[ January 23, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
We are The Photo Booth and we’re taking the nation this winter in a light blue Toyota Camry named Skeeter Valentine. We are:
Chris Rockwell has been performing music and poetry across the country for the past ten years. He is a two time nationally competing slam poet, and in 2006 he won the title of [...]
Sometimes, people tell me they like the snow. Then I’ll tell them there won’t be a reading this evening.
We will return next week, once the weather has become a little less… inclement. Matt Gano will return in the near future. Maybe this month. Maybe the next. We’ll keep you posted.
Until then, a poem:
The North [...]
[ January 16, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
In 2011, Matt Gano has guest lectured at The Juilliard School in New York City, featured for “Page Meets Stage,” at the Bowery Poetry Club, and led writing workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Matt has traveled internationally teaching creative writing and performance in Seoul, Korea, and in 2009 earned a three-month artist [...]
[ August 22, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
D. Antwan Stewart writes serious poems about serious subjects, adding humor whenever he can, but for some reason his poems are ornery and frequently flips him the finger whenever he courts laughter; so for balance he goes out to bars and allows folks to lick his face. Nevertheless, he still considers himself a “somewhat” accomplished poet, having been awarded [...]
[ July 18, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
Melissa Queen was brought up in the southern literary tradition of tall tales, iced tea, and moonshine, before being transplanted in Eastern Washington at the age of 15.
She moved to Bellingham to attend WWU and earn her undergraduate degree in creative writing, with a minor in music, and became an active member of Poetrynight. Now [...]
[ May 23, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
How do we become who we are? That’s the question at the center of Seattle-based poet Elizabeth Austen’s collection, Every Dress a Decision, just released by Blue Begonia Press. Austen’s poems test the boundaries between the known and the unknowable, as a woman reckons with the sudden death of a brother and her complicated past, [...]
[ April 18, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Once more into the breach, Poetrynight!
At the moment, Matthew is an unemployed poet living in a group house with a bunch of hippies. If memory can be trusted, he wrote his first poems somewhere around the age of five. He was first published in the “Brouwer Book of Bad Boetry,” a multi-authored work written entirely within the [...]
[ April 4, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
The man behind the curtains of the great and powerful Seattle Poetry Slam is finally stepping into the spotlight…
Daemond Arrindell is a workshop facilitator, counselor, community organizer, advocate and wants to be a poet when he grows up. Slam Master of Seattle and producer of the longest running weekly show in Seattle – the Seattle [...]
[ March 28, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and diagnosed with Dyslexia at the age of 10, Marc has far exceeded the boundaries brought on by his early disability. Not only does he travel the world performing Spoken Word, but he is also a published Novelist, Producer and Public Speaker. After publishing his first novel, he then published [...]
[ March 21, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
From out of the wild and savage wildernesses of Ohio, Zach Oden comes! A head full of flames and a mouth full of poetry, he comes!
Here, for your perusal, is a bio. But be warned, my darlings, for a bio is simply facts, and facts have very little to do with the truth.
Zach Oden teaches [...]
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