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songsforsquid · 1 year
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One DIY flyer with all the main info in one place. Hope to see you there & everywhere!
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expeditionpress · 6 years
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It’s here! Beautiful new issue of Poetry Northwest featuring so many good poems & – yours truly in the centerfold! Get yer copy here: poetrynw.org/subscribe @poetrynw #centerfold #cento #poetrynorthwest #poetry #magazine #print #design #everythingisanexperiment #typography #readwhileyoucan
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willowspringsbooks · 7 years
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We're pumped to be one of the legion of publishers as APRIL Festival on Saturday! There will be readings, books, writers, readers; basically everything you could want out of an event. See you there! 📗📘📙 (thanks to @poetrynw for the post! check 'em out.) _______________________________ #aprilfestival #willowspringsbooks #poetrynorthwest #april #smallpress
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songsforsquid · 1 year
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Find Me @AWP Seattle: Off-Site Readings & Bookfair Interludes
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Hello dear AWP conference goers and Seattle literary friends,
In the supersaturated abundance of exciting literary happenings -- here are some events I’m taking part in and places I’ll be. Hope to see you at some (or all!).
AWP - SEATTLE: On-Site Book Signings & Off-Site Readings
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8TH
* OFF-SITE: 6-7 PM, @National Nordic Museum (Ballard), "Inspired by Iceland Reading" w/ Katy Didden, Sierra Nelson, Katie Prince, & Melanie Noel; All Ages venue, masks highly encouraged; Seattle Times write-up
* OFF-SITE: 8-10pm, @Pine Box (Capitol Hill), PoetryNW & SAL Present, Group Reading Featuring: Kenzie Allen, Laura Da', Lauren Hilger, James Hoch, Sasha LaPointe, Eugenia Leigh, Sierra Nelson, & Paisley Rekdal; 21+ venue 
THURSDAY, MARCH 9th
* OFF-SITE: 5-6pm, @Chop Suey (Capitol Hill), A Dozen Nothing Celebration, Group Reading featuring: Colleen Louise Barry, Mary Biddinger, Bill Carty, Jason Crawford, Nicelle Davis, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Gabriel Dozal, Emily Kendal Frey, Knox Gardner, Charles Jensen, Robert Lashley, Denis Mair, John Marshall, Trey Moody, Sierra Nelson, Shawnte Orion, Rena Priest, Lily Someson, Arianne True, Elizabeth Vignali, Lizabeth Yandel, Jason Whitmarsh; 21+ venue, masks highly encouraged.
* OFF-SITE: 6-7:30pm, @Town Hall Seattle (First Hill; entrance off Seneca), Cascadia Field Guide Book Release Celebration (Not reading, but have work in the anthology!), All Ages event, masks highly encouraged
FRIDAY, MARCH 10th
* AWP BOOKFAIR: 10-11am @ Rose Metal Press table T1328, book signing for I Take Back the Sponge Cake
* OFF-SITE: 9-10pm, @Rendezvous (Jewelbox Theater, Belltown), Vis-a-Vis Society (Rachel Kessler & Sierra Nelson) Entre Rios Press & Friends Multi-Media Reading, 21+ venue, Masks highly encouraged. Grotto stage is not ADA accessible. (Lots of great readings the whole night, 7-11pm, on 2 stages, plus food & drink available): Seattle’s Entre Ríos Books hosts Fence, Fonograf Editions, Omnidawn, and Birds LLC in the Jewel Box Theater & the Grotto. NW presses Blue Cactus and Winter Texts offer conversation and chill in the Red Velvet Lounge.  One of Seattle’s classic old-school bars— food and drink available. Fence #40 West Coast premiere! Performances by Dao Strom and the Vis-à-Vis Society. A short play by Christine Deavel. With readings by Colleen Barry, Bill Carty, Sommer Browning, Peter Burghardt, Julie Carr, Cort Day, Emily Kendal Frey, Annie Guthrie, Robert Lashley, Cameron Martin, Erin McCoy, Joyelle McSweeney, Margaret Meehan, Patrick Milian,  Lucas de Lima, Warren C. Longmire, Sawako Nakayasu, Hilary Plum, Kimberly Reyes, Steven Rood, Jess Stark, Rodrigo Toscanao, Zoe Tuck, Maw Shein Win, Haines Whitacre, and Deborah Woodard w/ Peter Nelson-King.) 
