LITERA
SAN FRANCISCO AVANT-GARDE NOVELIST V.O. Blum will
kick-off Book
People's June readings with selections from his novella Sunbelt
Stories,
Fri, June 2, 7pm, AT Book People, Sixth & Lamar. Blum will "hip"
Austin
novelists and screenwriters to West Coast opportunities (e.g. small
presses,
indy studies) after the reading. Call 472-5050 for details.
CAFEZINO is looking for a poet/writer/interested party to
host
and organize Wednesday night poetry readings and open mike. Call Linda
at
444-7530.
GLOSSO BABEL and special guest Tammy Gomez and her band
will
perform poetry and music June 7 at Ruta Maya Coffee Shop. Show starts
at
9:15pm.
BAD NEWS BINGO seeks submissions on education and/or rock
`n'
roll. Topics could be: what is education; what is r'n'r; why education;
why
r'n'r; help or hindrance; have you experimented with either; is
rebellion
necessary; can education be saved and why bother. Poetry stories photos
drawings comics collages etc. Materials will not be returned. Do not
send more
than two 8-1/2x11 pieces. You will receive one free copy of completed
issue.
Deadline July 31. Send to: BNB, 1200 W. 49 1/2, Austin, TX 78756.
AUSTIN WRITERS' LEAGUE AGENTS! AGENTS! Conference is July
28-30.
Wow. Too many to men-tion so register today. $135 for AWL members; $180
for
nonmembers, but for $175 you get a membership and this conference. A
deal.
499-8914.
CHRISTOPHER MAIER will lead a writers' roundtable for
young
writers who are in grades 6-8 on July 17 from 9am-1pm at 1501 W. 5th
St, Suite
E-2. $10 fee includes lunch. 499-8914.
OTHER SUMMER INFORMAL classes from AWL are: Freelance
Writing:
The Basics taught by Suzy Spencer; romance novels from setting to
selling by
Patricia Wynn Ricks; self-publishing by Michael Morgan of Morgan
Printing;
Writing the Mystery: From Arsenic-Laced Soup to Poisonous Nuts by Susan
Rogers
Cooper. Classes meet 7-9pm at Book People, 603 North Lamar. Call
499-8914.
LAURIE DRUMMOND will conduct an AWL workshop on fiction
and essay
at St. Edward's. 499-8914.
PATRICK MCKINNON, poet, editor of Poetry Motel, author of
Cherry
Ferris Wheels, will read from his work at the Electric Lounge on June 9
at 8pm
or thereabouts. Plus Albert Huffstickler and W. Joe Hoppe. Hosted by
Mike
Henry. Highly recommended. Do fill the joint with your presence.
FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE, 1601 Barton Springs Rd., now has
three
new hosts for the Open Spoken Spew: Spot (1st Wed), David Space (2nd
& 3rd
Wed), and ? (4th Wed). 8:30-11pm. Sign-up & call-ins 322-9750 @
8pm. Come
one come all & spew yer poetry amateurs beginners pros cons &
metas.
SISTERS IN CRIME monthly meeting is June 4 at 2pm in the
BankOne
Community Room, 3811 Bee Caves Road. The program is by Carolyn Banks on
Problems with Developing Your Series Character. Congratulations to
members:
Mary Willis Walker who won the Edgar Award, Jeff Abbott, who won the
Agatha
Award, and Barbara Burnett Smith who was an Agatha nominee.
327-3704.
POET/PUBLISHER SUSAN BRIGHT and Plain View Press
announces a call
for entries for their 8th publishing lab, an eight-month workshop for
serious
writers who want to produce a first book. 441-2452.
COFFEEHAUS, the weekly poetry performance program on 91.7
KVRX
hosted by Brett Holloway-Reeves et al., features poets on a weekly
basis and as
I heard the other day, yer basic boho music cuts. Lately they're
hawking their
anthol (see below) so I guess you'll have to excuse the cocky
self-promotion.
Shows air Mondays 7-7:30pm. Their schedule for June is: 5th KOOP's
spoken word
show; 12th Alli Aweusi; 19th Marlys West; 26th Ruby Turner. Haven't had
time to
listen to all their tape, that's the Word in the Haus project,
but I did
catch Winik's "On the Road and Off" from Telling, her version of
what
fun can be had in a car, and that alone is worth the price of
admission. I mean
if you've never been spotlighted by a rent-a-cop at a drive-in because
of the
rhythmic movement of your should-be-stationary car, well, such an event
doesn't
readily leave your consciousness. Send submissions to: Coffeehaus, c/o
91.7
KVRX, PO Box D, Austin 78713.
SUNSET VALLEY BOOKSTOP BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meets on the
second
Tuesday of every month at 7pm. Suggestions or hostings to:
CMHopper@aol.com or
892-1580 and ask for Christine. Their book for June is Michael Dorris'
Working
Men. Bookstop at 5400 Brodie Lane, Suite 1000. And there's a children's
storytime every Saturday afternoon at 1pm.
CHILDRENS' STORYTIMES AT OTHER BOOKSTOP LOCATIONS are:
Crossroads, Tues 6:30pm; Lincoln Village, Sat 1pm; Barnes & Noble,
Wed
10:30am, Fri 7pm, Sat 11am; Central Park Sat 11am-12noon.
THE SECOND ANNUAL SAN ANTONIO POETRY FESTIVAL will be
July 7-8 at
the Jump Start Theater. Call Charlie Owsley at 210/530-0847.
