Raven Chronicles, 2010 Calendar
Partial list of Events 
Workshops Readings
Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Sliding scale: $1-$5.00
Marianne Aweagon Broyles is a mental health worker who has learned to take complex people and situations and convey empathy and understanding of them. Her words give you cause to stop and reflect what the subjects of her poems must have felt. She talks of her Native American heritage, what it is like to be an outcast due to mental illness, the plight of our diminishing natural world. There is strength and clarity in her words. Marianne grew up in Boston and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and in Tennessee. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, and a graduate of Emory University. She works as a psychiatric nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Red Window (2008, West End Press) is her first book.
Tiffany Midge is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is the recipient of the Diane Decorah Poetry Award from The Native Writers Circle of the Americas for her collection, Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed, published by Greenfield Review Press. The chapbook, Guiding the Stars to Their Campfire, Driving the Salmon to Their Beds, was published in 2005 by Gazoobi Tales. Animal Legend and Lore: Buffalo is her first children’s book, published by Scholastic. Publication credits include, Growing up Ethnic in America, Viking/Penguin; Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American,Viking/Penguin; Reinventing the Enemy’s Language,” W.W. Norton; Blue Dawn, Red Earth; New Native American Storytellers, Anchor Books. More recently, her work has appeared in Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology, and America! What's My Name? edited by Frank X Walker. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho. In 2005 one of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Erika T. Wurth is Apache, Chickasaw and Cherokee, and her collection of poetry, Indian Trains, was published by the University of New Mexico’s West End Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boulevard, SAIL, AMCRJ, Cedar Hill Review, Fiction, Raven Chronicles, Pembroke, Generation What?, Ellipsis, 5AM, Global City Review, The Bryant Literary Review, Stand and Red Ink. She lives in Macomb, Illinois, where she teaches Creative writing at Western Illinois University. Recently, she was a visiting writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
This event is co-sponsored by RICHARD HUGO HOUSE,
a center for the literary arts, and Jack Straw Foundation.
Sliding scalle: $1-$5.00
4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105
Sliding scale: $1-$5.00
Thanks to the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs for partial funding of our 2010 programs.
MARION KIMES’s work has been published in anthologies, broadsides, & in literary magazines, like Raven Chronicles. Her chapbooks include: Machines (emPo Publications); A Stretch of Poets, (Poetry Around Press); Whirled (Wood Works Press); Crows Eyes/of multiplication and light, Choosing The Next Stone, Namoratunga, and pommes, latterly poems (nine muses books). Last Year’s Horse is her book-sized collection of poems (March, 2009, nine muses books). (From a book review by Belle Randall: "Last Year's Horse," designed by the poet and publisher margarita waterman, is a beautiful book, and Marion Kimes is a more convincing poet than many I could name with more daunting credentials. I hereby declare her a National Treasure. My voice may not carry the authority of the Smithsonian, but it is my own, and that—as her poetry suggests—may be enough.) Marion is the recipient of Raven’s 2007 Louise Dovell Poetry/Spoken Word Award. The award reflects the spirit of storytelling/spoken word poetry, and honors Louise who died of cancer in 2006.
MICHAEL HUREAUX PEREZ teaches at Rainier Beach High School in the southeast side of the city. He is perpetually intrigued at how public school teachers in urban high schools are held to a much higher level of public accountability than are the war speculators and investment hustlers who ruined the international economy two years ago, and who today continue to do business at the expense of the public sector and working class taxpayer. He is avowedly marxist and a member of the Workers International League. He has written a few good poems, a lot of really bad ones, and continues to grow musically as both Afro-Cuban percussionist and late-life violinist. He laughs at things that aren't funny.
JUDITH ROCHE is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Wisdom of the Body, won an American Book Award. She has edited a number of poetry anthologies and has worked in collaboration with visual artists on several public art projects that are installed in the Pacific Northwest area. She is Literary Arts Director Emeritus for One Reel, an arts producing company, and teaches poetry workshops. She was Distinguished Northwest Writer in Residence at Seattle University in 2007 and is a Fellow in the Black Earth Institute.
DAVID LLOYD WHITED’s poems have been published in literary journals throughout the United States. He has been a writer-in-residence at Bowling Green State University and Interlochen Arts Academy, and poetry and nonfiction editor for NRG, The Medicine Bag, and other journals. His books include 3 & 1, Poor Billy Bonney, Hollow Fox, Poemoptrics, and The Elevens (1995, Black Heron Press). Whited lives on Vashon Island and is a Planner for The Puyallup Tribal Authority. He is currently working on a ms. of Coyote Poems.
Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenuem Seattle, WA 98122
Sliding scale: Free-$5.00
Tina Schumman, Judith Roche, JT Stewart, and Cal Kinnear. MC: Michael Hureaux.
This event is co-sponsored by RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
WORKSHOPS
During 2010, we will offer a number of inexpensive workshops, limited to 10-12 members, in our office space, in the U. District. Stay tuned for further information.
Sunday, May 23rd, 2-4 p.m.,
Fee: $30 members of Los Nortenos; $35: Non-members
@ Jack Straw Foundation/ Warren Building
in Seattle's University District
4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., (In Raven's Office, in back of the building)
For further information: 206 364-2045 or Cell Phone: 206 941-2955
www.ravenchronicles.org
editors@ravenchronicles
Min: 5 students; Max: 12
Tiffany Midge is a Standing Rock Sioux and recipient of the 1994 Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas for her manuscript, Outlaws, Renegades & Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed, from Greenfield Review Press. Her poetry has appeared in Cutbank, Blue Mesa Review, Durable Breath and Arnazella. She is a long-time contributor to The Raven Chronicles.
For many of us, spiritual lessons, occurrences and encounters with the numinous often go uncelebrated or unobserved in the hectic routine of our lives. There might be a reason why workshop and worship sound so similar; for the poet, poems are liturgy and the practice of writing is an act of devotion. In Turning Water Into Wine, we’ll explore strategies toward transcending the everyday into celebrations worthy of a framed stitched sampler. We’ll look to our various grief, our sorrows, and discover unexpected thresholds and vistas. Each of our lives is a sacred journey and poetry becomes a map for that journey. How can we tap into the sacred to enhance our sense of beauty and connectedness and to explore ourselves and our ways of being in the world? Class participants will consider the ways in which hope, grace, the meaning of life and death, and more can be articulated and amplified through the practice of poetry.
Wednesday evenings, 7-9 p.m., July 14-September 1
Fee: $250.00
@ Jack Straw Foundation/ Warren Building
in Seattle's University District
4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., (In Raven's Office, in back of the building)
BOOKFAIRS
Raven Chronicles Mailing Address:
12346 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98125
Street Address:
Jack Straw/Warren Building,
909 N.E. 43rd St., Suite 205
Seattle, WA 98105
www.ravenchronicles.org
editors@ravenchronicles
For further information: 206 364-2045 or Cell Phone: 206-941-2955
Updated June 4, 2010