SATURDAY MARCH 11th
* AWP BOOKFAIR: 12-1pm @ Poetry Northwest table 1311, book signing for The Lachrymose Report
*  AWP BOOKFAIR: 9-11am & 3-5pm @ Seattle Arts & Lectures table 805 
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Wed 3/8 6pm: Inspired by Iceland Reading w/ Katie Prince, Katy Kidden, Melanie Noel, & Sierra Nelson @National Nordic Museum (Ballard)
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Wed 3/8 8pm AWP Welcome Party & Reading Hosted by Poetry NW & Seattle Arts & Lectures @The Pine Box (Capitol Hill) 
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Thurs 3/9 5pm A Dozen Nothing Reading @Chop Suey (Capitol Hill)
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Thurs 3/9 6pm Cascadia Field Guide Launch Party @Town Hall Seattle (First Hill) 
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Friday 3/10 7-11pm Rendezvous: a Seattle AWP Offsite @Rendezvous (Belltown) w/ Entre Rios Press, Fence, Fonograf Ed, Omnidawn, Birds LLC, Blue Cactus, Winter Texts readings (Vis-a-Vis Society performs 9-10pm in Jewelbox Theater, w/ some solo Rachel Kesler & Sierra Nelson work as well) 
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songsforsquid · 4 years
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Poetry in Technicolor: Priscilla Long & Sierra Nelson in conversation & in poetry
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Friday Nov 20th, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST (via Zoom)
Elliott Bay Book Co hosts two Seattle writers, Priscilla Long and Sierra Nelson, in a dynamic Technicolor poetry reading and conversation via Zoom in celebration of the release of Long’s new poetry book Holy Magic. They will read their red poems, their blue poems, their poems that shimmer with fuchsia and orange. They will talk about their strategies and approaches toward achieving multihued poems that may be compared to paintings or to bioluminescence. 
To register for the event (free!):  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/priscilla-long-holy-magic-book-event-with-sierra-nelson-tickets-125689965069
Or via FB live.
Priscilla Long's Holy Magic won MoonPath Press's Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award. Her first poetry book is Crossing Over (University of New Mexico Press. She is author of a collection of memoirist essays: Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press), a guide for artists titled Minding the Muse (Coffeetown), and The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. She is an independent teacher of writing and a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society. For more info: priscillalong.com. Order a copy of Holy Magic HERE 
Sierra Nelson's books include The Lachrymose Report (PoetryNW Editions) and collaboration with artist Loren Erdrich I Take Back the Sponge Cake (Rose Metal Press). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, and Poetry Northwest, as well as at the SIM Gallery in Iceland, the Seattle Aquarium, and the Slovenian Natural History Museum. She is co-founder of The Typing Explosion and the Vis-a-Vis Society, and president of Seattle's Cephalopod Appreciation Society. She currently teaches through Writers in the Schools (WITS) and Hugo House. For more info: songsforsquid.tumblr.com. Order a copy of The Lachrymose Report HERE
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songsforsquid · 3 years
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Our Edges Touched: Poets & Artists in Collaboration
Hugo House event: January 21, 2021 at 6:00 PM PST, via ZOOM
In this time of social distancing, connection is more valuable than ever. These six poets and artists have worked across distances to create work together. Join us for a reading/showing of collaborative book projects with poet and artist pairs: Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter (Of Lamb, McSweeney’s), Elizabeth Bradfield and Antonia Contro (Theorem, PoetryNW Editions), and Sierra Nelson and Loren Erdrich (I Take Back the Sponge Cake, Rose Metal Press, and Isolation, artist book). A discussion between the artists and time for audience questions will follow the presentation. 
For more info: https://hugohouse.org/events/our-edges-touched-poets-artists-in-collaboration/
RSVP here to claim your spot at this free event; event link will be sent by email. All Hugo House events take place in Pacific Time.
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songsforsquid · 4 years
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Upcoming Performances & Readings
** Wed Jan 15th, PERFORMANCE LAB at On the Boards (100 W. Roy St., Seattle, WA 98119), doors 6:00 p.m., pre-show performances and activities 6:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m. official start. Theme: An Augur: Future Visions. Part augury, part poetry, part collective unconscious telephone, the Vis-à-Vis Society will debut some new interactive performance experiments in the OtB stairwell and lobby, answering audience questions about the future from the night. This unique Performance Lab is co-curated by Charles Smith and Hatlo, and featuring new experimental works by: Vis-à-Vis Society (with co-founders Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler), Fox Whitney, Jéhan Òsanyìn, Sara Brickman, Shelby Handler, and Julianne Chapple/Future Leisure. 
