The highlight of Earth Month AND National Poetry Month for me will be the visit to Ventucky by Al Young, California’s State Poet Laureate.
Here are some of the Art Predator’s Picks. I will add links and more details ASAP!
FSS 3/28. 29, 30 SB Poetry Conference w/Phil Levine $325 (see post below)
F 3/28 Emy Reynolds at Zoeys Cafe
S 3/29 Food Crew Party Artbarn (see post below)
S 3/29 1-8pm Create an artists’ book that looks like a good old fashioned matchbook. Print on two presses, score and cut! At Lettre Sauvage.
S 3/30 Homeless film fest, Artbarn
M 3/31 7pm Primal Circus, Accolades, El Jardin Courtyard
An evening of avant garde music, performance and film to celebrate the closing of gauvin’s art show. Work by Send My Regards, Opal Gann, gauvin, Sophia Kidd as Astra III, Allen D. Glass II & M.A.H.O. at Accolades Gallery in Ventura.
T 4/1 730pm Dorothea Grossman & Michael Vlatkovich Artists Union April Fools!
T 4/1 Lucy in the Sky’s Fantasy Haircuts aka Puplicious the Victorian Clown’s grand re-opening on Fir
W 4/2 Cover 101? workshop 6-9p Crowne Plaza where C st meets the sea
S 4/5 7-9pm Poetry, jazz, print: Poets Jackson Wheeler, Lois Klein, Paul Lobo Potugeus & AJ Ford with Colter Frazier on jazz sax, print work by lettre sauvage, Santa Barbara Public Library $5
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T 4/8 730pm Diana Raab + O Artists Union
W 4/9 noon & 2pm Amalio Madueno VC
S 4/12 from the Margins reading Artists Union
S 4/13 Earth Day Ventura
M 4/14 Laynie Browne reading & discussion on modern sonnets
T 4/15 Lois Klein + o Artists Union
T 4/17 6pm Dengue Fever instore at Salzers
S 4/19 7pm Adrianne Marcus & Carol V. Davis, Carnegie Art Museum $3
S 4/19 Calque – Suzanne Jill Levine, Stephen Kessler, Craig Santos Perez & Jen Hofer 7:30 pm Beyond Baroque (LA) $10
SS 4/19, 20 Chumash Days Malibu Bluffs Park
S 4/20 Santa Monica Pier Earth Day Concert
M 4/21 CA Poet Laureate Al Young noon, 130, 730pm VC
T 4/22 Sojourner Kincaide Rolle +O 7:30 pm Tuesday Night Poets – Artists Union Gallery
W 4/23 Earth Action Day, VC
FSS 4/25, 26, 27 COACHELLA Music and Arts Festival (see post)
SS 4/26, 27 LA Times Book Festival
SS 4/26, 27 Ventucky Artwalk
S 4/26 Poet’s Seder – Laurel Ann Bogen, Ellyn Maybe, Larry Colker, Rachel Kann, Claudia Handler & Rick Lupert 7:30 pm Beyond Baroque, Venice $10
S 4/26 Sherman Pearl +O 7:30 pm Bell Arts Factory, Ventucky
W 4/30 Al Young, Oxnard College
Food Party Crew Artbarn Event this Saturday
what’s up with the bees this spring?
i keep finding bees in my house, yesterday and today too, slipping quickly through open doors to be trapped and buzz next to closed windows…the full moon must make them restless and yearn to chart new territory on these warm spring days…
in my house, they press against a window the sill of which still holds remnants of last full moon’s ant swarm, wings causally left behind and bits of odd materials…
are insects coming to visit you too?
Santa Barbara Poetry Conference March 2008
Experience a weekend of Poetry w/ PHILIP LEVINE
March 28-30, 2008
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Philip Levine will be the featured poet March 28-30, 2008 for a special weekend in the beautiful foothills of Santa Barbara. Levine’s most recent collection of poems, Breath, was published in 2004. (Alfred A. Knopf).
All poets – from aspiring beginners to published sages – are welcome to join a weekend of workshops, seminars and readings. Levine will do a reading on Saturday night and offer a master class for all participants on Sunday morning.
Workshops throughout the weekend will be offered by SBWC’s poetry workshop leaders Perie Longo, (Santa Barbara’s new poet laureate) Christopher Buckley and David Starkey, as well as accomplished poets and instructors Ellen Kelley, Lois Klein, Marilyn McEntyre, Santa Barbara’s first poet laureate Barry Spacks, Paul Willis, and Chryss Yost.
Cost for the weekend is $325 for commuter students. This includes all workshops and lunches and dinners from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. For those who wish to stay at the retreat center, the cost is $495 for a double-occupancy room and all meals. (Single occupancy is also available for $595). For more information on seminar topics and workshop leaders contact us via email.
You can find a list of additional Santa Barbara-area lodging options here.
For more information about the Santa Barbara Poetry Conference and assorted poetry weekends planned thorughout the year, or the SB Writers Conference in June, go here.
