| MUSELETTER Archives, 2000 |
MUSELETTER #58 12.14.00
LOS ANGELES, LAS VEGAS & OKLAHOMA: Return of Fatlands?, Pete Justus Rises from Midnight Special Ashes, Poetry in Exile Is Now Killer Poetry, It’s Wordelicious So It’s Got To Be Good!, Da Poetry Lounge Continues To Pack `Em In, Speak On It Goes Into Third Year, Lummox Lumbers On, UCLA Hammer Museum Presents Urban Poetry / Spoken Word, Poetic License @ Zen Rocks the Poetic Night, Holman & Jaffe Headliners in Las Vegas?, Oklahoma OK!
MONTREAL/CANADA: Winter Is the Poet’s Season, see or be seen, the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, Wired on Words & Music, Jailhouse Benefit for Tinguely & Stanton, Sweet Taste of Lightning.
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Special Report, Roni Horn: Still Water (The River Thames For Example).
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Up-Write Women Wield Words To Fight Domestic Violence, Nothing Like Poetry On a Sunday at the NOTcoffeeHouse, Exploring Jorie: American Poetry Review’s Fall 2000 Distinguished Poets Residency, Leonard Gontarek & the Art of Poetry at Robin’s Bookstore, Eileen Myles Is Too Cool For Words, Jim Cory & David Trinidad Read at Giovanni’s Room, Stepping Into a World of Words in Kevin Powell’s New Anthology, Washington D.C. Poets Working Their Words at the Manayunk Art Center, CA Conrad & Sandra Evans Falconer Read at Free Library of Philadelphia, There Is Poetry in Our Future From Poets & Prophets, Mad Poets Review Hot Off the Press, Def Poetry Jam Jams in Illadelph, Central Pennsylvanians: Check Out the Lebanon Poetry Project, Razor Revolutionary Art For Cultural Revolutions at Baraka’s.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Kevin Walzer, Dale Harris, kim c.
MUSELETTER #57 11.28.00
TEXAS: Special Report, Texas Book Festival.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: In Richmond, In Washington D.C. & the Beltway, In Maryland.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Hollie Messinger, Doug Holder.
MUSELETTER #56 11.20.00
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Car Talk: A Classic Retires to the Body Shop for Repairs, Car Talk II: A Love at First Sight Story, Calendars-R-Us, Misinfo Busting, The Non-Squeaky Wheels, Those Who Would Like To Squawk on Your Behalf, Rhode Island Please, My Lips Are Sealed, Next Generation of Voices, Non-Slam Poetry Picks.
NEW YORK: 13 Is a Lucky Number for Poetry, Who Knew Selling Out Was So Much Fun?, Def Poetry Jam Coming To Philly Town, Shot in the Dark, The Poetry Web Site That Never Sleeps, Poetry Ain’t Just For Big Cities, Oh Baby!, Happy Birthday To Me!
SPECIAL REPORT: FROM LONDON & BEYOND: The Bristol International Poetry Fest Was All That, Zines In & Around the UK, Win a Trip To Ireland.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Jackie Sheeler, Georgia A. Popoff.
MUSELETTER #55 11.13.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: literary translation at publishing.about.com
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: The Return of Victor’s Soapbox, Long Beach Represent!, And While We’re Talking Slam, Snippets.
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Tapping the Tampa Muse, News from Jax, The Best from Key West, From Fort Lauderdale: Florida Center for the Book, In Grayson’s Garden, Serotte’s Serenade, From Tamarac: The Society of Poets, Notes from Sunrise, Mazza Not Zsa Zsa (She’s a Dream), Seeds from Boca Raton, Howard the Hat To Publish His Hiss, Test Your Eye Q, Test Your Nerve: from Little Habana, Is It Caribbean or Caribbean?, Poets & Pirates on the High Seas, Singin’ on Singer Island, DaDa in DelRay, For Whom the Horn Toots... It Toots for Me, Performance Joints.
