From Alex Bleecker:
yes, this means we’ll be marrying off minors, so if you’ve got one of your own that you’d like to get rid of, bring some dowry money and we’ll take it from there. it also means we’ll be featuring some of the most talented performers under 20 years old in the seattle area! this should be one of our biggest, youngest breadlines yet, so come early & come often, especially if you want a seat / spot on the open mic, which we anticipate will be full by 7:30. see you in it!
featuring:
youth speaks poets
gibson collins & troy osaki (spoken word)
the rue (music)
britta johnson (video)
+ open mic
wed, july 20, 7p
vermillion art gallery bar
1508 eleventh av (pike/pine)
all ages ~ no cover
breadline.wordpress.com
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
