Literature Search
Jack Straw Writers at NW Folklife Festival
Fri May 24 at 6:30 pm.Reading
Jack Straw authors Peter Munro, Jay McAleer, Larry Crist, Kate Carroll De Gutes, Josephine Ensign, and Corry Venema-Weiss read at Folklife, along with our state's poet laureate, Kathleen Flenniken. Free.
Literary Fiction 1st and 2nd Year Class, UW Continuing and Professional Education
Fri May 24 at 6:30 pm.Reading
This is the culmination of a literary fiction-writing class at the University of Washington. Free.
Marivi Soliven, Donna Miscolta
Fri May 24 at 7 pm.Reading
The Mango Bride is a novel about "two Filipinas, one banished by her wealthy family, the other a mail order bride." Free.
Robert Wrigley
Fri May 24 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems is Wrigley's ninth book of poems. One of the poems is about a cow. Free.
K.J. Larsen
Sat May 25, noon.Signing
K.J. Larsen, who is actually three sisters, will sign a book called Some Like It Hot. Free.
Lucas Mann
Sat May 25 at 4 pm.Reading
Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere is a story about a system of baseball farm teams. Free.
Dennis Caswell, Jodie Marion
Sat May 25 at 7 pm.Reading
Marion's chapbook Exile on the 45th Parallel is "winner of Floating Bridge's 2012 Chapbook Award." Caswell's first poetry collection is titled Phlogiston. Free.
Laura Read, Maya Jewell Zeller
Sun May 26 at 3 pm.Reading
Read has written a poem titled "This Time We'll Go to Kentucky Fried Chicken." Zeller's "I Give You Ten Reasons Why We Can’t Use Roundup on Our Lawn" begins: "As a girl the black-branched plums/behind the far fence were mine because/a giant row of nettle and snowberry/blocked them from the cows." Free.
Verbal Graffiti Poetry Open Mic
Fri at 7 pm.Open Mic
"Amp, microphone and turntables provided" at this open mic. Free.
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