[New-Poetry] for those in Seattle

[Anny Ballardini]

 *For tickets, please visit **Brown Paper
Tickets*<http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55226>
* **or contact Angel Latterell at 206 225-6555 or Mimi Allin at 617 460-6110
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*WPA Spring Festival at Hugo House*

*Around the World in Poetry: A Translation Experiment*

Saturday 25 April

10am – 10pm


On Saturday, 25 April 2009, the WPA brings its annual Spring Poetry Festival
to Hugo House in Seattle, with a full day of workshops by Sam Green, David
Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Andrea Lingenfelter - workshops in literary
translation and in thinking about poetry as a translation of the everyday,
working from our experiences, journals and from the mysterious. Followed by
a participatory, main-stage event, showcasing poetry in multiple languages
and a multi-genre translation experiment, mixing poetry, performance, dance,
sound and floral arts. Don’t miss this experiment! Pre-register for
workshops online at Brown Paper
Tickets<http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55226>or by calling
(206) 225-6555. The main-stage event begins at 8pm. Cost is
$10 at the door. All are welcome to attend a very special, pre-show reading
& panel discussion on translation moderated by literary journalist Dave
Jarecki and a special reading by Beat Poets David Meltzer and Michael
Rothenberg at 7pm. The pre-show, at 7pm in the Hugo House Theatre, is
included in your ticket cost. Please join us!

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*Festival Activities & Fees*

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*10am*

*2-hr Translation Workshop*

*Andrea Lingenfelter*

*Meet at Hugo House 9:45am*

*Pre-Registration required / **Register
now*<http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55226>

*$60 workshop*

There are at least as many ways to translate a poem as there are readers of
that poem. Work through a poem from the source language (Chinese) to English
with an experienced translator of Chinese poetry. We will look at different
aspects of the poem and then discuss some of the problems, both practical
and theoretical, that translators encounter in the course of the translation
process. No knowledge of a foreign language required. Instructor will bring
materials. Supplies: students should bring paper and something to write
with. This class will meet on the steps of Hugo House at 9:45am and walk to
a nearby studio. Students are invited to return to Hugo House after this
class for a welcome message and social with poets Sam Green, David Meltzer
and Michael Rothenberg. Students are welcome to share their work at the open
mic at 4pm on the Hugo House Cabaret stage.

*12pm*

*Welcome & Social Hour*

*Sam Green, David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg*

*Hugo House Cabaret / Refreshments / Address by WPA president Angel
Latterell*

*Open to the public*

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*1pm*

*3-hr Poetry Workshop*

*with Sam Green*

*Meet at Hugo House*

*Pre-Registration required / **Register now*

*$100 per workshop*

This workshop will concentrate on the intimate art of observation in the
every day. How do we translate the abstract preoccupations of our lives
(love, anger, political estrangement, grief) into concrete terms? How do we
translate our relationship with the physical world into comprehensible
order? The workshop will explore both methodology and forms for approaching
these and other concerns. We will be looking at African forms, Irish forms,
the small forms of Japanese and Chinese poets, as well as certain
contemporary Americans. Students are welcome, immediately after class, to
the Hugo House Cabaret for an open mic.

*1pm*

*3-hr Poetry Workshop*

*with David Meltzer*

*Meet at Hugo House*

*Pre-Registration required / **Register
now*<http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55226>

*$100 per workshop*

*Two-Way Mirror *with David Meltzer: Using *Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry
Notebook* as a central text, David Meltzer will consider the rich, often
unexplored territories of the genealogy of our poetic tradition, which
encompasses the concept of "Before & After Writing." This workshop will
investigate both the voice fixed on the page and the voice freed from the
page, as well as the triumph of language to remain unknowable. Meltzer
writes, "The poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication. It
illuminates and conceals. It is as precise and as vague as a mirror."
Students are welcome, immediately after class, to the Hugo House Cabaret for
an open mic.

