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Schedule:

Friday, September 8

7 pm Amalio Madueno

7:30 pm featured reader Joanne Kyger

8:15 pm Antoinette nora claypoole

9 pm Open Mic

Saturday, September 9

9:30 am-12:30 pm ‘rivers in her eyes’ workshop

1:30 pm-4:30 pm ‘between sleeps’ workshop

1 pm - 2pm On stage; Jeff Kaiser, trumpet and electronics with Noah Phillips, prepared electric guitar and electronics.

4 pm - 5pm Jeff Kaiser, Noah Phillips and Rick Walker, voice, percussion, electronics.

7 pm Jeff Kaiser, Noah Phillips and Rick Walker perform Call and Response with the 315 Poets.

Beginning at 10am, small press book faire

7pm - 8:15 3:15 Collective reads from 'between sleeps' in call and response style with experimental musician Jeff Kaiser followed by readings from individual 3:15 poets (more about Jeff Kaiser)

8:30 pm a reading by Maria Garcia Tabor followed by Open MIc

Sunday, September 10

2pm ‘living room style’ reading with participating poets and any others interested in sharing their work

Register for workshops now!

Drop your rucksack and grab a seat beneath the redwoods while you listen to our featured poet Joanne Kyger, poetic diva in the lineage of the Black Mountain School and the Beats. Kyger ‘has been associated with nearly every innovative poetry tendency’ for over four decades. She is a poet of place, of politics, and of the community of writers across space/time. Kyger has a ‘truly strong voice- delicate, graceful and never wasteful; her poems explore themes of friendship, love, community, and morality and draw on Native American as well as Buddhist religion and philosophy.’ Selections from her poetry can be found in As Ever: Collected Poetry (Penguin 2003). Andrew Schelling has referred to her as the ‘pre-eminent living poet in the style of the journal or notebook’ in reference to earlier collections like Strange Big Moon; The Japan and India Journals. Think Basho and The Long Road to the Narrow Interior.

http://epc.buffalo.edu.authors/kyger/kyger-bib.html

http://www.naropaedu/notenoughnight/fall05/kyger2.html

http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2003spring/kyger.shtml

http://jacketmagazine.com/11/kyger-schelling.html

Burn with Wild Embers antoinette nora claypoole, Amalio Madueno, and Ed Little Crow as they read selections from La Puerta, Taos: The Art of Fetching Sky (Wild Embers Press, Fall 2006). La Puerta, Taos is a new anthology of stories, short stories, poems, and artwork celebrating the art/writing scene of Taos, New Mexico. A place where time and art conspire to infuse people with what “the mountain” desires for us “to think like a mountain” (from the forward by Barbara Waters).
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www.fetchingsky.blogspot.com

Amalio will also be wildly reading from his new book Lost in the Chamiso (Wild Embers, August 2006)

http://www.thechamiso.blogspot.com

http://www.butterflywritingbio.blogspot.com

http://www.edlittlecrow.blogspot.com

Dream with poets from the 3:15 Experiment as they read from between sleeps: A Collection of Writings from the Middle of the Night (En Theos Press 2006). The 3:15 Experiment is ‘an exercise in exploring hypnogogic and hypnopompic states (between sleeping and waking). The 3:15 Experiment challenges writers to write outside the confines of their workaday consciousness and provides insight into a collective nighttime mind. From 1993-2005, a shifting menagerie of poets scattered across the globe engaged in a unique experiment: to write every August morning at 3:15am, wherever they were and whatever they were doing. between sleeps compiles texts from every year of the experiment.’

www.315experiemnt.com

www.entheospress.com

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/jen_hofer01.shtml

http://www.danikadinsmore.com

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/brown

http://www.corpse.org/issue_3/burning_bush/madueno.html

Laynie Browne is the author of five full-length poetry collections, most recent are Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005 University of Georgia Press, Winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series), and Mermaid's Purse (Spuytenduyvil 2005). Forthcoming are Original Presence, from Shivistan Books (2006) and Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Books, 2007). Her other collections are Pollen Memory (2003, Tender Buttons), The Agency of Wind (Avec Books 1999), and Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street 1996). She is also the author of Acts of Levitation, a novel (2002, Spuytenduyvil). Recent chapbooks include The Desires of Letters (gong editions, 2005), Webs of Agriope (Phylum Press 2005) and a collaboration with Lee Ann Brown titled Nascent Toolbox (The Owl Press 2004). She is former co-curator of The Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, and The Ear Inn in NYC. She has taught poetry-in-the-schools as a visiting artist in New York City, and Seattle, and has taught creative writing at University of Washington, Bothell and at Mills College. She currently lives in Oakland, California. Back to top of the page

Workshops by the Creek

Henry Miller Library September 9^th

9:30am - 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Rivers in Her Eyes: writings of/beyond Earth

A workshop, an experience, a discovery of how connection with Earth/Mother shifts destinies. We’ll explore the French feminist/post colonial writing movements, specifically the work of Helene Cixous. Together we will—discuss experimental works/people and—explore hands on writing exercises which infuse us with the sense of life beyond the boundaries of time. And we’ll wonder, hmmm…how does this writing emerge, how will it impact our life on the planet? Keys to these mysteries…discovered via writing/surroundings, self/other, society and psyche. Are found. Here. Together. Yes.

antoinette nora claypoole, poet, author, and activist, will facilitate this workshop with guest poet Ed Little Crow, Lakota, Dakota.

