There is no It's About Time reading in April due to Passover
Here are the May and June line-ups.
Thurs. May 14, 2009 #237 Rochelle Kochin, Carmen Germain, Josh Isaac + Emily Warn on The Writer's Craft
Thurs. June 11, 2009 #238 Deborah Woodard, Michael Daley, Priscilla Long + Bethany Reid on The Writer's Craft
To sign up for a reading, check the About Time site and email me your date preferences
Thanks,
Esther
eahelfgott2@comcast.net
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Red Sky celebrates Irene Drennan
Sunday night's Red Sky reading celebrates the late Irene Drennan, active in It's About Time since its beginnings, 1989
Please join us
Sunday, March 1, 2009
A Tribute to Irene Drennan with Esther Altshul Helfgott, Priscilla Long, Denise Calvetti-Michaels, Anne Sweet and Diane Westergaard
PLUS Open Mic!
Sign up at 6:30
Reading starts at 7:00
Richard Hugo House1634 11th Street
Please join us
Sunday, March 1, 2009
A Tribute to Irene Drennan with Esther Altshul Helfgott, Priscilla Long, Denise Calvetti-Michaels, Anne Sweet and Diane Westergaard
PLUS Open Mic!
Sign up at 6:30
Reading starts at 7:00
Richard Hugo House1634 11th Street
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thurs. Feb 12, 2009 # 234
Thurs. Feb 12, 2009 # 234 Sherry Reniker, Jack Remick, Elizabeth Austin + Joannie Strangeland on The Writer's Craft
Elizabeth Austen was the Washington state “roadshow” poet for 2007. She provides weekly poetry commentary on KUOW, 94.9, public radio, and has poems forthcoming in Bellingham Review and Crab Creek Review. Her audio CD, skin prayers, is available at elizabethausten.org. She makes her living as a communications specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Sherry Reniker is a poet, editor, and college instructor of writing. She spent 15 years in Tokyo where she edited World's Edge, an anthology of poetry and photography, and published her first short collection, Geo Frictions. As a poet, she has been compared to Mina Loy.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland’s chapbook Weathered Steps was published by Rose Alley Press. A Steady Longing for Flight won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. In 2003, Joannie was a Jack Straw artist-in-residence. More recently, her work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, Pinyon, and Pontoon.
JACK REMICK is a writer, teacher, and editor. His publications include Terminal Weird, short stories; The Stolen House, a novel, and The Seattle Five Plus One, an anthology of poetry. Fction includes three California novels: Pacific Coast Highway; The Deification of Jack Kerouac; and Berkeley ‘71: Book of the Dead.
Elizabeth Austen was the Washington state “roadshow” poet for 2007. She provides weekly poetry commentary on KUOW, 94.9, public radio, and has poems forthcoming in Bellingham Review and Crab Creek Review. Her audio CD, skin prayers, is available at elizabethausten.org. She makes her living as a communications specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Sherry Reniker is a poet, editor, and college instructor of writing. She spent 15 years in Tokyo where she edited World's Edge, an anthology of poetry and photography, and published her first short collection, Geo Frictions. As a poet, she has been compared to Mina Loy.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland’s chapbook Weathered Steps was published by Rose Alley Press. A Steady Longing for Flight won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. In 2003, Joannie was a Jack Straw artist-in-residence. More recently, her work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, Pinyon, and Pontoon.
JACK REMICK is a writer, teacher, and editor. His publications include Terminal Weird, short stories; The Stolen House, a novel, and The Seattle Five Plus One, an anthology of poetry. Fction includes three California novels: Pacific Coast Highway; The Deification of Jack Kerouac; and Berkeley ‘71: Book of the Dead.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Thurs. Jan. 8, 2009 reading #233
Ballard Library, 6 - 7:45 p.m.
Hi All,
I thought I was giving up this space for facebook but some of you don't like that idea so I'll place the info here as well. Plus I'll keep the website up for the time being.
Thurs. Dec. 11, 2008 #232's reading with Pat Hurshell, Nancy Dahlberg, Kim-An Lieberman + Carolyne Wright on The Writer's Craft - was terrific. Sorry if you missed it due to my not posting here.
I hope to see you for our first reading in Jan.
Happy New year,
Esther
Thurs. Jan 8, 2009 #233 Larry Ebersole, Lina Raymond, Roberta Feins and Michael Schein on The Writer's Craft
Michael Schein wrote Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery (Bennett & Hastings, 2008), & poetry published in Slow Trains, Chrysanthemum, Ledge, Pontoon, RockSaltPlum, Lilies & Cannonballs, Art of Bicycling (Breakaway Books 2005), & elsewhere. Kudos for his work include 2 Pushcart nominations. Michael directs LitFuse Poets’ Workshop, & it is snowing.
