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

Go Tara Go!

The National Poetry Slam is here - August 3-7 - and LiTFUSE Faculty member Tara Hardy is a key part of the 4-woman Seattle team. I had the opportunity to hear this team at REBAR in Seattle last week, and they're a hoot, they are hot, which makes them a hot hoot for whom you can root. Follow Slam results at www.poetryslam.com , and doubtless performances will find their way onto YouTube. Go Tara Go!