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LSW ACTIVITIES

March 4, Fri 6:30 pm - Artists’ Relief Trust Fund (ART Fund) Benefit Dinner, Board of Trade Building, 301 West First Street, Duluth. Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC), local artists and organizations (including Lake Superior Writers) have established an Artists’ Relief Trust Fund (ART Fund). The fund will support artists who have emergency personal, health and professional needs. Several organizations have collaborated to present an ART Fund Benefit Gala. ($25 per person) will be held at the Minnesota Ballet eighth floor space in the) at 6:30 pm on Friday, March 4. Dinner will be catered by the Exchange. To make a reservation, call 218-529-3742. The Duluth Art Institute, Sivertson’s, Waters of Superior, Lizzard’s and Northern Prints Gallery in Duluth, and North End Art Center in Superior, plus the North Shore Bank of Commerce will host a month-long show and sale of work by Cheng Khee Chee, Jim Brandenberg, Chris Monroe, and John Steffl, among many others. Artworks will be for sale, with entire price benefiting the ART Fund. The Show opens at all locations on Saturday, March 5, from 10 am to 4 pm. To donate work, time, or money, contact the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARACouncil@aol.com.)

March 11-12, FOURTH ANNUAL ART OF PEACE EVENT, Coppertop Church, Duluth.
Several members of Lake Superior Writers will be participating. The workshop, The Language of Peace, will be held from 3:30-5 pm. JEFF LEWIS, ELLIE SCHOENFELD, JOEL SIPRESS, JEAN SRAMEK and BART SUTTER will present a
workshop moderated by CLAIRE KIRCH. Includes a short reading and a discussion of how and why each writer uses language to express their ideas about peace. Workshop participants will be encouraged to write and share their words about peace. DEB and JOEL COOPER will be showing their poetry and screen prints at the Art Exhibit. CHUCK HILLIARD, LIZ MINETTE, ELLIE SCHOENFELD and TERA FREESE will be reading poetry as part of the Afternoon Stage performances.

March 17, Thurs 11:30 am, LSW WRITERS’ SQUARE TABLE, Chester Creek Cafe downstairs. We meet the third Thursday of each month to discuss books, writing, and literary matters. March Topic: COMPLETING A WORK: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN IT’S DONE? We will not critique individual manuscripts. Please place your order as you enter, and pick up water, silverware and a napkin. Your lunch order will be brought downstairs to you. This is an open group open to all LSW members, friends, and the Duluth literary community. Pass the word. Please call Mara (728-1253) if you have questions.

April 7, 14, 21 & 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm - WRITING CLASS - INSIDE-OUT: A WRITING CLASS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE will be offered from in the Marshall School Annex, 1301 Rice Lake Road, facilitated by Deborah Cooper, Poet & Chaplain. Finding words for our grief & giving voice to it can be an avenue for healing, a way of recovering our balance & deepening our understanding. The act of writing engages us in a process of expressing our heart’s truth, a process that can offer insight, light & resolution. Deborah Cooper is a Certified Chaplain. She has served in a variety of settings in the Twin Ports community over the last twenty years. She is the author of two small collections of poetry. The cost is $60 for members of Lake Superior Writers and $75 for non-members. For info call 218-728-2097.

April 30, Sat 9 am - 3 pm - LSW LITERARY GARAGE SALE and LSW ANNUAL MEETING.
Sale & fun events are planned in the Marshall School annex meeting room. Shop for chairs, lamps, shelves, and books, books, books! LSW members will write "Dear John" letters, difficult letters, love poems, etc. on the spot for a small fee. Members receive one free book with any purchase. LSW’s Annual Meeting follows at 3:30 p.m. Donations are needed. Drop off your books at the LSW Meeting Room from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 16 and 23. For additional drop times and for pick-up info call 218-722-3094 or check back on website . We’ll take any items related to reading and writing For more info see web page.