Roberta Feins lives in Seattle, and works as a computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry from New England College in 2007. Her poems have been published in Tea Party, Floating Bridge Review, and The Lyric, and are forthcoming in Junctures and The Antioch Review.. She edits the e-zine Switched On Gutenberg (http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/)
Larry Ebersole was one of the website editors with Poets Against War, and now designs literary, human rights events with Amnesty Interntional of Puget Sound -- often, to help bring about the release of a prisoner of conscience. He will read from his first book of poems, has a first book of poems, "Mural Poems: Human Rights and Antiwar Poems."
Lina Raymond: After 12 years in primetime television, Lina Raymond invented and marketed a commercial non-dairy ice cream. When the untimely demise of her company led to harrowing psychiatric experience, Ms. Raymond painted and wrote her way out, resulting in her novel Ranch Routes, and, her current career as an artist.
Thanks for supporting the It's About Time Writers Reading Series,
Esther Altshul Helfgott, curator
Hi All,
I thought I was giving up this space for facebook but some of you don't like that idea so I'll place the info here as well. Plus I'll keep the website up for the time being.
Thurs. Dec. 11, 2008 #232's reading with Pat Hurshell, Nancy Dahlberg, Kim-An Lieberman + Carolyne Wright on The Writer's Craft - was terrific. Sorry if you missed it due to my not posting here.
I hope to see you for our first reading in Jan.
Happy New year,
Esther
Thurs. Jan 8, 2009 #233 Larry Ebersole, Lina Raymond, Roberta Feins and Michael Schein on The Writer's Craft
Michael Schein wrote Just Deceits: A Historical Courtroom Mystery (Bennett & Hastings, 2008), & poetry published in Slow Trains, Chrysanthemum, Ledge, Pontoon, RockSaltPlum, Lilies & Cannonballs, Art of Bicycling (Breakaway Books 2005), & elsewhere. Kudos for his work include 2 Pushcart nominations. Michael directs LitFuse Poets’ Workshop, & it is snowing.
Roberta Feins lives in Seattle, and works as a computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry from New England College in 2007. Her poems have been published in Tea Party, Floating Bridge Review, and The Lyric, and are forthcoming in Junctures and The Antioch Review.. She edits the e-zine Switched On Gutenberg (http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/)
Larry Ebersole was one of the website editors with Poets Against War, and now designs literary, human rights events with Amnesty Interntional of Puget Sound -- often, to help bring about the release of a prisoner of conscience. He will read from his first book of poems, has a first book of poems, "Mural Poems: Human Rights and Antiwar Poems."
Lina Raymond: After 12 years in primetime television, Lina Raymond invented and marketed a commercial non-dairy ice cream. When the untimely demise of her company led to harrowing psychiatric experience, Ms. Raymond painted and wrote her way out, resulting in her novel Ranch Routes, and, her current career as an artist.
Thanks for supporting the It's About Time Writers Reading Series,
Esther Altshul Helfgott, curator
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thurs. Nov. 13, 2008 #231
Ballard Library, 6 p.m.
Ken Shiovitz on The Writer's Craft
Ken Shiovitz, former animal behaviorist, is now with Windermere Real Estate. His birdsong work is published in Animal Behavior, Behaviour, and Natural History; poems and essays in Drash, Kota Press, PoetsWest, and several Projects. He is a member of WPA and PoetsTable, and a sometimes venue host and poetry reader for Drash.
Marilyn Meyer is a writing coach, editor, essayist, and occasional poet. Her personal essays, poems, and radio commentary have appeared in numerous publications over the past 35 years. Retired from a career teaching in the public schools, Marilyn has been the Learnng Specialist at Northwest Yeshivah High School since 2003. The mother of 3 grown children, Marilyn Meyer lives with her dog Gila in West Seattle.
Mike Hickey is from Belleville, IL., and the oldest of eleven children. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, 1987, an MFA from the University of Washington, 1992, and is currently working on a sequel to his first novel, Counterclockwise. He has also published a poetry chapbook, In Defense of Eve. as well as won awards for poetry, teaching, and as a labor leader for the American Federation of Teachers. In addition to being a tenured creative writing instructor at South Seattle Community College, he has taught as a volunteer to children at summer bereavement camps, to at-risk youth in White Center, and to prisoners at the Monroe Correctional Complex. He lives in West Seattle with his wife, Mona, and their two-year-old son, Nathan.
