Poets' Night tonight (invitation)
12/27/2007 06:51 p.m.
Dear local poets, and faraway poets and friends,

Tonight's entertainment will be a special year's end
"Flute's-Eye View of History from the Renaissance to
Modern Times" by Rick Wilson.
This will be a description and
demonstration in a historical sequence with musical examples
played on flutes from our collection.
It is a miniature version
of the kind of presentation Rick
gives when invited to universities and
conferences on historical instruments.
He's made you each a small booklet
outlining and illustrating the presentation.
Everyone is welcome!

At our home tonight:
Poetry Workshop 6:30 to 8:30 PM
and entertainment 8:30 to 9 PM
Dinner served throughout as usual.

On Friday Rick and I will drive to San Francisco
to see the first retrospective of the work
of

Joseph Cornell

an artist we greatly admire,
creator of box sculptures and collage.
(The exhibit ends January 6)
And we will pick up Harry Bower, good friend,
wonderful cook and musician on flutes and ukes.
He will visit for a couple of weeks and is planning some
lovely meals and entertainment.
We'll send more details about that
later!

Please call or write if you have questions.
Any thoughts about considered changes of
schedule or the evening's format-- please send in emails.

We look forward to wonderful poetry
music tonight and through the new year!

I love these poets (Kath)

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photos from Emily D's Tea
12/10/2007 12:46 a.m.
The Emily Dickenson Tea, Pasadena CA, December 8, 2007 The Invitation: Please come to our home for another celebration of the Holiday Season on Saturday, Dec 8, at 3:30 pm for our traditional Emily Dickinson Tea, and bring a poem to share: it can be Emily Dickinson or it can be another poet's. I have a new poet I want to introduce you too. Tim and I are looking forward to seeing you again! I live at 1141 S. Oakland Ave. Pasadena, 91106, and our phone number is 626 796-2883. Feel free to bring a dish or not, as inspiration takes you!

Kath at the tea, showing the (resident bird her poetry journal)

Each of us read a poem of Emily's and/or our own.

Cheri, center, hosted, made and poured the tea!

The bird drank from my cup

and thought it was funny

Center is Pauli Dutton and on right Justin Kibbe, both members of pathetic.org.

On right is Sharmagne Leland st. John, also a member of pathetic.org.

At left with Cheri is local poet Mary Torregosa, visitor to the Caltech Poetry Club, and Don Campbell's Thursday Night poetry workshops at Kath's, published in many issues of the San Gabriel Poetry Quarterly and more

Local poet Mira Mitaric, just back from her homeland, Serbia, host of many poetry gatherings in Pasadena, visitor to the Caltech Poetry Club, and our Thursday night gatherings

Local poet Theresa Antonia, also hosts poetry readings in the area, back from a poetic tour of Japan.

The ever present bird...

I am currently Poetic
I am listening to bird

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Emily D's tea in Pasadena
12/08/2007 08:26 p.m.
here's one inspiring event today... I wrote two poem this morning inspired by her ... and I plan on bringing the old book of Great Poems of the English language... my dad read to me from that before i could read... it is interesting to see which poems were chosen to be included in such an antholgy! (I want to read her poem... "Choice"...) and maybe my two little dream poems if there is time.

Dear Friends,

And please come to our home for another celebration of the Holiday Season on Saturday, Dec 8, at 3:30 pm for our traditional Emily Dickinson Tea, and bring a poem to share: it can be Emily Dickinson or it can be another poet's. I have a new poet I want to introduce you too. Tim and I are looking forward to seeing you again! Feel free to bring a dish or not, as inspiration takes you!


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singing in Concert today: Caltech Glee Club
12/08/2007 06:26 p.m.
I've been distracted with learning
the music and words, baking cookies for the singers green room,
and today I hope to go to an Emily D. tea!
Hope some of you will come
to this concert if you live nearby!

(yesterday and) tonight: Saturday
December 8 at 8 p.m.
we'll be performing in the Caltech Glee Club concert.
in Dabney Lounge on the Caltech campus.
Free admission.

Noele Norris and I (both from the Caltech Poetry Club)
and friend of poets (Thursday Night workshop visitor) Jian Yuan Thum
will all be singing in the alto sections.