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LSW KUDOS News about LSW Members

Author LISE LUNGE-LARSEN is a guest speaker at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter on March 1.

ANN TREACY’S poem FUNERAL LUNCH LADIES will be published in the spring edition of The Georgetown Review.

The chapbook SHARED VISIONS is in the running for a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. The book was a collaboration between LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS POETS and the Northern Printmakers Alliance. Area
printmakers selected poems and poets and together they created collaborative images.

THE WILL AND THE WAY, a nonfiction book about recent Northland history, has also been nominated for a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. LSW member GAIL TROWBRIDGE was editor of the book, which was published in 2004.

CLEO HUTTON presented "The No-Joke Stroke" at the 2005 Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH) national conference in Tampa Bay, Florida February 17-20. Her talk, interspersed with homespun healing humor
and medical information, armed the audience with stroke information they are not likely to forget. The AATH website featuring Cleo is at http://www.aath.org/conf2005/hutton.html She is co-author of the book STRIKING BACK AT STROKE: A DOCTOR-PATIENT JOURNAL (Dana Press). Cleo's second book, AFTER A STROKE: 300 TIPS FOR MAKING LIFE EASIER (Demos Medical Publishing) will be released in June.

AREA EVENTS

March 1, Tues, 7 pm - Members of the Old-Brule Heritage Society will present and sign their new book “WISCONSIN FAR NORTHWEST: Brief Histories of the Rural Communities in Northern Douglas County.” JW Beecroft Books,
3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, http://www.jwbeecroft.com

March 1, Tues, 7 pm - In-Store Book Club discusses “Don't Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” by Alexandra Fuller. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com

March 5, Sat, 1 pm - Author BOB CARY Book Signing. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 6, Sun, 5:30 pm - Mystery Book Group discusses “Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 9, Wed, 6:30 pm - Classics Book Group discusses “Sons and Lovers” by D.H. Lawrence. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 9, Wed, 6:30 pm - Edith Pederson of Pederson's Gardens and Landscapes will present "What's New and Exciting in Horticulture." JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

March 9, Wed, 8 pm, Norshor Theater, the new monthly FOGHORN POETRY SERIES will feature area smart-ass columnist and poet, PAUL LUNDGREN. Lundgren's poetry has been published in the Northcoast Review, and his columns have been published in the Ripsaw and the Transistor Transmission. He is a member of a LSW writing group, and recently hosted St. Scholastica's "Saint David's Day Open Reading." For more info contact Nathan J. Ness, organizer and host of the Foghorn Poetry Series at FoghornPoetry@poetic.com

March 10, Thurs - New Fiction/Non-Fiction Book Group discusses “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 12, Sat 1 pm - Author Mary Relindes Ellis signs her book “The Turtle Warrior” recently released in paperback. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 12, 1 pm - Local cook and author BEATRICE OJAKANGAS will be coming in to sign her book "Cooking with Convection" and her other many wonderful cooking books. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com

March 12, 7:30 pm, Somers Lounge, College of St. Scholastica. BILL HOLM will read from his new poetry collection in an event sponsored by the Spirit Lake Poetry Series. Poet, essayist, and composer, Bill Holm hails from Minneota, Minnesota (pop. 1400), where he lives with two pianos, a clavichord, thousands of books, and no TV. His spirited readings are full
of surprises; on any given night, Holm might read his own poems, recite from the classics, play Bach or ragtime, tell stories on his neighbors, deliver an eloquent political rant, or lead his audience in song. Garrison Keillor calls him "The tallest radical humorist in the Midwest and a truthful and wonderful writer." The author of three books of poetry--BOXELDER BUG VARIATIONS, THE DEAD GET BY WITH EVERYTHING, and, most recently, PLAYING THE BLACK PIANO--Holm also earned a reputation as one of the nation's most intriguing essayists. Much of his work is focused on his home region in southwestern Minnesota, but ECCENTRIC ISLANDS and COMING HOME CRAZY report on his sojourns in Iceland, where he now spends his summers, China, and Madagascar. Funding is provided by grants from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council; the College of St. Scholastica; Northern Lights Books and Gifts; and the Lee and Rose Warner Foundation. For info call Dorothea Diver, 218-6718.