Bethany Reid is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Coyotes and My Mom (1990), and the co-author, with Thomas M. Gaskin, of Everett and Snohomish County (Wyndham Press, 2005). Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous small presses and literary journals, including Calyx, Santa Clara Review, Cairn, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, and Twins. Bethany earned her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she was a poetry editor and later interview and essay editor of The Seattle Review.
Congratulations to Mike Hickey for placing FIRST in the 2008 Poet Populist election! Congratulations to all the rest too.
Ken Shiovitz on The Writer's Craft
Ken Shiovitz, former animal behaviorist, is now with Windermere Real Estate. His birdsong work is published in Animal Behavior, Behaviour, and Natural History; poems and essays in Drash, Kota Press, PoetsWest, and several Projects. He is a member of WPA and PoetsTable, and a sometimes venue host and poetry reader for Drash.
Marilyn Meyer is a writing coach, editor, essayist, and occasional poet. Her personal essays, poems, and radio commentary have appeared in numerous publications over the past 35 years. Retired from a career teaching in the public schools, Marilyn has been the Learnng Specialist at Northwest Yeshivah High School since 2003. The mother of 3 grown children, Marilyn Meyer lives with her dog Gila in West Seattle.
Mike Hickey is from Belleville, IL., and the oldest of eleven children. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, 1987, an MFA from the University of Washington, 1992, and is currently working on a sequel to his first novel, Counterclockwise. He has also published a poetry chapbook, In Defense of Eve. as well as won awards for poetry, teaching, and as a labor leader for the American Federation of Teachers. In addition to being a tenured creative writing instructor at South Seattle Community College, he has taught as a volunteer to children at summer bereavement camps, to at-risk youth in White Center, and to prisoners at the Monroe Correctional Complex. He lives in West Seattle with his wife, Mona, and their two-year-old son, Nathan.
Bethany Reid is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Coyotes and My Mom (1990), and the co-author, with Thomas M. Gaskin, of Everett and Snohomish County (Wyndham Press, 2005). Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous small presses and literary journals, including Calyx, Santa Clara Review, Cairn, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, and Twins. Bethany earned her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she was a poetry editor and later interview and essay editor of The Seattle Review.
Congratulations to Mike Hickey for placing FIRST in the 2008 Poet Populist election! Congratulations to all the rest too.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
It's About Time's Poet Populist, Mike Hickey
Mike Hickey's Poet Populist candidate statement
Less that 2% of Americans read poetry. And I ask myself WHY? Why would a medium so dynamic and powerful be so widely ignored? Is it because many contemporary poets have relieved themselves of the obligation to have a point, to advance some insight to their readers regarding love, politics, the human animal, the world in which we live? The poet Thomas Lux once told me that a large number of today's poets aren't worried about being misunderstood, they're worried about being understood, because essentially they don't have anything very important to say. Since 1995, I have been teaching students that one doesn't have to sacrifice clarity for creativity. And when a fourth grader writes, "A dress walked by with a woman inside..." I know that poetry is still very much alive and well. This is the message I would like to deliver if elected Poet Populist!
Mike will be reading with Poet Populist candidates on MON, OCT 27, at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, at 4408Delridge Way SW
Special Guest: Pesha Joyce Gertler, Poet Populist 2005-2006
Don't forget to vote in this election and that other one.
Thanks for supporting the It's About Time Writers Reading Series
Esther
Less that 2% of Americans read poetry. And I ask myself WHY? Why would a medium so dynamic and powerful be so widely ignored? Is it because many contemporary poets have relieved themselves of the obligation to have a point, to advance some insight to their readers regarding love, politics, the human animal, the world in which we live? The poet Thomas Lux once told me that a large number of today's poets aren't worried about being misunderstood, they're worried about being understood, because essentially they don't have anything very important to say. Since 1995, I have been teaching students that one doesn't have to sacrifice clarity for creativity. And when a fourth grader writes, "A dress walked by with a woman inside..." I know that poetry is still very much alive and well. This is the message I would like to deliver if elected Poet Populist!
Mike will be reading with Poet Populist candidates on MON, OCT 27, at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, at 4408Delridge Way SW
Special Guest: Pesha Joyce Gertler, Poet Populist 2005-2006
Don't forget to vote in this election and that other one.
Thanks for supporting the It's About Time Writers Reading Series
Esther
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Thurs. Oct. 9, 2008 #231
6-7:45
Ballard Library
Carolyne Wright will emcee tonight's reading.
Thank you Carolyne.
Craft Talks continue next month
Elizabeth Socha Davis retired from two careers – zoology, then family therapy. She took a series of write-your-life-story classes, including ones from Esther. Elizabeth began writing poetry, has been published in Spindrift, The Oak, The Crone Connection, and has given readings at many locations in Seattle.
