Saturday, March 12, 2011
Stop the Press! Guest Curator for April's Reading!
The subject line has most of it. I am hanging up my spurs for the month and welcoming the smart stylings of Joe Pitkin, 6-time 1K reader, who chose the theme for the April 7 reading and is writing the prompts. I will be a reader this time, and I'm both grateful for the break and excited about the new life I know Joe will breathe into the series. Join us at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at the Waypost for the newewst installment--I, Geneva Chao, Kerrie Cohen, and Gordon Buffonge will be among the readers--there is also a filmmaker making, well, film, for the reading, and Reid Trevarthen will be writing songs based on the prompts as well. Hooray! And while I didn't INTEND to write Sherlock Holmes/John Watson slash fiction for my contribution, well...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
February 1,000 Words!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING At THE WAYPOST: NEXT INSTALLMENT: “LUCK”
7 p.m. sharp-9 p.m., THURSDAY, February 3 at THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. Williams Avenue – Portland, (503) 367- 3182
FREE, ALL-AGES VENUE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
1,000 Words returns Thursday, February 3 at the Waypost. We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: four fresh local writers wrote on the theme LUCK, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results of this living literary laboratory, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how four different authors employed the phrase, “I should have been dead either way” and the words “slam, shrink, shrine, flight, and cradle” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday February 3 at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative responses and also witness the 1,000 Words house troubador, Reid Trevarthen, member of Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Readers
Mike Peroni was born to a solid blue collar family, graduated from an elitist private school for boys, dropped out of college and traveled the continent with a copy of Desolation Angels in his hip pocket. He now owns and operates Boistfort Valley Farm in Curtis WA with his wife Heidi and their three-year-old daughter Natalina. Mike is a self-professed farmer, fisherman, and motorcycle enthusiast; not necessarily in that order.
Christopher Luna is an expatriate New Yorker and the host of a popular open mic poetry reading in Vancouver, WA, est. 2004. Since landing in Vancouver in 2003, Christopher has documented his observations of the city in his Ghost Town poems, which were collected
in a 2008 chapbook. He is also the editor of "The Work," a monthly newsletter devoted to informing people about poetry events in Portland and Vancouver.
Daneen Bergland's poetry has appeared in several literary journals including The Burnside Review, Verse Daily, and Propeller Quarterly magazine, with work forthcoming in Cerise Press and Poet Lore. In 2008 she received a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts. She teaches online classes about popular culture to sophomores at Portland State University, which means she feels almost no guilt for revisiting the entire Joss Whedon ouvre on Netflix this year and checking her Facebook page several times a day. As an antidote to all that intellectual stimulation, and sitting, her hobbies include taking Zumba classes and eating vegetables.
Ryan Davis is honored to be a part of 1,000 Words again.
Horoscope: Scorpio
Jobs: Teaching lit and comp at Clackamas Community College, Co-Directing Portland World Theatre
Blood Type: O-
Charm Points: His wife, Angie, and son, Avery, who are his reasons for creating anything
Favorite Meal: Breakfast
Hobby: Sleeping
Musician Reid Trevarthen is totally weirded out by the existence of matter, photoptropism, and the scale of the very large and the very small. He'd love to discuss them enthusiastically with you.
Host Mel Favara has curated 1,000 Words for three years, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, and has terrific
7 p.m. sharp-9 p.m., THURSDAY, February 3 at THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. Williams Avenue – Portland, (503) 367- 3182
FREE, ALL-AGES VENUE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
1,000 Words returns Thursday, February 3 at the Waypost. We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: four fresh local writers wrote on the theme LUCK, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results of this living literary laboratory, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how four different authors employed the phrase, “I should have been dead either way” and the words “slam, shrink, shrine, flight, and cradle” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday February 3 at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative responses and also witness the 1,000 Words house troubador, Reid Trevarthen, member of Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Readers
Mike Peroni was born to a solid blue collar family, graduated from an elitist private school for boys, dropped out of college and traveled the continent with a copy of Desolation Angels in his hip pocket. He now owns and operates Boistfort Valley Farm in Curtis WA with his wife Heidi and their three-year-old daughter Natalina. Mike is a self-professed farmer, fisherman, and motorcycle enthusiast; not necessarily in that order.
