Raven Chronicles, 2008 Calendar

Raven Chronicles, 2007 Calendar

Partial list of Events Workshops Readings

“City Chronicles: Reports from the Home Front”

Reading Series at
Richard Hugo House,
1634 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle
Donation at the door requested.

UPCOMING READINGS:

SOME OF THESE READINGS ARE SPONSORED IN PART BY THE RICHARD HUGO HOUSE, A PLACE FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE WRITING AND READING. Thanks also to 4Culture (King County Lodging Tax), The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and the Washington State Arts Commission, for partial support of our programs in 2007.

April 24, 2007, Tuesday - 7:00 pm
Raven Chronicles Live! Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House and The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Raven Chronicles presents "An evening with Judith Roche."
Roche will read from and discuss her new book of poems, Wisdom of the Body. Published by Black Heron Press. The book was made possible by a grant from Seattle Arts Commission, through a City Artists Project Grant. The poems in the book are largely based in biology and environment. They explore the idea of body, that of humans- sex, birth, death, illness, change- but also the body of the earth, of the salmon, the flowers, the psyche, the universe, of languages.

Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle

Contact: 206-364-2045 editors@ravenchronicles.org

May 25, 2007, Friday - 7:00 pm
Raven Chronicles Live!

Raven Chronicles presents "A celebration of eccentricity and idiosyncrasy."

We will present the work of poets and prose writers featured in Raven
Chronicles, Vol 13, No. 1.
Featured Readers: Charlie Burks and David Lloyd Whited and open mike.

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 will be reading poems from his latest manuscript, Coyote Poems.

We celebrate a rare appearance by Seattle-based satirist, CHARLIE BURKS. Poet Paul Hunter says of his work (from "Gauze, Violins, Etc.", Wood Works Press, 1996): "Masquerading as still life, 'Gauze, Violins, Etc.' moves. From noise to music, from catastrophe to precarious health, from isolation to community to love. And in motion Charlie Burks shows himself to be a master of understatement, deft lyric turns, and improbable wit. There are playfulness and joy in this oblique story of a survival and its cost. Burks suggests that we are always instruments, in tune or out, unfinished, played well or badly, even worn thin or broken, conduits for a song to outreach and outlast us."

 

Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle

Contact: 206-364-2045 editors@ravenchronicles.org

June 18, 2007, Monday - 7:00 pm
Raven Chronicles Live! Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.

Raven Chronicles presents Shining Horns: A free evening of nature poetry with nature poet and teacher: James Bertolino. And open mike.
(http://www.ravenchronicles.org/Nature/natureindex.html).

James Bertolino's poetry has been appearing internationally in books, magazines and anthologies for almost 40 years. His poetry has been recognized by the Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship, the Discovery Award, a Hart Crane publication award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two Quarterly Review of Literature book awards and other regional and national prizes. Nine volumes and fourteen chapbooks of his poetry and prose have been published by such presses as Copper Canyon, Carnegie Mellon, New Rivers, Ithaca House and the QRL Award Series. Recent anthologies include Poets Against the War from The Nation Books and Under A Silver Sky: Pacific Northwest Poetry from Evergreen State College. His latest volume is Pocket Animals: 60 Poems, published in 2002 by Egress Studio Press.

Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle

Contact: 206-364-2045 editors@ravenchronicles.org
Donation for readers.

September 25, 2007, Tuesday - 7:00 pm
Raven Chronicles Live! Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.

Raven Chronicles presents "Citizen, Subject, Slave."
We will present the work of poets and prose writers featured in Raven Chronicles, Vol. 13, No. 2.

What do these words mean to you? What do they mean in the United States? In other cultures? In a global society? In a nation's history? The roots of the word civil in three languages: Latin: civicus, “of a citizen” a derivation of civis “townsman.” Sanskrit: nagara “townborn, town-bred” Old English: ceasterb™end “city-dweller, citizen.” This is what English Writer and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter has to say about citizenship: “I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all....”

Writers will include (among others): Thomas Hubbard: Since retiring from his teaching position on the Tulalip Rez, Hubbard has published Wisdom for a Dance in the Street, (a spoken word CD) by Dave Caserio, Nailed to The Sky, (a poetry collection) by M. Anne Sweet, and Junkyard Dogz, a chapbook of his own poetry and graphics, all under his gazoobi tales imprint. These add to his previously published Nail and other Hardworking Poems (Year of the Dragon Press, 1994) and Children Remember Their Fathers, an anthology of poems about fathers. In the works are an anthology of poems about mothers, and a collection of writings to be entitled Living With Proud Mary. He is currently gathering works for an anthology of indigenous writers. He lives in Seattle

John Olson's poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Antenym, B City, Caliban, Crosscut Anthology, Cross Cultural Poetics, Ergo, Exquisite Corpse, Fine Madness, First Intensity, Lingo, Mirage #4 Period(ical), New American Writing, Sulfur, Talisman, The Germ, The Raven Chronicles, Vapor Strains and Volt. He is author of three chapbooks, Swarm of Edges (poetry) from bcc press, Eggs & Mirrors (poetry & short fiction) from Wood Works Press and Logo Lagoon (prose poems) from Paper Brain Press. Echo Regime, a collection of poetry published between 1992 and 1999, was published by Black Square Press, with cover art by Seattle artist Randy Hayes. His literary criticism has appeared in the American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Sulfur, First Intensity and the Stranger, a Seattle weekly. He has had two feature articles in the Seattle Weekly and his short stories have appeared in Dirigible, Etcetera, and First Intensity. He is married to the poet Roberta Olson and lives in Seattle.

Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle

Contact: 206-364-2045 editors@ravenchronicles.org

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UPCOMING Raven Sponsored Chapbooks:

America The Brutiful

by Roberto Valenza (poet) and James Redo (artist)

Primordial Marrow Publishing, 2007, 65pgs

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UPCOMING Bookfairs, Workshops. Visit Raven editors at:

February 17, 2007, Saturday - Noon to 6:00 pm

(pro)text: An Independent Press Fair
Co-sponsored by Hugo House and Cranky Literary Journal

Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634-llth Avenue, Seattle

Contact: 206-364-2045 editors@ravenchronicles.org

April 28, 2007, Saturday - 9am to 7:00 pm

Burning Word Festival, Small Press Fair
Sponsored by Washington Poets Association

Where: Whidbey Island, Greenbank Farm

Contact: http://www.washingtonpoets.org/2007_burning_word_press_release.php

 

June 18, 2007, Monday - Nature Poetry Workshops, 10am-5pm

NOTE: Workshop has been cancelled.

A day of nature poetry workshops with poets James Bertolino and Derek Sheffield.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.

Cost for the one-day workshop is $90 per student, though financial aid may be available.
Payment is due May 2, 2007; checks to Raven Chronicles. Maximum class size for each workshop: 20.
When registering, be sure to indicate Bertolino or Sheffield for the morning session.

Two morning workshops will be offered, one each with Jim and Derek.
Afternoon session will be team taught.
Morning sessions: 10am-1pm
Afternoon session: 2-5pm

In the morning session (10:00 to 1:00), Bertolino and Sheffield will each work separately with a group of participants. In the afternoon session (2:00 to 5:00), the two groups will gather together into a learning community team-taught by Bertolino and Sheffield.

The morning session will focus on examples of successful nature poetry, and on various strategies for utilizing your knowledge and experience. The afternoon session will focus on both writing exercises and on sharing what you've written.

editors@ravenchronicles.org
www.ravenchronicles.org
Cell Phone: 206-941-2955

\ Visit www.hugohouse.org for a list of other readings and events happening at the Richard Hugo House.