Adventures in Lit

Saturday, August 9, 10am – 6pm and Sunday, August 10, 10am – 6pm, Auburn Avenue Theater.
This first year event promises over 20 authors reading their works. Biographies and daily schedule available online at www.auburngoodoldays.com
Auburn Regional Theater Group workshop 10am on Saturday, Auburn Good Ol’ Days Essay Winners read their essays from 2pm – 3pm, Children’s storyteller, Terry Hendershotz from 3pm-4pm, Gerry Bradley, “The Chit Chat Café” and Dick Richards. Time slots available for Open Mic both days.

Sunday offers a Performance Workshop with Jack McCarthy from 10am -12pm, many authors reading 15 minutes segments such as Auburn’s Dick Brugger, Christopher Jarmick, Eileen Fix, David Ash, David Rizzi, Jack McCarthy and the competitors in the “Poets on Parade”.

Please join this second year event as an active participant or a member of the audience. Jack McCarthy is Master of Ceremonies and the judges for the competition are Marjorie Rommel, J. Andrew Rodriguez and Connie Walle.

All material must be suitable for families especially youth. Register at the event to participate – NO FEE REQUIRED!

Hosted by Striped Water Poets of Auburn, Auburn Good Ol’ Days Committee and

Madison Johnson, Rachael Skaggs, Amy Rademacher, Jonathan Casey, Caitlyn McCloskey, Taylor Fairchild will also join them.

Featured readings from Auburn area authors and regional poets
MC Maggie Kelly:
~12:00 - 1:00

Julie Courey for volunteering to staff the book fair table
Chris Jarmick for advertising

Haiku Northwest for letting us advertise at the national quarterly meeting of the Haiku Society of America, held at the Richard Hugo House and the Seattle Japanese Garden KSER radio 90.7

This story is to reach out with a hand of hope to the 2.3 million people suffering from Bi-Polar/Manic

- Rose Alley Press was founded by David D. Horowitz in November 1995. It was named for the London street where, on December 18th, 1679, poet and playwright John Dryden was brutally beaten by three thugs. Evidence suggests that an aristocrat who mistakenly attributed a satire's authorship to Dryden hired the assailants. Undaunted, Dryden continued writing, even more boldly than before the assault. Inspired by such perseverance, David established Rose Alley Press, which publishes rhymed and metered poetry, cultural commentary, and an annually updated booklet about writing and publication.
     Rose Alley Press typically publishes one book per year. David contacts authors whose work he wants to publish. He does not consider or read unsolicited manuscripts, although he appreciates the difficulty of finding a publisher and offers best wishes to aspiring authors.
     Rose Alley Press survives solely on personal donations and direct sales of its materials. David and all Rose Alley Press authors thank those who through donation, praise, and purchase help the enterprise thrive.
     Founded and manages Rose Alley Press. He earned B.A. degrees in philosophy and English from the University of Washington and an M.A. in English from Vanderbilt University. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Lyric, Candelabrum, Tucumcari Literary Review, ArtWord Quarterly, and The Sporting News. His most recent books, published by Rose Alley, are Strength & Sympathy, From Notebook to Bookshelf, and three poetry collections, Streetlamp, Treetop, Star, Resin from the Rain, and his most recent, Wildfire, Candleflame. He also edited the Rose Alley anthology: Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range. David lives in Seattle.

     Lana Hechtman Ayers,

originally from New York, resides in Kirkland, WA. She runs Night Rain Poetry, which offers poetry editing, a manuscript organization service, and writing and publishing workshops. She publishes the Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series and is Poetry Editor of Crab Creek Review.
     Lana holds a BA in Mathematics from City University of New York, an MA in Counseling Psychology from Antioch New England Graduate School, and an MFA in Poetry from New England College. She hopes someday to return to school to study Astrophysics.
     Lana’s poetry appears in numerous journals, including Bitter Oleander, Cider Press Review, Court Green, ellipsis, Feminist Studies Quarterly, Lynx Eye, Natural Bridge, Poetica, Potomac Review, Rhino, Slant, and Stringtown.
     Lana's work also has also been anthologized in A Chaos of Angels (Word Walker Press, 2007), Tatoos on Cedar (Washington Poets Association, 2006), Pontoon (Floating Bridge Press, 2005), and Images From Ruin (Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 2002).
     She is a Hedgebrook alumna, a Pushcart nominee, and has been awarded honors from the “Discovery”/The Nation competition and the Rita Dove Poetry Prize.
     Her first full-length book, Dance from Inside My Bones, won the 2006 Violet Reed Haas Award, was published this year by Snake Nation Press, and is nominated for the National Book Award.
     Her second full-length collection, Chicken Farmer I Still Love You, winner of D-N Publishing's national manuscript contest, is now available.
     Lana curates a monthly poetry reading series at SoulFood Books in Redmond, WA.

