Selected Community Literary Activities
2008
Master of Ceremonies for 5th annual Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island, WA, April 26.
Featured Reader and workshop Facilitator at Cover-to-Cover reading series, Vancouver, WA, March 13,14.
Facilitated Six Week Organic Poetry workshop at Richard Hugo House. January-Febuary;
(See early 2007 for comparable course outline with links.) Click here for the Berrigan Sonnet Collage Exercise.
Click here for the Poetry Postcard Exercise.
Published in Big Bridge "War Papers 3," January.
Frida One and Frida Too published in Cascade Journal.
2007
December 16, Featured reader, with Larry Jaffe, Sarah Zale and David Rizzi on Youth for Human Rights International reading in Seattle.
December 14, Co-Organizer with Jesse Minkert of Red Sky Reunion at Hugo House.
You Tube video of Paul reading The End of One Slaughter at Charles Potts' home in Walla Walla
November 9, Featured reader (with sax player Dan Blunck and Amalio Madueno) and workshop facilitator at WSU-Tri Cities.
November 7, featured reader at Subtext Golden Handcuffs Review Vol I, No. 9 Issue. Published Song for Arthur Ballard and interview with Robin Blaser.
November 3-4, facilitated Organic Poetry workshops at Lit Fuse, Tieton, Washington. Participant evaluations.
October 26, facilitated Organic Poetry workshop at the 39th annual National Indian Education Association conference, (click for pdf of workshops) Honolulu, Hawaii.
September 28, Featured Reader at Intersection reading. (Read with sax player, Dan Blunck).
September 26, MC/Volunteer for South Sound Voices fund-raiser with featured readers Dunya Mikhail and Bill Ransom.
Septemer 22, co-organized Poetry Postcard Fest evening at Cafe Vega.
September 16, elected Board President of the Washington Poets Association.
In August, six American Sentences published in the outdoor Baltimore Is Reads anthology. (For a time, front page of website.)
With Lana Ayers initiated the August Poetry Postcard Fest. My Postcard Poems
Featured Reader at 40th Anniversary of Summer of Love, Langley, WA, June 30.
Poem featured as part of The Running Poets of Greenlake."June 10.
Featured reader at from the ground up presentation of "A Night of Cheap Wine and Poetry" 7PM, June 7, at Richard Hugo House. Other featured readers: Lyall Bush, Jennifer Jasper, Jourdan Keith, and JT Stewart.
Featured reader at the Subtext 13th (12th) Anniversary. (Poems read.)
You Tube video of Paul at Subtext
Hosted the Our Own Words youth writing contest awards ceremony at P.L.U.
Earn M.A. in Organic Poetry from Lesley University through Independent Study.
Six week Organic Poetry Workshop at Richard Hugo House. Course Outine. April - May.
Chair of Bart Baxter Performance Poetry competition for WPA, culminating in April Bout.
Made short presentation to WPA on Arts Day '07 (Lobbying Tips for Poet Laureate).
6 week Organic Poetry Course (Course Outline)
taught for Hugo House at Park Place Books, Jan/Feb.Essay on Michael McClure's Dolphin Skull publihsed by The Argotist Liverpool, England.
Workshop/Lecture on Walt Whitman, American Green Man at Robert Morris College, Du Page campus, Jan 3, 2007.
2006
Some American Sentences published on Dirt:: A Journal of Minimalism Nov, '06. (Click and scroll waaay down.)
Facilitated Organic Poetry workshop for Olympia Poetry Network, December 14, 2006.
Two essays published in Fulcrum Five, Cambridge, MA, "Dualism and Olson's Antidote" and "Organic Poetry."
Review of Lost in the Chamiso by Amalio Madueño, published by Jacket Magazine, Balmain, Australia, November.
Facilitator Organic Poetry workshop at Richard Hugo House, Seattle, November.
Review of Fulcrum Four published by Jacket Magazine, Balmain, Australia, November.
Featured Reader (with Charles Potts) at Soul Food Books, Redmond, WA, November.
Panelist at the Writing by Degrees conference, in historic Binghamton, NY, October.
Participant in week-long Vancouver workshop, October.
Excerpts of Tuscan Sonnet Ring pubished in Central Avenue, Albuquerque, Sept.
Participated unofficially in August 3:15 project.
Nine Sonnets for Pop published in Klyd Watkins' The Time Garden out of Tennessee, July.
Short presentation at the Plateau Area Writer's Asociation, June.
Two essays on Olson published on OlsonNow Blog:
Dualism and Olsonian/Whiteheadian Process and
The Sound of the Field, Buffalo, NY, June.
