Poets and Music at Hugo House!
Do you enjoy listening to local hip musicians? AND do you enjoy poetry! Then tonight’s event at Richard Hugo House, featuring the Bushwick Book Club‘s collaborative meeting of Seattle poets and musicians, is probably your kind of thing! It’s $8 at the door, but this kind of unique performance is totally worth it. My poem “Sleeping Beauty Loves the Needle” is going to be turned into a real, live song by the genius work of Joy Mills. Pretty exciting!
Poets include: Ed Skoog, Evan Peterson, Bill Carty, Daemond Arrindell, Elaina Ellis, Jeannine Hall-Gailey, Amber Flame and Elissa Ball.
Musicians include: James Kelly Pitts, Scott Adams, Joy Mills, Karen Lindenberg, Shawnmarie Stanton, Susy Sundborg, Elijah Sussman and Wes Weddell.
Hope to see you there tonight!
And, you know, I may post a bit more about this later, but you may want to keep your eyes open for the May/June issue of American Poetry Review. No special reason, you know, just…
The Rumpus poetry feature today, New Pages mention, and more!
My poem “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter [brushes with death]” is featured up on The Rumpus today: http://therumpus.net/2012/04/
A nice early birthday present – thanks Rumpus!
Also, NewPages.com coincidentally featured a link to my old essay on Poemeleon on women poets and persona poetry here:
http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/women-writers-and-persona-poem.html
So thanks to New Pages too!
A lot of poets are born in April, aren’t they? Tracy K. Smith celebrated her birthday yesterday with a Pulitzer for Life On Mars, which I also celebrated as a win for “geek” poetry! And for scientist’s daughter poets everywhere. (Women poets whose fathers are scientists include Margaret Atwood, Louise Gluck, Tracy K. Smith, Kathleen Flenniken, and me.) Yay! On the down side, fiction writers everywhere were kicked in the teeth when they didn’t choose any winners for fiction this year. Ouch. Personally I think they should have picked Helen Phillips strange, wonderful collection And Yet They Were Happy.
Remember to pick up a ticket to the April 26 event at Hugo House, “Poets and Music.” Local musicians put some local poets’ work to music, including mine! Collaboration at its finest. Joy Mills is producing a song based on a poem, “Sleeping Beauty Loves the Needle,” from my upcoming third book. I feel really honored.
Here’s a link with more info:
http://www.strangertickets.com/events/4784131/the-bushwick-book-club-seattle-and-the-richard-hugo-house-present
