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Ongoing: Jeffrey Ethan Lee is archived in PENNsound (digital poetry archive project at the University of Pennsylvania) in the �Series� section, in the�Poetic Brooklyn� web page, �Jeffrey Ethan Lee Interview� (recorded June 6, 2004�archived Summer 2005): Introduction by Susan Brennan (2:07); Sex Ed Blues (1:44); Discussion (2:29); Peace Valley Elementary School During the Vietnam War (5:44); Discussion 2 (27:02); Invisible Sister (4:51); Discussion 3 (3:56); Iris� Painter Hears the Rain Music Return Off-Broadway (3:52); and Final Discussion (5:28). Full Interview (57:33). http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Poetic-Brooklyn.html
Ongoing: Jeffrey Ethan Lee is archived in the SINGLES section of the PENNSound audio poetry project as Jeff Loo.
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Bio
Note | Unofficial bio note
Jeffrey
Ethan Lee’s 2006 poetry book identity papers was published
by Ghost Road Press. His first full-length poetry book, invisible
sister
was published
by Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry
Chapbook prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), and he created identity
papers, a full-length dramatic poem with music on CD, which was nominated
for a 2002 Grammy. He also published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook
with Ashland Press, 2001), and poems, stories and essays in North
American Review, Many Mountains Moving, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review,
Crazyhorse,
Crosscurrents, Drexel Online Journal, Green Mountain Review, Washington
Square and others. He teaches creative writing at University of Northern
Colorado.
Jeffrey Ethan Lee declined lucrative offers from the C.I.A., the Maf.I.A., and even the Academ.I.A., just so that he could do something more worthy with his life. And being an editor for Many Mountains Moving was the next best thing, or at least the most punishing alternative. After a failed stint as an ad man for Discount Brain Surgeons ("Aneuryisms got ya down? Try the best board-recertified surgeons over the border. Call now and we'll even throw in the LawMart Suture Shooter for those pesky loose suture situations. You'll never be 'unseamly' that way again....), he is currently considering training for a second career as a left-handed bartender, especially if the bar is associated with a university. Therefore, anyone considering opening a university inside of a bar should send an e-mail ASAP. He would even bounce the rowdy drunks from English Departments, that is, for the right pay, and provided that they were not poets and writers but literature professors and other producers of secondary research materials.
Friday May 14th at 6 p.m. on KRFC 88.9 FM in Fort Collins, CO. on the Poetry Show.
Friday May 21st at 7 p.m. at the Asian Arts Initiative
10th Anniversary Show, center city Philadelphia.
1315 Cherry St., 2nd flr East (call 215 557-0455 for details)
Wednesday June 2 at 7 p.m. at Robins Bookstore in center city Philadelphia.
Monday June 7 at 6 p.m. at the Philadelphia City Institute (Philadelphia Free Library on Rittenhouse Square at Locust St. in the meeting room downstairs) in center city Philadelphia with poet David Moolten and novelist Simone Zelitch.
Thursday June 10 at 7:00 p.m. Featured poet—Jeffrey Lee
AN EVENING OF POETRY AT THE HOPKINS HOUSE
All welcome. Open reading to follow.
Hopkins House is the home of the Camden County Cultural & Heritage
Commission and is located off the banks of Cooper River at 250 S. Park
Drive / Haddon Twp., NJ. For more information or directions—contact
Hopkins House 1-856-858-0040
Wed. August 18, 6:30 p.m. Featured poet
at the Many Mountains Moving Salon at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, sponsored by Many Mountains Moving.
October 20, 2004 Wednesday Evening at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center, Columbine B.
Kathryn Winograd, winner of the Colorado Book Award for her poetry book, Air into Breath, reads her poetry. Free. All are welcome!
October 23rd Saturday from 1:00 to 5:30 pm
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
PLACE: New Life Community Church, 630 47th Avenue. COST
IS $30
Sponsored By: THE SECOND SATURDAY WRITERS GROUP
REGISTER BY CONTACTING VIRGINIA SAVAGE AT
970-978-1728 OR at www.creatorsweb.com/writers
Sunday, October 24th at 4:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley hosts:
“The First Casualty of War is the Truth,” Poetry, Music, and entertaining
bits of info.
With UNC Creative Writing Professors Dr. Jeffrey Lee & Dr. Robert
King.
In the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley *** 970 351 6751.
((929 15th St., Greeley, CO. At the corner of 10th Ave. & 15th St.
1block North of Margie’s Java Joint.)