The music is exceptional, and even though it's a "holiday"
concert there is nothing ordinary about it. The music is challenging
and wonderfully chosen. Included are
many "Carols and Lullabies" by Conrad Susa,
accompanied by guitar, marimba and harp,
and sung in several dialects of Spanish.
Another wonder is a beautiful "Magnificat" by Niccola Porpora,
(1686-1767) accompanied by a small organ.

It will be a wonderful concert, hope
you will come! Here's more info:
campus map
http://www.caltech.edu/map/
a bit more on the event:
http://events.caltech.edu/events/event-4723.html


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poetry-dinner-art at our house tonight
12/06/2007 10:57 p.m.
This is the notice I sent our local poets. We do this every Thursday night. So I am logged onto Pathetic on and off today--but really cooking...and getting ready for this! Any of you are invited any Thursday night! Write me here, or call my cell phone 805-886-9384. Here's this week's program (tonight!)and a preview of next week!

We will begin our usual workshop
this Thursday, December 6. at 6:30 PM
with dinner and your poems, 15 copies is a good
guess, but we do have a copier here. Let's start
on time, as last week. It worked so well. I will have
dinner ready and warm for you.

At 8:30, our special entertainment will be a presentation by
"Brave Doe" (Susan Campbell)
of her whose beautiful rock sculptures.
Rick will accompany her (at her
suggestion) on a Native American
flute from his collection. Susan, who is our own Don Campbell's
sister, came to our workshop 3 weeks ago, and showed me her work.
You will see her creations have a stunning connection with my own
seaside constructions "natural readymades" that we have
pictured on our walls. Sharon's work is handbuilt from her
collected findings of stone and other natural materials.
She has done large works, and paintings also, but will
focus on the small sculptures this week. She shown her art in the
galleries including the Southwest Museum,
(a special presentation for teachers
concerning Native American Art)
Bruggermyre Library in Monterey Park, and Eyebrows
Internet Cafe. We have added two
of her pieces to our art collection already.

Last week's workshop was wonderful, and we were so pleased
that seven us were able to join Debbie afterwards
at her reading in Glendale!

Please also save Thursday Dec. 13 for our workshop! We have
a special early string instrument ensemble planning to perform for us.
Our friend Phil Schlosberg, who attended one
of our gatherings and showed up one of these early instruments
and gave a short solo presentation on one Thursday, has arranged
this and will perform with them.
A "Gamba" consort (instruments similar the later violin and cello)
has distinctive 16th to mid 18th century tone and feeling.
I will send more details about that next week.

I love these poets (Kath)abela


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Music and Poetry Performance in Pasadena
11/13/2007 11:02 p.m.


Hear and see a reading and performance
on two frame drums by Don Campbell and myself at Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena. Performance of my poem "Extended Technique".
I am currently Playful
I am listening to the sound of our frame drums

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Jawlensky Variations Chapbook
11/02/2007 05:36 p.m.


~~~

The first of hopefully many chapbooks in my "kaw collection"
is available now.
I started on Don Campbell's birthday,
with our "Jawlensky Variations" as a tribute to him,
his encouragement and inspiration.

See the
Brag Board post
for details on how to order.

~~~

I am currently Happy
I am listening to Sound Chaser

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Don's Workshop for Teenagers report
10/22/2007 02:12 p.m.


See us in action at Don's Workshop at Lumina Academy in Pasadena

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Caltech Poetry Club first meeting
10/21/2007 05:12 p.m.
some of you have asked me to share our poetry workshop adventures in Pasadena here--so...here goes:



see the first meeting

more to come!


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feeding giraffes with my hat
09/18/2007 09:40 p.m.


feeding giraffes with my hat


Since so many friends love this photo I am putting it here. My husband Rick took this photo at the Santa Barbara Zoo, next door to our condo there. The hat is one of two made by a good friend years ago, and I have altered and preserved them, because I love them so much, trimming and lining the brim, rearranging the flowers. The shawl was a gift from my friend Lynn, my percussion teacher, from one of her trips, it has tiny fish with sparkly eyes, which you cannot see in the picture. The photo was not altered, the giraffes were in the background. I have long hair, really, you'll see that in other photos. It was just in braids, hiding under my hat.

I changed my library photo. I will probably change my profile picture every week or so, just for fun, so I hope some friends will enjoy that too. Thanks to everyone who loved this picture.

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