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4 days of poetry
02/15/2008 08:01 p.m.
Here is the schedule for our next four
days of poetry events:

1. Thursday Feb 14 Thursday Poets Salon
at our home 6-9 p.m.
dinner, workshop, and entertainment
session this week:
Milford Zornes is the focus

2. Friday, Feb 15 Caltech Poetry Club
4:15-5:15 at the Red Door Cafe
Caltech Campus

Directions and info
about the Red Door:
http://dining.caltech.edu/reddoor.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g32859-d510172-Reviews-Red_Door_Cafe-Pasadena_California.html

map of campus:
http://www.caltech.edu/map/Caltech-map-2006-02-10BW.pdf

3. Saturday, Feb 16 Southern CA Haiku Study Workshop
2 p.m. -4 p.m.
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena California 91101
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/socalhaiku/
(Debbie Kolodji, moderator)

4:15 - 5 p.m.
Pasadena Museum of California Art
writing and viewing Milford Zornes Paintings
(around the corner from the Pacific Asia Museum)
490 East Union Street
at Oakland Ave. Pasadena, CA 91101

5:15-6:15
writing and viewing at the San Marino Gallery
70 N Raymond, Pasadena 91103

afterwards come have leftovers
from Thursday
Poets Salon--or if it's all gone..
meet for inexpensive dinner?


4. Sunday, Feb 17 Sharon Hawley Celebrated Poets Tea
4:30 -6 p.m. (presentation starts at 5)
Encore Presentation at our home (see Thursday above)
Poetry and slide show from her 120 day solo cross country bike
journey (see her recently updated website about the trip)
http://sharon159.home.att.net/




I am currently Festive

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Eaton Canyon (photos from the poem day)
02/13/2008 08:04 a.m.


I crossed the stream

sure zig-zag steps on wet gray stones
and in the rush and sigh
saw yesterday go by



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Celebrated Poets Website
01/22/2008 05:27 a.m.


See my recent work on this special site "Celebrated Poets". I so far have celebrated Pathetic Poets: Pagannini Jones, Rusty Arquette, Jim Benz, and James Zealy. And Most recently updated with Sharon's feature in tandem with her Celebrated Poet's Tea.(see my previous entry) see
Celebrated Poets
Each feature has a work of mine, in collaboration or tribute to the poet. I am hoping to continue this, gradually featuring many Pathetic friends and and local poets. I am hoping to invite some of you far a way poets to visit Pasadena, be celebrated, and stay for a few days in our home..?

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First Celebrated Poet's Tea (last night)
01/22/2008 01:21 a.m.

I've been busy with some wonderful poetic special events at our home! This was last night:
Celebrating the poetry and adventures of poet SHARON HAWLEY
Sunday, January 20 4:30 to 6 PM

This is the first in a series of Poetry Teas celebrating poets and their accomplishments. At our home in Pasadena, Sharon did a lecture-powerpoint presentation and of her 120 day solo cross-country bike trip, last summer, read some poetry written during her journey, and signed her chapbook "Pedaling West".
I've added Sharon to my website, Celebrated Poets as the currently featured author. Other poets on this site are featured, along with their poetry, Jim Benz, James Zealy. I plan to continue the series of features, and hope to invite some of you to read at our home and to be featured on this site.

See more about the event and links to more about Sharon's trip at
The First Celebrated Poet's Tea

See Kath, center, with other poets.


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Tonight's Thursday Poetry Salon at our home
01/18/2008 01:49 a.m.
I need to read your poems!!! I am distracted with this though--and I will post photos tomorrow! --An elegant and special entertainment is
planned for this Thursday, Jan. 17.
Many of you especially
appreciate hearing our harpsichord.
Don Simons, our friend harpsichordist
from Redondo Beach will join
Rick and Harry to play
Suite in G minor by Marin Marais 1692,
a pure French Baroque style.
They will also play an Italianate early-classical
romp, the Trio in G major by J.C. Bach,
circa 1770, Bach's 11th and youngest son,
all on historic instruments.

Our poetry workshop will be as usual from
6:30 to 8:30 Come early if possible so we
can start promptly. Dinner will be served throughout
as usual. Entertainment to follow 8:30 to 9 PM.

Our format will be the same,
allowing for question and answer and
discussion with the poet.
Please do everything possible to
make this cooperatively a success,
being brief and careful that
everyone can read and speak
within the time limit. At 6 minutes each,
we should all be able to read
and have feedback within the 2 hours easily.
Such a delight, our animated and
friendly conversations.

You have received another invitation this
week, to the first in our series of "Poetry
Teas" Sunday, Jan. 20 4:30 PM
this one celebrating Sharon Hawley and
her wonderful solo cross country biking adventure.
She will read, present her slide show,
and sign her chapbook from the trip.
If possible, let me know if you know you
are planning to come to the (high) Tea
(that means nice light supper
snacks and desserts). But you are also welcome
to be spontaneous and bring friends.

http://www.oldflutes.com/Kathy&Rick/directions

Kath and Rick Wilson
439 S. Catalina Ave #306
Pasadena, Ca 91106
cell phone 805 886-9384

See below two photos from last weeks workshop.
You can see Rick and Harry in their duo flute performance
and also the workshop in action.

