Kirkland Park Place Books Holiday gathering and book signing

Friday Night Holiday Party

December 7th

7-9 pm 

Kirkland Park Place Books 

Bring friends,

 share holiday cheer

& find signed copies

of books by local writers

Rustling Wrens

available  

for more information:
http://parkplacebookskirkland.com/

saturday, november 17, poetry at T'Latte

 

Reminder:  poetry book launch 

Saturday, November 17th, 330-530, 

at T'latte Cafe in Bellevue, 

37 103rd avenue ne

poets include: Esther Altshul Helfgott, Katy E. Ellis, Ann Hursey, Ann Teplick, Linda Thompson, Denise Calvetti Michaels and more

 

 

 

Poetry Reading & Book Launch, Nov. 17th, T'Latte

Please join us:  Poetry Reading & Book Launch
Saturday, November 17th
3:30-5:30 pm, T'Latte Cafe
37 103rd Av. Ne #B, downtown bellevue

the following Seattle/Eastside poets will read
their poems about family & culture, transition
& loss, gratitude & grace.
Everyone will leave with copies of poems.

Ann Hursey
Ann Teplick
Denise Calvetti Michaels*
Doug Johnson
Katy E. Ellis*
Esther Altshul Helfott
Linda Thompson
Mitsu Sundvall & others

Poetry & Workshop, Oct. 28th, 1:30 to 3:30, Studio B, 4th Floor of Armory

Yesterday I drove to Seattle Center to visit Studio B.  Located on the 4th floor of the Armory (formerly Food Circus), it's where you'll find me Sunday afternoon, October 28th for the Rustling Wrens Poetry Reading & Workshop.  Partially supported by a King County 4 Culture award, participants will leave with poetry and make-and-take art.

Studio B is amazing--and I take it as my/our good fortune to have the opportunity to share poetry in this artsy space.  Studio B is complete with a mirrored wall overlapped by dark velvet drapes.  And tree limbs with a few yellow leaves to brush skylight windows slightly open to the breeze.  And good accoustics with plenty of sprawl-space to spread out, explore eclectic writing implements, textured papers, stickers, twine and ribbon, etc.

Hoping you'll visit Studio B for the Rustling Wrens Poetry Reading & Workshop on Sunday, the 28th where you'll also meet poet Katy Ellis who'll help us weave intervals of poetry with time to play and share. 

Denise Calvetti Michaels interviewed by Jared Leising, 2010 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator

http://www.jackstraw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/01%20Denise%20Calvetti%20Michaels.mp3

ARTS CRUSH, October 28, 2012, 1-3:30 pm

The Rustling Wrens poetry reading & workshop will take place 

Sunday, October 28th, 

1:30-3:30 pm

in Studio B located in the Seattle Center Armory on the 4th Floor.

Please note that the Armory (formerly named Food Circus) is located at the Seattle Center. 

I will share poems from Rustling Wrens, my new poetry collection published this year by Cave Moon Press and I'll be joined by poet Katy Ellis

who will read from her new chapbook.

We welcome you to this family-fun Arts Crush workshop. 

FOR SALE--Rustling Wrens

Yes! It is exciting to find the threads come together at last.  Publishing a first book triggers a list of decisions.  Things I'd taken for granted as I browsed racks in dusty bookstores.  The questions I'd never considered--how to design a cover, who to thank?  The list is long with details.  People who stepped forward to assist, encourage, smile. 

Please find Rustling Wrens for sale on AMAZON. 

Or, contact me by email to schedule a reading in Seattle/King County.
denisecalvetti@yahoo.com

Please check this blog for updates as readings and workshops are scheduled. 

Rustling Wrens & Solid Ground

Please follow the link to learn more about the partnership between Rustling Wrens and Solid Ground:

http://solidgroundblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/a-poetic-partnership-rustling-wrens-solid-ground/

A Celebration of Washington Artists Reception @ Washington Convention Center

You are welcome to attend Artist Trust:

A Celebration of Washington Artists:

Reception/ Seattle at the Washington Convention Center

located at 800 Convention Place, Seattle, 98101-3550,

Friday, September 7th, 5:30-8:30 pm

Enjoy Artist Trust EDGE writers read samplings of their poems and prose

View work by Artist Trust EDGE artists on display through late October

Bring a friend & meet literary and visual artists 

for information, -- http://www.wsctc.com/while_at_wscc/art.aspx

Rustling Wrens will be available for purchase.