More info & advanced tickets: https://www.ontheboards.org/special-events/performance-lab-an-augur-future-visions 
** Tues March 10th, Sierra Nelson & Kary Wayson Poetry Reading at Elliott Bay Book Co. (1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122). Kary Wayson debuts her new book Via Maria Materi (Burnside Review Press) and Sierra Nelson reads from her recent collection The Lachrymose Report (PoetryNW Editions) and other new work. 
The Stranger Recommends (Rich Smith): "Here we have two wizards working with two different but complementary kinds of magic. Sierra Nelson writes bioluminescent lines using various personas and scientific guises to illuminate the dark corners of melancholy and loneliness. You can find her latest in The Lachrymose Report, which is the only poetry book I know of with an index that's also a poem in its own right. Kary Wayson runs a tight ship—terse, musical lyrics that unspool whole logics from a single word or sound. Very much looking forward to Wayson's new book, Via Maria Materi, which will be out from Burnside Review Press in 2020."
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songsforsquid · 3 years
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Thanks for the shout-out, @poetryfoundation​! And thanks to Poetry Northwest, Seattle Arts & Lectures, & Fonograf Editions for this opportunity to interview Alice Notley. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2018/11/an-interview-with-alice-notley-at-poetry-northwest
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Image Courtesy of Alice Notley
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songsforsquid · 5 years
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Upcoming Readings, Classes, & Events Spring 2019
* CASTALIA READING SERIES - Wed March 13th, 2019, starts 8:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Readers: Areej Quraishi (MFA student), Alex Turner (MFA student), Dilara Elbir (MFA student), Sierra Nelson (alumna; poetry), Pimone Triplett (faculty; poetry), and Rae Paris (faculty; poetry). Castalia is a monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni from the University of Washington MFA program. Doors open at 7:45pm; readings begin at 8pm.
* POETRY OF THE UNCANNY: GennaRose Nethercott & Sierra Nelson  Reading - Wed March 20th, 2019, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Event Details: Join poets GennaRose Nethercott and Sierra Nelson for a fabulist, theatrical exploration of the uncanny in celebration of their most recent collections. Nethercott’s book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, tells the haunting story of a woodsman who cuts off his hand with an axe—only to watch it shapeshift into a dove. Moments of Nethercott’s reading will be animated by an elaborate shadow puppet crankie. Sierra Nelson’s newest book of poetry, The Lachrymose Report, examines the tenuous tentacles that connect humans, plants, and animals, that tether us to the past—detailing the ways in which a body is changed by what it encounters. 
* SEASONAL AFFECTIVE: GENERATIVE WORKSHOP - 1-Day Class Sun March 24th, 1:00-4:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Note: Snows disrupted the original date of this writing class at Hugo House, so you have another chance to join in. Would love to see you there! Class Description: Brighten your writing palette and vivify your heart. Together we’ll harness all the ways the seasons affect us to write through the dark and back into light again using science, memory, experiment, and seasonally affected texts (such as Stevens, Glück, Dove, O’Hara) for inspiration. You’ll leave with new writing drafts and fresh experiments to try again at home. Slanted toward poetry but open to all genres. Let this generative class be the energizing lightbox to your notebook’s doldrums. REGISTER HERE.
