Join us for the 2nd Easy Speak Rainier Beach on New Year’s Day 2018!
Are we waiting for poetry in the new year? NO!
All open mic at a special time 5-8pm at Jude’s, with craft cocktails, tasty dinner items and YOUR OPEN MIC performance. More info here.
Jude’s Old Town 9254 57th Av S, Seattle, WA, right off the 7 Metro Bus headed to Prentice.
We need to learn from Fujitaro and see the gardens that can grow from our wastelands, from the Pacific trash heap to the City of Seattle dump to the logged former forestland to the filled in estuaries of rivers like the Duwamish that make the Port of Seattle or Marshlands that make Baltimore’s inner harbor to the sprawl of LA and suburbs around all cities in this country to the merciless businesses of insurance and pharmaceuticals and lobbying and media (social, in particular) and AI and bottled water and so on.
A workshop for poets interested in making the most out of the summer Poetry Postcard Fest and the end of fest daysong, day-long writing ritual,
Writing poetry in a time of crisis, Ukraine, postcards.”War tries to destroy culture because culture sustains identity and memory. Literature is not only a victim of war, it is an instrument of survival, resistance, witnessing – and, sometimes, welcome refuge…”
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