PRINTED MATTER VANCOUVER

Are you looking for inspiration? Would you like to write new poetry in a safe, supportive environment while also making connections with others in the local literary community? Then please consider registering for one of Clark County Poet Laureate  and Printed Matter Vancouver co-founder Christopher Luna’s upcoming creative writing classes:

Clark College

Poetry Matters: Writing Poetry
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Beginners and experienced writers alike will generate new works and discuss the poet’s role in the community. Read, listen to, and write poetry together in a supportive class focused on providing gentle, constructive feedback. Discuss how to construct a manuscript and ready it for publication. Writers of all experience levels are welcome. Bring paper & pen or laptop. Age 16+.

Class Information
Item Number: G028
Date: 01/04 – 02/29 M
Location: CCE 217
Time: 06:00pm – 08:30pm
Fee: $139.00
Instructor: Christopher Luna

No class on 1/18/2016

Multnomah Arts Center

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/60624

Register for many activities at http://www.PortlandParks.org
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Literary Arts Workshops for Adults & teens

Poetry Writing
Poetry as a means of expression, exploration, and experience is available to everyone. Write poetry in response to prompts and read a variety of published poems that you can use as inspiration. Read and respond to one another’s work in this supportive setting, paying close attention to revision.

Jan 11, 2016 to Mar 14, 2016
Each Monday 10am to 12:30pm

MAC Room 8

$193

Except:
Monday, Jan 18, 2016
Monday, Feb 15, 2016

Poetry Collage Workshop (1044221)
Poets and artists have always used allusion and reference to create something new. Explore strategies for assembling borrowed words and images into art and poetry. Create visual collages that incorporate text, or poems that include visual aids. Bring in art material and/or text that you would like to use and lunch. Scissors, glue, and paper to collage on will be provided.

Ages 18 & up
Feb 20, 2016
Saturday 10am to 4pm
MAC Room 7
$62

Printed Matter Vancouver Publishers Christopher Luna and Toni Partington are proud to announce the winners of the Poetry Moves Contest, sponsored by Printed Matter Vancouver, C-Tran, and Arts of Clark County:

Neil Aitken

Tiffany Burba-Schramm

Diane Cammer

Sherri H. Hoffman

Erin Iwata

Tim Klein

Jennifer Pratt-Walter

Karen Read

Below are the winning poems, which will appear on C-Tran buses beginning in January. Partington and Luna will also have one poem each on the buses. We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the contest. We are also very grateful to Karen Madsen of  Arts of Clark County, Graphic Designer Cameron Suttles, and Melissa York and Ronda Peck of C-Tran for their hard work and support.

There will be a reading at the Food Court at the Westfield Shopping Mall in Vancouver, WA at 1pm on Sunday, December 13 to celebrate the winners.

We could not be more proud of our fellow poets. We can’t wait to see these poems on the buses.

Excerpt from “Extern”
By Neil Aitken, Vancouver, WA

Sometimes I dream of the ghost of a bird
its eyes dark like mine
asleep in the fold of a tree
its shadow the shape of a harp.

Everything Settles
By Tiffany Burba-Schramm, Vancouver, WA

The frost settles upon the ground.
Snow settles upon the limbs of trees.
The ceiling in my house settles; creates small cracks.
The floor creaks and settles the weight of dogs approaching.
We settle, let the weight of the world crack our ambitions.
We let others’ harsh words and criticisms drape us
like settled winter fog.

We could fly
By Diane M. Cammer, Vancouver, WA

yet we stand, feet bound to ground
arms spread wide, wings in
another world, another time
waiting for wind, an updraft
when all that’s required
is a single bold step into the unknown.

