If you are bored with poetry scene where you are, come to a place
where the scene is on the up.
Come to Perth in September for the second annual spring poetry festival.
The big week is the first week of the month, National Poetry Week,
with events galore. They're planning a marquee in the main city square,
poets from interstate and overseas, John Kinsella doing the opening speech
(or so it says on the draft programme), lots of guest readings and open mikes,
discussion panels, book launches.
Last year's festival was a big success despite not having any funding
to speak of.
Details at
http://www.thewordisout.net
(I'm not an organiser, but I am a guest reader so I figure I should do
some promotion.)
Janet
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Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
Poems at Proximity:
http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
"When one acts in accord with the time, the yang energy
is expansive, like thunder going out of the earth and
rising forcefully into the sky, startling an area of a
hundred miles with its rumble, so that all demons flee.
The life-giving potential continues increasing, and the
earth is always covered with yellow sprouts, the world
blooms with golden flowers. Wherever one may walk,
everywhere is the Tao. No happiness is more delightful
than this." Liu I-ming, trans. Thomas Cleary
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