     David Ash

is the publisher and poet behind the Haiku for Life series. He first learned about haiku in sixth grade and his undergraduate degree in English Literature from Georgetown University focused on 20th century poets such as e.e. cummings and T.S. Eliot. Ash later earned a Masters in Liturgical Music from Santa Clara University. He has been a clerk, secretary, teleprompter typist, financial paraplanner, proposal writer, newspaper columnist, ad rep, newsletter editor, and art gallery owner. He was also a music and/or liturgy director at various Catholic parishes for 17 years and is still a composer and hymn writer. He is an unabashed punster, and it shows in his haiku. Ash's first book of haiku was published when he was almost the age that Basho was when he died. He lives in Mukilteo, Washington with his wife and son.

Jack McCarthy

is a working guy from the Boston area who’s been writing poetry since the mid-60s. He’d been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she’d get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked.
     Since then he’s brought out Grace Notes, two chapbooks (Actual Grace Notes and Too Old to Make Excuses (But Still Young Enough to Make Love)), a 60-minute cassette tape (Poems for Hannah), and a CD (Breaking Down Outside a Gas Station). A major book, Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, was released in 2003 by EM Press to rave reviews. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution.
     Jack was a member of the Boston team at the 1996 National Poetry Slam, and was an engaging minor character in the feature film "Slamnation," which documented those proceedings, and he was a member of the Worcester team at the 2000 National Poetry Slam, where he finished as the 10th ranked individual. The Boston Phoenix has named him “Best Standup Poet,” the Boston Poetry Awards “Best Love Poet,” and the Cambridge Poetry Awards “Best Spoken Word” and “Best Humorous Poet .” The Boston Globe says, “In the poetry world, he's a rock star.”
     Among his influences he numbers Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and Garrison Keillor. He doesn't think of himself as a "performance poet," but as a "standup poetry guy," a writer of poems that perform themselves.
     Poet Stephen Dobyns has written, "Jack McCarthy is one of the wonders of contemporary poetry. He writes—and often performs—dazzling narratives full of wit and humor, sadness and hard thinking. He should be cloned." Of Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, ALA Booklist says, "McCarthy brings his compelling experiences to his poetry with nimble humor, hard-won wisdom, and a raconteur's knack for telling diabolically barbed stories…concrete, candid, personal, and utterly captivating…caustic, sexy and smart."
     Thomas Lux has written, "The only ambition he seems to have is to tell the truth as best he can in poems." That is a very worthy ambition, but it's not his only one. He also hopes to be remembered as an integral member of the movement to restore poetry to its rightful place in everyday American life. So that when Americans think of poetry, they don't think of school and homework, but of laughter and tears; a shortcut to the heart.
     Recently relocated to the state of Washington, Jack can be reached at standupoet@yahoo.com.

     Eileen Fix

has been writing poetry for more than 10 years. She’s one of the original performer/founders of the Little Red Studio in Seattle, and has made sure spoken word and poetry.. original spoken word and poetry -- is part of just about everything Little Red Studio does. Eileen’s work is at times very sensual and erotic and in other writings she shares her experiences of dealing with M.S. putting a wholly unique, authentic and bold perspective on what it means to have M.S. She’s published a wonderful special edition book call Felt , a couple of her poems appear in the 3:15 anthology called In Between Sleeps. She also has poems online. She has recently appeared at a special spoken word recital with Hedgebrook writers at Babes in Toyland, and did a reading at the Ugly Mug Coffee Shop that has been taped for future broadcast on KSER radio.