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*1pm*

*3-hr Poetry Workshop*

*with Michael Rothenberg*

*Meet at Hugo House*

*Pre-Registration required / **Register
now*<http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55226>

*$100 per workshop*

"Translation of the Journal into Poetry" with Michael Rothenberg explores
journal as poem, source of poem, practice and process, the everyday in a
moment flash, "mind graph," "mind breath," "nerve movie," mystery in the
visible, social critique and challenging belief, poetry as transcendent
experience, how you live your life and what text really means. Includes
reading from Rothenberg's *Unhurried Vision*, and discussion of Earl Miner's
*The Japanese Poetic Diaries*, Philip Whalen's "Sourdough Mountain Lookout",
and Joanne Kyger's "The Real News" and *Strange Big Moon: The Japan and
India Journals, 1960-1964*. Supplies: Teacher will provide copies of *Unhurried
Vision*. If you could get Kyger's *As Ever, Selected Poems of Joanne
Kyger *(Penguin)
and *Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 *(North
Atlantic Books) that would be good. Students are welcome, immediately after
class, to the Hugo House Cabaret for an open mic.

*4pm*

*Open Mic **(Featuring workshop students & teachers)*

*Hugo House Cabaret** *

*Open to the public*

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*7pm PRE-SHOW*

*Meltzer/Rothenberg Reading &*

*Translation Panel w/ Dave Jarecki *

*Hugo House Theatre*

*Open to the public*

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*MAIN EVENT*

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*Around the World of Poetry: An Experiment in Translation*

Christian Swenson, Keely Isaak Meehan, Linden Ontjes & Barbara Ann Allin

*8-10 pm/Hugo House Theatre*

*$10 at the door or at **Brown Paper Tickets*

Pre-purchase recommended


“The words on paper are only a tool, they are only a medium, they are only
something that is meant to help me get to the original language, to the
original poem” *-Kai Nieminen On Translation a lecture a Naropa University*


Sit back and listen to the sounds of poetry as we bring you a stage full of
international readers (Mongolian poetry, Mandarin poetry, Italian poetry…)
followed by a cross-genre experimentation in translation (movement, voice,
sound, flowers…). Our aim will be to carry a single poem across multiple
genres. How many times can you translate a thing without losing its meaning?
The source-poem, chosen in secret by our performers, will be revealed to you
at the end of the evening. If someone were to dance you a poem, or draw one,
or make it into a floral arrangement, would you be able to write it again?
Would its message carry across? We want to know. Come listen, watch and feel
a poem as it moves across genres with artists Christian Swenson, Keely Isaak
Meehan and Linden Ontjes. Afterwards, we’ll ask you to rewrite that poem and
contribute it to a 3-d poetry sculpture. Special "whispering" appearances by
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. This event produced by A. K. “Mimi”
Allin for the WPA. Open to the public for a fee of $10. Wine bar. Raffle.


*Main Event Artist Bios*

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Barbara Ann Allin is an artist, designer and gardener specializing in found
and stolen materials. She has the knack for composing pieces that impact
entire communities. Her work is often small and random, some might say a
gift. She lives in Pennsylvania.


Keely Isaak Meehan is a Seattle-based movement and video artist and the
founding artistic director of Manifold Motion. Focusing on collaborative and
interdisciplinary temporal art, her work is frequently improvisational,
exploring the use of structure and fluidity as a means to draw great
performance out of the moment. Keely has earned a Professional Diploma in
Dance Studies from the Laban Centre: London, a BA in Dance from Oberlin
College, and a Certificate in Arts Management from the University of
Washington. She is currently studying to become a Certified Movement Analyst
with Laban/Bartenieff & Somatic Studies International. In addition to her
work with Manifold Motion, Keely works as a solo movement artist and has
performed recently with the Asterisk Project and Kate
Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies. Her newest production with Manifold Motion,
Woolgatherer, premieres May 2-10, 2009 at the Youngstown Cultural Arts
Center.

