LiTFUSE 2011 Ride Share

Hey Kids!
Share the ride to LiTFUSE, Sept 9-11!
It's fun & easy - just say what you want or what you are offering, be clear about when and how to contact you, and then wait to hear from your poet friends.

haaaavvvveee fffuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!

all dressed up everywhere to go

holy snapdragons, batman, we've got 6 whole followers and no new posts since BLF! so here's the news: this social media dunderhead has posted 2010 photos to the website, that ancient device used by pre-cambian internet dwellers in the days before facelessbook & twitterbation. for those of you unfamiliar with the URL (that's geek talk for underwire restraining liturgies), it's - pause to celebrate the last of a dwindling tribe of proto-mesomorphs able to properly place an apostrophe - www.litfuse.us ALSO: desperately seeking Ann's (not Teplik) email and last name, and ditto for the incomparable THEO.

Lodging for LiTFUSE

Hi there LiTFUSIANs. Looking for cheap close clean lodging to rest your weary muse? We've reserved a few rooms at the Naches Hotel - please email michael [AT] litfuse [DOT] us to get the particulars. For an absolutely free stay, you are welcome to put down a sleeping bag/pad on the floor in Galleria Uno, where there is a bathroom & shower for your use. Also, there are limited homestays still available - please check with me at the above email address. Northwest Writers UNiTE!

RIDE SHARE to/from LiTFUSE

There are people who need rides and people who have rides to offer. I suggest we use the blog to match everybody up. Please post a comment if you have / need a ride - where from, when, how many. You could have an in-car open mic!

Poetry Stirs the Pot

At the 2007 LiTFUSE Poets' Banquet, Lorna Dee Cervantes totally blew the lid off the gathering with an impassioned reading of her poem of remembrance and anger - COFFEE - which honors massacred innocents from the coffee-working area of Acteal, Chiapas, Dec. 22, 1997. This poem is an example of the power of poetry to transform violence, which we will explore as part of this year's LiTFUSE workshop. Here's a link to Lorna Dee's poem: http://lornadice.blogspot.com/2007/12/coffee-poem-for-people-of-acteal.html / read this, then buy only fair trade

LiTFUSE Launch Party in about a month

hello litfusians
we're having a launch party on SEPT 7 @ 7pm @ hugo house in seattle - music, merriment & wonder - featuring mimi the aspiring hermit, susan rich, dan peters, elizabeth austen & more surprises - & hopefully YOU. $5 donation benefits tieton arts. hope to see you there -

Hermit Seeks Hermitage

Mikhail Nesterov. Hermit. 1889.

Poet seeks bit of fallow land to use (lightly) as a hermitage for one month. Any season. I currently reside in Pacific NW, but am considering offers both nationally and internationally. In the spirit of Basho and the wandering poets of Japan, I’m heading into the hills to practice silence and to write and reflect on life. I own a small sailboat, but currently have no land. Willing to trade poems for land use. Ideally looking for forested, valley or mountain land—high up, far out or down under—however inaccessible. It’s crucial only that it be removed from society. I plan to haul along my handmade, mini, portable yurt (collapses to 6 x 2’ and rides on a bicycle wheel) and a month’s supply of food. I will collect and treat my water and dispose of waste responsibly. I’m a grant-funded conceptual artist and former climbing ranger—respectful, quiet, clean and practiced in leave-no-trace. References available upon request. I’m interested in all serious offers and suggestions. Poet Hermit, aka A K Mimi Allin, is on the faculty this year at LitFuse.

Poet Hermit
poet.hermit@gmail.com
617 460 6110