Christopher J. Jarmick

is a writer, and poet who has curated and hosted many open mic venues in the Seattle area for over 8 years. These include the Ugly Mug readings on the 2nd Saturday of the month and The Bookworm Exchange Readings in Columbia City on the 3rd Fridays of the month. His novel the The Glass Cocoon is an exciting mystery suspense thriller. He was recently part of two multi-media readings… one that included jazz great Julian Priester, which is being made into a performance DVD and another with Pulitzer and grammy nominated Michael C. Ford which is part of a podcast library through poetrynight.org. A former television producer with credits that include Hard Copy , Entertainment Tonight and Emmy Winning PBS documentaries, Chris’ poetry is published in several anthologies, newspapers, literary magazines, and online. He is writing, performing and reciting original poetry for Little Red Studio's Psychedelic Show, White
Show and Gold Show. By day he works as a financial advisor with offices in Downtown Seattle.

Dick Brugger

was Executive Director of Auburn Youth Resources for twenty-one years before retiring in 1997. In 1983 he was named the Auburn Area Citizen of the Year. For twenty-one years before coming to Auburn, he was a Franciscan Friar and Roman Catholic priest. His poetry has appeared in Do Something & Other Poems, Plateau Area Writer's Association Quarterly, in the Doylestown Intelligencer (Pennsylvania) and Poets West Literary Journal. His prose has appeared in Heart of the Matter and he was a second place winner performance poet category at the Washington Poets Association annual meeting in Spring 2003 in Tacoma.

Dr. Ellouise Carroll

Dr. Ellouise's Qualifications
·             Professional Health Coach.
·             Nutritional speaker and Director of Children’s Services with Get Healthy, America!
·             Over 20 years’ experience in children’s nutrition.
·             Both Master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation research involved nutrition.
·             Masters in Human Development & Ph.D. in Education.
·             Certified Wellness Educator with Get Healthy, America!
        Author specializing in nutrition issues.
About ECE Consultants
Dr. Ellouise Carroll is the driving force behind ECE Consultants. Dr. Ellouise has over 40 years of experience in the Early Childhood Education field, with over 20 years of experience in owning and being the principal of the only tri-lingual, vegetarian private school/preschool/childcare in Pierce County.
She is a Professional Health Coach with experience as a professional photographer, a staff trainer for ECE facilities, a Nutritional Mentor to many people who wished to have a healthier lifestyle, and a speaker and Certified Wellness Educator for "Get Healthy, America!". Ellouise has her Ph.D. in Education and both her Master's thesis and her dissertation for the Ph.D specialized in nutrition. She is also a Real Estate Agent with Genesis Real Estate, a Christian company.
What drives Dr. Ellouise
Helping people in many areas of their lives is what drives Dr. Ellouise. She gives high quality mentoring to others in the areas of nutrition, healthy aging, beauty products and spiritual growth.
ECE Consultants' History
ECE Consultants has been in existence for over 30 years. In its infancy, ECE Consultants provided staff training for ECE facilities, image and business card consulting and Dr. Ellouise was a speaker for many ECE conferences. Although she continues to provide all these services, she has added the healthy aging products, the beauty products and the real estate. She will be blessed to help you in whatever needs you might have.

     Bill Kaster

is a Seattle native, he has never been far from lakes, rivers, and salt water of the pacific northwest. His first home as an infant was one of the origional houseboats on the north shore of lake union. a university of washington graduate in education, a combat veteran of the korean war, and longtime power and sailboater, Bill has enjoyed a career as teacher and athletic coach in the area’s publick schools. An apparent mutation in gene #764 has enabled him over the years to see most of life’s happenings in a joyful light, although some detractors would substitute “wierd” for joyful. You may judge for yourself. (Julie Courey’s father)

David Rizzi

J. Andrew Rodriguez’s

poems tell the essence of life’s journeys, one story and one heart at a time. His poems reach into the undercurrents of our emotions to find, love, and loss.

J. Andrew Rodriguez whose compassionate writing challenges our ethical values and assumptions about ourselves and our society.

Maggie Kelly

Maggie Kelly’s poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Washington Poets Association’s most recent anthology, Cascade Journal, as well as an online anthology, A New Morning, and a small collection, Treasure the Moment. She has been a featured reader at Tacoma venues, such as the Distinguished Writer series and at UW/Tacoma, as well as at Capital City, and produced an all-day poetry marathon for Kings Books in Tacoma. Kelly has a second annual marathon well under way for its November 22 running, and as Po’Biz Productions she is bringing Michael Dylan Welch to Tacoma for a haiku workshop. Kelly lives in Tacoma’s Historic District where she is currently working on two chapbooks.