Pilgrimage, 1988
By Sherri H. Hoffman, Vancouver, WA

Start at Dodger Stadium, Chavez Ravine, most perfect field. Onward to Candlestick, Wrigley, Three Rivers, Shea. Until Cooperstown, Holiest of Holies. Blessed with field grit rubbed into our salted skins, we’d say the sacred names. Koufax. Drysdale. Marichal. Campanella from the Brooklyn years. Jackie Robinson, born the same day as our Grandma Wildish. And Pee Wee Reese, who kept the faith, refusing to sign the petition to ban Robinson for being black. The game transcendent.

Excerpt from “Ours”
By Erin Iwata, Ridgefield, WA

I have to believe that something of seventeen still lingers
though she pains me with her adolescent optimism
I return, hoping she wasn’t wrong
that there is beauty in the stacked stones along the path
that there is a path indeed
mountains to be scaled and conquered
that the world is still ours

Counterpart
By Tim Klein, Vancouver, WA

At this very moment
someone
somewhere
is doing
the very same thing you are doing
for the very same reason.

From GHOST TOWN, USA
By Clark County Poet Laureate Christopher Luna

the dirt beneath
Bonita’s fingernails
did not discourage him
she was reading a bilingual edition
of Dante’s Inferno
on the 37
and that was more than enough

HONEYCOMB PROPHECY
By Toni Partington, Vancouver, WA

In the residence of your heart
I wish to be a cubicle made of beeswax
translucent, unfiltered, bright with buzz.

Together we will construct a confluence
of resin and lace; a suspension bridge
across hedge thorns and conflict.

Journey
By Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Vancouver, WA

We are the tide’s twin, swimming
with the faithful senses of salmon—
we smell fresh river
from out of the salt, we are
drawn home under moon-watch
for as long as the journey takes.

Fourth Plain Boulevard
By Karen Read, Vancouver, WA

A home for hundreds walking — yet to name
the dreams that rise before they dare to speak.

Colorful signs that fly above — untamed
wave low and high, press forward, reach, and peak.

So often you find only what you seek.

Your power lines of old are not here sown.
They surge beneath this skin of place unknown.

Please join me this Fall for one of my creative writing classes at Clark College or Multnomah Arts Center.

Christopher Luna’s Creative Writing Classes Fall 2015

Clark College
http://ecd.clark.edu/course/index.php

Community Education Classes

Poetry Matters: Writing Poetry
http://ecd.clark.edu/course/class.php?ClassID=15191&CategoryID=24

Beginners and experienced writers alike will generate new works and discuss the poet’s role in the community. Read, listen to, and write poetry together in a supportive class focused on providing gentle, constructive feedback. Discuss how to construct a manuscript and ready it for publication. Writers of all experience levels are welcome. Bring paper & pen or laptop. Age 16+.

Class Information
Item Number: F113
Date: 09/21 – 11/09 M
Location: CCE 208
Time: 06:00pm – 08:30pm
Fee: $139.00

Mature Learning Classes

Memoir Writing
http://ecd.clark.edu/course/class.php?ClassID=15158&CategoryID=122

Everyone has a story to tell. Each person’s life is filled with adventure, mystery, trouble, and triumph. Memoir is a powerful way to demonstrate the interconnectedness of all human beings. This course, facilitated by the Poet Laureate of Clark County, will encourage you to begin to see yourself as a part of history. There is a value to documenting the story of your life.

Class Information
Item Number: 9508
Date: 09/24 – 12/03 Th
Location: CCE 208
Time: 01:00pm – 02:30pm
Fee: $98.00

No class 11/26

Classroom Location

Clark Corporate Education- CCE

Located in downtown Vancouver with easy access from I-5 and SR-14, Clark Corporate Education is on the second floor of the Columbia Bank Building.

Clark Corporate Education (CCE)
500 Broadway Street, Ste 200
Vancouver, WA 98660

Multnomah Arts Center
http://www.multnomahartscenter.org/

Fall Catalog, page 22
http://www.multnomahartscenter.org/classes/fall2015/macFall15_colorWeb.pdf

Literary Arts Classes for Adults & Teens

Poetry Writing
Poetry as a means of expression, exploration, and experience is available to everyone. Write poetry in response to prompts and read a variety of published poems that you can use as inspiration. Read and respond to one another’s work in this supportive setting, paying close attention to revision.