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Many Ways To Turn a Phrase at the Fringe Festival, Day of the Poet Word Wide First Friday, Liam Rector & Charlie O’Hay Paint the Bride Black, At a Loss for Words? Borrow Someone Else’s in FINDINGTHEWORD, Eileen Myles Is Too Cool for Words, Highwire Reading Series Changes Host, Venue & Hour, American Poetry: The Next Generation, A Poetry Gold Mine on Kenneth Goldsmith’s UbuWeb, Moving Voices Gets Stuck in Predictability, Reading the Self Through Modernism, Lamont Steptoe Overstands, Still Stands, The Schuylkill Valley Journal Celebrates Ten Years of Local Poetry, Po-Angel Kim DeAngelo Makes Heavenly Debut at Borders Springfield, Tonya Marie Evans Shines Brightly at Borders Wynnewood, Pew Fellow in Poetry Read at the Art Alliance, Breathing In the Word, Breathing Out Po-Prana Fire Its Life Force, Nathaniel Mackey & Jay Wright at the WWCAC, Mad Poets Society Poeming at the Mouth in PA Suburbs, Riverside Reading Series in Reading PA, Cultural Renaissance in West Chester PA, The 8th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, Slam! the Door on Hunger in Harrisburg.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From D.J. Ludlow, Donna DeMeyer, Ayodele.
MUSELETTER #54 10.26.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: the seven deadly sins at shakespeare.about.com
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: A New England Dilemma!
CHICAGO/MIDWEST: Poet on the Street in Chicago, The Difficult, The Excellent, A Trio of Slams in the Birthplace of Slam, Chicago Info.
MONTREAL/CANADA: Six Weeks of Word Festivals, see or be seen, the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, “Wired on Words & Music.”
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Dale Harris, Athina Publishing, kim c.
MUSELETTER #53 10.18.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: poet societies at classicpoetry.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Santa Fe Festival of the Book, Lannan Foundation Readings & Conversations, On To the Meat of the Matter, “Avenues to Publishing,” “Poetry As a Survival Technique.”
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Litstock, News Flash! Kim Addonizio, Poetry Center Book Award, On the Move.
SPECIAL REPORT: LIVE FROM LONDON: I Love London, John Paul O’Neil’s Farrago Slam, Ground Zero of the Paddington International Poetry Festival, Poetry Unplugged at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Randy Gross, JoAnn Anglin, Dave Johnson, R.M. Engelhart.
MUSELETTER #52 10.15.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: ghazals at hindiurdu.about.com
LOS ANGELES & AROUND: October Is Full of Po..., New Slam in Town, Las Vegas Poetry Scene, Dey Gots Some Damn Good Poetry in Oklahoma, Back to LA: Da Poetry Lounge Continues to Roar, Lewis Saunders Plays the Word, Santa Monica has the Word, Xennia’s MultiVersity Anthology, PoeticLicense @ Zen, Got Some Jack (Magazine).
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Personal News, Richmond Events, Southwestern Virginia, At Hollins College in Roanoke, Charlottesville, D.C. and the Beltway, Baltimore.
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Mini Update Announcements.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From F.J. Bergmann, Kim C, Bob Nelson.
MUSELETTER #51 10.2.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: holopoetry at arttech.about.com
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Speeding Up Time, Life and Death, Censorship, Hip Hop Festival Bellingham, Books!, Books!, And More Books!, Shorts, New Portland Open Mike, And a Word of Welcome.
DENVER/ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Ego Trippin’, Denver Annual Poets’ Day, Upcoming in Denver: Cafe Nuba, The Hue-Man Voices Poetry & Writing Intensives, Profile: Sistah Jessica.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Georgia A. Popoff, Daniel Nester, Lynne Remick.
MUSELETTER #50 9.27.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: cowboy poetry at rodeo.about.com
NEW YORK: NYC Slams Represent!, SlamJam2000, Think Zinc, Recipe For a Good Poet, The Lowdown on Potown.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Reverend Robert Masterson, JoAnn Anglin, Tom Bell.
MUSELETTER #49 9.16.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: americanhistory.about.com
TEXAS: Deep in the Heart Report 9.2000, Let’s Start with Houston, Speaking of Houston: Poetry Fest, Speaking of Festivals, Speaking of South, Off To Places You Might Not Expect To Hear About, And Let Us Not Forget Dallas, Remember That 710 Reading Series in Austin I Was Telling You About?, One More Austin Note of Note, OK, OK, One More Austin Note of Note, Best Texas Poetry Rumor I’ve Heard All Month.
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Jam and Slam at the Lizard, Blackout Moves To Wednesday Nights, Free Street Taverna Reading Also Moves To Wednesday Nights, The Shocking Ramifications of Misspelling in Heady State Relations, Everything Old Is New Again, Everything Old Is... Come Again?, Everything You Remember About Providence Is Different Now.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Kim Cotton.
