Telluric Delivery!

...just received shipment of the "Special-Limited-Shortrun-Café-Lena-Edition" of "Telluric Voices" courtesy of "Benevolent Bird" which I will be selling at my reading next week at Café Lena with Ken Hada in Saratoga on August 1st, 2012!!!!

All proceeds from this shortrun will be donated to the effort to rebuild the Czarnecki family home and  their business "Foothills Publishing" after their devastating fire.

Each copy includes the DVD "Telluric Visions" which contains 3 Videos based on poems in the book and a number of Bonus Audio Recordings from my recent reading!

obeedúid~

27/July/12

Foothills Publishing Suffers Devastating Fire

Foothills after the fire.

Some regular readers of this blog may not be aware that my friend and publisher Michael Czarnecki of Foothills Publishing suffered a devastating fire and the complete loss of their home and business last week. Fortunately everyone is safe and unharmed but they are currently without a home/business and need our help!

Here is a link to their website where you can donate and support them in their efforts:

http://foothillspublishing.com/id20.htm

Here also is an email he shared with regards to what they are in need of at the moment:

On Friday, July 13, 2012, Michael Czarnecki wrote:

"First of all, many thanks and heartfelt gratefulness to all of you who have been responding with offers of help, good thoughts and prayers. We are humbled by the response.

We will be arriving back home (ah, the hill is still home, whether a house is there or not) Sunday, mid- afternoon.

I'll go over briefly a bit of where we are at with needs etc.

Temporary housing - three different people have made available to us a small travel trailer and two campers. We should be getting those to the hill starting Monday. One fortunate thing is that this fire happened in summer. That certainly makes temporary living quarters a lot easier to work out.

Long Range Housing - Peter, a neighbor and the bishop of our Amish community neighbors, called and said the community would do a house raising for us (the house that is no longer was built by them) when we are ready. I told him the only problem with that will be the funds to buy the material. Long range plans here.

Clothing Donations - Again, being summer, clothing is a lot easier to deal with in the short term. Grayson lost most of his clothes, Carolyn, Chapin and I have the clothes we came to Acadia with. Most of our clothes come from Salvation Army stores and we prefer it that way. I think we'll be ok in the short term, so clothing donations aren't a strong necessity at the moment.

Financial Help - Being money poor, this is a big need. Once we return we have so many things we need to purchase to get back up and running. We'll need a new electrical system - generator, deep cycle batteries, inverter, etc. and also purchasing all new equipment to get FootHills back up and running. Also chainsaw, other tools. The list goes on and on. This doesn't even take into account what will be needed for more permanent housing. The campers will only be useful for a few months. The financial needs will be great. I'll be working hard on booking more work out as a poet, and we'll get FootHills going again, but even then, before all this, it was a continual struggle.

Many of you have asked how you can help with this, where to send etc..

mail: Michael Czarnecki, PO Box 68, kanona, NY 14856

or Paypal. Go to Send Money and then put in my email address:

poetguy@foothillspublishing.com

then amount, click on personal tab and then make sure gift is checked.

That's it.

Ok, this is enough for now.

Again, it is beyond words the way we feel about all of the support you have expressed for our situation. When we get through to the other side, we'll have an unprecedented gathering on Wheeler Hill of all you wonderful people,

Michael"

obeedúid~

15/July/12

A Telluric Cloudburst!

Back in May I attended the "Cloudburst Council" with Alan Casline May 11th, 12, and 13th at the Gell Center in Naples N.Y. The subtext as provided by Alan was "Friendship Among Poets." 

Gell Center at night,Venus rising in the sky.

The gathering grew out of several conferences focused on Charles Olsen and when things got  started it threatened to go headlong in that direction to the dismay of some attendees who were more interested in the friendship aspect. I wouldn't have minded but was afraid we might lose some poets I was eager to hear from and get to know better. 

After some discussion and perseverance we arrived at a place in the clouds more concerned with friendship much to my relief. 

I enjoyed myself and the company of some of my favorite "living poets." I got to meet and was exposed to a number of poets I had heard about but was not necessarily familiar with. I even met some people I had never heard of or would never have had the chance to meet during those three days. I look forward to getting together again with them at the next "Cloudburst."

While we were there we even took a break to do some Hiking at the "Seneca Point Of Emergence."  The place where the Seneca peoples believe their ancestors entered this world. The hike was lead by Poet/environmental educator and consultant Stephen Lewandowski. Stephen also served as the Host, Head Chef and Bottle-washer for the weekend. Very Cool!!!

That's Will Nixon looking up into the waterfall and Andre Spears on the lower right

Here's a little video of the falls in action. 

I believe that is Peter Franklin aka: "Mountain Goat" who climbed into the falls.

When it came my turn to read I read several selections from my then as yet finished manuscript of "Telluric Voices." I recorded the complete reading but I'll spare you its length here. Alan and his "Young-Apprentice" videotaped the entire event and at some point I expect to be able to post that or a link to it here. For now here is a recording of the final two poems I read. The first of which is the epilogue to "Telluric Voices" and the second a Cento made up of other poets recognizable lines from my favorite poems beginning with a line from Charles Olsen.

The following is a Link 

to the Audio Recording 

on SoundCloud 

of me reading this poem:

2PoemsFromCloudburst 12May12 

Enjoy!

obeedúid~

01/July/12

I can be GOOFIE when it comes to my Technology! :)

Here is another Video I just found from the Cloudburst Hike...

I actually whacked the iPhone like it was going to listen to what I was saying! :)