storms-and.html

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McClure’s Mysteriosos

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Splabman

A very intelligent review of Michael McClure’s new book Mysteriosos has been written by Joel Weishaus.  He spots the prophetic in McClure’s latest work:

Before April 20, 2010, when news spread of the disastrous sinking of BP’s oil-drilling platform, Deepwater Horizon, in the Gulf of Mexico, with each day for months millions of barrels of oil—life-blood of contemporary economies that is poisoning the planet—polluting the already ecologically fragile sea and marshlands, killing untold numbers of marine life, and depressing local economies, along with failure after failure of corporate technological solutions to plug the hellish hole they had drilled—McClure’s vatic voice had already described how “the lapis lazuli kingfisher…

hovers
over
the
crystal
pool
as we float on a sea
of petroleum.

The essay is linked here:

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Poetica/blog-4.htm

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Plop Cabaret – July 17, 2010 Beacon Hill

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Splabman

From Josie Davis:

Fluff that Pillow … You’re Invited!Plop Cabaret

Pie & Wine on the House.
$10 General Seating

Tickets Online
Or Email us to RSVP

Limited Seating.  Limited Pie.
Reserve your slice today!


Anastacia Tolbert is a multifarious mix of grit, sunshine, alphabet juice & butterflies. She is a writer, performance artist, documentarian, teacher and workshop facilitator.

Graham Isaac is a writer who grew up in various parts of Northwestern Washington, getting his BA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University in Bellingham prior to spending two years in Wales, where he earned an MA in Media and Creative Writing. While in Wales he co-founded The Crunch, an open mic night for poetry and prose and partnered with the Southbank Centre and Dylan Thomas Centre on the Global Poetry System project and website. He currently lives and writes in Seattle, interns at ZAPP at Richard Hugo House. Poems of his have appeared in Jeopardy, Roundyhouse and other places.

Paul Nelson founded SPLAB, wrote Organic Poetry, A Time Before Slaughter, interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, Eileen Myles & writes American Sentences daily.

Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist living in Seattle, Washington. Wilson’s music emphasizes focus, texture, chance and exploration. Wilson currently performs solo, as well as with the Gust Burns Quartet, ‘A Saxophone Quartet’ (with Paul Hoskin, Kelvin Pittman and Tyler Wilcox), bst.cr (with Ben Bennett and Ryan Jewell) and in various ad hoc and piece-oriented collaborations. Wilson is the director of Gallery 1412, an artist collective and performance space, and is a member of the Seattle Improvised Music board of directors.

Visit Josephine to find out details on current music, literary and live performance events in your region. www.plopcabaret.com

See you on board,

Josie

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