Sunday November 7th at 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving, Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon an exercise in synesthesia and the idea of the artist as a Public Dreamer. See this link, Synesthesia Exercise and a Public Dreamer Variation. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Tuesday November 9th at 7 p.m., Centennial Pens & Publishers presents Lisa Zimmerman reading from *How the Garden Looks from Here* (2004) and speaking on How to Make Friends with Writer’s Block. Reception at 6:30 p.m. at the Fort Collins Visitor’s Center (I-25 and Prospect Interchange). Free and Open to the Public. www.centennialpens.com
Nov. 14th Sunday at 6 p.m. Jeffrey Lee (Poet) on The Poetry Show on KRFC 88.9 Fort Collins.
November 17th Wednesday at 7 p.m. Lisa Zimmerman reads from her new award-winning book at the Sugar Shack, Greeley.
November 21st Sunday at 6 p.m. UNC student poets Jess Walter, Deborah Kido, Gwen Wagner, & Sara Bollman on The Poetry Show on KRFC 88.9 Fort Collins.
The Crucible: the UNC literary/arts magazine is sponsoring another slam on Tuesday night, November 30th in Ross 1010, starting at 7:30 pm. (You can show up as early as 7:00 if you want...)
Sunday December 5th at 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving (420 22nd Street, Boulder, CO), Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon an exercise in synesthesia and the idea of the artist as a Public Dreamer. See this link, Synesthesia Exercise and a Public Dreamer Variation, Part 2. We will also do a freewriting game designed to tap into the spontaneous voice of each writer. Click here for details on the workshop frewriting game. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Jeffrey Ethan Lee reads from his new book from Many Mountains Moving Press, invisible sister. Wed. Dec 8, 7 p.m. The Sugar Shack at 910 9th Ave. , Greeley, CO. (970) 346-0416, www.sugarshack.biz. (This may be the last Greeley reading for a long time. CDs of some of the poems on audio will be free for anyone who buys the book.)
Tuesday Dec. 28, 2004 at 7 p.m. at Robins Bookstore in center city Philadelphia, 108 S. 13th St. (215) 735-9600. Jeffrey Ethan Lee reads from his poetry book invisible sister with Kazim Ali, author of the novel Quinn's Passage, published by BlazeVox Books.
Monday January 10, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Jeffrey Ethan Lee Featured Poet with Tim Hernandez at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in lower downtown Denver. Historic LoDo 303-436-1070. More about the event.
Sunday January 16th at 6 p.m. Jeffrey Ethan Lee and Robert King, UNC faculty poets, and alum Donna Salemink discuss poetry and teaching poetry on The Poetry Show on KRFC 88.9 Fort Collins.
Sunday January 23rd, 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving (420 22nd Street, Boulder, CO), Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon an exercise in synesthesia and the idea of the artist as a Public Dreamer. See this link, Synesthesia Exercise and a Public Dreamer Variation, Part 3. We will also do a freewriting game designed to tap into the spontaneous voice of each writer. Click here for details on the workshop frewriting game. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Sunday, January 30th at 4:00 p.m., 929 15th St., just one block North of campus on 10th Ave. THE FIRST CASUALTYOF WAR IS TRUTH, PART 2:UNQUESTIONED ANSWERS. A POETRY SALON hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley, “The uncommon denomination.” Bring a poem(s) and or other readings to share. Musicians also welcome. FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
Wednesday February 9th at 7 p.m. Fiction Writer, Editor/Publisher Naomi Horii reads her own work in Columbine B in the UC. Horii won a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a Boulder Community Action Program Award for the Arts, and an Anheuser-Busch Artist Award for Fiction. She has published in Delicious Magazine, Rocky Mountain Jiho, etc. She lectures at U C Boulder and has given lectures and presentations at University of Chicago, Harvard University, Southern Indiana University and etc. She has also sponsored several advanced creative writing students from UNC as editorial interns at Many Mountains Moving: a journal of diverse contemporary voices. This event is free and open to all!
Sunday February 20th, 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving (420 22nd Street, Boulder, CO), Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon an exercise in synesthesia and the idea of the artist as a Public Dreamer. See this link, Synesthesia Exercise and a Public Dreamer Variation, Part 4 (last public dreaming workshop in the series!) We will also do a freewriting game designed to tap into the spontaneous voice of each writer. Click here for details on the workshop frewriting game. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Thursday Night at 6 p.m. on February 24th ***Special Guest Poet Veronica Patterson reads from her poetry book, Swan, What Shores? Winner of the Colorado Book Award & the Willa Literary Award. Send e-mail to [email protected] to reserve a spot in the Eng 497 senior seminar & workshop on poetics/poetry. Spaces limited.
