Meetings of Caltech Red Door Poets Winter 2013

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Red Door Poets meet (winter location) upstairs over the Red Door Fridays 4:30 to 6:30 PM! When the time changes we'll be outside again under the old trees. Look for the flowery head.

Three Meetings this Week, Tanka Tuesday , Field Trip Wednesday, Friday Red Door Poets!

Come to all or some or one of these fascinating sessions

1. Tuesday Jan 31, 1 PM TANKA at the Red Door Café, Caltech

Caltech AFTERNOON TANKA and ARTS Club Midweek Meeting
Date: Tuesday January 31, 2012 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Red Door Cafe - We will be reading "red lights" , an American
contemporary tanka journal. Tanka is a five line lyrical form, it precedes
haiku, it means little song. It often embodies a leap of imagination and
emotional component. Some of our members have published here. Japanese poets
of antiquity kept tanka dairies, travel journals, and collections that
served as an expression of their lives. A discussion of tanka poetry and
translations from in English to French and any other language represented.
Join our friendly meeting at tables outside the Red Door Cafe. We'll also
work on drawing from photos of Asian objects. Look for Kathabela's flowery
hat to located the group table. New poets and listeners welcome.
For further information: contact Kath Abela Wilson kaw@oldflutes.com phone:
805-886-9384
Sponsored by: Caltech

2. WEDNESDAY FEB 1, 1 PM - 3:30 PM meet at the FOLK TREE GALLERY
FIELD TRIP Tanka. Poetry and Arts Club
Date: Wednesday February 1, 2012 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
After our field trip, time permitting, we will continue reading
at the Red Door Café, from
Moonbathing and "red lights" , American contemporary tanka journals. Tanka
is a five line lyrical form, it precedes haiku, it means little song. It
often embodies a leap of imagination and emotional component. Some of our
members have published here. Japanese poets of antiquity kept tanka dairies,
travel journals, and collections that served as an expression of their
lives. Discuss tanka poetry, other poetry, plus read and bring copies of
your own poems. Join our friendly meeting at tables outside the Red Door
Cafe. We'll also work on drawing from photos of Asian objects. Look for
Kathabela's flowery hat to located the group table. New poets and listeners
welcome.
For further information: contact Kath Abela Wilson kaw@oldflutes.com phone:
805-886-9384
Sponsored by: Caltech


3. FRIDAY, FEB 3, 4:30 to 6 PM RED DOOR
Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting
Date: Friday February 3, 2012 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Red Door Cafe

The Caltech Poetry Club meets every Friday from 4:30 to 6 PM at tables
by the Red Door Cafe. Bring 10 copies of your own poem if possible, for
sharing and discussion. Or just listen and enjoy the poetic conversation.
New members welcome! Join in with the Red Door Poets: The most dynamic
poetry center in the scientific world! We always read poems by other
contemporary and historical poets. Topics have included Wallace Stevens,
William Butler Yeats, the Korean Sijo tradition, Mel Weisburd, M. Kei Neil
McCarthy, Pabo Neruda, William O'Daly, Denise Levertov. We also schedule
writing sessions and readings at inspiring spots on our beautiful campus.
We've shared poetry inspired by scientific lectures at Caltech. We performed
2010 for the Caltech Center for Diversity, "A World Tour of Women". Each
year we create the Caltech Poetry Journal for live performance with music
and dance, As science steps out on the edge of knowledge and discovery, so
do the poets walk into the unknown with their words. Look for Kathabela's
flowery hat to identify the group table.

+ Bonus 6:30 PM Fri. Feb 3, at our home, 439 S Catalina Ave #306 RSVP:
Sharon Hawley, poet adventurer will repeat her program “Tucson Wilderness:
Desert and Mountains” photos, stories poems and accompaniment by Rick Wilson
on Native American desert flute this Friday, evening Feb 3, 6:30 PM at our
home, after our Red Door Caltech Poetry meeting. (Caltech Poets meet 4:30 to
6 PM at the Red Door Café Caltech, you are welcome to join us.) Please rsvp.
Bring a drink or dish to share for the festivities if it is easy. Let us
know if you are planning to come.


For further information: contact Kath Abela Wilson kaw@oldflutes.com
phone: 805-886-9384
For the full scoop, see our event web page:
http://caltechpoetryclub.blogspot.com.
Sponsored by: Caltech

Fantastic Program Caltech Poetry Club, A World Tour of Women!

See photos of our performance March 31, 2011, at the Caltech Center for Diversity here!


A World Tour of Women"!

Celebrate a World Tour of Women with the Caltech Poetry Club Journal Volume 2

Caltech Poetry Club will present a program at the Student Center for Diversity Thursday, March 31,2011 at NOON to 1 PM as a finale to Women's History Month at Caltech. Members will read poems from their new issue (Volume 2) of the Caltech Poetry Journal, Anapamu Anaprasad will perform South Indian Classical Dance of Woman, Sharon Hawley will show slides of a Women's rally in Pakistan she attended and was honored at a few months ago. Chithra Krishnamurty will sing a South Indian song of woman. Casey Glick will be the featured graduating poet and will sing a French somng on how hard it is to understand women! Come join us and participate in this varied, dynamic program!

Caltech and local poets meet at the Red Door every Friday, 4:15 to 6 PM to share their own poems and study the work of historical and other contemporary poets. Look for Kathebela's flowery hat to locate the group table.

Caltech Poetry Club Almost One Year Old

Caltech Poetry Club has met ever Friday all year round for almost a year. We've shared and commented on our own poetry and discussed contemporary poets, and poets from all centuries,using Robert Hass's book "Now and Then" Join us at the Red Door Cafe on the Caltech Campus every Friday at Noon.

New Meeting Time

Caltech Poetry Club meets in front of the Red Door Cafe on the Caltech campus, Friday noon to one PM.
Currently reading Walt Whitman and Stanley Plumly. Bring a poem to read for comments from friends. Look for Kath's flowery hat to find the group.

Caltech Poetry Club News and Notes February 2008

Caltech Poetry Club, a fledgling group of students, faculty, and Caltech community members, joined by guest local poets from the Pasadena area, meets each week on the Red Door Cafe, on the Caltech campus, Fridays 4:15 to 5:15. Discussion and workshop of poems from the group, writing sessions at inspiring spots on the beautiful campus, and readings of other poets and commentary have given the group a rich and varied beginning. Started in October, 2008, we've met each week, sharing the exciting scientific, natural and poetic environment of the Institute. Currently, each week we are reading together from the book "Now & Then" by Robert Hass, a year of poetry commentary, almanac style, written in the 90's for syndication in San Francisco and other major city newspapers. Last week we discussed Korean Poetry, this week the focus is Denise Levertov.