Christopher Luna is an expatriate New Yorker and the host of a popular open mic poetry reading in Vancouver, WA, est. 2004. Since landing in Vancouver in 2003, Christopher has documented his observations of the city in his Ghost Town poems, which were collected
in a 2008 chapbook. He is also the editor of "The Work," a monthly newsletter devoted to informing people about poetry events in Portland and Vancouver.
Daneen Bergland's poetry has appeared in several literary journals including The Burnside Review, Verse Daily, and Propeller Quarterly magazine, with work forthcoming in Cerise Press and Poet Lore. In 2008 she received a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts. She teaches online classes about popular culture to sophomores at Portland State University, which means she feels almost no guilt for revisiting the entire Joss Whedon ouvre on Netflix this year and checking her Facebook page several times a day. As an antidote to all that intellectual stimulation, and sitting, her hobbies include taking Zumba classes and eating vegetables.
Ryan Davis is honored to be a part of 1,000 Words again.
Horoscope: Scorpio
Jobs: Teaching lit and comp at Clackamas Community College, Co-Directing Portland World Theatre
Blood Type: O-
Charm Points: His wife, Angie, and son, Avery, who are his reasons for creating anything
Favorite Meal: Breakfast
Hobby: Sleeping
Musician Reid Trevarthen is totally weirded out by the existence of matter, photoptropism, and the scale of the very large and the very small. He'd love to discuss them enthusiastically with you.
Host Mel Favara has curated 1,000 Words for three years, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, and has terrific
Sunday, November 21, 2010
December Reading Thursday the 2nd--Three Years!
Oh, man, will this ever be good!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING: PERMANENCE
7PM sharp-9PM, Thursday, December 2 AT THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. WILLIAMS AVE., PORTLAND (503-367-3182)
FREE
ALL-AGES VENUE; FOOD, BEER, AND WINE AVAILABLE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment, and our 3RD ANNIVERSARY SHOW (mysterious and random door prizes provided)! Five exemplary local writers, one musician, and a filmmaker responded to the theme PERMANENCE, penning 250 words per week (or making 250 seconds of film) for four weeks, totaling 1,000 words each, in response to the theme and prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how six participants employed the phrase, “tattooed the word "tiny" across her knuckles” and the words tattered,
sale, spin, pool, and foil in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday the 2nd at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative writing and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Performers:
Joe Pitkin can make few claims to specialness besides the fact that he is a perennial reader for 1,000 Words: he’s kind of like the Randy Newman of 1,000 Words. His poetry has appeared in North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere; he started writing speculative fiction a couple of years ago and has had pieces in M-Brane and Expanded Horizons. He teaches—if you can call what he does teaching—at Clark College.
Kevin Sampsell is the publisher of the micropress, Future Tense Books, and a writer whose work has appeared widely in places like Nerve, Night Train, Opium, McSweeney's, Quick Fiction, Yeti, and Smith Magazine. He is the editor of Portland Noir and the author of Creamy Bullets and A Common Pornography.
Laura Moulton earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University. She has taught writing workshops in high schools, universities, and the women’s prison in Wilsonville. Her art piece “Object Permanence” was commissioned by Portland State University in 2009. Her stories and essays have been featured in Hip Mama, Portland Tribune, and Brain, Child. Her essay about visiting slums in Brazil appeared in Street Roots in June. She is a contributing artist to Disappearing, a book project by artist Melody Owen. Moulton is currently at work on a novel.
Amy Temple Harper is adopted from Korea and lives in Portland. Her poetry and
fiction have been published in the Oregon Literary Review and The Portland Review.
Kirby Light is a peripheral visionary! He can see way into the future but only off to the left and right. He is a firm believer that punctuation is not sexy and that the state of a man's kitchen is no indication of how well that man can take care of a woman. When not being the hero and villain of his own story you can find Kirby laying in the gutter looking up at the stars, or you can find him writing, but the writing is just the residue and far from what he does best.
Musician Reid Trevarthen lived in Italy at one point in time. At other points in time he played “Weather Watchers” with his grade school friends, learned how to speak some German and alternated between wearing and not wearing glasses. Now he is playing music and starting to learn to do the things that grown-ups do.
Karl Lind is a filmmaker, cameraman, director, editor, and video artist living in Portland, Oregon. He has been contemplating adopting a cat for quite awhile. See his work at www.inthecanllc.com.
