submission call - audio poetry

"from east to west:  bi-coastal verse" - fall '09:  Audio Poetry Our fall issue will have an accompanying audio supplement, hopefully both online and as a CD. Every poem in our audio section will be linked to a recording of the poem. Send text of the poem in the body of an email to PJ Nights (tangerine_reflections@yahoo.com) with "audio submission" in the subject line. Attach audio as an .mp3 file. If you don't have recording software, try "Audacity" (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/),  an open-source, cross-platform sound recorder. The deadline for the fall issue is August 15, 2009. Links to our current and past issues can be found at http://www.geocities.com/pj_nights until the end of October when we will be acquiring a new domain name. Thank you! PJ Nights from The Poetics List:: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html

July 25, UNM Summer Sunset Lecture

(cross posted from NM Culture Net) UNM Libraries Presents: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. 2009 Summer Sunset Lecture Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, best-selling author of "The Dirty Girls Social Club," will present a free lecture titled "The Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Identity as Genre in the Contemporary Fiction Marketplace" on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 7 p.m. July 27, 7 PM, Zimmerman Library,UNM in the historic west wing, Main Campus,Albuquerque FREE, OPEN TO PUBLIC Valdes-Rodriguez discusses the costs and benefits of ethnic segregation in contemporary American fiction, and poses some interesting questions. Is it warranted? Honest? Is it just? Is it legal? Is ethnicity the same as genre? Who gets to be a default human in American publishing? Why is ethnicity still perceived in the United States as a valuable marketing tool? What is ethnicity, and is it genetic or learned? What does such separation do to an author's career? How might an author avoid these pitfalls? How might an author exploit them? Valdes-Rodriguez is the bestselling author of seven novels, including "The Dirty Girls Social Club", "Playing with Boys," "Haters," "Make Him Look Good," "Dirty Girls on Top," and the upcoming novels "The Husband Habit" (July 2009) and "Three Kings Dates" (Christmas 2010). The event includes a book signing with the author. The Summer Sunset Lectures are made possible by the generous support of the UNM Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu

July 25-26, Poetry Workshops (Albq)

Poetry in Place: Workshops & Presentations Saturday . July 25 Workshops 1pm - 5pm . $20 per workshop Space limited. Call 505-897-8831 to register. Sunday . July 26: Presentations, 1pm - 5pm . free At City ofd Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd. NW (at the end of Bosque Meadows Rd. between Montaño and Paseo del Norte) Download flyer

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July 19, Benefit Concert

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Rose Ebaugh Benefit Concert, Sunday July 19, 12n-8pm, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, 9169 Coors NW, Albuquerque. Bring your own lawn chairs and blankets. Live broadcast on KUNM.

Thanks, Hakim, for sending this. How could anyone resist a group with 'Troublemakers' in the name?