Workshop Facilitator/Featured Poet/Lecturer -Lower Columbia Community College NW Voices -Longview, WA, May;
American Sentences '01 in Chrysanthemum, Volume X, Number 1, Spring, Seattle, May;
Featured Reader/Workshop Facilitator for Skagit River Poetry Festival, LaConner, WA, May;
Workshop Facilitator, Featured Poet - Sacred Activism Conference, Poetry as Soul Building- Lynnwood, WA, May;
It's Gonna Rain (Poem written for Sacred Activism Conference.) Song of Our Selves
Co-Chair Burning Word workshop committee, April;
Featured Reader, Panel Moderator for 3:15 Fiesta, Zoey's Cafe, Ventura, CA., 3:15 Experiment Fiesta, April;
Lake Forest, IL &Now Literary Conference, (Also participated on a panel discussion speaking on “The Field, Olson's stance toward reality and how it has
manifested in 20th century North American Poetry”), April;
At Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Charlie Stobert.
Emcee Bart Baxter Performance Poetry Competition, April;
Poems, including Song for Arthur Ballard selected for Unlikely Stories April;
Essay on WIlliam Carlos Williams selected for Unlikely Stories March;
Poems Another Bird Song and Tuscan Sonnet Ring selected for The Argotist, February;
Essay: Changing a Culture (A Look at Cultural Modernism and Free Market Verse)
a response to "Free Market Verse" - an essay by Steve Evans. February;
Poem Short Train Poem for Pop
selected for Winter Gallery of Blackbox;
January;
Essay on American Sentences published at Triplopia, Vol 5, Issue 1: Memory, January.
Paul at Wickaninnish Island, 2005
2005
Accompanied Debra Van Tuinen to Florence Bienalle, composed Tuscan Sonnet Ring, December;
Interviewed Eliot Weinberger on What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, October;
Collaborator, w/ painter Debra Van Tuinen, and poets John and Roberta Olson, on Alphabet of Wax poems based on Debra's paintings to be exhibited at the Florence Bienalle, September-October;
Facilitator, Open Form in North American Poetry workshop for Jump Start Your Writing at Highline C.C., Des Moines, WA, October;
Presenter, American Sentences Catching the Shadow of the Moment at the Haiku North America Conference, Port Townsend, WA, September;
Launched American Sentences website to expand awareness of this form created by AG.
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment in August.
Participant, Victoria School of Writing, Weeklong Poetry workshop with
George Bowering, July;
Featured Reader, Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island, WA, April 30;
Featured Reader, Walla Walla Poetry Party, April 16.
You Tube video of Paul at WWPP, 4.16.05
Elected to Board of Washington Poets Association, April 2;
Workshop Facilitator, Eastlake High, Fife High, Covington Library April;
Panelist/Panel Facilitator/Emcee/Workshop Facilitator/Featured Reader, Poets-in-the-Park Redmond, WA, March;
Travel for Masters Cultural Connections work. Cuba, March.
Published: Short Train Poem for Pop
selected for Winter Gallery of Blackbox, January;
Poem in Wandering Hermit Review - Seattle, WA, Sept, and in
Margin: A Journal of Magical Realism - Seattle, WA Summer.
2004
Centrum Writing Residency, October 24 - November 9, including facilitating
Open Form workshop;
Interviewed on Beyond the Ordinary, Nov;
Performed Slaughter poems at Bumbershoot Literary Festival w/ Steve Luceno Band - September;
Workshop Facilitator, Write Out Loud, Redmond, WA April;
Panelist/Featured Reader, Poets-in-the-Park, Redmond, WA, April;
Olympia, WA, Art House Designs w/ the Steve Luceno Band, Aug '04, Sep;
Featured Reader, Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company, Raven Chronicles War Veterans/Peacekeepers, Aug;
Featured Reader, Haiku Garden, Seattle Arboretum, Aug;
Featured Reader, Lottie Motts, Seattle, May;
Featured Reader, Intimate Stage, Seattle, Feb;
Featured Reader, Epidemic, Seattle, Feb;
Published in: Mute Note Earthward (anthology) -Seattle, WA, Dec.'04;
Raven Chronicles, Vol II, #2-Seattle, WA, Fall;
In Our Own Words anthology; Cary, NC, May;
2003
From 1997 - 2004, served on the Board of the Red Sky Poetry Theater in Seattle, the West Coast's longest continuously-running poetry open mic. I was honored by the Auburn Coalition for Teen Pregnancy Prevention for support of Auburn Youth with the NW SPokenword LAB and served on the steering committee. I have served as Chair of 31st
District Democratic Organization; delegate to the King County Democratic Legislative Action Committee; Board Member of the South King County Community Public Health and Safety Network; Board Member Citizens for Proportional Representation;the Auburn Citizens Commuter Rail Siting Committee, the Auburn School District Pathways Program Advisory Board, the Uniqely Auburn Steering Committee and have started/helped found three
non-profit literary projects: It Plays in Peoria Productions, 19th Draft: Auburn's Literary Arts Group and the the NorthWest SPokenword LAB or SPLAB!