All levels. Ages 16 & up
1035801 Mon. 10 am – 12 pm Oct. 5 – Nov. 23 $152 [8 classes]

GHOST TOWN POETRY OPEN MIC
Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington

7pm
Thursday, August 13
Angst Gallery
1015 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98660

Food and libation provided by Niche Wine and Art Bar, 1013 Main Street

LGBTQ-FRIENDLY, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004
angstgallery.com

With our featured reader, Peggy Barnett

Peggy Barnett was born in 1945 and grew up in Queens, New York in the 1950’s. She graduated from The Cooper Union with a degree in Fine Art. She opened a studio in NYC in 1968 and was a photographer for 45 years. In 2006 she moved to Woodinville, WA. Peggy knows that the Northwest is beautiful, but memories of the past haunt her: the Holocaust, growing up Jewish in an Italian and Irish neighborhood, the atomic bomb, junior high school, and childhood’s distant happenings arise in her poetry as if in a dream. Her mind flits back and forth between the present and the past. The present on the West Coast is always interrupted by the past of the East Coast. Her poetic memoir On Your Left! dwells on the specifics of unending change.

PRINTED MATTER VANCOUVER
Toni Partington & Christopher Luna, Editors

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO RESIDENTS OF CLARK COUNTY, WA

Printed Matter Vancouver is proud to announce the submission period for POETRY MOVES, poetry by Clark County Residents to be showcased on C-Tran Buses beginning January 2016.

Submission Guidelines:

What You Need To Know:
• Poems will be accepted until September 1, 2015 at 11:59pm, Pacific Standard Time.
• Submissions will be accepted via email only.
• Submit a maximum of two (2) poems. Poems can be no longer than seven (7) lines. The poem can be a complete poem or an excerpt from a longer poem. If the poem is an excerpt, please indicate this and give the poem title. Previously published poems may be accepted subject to the discretion of the editors. Indicate the publication name, date, poem title, and publication rights in the body of the submission email. Only one poem per poet will be selected and a total of ten poems will be chosen for this phase of the project.
• If your poem is accepted for use in this project, the editors may have suggestions for edits or format changes to prepare the work for display. Whenever possible the editors will work with the author to review suggested changes. Authors will have the final decision on the edits. The editors are unable to guarantee publication of your work if they feel the edits are necessary and the author disapproves of the changes.
• All authors must sign a release provided by C-Tran and agree to photo publicity. C-Tran retains first rights to use and display the poems. From there, rights revert back to the author.
• Authors agree to have their work appear online or in other publicity/promotions by C-Tran, Arts of Clark County, and Printed Matter Vancouver.

Poem Format:

• Poem(s) must be in Times New Roman, 12-point font with one-inch margins.
• Include your name, address, phone, and email at the top left of each page.
• Include the poem’s title one line above the body of the poem, in bold font.
• Poems should be single-spaced with one space between stanzas.
• Poems should not exceed seven (7) lines on 1 page and be your original work.
• Seven (7) lines may be excerpted from a longer poem if indicated as such.
• Poems should be saved as a separate document in Microsoft Word with the extension: your last name+poem title. Example: Luna+Sunset Dream

What To Email:

• Type “C-Tran Submission” in the subject line of the Email.
• Include in the body of the Email:
  The title(s) of your poem(s).
  Contact information: name, address, email, and phone (home and cell).
• For previously published poems, indicate the publication name, date, poem title, and whether you own the publication rights.
• Include each poem(s) as a separate attachment.
• Include all attachments in one email.

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 AT 11:59PM, PST TO: printedmattervancouver@gmail.com

Sponsored by C-Tran, Arts of Clark County, and Printed Matter Vancouver