MUSELETTER #48 9.10.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: volleyball.about.com
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Jacksonville: Nokturnal Escape, Miami: Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, Coral Gables: Seethe!, Fort Lauderdale: Upcoming Events at Florida Center for the Book, Hollywood: Wild Horse Poetry Series, Speaking of the Unrecognized. . ., Coral Springs: Speaking of the Spoken Word, West Palm Beach: Play on Words, Underground Coffeeworks Makes Above Ground News, The New Poetry Pope, The Ireland Sojourn.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Happy Birthday OC Weekly, Rumors, Hot Shows, Happy Birthday Ardinger!
LOS ANGELES & AROUND: San Diego Coffeehouse Legal Scene Update.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Charlotte “Sista C” Ferrell.
MUSELETTER #47 9.4.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: classicpoetry.about.com
EUROPE/MONTREAL/CANADA: Volapuk, HOWL, An Art & Revolution Festival, This Just In, Canzine 2000, Planète Rebelle Literary Cabaret.
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Eloping with The Muse, Honeymooning with Myself; More Ketan Ben Caesar Sightings; Love, Sex, and Transgression, Oh My!, at the Asian Arts Initiative; NOTcoffeeHouse Serving Verse on First Sundays; Afaa Michael Weaver: Po-Oracle Speaks Truths at Robin’s Bookstore; Po-Puppet Love at the Hands of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore; Rap is Poetry! Writing Workshop for Youth; Wacky About Words? Check Out the Mad Poets Society; Emiliano Martin and Bill Holmes Set Words to Flight at the Hunt Club Mansion; Upcoming Poetry Events Presented by the Mad Poets Society; Mix Po-Potions with Edwin Torres in His Word Laboratory at WWCAC; Poetry with an Edge at the Fringe Festival; A Must for Poets: Poetry Must Shine (P.M.S) at The Point; Manayunk Art Center’s 2000-2001 Poetry Programs; A Reason to Like Mondays: The Monday Poets at the Central Library; Painted Bride Quarterly Hits the Cyber-Newsstand; Wall-to-Wall Word Fun at Giovanni’s Room; A Packed Weekend of Poetry at the Dodge Poetry Festival.
MUSELETTER #46 8.26.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Music/Performance Channel -- folkmusic.about.com, oldies.about.com, ska.about.com, worldmusic.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Poets and Writers Picnic, Albuquerque Fall Crawl, Poetry Diner, Michael Scofield & Charles Bell.
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Poetry at Burning Man, National Poetry Association Bash, Two New Books in the California Poetry Series, Printers Inc. Poetry Contest.
NEW YORK: Long Shot Publication Party.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From the Canadian Poetry Association, Ruth Rockefeller.
MUSELETTER #45 8.20.00
LOS ANGELES & AROUND: The Poetry of Bicycling, Exile Books & Music To Close, Sacramento Update, Hosting a Poetry Reading?, Poetic License Events, Readings Happening In & Around La La Land, Cows on the Freeway, Late Breaking News from San Diego.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Something Old & Something New in Richmond, D.C. Doings, Northern Virginia & the Beltway, To the West, Calling All College Poets.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From zkot pen.
MUSELETTER #44 8.14.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Vachel Lindsay at springfieldil.about.com
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: International Peace Poem Project, from Frank Rich.
MUSELETTER #43 8.8.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: poetry chat at kidexchange.about.com
TEXAS: Deep in the Heart Report; New Reading Rollin’ On Red River; Courtney O’Banion, The Fourth Powerpuff Girl; OK, We’re Going To Try Something a Little Different Here; Ai, Ai, Ai; And While We’re On the Topic of Politics.
SACRAMENTO: Crossing Barriers.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Cal A. Vera, Dale Harris.
MUSELETTER #42 7.30.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: local guides to poets & readings in About Cities/Towns
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Where? When? What? Guerrilla Poets, G-Literary Party, Boston Slammaster Retires!, The Happenin’ Slene at People’s Republic of Vermont, Open Mike Poetry Series in Leominster, MA, Everyone Is Invited To the Last Stop Slam, Hot Sundays at Lizard Lounge.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Why I Disappeared, Lummox Lumbers On, Duelling Poets, Slam Books, Tidbits From a Comic Convention.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Kim Cotton, Lilip.
