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New Manchester Poetry Night
JGH
First Sunday of every month starting: Sept. 2
The Poetry Party @ Fuel Cafe Bar
Date/Time:Sunday September 2, 2007
Time:7:00pm - 11:00pm
Fuel Cafe Bar
Wilmslow Road, Withington
Manchester
The Poetry Party @ Fuel Cafe Bar, poetry,quiz and music.Guests and open mic.
Guest poets are Dominic Berry, Lisa B. Kate Gilbert, Michael Wilson,Tony Walsh,and John G.Hall
Open Mic spots are available please reply if you want a spot, giving name and small biography etc.
If you want to form a poetry quiz team of 4 or less , the prize is a crate of beer,please send in the name of your team & team members. The quiz starts at 7.00pm, be early gang. I have a NEW surrealish POEM
at WORD RIOT.
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http://www.wordriot.org/
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Cheers!
ZCB wonka is opening the gates to his place
well
we did wonka and set up shop for killpoet
but he was cool acting as a martyr for the written word
so this upcoming tuesday
we would like for all of you interested
to send us some pieces cause
online issue one is upon us
prep your best
submission guidlines to come monday
we can tell you know
the only theme is
good shit
in our opinion a jarring array of unique words
is a theme in itself.
koolaid and small tablets to follow
cheers
Kill Poet Press INSTANT PUSSY #14 Six poems by six poets. Yum. http://ebulliencepress.blogspot.com/ Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach dies at age 83
AP
Drummer Max Roach, who helped revolutionize jazz by creating the fast-paced bebop style along with players like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, has died at age 83, Blue Note Records said on Thursday,
Blue Note did not give a cause of death for Roach, who died in his sleep in New York on Wednesday.
Roach secured his spot in the jazz pantheon by redefining the role of jazz drums during the rise of bebop in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Before bebop, jazz was primarily swing music played in dance halls, and drummers served to keep time for the band, Blue Note spokesman Cem Kurosman said.
Roach changed that by shifting the time-keeping function to the cymbal, allowing the drums to play a more expressive and important role and, in the process, contributing to the shift of jazz from popular dance music to an art form that fans appreciated sitting in clubs, Kurosman said.
Roach also was a civil rights activist who brought politics into his art. In 1960 he created "We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite," a seven-part suite featuring vocalist Abbey Lincoln that addressed slavery and racism in America.
The quintet he co-founded with Clifford Brown in 1954 is considered one of the classic ensembles in jazz. After Brown's death in a car crash with bandmate Richie Powell in 1956, Roach led his own bands that included a who's who of jazz as associates. He also recorded with his daughter Maxine, a jazz violinist.
Roach played on many of bebop's seminal recordings, accompanying Parker, Gillespie, Miles Davis and pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. New e-zine at Neonbeam. The next issue is available for download on 15th September. Get it. http://www.neonbeam.org/ BECAUSE:Writing/ Performance workshop for LA Women of Color Body: Because you are overflowing with stories yet to be told,
Because you don’t get enough opportunities to roll around and make animal sounds at your cubicle,
Because you are going to change the world overnight,
Because self-expression is sometimes our only means of psychic and cultural survival.
BECAUSE
An eight week performance and writing workshop for Women of Color
Facilitated and led by Kristina Wong, with special guest artists
BECAUSE is a performance workshop for women of color to explore, find, and exercise their right to be creative and self-express. BECAUSE is focused on creative process and over product. We’ll play with movement, dance, symbolism, ritual, text, site specific work and visual art to find our own unique creative voices. We will dig deep into the stories located within our flesh, histories and daily lives and find the stories we share as women of color. BECAUSE encourages the building of a supportive creative community among women of color and reckless experimentation across the lines of artistic mediums, genres and styles.
No experience is required, only being open to the workshop process.
The workshops culminate in an informal public showing.
Participants must commit to the entire 8 week workshop process and final showing.
This workshop is open to all self-identified women of color.
Master Classes led by Awesome Guest Artists:
Velina Hasu Houston, playwright
Grisha Coleman, movement/sound installation
Alice Tuan, playwright
When: Saturdays from September 15- November 3, 2007 2pm-6pm
Final Showing for the Public (required): November 3, 1pm
Where: Mid-Valley YMCA, 6901 Lennox Ave, Van Nuys, CA 91405
Cost: $25 for Valley residents for all eight weeks! Non-Valley residents is $40! (Full and partial scholarships are available.)
To Register/ Questions: Registration is by phone only.
This workshop fills up quickly, so please call soon!
Marie Reine Velez, Workshop Coordinator, 562-682-1881
Spaces are limited. Priority registration given to Valley (District 2 and surrounding) residents.
