Jarret Middleton
December 12 – Jarret Middleton – 7P plus Open Mic. Emcee Greg Bem. Doe Bay Cafe, Orcas Is.
JARRET MIDDLETON is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press, an independent literary publisher in Seattle. He is the author of An Dantomine Eerly, a surreal debut novel that follows the last thoughts and memories of the Irish-American poet Dallin as he passes into death. Jarret began ADE on a typewriter in a house with no electricity on Monhegan Island, eighteen miles off the coast of Maine. He lives in Seattle. More info available at www.jarretmiddleton.com www.darkcoastpress.com
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Greg Bem
Some photos of the evening by Greg Bem:
SPLAB @ Doe Bay sign
Jarret Middleton
Greg Bem reads, Jarret Middleton listens
Jennifer Brennock on the open mic
Jarret & the famous Doe Bay Cafe Mirror Wall
Jennifer
Unidentified Open Mic reader
About Splabman
Poet/interviewer Paul Nelson:
Founded: SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival
Wrote: American Sentences (2015), A Time Before Slaughter (2010) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (Lumme Editions, Brazil, 2013). His 2015 interview with José Kozer was published in 2016 (Ranchos Press) as Tiovivo Tres Amigos.
Interviewed: Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Diane di Prima, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Brenda Hillman, among others and is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, including the festival, a MOOC (Innovative Cascadia Poetry), interviews with Cascadia poets indigenous elders and activists, and the anthology Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia. Paul is co-editor of that anthology as well as 56 Days of August the poetry postcard anthology and writes an American Sentence daily.
*MOOC = Massive Open Online Course
