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LITERASABERTOOTH SALOON is an open mike venue featuring poetry, prose, rants, chants, songs, and incantations or any other orally transmitted dreams, hosted by Hunter. Wed 8:30-10pm, signup 8:15, Rio Grande Coffeehaus, 2222 Rio Grande. 322-0922.
THE YEAR OF 13 MOONS is the monthly reading/realization of 13 tantric stories by Alana Keres, diseuse and erotographer. Hosted by the Bodhi Yoga Center, these alchemical tales are designed to turn flesh back into word through the means of a force known as the Kheresian Undulance, a co-creative energy that springs up at the tropical interface of Lahna and her audience. (Well, it beats listening to deconstructionist masturbatory excrescence, eh?) $7 ($13/couple). Bring a cushion and expect to shed your footgear at the door. Flowers for the altar lands you on the front row. Sat, Aug 16, 9pm at the Bodhi Yoga Center, 1710 Houston St. 474-8685.
LITERALLY MURDER: A STROKE OF LUCK! is the fourth annual "solve it yourself mystery" fund-raiser by the Williamson County Literacy Council. This year's audience participation mystery is by Barbara Stopp Vance. Tickets are $15 or two for $25 and available at the Round Rock Public Library, 216 E. Main St., in Round Rock. Fri, Aug 22 and Sat, Aug 23, 7pm in the State Farm Insurance Regional Office located on State Farm Way off Parmer just south of 620. 218-7012.
A REQUIEM FOR LUNCHBUTT is an orphic/Dionysian tragedy of the soft male, a vivid portrayal of the weakness American men are taught to despise in themselves but told to love and protect in women and children. This impossible situation leads of course to the terrible treatment we experience as women and children in this society. As long as we despise our weaknesses there will be rape and child abuse and the suicide of the creative impulse. We still do not know how to integrate and honor the various gods and goddesses of our psyche. The result is as Carl Jung described: the gods have become diseases, personal and social. Another jewel from Austin's poetry treasure Albert Huffstickler. $3. Press of Circumstance, 312 East 43rd St, No. 103, Austin, TX 78751.
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BORDERLANDS: TEXAS POETRY REVIEW is still looking for poetry submissions for its Fall/Winter 1997 issue (#10), particularly from Austin poets. Editors Scott Wiggerman, Germaine Curry, and Susan Marshall are also looking for artwork for upcoming issues. Deadline is Mon, Sept 1. SASE required for return of items. Send your work to: Editors, Borderlands, c/o Austin Writers' League, 1501 W. Fifth St., Suite E-2, Austin, TX 78703-5155.
Call for EntriesCONVERSATIONS WITH JOHN HERNDON, now an established talk radio program, (past guests include Gary Snyder, Bill Paxton, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Kerry Awn, Marion Winik, Jo Carol Pierce, Peggy Kelley, Sue Littleton, and John Cutaia) airs Sundays, noon-2pm on KJFK-FM 98.9. Poet, journalist, and teacher, John's show will focus on books and authors, the arts, ideas, and culture. Send books, CDs, schedules, and other material to: John Herndon, 3616 Far West Blvd. #101-145, Austin, TX 78731-3074.
PATCHWORK POEMS has changed its pricing policy. It is no longer free. It will cost $10 a year if you are currently on the mailing list and $12 if you are not. If you are published in Patchwork you'll get three months of issues. Single copies are $1. Send your poetry submissions and/or checks to: Jeannine Harrell, 1528 W. Contour Dr., San Antonio, TX 78212.
FRUSTRATED WRITER WAITING TABLES? Essays and short stories about the restaurant are wanted for an anthology. Unpublished writers welcome. Send schtuff to: Waitron, 8760-A, Research Blvd., #489, Austin, TX 78758.
A WRITERS' GROUP in San Marcos is forming and welcomes beginning to professional writers. Call Nettie for their continuing schedule at 512/396-1636.
Ongoing ReadingsWORDS NIGHT AT THE BLUE PEARL is a poetry/prose reading with featured readers and an open-mike session following the featured reader. Beginning and professional writers are welcome. Hosted by John Parm, produced by Robin A. Blackburn-Jenkins, and sponsored by the Blue Pearl, the Austin Writers League, and the Texas State Commission for the Arts. Every other Sun, 7pm, 129 E. Hopkins on the Square in San Marcos. 396-1689.
HILL COUNTRY HERBS in Oak Hill offers poetry readings, short fiction, and spoken word in their backyard for free. Cafe is open. Tuesdays, 7pm; 6300-A Hwy 290 W between the Austin Pizza Garden and I BUY ANYTHING. 892-5221.
BOOKPEOPLE has many writers signing and/or reading this month, so go to BookPeople and check their schedule or get on their mailing list. 603 N. Lamar. 472-5050 or 459-8081. Sat, Aug 9, 2pm: a presentation and booksigning the latest book by local author Ana Sisnett, Grannie Jus' Come! BookPeople's Reading Group's new time is 7-8:30pm on Wednesdays in the Community Room on the third floor. To reserve a spot, call 472-5050. Questions? Ellyn Lem. 459-8081.
AIR SALON is the current poetry and theatre radio show from KVRX-FM with hosts Caitlin Wood and Phil West. Tuesdays, 7-7:30pm. Send submissions to: Air Salon c/o KVRX-FM, UT, P.O. Box D, Austin, TX 78713.