About Philip Levine: Read more…
granite lover: poem
take a ride on the poetry train
I was inspired to post this poem after a week surrounded by Yosemite Valley’s granitic walls…and readwritepoem’s prompt to GO GREEN… even though I wrote the poem after an experience on Lake Tahoe granite.
Below is a broadside I did for ARTLIFE Limited Editions. It allows you to see how the poem should be formatted (but I am unable to do on a blog yet).
granite lover
granite bites
on the small of my back
warm
me as if you caress there
*
slipping my hand through my hair
i feel the memory of your kisses
sharp presents from you, of you
gorgeous granite lover
*
my hand cool explores
where granite
heats
shoulder knees between my thighs
*
gazing on your sparking face
i desire to
> > > rest upon your lips
> > > lie along your spine
> > > explore your crevices
> > > know what formed you:
explosive hot magma breath crystallizing
country rock scraped away by glaciers
rough epidermous polished to glistening
freckles of lichen splashing gold, green
*
wondering how you feel
soil collecting juniper growing
roots creeping deeper in you
crushed berries scenting you
*
sitting here in leatherette chair
wind caresses you through the window
no sun glows on my face
i’m left watching wondering
*
in what ways has
my soft body
left
an impression on you
stay n play: winter in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite is an amazing place but the crowds of people in the valley from April-September distract from its sublime beauty and power.
So my last two visits have been in winter. This winter, we were attracted to a Stay N Play deal–if you stay somewhere in the park run by DNC (not Park Service campgrounds), you can get a “play” package for $29–valley tour, ski rental, lift, lesson, tubing…so we took them up on the offer and after camping our first night at Upper Pines, we stayed in a heated tent cabin in Curry Village last night and tonight to take advantage of it.
Badger Pass is not…well, it is a beginner resort–perfect for my 4 year old son! No crowds midweek, incredible views of Mt Hoffman, great snow–a bit icy in the am, but unbeatable spring skiing conditions! Can’t wait for tomorrow!
BTW, the deal continues through Sunday March 30 when Badger Pass closes.
and tomorrow at this time the 5000 hit blip will be gone
that’s right–you bloggers out there know the little joy your heart experiences when your blog hits a zeitguist and receives hit after hit…
and then it seems like it flatlines (heck 50 hits a day after 5000 in 2 days will do that)
but tomorrow, when i check i will see the gentle rise and fall–39 one day, 69 another, maybe 80 or 90 or even 120 here or there…
i appreciate each and every one of you –thank you for visiting my blog and reading my words!
Last weekend a fellow poet blogger and I were talking over around and through a table of loudmouth rowdy poets. He was saying how great he felt when he wrote something and got a huge blip in his blog stats–and how it’s been a let down since.
Know what I mean? he asked.
Oh, yeah, I said. I went from 50 hits a day to 5000 in two days!
What did you write about? he asked.
The lunar eclipse. Action like that will probably never happen again, I said. But you never know.
>>this post, #108, is an auspicious number
>>>10,000 total hits in 6 months (but nothing like the growth of stuff white people like!)
>> written from the Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite Valley, winter 08
here it is so you know what it looks like…
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pretty wild, huh. most of us bloggers are thrilled to have 500 readers a week!
the ahhhhhwahhhhneeee in yosemite valley winter
it is still winter in the yosemite valley and cold, maybe freezing outside, and snow is piled up here and there, hither and yon
i am warm, writing from the womb of the great hall of the ahwahnee hotel, fire roaring stupendously on the grate, wine in the glass courtesy of friendly traveling folk…a chef, a buyer, two engineers
soon i will venture out into the sparkling moonfilled night across the snowy meadow across a bridge or two to upper pines campground to climb into my flannel sheeted down comforted bed to hear the snufflings of my son and the snorings of my spouse on this, one of the last night’s of winter
and if i get lost in my snowboots and pink polkadotted tights and patagucci dress, vest, hat, and jacket, i have a bag of pretzels someone left behind that fits in my pocket and the tailend of a bottle of puzzletime merlot=
goodnight, winter, good morning spring from the art predator
spring poem
Winter is almost over; spring arrives this week! Here’s a spring poem for the Poetry Train, my choice partly inspired by Rhian’s fiery passionate piece. It’s supposed to be 3 stanzas of 5 lines with approx 10 syllables each but I don’t know how to format/blog that yet! Help! (hey, I figured it out! 4/2/08) The poem also needs a title…suggestions, please! This poem also kinda works some for the personification tree prompt from readwritepoem..well it’s personification of a pinyon-juniper desert ecosystem!
my desire a desert drought, dessicated:
you rouse me with gentle, nourishing rain
drops gather on pinyon, shiny globes of
wholeness collect, taste of you and me
nourish flax, forget-me-nots flourish
i learn to absorb occasional flash floods:
outbursts of poetry, temper, resistance
thunder lightening of your fear pain fury
raises my protective spines, scares birds from song
hail dashes, shreds blossoms that couldn’t close
thunderstorms spend energy, move on:
my sweet wet scent lives on with your moisture
my colors saturated rich with your sweat
recall the pungency of our passion
watch this desert bloom, wait for next rain to fall
art predator 
