We at poetrynight are pleased to announce the establishment of the Ken Warfel Fellowship in honor of Ken Warfel. Ken was a poet of great merit, a teacher, mentor and friend. Ken leaves a lasting legacy across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
The Fellowship will distinguish and reward poets who, like Ken, have made substantial and continuing [...]
[ January 23, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
We are The Photo Booth and we’re taking the nation this winter in a light blue Toyota Camry named Skeeter Valentine. We are:
Chris Rockwell has been performing music and poetry across the country for the past ten years. He is a two time nationally competing slam poet, and in 2006 he won the title of [...]
Sometimes, people tell me they like the snow. Then I’ll tell them there won’t be a reading this evening.
We will return next week, once the weather has become a little less… inclement. Matt Gano will return in the near future. Maybe this month. Maybe the next. We’ll keep you posted.
Until then, a poem:
The North [...]
[ January 16, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
In 2011, Matt Gano has guest lectured at The Juilliard School in New York City, featured for “Page Meets Stage,” at the Bowery Poetry Club, and led writing workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Matt has traveled internationally teaching creative writing and performance in Seoul, Korea, and in 2009 earned a three-month artist [...]
Poetrynight always prepares for the inevitable. Global warming, nuclear war, the impending Mayan apocalypse; we’ve taken it all into consideration. Which is why we present to you the poetrynight archives. A small collection of work we have selected to preserve in the event of a global pandemic, robot uprising, geomagnetic reversal or some other doomsday [...]
[ August 22, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
D. Antwan Stewart writes serious poems about serious subjects, adding humor whenever he can, but for some reason his poems are ornery and frequently flips him the finger whenever he courts laughter; so for balance he goes out to bars and allows folks to lick his face. Nevertheless, he still considers himself a “somewhat” accomplished poet, having been awarded [...]
[ July 18, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
Melissa Queen was brought up in the southern literary tradition of tall tales, iced tea, and moonshine, before being transplanted in Eastern Washington at the age of 15.
She moved to Bellingham to attend WWU and earn her undergraduate degree in creative writing, with a minor in music, and became an active member of Poetrynight. Now [...]
[ May 23, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
How do we become who we are? That’s the question at the center of Seattle-based poet Elizabeth Austen’s collection, Every Dress a Decision, just released by Blue Begonia Press. Austen’s poems test the boundaries between the known and the unknowable, as a woman reckons with the sudden death of a brother and her complicated past, [...]
[ April 18, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Once more into the breach, Poetrynight!
At the moment, Matthew is an unemployed poet living in a group house with a bunch of hippies. If memory can be trusted, he wrote his first poems somewhere around the age of five. He was first published in the “Brouwer Book of Bad Boetry,” a multi-authored work written entirely within the [...]
Daemond Arrindell, Slam Master of the Seattle Slam and darling of Poetrynight just sent us a reminder!
The Seattle Poetry Slam will hold its annual Grand Slam competition at Town Hall on Friday, May 6th at 7:30 pm. This is an all ages event. The Grand Slam is the final throwdown of the top eight poets in Seattle [...]
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