i've been burning through cities faster than a cigaretteleft on an atlas   Noel Franklin poenoel@speakeasy.org PO box 20205 Seattle, WA 98102 http:/kali.nas.com/~riproject Noel Franklin is a mixed blood Eastern Band Cherokee/Euro-mutt who wasraised in a chevy station wagon by parents desperate to make a break withtheir own history. Though still in urban nomad recovery, she earned a B.A.in fine arts printmaking from WWU, and has since turned her creative energiestoward the democratic and direct art of spoken word. She performed 37 featuredreadings in 8 states and 2 countries in 1997 alone. These include the AlbuquerquePoetry Festival, the Conneticut Poetry Slam Nationals, the premier JackStraw Foundation Writers Program, Firestorm! feminist readings, an iMusicinternet broadcast Mary Lou Lord/Amy Denio show from Moe's Mo'Rockin' Cafe(Seattle), and the Northwest Writers harvest with August Wilson. Her poemshave been self published in the chapbooks Gone Girl and Theo;have been included in Descanso, Flying Poems, Cupid, Spoken War, Sonof Slam, Rain City Review, and the Alburque Poetry Festival Anthology;and are pending publication in VOX, The Raven Chronicles, Herland,and the Poetry Nation Anthology. Noel Franklin is an arts activist. She is the co-founder of Eleventh Hour Productions, a Seattlebased literary and multi-media arts non-profit corporation, where sbe isthe President of the Board of Directors. She helps curate and produce Realto Reel: poetry and cinema, Eleventh Hour's monthly reading series, andis Artistic Director of the Seattle Poetry Festival. Noel also served asliterary arts assistant for Bumbershoot 1997.