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5 March 2007 • Letter from Here
NEWS Before welcoming you to the newsletter, we want to share with you that The Open Stanza this coming Thursday is packed to please, with a whole hit crew headed over from Berlin, and the highly acclaimed musician Signe Tollefsen, she of the mellifluous voice. Five euros to say you saw her when. Come. Hear. Enjoy. We've been working on this show for months. Read more below. And now the news. Despite the lack of evidence, we'll put winter behind us this month and head into spring, no looking back. We noticed that today at 18.30 hundred hours, it was still light outside! There are still spots open for the upcoming Short Fiction and Novel workshops. Registration deadline is 23 March. Be sure to encourage your write side this Spring! In February we had a wonderful visit from friends Jennifer Dick and Joe Ross from Paris who came to perform at The Open Stanza. This month, this coming week in fact, we have members of the Bordercrossing Berlin crew & family coming to grace our stage and fair city. Please come and meet our guests from afar. They're coming to have a beer and make new friends, not to mention give goose bumps with rousing wordsmith. Two main bits of activity on the wordsinhere front; we’ve rolled up our sleeves, agonized over the hundreds and hundreds, thousands, of fantastic pieces of writing and art that we received for Versal V, and made a selection after hours of editorial deliberations. The next step is to put it all together to make the magic of the actual mag, fit it to the page. Other news from the house: congratulations to Prue Duggan for placing two pieces in the Winter 2007 edition of the Bourdeaux-based Louis Liard Magazine, Robert Glick for a Pushcart nomination this winter for his poem "Extrapolating A Corpse", and Cralan Kelder for placing a poem in 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry. CALLS FOR WRITERS The Atlanta Review wants German langage poetry. Know any poets writing in German? Send up to five translations, with originals, bio info and permission from poet or publisher, to Mark Terrill, Hafenstraße 37, 25712 Burg, Germany, or as an e-mail with the poems pasted into the text, to markterrill<at>arcor<dot>de. No attachments please. Manuscripts will not be returned; please include email address for notification, or SASE. Deadline is June 31, 2007. Payment will be two contributors copies and author's discounts on extra copies and subscriptions. COURT GREEN #5 / Spring 2008 Dossier: Sylvia Plath / Each issue of COURT GREEN features a dossier on a special topic or theme. For our fifth issue, we are seeking creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Submit to: Editors, COURT GREEN Email submissions are not accepted. For further info: HOW2 Special Issue on women and eco-poetics. How2 accepts work by women and work on women (by both men and women) who wrote or currently write in the modernist or contemporary experimental tradition. LIT EVENT ROUNDUP The Open Stanza Thursday 8 March, 8pm Nachttheater Sugar Factory, Amsterdam Gracing the Stanza stage this month are the folks from the Bordercrossing Berlin collective, featuring Fiona Mizani, Moon, Jeroen Niewland, James Harris, and Lance Anderson. A very talented crew! Between them they have performed extensively across Europe, published anthologies, kickstarted poetic revolutions, and started a gorgeous new journal called Bordercrossing Berlin. For musical delectation this month, we are very proud to present the very talented Signe Tollefsen, recently recognized as one of the Netherlands best upcoming artists. Her live performances have garnered rave reviews across Europe. More info... Salon des Mots Sunday 25 March, 8:30pm Hofman Café, Utrecht Salon des Mots welcomes the first days of spring and what better way to celebrate than with some poetry and music. This month’s Salon des Mots will make you want to mate! We have the amazing stage presence of poet and dancer Esther Mugambi (AUS), one of the most exciting and surprising poets around, Donald Gardner (UK) and oh la la, Maria Thijssen (NL) making her debut on stage as a poet, also never a dull moment with incredible performer, Al Galidi (Iraq) whose poetry is full of humor, a love for this country and sex. And not to miss – totally awesome The Woodwards (NL). Entrance: free. More info... The Speakeasy Thursday 29 March, 7-8:30pm The English Bookshop, Amsterdam New writer to town? Or been here for (what seems like) ages and looking for something new? Or—yes, there's always a third possibility—been awhile since you beat Prue at pool? Come on down to wordsinhere's The Speakeasy. It's an informal, relaxed, and fun gathering of this town's writers. Easy conversation and company at the cozy Bookshop, and if everyone's game we head down the street after for drinks & pool. Entrance: free. More info... Nacht van de Poezie Saturday 31 March, 8pm-3am Vrenenburg, Utrecht Utrecht's Poetry Gala of the year, and wordsinhere is planning to attend and participate. Please check their website for details. More info...
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