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Jan 21, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/21/10 – Benaroya Hall – Kim Addonizio

Who
Kim Addonizio
When
Thursday, January 21, 2010
7:30pm - $15/10 - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
Benaroya Hall (map)
200 University Street
Seattle, WA, USA 98101

Benaroya Hall is the home of the Seattle Symphony, in Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. It features two auditoriums, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, a 2500 seat performance venue as well as the Nordstrom Recital Hall which seats roughly 500.
Other Info
Seattle Arts & Lectures features Kim Addonizio and Port Townsend poet Gary Lilley with guitarist Tarik Fawal

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Jan 17, 2010 0

Seattle, USA – 01/17/10 – Pilot Books – Graham Foust

Who
Graham Foust
When
Sunday, January 17, 2010
3:00pm - All Ages
Where
Pilot Books (map)
Upstairs - Suite 28
219 Broadway E
Seattle, USA, WA 98102

Pilot Books is a bookstore stocking independently produced fiction, poetry, magazines, chapbooks, and other printed objects. They carry books from McSweeney's, 3rd Bed Books, Future Tense, Chiasmus Press, and other presses. Upstairs in the pedestrian mall on Broadway on Capitol Hill, they offer a fine selection, a reading "attic", and regular writing sessions (rather than classes), book groups, and readings.
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"A Mouth in California, Graham Foust’s fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, misheard song lyrics, and off-key phrasing, Foust creates a unique idiom of tragicomic pratfalls, a ballet of falling down. Yet the elasticity of Foust’s language repels the stiff-necked adversaries of thought: “what’s the wrong way to break / that brick of truth back into music?”

Graham Faust is the author of four full-fledged poetry collections: As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003), Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta Press, 2004), Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007), and newly, A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009).

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Jan 14, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/14/10 – Open Books: A Poem Emporium – Pimone Triplett

Who
Pimone Triplett
When
Thursday, January 14, 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.

Other Info
Pimone Triplett reads from her third collection, Rumor, published by Triquarterly / Northwestern University Press. She is also the author of The Price of Light and Ruining the Picture and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. She teaches at the University of Washington and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

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Jan 14, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/14/10 – Seattle University – Oliver de la Paz, Rick Barot, Donna Miscolta & Toni Bajado

Who
Oliver de la Paz, Rick Barot, Donna Miscolta & Toni Bajado
When
Thursday, January 14, 2010
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Seattle University (map)
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98122
Other Info
Words Expressed - Filipino Poets & Writers Reading with Oliver de la Paz, asst. professor at Western WA University; Rick Barot, asst. professor at Pacific Lutheran University; Donna Miscolta, 2009 Jack Straw Curator; and Toni Bajado, from North Seattle Community College. Free and open to the public.

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Jan 13, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 01/13/10 – Seattle Public Central Library – David Huerta & Mark Schafer

Who
David Huerta & Mark Schafer
When
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Seattle Public Central Library (map)
1000 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98104
Other Info
This bilingual poetry reading features one of Mexico's major poets, David Huerta, the author of nineteen collections, now with his first major translated work to be published in the U.S. Published by Copper Canyon Press, Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems, is a bilingual volume that finally introduces this esteemed figure to readers up here. Translator Mark Schafer will also be on hand. "David Huerta's verses ... are ornate, cerebral, bookish, apocalyptic to the point of abstraction." - Los Angeles Times Book Review. David Huerta also has a number of poems in the acclaimed Copper Canyon anthology of contemporary Mexican work, Reversible Monuments.

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Jan 8, 2010 0

Tacoma, WA – 01/08/10 – King’s Books – Michael Spence

Who
Michael Spence
When
Friday, January 8, 2010
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
King's Books (map)
218 St. Helens Ave.
Tacoma, WA, USA 98402

King’s Books is co-owned by John Schoppert and Pat McDermott. Both worked at Powell’s in Portland where they had a combined 14 years of learning the book trade.

Other Info
A nationally-acclaimed Northwest poet and writer, Michael Spence has also driven public-transit buses in the Seattle area for 25 years. His poetry has appeared recently in The Hopkins Review, The North American Review, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. New work is forthcoming in The New Criterion, The Chariton Review, The Sewanee Review, and Tar River Poetry. In 1990, he was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest book, Crush Depth, twice a finalist for The New Criterion Poetry Prize, was published this past May by Truman State University Press.

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