MEN AT WORDS-Poetry Reading at Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe

On Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM, local poets and authors in print, Robert Davies, David Filer, Henry Hughes, and Scot Siegel, will read their work, in conjunction with the 46th Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. This year's Festival visual arts theme is "Cutting Edges--the Mosaic". Joan Maiers hosts the event.

Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe
45 South State Street in downtown Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Free and open to the public.

Donations accepted to assist Little Artibonite Orphanage in Haiti.

Contact: 503-697-7097

Flash Choir call for members to perform William Stafford poems

The Flash Choir, a community choir in Portland, has just started working on a piece called "Strangers Together", which is a setting of ten of William Stafford's poems from Passwords. The piece is written by local composer Sarah Dougher, and will be performed in a variety of venues around the Portland area in late October 2009.

We would like to invite anyone who is interested in joining us to do so. We rehearse on Monday nights from 7-9pm, at 728 SW 1st Ave (the Pink Martini HQ). Learning these poems by singing them with other people is a pretty amazing way to lodge them in your consciousness.

Our choir was founded two years ago in service to PICA's TBA Festival, and has since done many public performances, including a setting of Robert Duncan's book, Caesar's Gate. We are inclusive and experimental, and welcome all comers.

Our blog is at www.flashchoir.blogspot.com.

For more information, and/or to get on our mailing list, please contact Sarah Dougher, sarahdougher@gmail.com, or 503-715-6731.

Call for food and cooking related haiku for anthology

Liz Nakazawa, editor of Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon, is seeking haiku related to food and cooking for an anthology.
She’s interested in the traditional 5-7-5 syllable Haiku form. Send submissions to liznakazawa@gmail.com. The deadline to submit is July 30.

Star Trek in the Park

Atomic Arts presents a LIVE free performance of the classic Star Trek episode “Amok Time” at the Woodlawn Park amphitheater. Witness Mr. Spock undergo the bizarre and brutal Vulcan marriage ritual of PON FARR as the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise attempt to save him before it’s too late!!

Portland actors, accompanied by live music and effects, will bring this classic piece of television to life! Spend a day in the park, bring a picnic and BOLDLY GO!!

Dates are July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 5 pm. For more info contact AdamRosko //at// Gmail.com.