March 15, Tues, 7:00 pm - Notable Book Group discusses “The Elegant Gathering of White Snows” by Kris Radish. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 16, Wed, 6 pm, fourth-floor Rotunda of the UMD Library in Duluth, Minnesota - Séamas Cain, a poet and performance-artist, will perform on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005, at 6:00 p.m. The event is free and the public
is invited. Refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the UMD Literary Guild. Cain has just published three books with a literary press in England: two plays and a collection of short stories. Please examine
the artist's résumé at <http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?action=info&rid=685>; Visit his writing web-site at <http://seamascain.writernetwork.com>. You can also find COMMENTS on Cain's work at
<http://seamascain.writernetwork.com/custom.html>.

March 18, Fri, 7 pm - Booksigning & reading by Sarah Stonich, author of “Ice Chorus.” Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com

March 19, Sat 10 am - 3 pm. POETRY FROM THE SENSES BY KATE KYSAR. A one-day
workshop at the Loft Literary Center. This workshop will focus on a problem in the poems of many beginning writers: leaping into the abstract world of feelings and ideas, often leaving the reader far behind. We’ll work with grounding your poetry by using sensory images to create a bridge for the reader between the concrete and abstract. We will read master poems as examples to lead us into a series of exercises focusing on the senses we so often neglect-sound, smell, touch, and taste. We will share (but not critique) our creations. At the end of the day, participants will leave with several new poems started. Bring a bag lunch. http://wwww.loft.org/classes.htm

March 19, Sat, 1 pm ? SMALL PRESS SATURDAY. Join representatives from Cloquet River Press, Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc., Savage Press, x-communication and more, as they discuss the nitty gritty of small press publishing in a panel discussion. Then, from 2-4 p.m., shop their titles at their. displays in our store. JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

March 19, Sat, 1:00 pm - Author Mark Sparky Stensaas and photograher Ryan Marshik will sign their book “North Woods Journal: A Minnesota Nature Calendar.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth,
218-786-0710.

March 20, Sun 5:30 pm, Mystery Book Group discusses “Cutwork” by Monica Ferris. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 21, Mon, 7:00 pm - SciFi Book Group discusses “For Us, The Living” by Robert A. Heinlein. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

March 22, Tues, 7 pm - Nature Readers' Book Club discusses “The Outermost House” by Henry Beston. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com

April 5: Northern Lights' In-Store Book Group discusses “Night of the Radishes” by Sandra Benítez. Call us at 218-722-5267 for more information. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com

RESOURCES: For information on additional contests, retreats, publications and more see this new webpage: http://www.lakesuperiorwriters.org/lswresources.html

MN LIT: Minnesota Literature is a statewide, monthly newsletter ($10/10 issues) that provides the literary community with information about workshops, residencies, new publications, grants, awards, contests, and a monthly calendar of readings. Minnesota Literature, 2224 Stinson Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55418, mnlit@frontiernet.net.

REFLECTIONS, a journal/forum for artists, dedicated to artists worldwide announces a call for 2-D and literary artists for the spring issue. Postmark deadline: April 2, 2005. THEME: reflection; creation of an image using a mirrored object, an image bounced back from a reflective surface. Artists can interpret this theme loosely, abstractly, or realistically. The only caveat is that submissions can be reproduced into a magazine and/or web page. For more info or to download a complete prospectus go to http://www.reflectionmag.com SASE to: Reflections, 2620 5th Ave E., Hibbing, MN 55746-2222. Contact editor@relectionmag.com for more info.