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Linden Ontjes creates poetry installations that include visual, theatrical,
and literary elements. Her most recent poetry installations include: *Three
Confessional Poets and the Dirty Laundry Machine* at Artopia; *Alfred
Jarry’s Interior Designs and Window Treatments* at the Smoke Farm Festival;
*A Cup o’ Joe* at Bumbershoot; *Miss Fortune and the Misfortune Cookies* at
Synchronicity:  An Indie Press Sideshow; *The National Grilled Cheese Poetry
Booth* at the Seattle Poetry Festival at Hugo House; and *Limericks on
Sticks*, an installation of John Haines’ political protest limericks on
ersatz Burma Shave signs along the route to the Dredge Festival in
Fairbanks, Alaska. Linden served as General Director of Eleventh Hour
Productions, a literary arts nonprofit from 2005 – 2008; as Arts
Representative on the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce from 2006 – 2007; and
as a current member of the Smoke Farm steering committee COW. From 2004
-2006, she served as the Poetry Editor of *the Seattle Review*. Currently,
she teaches poetry at the Hutch School for Seattle Arts & Lectures’ WITS
program. Linden received individual artist awards in 2008 from 4Culture and
Poets & Writers. Her many poetry publication credits include *Ploughshares*,
*Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Arcade, Phoebe, The Louisville Review, The
Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Daily, Cranky, Filter, The Comstock Review, RE:AL,*and
* Atlanta Review. *She has published literary criticism in *The Writer’s
Chronicle, the Seattle Review, Cranky,* *Fairbanks Daily News Mine*,
and*Page to Page: Retrospectives of Writers from the Seattle Review.
*She is the author of an illustrated novel-in-verse, *Muluc. *For more
information*. www.mulucthehero.com.*


Christian Swenson has an extensive background in dance, mime, voice and
improvisation.  He is known for his pioneering work in what he calls "Human
Jazz", a global fusion of dance/drama/music for body and voice. In 1977 he
received a BA in Theater from the University of New Hampshire and moved to
Seattle to work with the Bill Evans Dance Company.  Further training has
included work with Tony Montanaro; Diane Schenker; Ruth Zapora; Korean
shaman, Hi-ah Park, and with the late Pakistani master-singer, Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan.  He has performed with Bill Irwin, The Seattle Symphony Orchestra,
and The Jay Clayton/Jim Knapp Collective and in Europe with Jim Nollman of
Interspecies Communication Inc. He presently teaches in the Theater programs
at Seattle University. For the past 25 years he has been performing
creations for the body and voice searching for a more global aesthetic.
Since 1980 he has been a touring artist visiting communities and schools in
the Northwest and beyond.  He has performed and taught throughout North
America and in Europe, and Asia.  Christian released his first compact disc,
“Off-Road Vocals” in 2000. As a guest artist he has been seen as: The
Monster in The Minnesota Opera's production of "Frankenstein", at New York's
"Serious Fun at Lincoln Center" and "The New York Improvisation Festival",
with The Flying Karamazov Brother's "New Old Time Chautauqua " and the 2002
“Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour” and has been heard on National
Public Radio's "Sandy Bradley's Potluck.  He was a teacher/performer at the
2005 American College Dance Festival in Buffalo, NY and at the 1998 "Body &
Soul Northwest" Conference.  For three years he has been a Vocalist with the
Integrated Music Program at two Seattle hospitals and is a founding member
of the improvisational ensemble *Molten Vocals*.  He is also a member of the
PlayBack Theater group, *Threshold Ensemble*. Christian has received
Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington State Arts
Commission and Artist Trust of Washington.  He resides happily in Seattle
with his wife, Abigail, and two children.


