Presenting: Runoff! the Cascadia Poetry Festival Beer Slam Qualifier
Sunday April 6th, 8p.m. at Naked City Brewing
Naked City
In anticipation of Cascadia Poetry Festival’s Beer Slam, where poets of all styles and locations from around Cascadia show their swagger, Naked City and the Cascadia Poetry Festival present this qualifying round, which will determine who represents Seattle to Cascadia at large. Eight poets will compete bout-style, and the winner goes on to compete May 2nd in the Beer Slam at Spring Street Center at 10pm against poets from all over Cascadia. (Weekend Gold Passes are now on sale at www.CascadiaPoetryFestival.org).
Featuring competing poetic stylings of
Morris Stegosaurus, Roberto Ascalon, Casey Tonnelly, Rich Smith, Larry Crist, Sara Brickman, Kris Hall, and Laura Wachs.
This event is free and the bar will be open.
8564 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103
206.838.6299
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.
