Is this a good or bad sign?
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
PongoSpeaks! Launch
PongoSpeaks! is a collaborative project born of two veteran youth literary non-profits which have a combined total of 25 years experience serving Seattle’s young people: Pongo Publishing and Youth Speaks Seattle. By facilitating the writing of poetry inside of Juvenile Detention and in other sites, The Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project supports self-expression of Seattle teens that are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading difficult lives. Youth Speaks is a youth led, anti-racist, social justice organization that uses a peer-to-peer educational model to provide high-quality, socially relevant literary arts education for the young people of the Greater Seattle area.
Over the course of the coming six months, PongoSpeaks! will carry out our twofold project: performances of Pongo authors’ work by talented Youth Speaks artists at various venues and, secondly, a series of writing workshops/community discussions focused on the impact of youth violence in Seattle.
Please spread the word and get updates on scheduling at www.pongopublishing.com
FIRST PERFORMANCE: Sunday, October 25th at 3 p.m. at Seattle Book Fest!
PS: I read at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 24th, same bat channel!
Over the course of the coming six months, PongoSpeaks! will carry out our twofold project: performances of Pongo authors’ work by talented Youth Speaks artists at various venues and, secondly, a series of writing workshops/community discussions focused on the impact of youth violence in Seattle.
Please spread the word and get updates on scheduling at www.pongopublishing.com
FIRST PERFORMANCE: Sunday, October 25th at 3 p.m. at Seattle Book Fest!
PS: I read at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 24th, same bat channel!
Friday, October 02, 2009
The Glory of the Palmetto State
1. Late summer: Governor Mark Sanford gets nailed in an absurd coverup for having an affair with an Argentine woman (his "soul mate")--he was "hiking the Appalachian Trail," creating a fabulous new euphemism for muckrakers and lovers of snark everywhere. Sanford was a premiere family values demagogue before this, of course.
2. August: Rep Joe Wilson loses his short stack and hollers, "you lie!" at President Obama during his health care address, a first in something like 100 years. Side note: Obama was speaking factually, as was later ascertained by even mainstream media and Joe Wilson was, well, just a little excited about the whole thing.
3. Today: Rep Jim DeMint of South Carolina decides to travel to Honduras to express his firm support for the military coup government that the President's Administration is trying to diplomatically undermine and urges them to "resist" the United States.
Wow. What a month or so for our patria, ma.
2. August: Rep Joe Wilson loses his short stack and hollers, "you lie!" at President Obama during his health care address, a first in something like 100 years. Side note: Obama was speaking factually, as was later ascertained by even mainstream media and Joe Wilson was, well, just a little excited about the whole thing.
3. Today: Rep Jim DeMint of South Carolina decides to travel to Honduras to express his firm support for the military coup government that the President's Administration is trying to diplomatically undermine and urges them to "resist" the United States.
Wow. What a month or so for our patria, ma.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Rocking the Regional!
Hey all you who may know writers in Seattle--tell them to check out my course that will hopefully start next month....
Setting: not just a convention—and the less conventional it is, the sexier a story or an essay. Tennessee Jones’ badlands; James Lee Burke’s Louisiana; Benjamin Percy’s Oregon; Junot Diaz’s New York; Donald Ray Pollock‘s bruised hometown of Knockemstiff, Ohio. Somehow, as we globalize by the nanosecond, haunting literature of place has found a great audience in the literary market. We’ll wash our tent poles in this stream of localism: through the “new masculine” of Percy or the ocean hopping eyes of Diaz. We’ll come out the other end with an essay or short story that spotlights where we come from.
Instructor: Eli Hastings
Meets: Thursday, October 08, 2009 - Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Min: 5 Max: 15
Link
Setting: not just a convention—and the less conventional it is, the sexier a story or an essay. Tennessee Jones’ badlands; James Lee Burke’s Louisiana; Benjamin Percy’s Oregon; Junot Diaz’s New York; Donald Ray Pollock‘s bruised hometown of Knockemstiff, Ohio. Somehow, as we globalize by the nanosecond, haunting literature of place has found a great audience in the literary market. We’ll wash our tent poles in this stream of localism: through the “new masculine” of Percy or the ocean hopping eyes of Diaz. We’ll come out the other end with an essay or short story that spotlights where we come from.
Instructor: Eli Hastings
Meets: Thursday, October 08, 2009 - Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Min: 5 Max: 15
Link
Friday, September 11, 2009
Joe Wilson, Get a Helmet
Maybe, like my friend Justin said, Olberman is just another talking head, but in this case he's at least approaching the meat of the issue. And, hey, he's very entertaining. And we need some kind of castigatory catharsis after watching those apoplectic maniacs behave like they wanted to lynch the President the other night.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Dan Savage on the Impeachment of Mark Sanford
Israeli Defense Forces Attack Al-Jazeera Journalist
Just ask yourself, perhaps, what would happen if Glenn Beck got treated this way at an Obama rally? Or, more to the point, if he received a similar response inside the Palestinian Authority? We'd have Fox pundits lobbying for a nuclear strike.
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