Susan Blair was a computer systems analyst, a salesperson, a Personnel Liaison Specialist with the federal government, and an aerobics instructor. Now she's a poet, a certified Nia instructor, a professional speaker --- and a whole lot happier! Seven of her poems have been published in Las Cruces Poets & Writers Magazine.
Brian McGuigan is a poet, performer, arts administrator and raconteur. He works at Richard Hugo House and is the co-founder and curator of "Cheap Wine and Poetry," Seattle's coolest reading series. Currently, Brian is at work on a
full-length manuscript of poems about gentrification entitled "Eat the Rich" and writes a regular column, "Bus Bitch," for The Rainier Valley Post. For more Brian: brianwithani.com.
Kate Lebo was raised in southwest Washington and lives in Seattle, where she works for Richard Hugo House, Seattle's literary arts center. Her poetry has been published in Filter, Knock, and the Seattle Public Library's "Lines on a Spine" project, and she was a senior editor for Rivet Magazine. She's working on her first chapbook.
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Don't forget to vote for Poet Populist
It's About Time Poet Populist nominee, Mike Hickey is from Belleville, IL., and the oldest of eleven children. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, 1987, an MFA from the University of Washington, 1992, and is currently working on a sequel to his first novel, Counterclockwise. He has also published a poetry chapbook, In Defense of Eve. as well as won awards for poetry, teaching, and as a labor leader for the American Federation of Teachers. In addition to being a tenured creative writing instructor at South Seattle Community College, he has taught as a volunteer to children at summer bereavement camps, to at-risk youth in White Center, and to prisoners at the Monroe Correctional Complex. He lives in West Seattle with his wife, Mona, and their two-year-old son, Nathan.
It's About Time nominated Mike Hickey for Poet Populist because: He has been participating in the It’s About Time Writers Reading Series for over a decade. Not only has he read his own work and presented a popular Writer’s Craft talk, he brings his students from both South Seattle Community College and UW Experimental College to participate, either through reading themselves or listening to others read. Mike’s years of teaching, as well as his involvement with the wider community, reflect his devotion to furthering fairness and justice in the public sphere. He represents It’s About Time's vision.
Vote for Poet Populist
Ballard Library
Carolyne Wright will emcee tonight's reading.
Thank you Carolyne.
Craft Talks continue next month
Elizabeth Socha Davis retired from two careers – zoology, then family therapy. She took a series of write-your-life-story classes, including ones from Esther. Elizabeth began writing poetry, has been published in Spindrift, The Oak, The Crone Connection, and has given readings at many locations in Seattle.
Susan Blair was a computer systems analyst, a salesperson, a Personnel Liaison Specialist with the federal government, and an aerobics instructor. Now she's a poet, a certified Nia instructor, a professional speaker --- and a whole lot happier! Seven of her poems have been published in Las Cruces Poets & Writers Magazine.
Brian McGuigan is a poet, performer, arts administrator and raconteur. He works at Richard Hugo House and is the co-founder and curator of "Cheap Wine and Poetry," Seattle's coolest reading series. Currently, Brian is at work on a
full-length manuscript of poems about gentrification entitled "Eat the Rich" and writes a regular column, "Bus Bitch," for The Rainier Valley Post. For more Brian: brianwithani.com.
Kate Lebo was raised in southwest Washington and lives in Seattle, where she works for Richard Hugo House, Seattle's literary arts center. Her poetry has been published in Filter, Knock, and the Seattle Public Library's "Lines on a Spine" project, and she was a senior editor for Rivet Magazine. She's working on her first chapbook.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't forget to vote for Poet Populist
It's About Time Poet Populist nominee, Mike Hickey is from Belleville, IL., and the oldest of eleven children. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, 1987, an MFA from the University of Washington, 1992, and is currently working on a sequel to his first novel, Counterclockwise. He has also published a poetry chapbook, In Defense of Eve. as well as won awards for poetry, teaching, and as a labor leader for the American Federation of Teachers. In addition to being a tenured creative writing instructor at South Seattle Community College, he has taught as a volunteer to children at summer bereavement camps, to at-risk youth in White Center, and to prisoners at the Monroe Correctional Complex. He lives in West Seattle with his wife, Mona, and their two-year-old son, Nathan.
It's About Time nominated Mike Hickey for Poet Populist because: He has been participating in the It’s About Time Writers Reading Series for over a decade. Not only has he read his own work and presented a popular Writer’s Craft talk, he brings his students from both South Seattle Community College and UW Experimental College to participate, either through reading themselves or listening to others read. Mike’s years of teaching, as well as his involvement with the wider community, reflect his devotion to furthering fairness and justice in the public sphere. He represents It’s About Time's vision.
Vote for Poet Populist
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