MUSELETTER #41 7.23.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: e-texts at womenshistory.about.com
MIAMI/FLORIDA: “Best Local Writer,” Coming up at the Wild Horse Poetry Series, A Big Bridge, Diane Thiel Accepts Post at UM, From Local Bards, Scientists, Quilters & General Poetry Inquisitors Don & Barbara Burns, An Email From Lyn Lifshin, More Favorite Poet Sites, Local Poets Attain Fame in Poetrybay, Poetry On the Open Seas, Florida Links & Organizations.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From RD Armstrong.
MUSELETTER #40 7.17.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Walt Whitman at classiclit.about.com
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Polak and Perry Play Poetag, Ketan Ben Caesar Dictates Poetry to the People, Sanchez’s Swan Song: A Soulful Sayonara to Sister Sonia, Highwire Reading Series Lies Low for the Summer, 2Bards at 3Beans, In Celebration of Life: A Memorial for Wil Perkins, Sherman Alexie Crosses Borders at Borders, In’digo Flo’ Moves to Bring More Color to Local Poetry Scene, The Woman Who Tries to Believe Has Made a Believer Out of Me, Upcoming Free Poetry Events at Robin’s, Poetry Finds Another Stage at The Point, Poetry Miscellany.
MONTREAL/CANADA: The Scream in High Park, Running Unconscious, Bite at El Mocambo, Unheard Of.
MIDWEST: Madison, Wisconsin Slam, The Latest From Detroit.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Raindog, Donna.
MUSELETTER #39 7.9.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: free speech at civilliberty.about.com & libertarianism.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: SlamAmerica Comes to Santa Fe, Three Letters Home from the Taos Poetry Circus, The Big Challenge, Why Do Poets Have Rules?, The Final Night: In a Superb Show, Alexie Retains His Title.
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, Local Slam News, Tea & Catalyst Tour, Outlaw Bible Tour Rumor.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Jennifer Andino, Shelley Hicklin.
MUSELETTER #38 7.4.00
SPECIAL JULY 4TH POETRY ACTION: From Las Vegas Weekly.
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Hola tout le monde!, Skagit River Poetry Festival (report by Judith Roche), Bumbershoot Preview, Northwest Bookfest, Slammings and Goings, Poetry Bash?!?, Poetry Northwest, In Memoriam: Carol Harper, Roasted Goat, Beat Resurrection, Calls for Subs & Other Notes.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Kim Holzer Leeds at Cheers, Muse Convention, Bit By the Slam Bug, Georgia Popoff in “June Jaw,” Kids Poetry Club in Charlottesville, Lexington Venues, Any Poets in Norfolk/Hampton Roads?, Finding Northern Virginia/Maryland Events, Richmond Readings & a New Venue!, Roanoke Events, The Nicolo Whimsey Show in Williamsburg, D.C. Calendars & Slam, Get Ready for SlamAmerica!
MIDWEST: Milwaukee Poetry Events, The Latest From Detroit, Bookorama.
NEW YORK: Slamstravaganza, Burning Down the House & the Little Bit Louda Finals, Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe Team 2000 Gets Ready To Rumble, Urbana, The Basement Poets Clash, Diva Publishes!, Patricia (Word)Smith, Web Sites To Check Out.
MUSELETTER #37 6.26.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: canlit.about.com
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Did Somebody Say “Slam Season?,” Wanda Coleman in the House, A Lob Would Say “BOOM!,” Victor’s Soap Box.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Venue Change Alert: “June Jaw.”
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Penny, Anne MacNaughton.
MUSELETTER #36 6.17.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: collaborative play at britishtheatre.about.com, literary links at frenchculture.about.com
TEXAS: I’ve Moved, A Confession, The 2000 Texas League Report, Young Tongues Performance Festival, Speaking of Estro-Flow, And Now For Something Completely Different, SlamAmerica Is Coming!, A Moment of Silence Please.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Ninian’s Poetry Cafe, Randy Gross, L. Egan, Lip, Tongue & Ear Poetry Productions.
MUSELETTER #35 6.12.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Renaissance love poems at historymedren.about.com, contemporary love poems at teenwriting.about.com
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: 13th Annual Writers’ Workshop Sponsored by the William Joiner Center, The Cantab Lounge, DownCity Slam at Nick-a-Nee’s, Poetry at the Daily Grind Coffeehouse, “Illusion and Reality,” If This Is Sunday, I Must Be in Worcester?. . . Boston?. . . Cape Cod?, Slam Antidote Found in Worcester.
