Introduction > Readings & Release Parties
Schedule
Wednesday, October 24th from 7 to 10 p.m.
Seattle's Ballard Neighborhood
Sunset Hill Community Center
3003 NW 66th Street
- Release party for KotaPress Poetry Anthology Volume 2
- Featuring John Fox, author of Poetic Medicine; Dr. Elizabeth Gray, producer of Conversing With Mystery; and the winners from the Anthology Contest for Volume 2 including Judith L. Wyatt, Barney F. McClelland, Janet Mae Best, Janet I. Buck, Malama MacNeil, Rebecca Ingalls, Victory Lee Schouten, Tom Flynn, Cassidy Rowe . Local authors will read excerpts of winning works if long distance authors can't attend.
- Open mic spots are available to anyone who is previously published by KotaPress.
- Suggested donation at the door is $4/person with a portion of the proceeds going toward the Mrs. Duck Project providing free grief support books to families around the world who are enduring the death of a baby.
Past Parties and Readings
Note: Because none of us stood on the stage under the lights during the Spring 2001 Reading, the photos for this reading didn't turn out. Sorry. And next time I'll be clear about getting people on stage.
KotaPress Welcomes You To Our Spring Reading 2001!
Celebrating the release of KotaPress Poetry Anthology, Volume 1, Number
2, resulting from the KotaPress Anthology Contest.
This is the time of Beltaine, May Day, L'ei Day, Mother's Day, and Father's Day. While these can all be joyous celebrations, we would like to acknowledge how difficult holidays can be-- especially the Hallmark manufactured ones.
At the foot of the stage we offer an ofrenda (altar) to celebrate the joy and sorrow of these seasons. With this, we honor the memory of Dakota Jones, namesake of KotaPress, who died at birth and all our loved ones who have left too soon. We invite you to participate in this celebration by viewing the ofrenda, adding to it, holding the memory of your loved ones in heart and mind tonight as we celebrate with Poetry and Music. Welcome.
The Line-up
- Hawk on guitar
- Charles Fishman
- Dana Gerringer reading Allegra Wong
- Tim Hulley reading Kevin Simmonds
- Kara Jones reading Ruth Daigon
- Hawk Jones reading Joseph Lisowski
- Mark Allen
- Leslie Traylor
- Carrington MacDuffie
- Janet Best
- Tom Flynn
- Leslie McConnell
- Closing: Thanks (and we will pick winning tickets for the door prizes)
Friday,
October 20, 2000
Release Party for Anthology Vol 1, No 1
This night we celebrated the release of the first ever KotaPress Poetry Anthology, Volume 1, Number 1, result of the first KotaPress Anthology Contest.
This was the line-up for the evening:
Opening - Ofrenda with music from Hawk
Featured readers - Nancy Talley, Carla Griswold, Heidi Sauer
Journal readers - Meko and Mark Allen
Featured readers - Marika Thompson, Dana Gerringer, Tim Hulley
Journal reader - Janet Best, Elizabeth Gray reading for winner Sandra
Bailey
Closing - Thanks and Kara with Pocket Full Of Poetry.
We also celebrated the seasonal holidays of Halloween, Hallomas, Samhain, All Soul's Day, and Day of the Dead that night. Down in front of the stage we built an ofrenda for the celebration. This tradition comes from the Mexican culture where Dias De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is celebrated all during the month of October with the building of ofrenda tables in people's homes. (See www.azcentral.com/rep/dead/ for more information.)
October is also Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, so we, in particular, celebrated Day of the Dead for all the angelitos (little angels) who have passed on ahead of us. That night we honored the memory of Dakota Jones, namesake of KotaPress, who died at birth and all our loved ones who have left too soon. We invited audience members and readers alike to participate in this celebration by viewing the ofrenda, adding to it, holding the memory of their loved ones in heart and mind as we celebrated with Poetry and Music.
