The Hummingbird Saloon
From T Clear:
Greetings Easy Speakers!
It’s time again for Easy Speak at the Hummingbird Saloon!
I would be more than delighted if you came and shared your songs, poems, shopping lists, paragraphs, memos and all measures of inspired performance that take up no more than five minutes at the mic.
We start things up round about 8pm, there will be a sign-up sheet at the bar. And….happy hour prices all evening!
Easy Speak
Open Mic
5041 Rainier Av S.
Seattle, WA
7:30P SIGNUP
5:00 time limit
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.
Is there going to be the open mike this coming Monday Dec 23 at the Hummingbird? I’m guessing not, but thought I’d check.
Also, can I tell a story instead of a poem? I know it has to 5 min or less…
Thanks,
Yes this is an open mic.