Easy Speak Rainier Beach

It is with great excitement that we announce an extension of the popular Easy Speak reading series to Jude’s Old Town in Rainier Beach on the first Monday of each month beginning on December 4, 2017. The Easy Speak series started five years ago at the Wedgwood Ale House and continues to attract good crowds who listen well and participate in an open mic that is the best in Seattle since Red Sky Poetry Theater ended in 2005.

SPLAB has not had a presence in our home neighborhood since the Columbia City SPLAB in the old Columbia School featured a well-attended writer’s critique circle and special events like the Ginsberg Marathon and visits by Nate Mackey, Brenda Hillman, Cedar Sigo and CA Conrad, among others. Now that we are in Rainier Beach, we’re delighted to have a literary beachhead. Jude’s is generally not open on Mondays, but will make an exception for us. They’ll feature a limited menu and their specialty cocktails made from locally-distilled alcohol. We are grateful for their support.

Our first featured reader is the new Civic Poet of Seattle, Anastacia Renee. The former 2015-2017 Poet- in-Residence at Hugo House is a hybrid genre writer, workshop facilitator and multivalent performance artist. She is the author of four books: Forget It (Black Radish Books), (v.),(Gramma Press), Answer( M e) (Argus Press), and 26 (Dancing Girl Press) and her poetry, prose and fiction have been published widely.

In addition, music for the evening will be provided by the Jim O’Halloran Trio, featuring Jim on flutes, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass and Jacques Willis on drums.

Come on out, read a poem, play a tune, or come just to listen and enjoy a night of music and literary art. We hope to see you on December 4, New Year’s Day, or any of the upcoming first Mondays.

Dec 4 – Anastacia Renee
Jan 1 – New Year’s Day Matinee, 5-8pm all Open Mic
Feb 5 – Claudia Castro-Luna
Mar 5 – Wendy Call
Apr 2 – T. Clear

 

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.
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