Experience Magazine

Experience: Summer 2007

We've just completed work on the latest issue of Experience: Centrum's Magazine for the Creative Life. The Summer 2007 issue serves as our performance program for events happening in May, June, and July. It also includes:

• A feature on Hannes Coetzee, a South African teaspoon slide guitar player who has become a YouTube sensation
• A stimulating dialog on Imagination and Dissent between Centrum's Artistic Director for Literature Rebecca Brown, and the writer Thomas Glave
• The story of cowboy musician and Yahoo! Yodeler Wylie Gustafson
• An examination of the metaphorical language of the visual artist Susie J. Lee
• A group interview with "The Women of Blues" (the female faculty of the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival)
• A moment of conversation with National Heritage Award fellow, and Irish fiddling star Liz Carroll
• Jazz musician Houston Person's recipe for having a good time

Download the Summer 2007 issue.

The Sunlight of Odessa: Poet Ilya Kaminsky

Beneath the jump is one of the first articles we published in Experience magazine: a feature on Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky. Kaminsky, who taught at the Port Townsend Writers' Conference in both 2005 and 2006, was born in Odessa, in the former Soviet Union. His family received asylum from the US government and came to the United States in 1993. His book-length collection Dancing in Odessa was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.   

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Experience May 1st!

Our next issue, available May 1, will feature South African teaspoon guitar player Hannes Coetzee; visual artist Susie J. Lee; an interview with Jamaican writer Thomas Glave; the Yahoo! yodeler, Wylie Gustafson; an interview with eight different blueswomen; an article on the legendary tenor saxophonist Houston Person; National Heritage Fellow Liz Carroll; and Centrum donors Carole and Jim Franklin. Other features include full performance information for the Centrum summer season, listings of what Centrum community members are up to all over the world, and a special interview with poet Kim Addonizio. In addition, this issue will have the complete performance information for the Seattle Men's Chorus, Voiceworks: A Week of Singing, the Port Townsend Slide and Steel Festival, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Jazz Port Townsend, and the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival.