RICH SMITH
“Are you interested in good poetry?”
In the last year, if you’ve walked past Elliott Bay Book Company, or strolled by Pike Place Market, or taken a respite near the fountain in Seattle Center, then you’re likely to have heard Anthony Hickerson Jr. bellow out that phrase in his theatrical cod British accent.
If you answer his question in the affirmative, he offers you a deal. You provide a topic or a word, and then he freestyles a poem based on that prompt…