Published in:
Panelist at NW Bookfest (Spokenwords from the Heart) - Oct;
Bumbershoot Advisory Board, December '03 - December;
Performer at Bumbershoot (WordPlay) and Emcee for Bumberbout between Andrei Codrescu and Sheri-D Wilson - Sept;
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment in August.
With a HUGE goatee, Featured Reader at: Walla Walla Poetry PartyFeatured Reader, Seattle, WA Take a Poem From Your Heart, Nov;
Featured Reader, Yakima, WA Inklings Bookshop, Nov;
Featured Reader, Portland, OR Sound Po Festival (w/Dan Blunck as WordPlay) in Feb;
Published in: Square Lake, Issue Three-Seattle, WA, Spring.2002
Awarded writer's residency at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA - March;
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment in August.
Featured Reader, Seattle, Red Sky Poetry Theater '02,
Poetry Games (with Dan Blunck, as WordPlay) in Feb, and Redmond,WA at RASP.
Published in: Red Sky at Night CD Anthology – Seattle - Dec. 2001
Participant in the Jack Straw Writers Award Prorgam;
Jury Member, Panel Moderator for the Seattle Poetry Festival;
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment in August.
Featured Reader: Seattle, WA Fusion Cafe, downtown YMCA in Nov '01;
Featured Reader, Shelton, WA at Write in the Woods literary festival May, '01 (also facilitated a workshop).
Published in: Art and Poetry on the Buses, King County-Seattle, WA, Fall;
Pontoon (Number 5) Floating Bridge Press Anthology -Seattle, WA, October;
Beautiful Lumber (Seattle Open Mic Poetry Anthology)-Seattle, WA, October.2000
Featured Performer at the Seattle Poetry Festival, May
Featured Performer at Bumbershoot Literary Festival, Sept;
Featured Performer, with Dancer Stephanie Skura, at Subtext, Sept;
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment in August.
Featured Reader in Redmond,WA at RASP, '00.
Published in The Temple-Walla Walla, WA, October, 2000 (Essay on Projective Verse)
Art and Poetry on the Buses, King County-Seattle, WA, Fall
Vox Populi Anthology - Eleventh Hour Productions-Seattle, WA, May.1999
Master of Ceremonies for Bumbershoot Literary Stage;
Judge for Metro Poetry Bus competition;
Board Member, or Advisory Council member for Redmond Association of SPokenword-RASP since 1999;
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment in August.
Featured Reader, Seattle, Red Sky Poetry Theater
Cafe Aloha Reading Series, Chicago, IL.
Published in The Raven Chronicles (South Sound Edition)-Tacoma, WA, Fall;
The Temple-Walla Walla, WA, January.1998
Regular Lecturer on Open Forms in American Poetry and Poetry Performance
at local High Schools and community colleges since 1998;
Board Member Red Sky Poetry Theater since 1997;
Facilitator of SPLAB!-on-the-Road Literary and Performance workshops in Schools, Libraries, Community Centers and Correctional Facilities throughout the County - 1997.
Participant in the 3:15 Experiment for the first time. August.
Published in: Poets at the Canterbury Fair-Kent, WA, August '98;
Point No Point (Wordscape Supplement)-Seattle, WA, July '98;
Main Street Rag-Charlotte, NC, May;
Quicksilver-Mukilteo, WA, February;
Featured Readings in:
Seattle, Salon Productions Homeland reading;
Kerouac: A Jazz Play at the Velvet Elvis Theater, '98;
Vancouver B.C., at the Vancouver Slam, Nov '98;
Kent - Canterbury Faire, August '98;
Selected Volunteer Activities
Before 1998
Nobody's Orphan Child The Red Sky Anthology - Seattle, WA, '96
Woodfrogs in Chaos-19th Draft Anthology - Auburn, WA, '96
Paper Boat Press-Poulsbo, WA, '95
Eat Your Mind Anthology-Auburn, WA, '95
as well as the Tacoma News Tribune, the Church Council of Greater Seattle's newsletter, "The Source" and
"Auburn Valley in All Seasons" newspaper.
Featured Readings in:
Kerouac: A Jazz Play at the Velvet Elvis Theater, '97;
Seattle, Red Sky Poetry Theater '97;
Auburn - Blue Moon, '97; Redmond,WA at RASP, Tacoma, and Ashland, Oregon, all in '96.