News from Dale Harris, covering the Poetry Beat (but not necessarily beat poetry) with weekly poem at bottom of past (desert). FYI Dale has her own poetry blogging plans - watch for it on our blogroll and announced here. Yrs editorially has been busy busy with a new gig teaching gig and profoundly appreciates the contributions from Dale, Jude, Kathleen and other forwarder aka guest contributors. I yearn to return to return to more frequent blogging - even have snappy and apropos title at the ready - "when the snark bytes" (hummed to the tune of Mack the Knife)
"A word is dead When it is said Some say. I say it just begins to live that day." Emily Dickinson
Sunday, February 24, 3 pm
Todd Moore & Mera Wolf poetry reading and book release at Acequia Booksellers, 4019 4th St. NW, Albuquerque, 505-890-5365, celebrating new publications by Mera Wolf, Lost Things, and Todd Moore, Relentless and Tell the Corpse a Story. Free admission.
Tues. Feb. 26 & March 4, 2 - 4:30
Tesuque, NM continues a 8 week series of poetry afternoons with Judyth Hill at the home of Jane Lipman, "Lighting Sacred Fire: Poemmaking in a Lively Spin of Joy" $35. per class. For info and to enroll 505-454-9628 rockmirth@cybermesa.com
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 - 9 pm
Open Mic, Kathy's Cafe on Eubank south of Constitution. This initiates a new reading series. For more info contact Ken Gurney kpgurney@mac.com
Saturday, March 15, 9 am - 3:30 pm
Journal Writing and Painting Workshop with Lou Liberty and Margy O'Brien "Capturing Nature in Words & Images" mornng session at Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St. NW Albuquerque 505-242-6367 and the afternoon session Rio Grande Nature Center. Authors of Bearing Witness: 25 Years of Refuge provide a hands-on, indoors/outdoors workshop focusing on writing and painting techniques designed to express experiences in the Natural World and translate them into a personal Nature Journal. Cost: $150.00 per person. Contact Lou Liberty 505-345-3254 or lliberty@swcp.com [please put NATURE WORKSHOP in the subject line]
Sun March 16, 3 pm,
Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas, NM Duende Poetry Series presents 3 Native American poets from Acoma Pueblo Simon Ortiz, and his daughters Sara & Rainy Dawn Ortiz, as featured readers.
Directions: Take I-25 to the Placitas exit 242, drive 6 miles east to the Village, turn left at the sign just just before the Presbyterian Church, follow Camino de los Pueblitos through two stop signs to the Winery entrance. Anasazi Fields wines will be available for tasting and purchasing. Suggested donation of $3 will pay the poets. For more info contact cirrelda@laalamedapress.com
Looking Ahead:
Quarterly Poetry Open Houses
Chez Billy Brown & Sandi Blanton, 2909 Monterey Ave SE (3 streets south of Coal, 3 houses east of Girard) bring poems to share, your own or favorites. Free, snack potluck. Contact Billy welbert53@aol.com or 401-8349 to let him know you are planning to attend.
Here are the dates for this year's remaining poetry open houses:Saturday, July 19, 1 - 4:30 pm
Saturday, April 19, 1 - 4:30 pm - Celebrating National Poetry Month
Saturday, October 18, 1 - 4:30 pm
Talking Gourds Poetry Festival, Telluride, Colorado , at the historic Sheridan Opera House, sponsored by the Telluride Writers Guild and the Ah Haa School of the Arts, in association with National Poetry Month. A Western Slope tradition since 1989, Gourds hosts regional wordslingers of multiple genres sharing their work on stage, in interactive workshops, at lectures and during jam sessions.
Headliners are singer/songwriter/poet Vanessa Boyd of New York City and performance poet & teacher Judyth Hill of Rockmirth, NM. Also featured are Mark Todd's Word Horde student poets of Western State College, Gunnison; Peter Anderson of Pilgrimage Magazine, Crestone, CO; Jude Janett from Salida; Mike Adams of Lafayette, CO; and Hope Logghe from Puebla, CO; as well as many other poets from Colorado & New Mexico.
Info on the following websites: http://coyotekiva.org/t-gourds.htm www.ahhaa.org/writers_guild or contact Art Goodtimes at gourds@paleohippie.com or call (970 )327-4767. For lodging or scholarship information, contact Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer at wordwoman@ mesa.net or call (970) 728-0399 Individual event tickets can be purchased at the door or get discounted weekend tickets in advance through the Ah Haa School (970) 728-3886 (credit card friendly). Full festival price for the 5 day event is $120. with some scholarships available. Printable pdf flyer
Some on-line poetry resources:
- NM Poetry Tangents http://www.nmpoetrytangents.com workshops and publications, events calendar Get info on their new literary magazine "Shadows Caste"
- Check the Abq Slams website for regular venues and special events www.abqslams.org
- Fickle Muses online journal with weekly featured poets & writers, mythic themes www.ficklemuses.comA site from Ken Gurney, Origami Condom, more info and submission guidelines go to origamicondom.org
- LUNAROSITY, an online literary journal, http://www.zianet.com/lunarosity
- SIN FRONTERAS: Writers Without Borders: Visit website for updated information ww.zianet.com/lunarosity/sinfronteras.html
- *EDITOR'S NOTE*:Dale forgot to include our new poetry blog for the annual Poets and Writers Picnic at the Shaffer Hotel in Mountainair (supplementing but not displacing the PWP website), so I am adding it - and blogging this to it as well
SAGE TRAIL - call for submissions
Monthly poetry magazine from Albuquerque and Santa Barbara, CA, is looking for submissions. Send any quantity poems year round by email to Suzanne Frost sfrost@sagetrail.net or snail mail to Cathryn McCracken 241A Willow Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107. Copyrights revert to authors on publication. Subscribe for introductory price of $10. per year, send check/money order to Sage Trail, 661 Del Parque Dr., Unit D, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
Okay, here comes Dale's 1/17/08 poem...
10 day old waxing moon in Taurus
Fiesta San Antonio de Abad
In fact this never happens.
The Cathedral doors fly open
for the Blessing of the Animals.
Pompous prelates collect money.
The nearby sea winks its blue eye.
Tenerife Island streets are crowded, democratic.
All day long, goats, mules and dogs are herded over the cobbles.
Dancers pick up their feet, avoid the excrement.
I am bareback on a white horse with ribbon-plaited mane.
Next to me, Four Horsemen in tight formation.
They want a prayer said over their steeds
before riding on to the Apocalypse.
Three worlds away, Navajo Sway Singers perform
Yeh’aosh sin, the Enemy Way ceremony
ask white face ghosts to leave their family member alone.
It goes on for days,
the Unwelcome Ones not an easy eviction.
Wood smoke circles skyward in the cold, clear air.
Do not eat red foods with strangers.
Be careful who buys you a drink at the tavern.
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