Wednesday, February 26, 2014 event

Tiferet Journal is delighted to welcome you to AWP Seattle 2014 with a first night offsite reading. Join us for an evening of poetry, prose, art, and conversation.

Our fabulous readers include Alicia Ostriker, Aliki Barnstone, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Amy King, Tony Barnstone, Ami Kaye, Bill Kenower, Donna Baier Stein, and Melissa Studdard.

Free Event
$5 Gallery Donation Suggested
Wine and beer will be served

Wednesday, Feb 26, 6-8 pm,
Ghost Gallery
504 E Denny Way (at Olive).

Enter through the courtyard behind the St. Florence Apt Bldg facing Olive Way

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Amy King amazes me!

"Poetry is as large as language. Just as language pushes its limits, poets can make connections where connections are frowned upon. We might engage with our intuition or emotion or even that mysterious and popularly denounced 'spiritual' part of ourselves. We can juxtapose the arbitrary with the arbitrary and invoke a maddening sense of the reality we’ve inherited. We can move from our depression or fleece a corrupt order with a vision of existence that incites responses varying from the call to question to the responsive insurrectionary. We can also highlight the beautiful-ugly among us that everyday language would insist is either one or the other."

http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/amy-king-threat-level-poetry

Poetry exercise

Use three things a child has said in a poem, with repetition. Like:

That is inside, this is outside.

You need to come upstairs with me.

I want another puzzle.

Try beginning with different techniques: google-searches, personal notes, reflections. Try the actual things in different ways. Sit and imagine different people saying these to you. Imagine the President saying these things in speeches. Think of someone you have had a conflict with saying this to you. Your friend says this to you.

Wow, Verse Daily!

Thank you, Verse Daily! You all are awesome!

http://www.versedaily.org/2014/waitfororionssword.shtml

Naomi Shihab Nye connections

I recently learned that Naomi Shihab Nye has Washburn University connections:

"both my father, a Palestinian immigrant, and my
husband's father, a Kansan who would become a Texas judge, went there!
- my father, not for very long"

Also, she was conceived in Topeka!

books

Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling or Cole Swensen's Gravesend or Martha Ronk's Transfer of Qualities

Wayne Koestenbaum's My 1980s

Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene

Catherine Taylor's APART

CA Conrad's list

The latest thing on facebook is to post the ten books that have stayed with someone. I enjoyed CA's, so here it is:

13 books of poetry that changed my life (i.e. saved my life)
(in alphabetical order by poet):

kari edwards, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF P
Alfred Starr Hamilton, THE POEMS OF ALFRED STARR HAMILTON ...
Merle Hoyleman, ASP OF THE AGE
Mina Loy, THE LOST LUNAR BAEDEKER
Bernadette Mayer, STUDYING HUNGER
Rosalie Moore, THE GRASSHOPPER'S MAN
Eileen Myles, SAPPHO’S BOAT
Alice Notely, HOW SPRING COMES
Gil Ott, PUBLIC DOMAIN
Ron Silliman, ed., IN THE AMERICAN TREE
Jack Spicer, THE COLLECTED BOOKS OF JACK SPICER
Susie Timmons, LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE
John Wieners, BEHIND THE STATE CAPITOL