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7th Cadence Video Poetry Festival

7th Cadence Video Poetry Festival

Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. Featuring screenings, an artist residency, generative workshops for youth and adults, and juried awards, the festival fosters critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry.

Arlo Parks

Arlo Parks

In Arlo Parks world, words are as useful as photographs. Luscious, expressive vignettes pepper the poetic lyrics in her sweet, ruminative indie pop songs. Born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, the 20-year-old from West London – who burst onto the scene with 2018’s “Cola” – uses poetry as her songwriting compass, weaving vivid imagery and sensory…

Ross Gay presents 'The Book of (More) Delights: Essays'

Ross Gay presents ‘The Book of (More) Delights: Essays’

Ross Gay will discuss his new essay collection, The Book of (More) Delights. In this new collection of genre-defying pieces, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. Tickets are required in advance.

SAL Presents: Jane Hirshfield

SAL Presents: Jane Hirshfield

Iconic poet Jane Hirshfield addresses the urgent immediacies of our time in her long-awaited The Asking, which assays the full ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and our responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved,…

How I Learned What I Learned

How I Learned What I Learned

Originally performed by August Wilson himself, How I Learned What I Learned is a heartfelt theatrical memoir charting one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity and what it means to be a Black artist in America.

New Vinyl-Only Poetry Press Transports Listeners to a Live Reading

New Vinyl-Only Poetry Press Transports Listeners to a Live Reading

Portland's Fonograf Editions releases "Alice Notley: Live in Seattle."

Alice Notley reads from Certain Magical Acts at McCaw Hall.

Brace for More Rain, and Take Shelter in Poetry

Brace for More Rain, and Take Shelter in Poetry

As we brace for yet another few weeks of record-breaking rain, it’s time to take shelter in poetry. Offering this salve of sorts is Poetry on Buses, a community partnership (between Sound Transit, King County Metro, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and others) that invites budding and veteran poets to share their work…

The Must List: Angel Olsen, A Moveable Feast, The Pajama Game

The Must List: Angel Olsen, A Moveable Feast, The Pajama Game

What to do in Seattle in the weeks ahead

Singer/songwriter Angel Olsen plays the Neptune this Saturday

Fall Arts Preview 2016: Readings/Talks

Events to get you thinking

(Poetry) Megan Snyder-Camp9/1 Seattle-based poet Megan Snyder-Camp celebrates the release of two new collections of poetry: Wintering and The Gunnywolf. The former concerns the historic legacy of Lewis and Clark, while the latter concerns the author’s reckoning with her own white privilege. 7 p.m. Free. Hugo House, First Hill, 1021 Columbia St.; 206.322.7030; hugohouse.org   (Poetry)…

Beloved Ask the Oracle Literary Event Goes to Bumbershoot

Beloved Ask the Oracle Literary Event Goes to Bumbershoot

Literary answers to life’s pressing questions

For 20 years, Seattle’s Hugo House has served as an urban writer’s retreat at its Capitol Hill location across from Cal Anderson Park, sponsoring and hosting a wide variety of events, residencies and services for readers and writers alike. And while the institution is admired throughout the nation for its rich and innovative programming, its…

Seattle Poets Name their Favorite Poems for National Poetry Month

Seattle Poets Name their Favorite Poems for National Poetry Month

In Seattle, National Poetry Month is in good hands

April – as I’m sure you know – is National Poetry Month. And in Seattle, a city known for being the most literate in the country, we like our poetry diverse, often humorous and plentiful. The city probably has more skilled poets per capita than any other city in America. That’s right New York, Minneapolis and…

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