Babies, books & bread are worth our patience

4 CULTURE 2012 artist grant

Thank you to 4 Culture for the support of a 2012 Individual Artist Grant

to assist me to share Rustling Wrens,

my new poetry collection,

with the visitors and residents of King County.

The primary goal is to provide poetry readings and writing workshops

at local libraries, community centers and classrooms over the next 18 months. 

please check this site for a schedule of readings and workshops



from the Poetry Garden at Seattle Center

Last Wednesday afternoon, August 15, I had the delightful opportunity to read my poetry with poet Michael Dylan Welch as we read our poems together in the shade of the Seattle Center Poetry Garden. 

Our poetry reading was one of a series of "Unexpected Art" sponsored by Jack Straw Productions in partnership with the Seattle Center.  Part of the fifty year celebration of the opening of the Seattle World's Fair, "Unexpected Art" intends to surprise as visitors stroll the grounds enjoying summer and fall.    

ARTIST TRUST / A Celebration of Washington Artists: Reception / Seattle

You are invited to attend: 

Artist Trust / A Celebration of Washington Artists:  Reception / Seattle

Friday evening, September 7th,

at the Washington State Convention Center

for more information please visit the Artist Trust website: 

http://artisttrust.org/index.php/events/event/artist_trust_edge_artists_celebration

signed copies of Rustling Wrens will be available

Rustling Wrens @ ARTS CRUSH--poetry reading & workshop @ Seattle Center in the fall

Rustling Wrens is a family-centered, hands-on workshp geared to all ages to foster poetry and the written word as an important literary art to reflect on family and culture.  Participants will leave with samples of poems from the writer's new collection, have time to begin new work, mess about with art materials and share with others in a positive, welcoming envirnment.  Date:  Sunday, October 28, 1:30-3:00 P.M.

Scheduled Readings, Workshops & Exhibits by Denise Calvetti Michaels:

View book cover to Rustling Wrens on display at the Artist Trust juried art exhibit entitled, "Celebration," July 20 - October 20th at the Washington State Convention Center.

Denise will read from new book with poet Michael Dylan Welch for a Jack Straw Pocket Concert in the Seattle Center Poetry Garden on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 5:30 pm.

Denise will read from new collection during Artist Trust's gala celebration of 25 years of support to visual and literary artists in Washington State on September 7th, 7 pm, at Washington State Convention Center.

Arts Crush--Rustling Wrens workshop and reading focused on family and culture in October--date and location forthcoming.

About the Author:

About the Author:

Denise Calvetti Michaels’ poems and lyric essays are published in Paterson Literary Review, City Works Press, Yours Truly, Crosscurrents and other journals and anthologies including The Milk of Almonds, Feminist Press; Beyond Forgetting, Kent State University Press; In Praise of Farmlands, Whit Press and between sleeps, en theos press; and the 2012 Redmond Centennial Poetry Project.  In 2008 she was awarded the Crosscurrents Prize for her prose poem, “Notes from New Orleans” by the Washington Community College Humanities Association.  A 2010 fellow of the Jack Straw Writers Program and graduate of Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program for Writers, she works as Associate Faculty of Psychology at Cascadia Community College in Bothell, Washington, and lives in Kirkland with her husband, Kirk, near their children and grandchildren. 

forthcoming, poem collection

Rustling Wrens, my first poetry collection, is forthcoming this August by Cave Moon Press. The book cover is currently on display through mid-October 2012 for the juried exhibit, Celebration, in honor of 25 years of Artist Trust support to visual and literary artists in Washington State. Thank you to Christy Michaels Tremblay for permission to use her painting, Bloom V, for the book cover art. And my thanks, also, to Tanya Johnson and Doug P. Johnson for the book cover design. Thank you to 4 Culture for a 2012 Individual Artist Project grant to assist me to share my poetry collection at diverse venues in the next year.