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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Reading Tonight

posted by on February 14 at 15:30 PM

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Unless you’re in the mood for open mic nights, of which there are three, tonight is slim pickings in the reading world. Who are bookstores to stand in the way of love? The big event tonight is called “I Put an Ad in a Singles Magazine and My Parents Answered It,” at SAM. Readers include Rebecca Hoogs, who Christopher Frizzelle wrote about a year and a half ago:

The next day I read Hoogs’s poem on a bus. It’s called “Another Plot Cliché” and it’s written from the point of view of a plate-glass window. (“My dear, you are the high-speed car chase, and I,/I am the sheet of glass being carefully carried/across the street…”)

(He also calls the end of one of her poems “awesome, glittery, and earned.” Full story here.) Another reader is Julie Larios, whose poem “Recovery” begins this way:

Outside the skin/of course nothing is in./It’s under the membranes/mind begins./But don’t be surprised by blood,/don’t be surprised by anything.

(The rest of this poem is here.) This guy swears that if you go, you’ll almost certainly get laid. Let me know how that works out. Full readings calendar here.

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Strange, I was reading the New Yorker last night, and there was this book by a number of authors, including this Dan Savage guy ...

You'd think he'd give an author reading or something tonight.

It was something like "What I Learned When My Girlfriend(s) Dumped Me".

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 14, 2008 3:58 PM

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