WRITING FROM THE HEART is a writing group that meets regularly. Every other Sat, 11am-1pm, at the North Village Branch Library, 2139 W. Anderson. 836-3524.
* Weekly *AUSTIN LITE is the current name of that new weekend poetry show on the public access Channel 10 that befuddled us a few weeks ago (and a thousand apologies to Christine Gilbert about changing her last name to Albert on her poem "Exodus" a couple of weeks ago - obviously this group and I have some identity issues we will clarify) but they will change it in a month to avoid confusion with another more poetic name that doesn't compete. Richard Loranger, Faulkner Fox, and featured guest Genevieve Van Cleve read Aug 9. Show airs on Channel 10, Saturdays, 11am and is repeated Sundays, 9am.
BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC, 10225 Research. 795-9553. Borders features a variety of activities each week, including booksignings, live music, and more. Free poetry readings with special guests each month. The fourth Wed of each month, 7:30pm.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE POETS! Different musical, dramatic, and poetic guests each week. Free admission, tip jar passed for the artists. Saturdays, 7pm, Quackenbush's, 2120 Guadalupe.
RUTA MAYA presents APAL open readings with Laura Moliter hosting. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30pm, 218 W. Fourth. 371-1254.
HYDE PARK UNPLUGGED features poetry and/or music with hosts Glen Alyn and Steve Brooks. Thursdays, 7-9pm, Joel T's Cafe, 41st & Guadalupe. 453-8482.
STORYTELLERS OF AUSTIN performs traditional and original stories at Koffee `n Ice Cream every Mon from 6:30-8pm. Guest tellers welcome. 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd. 453-0665.
SPIDER HOUSE welcomes poets on DRY nights to the outdoor stage on Wed nights at 7pm. The Austin Poets at Large meet before the reading at 6pm to plan various and sundry poetrying deviltry. All are welcome to the meeting and to the reading. Call John Hawk. 2908 Fruth, just east of Guadalupe between 29th and 30th. 371-1254.
* Monthly **THE GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL READING GROUP welcomes new members. First Wed of the month, 7:30pm, the Community Room of Book People, Sixth & Lamar. 708-8119.
*TRIBES hosts Talking Drums Black Poets Reading and Discussion Group. The gatherings focus on presentation and critique, and offer a sounding board for works in progress. Guest speaker each meeting. Fourth Wed of the month, 7-9pm, W.H. Passon House, 1501 E. 12th. 477-4247.
*SISTERS IN CRIME NEWS: The reading group meets the last Sun of the month, 2pm in Convenience Office Supply, 2600 Longhorn Blvd. (north of 183 off Burnet). 345-7224.
*BARNES & NOBLE at the Arboretum sponsors poetry the second Thu of every month, 7:30-10pm. Aug 14 features Jill Timmons and Herman Nelson, with host John Berry. A round robin open mike follows. 928-0619 or 837-8693. Third Thu of each month (Aug 21), AWL and the Texas Commission on the Arts sponsor a Poetry Workshop led by Jill Timmons. Bring 10 or more copies of a one-page original poem. 335-7078. Women's Book Discussion Group meets the fourth Wed, 7pm. Next book is Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown (218-8199). The Fiction Book Group meets the last Mon of the month, 7:30pm. Next book is Immortality by Milan Kundera (918-9636). Their Children's Storytimes are Wed 10am and 11:30am; Fri, 7pm; and Sat 11am.
Barnes & Noble Westlake, 2757 Bee Caves. 343-7940: John Berry hosts poetry sponsored by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Austin Writers League the last Thu of each month, 7:30-10pm. A Poetry Workshop sponsored by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Austin Writers' League is held the first Thu of the month, 7:30-10pm. Hosted by Barbara Carr. 328-3155. Other events: Wed, Aug 13, 7pm Mark Wisniewski discuss and signs copies of his Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman. Women's Book Discussion Group meets Thu, Aug 14, 7:30 to discuss Jill Kerr Conway's The Road from Coorain. Children's Storytime events: Fri, Aug 8, 7pm is a pajama party featuring Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber and they'll listen to On Starry Night, a collection of international lullabies. Feel free to wear your pj's. Sat, Aug 9, 11am Molly Levite Griffis talks about the good and bad aspects of having a pet and she signs and reads from her The Buffalo in the Mall; Wed, Aug 13, 11am Lisa Baker sings and tells stories about wolves. 328-3155. More poetry! Lines from a letter: "Time looms. My fear must give way or be proved. I've no other choice, really. My head hurts. I feel slower, but I must get up and move. I feel drugged. So weird. My naysayer is like a body-snatching leech monster. Pulling it from its psychic control center I feel its myriad tentacles clutching desperately at my heart, my spine, my bowels screaming that if it goes it will take my very soul with it." And a line from a dream song: "Life's an hour, then a flower." Vaya con Dios.
Mythogenesis of the Issue...One day Alana noticed the sound of a stylus excising through the soft wax of her flesh. She laughed and flung herself backward into the mine shaft of her spine, down to the light anchored at the bottom of her eyes. There she found a vast, cuneiform sea, which her own bones had been inscribing and effacing upon the shores of her skin. Riding one of the more propitious waves back up to her face, she discovered that this autographic ocean could be exhaled like a perfume.
- Alana Keres "Mythogenesis"