*Workshop Teacher Bios*


Samuel Green was born in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, and raised in the nearby
fishing and mill town of Anacortes. After four years in the military,
including service in Antarctica and South Vietnam, he attended college under
the Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Program, earning degrees from
Highline Community College and Western Washington University (B.A. & M.A.).
A 30-year veteran of the Poetry-in-the-Schools program, he has taught in
literally hundreds of classrooms. He has also taught at Southern Utah
University, Western Wyoming Community College, and served six terms as
Distinguished Visiting Northwest Writer at Seattle University, including six
summers in Ireland. Poems have appeared in hundreds of journals,
including *Poetry,
Poetry Northwest, Poet & Critic, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review,
Prairie Schooner, *and* Puerto del Sol*. Among his ten collections of poems
are *Vertebrae: Poems 1972-1994 *(Eastern Washington University Press) and *The
Grace of Necessity* (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), which won the
2008 *Washington
State Book Award for Poetry*. He has lived for 26 years off the grid on
remote Waldron Island off the Washington coast in a log house he built
himself, and is, with his wife, Sally, Co-Editor of the award-winning
Brooding Heron Press. In December, 2007, he was named by Governor Christine
Gregoire to a two-year term as the first Poet Laureate for the State of
Washington, and in January of 2009, he was awarded a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

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David Meltzer A leading poet of the Beat Movement, David Meltzer was raised
in Brooklyn during the war years and performed on radio & early TV on the
Horn & Hardart Children’s Hour. He was exiled to L.A. at 16 and at 17
enrolled in an ongoing academy with artists Wallace Berman, George Herms,
Robert Alexander and Cameron. Meltzer migrated to San Francisco in l957 for
higher education with peers and maestros like Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan,
Joanne Kyger, Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen and
Jack Hirschman, a cast of thousands all living extraordinary ordinary lives.
His *Beat Thing *[La Alameda Press, 2004] won the Josephine Miles PEN Award,
2005. Meltzer was editor and interviewer for *San Francisco Beat: Talking
With The Poets *[City Lights, 2001]. With Steve Dickison, he co-edits *Shuffle
Boil*, a magazine devoted to music in all of its appearances &
disappearances. 2005 saw the publication of David's *Copy: The Selected
Poems of David Meltzer *by Viking/Penguin, a collection spanning over 40
years of work that paints a vivid portrait of Meltzer's life as a poet
through poems taken from 30 of his previous books of poetry. With a
versatile style and playful tone, Meltzer offers his unique vision of
civilization with a range of juxtapositions from Jewish mysticism and
everyday life to jazz and pop culture.


Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, and editor and publisher of Big
Bridge magazine online at www.bigbridge.org). His poems have been published
widely in small press publications including, 88: A Journal of Contemporary
American Poetry, Berkeley Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity,
Fish Drum, Fulcrum, Golden Handcuffs Review, Tricycle, and Jacket. His
poetry books include Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger, The Paris
Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), Unhurried Vision (La
Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), and most recently CHOOSE, Selected
Poems (Big Bridge Press. He is also author of the novel Punk Rockwell.
Rothenberg's 2005 CD collaboration with singer Elya Finn, was praised by
poet David Meltzer as "fabulous-all [the] songs sound like Weimar Lenya &
postwar Nico, lushly affirmative at the same time being edged w/ cosmic
weltschmertz. An immensely tasty production." He is also editor for the
Penguin Poet series, which includes selected works of Philip Whalen, Joanne
Kyger, David Meltzer and Ed Dorn. He has recently completed the Collected
Poems of Philip Whalen for Wesleyan University Press.

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Andrea Lingenfelter is a poet and translator of contemporary Chinese poetry,
fiction and film subtitles. She has lived and worked in China and travels
there regularly to meet with writers and buy books. Her translations of
contemporary Chinese poetry have appeared in a number of literary journals
and anthologies. She is the translator of the novels *Candy* by Mian Mian
(Back Bay Books), and *Farewell My Concubine* by Lilian Lee (William Morrow
and Company). In the spring of 2008, she received a Pen Translation Fund
Grant to translate Annie Baobei's 2006 novel, *Padma*. She is currently
working on a collection of translations of poetry by Zhai Yongming for
Zephyr Press. Future projects include Wang Anyi's novel *Qimeng shidai* (*The
Age of Enlightenment*) and a volume of translations of work by Shanghai poet
Wang Yin.


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