Hi All,
A message from your classmate Will. He will be reading in Seattle; and his reading Series, Big Pelt, will be featuring 2 outstanding poets (see 1 & 2 below).
As part of his contract with me, Will is also doing the logistics on bringing one of Seattle’s rock stars to campus for a reading in mid-March (after CA Conrad). As part of the PRESS series, this is great news, and for our class, it’s a chance to work with one of the founders of SubText Reading Series and now “Autonomous U,” an alternative learning collective based in the arts and radical pedagogy. More soon on Robert’s visit. For now, read below:
1) I’m reading at the Seattle Art Museum’s remix night – it’s a kind of quarterly open house, tons of events & open bars. I’m reading with Rebar Niemi (thebest kept secret of seattle poetry in my mind, this kid’s 19 & has the most developed engagement with critical theory I’ve ever come into contact with. I can only assume his parents taught him how to read using negative dialectics or something) & a few visual artists as a part of a Pecha Kucha curated by Jessica Powers & Sol Hashemi.
It’s Sat, Feb 26th at 8PM, $10 but free if you’re one of the first 100 people to show up. Sam’s on 2nd avenue betweenUniversity & Union in downtown seattle.
2) The february Big Pelt series is happening this sunday, two of the younger members of the Kootenay School of writing, Emily Fedoruk & Cris Costa, are reading. They’re doing a collaborative essay on gender & spectacle – I know there’s some hairmetal anecdotes in the project already, I can only hope the olympics are too (C&E’re most certanly have a place for grunge-ish humor in their poetry & poetics – you can tell they’ve both spent lots of time with mr derksen). This is Sun 28th @6pm at Pilot Books – 219 Broadway ave E above the japanese restaurant.