November 17, 2009
Anthony Alvarado Daniel Bailey Evelyn Hampton
This Saturday is going to be hot shit.
3pm – Anthony Alvarado & Friend(s)
Author (Anthony) and illustrator (Tony Morgan) of Throwing Bones, a collection of short stories from Gunbaby Graphics, are coming around to liven up your Saturday afternoon. Gunbaby specializes in random weirdness and macabre storytelling, so be forewarned.
7pm – Evelyn Hampton and Daniel Bailey
Daniel joins us as part of the West Coast tour for his new book, The Drunk Sonnets (Magic Helicopter Press). He’s got a thing with Noo Journal. Evelyn is more of a local and she’s got a thing with Dewclaw (also a journal, and how).
November 10, 2009
Mundane, Melancholy, Moody
Two new titles, just in, if you please:
Cover art, ”Flea Crash,” by Hayley Barker
Put Your Head In My Lap by Claudia Smith (Future Tense, 2009) $5
The mundane as minefield. “…a new collection full of emotionally taut and sweetly melancholic stories that evoke the pain of lost love and broken families.” In the most respectable vein of Diane Williams, Lydia Davis, Kim Chinquee, Deb Olin Unferth… Smith also has the ability to push electrical currents through the tiny hooks on which narrative is hung.
Read an interview with Claudia here: http://www.orangealert.net/node/488
Dear JD Salinger, I Forgive You. Signed, Yoko by Spencer Moody and Anthony Anzalone (Teenage Teardrops, 2009) $10
Poetry! Limited run of 300. One of those backroom deals where I scam a few copies off Spencer and sell them at their exact retail cost. What’s in it for you? I don’t know because I haven’t read the book yet. But I will, damnit, and then god help you.
Tomaž Šalamun & Matthew Zapruder
This Saturday, two poets I kind of love are reading for the Seattle Arts & Lectures series at Benaroya Hall:
Tomaž Šalamun / Matthew Zapruder Poetry Reading
November 14
7:30 pm, Benaroya Hall
Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 30 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language. Šalamun spent two years at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in the United States since then. For a time, he served as Cultural Attaché to the Slovenian Embassy in New York. He has had ten collections of poetry published in English, including The Selected Poems of Tomaž Šalamun (Ecco Press, 1998); The Shepherd, the Hunter (Pedernal, 1992); The Four Questions of Melancholy (White Pine, 1997); Feast (Harcourt, 2000), “Poker” (Ugly Duckling Presse), “Row!” (Arc Publications), “The Book for My Brother” (Harcourt), and “Woods and Chalices” (Harcourt). His poems have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Matthew Zapruder is a poet, editor, and translator of Slavic languages. His second collection, The Pajamaist, was released by Copper Canyon in 2006.
Tickets are $10-$35. For tickets and more information, please visit www.lectures.org or call 206.621.2230