Connie Walle is a life-long resident of Tacoma WA. She is the President of Puget Sound Poetry (2nd Friday, 7pm Kings Books), facilitated 30 poems being put in concrete at Pt Defiance, received the 2003 Faith Beamer Cooke award from the WA. Poet’s Society and the 1998 Margaret K Williams Award from the Pierce Co. Art Commission. She founded and facilitated, the Pierce County Library’s “Our Own Word”, teen writing contest. Publications are Arabesque Press, Quill and Parchment, Raven Chronicles, Talus and Scree, UW Ledger, TCC Trillium, A Small Garlic Press, Womankind, Writing for Our Lives, and Lost Library.

Marjorie Rommel

Marjorie Rommel, program director for The Northwest Renaissance, Poets, Performers & Publishers, and one of its founders, is an Auburn native living only a few blocks from the house she was born to. A former newspaper reporter/editor and publicist, over the past 25 years she has taught poetry and writing at Highline, Tacoma, and Pierce community colleges, for Tacoma Metropolitan Parks, and at Pacific Lutheran University. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, most recently Origami Condom and Periphery. She was a Willard R. Espy Literary Foundation resident in 2000, received an Adam Family Foundation White Bridge Traveling Fellowship to live and write in Teton Valley in 2001, and graduated from the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU in 2007.

Dr. Fran Smith, a Clinical Psychologist, retired from Private Practice in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She and her husband, Dr. Bob Smith, spend summers in Langley, WA. Their pets, Pierre an African Grey Parrot and Cosette, a Standard Poodle, travel with them by air between homes. Dr. Fran began training birds when she received a small blue parakeet, Romeo for her 10th birthday. Romeo was a affectionate, playful little talker. After some research, she decided to adopt a baby African Grey because of the species' documented intelligence and superior talking ability. As you will read in her book, not only did Pierre learn words she taught him, but he also began listening, storing and using many other words and phrases appropriately. Pierre expresses his need for food, social relations, praise and even shows concern for others. Many other African Grey owners report similar communicative abilities for their parrots. What won't Pierre say? Read the book to find out.

David Ash, small press publisher and poet, is behind the series of haiku books which take the reader of haiku in a totally new and surprisingly humorous direction. The series contains such titles as; "Haiku for Baseball Lovers" "Haiku for Dog Lovers" "Haiku for Office Workers," etc.
Ash has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Georgetown University and a Masters in Liturgical Music from Santa Clara University. He was a music director at various Catholic parishes for seventeen years and is still a composer and hymn writer. He is also an enthusiastic punster and it shows in his haiku.
(bashopress@aol.com)

Title: "Jumpstart to Power Prayers"
by Marge Gordon
Marge is a retired RN. She worked at the Auburn Health Dept. for Seattle - King County Health Dept. For the past two years she has coordinated Auburn's National Day of Prayer observance.
"Jumptstart to Power Prayers" leads readers step by step to create their personal prayer manual. This becomes a faith - building collection and record of their own answered prayers. (mgordonauburn@msn.com)

Anita Donihue

Anita Donihue, author/teacher/speaker.
"When I'm On My Knees" is part of a gift series. Of her thirteen titles several are books on prayer and daily devotional. Over two million copies have been sold.
Her speech topics are targeted for audiences of Christian women's groups. For more information go to (adonihue@gmail.com)

Dick Richards is a free wheeling, energetic gentleman known at the Auburn Senior Center as their poster boy for he always seems to be in the photos whatever the activity may be. He is known for his positive attitude, hiking, sense of outside the box humor and kindness to those on the trail of his life. He has written short books on the Beauty of Life, A Daily Dose of Dr. Dick and other articles and stories of importance to those around him and beyond. His focus is positive attitude and health for seniors with some fun misadventures along the way. He is a Washington native and a graduate of the University of Washington and worked as an Office Manager/Accountant for years at Hoyt Motors and Northwest Fleet Lease. . He has six children, tons of grand and great grandkids. He was married to a wonderful woman, Lura for a zillion years and still misses her odd sense of country girl humor. He and this festival's director will be co-authoring a new novel based upon her funny way of looking at life and how it affected those around her. It's current title, before greater discussions, is "Don't Call Me Milda!" or "The Nurse Made A Mistake!"

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Copyright © 2005 Auburn Good Ol' Days
Last modified: 11/16/08