Elliot Bay Readings

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So much poetry! The Writers in the Schools reading will undoubtedly be killer.

CATHERINE WING
January 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Catherine Wing reads here this evening from her new poetry collection, Enter Invisible (Sarabande), the second title in the Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature. Now based in Seattle, she grew up in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and, along the way, has also had work appear in The Chicago Review, Field, and Poetry. "Every publisher announces a debut collection by claiming that the poet's voice is fresh, groundbreaking, surprising. Wing's actually is all of that...she creates dazzling, surreal vignettes populated by strange characters who seem both recognizable and dreamlike...Wing is an impressive talent, well worth watching." - Booklist.
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CHRISTINE DEAVEL & KARY BARRETT WAYSON
Thursday, January 12 at 7:30 p.m.

This evening brings two fine Seattle poets together to read from new chapbooks that have been published by Seattle’s LitRag Press. Christine Deavel, also known for her vital part in poetry matters here as co-proprietor, with John W. Marshall, of the wonderful Open Books: A Poetry Emporium, is here with Box of Little Spruce. Some of the poems have appeared, along the way, in Fence, Iowa Review, and LitRag. Kary Barrett Wayson, a 2004 The Nation/Discovery Award-winner, reads from Dog & Me. Some of this work has appeared in Field, Mass Ave., Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, LitRag, and a few of the Pontoon anthologies. Also expected to be on hand tonight are some past and present issues of LitRag, the literary journal (see www.litrag.com).


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BRIAN TURNER & ANDREW HIMES
Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m.

Co-presented with VOICES IN WARTIME. The poetry of Brian Turner, who served in both the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict and the Iraq War, has been compared to the wartime poetry of Komunyakaa, Sassoon, and Anderson, among others. His powerful collection, Here, Bullet (Alice James), has received positive attention in Military Review, Library Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He and his work were prominently featured in the acclaimed documentary film, Voices in Wartime. "Turner has sent a dispatch from a place arguably more incomprehensible than the moon—the war in Iraq—and deserves our thanks." - The New Yorker. "Readers take note: 21st-century poetry, as such, may well begin here." - T.R. Hummer. Joining Brian Turner here today is peace and social justice organizer Andrew Himes, editor of the anthology, Voices in Wartime: A Collection of Narratives and Poems (Whit Press) and executive producer of the film, Voices in Wartime.
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WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS Faculty Group Reading
Saturday, January 21 at 2 p.m.

Presented by SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. Eight local writers-in-residence from Writers in the Schools, a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures that serves over 7,000 students in nineteen regional public schools, share the stage here today to present new work. EMILY BEDARD, poet, screenwriter, and editor of Crab Creek Review; ROSALIND BELL, novelist and screenwriter; LYN COFFIN, writer and actor; SIBYL JAMES, author of six books, including the Vietnam travel memoir Ho Chi Minh's Motorbike; poet SIERRA NELSON of The Typing Explosion and currently the Vis-à-Vis Society; poet REBECCA HOOGS, author of Grenade; and poet CODY WALKER are all expected to be here. Please join us. Read more about Writers in the Schools at www.lectures.org.