Look forward to another wonderful evening together.
I love these poets (Kath)



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Wild Lupines become Her
01/12/2008 02:54 a.m.
Last Sunday we went to an end of the year party at a friend poet's home in Long Beach. There we met Naia for the first time, a wonderful poet. I had seen her beautiful poetry website, and loved that and she felt like she knew me from stories about our poets' nights from a mutual friend poet. But this was our first real meeting. We became instantaneous friends, and she set me this photo she took of me and my husband, accompanied by a cinquain she wrote. I played wood blocks during Rick's Klezmer music performance on his 1842 Viennese flute from our collection, you can see in the picture.


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Thursday Poetry Salon at our Home
01/09/2008 08:16 p.m.




Here's news about tomorrow, with photos above from last's weeks gathering!
In the group photo see two Pathetic members, wonderful poets Justin Kibbe front left, and Pauli Dutton, front right!


local poets and friends,

We look forward to seeing you this week
at our Thursday evening gathering.
Poetry Workshop 6:30 to 8:30
(dinner served throughout)
followed by 8:30 to 9 P.M.
entertainment.

Musical entertainment will be a continuation
of the historical flute demonstration Rick gave, this time
featuring duets on copies and
original flutes from renaissance to 19th century.
Our friend Harry Bower from San Francisco
and Rick Wilson will perform. A special treat will be
duets on two renaissance bass flutes (you have not seen
that flute yet). Few makers have constructed
copies of the bass renaissance flute, so the fact
that both Rick and Harry own one,
made by a friend in Paris-- putting two in the same room...
gives us quite a rare experience. You will love the
haunting sound of these elusive instruments.

Bring 15 copies of your poem (if you need copies,
we have a copier here, try to do this as soon as you arrive.)

We have copies of Justin's great magazine
"Behold the Pirate Pig" available
for $10. (Several of our members are
included) Also a poem by Pauli Dutton was
recently published in the delightful
Shakespeare's Monkey Revue, issue #2.
We have one copy here for display, and I have
ordered more --they will be $5 each.

See above two photos from last week. In the first you can see our much
appreciated friend Harry singing "Some Old Songs" with his ukulele.
His Indonesian inspired tempeh curry and salad, followed by black rice
pudding were loved by everyone. The second shows some of our
poets during the workshop.

Our new ideas for commentary have been wonderful, and as long as we
all cooperate by being brief and aware of time, we see them demonstrated
as adding a rich level of interaction to the workshop.

Hope to see you all soon. Thank you for your happy participation
and wonderful poetry.

I love these poets (Kath)



I am currently Creative
I am listening to gerswin piano rolls

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tonight's special Poets' Night
01/03/2008 10:05 p.m.
Sweet friends here, I am preoccupied with getting ready for another Poets' Night tonight see below--wish you could ALL come!




This Thursday, January 3, we are looking forward to seeing you
for our first workshop of the new year. Poetry workshop
6:30 to 8:30, dinner served throughout,
followed by 1/2 hour entertainment.

Our dear friend Harry Bower from San Francisco will be
here welcoming you with "Some Old Songs" and "Some New Food".
(Entertainment and a meal he's planning especially for poets.)
Many of you will remember his wonderful ukulele playing from
a previous poet's night as well as his fantastic and inspiring cooking.

Bring 15 copies of your poem for reading
and discussion. We do have a copier here,
so if you need copies, have us make them as soon as you arrive.

We will have copies of Justin Kibbe's great journal "Behold the Pirate
Pig" here for $10 each.

Kathy and Rick Wilson
439 S. Catalina Ave #306
Pasadena, Ca 91106

cell phone 805 886-9384
http://www.oldflutes.com/Kathy&Rick/directions

Above and below, glimpses of last week's workshop including Rick's
fascinating flute presentation. Last photo is Kath with our friend Harry, from San Francisico, who will cook and lay misic tonight. We have some illustrated booklets he made
for poets outlining the history
of the flute as he described it, so be sure
to get one if you were not here. Wishing you
a beautiful year of poetry together!

I love these poets (Kath)






I am currently Happy
I am listening to Harry cooking Indonesian food!

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traveling today
12/30/2007 06:14 p.m.
We'll be driving today, back home, 7 hours (plus) from San Francisco to Pasadena. I miss reading and commenting on your poems! But when I get home... I look forward to doing that again! Thank you for "Winter Walk" as potd as we travel! My husband Rick and I read that poem aloud together (as a round) at our Poets' Night on Thursday!
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I am listening to directions

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on our way
12/28/2007 04:17 p.m.
Last night's workshop was wonderful, 16 poets in the house... and this morning in an hour we will leave to drive to San Francisco--an 8 hour drive and come back the day after tomorrow. We'll see the Joseph Cornell exhibit --the firest ever retrospective of his work- at SFMOMA - 250 pieces, box sculptures and collage! And bring our friend Harry back.. great musician and gourmet cook to feed and entertain poets for a couple of weeks. I won't be online much for the next three days... so hugs to you all, my wonderful poet friends!--Kath
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I am listening to poems in my head

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