This from the EasySpeak folks:
Easy Speak Seattle
Tell us your poems, sing us your songs, speak us your paragraphs. Or give us anything else you can perform in five minutes.
Greetings Easy Speakers,
If you thought you were going to get a break from Easy Speak on the fifth Monday of the month . . . oh no, my friend, you are so wrong. Paul Nelson is responsible for this invitation:
As there is no Easy Speak event scheduled on that orphan 5th Monday, I recommend you bring a 5th of your favorite gin (or whatever it is you drink) to the Spring Street Center for a gathering less formal in nature, more suited to chatting than open mic, but with the notion we may read each other our recent best.
Spring Street Center is 1101 15th, at the corner of 15th & Spring. You can park on the street or in the lot at 16th & Union, a block north and one block east of the house.
Show up anytime after 7:30 on Monday, March 31, 2014. (If it’s fun, we may try it again June 30, 2014 and September 29, 2014.)
Should be fun to hang out.
Link to Spring Street Center.
Thank you Paul! I (this is Munro speaking) am looking forward to it.
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.