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* AWP PORTLAND OFF-SITE READING: BLACK OCEAN, POETRY NW, & ENTRE RIOS w/ POETRY-FILM HAPPY HOUR - Thurs March 28th, 6:00 PM-12:00 AM Location: “The Cleaners” at Ace Hotel Portland (1022 SW Stark St, Portland, OR - close to Powells Bookstore)  Event Details: This event will kick-off with Poetry-Film Happy Hour hosted by NW Film Forum and Cadence Video Poetry Festival. Followed by all-star readings featuring authors from Black Ocean, Poetry Northwest, and Entre Ríos Books, ending with Anne Bradfield, Rachel Kessler, and Sierra Nelson performing as the Vis-a-Vis Society with a special interactive reading in anticipation of their forthcoming book 100 Rooms: A Bridge Motel Project (Entre Rios Books). Ending with a DANCE PARTY with Portland’s DJ Lapushi. (Then on Sat March 30th come back to this same location for the Northwest Micropress Bookfair.) More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1082551165269863/
6:00-7:00 p.m. Poetry-Film Happy Hour SET 1 7:30-8:15 p.m. Elisa Gabbert Erin McCoy Wendy Willis Maya Jewell Zeller Kate Lebo David Biespiel Sierra Nelson SET 2 8:30-9:15 p.m. Kary Wayson Laura Read Jake Levine (trans. Kim Kyung Ju) Heather Alfeld Shin Yu Pai Zach Savich SET 3 9:30-10:00 p.m. Vis-à-Vis Society interactive performance DANCE PARTY 10:00 p.m. - midnight DJ Lapaushi from PDX's Noche Libre Latinx DJ Collective
* AWP PORTLAND BOOKFAIR: Poetry NW Booth #6020 - Fri March 29th, 11:00AM-1:00 PM Location: AWP Conference, Oregon Convention Center (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR), Booth #6020 (Poetry Northwest) Details: I’ll be running the booth and signing copies of The Lachrymose Report. Stop by and say hi!
* AWP PORTLAND OFF-SITE READING: WITS ALLIANCE READING - Fri March 29th, 5:00-7:00 PM Location: Literary Arts (925 SW Washington St, Portland, OR) Event Details: Readings by current and former teaching artists working with Writers in the Schools (WITS) programs in different parts of the country, including Seattle, Portland, and Houston. Sierra Nelson will be reading from her new book The Lachrymose Report (Poetry NW Editions, 2018) and sharing about her work for Seattle Arts & Lectures' WITS Program in Seattle. https://www.facebook.com/events/literary-arts/wits-alliance-reading-off-site-awp-event/1487518394711715/ 
* AWP PORTLAND: POETRY NW 60th ANNIVERSARY READING - Sat March 30th, 3:00-04:15 PM Location: AWP Conference, Oregon Convention Center (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR), Level 1, Room #B113 Readers: Olena Kalytiak Davis, Troy Jollimore, Sierra Nelson, and Supritha Rajan, moderated by Kevin Craft. More info: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/16009 
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* POETRY I: Six-Week Class, Saturdays April 6th to May 11th, 1:00-3:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Class Description: Whether a beginning poet or lover of the art, this class will introduce you to the beauty and complexity of writing and reading poetry, as well as the basics of the workshop model. We will look to image, metaphor, sound, lineation, and structure to write our own poems. REGISTER HERE.
* CADENCE VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL - Thurs April 11th, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: NW Film Forum (1515 12th Ave, Seattle), Tickets: $7-12 Event Details: My video-poem “Cephalopod Meditation” (with cinematography by Britta Johnson, sound recording thanks to Emily Eagle) was selected to be part of this Cadence Video Poetry Festival showcase.  More Info: https://nwfilmforum.org/festivals/cadence-video-poetry-festival/ & https://z-m-www.facebook.com/events/600744503671264/
* CEPHALOPOD APPRECIATION SOCIETY - Wed May 1st, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Description: Whether you are already a member of the Cephalopod Appreciation Society (est. 2000 by local poet Sierra Nelson) or just curious to learn more about the stunning and intelligent octopus, squid, chambered nautilus, and cuttlefish, come celebrate these creatures with us through poetry, music, art, dance, film, science, and more at this annual all-ages community event. (Free!) More info: https://hugohouse.org/event/cephalopod-appreciation-society-2/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1072083722974446/
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songsforsquid · 4 years
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3/10, 7pm, Reading at Elliott Bay Books w/ Kary Wayson
On Tuesday, March 10th, 7:00 p.m., at Elliott Bay Book Co. I’m excited to celebrate the long-awaited debut of poet Kary Wayson’s newest book The Slip  (1521 10th Ave, on Capitol Hill, Seattle), and I’ll be opening the event with poems from The Lachrymose Report and some newer work. More about the event here (and if there are any last minute updates).   
If you’re not able to attend in person, The Slip and The Lachrymose Report are also available to purchase online via EBBC (and other local indie bookstores), to ship right to your home! 
Take good care out there. 