LOS ANGELES & AROUND: Gregory Williams (aka Gregory Gregory), New Poetry Series in Sacramento, San Diego African American Writers & Artists, World Beyond Poetry Festival (Beyond Baroque), Hyperpoets @ Santa Monica Barnes & Noble, Conscious Vibes, 6 Men Revealed, Los Angeles Slam Team Grand Slam, SlamHollywood, PoeticLicense, Winans, Lerner & Armstrong at Beyond Baroque, Enter the Dragon, Poetry in St. Louis, Jack Magazine Call for Submissions, Poetry in the Attic in Mobile, Alabama.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Charles Potts, Doug Holder, Sandra Vannoy, Stephanie Renee.
MUSELETTER #34 6.4.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Federico García Lorca at spanishculture.about.com
DENVER/ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Brothah Jeff’s National Poetry Conference, Ego Trippin’, SpokenWar, Bare Knuckles Poetry in Colorado Springs, Sonia Sanchez Comes To Colorado, Naropa Doings, Kudos To Onyx.
MIAMI/FLORIDA: In Memoriam: Rita LaFlamme Logan, Seethe!, Mia Leonin Knocks `Em Out at Wild Horse Poetry Series, John Balaban Leaving Miami for North Carolina, Barbra Nightingale’s Greatest Hits, Denise Duhamel Coming Back to Miami in September, Quartetto Poetica, The Road That Leads Away, Sultry Lourdes Simon Acts Out, Florida Links & Poets.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Jackie Sheeler, 101 Artists’ Colony.
MUSELETTER #33 5.28.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: shakespeare.about.com
MONTREAL/CANADA: Kerozen + YAWP, Montreal’s First Anarchist Book Fair, Stefan Christoff’s New Series, Edgewise Cafe Videopoem Festival, Coming Up in Montreal in June. . ., Word: Toronto’s Literary Calendar.
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Leonard Gontarek and The Mark Sarro Group, Free Aural Sex, Crystal Williams’ Poems Cut Deep, Upcoming Poetry Events at Robin’s Bookstore, Verbal Arabesques at the Highwire, XY XY Rhymes at the Painted Bride, Upcoming Poetry Events at the Painted Bride Art Center, Robert Bly Doubles the Madness and Then Some.
MIDWEST: Upcoming Detroit Literary Events, Chicago News: The Green Mill & Café Gourmand, Printers Row Book Fair.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Steve Sanders, Elaine Rexdale, Thomas.
MUSELETTER #32 5.21.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Pope at history1700s.about.com & classiclit.about.com
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Congrats to MP3Lit.com, More Congrats to Russell Gonzaga, Brave New Voices 2000, Update on Local Slam Finals, More Swell Events, Narrativity, Small Press Distribution.
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Welcome to our disaster. . ., World Heavyweight Poetry Bout, Keith Wilson: Bosque Redondo, Second Street Annex, Santa Fe, Poets’ Plaza, New Mexico Briefs.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Laguna Slam 2000, Farstarfire Press Gets Busy, Odds & Ends.
MIDWEST: Upcoming Poetry Events in Detroit.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: Louisville! from Paul McDonald.
MUSELETTER #31 5.15.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Dante at historymedren.about.com, classiclit.about.com, italian.about.com & paranormal.about.com
MIDWEST: Detroit Poetry Contest - Correction.
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: The Washington Shoe Building, Festival and More Festival: Webcast!, Grand Slam, Gwendolyn Brooks & the Last Poets, Sister City, Skagit River Poetry Festival, Jack Straw Writers Program.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: “I Broke My Tooth in Texas,” Richmond VA Events, D.C. Slam Team Picked!, Northern Virginia Events, Roanoke VA Slam, Baltimore MD Benefit Poetry Plus!
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Orange County’s Favorite Poems: Methodology, Results, Conclusions.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Arbutus Editions, Dennis Goza.
MUSELETTER #30 5.5.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: scrapbooking.about.com
MIDWEST: Detroit Poetry Contest Winners Announced, Chicago Mad Bar Slam Championships Held, New St. Louis Poetry Series Announced.
MUSELETTER #29 4.30.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: firefighting.about.com
AUSTIN/TEXAS: A Big Howdy to You All, Slam: Austin, Slam: Dallas, Slam: San Antonio, Texas Writers Month, From Thom the World Poet’s World-Sized Stack O’ Flyers, Feel Left Out?
