The Poetry Booth will be an attractive, inviting, mobile, and free public facility for creating poems with the help or guidance of experienced poets and educators. The booth itself will provide workspace (tables and chairs), supplies (paper, pencils, pens, markers, glue, scissors), and poetic inspiration in the form of writing prompts and activities. The goal of this public art project is to invite the residents of Santa Barbara to participate in a collaborative, innovative, and collective literary community.
READING AT BORDERS
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-- James Ph. Kotsybar
The storefront bookstore was long closed
And now, outside, homeless reposed.
It was done-in by Amazon.
Oh, Kyrie eleison.
We set up tables, chairs and such.
The homeless left; it was too much --
this scene for them -- too woebegone.
Oh, Kyrie eleison.
The patio was windy, cold --
Scant audience and uncontrolled.
What did we care? The mic was on.
Oh, Kyrie eleison.
We read our words until we froze.
Why we’re so desperate, God knows,
but declines to expound upon.
Oh, Kyrie eleison.
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Local Poet Seeks Publication on Mars – Needs Your vote
James Ph. Kotsybar is a local poet with an astronomical ambition. Having served the cause of literature and poetry (as well as science and horticulture) here on the Central Coast for decades, Mr. Kotsybar is asking for your help to get his poetry to another planet.
NASA is sponsoring a haiku contest to find three poems worthy of putting aboard their MAVEN mission spacecraft and launching it to the red planet (Mars) – the first poetry from Earth to another world. “Haiku is an ancient and respected Japanese form of poetry,” explains Kotsybar, “It’s popularity in English is due to the fact that these poems must be concise. It’s a matter of less is more. When you have only seventeen syllables to or express an image and make a point, every word must be packed with meaning. There’s no room for flowery extravagance.”
“I packed a lot of feeling and significance into my haiku entry. I hope the public agrees that it deserves to win its place on the MAVEN spacecraft, because in three short lines, I’ve fully conveyed the intention of MAVEN’s mission and alluded to the meaning of its name as an expert or connoisseur.”
The acronym, MAVEN, stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. Its mission is to study how the oceans evaporated from Mars and how the atmosphere of the red planet is thinned by solar winds.
The voting process begins July 15, 2013. Kotsybar is appealing to all social network of the Central Coast to vote his poetry off the planet. All you have to do is go to: http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/entry/?13480
after July 15th but before July 29th and vote high marks (five stars) for his haiku.
“What’s so exciting about this opportunity is that it’s like the ultimate time capsule,” says Kotsybar, “I’m already honored just to be included in what will one day be a valuable archaeological artifact. But to share the status to be among the first three poets to be published off world … that’s some proud achievement!”
James Ph. Kotsybar, poet at heart since the age of fourteen, has performed his poetry live at The Marquee (Santa Barbara), Llhasa Club (Hollywood), Beyond Baroque Gallery (Santa Monica), The Los Angeles Performing Arts Center and R.A.I.L. – Readers And Interested Listeners (Santa Barbara County).
His most recent publications include The Bubble (Ojai), Askew (Ventura) and the Society of Classical Poets (international print publication and website).
He has also appeared on Santa Barbara Channels 17 and 22, Lompoc’s TAP TV, was a regular guest on KCSB-91.9 FM, had a sonnet produced by KDB-93.7 FM had a limerick on Relativity called “Off The Scale” that went viral last year, appearing on websites in Portuguese, Mandarin and German. In the last year, he has received honorable mentions from the Society of Classical Poets, Lone Stars Magazine and Tapestry of Bronze – Odes to The Olympians Contest.
Says Kotsybar, “There may be other missions that will include public messages, but for me, this is the once in a lifetime opportunity to become the first poet on Mars! I hope people understand how much this would mean to me and will help me achieve this distinction.”
http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/entry/?13480