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songsforsquid · 5 years
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Reading at the Hibulb Cultural Center on Oct 3rd
I am honored to be reading for the Poetry Series at the Hibulb Cultural Center ( 6410 23rd Ave NE, Tulalip, WA ) this Thursday, October 3rd, 2019, starting at 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and you can explore the Hibulb Cultural Center for free as well for First Thursday. The reading will be followed by an open mic. 
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songsforsquid · 6 years
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November 2nd The Lachrymose Report Book Launch Reading at Open Books
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The Lachrymose Report finally exists in tangible form, thanks to PoetryNW Editions! The official book celebration & reading will be on Friday, November 2nd at (NEW LOCATION!) Nii Modo, 4455 Stone Way N., Seattle, WA in Wallingford (near Tutta Bella, under the Big Wheel Auto Parts sign).  Open Books will be there selling books. Doors at 7:00 p.m., reading starts 7:30 p.m., celebration to follow. Free & all ages. 
Open Books event / FB Event / The Stranger Recommends.
But you don’t have to wait to start reading. You can also order the book now via PoetryNW’s website, through favorite Seattle indie bookstores like Open Books or Elliott Bay Book Co., or encourage another local bookstore wherever you are to carry it by asking them to order it for you (and maybe they’ll put another copy on the shelf while they’re at it). 
The Lachrymose Report is a dream a longtime in the making, and this hardcover edition is extra dreamy with its glossy science textbook look. (PoetryNW Editions, you worked wonders!) Looking forward to celebrating its debut with you soon and at further readings after that (stay tuned). 
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songsforsquid · 6 years
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Four Imagined Movies: online debut
Now you can watch “Four Imagined Movies” online, hosted on Poetry Northwest’s Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/260476905
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Four Imagined Movies: A short poem-film moves lyrically through four seasons - from spring's potentially corny exuberance to winter's desire to relive what we felt before - with an id-like wandering uterus, longing to connect.
Thank you to Poetry Northwest for commissioning this poem-film from my poem-in-four-parts "Four Imagined Movies," & thank you to Jack Straw Cultural Center for your support in making the audio recording of the poem sound so good (plus your patience as I tried some fun sound effect experiments!). I cannot thank enough the talented Britta Johnson for her stunning cinematography, stellar film editing, and deep collaboration at every step of the film project, along with visionary concept & film collaborations (as always) working with the talented multidisciplinary wonder Rachel Kessler. Plus thank you to our crew of performers including Anne Bradfield, Eric Olson, & Michael Seiwerath. And thank you to Rana San & Chelsea Jean Werner-Jatzke for giving this film its World Premier at Cadence: Video Poetry Festival at NW Film Forum. (That's a lot of thank you's for a 4-minute movie!) 
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expeditionpress · 6 years
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The smell of #ink is strong in the shop this morning. Happy Monday! #black #printing #goldingjobber #flywheel #letterpress #typography @poetrynw #readwhileyoucan #lukebrekke
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expeditionpress · 7 years
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Today's tools of the trade – paper, pencil, laptop, pica pole, and sea of damn fine words for a collaboration in the works with @poetrynw ! #poetry #typography #community #design #process
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songsforsquid · 5 years
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Thurs 12/6/18: Book-Flood Reading at Seattle’s Nordic Museum
Thanks to the Seattle-Reykjavik Sister City Association, in collaboration with the Seattle City of Literature, I’ll be sharing some of my Iceland-inspired rune poems for a Book-Flood celebration at the Nordic Museum in Ballard (2655 NW Market St, Seattle), on Thursday, December 6th. Event begins 6:00 p.m., I'll kick off the readings starting promptly at 6:30 p.m., along with fellow readers D.A. Navoti, Andy Meyer, anthropologist Margaret Wilson, and inaugural 2015–2016 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Leija Farr. All ages. Admission is FREE for First Thursday.
PLUS this event is a benefit for Seattle's emergency shelter Mary's Place for women, children, and families. Everyone is encouraged to bring a book to donate (new or gently used children’s book or a paperback) as part of the benefit drive. You can bring your book donations to the reading and drop off in the museum gift shop, OR you can drop off books to the gift shop anytime during regular museum hours between 12/1 and 12/16.
There will also be a Pop-Up Book-Flood Bookshop inside the Nordic Museum 12/1-12/9 as part of the Book-Flood celebrations. My book The Lachrymose Report (PoetryNW Editions) will be available for sale there in good company, if you are looking for a gift for someone, or a new book for you to help get you through the winter.
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