antoinette claypoole lives between Ashland, Or. and Taos, N.M, and has been published in various anthologies throughout the North and South West. Poems and stories by antoinette can be found in places like Salt River Review, The West Wind Review and Journal of Experimental Fiction. She has done freelance work with Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Los Angeles, is co-editor of Wild Embers Press and is currently working on "The Watersong Project", a tribute to the newly found "lost works" of Louise Bryant (1885-1936). Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae (dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe, 1999) was antoinette's first book, an underground classic. It is a poetic biography of/for Anna Mae Aquash, member/founder of the American Indian Movement, found murdered on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1976. Back to top of the page

http://www.butterflywritingbio.blogspot.com

http://www.wildembers.com

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Between Sleeps and Other Practical Writing Experiments

Poetry asks us into awareness-as readers and writers-calling us to see and listen and speak in ways that mean beyond the common currencies of language used normatively. One of the most important elements of adventurous writing process and meaningful linguistic experimentation is devising ways to write outside our habits. In this workshop we will explore ways to cultivate spontaneity on the page and to create our own experiments, rituals, navigations and expeditions through and outside time, dream states of consciousness, source texts, exercises in sensory and meta sensory perception, and other various triggers and influences. This workshop is process oriented: we will spend most of our time doing writing exercises, and participants will leave with a toolkit of further experiments and further instigations.

Danika Dinsmore is a screenwriter, poet, and educator who has written 5 shorts for production and directed a children’s music video. Dinsmore has published several books of poetry, including ‘Everyday Angels and Other Near Death Experiences’ (en theos press 2002) and ‘Her Red Book’ (en theos 2004). The 3:15 Experiment came about from a suggestion by well-known experimental poet Bernadette Mayer to Dinsmore at Naropa University in 1993 while Danika was working on her master’s thesis on Mayer and alternate states of consciousness and writing.

Jen Hofer’s recent publications include ‘Sin Puertes Visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women’ (University of Pittsburgh and Ediciones Sin Nombres, 2003) ‘slide rule’ (subpress 2002) and ‘sexo PURVOsexoVELOZ’ (translations of poetry by Dolores Dorantes, Seeing Eye Books 2004) and several more. Hofer has two translations and three of her own new collections coming out this year, including a book length series of anti-war manifestos, titled ‘one’ (Palm Press 2008). Back to top of the page

http://www.danikadinsmore.com

http://www.315experiment.com

Workshops are $36.00 each or $60.00 for both. If payment is made before September 1^st cost is $30.00 for an individual workshop or $50.00 for both. You can call 831-667-2574 to register or do it now on-line:

Register and pay for Rivers in Her Eyes:
Register and pay for Between Sleeps and Other Practical Writing Experiments:

Register and pay for both workshops:
If you’d like to be involved with the planning, execution, poetry, music or something else for this event please contact: Liz Collins

www.charmfoundry.comwww.katephillipsart.com

Maria Garcia Tabor is a writer and editor living in Salinas, California. Prior to coming to California, she lived in North Carolina where she taught at Appalachian State University. She edited two literary journals: the Cold Mountain Review, at Appalachian State, and The Atlantis, at UNC-Wilmington while residing in North Carolina. She now serves as editor of the Homestead Review literary journal. www.hartnell.edu /homestead_review. She is a poet and writer of short fiction. Her latest publications can be seen in the The Café Review, The Maryland Poetry Review, Pennsylvania English, Dream International Quarterly, Lullwater Review, LUNA, Cipactli, Prairie Schooner, Flytrap, MondayPoetryReport, Santa Clara Review and Haight Ashbury Literary Journal magazines. She is the founder of a poetry competition, Poetic Voices, that involves the colleges and universities in the tri-county area of Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito. Her recently published chapbook is entitled, Surrender Dorothy.

Jeff Kaiser is a vegan and plays entirely too much chess on the internet. He is a big fan of yoga and green tea, as well as cigars and scotch. He plays the quarter-tone trumpet with electronics and has performed around the U.S. and abroad, as well as on television and film, with many groups from the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to his own band, the Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet. He also uses software of his own design to live process the music. Jeff is also a published writer whose column "The Noise and The Numinous" mysteriously shows up once a month in the Mountain Signal in Tehachapi. For more info: http://www.JeffKaiser.com

Rick Walker’s Loop.pooL is a journey through the world of sound and rhythm. Using digital live looping technology, Rick is able to record a huge palette of sound, drawing from found and invented instruments, world percussion, wind instruments, keyboards, string instruments and a fascinating repertoire of unusual and exotic vocal techniques (overtone singing, warble singing, trill singing, guttural singing, hum-whistling, mouth percussion and effects, yodeling and pygmy bottle blowing/falsetto singing). He also incorporates state of the art digital processing and production techniques, using analog filters, vocoders, digital delays and modulators. Rick has toured in 13 countries in Europe, North America and Asia as a headlining artist in the past 2 years. For more information: http://www.looppool.info/

While attending the University of Southern California Noah Phillips studied “Jazz” with a host of great guitar players, the most influential of which being Joe Diorio. After graduating college Phillips became involved with the new and improvised music community of Los Angeles. Since moving to Oakland, Phillips performs using prepared electric and acoustic guitar, analog electronics, Congolese Drumming, no-input feedback loops, and meager song writing. Noah Phillips is currently studying guitar, composition, and electronic music with Fred Frith in pursuit of a MFA at Mills College.