About Kristina Wong (Facilitator/Leader):
Kristina Wong is a solo performer, writer, filmmaker, actor, activist and educator. Wong’s third solo show Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest recently premiered to sold out crowds in New York, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area and received support from the Creative Capital Foundation and the National Performance Network. More information on her is available at http://www.kristinawong.com.
BECAUSE is made possible through a generous Artist-in-Residence Award from the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs. --Kristina Wong wHaT?
nobody wants the last of the mini-mailers? ;(
and i went out and bought special super-hero stamps and everything!!!
Hey- this is a most excellent broadside (poetry & photography by Aleathia Drehmer) and a mini-disc (reading by Aleathia!)
i've got at least twelve left.
get with the program...
ordering is free and easy- just message your snail mail addy to
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tell me you want a mini-mailer. long as we still have em left, ya get one! k? k. ...The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic awaits!
The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic is a Poetry and Spoken Word On-Line Community/Forum that is filled with outstanding poets! Not only do we have all different types of poetry such as Haiku, Short Scribe, Erotic, Acrostic, Eckphrastic (poetry inspired by pictures) and much more but we also have Short Stories and Essays too! The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic is a forum attached to the mother site which is called The Underground Poets Society or The Un.P.S. which is also totally dedicated to nothing but poetry at it's best and has the No. 1 ratings to prove it because we've been around for years (6 years to be exact)... not just some poetry organization that was just invented and thrown together like most of the sites and forums that you see today! We have deep roots baby!
Now as if that weren't enough to get you coming to the site and registering for free then check THIS out... we now have a portion of this on-line community dedicated to spoken word artists called The Spoken Word ((Audio Board))) as well as a new on-line radio station called Sounds From The Underground! That's right, Sounds From The Underground is a radio station dedicated to the members of our award winning site and on-line community that features them as well as some of the greatest Hip-Hop, R&B and Jazz artist currently heating up the charts today! To get on this radio station, all you have to do is register for free, read the board rules before you begin posting and then follow those rules as you post your best poetry on-line for the entire world to see accompanied by poets and writers just like yourself! My Space members can also send us your Poetry or Music audio's by way of e-mail to be considered for our station as well. Send all e-mail to
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and it will reviewed as soon as possible and added to the station as well.
In case you were wondering or didn't know, my name is Antwian M. Crawford, also known as Intellect and I am the Founder of The Underground Poets Society and Administrator of The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic. I am also a poet and author as well and for a closer in depth look into who I am, feel free to visit my personal space at... www.myspace.com/intellect33.
If you're interested and want to find out more about The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic, please click on the banner below this message to come and check us out and register today and everyday "FOR FREE"! So bring your friends and yourself to the hottest poetry spot on the web... The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic (banner link below).... now THAT'S what's up!!!!!
Peace from The Underground,
Intellect
Founder of The Underground Poets Society
Administrator of The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic
Author of A Look Into My Third Eye
P.S. ~ This is not a MySpace Forum... this is the real deal! You can check out by going to http://theunps.proboards34.com or by clicking the banner link below! LUNCH BOOK UPDATE - MS WORD TO PDF CONVERT Thanks to all who all who replied to my bulletin about possible ways to convert the Lunch manuscript from Word to PDF. In the end the solution came to me in the form of a loaned copy of Adobe Acrobat 6.0. Mister Sitcom had a great suggestion of using the document exchange option on the Google website but that was a disaster for me with double spaces where there should not be and the centering was off. So many people say that they hate Word ... but I just try to deal with it, but these last few days I have been stretched to my limit.
So here I am correcting typos and saving in an old copy of Word 2000. It the old days (1996 - 2000) I used to print those pages out on a laser copier, give them to my printer and they would turn it into a book. Now a days their is one more step: save each of the 64 pages as pg01, pg02, pg03. The with a few clicks - now that Abode 6.0 is installed on this laptop - I can now convert those 64 doc files to 64 PDF files. Will hand off those files and a few jpeg files (illustrations) to the printer - Hugh from Classic Blends - this Friday night.
Thanks to Rick for the the copy of Acrobat, my daughter Ashley Marie for the use of her laptop this week, and my wife Mary Beth for picking up the disk from Rick. Thanks to everyone involved with the book - inside the pages and out - for all your support and encouragement. A release date of September 03 (Labor Day) is estimated for My Time - The Lunch Break Book (Poet Plant Press, 64 pg) an anthology featuring the poems by 24 poets who chose to write words during or about their first real break of the day.
For more info:
http://www.myspace.com/thelunchbook
Back to work,
Chris the editor, The Lunch Break Book
Last update : 17-08-2007 20:13
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