RUTA MAYA COFFEEHOUSE is sponsoring a quarterly prose
reading/audio literary magazine. Submit tapes to Ruta Maya, 218 W. 4th,
Austin,
TX 78701 Attn: Scott. FoMoInfo 472-9637.
KOOP RADIO NEEDS YER original short plays, fiction,
poetry,
satire, rants, etc. for possible production & airplay. Obviously
visuals
have no place on radio so a rewrite may be necessary before you dust
off some
of yer older bits. 10 minute maximum, but later maybe they'll go
longer. Send
to: Charlotte Keith, editing committee, 810 W. Annie, Austin, TX 78704.
Include
phone number and address.
CAFEZINO, a coffee bar and bistro located at 5414
Parkcrest (off
Northland, west of MoPac), continues its series, Do the Write
Thing,
EVERY WEDNESDAY night. June 7 Susan Bright and Plain View Press poets;
June 14
Open Mike; June 21 Catfish Poets Society members read their stories and
poems;
June 28 San Antonio Poets with host Rod Striker, editor of Poetic Time.
Open
mike reading to follow programs. 453-2233. All programs start at 7:30.
No
cover.
Wammo is hosting a slam at the Electric Lounge on Tuesday
nights
at 9pm. Cash prizes. Winners will eventually form the Austin Team for
the
National Poetry Slam in Ann Arbor, MI.
BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE, 10000 Research at the
Arboretum
offers free poetry the first & third Thursdays of the month in the
mezzanine & hosted alternately by John Berry and Herman Nelson of
the
Auricles of Delphi. June 1 is Dennis Ciscel; June 15 is David Oliphant
and
Kathrin Gann. A poetry workshop hosted by Jill Timmons will be held
same place,
same time on the 4th Thursday each month with the next being June 22.
Poetry
Workshop from 7:30-10pm. Bring 6-8 copies of any one page original
poem. Please
note italicized change from previous announcement. All events sponsored
by
B&N, Austin Writers' League, and the Texas Commission for the Arts.
928-0619 or 837-8693 for readings; 335-7078 for workshop.
Red Salmon Press continues its ongoing "poetic action"
series
with canto libre/open mike sessions and featured readings held on the
2nd and
4th Thursdays of each month. Resistencia Bookstore, 2210-B South First.
7:30pm.
482-8793 for info or Resistencia Bookstore @ 416-8885.
POET OF THE NIGHT will also become Poet of the Week when
chosen
by the audience at Cafe Solaire, 717 Congress, on Monday nights at 7.
There are
featured readers and open mike. Open readers have 5 minutes, featured
readers
have 15 minutes. June 5 Auricles of Delphi featuring Neva Biggs, Jill
Timmons,
Gale Sprinkle, Katya Walters, Barbara Carr, Byron Cosen, Herman Nelson,
and
John Berry; June 12 Garland Thompson, Jr., and friends; June 19 Richard
Loranger, Ken Hunt and friends; June 26 Sharla Clos, Fran Carris, and,
friends;
July 3 Alli Aweusi and friends; July 10 John Cutaia with Glosso Babel
and
friends; July 17 Meera Sundram and friends; July 24 Jenny Pronechen and
friends; July 31 Jeff Parker Knight and friends; Aug 7 Thom the World
Poet
returns from UK summer tour. The audience decides poet of the night. To
be a
featured reader call 416-7435. Free. Refreshments available.
THE ELECTRIC LOUNGE hosts spoken word thangs every Friday
at 8:30
with the schedule being thus: 1st Frid is Blue Plates (Pasha, Tammy
Gomez, W.
Joe Hoppe, Marlys West, Mike Henry, and Robert S), 2nd Frid is hosted
by Robert
S., 3rd is Nashville Bill and Como, and 4th is Speakeasy with cutting
edge
poetry hosted by Mike Henry. All events are $2 with open mike readers
in for
free. Sign up at 8. Remember Wammo on Tuesdays with a slam for cash at
9pm.
RUTA MAYA features open mike poetry the 1st & 3rd
Sundays of
each month. Next one is June 4. Sign up at 8pm. Hosted by Robert S and
Mike
Henry.
KAIROS! COMPANY will be hosting spoken word nights
entitled
WRITERS SPEAK in San Marcos continuing June 4 and every other Sunday
thereafter
at the Kismet Cafe, 220 Edward Grey Dr. with sign-up at 9pm at the
words
flowing at 9:30. That ask that you bring your most bizarre and not to
be
embarrassed because everything is misunderstood. 512-396-0877 or
512-754-6760.
CHICAGO HOUSE OPEN MIKE continues Tuesdays at 8pm with
the
following hosts: 1st Tuesday is Phillip T. Stephens, 2nd Tuesday is
Herman
Nelson, 3rd is Darla McBryde, 4th is Robert S, 5th is Mike Henry. Call
at 7pm
the night of the show for a 10-minute slot. Call 473-2542.
More poetry! Doing difficult things is always easier than dealing
with the
fear prior to their being done or the regret of not doing them at all.
Keep
moving, keep breathing. Be compassionate. Respect life. Keep your
dignity. Ok.
Attend. Vaya con Dios.
Poem of the Issue
the seed of myself grows
in the soil of every soul
be it great or small,
gentle or hard,
at peace or in turmoil.
with one breath sighs
the million breaths
of myself within the life
of every life yet lived
or to be lived.
- Andrew Urbanus, "juxtaposition" (excerpt 2)
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