NEW YORK: Little Bit Older, New Yorkers, Meet New Yorker Poets!, “G” Is For Gorey, The Wild Party, Take Two, Grand Slams.
MUSELETTER #28 4.24.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: poets at womenwriters.about.com & quotations.about.com
LOS ANGELES/AUSTIN/DC: Austin International Poetry Festival, David St. John at Barnes & Noble, Enter the Dragon, Arthouse Underground, Millennium Poets Gathering, Skylight Books Poem-a-Day, Conscious Vibes, Carmen Vega, SlamHollywood, PoeticLicense at Home.
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Boston Slam Master Wins Trip to Nantucket, New England Slam News, Nick-a-Nee’s Line-up, “Second Tuesday Slams” in Portland, Maine, Other Spoken Word Events: Blackthorne’s Tavern, AGAPE Poetry Reading Series, Mondays at Ras Cafe, Special Events: Patricia Smith Performs in Cambridge.
PHILADELPHIA AREA: 100 Poets Read, Rattapallax Rolls Through Robin’s, Beam Me Up Ezra. Uncommonplaces: Poems of the Fantastic, Upcoming Poetry Events at Robin’s Bookstore, Spoken Word from His Master’s Voice, Dana Levin Takes the Stage In the Surgical Theater, The Body Electric: Electrocution by Elocution, Iron Man Robert Bly Will Beat His Drum in the City of Brotherly Love, NOTcoffeeHouse Not a Bad Way To Spend First Sundays, He-Poets Flex Their Metaphors at the Painted Bride, Poetry Miscellany.
MUSELETTER #27 4.16.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: National Poetry Month parties at flyfishing.about.com, womenwriters.about.com, uppereastside.about.com, yabooks.about.com & contemporarylit.about.com
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Butterfly Lightning, Miami/Dade County Stuff, Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation & Broward Community College, Other Broward News, Palm Beach County Stuff, Way Up in the Panhandle.
DENVER/ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Voices of the Mile-High City, Brother Jeff’s Cultural Cafe, Denver Poets Speak Out!, Cafe Nuba.
MUSELETTER #26 4.9.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: About.com Cities/Towns index, Spring Fling Haiku Contest at uppereastside.about.com
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Philadelphia-Area Poetry Currents Takes Wing, Carl Hancock Rux Speaks Liquid Dark Chocolate, Roger Bonair-Agard at the Walt Whitman Center, Slamber Party, Pajamas Optional, The Gershman Y Reopens Its Poetry Center, Haiku Senryu -- Nature of Daily Moments -- Oh! Aha! Oneness, Spoken-Hand Poetry.
MONTREAL/CANADA: Alexis O’Hara Leaves Us Howling, Blue Metropolis, Montreal’s First Anarchist Book Fair, Salon du livre du Quebec.
MIAMI/FLORIDA: “Words and Music,” Butterfly Lightning, Poetry Happenings at the Beat Cafe, Glen A. Fenster.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Museletter Correspondents Meet Up in Austin, National Poetry Month in Richmond, Regular Readings in Charlottesville, Roanoke Slam, MuddPuddle Cafe in Frederick, MD, Slamicide! in Baltimore, Cafe Myth & WritersCorps in D.C., Lyn Lifshin in Baltimore.
MUSELETTER #25 4.1.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Beowulf at horrorbooks.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: April is the cruellest month, Poetry Habitat, Poets’ Plaza Kick-Off, Tom Fitzsimmons, Penny Harter & Bill Higginson, National Association for Poetry Therapy.
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Cafe Niebaum-Coppola Reading, Small Press Distribution Open House, Bay Area Anarchist Book Festival, Speaking of Ferlinghetti. . ., Brave New Voices 2000.
MUSELETTER #24 3.26.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Irish literature links at goireland.about.com, classiclit.about.com & contemporarylit.about.com
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: The Stage, Ed Dorn Memorial, Full Nelson, Seattle Slam Gets Down To It, isangmahal & the Source, Seattle Arts & Lectures, Wordscape & the Rag Tag: A Theory, Seattle Poetry Festival 2000.
MIDWEST: Detroit Poetry Calendar, Part 2.
MUSELETTER #23 3.18.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Nursery rhymes at englishculture.about.com,
k-6educators.about.com & babyparenting.about.com
MIDWEST: Special Edition: Detroit Poetry Calendar.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Living in the Past, What I Missed.
