Reading to feature several Pomeleon contributors

Hi folks --

Here is an upcoming reading at Beyond Baroque that will feature several Poemeleon contributors, Lucia Galloway, Judy Kronenfeld, and Ruth Nolan, as well as Rattle editor Timothy Green, and sponsored by John Amen, editor of another fine journal, The Pedestal.

I'd be there myself, but am also reading that day (I'm going to post that info in a different announcement), but if you're ambitious -- and have a speedy vehicle -- you could race from one reading to the other!

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POETRY READING
Sunday, April 27, 4:00 p.m.
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA


SPONSORED BY THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE
www. thepedestalmagazine. com
Sunday, April 27, 4:00 p.m.


Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA
phone 310-822-3006
http://www. beyondbaroque. org/

Readers:
Ed Frankel
Marylen Grigas
Ellaraine Lockie
Karen Stromberg
David Dannov
PB Rippey
Timothy Green
Judy Kronenfeld
Lucia Galloway
Florence Weinberger
Ruth Nolan

For more information:
contact Beyond Baroque
phone 310-822-3006
http://www. beyondbaroque. org/

or contact event coordinator:
John Amen - pedmagazine@carolina.rr.com
or event assistant Ruth Nolan runolan@aol.com

Announcing the Best New Poets Anthology Nominees

It was hard to choose, made only slightly easier by the restrictions placed on the nominations (no full-length collection out, no appearance in last year's anthology), but seeing as tomorrow is the deadline and I can deliberate no more, here are our two nominees for the University of Virginia, Merdian's, 2008 Best New Poets anthology:

• Kristen Orser, for "Minnows" (The Prose Poem Issue)
• Benjamin Vogt, for "Portraiture at Blanks' Photography -- Weatherford, 1978" (The Form Issue)

Congratulations! And best of luck.

Reading: Mark DeCarteret

On Friday, April 25th Mark DeCarteret will be a guest reader at the 4th annual Jazzmouth Poetry and Jazz Festival's Extravaganza in Porstmouth NH with featured poet, Billy Collins and others.

Urgent Call For Submissions: Please Read!

I am passing along a call for a special supplemental section of Babel Fruit. Please read, write, and send it us asap.

-- Cati 

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Spell Out Whatever You Want! Now!  

On January 22, 2008, the Burmese poet Saw Wei was arrested for publishing an eight-line poem entitled “February Fourteenth” in the weekly publication Love Journal.

The acrostic poem spells out “General Than Shwe is crazy with power”.

Saw Wei, a popular poet and performance artist, has headed up the poetry recital group, White Rainbow, fundraisers for AIDS orphans. He participated in the 1988 uprising, and has been an active proponent of human rights. Saw Wei is now in prison, held incommunicado. No information regarding charges has been released to the public.

Babel Fruit would like to call for contributions for a special supplemental: a selection of acrostic poems to be published on February 14th. The poems may spell out any word you feel is appropriate.

We encourage readers and contributors to print out Babel Fruit's PDF collection (including Saw Wei’s poem) and mail it to their diplomatic representative in Myanmar.

Let’s make this happen! There are only five days left until the deadline, but we can do it. Don’t revise and revise this time. Rage!

I am hoping there will be so many poems I will be totally overwhelmed and will need many, many people to help compile the poems.

Send poems to editors@babelfruit.org and put “Wei” in the subject line.

We also encourage other direct initiatives to help Saw Wei. Send individual or group responses to your diplomatic representatives to draw attention to this cause.

CORRECTION:

Cati Porter's and Maureen Alsop's upcoming reading is Sunday February 10. The date on the original announcement is wrong, but all the other information remains the same.