LITQUAKE! POETRY WORLD SERIES! Seattle’s John Roderick emcees this rowdy, fast-paced reading. Two teams of award-winning poets take turns batting at topics pitched by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs: these poets won't know what's coming! 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Emceed by the devastatingly witty John Roderick! Two teams of award-winning poets--Kim Addonizio, Douglas Kearney, Malachi Black, Julia Levine, Javier Zamora, and Raina Leon--take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience.
Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won't know what's coming next! Hilarity guaranteed. Eminently qualified judges D. A. Powell and Bich Minh Nguyen will score each batter's reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Book sale/signing follows the reading.
Tickets are $5 in advance/$10 at the door. Doors open at 6:30. Don't forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with!
As poet Marianne Moore wrote, “Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing. / You can never tell with either / how it will go.”
Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won't know what's coming next! Hilarity guaranteed. Eminently qualified judges D. A. Powell and Bich Minh Nguyen will score each batter's reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Book sale/signing follows the reading.
Tickets are $5 in advance/$10 at the door. Doors open at 6:30. Don't forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with!
As poet Marianne Moore wrote, “Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing. / You can never tell with either / how it will go.”
BURN DOWN the DiSCO! ~ 80s DANCE PARTY! ~ groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~ DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~ FREE! 9:30 pm - 2:00 am
BURN DOWN the DiSCO! ~ 80s DANCE PARTY!
~ presents: ALL HALLOWS EVE - A tribute to Goth and the Dark Wave. Let's celebrate the season and feast on such Iconic bands as Bauhaus, Specimen, The Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, Killing Joke, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, And Also The Trees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tones on Tail and the Cure ~(along with our usual array of groove, wave, synth pop, goth, and other underground club favorites) ~ DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U
FREE! 9:30 pm
BURN DOWN the DiSCO! ~ 80s DANCE PARTY!
~ presents: ALL HALLOWS EVE - A tribute to Goth and the Dark Wave. Let's celebrate the season and feast on such Iconic bands as Bauhaus, Specimen, The Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, Killing Joke, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, And Also The Trees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tones on Tail and the Cure ~(along with our usual array of groove, wave, synth pop, goth, and other underground club favorites) ~ DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U
FREE! 9:30 pm