UNC
Rosenberry Writers’ Conference at the University
Center, 20th Street and 11th Avenue. (Parking available on site)
All readings are free and open to the public. Receptions/book-signings
to follow. UNC Map online http://www.unco.edu/uncmap/
2005 Schedule of Readings
Barry Lopez Monday, February 28, 7:30 PM UNC Ballrooms
Li-Young Lee Tuesday, March 1, 7:30 PM UNC Ballrooms
Grace Paley Wednesday, March 2, 7:30 PM Panorama Lounge
Gary Soto Thursday, March 3, 7:30 PM Panorama Lounge
March 12 (Saturday), 2005, 4:00 p.m. Jeffrey Ethan Lee is the Featured Poet at the Auraria Campus of CU-Denver in the Tivoli Student Union Building, Room 444, sponsored by the Colorado Center for the Book at http://www.coloradocenterforthebook.org/ and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. To preview the work and hear free audio files, visit the invisible sister web page.
March 17 (Thursday), 2005, 9:30 a.m. in S 2-3, Jeffrey Ethan Lee Featured Poet in the Poets & Writers Series at the Community College of Philadelphia sponsored by the Office of Student Life. Class visits afterward TBA.
Sunday March 20th, 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving (420 22nd Street, Boulder, CO), Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon transformations of the inner voice. We will also do a freewriting game designed to tap into the spontaneous voice of each writer. Click here for details on the workshop freewriting game. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Thursday night, April 7 at 8 p.m. at the Loveland Museum—Jeffrey Ethan Lee (poet) will be the featured reader presenting some humorous and some serious, dramatic poems. Open readings before and after. Details & directions forthcoming.
Sunday April 17th, 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving (420 22nd Street, Boulder, CO), Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon transformations of the inner voice. We will also do a freewriting game designed to tap into the spontaneous voice of each writer. Click here for details on the workshop freewriting game. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Saturday April 23rd all day at CU Boulder the Small Press Festival: panels, readings, and broadsides, chapbooks, magazines & books, books, books!
Schedule:
10:00-11:00 Student Reading (and broadside/chapbook display):
Anne Heide, Rya Pagliughi, Kristi Jipson, Jeff Anderson
11:15-12:15 Panel
Eric Lorberer of Rain Taxi, Andrew Wille of Boulder, Ted Pelton of Starcherone
Press, Laura Wright of Potato Clock
12:30-1:30 Publishers Reading from their own Creative
Work
Maureen Owen of Telephone Books, Eric Lorberer of Rain Taxi, Lee Ballantine
of Ur Vox and Ocean View Books, Daron Mueller of Left Hand Books
1:40-3:00 Lunch Break
3:00 -4:00 Conversation on Small Press Publishing
Lee Ballantine, Daron Mueller, Maureen Owen, Jaime Robles
4:30 Magazine Reading
Divide, Square One, 26, Five Fingers Review, Ur Vox and Many Mountains
Moving, represented by Jeffrey Ethan Lee
5:45-7:30 Dinner Break
7:30 Grand Finale Reading!
Kelly Everding, Ted Pelton, Jaime Robles
All events are held in Hale 270 on the University of Colorado (Boulder) Campus and are free and open to the public.
Sunday May 15th, 2-4 p.m. at Many Mountains Moving (420 22nd Street, Boulder, CO), Jeffrey Ethan Lee leads a workshop on writings based upon transformations of the inner voice. We will also do a freewriting game designed to tap into the spontaneous voice of each writer. Click here for details on the workshop freewriting game. Still have questions? Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited! New poetry book invisible sister available at the workshop.
Tuesday May 17th at 7 p.m. at Moxie Java, Featured
poet—Jeffrey Lee
2815 E Harmony Rd, Fort Collins, CO.
Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Billy Collins, 2001-2003 U.S. Poet Laureate visits Northern Colorado. Collins will present a reading of his work at the Rialto Theater, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland. Admission is $14 for adults; $7, students.
LOVELAND, COLO.—Take the passionate following of a rock star, throw in America’s highest literary accolade, top it off with a storyteller’s grace and charm and you’ve concocted Billy Collins, 2001-2003 U.S. Poet Laureate and ongoing American phenomenon. Sponsored by the City of Loveland Cultural Services Department. For more information, contact Tom Katsimpalis, 970-962-2412. Advance tickets, call, 970-962-2420.
2005 Fall Radio Poetique, hosted by Susan Brennan
A new season rolls around and finds more Radio Poetique treats on PennSound
and Poetic Brooklyn back on the web-air waves with Brooklyn Heights Radio!Check out the amazing audio treasure on PennSound —
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Poetic-Brooklyn.htmland
Tune into www.brooklynheightsradio.com for Poetic Brooklyn
Sunday nights at 6pm, Wednesdays at 12noonSunday, Oct. 9 & Wednesday, Oct. 12:
poet Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Anthonia Kalu, Writer and Professor of Black Studies at UNC, reads from her fiction collection Broken Lives and Other Stories (Ohio University Press, 2003) with Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Poet and Assistant Professor of English at UNC, who will be reading some comic, dramatic and lyric poems from invisible sister and The Sylf.
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