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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Call for Poems for performance at Colonnade Gallery, Pasadena, March 2, 2013

Poets on Site next performance will be Saturday evening March 2, 6: 30 PM for the Colonnade Gallery Artists. Artists have sent some of their work. We will perform some poems inspired the art on display this month, there is a monthly theme.
Accompaniment will be by Rick Wilson on Native American and Early American flutes.
Paintings by Red Door poet Robert Stewart (see one attached) as well as couple of my own pieces are included. Please keep checking this site as I will add more as artists send more work. I have also attached one by the gallery owner, Yellowstone Wolf, by Ron Pettie.
This month’s theme is National State and Local Parks, Animals that Inhabit, Trees Streams Lakes and Forests.
more images will be added, here is a start.
Artists – Poets! You can join the Colonnade Gallery and send me art for this album.
The membership fee is small, the hanging fees small, and artists receive 100% of price.
It is a real community of artists, with an artist owner, who loves his work, and asked out poets to write.
Colonnade artists send images as soon as possible so poems can be written!
RSVP poems as soon as possible, and let me know if you can read. Join the gallery and add your own work to this project by sending after you join.
Smiles from Kathabela

Poets Performance for Susan Dobay, Impressions of China Feb 9 Altadena Librarya

Dear Poets on Site, and friends of Poets on Site! This little album gives a
sense of what makes me so happy about Poets on Site! The joy of sharing with
one another, and our dear friend Susan Dobay taking such delight with us, in
our collaborations, the feeling of community, of a shared goal, and we have
this poetic joy together. It makes me so happy that Poets on Site exists, I
love what we do together. Thank you for you clear bright enthusiasm and
poetic work. I love all of you! Here is an album of the performance. Anyone can view it.
Also see the the beautiful blog made by Susan Dobay, in celebration of the afternoon Impressions of China!
(you can still be a part of our anthology see the inspiration link at the end of this email)
Thank you Susan for your amazing inspiration and encouragement, thank you Pauli Dutton for arranging the program at the Altadena Library!
"Impressions of China" honoring Susan Dobay's Art Integration Artworks
Saturday, Feb 9, 2 PM... Altadena Library performance by
Joan E. Stern
Maja Trochimczyk
Taura Scott
Bryan Story
Pauli Dutton
Sharon Hawley
Erika Wilk
Just Kibbe reading Yiwei Huang
Pat Murphy McClelland
Kathabela Wilson
more poems by
Pamela Babusci
Mira Mataric
Alex Nodopaka
Alice Pero
Taoli-Ambika Talwar
James Won
You can still contribute poems to our anthology. Poems should be inspired by a specific image, please mark and send.
https://picasaweb.google.com/102203910302869859227/VISIONSOFCHINASusanDobayImageIntegrationArtwork?authkey=Gv1sRgCKjR3PmVusmXNA
no exact deadline for this yet, but I can estimate one month. I will let you know if we need poems sooner.
Please let me know if you sent a poem and I have missed it. Resend or send new poems to kaw@oldflutes.com