From MNARTISTS.ORG - In celebration of poetry, and in the desire to make it an integral part of mnartists.org, we are running a contest to select 6 poems to feature as "poem of the week" in April and May. Deadline is Friday, March 25; winners will be announced by April 11; and one poem will be posted each week after this through May. Poems will be featured on the front page of mnartists.org; plans are afoot for further publication and performance of the featured poems. We are thinking of this as a pilot project, and hope that we can continue it beyond this initial version. Please send poems as attached Word files to: editor@mnartists.org. Each submission should consist of the following items: --Your name, address, and contact information --No more than 5 poems (total page limit of submissions, 20 pp.) --A brief biographical piece that can also act as a writer's statement Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be rejected at the discrimination of the editor. Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of 3 readers. This panel will be composed of a mix of a publishing professional, a writer, and a reader of poetry.

CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women’s fourth annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. Final judge: Chitra Divakaruni. Publication plus $300 award. Submissions: March 1 through May 31. Entry fee: $15 (3 poems, 6 pages total). Calyx, Lois Cranston Prize, Box B, Corvalis, OR 97339. Guidelines: www.proaxis.com/~calyx

BLUE EARTH REVIEW, biannual publication, accepts original poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography and graphic art through May 1. Submit bio (50 words), address, phone and email to Blue Earth Review, Thomas Maltman, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato, Student Union 192, Mankato, MN 56001. Contact wordmucker@yahoo.com, or Thomas.Maltman@mnsu.edu

KUMQUAT Meringue is a strange acorn of poetry dedicated to the memory of Richard Brautigan. Send your quirky minutiae of love, sex, syrup, life, and death. If there's a connection to Richard Brautigan, so much the better. Sample: $6. Three issue subscription: $12. P.O. Box 736, Pine Island, MN 55963, http://www.kumquatcastle.com, moodyriver@aol.com

LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS INFORMATION

VOLUNTEER WITH LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS! You've thought about it and now we really need you. Join a vibrant and dynamic group of people. We need help with the WEB SITE [Contact Cheryl Reitan, 728-3154], FLYERS and NEWSLETTER [Jim Perlman, 724-1653], MEMBERSHIP [Call Bernadette, 525-3898], and FINANCES [e-mail Lake Superior Writers at: writers@lakesuperiorwriters.org].

CALL FOR VOLUNTEER DATABASE ENTHUSIASTS! LSW needs an individual or individuals to help with the membership database and quarterly reports. If you enjoy detail and accuracy, we want you! Enter information from new members, make corrections as they come in and publish reports as requested by committees and the Board. Please send an email to calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org, if you are interested.

WRITING COACH. Experienced Writers: Would you like to earn $25/an hour, and at the same time encourage a fellow writer- Lake Superior Writers will act as a clearing house for those who feel qualified to be a writing coach, and those who wish help. If you wish to participate, please send a letter of intent stating your area(s) of expertise, a brief resume, and $10 for Website maintenance. Your name and a brief resume will be posted on the LSW Website. See www.lakesuperiorwriters.org for info. Send information to LSW, 1301 Rice Lake Road, Suite 132, Duluth, Minnesota 55811, Att'n. Mara.

LSW MISSION: to foster writing communities, to provide an audience for literature, and to further the artistic development of writers through workshops, readings, and publications.

Lake Superior Writers prohibits discrimination in its programs, membership, and board of directors participation on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status or family status.

Lake Superior Writers Calendar

THIS CALENDAR is a benefit of your membership in Lake Superior Writers.
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the literary arts. We welcome information from you regarding events, classes, kudos or announcements to be included in upcoming calendars.We reserve the right to edit all submissions.

TELL US ABOUT IT! Have you just been published? Received a grant or an award? Let us know! Have an event to publicize? We love to celebrate the events and successes of the members of our writing community. E-mail your news items to calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org.

We have two e-mail addresses: writers@lakesuperiorwriters.org a special e-mail for this calendar at calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org