Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10 The Poetry Slam is tonight, along with a book club favorite author, and then there's a bunch of other things, about which more here: The Stranger Suggests Box should be popping in at any moment, I'm sure, but this is an additional reminder that tonight is the Ed Lin reading at Elliott Bay Book Company, featuring Anna Marie Hong and Hannah Moon. Lin's previous book, Waylaid, was a pretty amazing first novel (and it was also made into a movie called The Motel which was also pretty amazing, but you shouldn't ask questions about that at the reading because... Copyright 2008 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:04:23 -0800 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:20:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf Are poetry slams still legal?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c947775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c947775 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:14:44 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant I was kind of surprised when I got this job and I realized that the Poetry Slam was still going on. I remember meeting a winner of the slam, almost ten years ago: He'd started to do his hair up like a TV newscaster (his friends informed me that the haircut was new and inspired by the win) and he spent all his time writing poems about writing poetry. I wonder where he is now.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c947796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c947796 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:26:28 -0800 Comment by Aislinn I went to that poetry slam at Tost once. Beat poetry isn't my favorite, so I haven't made an effort to go back, but the visiting-guest kid the night we went, who had to wait outside until it was time to go on because he was underage, and who had won at some larger beat poetry competition in California or something, was pretty impressive. You know, for a beat poet.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c947996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c947996 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:12:21 -0800 Comment by imagebreaker I hope the scowl and 'drop dead' note on his hands are meant to be ironic, or at least a joke. He fails to provoke any fear.

]]> imagebreaker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948096 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948096 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:03:50 -0800 Comment by Ruth Is the slam really tonight? The Tost website lists it as every Wednesday. . .

]]> Ruth http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948101 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:06:04 -0800 Comment by Jeremy It's now on Wednesday nights. Whether it's any good depends on the feature, usually. And as with any open mic format, you're going to have to endure a few painful pieces ("War is bad!") in order to catch flashes of brilliance (Buddy Wakefield, Christa Bell, Danny Sherrard).

@3: Beat poetry? When did you attend, 1967?

]]> Jeremy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948292 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948292 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:07:52 -0800 Comment by Aislinn @6: No, sometime in the last year. What else would you call it when everyone rants with a specific cadence, or "beat", if you will? It infrequently rhymed, it was often angry... and they all "spit it" in almost the same way. Perhaps I'm using the term too liberally, but it was definitely very "beat"-influenced.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948483 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c948483 Books Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:45:23 -0800 Comment by Ed Lin Scowl? That's an ironic smile.

]]> Ed Lin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c951299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_10#c951299 Books Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:20:58 -0800