OPEN BOOKS
Paul Hunter
If we don’t read one another
who do we ever read
and if we don’t read one another
who can we expect to read us?
and if we don’t read one another
and if we don’t read
why bother writing
these lines so deep in our faces
that take so much living
to begin to make a dent
the child’s dimple a tiny word
the frown of a young adult
a curse and the sags the scars
by forty a couplet
by fifty or sixty scarce a sonnet
even by ninety and a hundred
the tale told rarely an epic
but always
always worth another look
– Paul Hunter
Writers of all ages and skill levels gather every Tuesday at 7P at SPLAB to read new work, the work of someone else or to just be in the engaging company of other writers. At Living Room this week we’ll take the first 30 minutes to learn about someone else in the circle and take another look with a writing exercise created by Anne Waldman and based on a technique used by Jack Kerouac. Paul Nelson facilitates.
Anne Waldman
Your donation of $5 helps SPLAB put on special events and continue programming AND gets you an entry in our monthly raffle for way cool prizes. You must be present to win. Please bring 8 copies of the work you plan to read. If you do not bring copies, they are available for 10c.
Living Room happens at SPLAB in the Cultural Corner of the old Columbia School, between Rainier AV S and 36th AV S, on Edmunds. We’re 2 blocks from the Columbia City Link Light Rail Station. Free parking is available on the school grounds.