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Mar 12, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 03/12/10 – Elliott Bay Book Company – Karen Finneyfrock

Who
Karen Finneyfrock
When
Friday, March 12, 2010
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Elliott Bay Book Company (map)
101 South Main Street
Seattle, WA, USA 98104

Located in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square District, Seattle's original business neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a series of inviting, exposed-brick walled rooms.
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Seattle poet, novelist, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a “Legend” at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (write bloody publications). Seattle Magazine chose her as one of their 2009 Spotlight Award winners, naming her “Queen of the Spoken Word.” She is also the author of Queen of the Butterfly House.

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Feb 14, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 02/14/10 – Open Books: A Poem Emporium – Friends of Crysta Casey

Who
Friends of Crysta Casey
When
Sunday, February 14, 2010
3:00pm - All Ages
Where
Open Books: A Poem Emporium (map)
2414 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA, USA 98103

Open Books: A Poem Emporium is a bookstore in Seattle, WA devoted to poetry and poetry-related titles. Their inventory, now at over 9,000 titles and growing, includes new, used, and out-of-print books from a wide variety of publishers. They also carry a selection of poetry audio tapes, compact discs, and video tapes. They strive to keep our shelves eclectic and welcome suggestions for additions to the stock.

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Poet, artist, and veteran Crysta Casey left behind many friends and two poetry manuscripts when she died in 2008. Floating Bridge Press has drawn poems from those manuscripts to produce the collection Green Cammie ($12). To celebrate its publication, several of her friends will read from it this afternoon. Ms. Casey was also the author of Heart Clinic, received a Hugo Award from Richard Hugo House, and was a finalist for Seattle Poet Populist in 2006.

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Feb 5, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 02/05/10 – Elliott Bay Book Company – Paul Nelson & Amalio Madueño

Who
Paul Nelson & Amalio Madueño
When
Friday, February 5, 2010
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Elliott Bay Book Company (map)
101 South Main Street
Seattle, WA, USA 98104

Located in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square District, Seattle's original business neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a series of inviting, exposed-brick walled rooms.
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A month rich in poetry contains this reading by two poets with deep roots in their respective literary communities, from their years of teaching, curating and documenting fellow poets, and their own work as artists. Paul Nelson, well known to many hereabouts as founder of Global Voices Radio and a co-founder of the Northwest Spokenword LAB, reads from his much-awaited book-length poem on the history of Auburn, A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House). Joining him this evening is visiting poet Amalio Madueño, who lives and writes in the Rio Arriba area, near Taos, New Mexico. A past president of the Taos Poetry Circus and the author of several chapbooks and collections, he will read from recent work, some of which is included in Lost in the Chamiso (Wild Embers Press), while more will be in the forthcoming collection, Bosque Stream (coming in fall 2010).

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Jan 28, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/28/10 – Open Books: A Poem Emporium – Olena Kalytiak Davis & Kary Wayson

Who
Olena Kalytiak Davis & Kary Wayson
When
Thursday, January 28, 2010
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Open Books: A Poem Emporium (map)
2414 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA, USA 98103

Open Books: A Poem Emporium is a bookstore in Seattle, WA devoted to poetry and poetry-related titles. Their inventory, now at over 9,000 titles and growing, includes new, used, and out-of-print books from a wide variety of publishers. They also carry a selection of poetry audio tapes, compact discs, and video tapes. They strive to keep our shelves eclectic and welcome suggestions for additions to the stock.

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Ms. Davis joins us to read from her most recent publication, the chapbook On the Kitchen Table from Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed. A resident of Alaska, she has written two full-length collections -- Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities and And Her Soul Out of Nothing, which received the Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. Ms. Wayson's first collection, American Husband, was awarded the 2009 Charles B. Wheeler Prize from the Ohio State University Press. Her chapbook, Dog & Me, was published by LitRag Press. She is the recipient of a 2003 Discovery/The Nation Prize and was recently a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Ms. Wayson lives in Seattle.

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Jan 28, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/28/10 – Open Books: A Poem Emporium – Olena Kalytiak David and Kary Wayson

Who
Olena Kalytiak David and Kary Wayson
When
Thursday, January 28, 2010
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Open Books: A Poem Emporium (map)
2414 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA, USA 98103

Open Books: A Poem Emporium is a bookstore in Seattle, WA devoted to poetry and poetry-related titles. Their inventory, now at over 9,000 titles and growing, includes new, used, and out-of-print books from a wide variety of publishers. They also carry a selection of poetry audio tapes, compact discs, and video tapes. They strive to keep our shelves eclectic and welcome suggestions for additions to the stock.

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On the Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed ($12.50) is the snappy title of Olena Kalytiak Davis’s recent chapbook. Her poems carry confession to wild, modern heights (mocking the lyrical "I" -- "'i'" knows 'i' is alone in her red truck") and to somber, classical depths (writing from the point of view of Francesca, an adulterer in Dante’s Inferno). Love and sex, the having, remembering, and losing of, is palpable here. Davis’s work seems nearly boundless, and self-aware enough to address the sadness inherent in that "nearly."

Kary Wayson’s first full-length collection, American Husband ($13.95 Ohio State) sparks with passion and cracklingly musical language. Love, lust, pain, self-deprecation ("silly thing, to feel / disheveled in front of a flower") all push her poems along at a wholly controlled, breakneck pace. Singular imagery complements her jazzy sound -- "The body’s a closet / with cats in the back. / The sea’s grown woolen / and white. I am / his considerable widow / now one syllable / bigger than wife."

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Jan 24, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/24/10 – Open Books: A Poem Emporium – Paul Nelson

Who
Paul Nelson
When
Sunday, January 24, 2010
3:00pm - All Ages
Where
Open Books: A Poem Emporium (map)
2414 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA, USA 98103

Open Books: A Poem Emporium is a bookstore in Seattle, WA devoted to poetry and poetry-related titles. Their inventory, now at over 9,000 titles and growing, includes new, used, and out-of-print books from a wide variety of publishers. They also carry a selection of poetry audio tapes, compact discs, and video tapes. They strive to keep our shelves eclectic and welcome suggestions for additions to the stock.

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Paul Everett Nelson presents his newly published book, A Time Before Slaughter ($12.95 Apprentice House), an epic poem re-enacting the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Nelson is founder of the nonprofit Global Voices Radio and co-founder of the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB!). A radio broadcaster from 1980 to 2006, he has interviewed hundreds of authors, poets, activists, and whole-system theorists for a syndicated public affairs radio program. He is a resident of Seattle and is past president of the Washington Poets Association.

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