MUSELETTER #22 3.12.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: weddings.about.com
AUSTIN/TEXAS: South by Southwest, Spotlight on fuzzy doodah, Sun Poets Take a Hike, Marc (So What?) Smith comes to Conroe (Where?) Texas, Attic Magazine Debut, Xenogia Cometh - March 10, Austin International Poetry Festival, John Sinclair Fire Fund Report.
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: Poetry/Pioneer, True West, The Wildest Parties in Town, Slammers of the East Unite. . . and Fight!, Chatbook Frenzy.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Baltimore Business, Charlottesville, Virginia, New in Richmond, Virginia, Museums and Universities.
MUSELETTER #21 3.3.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: arcticculture.about.com
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Amazon Super Slam and Anniversary Party, “From Homer to Hip Hop,” All Out Jam! at the Lizard Lounge, The Boston Slam at the Cantab, Down City Slam at Nick-a-Nee’s, On Cape Cod, 2nd Annual Provincetown Poetry Festival, Worcester Poetry Slam & Poets’ Asylum, A couple of new beginnings to wrap up.
LOS ANGELES: It’s Been Quite a Month, Jerry Quickley: Poet & Impresario, San Gabriel Valley Stuff, Now For the News at PoeticLicense, Internet News, Popoff Italian Style.
MUSELETTER #20 2.26.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: womenwriters.about.com
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Some Poetry Organizations, Ongoing Stuff, Who’s Who at the Universities, Major Events: January - April, Links.
MONTREAL/CANADA: Exploding Head Man Finally Blows!, Legba, Exploding Head Show, Soirée des Contes, In Closing: Links.
MUSELETTER #19 2.19.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: africancultures.about.com
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Juliette Torrez’ Kapow!, Lisa Martinovic back in San Francisco, Phoenix Poetry Festival, National Youth Poetry Slam, Anne Carson at SF State, Manic D Press Anniversary Celebration, Bay Area Reading/Slam Venues.
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: A Retraction, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Dana Levin, Recursos de Santa Fe Discovery Readings, Lannan Readings & Conversations: Mark Strand, Your Scoop For the Day, Fireside Reading Series at the Inn on the Alameda.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Equal Time For Equal Counties, San Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles.
MUSELETTER #18 2.11.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: folkmusic.about.com
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Bart Baxter Survives!, Portland News from Kevin Sampsell, Seattle News: Allison Durazzi & Noel Franklin, Teen Slam, The Foleys at SPLAB, Vancouver Events, More Links.
MONTREAL: Yawp! Presents the Launch of Ian Ferrier’s Exploding Head Man.
MUSELETTER #17 2.4.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Beowulf at historymedren.about.com & englishlit.about.com
SPECIAL WEEKEND BULLETIN FROM NEW YORK: Poetry Gets Extreme!
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Coast Hasn’t Been Clear!!, Poetry in Richmond, A Celebration of Richmond Poets, Washington, D.C. Area Open Poetry Readings, Other Notable Events from Cafe Myth, The Frederick Poetry Salon, The Muddpuddle Cafe, Keystone & the Richmond Slam.
MUSELETTER #16 1.30.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: teenwriting.about.com
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Catching Up, Weddings & Funerals, Outlaws & Badasses.
MUSELETTER #15 1.22.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: womenshistory.about.com
MIDWEST: Special Report: “I Was Born with 2 Tongues” and the Rebirth of the Chicago Poetry Scene, P.S. On a Personal Note.
ATLANTA: Slam City!
MUSELETTER #14 1.16.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: germanculture.about.com
AUSTIN/TEXAS: Austin International Poetry Festival 2000 Registration Deadline Extended, Texas Slam Challenge: Corpus Christi takes on Austin and San Antonio, Ruta Maya Reading Series, Tammy Gomez Will Return For BYOB’s 2nd Anniversary, Poetry Tonight Is Back, Sun Poetic Times, Houston in the House, Attention High School Teachers.
OKLAHOMA: Local Pioneers Keep the Word Going in Oklahoma.
MUSELETTER #13 1.9.00
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: environment.about.com
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: 2000 Begins Poetically, We Don’t Need No Stinking Paychecks!, Viva Les Femmes!, Viva Les Garçons "Cute"!!!, Spoken Word. . . Heard!, Following the Dot.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A Poetry Slam in Richmond, Virginia!
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