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Portland Poetry Slam GRAND SLAM!!!

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PORTLAND--Come out of the winter cold and celebrate with local poets and writers the birthday of Oregon’s most famous poet--and one of America’s most important 20th century poets--in venues throughout the Northwest and other states and two foreign countries throughout the month of January.
             The venues for these popular “birthday parties,” known formally as the William Stafford Birthday Commemorative Readings, which are sponsored by the Friends of William Stafford (FWS), include libraries, bookstores, art galleries, college campuses, a national park, a hospital, even a prison--wherever poetry can be read to and heard by appreciative audiences.  Local poets and speakers provide the programs.  The public is invited to these free events.  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/stafford

Chris Leja
Submissions are still open for The Sparrow Ghost Collective Anthology volume 2! If you haven't already, you should probably submit 1-5 poems. No word limit, no topic or theme or any of that. Email your submissions to sparrowghostcollective@gmail.com
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sparrow-Ghost-Collective/142497319183029

Submissions close on Feb. 25th.

What is poetry slam?
Simply put, poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry.
It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on
what they're saying and how they're saying it.

Poet Pages: 
Nicole Taylor:   http://www.theportlandalliance.org/poetry/nicoletaylor

Hey all you poetry lovers,
  We had a great reading at the Tiger last month, with a bunch of outstanding open mic readers and the visceral imagery and profound performance skills of Kyle David Congdon. Thanks so much to everyone who publicized, attended or participated in the event.
On Thursday October 20 at 7pm at Paper Tiger Coffee (703 Grand Blvd. in Vancouver, located about a mile east of I-5  between Mill Plain and Evergreen Blvd) we will be featuring the hallucinagenic verse of Dan Raphael. I've been to 2 of Dan's performances and was not only thoroughly entertained but highly impressed with his surreal yet accessible verse, and his remarkable takes on the environment, the economy and the socio-political milieu. Dan says;  I've been at this awhile, so numbers look impressive (published in over 300 places, given over 200 readings), but what matters is the now and I am, in my way, active and delivering.
     Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems, with work from my first 13 collections, came out a year ago: Children of the Blue Supermarket, a CD of performances weith saxophonist Rich Halley and drummer Carson Halley, was released this spring: a book of newer poems, The State I'm In, comes out 2/29/12.  Current poems appear in Rattapallax, Otoliths, Raft, Skidrow Penthouse and Caliban. I've performed at places like Wordstock, Bumbershoot, Powell’s, Eastern Oregon U, Burning Word, Pacific Crest Alpaca Farm and the Portland Jazz Festival. Currently organizing the Market Day reading Series at St Johns Booksellers, I also ran a monthl series in downtown Portland for 13 years, and made Poetland--80 poets reading in 8 venues over an 8 hour period.
    I pay for my life and art working for the Oregon DMV. Otherwise I read mostly fiction and non-fiction, read too much news, hang out in deep Southeast Portland with Melba and 400 plant varieties.

So I really hope to see all of you on the Third Thursday of October for great poetry, great company and fine beverages. This will be our first event with the new owners of Paper Tiger, Kenny and Sue Grijalva, so be sure to come and welcome them to the business and show them how much The 'Couve loves its poetry and coffee. I'll leave you with a short piece by dan Raphael to whet you appetite for this month's reading. See you there!
Dan nelson
360-334-1129
nelsondaniel59@yahoo.com
 
 
Alexandria
 

if rupert murdoch believes something
if wall street wants to roll 1-sided dice
congress and/or parliament will sing harmony  :
 
if science and history are on sale what about all other non-experiential truths:
just cause its on tv, on the web, in a newspaper--how did it get there?
 
do everything you can to save the libraries full of books.
you cant change books,   you have to burn them
                                                                -Dan Raphael