TISH Happens

Frank Davey

Frank Davey

For a sense of what TISH was about, and one of the most important movements in Cascadia poetry history, see Kevin Killian’s review of When TISH Happens, the new Frank Davie memoir of the magazine: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/04/when-tish-happens/

& for only $25 for the whole weekend, get your Gold Pass for the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival, where George Bowering and Daphne Marlatt (of that TISH group) read, give workshops, appear on panels and hang out at what may be the largest bioregional gathering of poets in Cascadia history: www.CascadiaPoetryFestival.org

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Beer Slam & Cascadia Sponsors

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Get Naked!

Our IndieGoGo campaign has some WONDERFUL premiums, like bourbon (&/or tea) with translator Red Pine and sushi with Sam Hamill, among other things. Sponsors include:

4Culture
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Cascadia Community College
Cascadia Now
Central Co-op (Madison Market)
Leaf Press
Naked City Brewpub
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
Restaurant Zoë
Sakura (Sushi Bar in Burlington, WA)
Seattle University’s Creative Writing Department
Sightline Institute
Spring Street Center
The Common Acre
WITS (Writers in the Schools)

Sponsors Include:

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Cascadia Beer Slam Qualifier April 6

Presenting: Runoff! the Cascadia Poetry Festival Beer Slam Qualifier

Sunday April 6th, 8p.m. at Naked City Brewing

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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
206.838.6299Cascadia Poetry Festival logo

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Easy Speak 5th Monday

This from the EasySpeak folks:

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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.

 

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