Curator/Host Mel Favara has helmed 1,000 Words for three years, wrote the zine teen sleuth through the 90’s and 00s, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, and makes a mean marinara from scratch.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING: PERMANENCE
7PM sharp-9PM, Thursday, December 2 AT THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. WILLIAMS AVE., PORTLAND (503-367-3182)
FREE
ALL-AGES VENUE; FOOD, BEER, AND WINE AVAILABLE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment, and our 3RD ANNIVERSARY SHOW (mysterious and random door prizes provided)! Five exemplary local writers, one musician, and a filmmaker responded to the theme PERMANENCE, penning 250 words per week (or making 250 seconds of film) for four weeks, totaling 1,000 words each, in response to the theme and prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how six participants employed the phrase, “tattooed the word "tiny" across her knuckles” and the words tattered,
sale, spin, pool, and foil in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday the 2nd at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative writing and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Performers:
Joe Pitkin can make few claims to specialness besides the fact that he is a perennial reader for 1,000 Words: he’s kind of like the Randy Newman of 1,000 Words. His poetry has appeared in North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere; he started writing speculative fiction a couple of years ago and has had pieces in M-Brane and Expanded Horizons. He teaches—if you can call what he does teaching—at Clark College.
Kevin Sampsell is the publisher of the micropress, Future Tense Books, and a writer whose work has appeared widely in places like Nerve, Night Train, Opium, McSweeney's, Quick Fiction, Yeti, and Smith Magazine. He is the editor of Portland Noir and the author of Creamy Bullets and A Common Pornography.
Laura Moulton earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University. She has taught writing workshops in high schools, universities, and the women’s prison in Wilsonville. Her art piece “Object Permanence” was commissioned by Portland State University in 2009. Her stories and essays have been featured in Hip Mama, Portland Tribune, and Brain, Child. Her essay about visiting slums in Brazil appeared in Street Roots in June. She is a contributing artist to Disappearing, a book project by artist Melody Owen. Moulton is currently at work on a novel.
Amy Temple Harper is adopted from Korea and lives in Portland. Her poetry and
fiction have been published in the Oregon Literary Review and The Portland Review.
Kirby Light is a peripheral visionary! He can see way into the future but only off to the left and right. He is a firm believer that punctuation is not sexy and that the state of a man's kitchen is no indication of how well that man can take care of a woman. When not being the hero and villain of his own story you can find Kirby laying in the gutter looking up at the stars, or you can find him writing, but the writing is just the residue and far from what he does best.
Musician Reid Trevarthen lived in Italy at one point in time. At other points in time he played “Weather Watchers” with his grade school friends, learned how to speak some German and alternated between wearing and not wearing glasses. Now he is playing music and starting to learn to do the things that grown-ups do.
Karl Lind is a filmmaker, cameraman, director, editor, and video artist living in Portland, Oregon. He has been contemplating adopting a cat for quite awhile. See his work at www.inthecanllc.com.
Curator/Host Mel Favara has helmed 1,000 Words for three years, wrote the zine teen sleuth through the 90’s and 00s, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, and makes a mean marinara from scratch.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
October Reading Press Release!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING: FLIGHT
7PM sharp-9PM, Thursday, OCTOBER 7 AT THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. WILLIAMS AVE., PORTLAND (503-367-3182)
FREE
ALL-AGES VENUE; FOOD, BEER, AND WINE AVAILABLE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: four exemplary local writers, one musician, and a filmmaker responded to the theme FLIGHT, penning 250 words per week (or making 250 seconds of film) for four weeks in response to the theme and prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how six participants employed the phrase, “In the course of that particular malady” and the words “savor, sooty, artifice, administer, and wheels” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative writing and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Dan Kaplan is the author of Bill's Formal Complaint (The National Poetry Review Press, 2008) and the bilingual chapbook SKIN (Red Hydra Press, 2005). His work has appeared in many publications, including Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, diode, Meridian, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Verse Daily, and the anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.). His website is www.dan-kaplan.com.
Lucie Bonvalet teaches French at the Alliance Française, writes for the French art and culture zine Globulot, and studies dance, Japanese and tai chi.
Wendy Noonan’s poems have been published in Permafrost, Diner, Bolts of Silk, Prick of the Spindle, and Painted Bride. She was the 2008 recipient of the Shelley Reece award for poetry, and has a permanent gig with the Noonan family Christmas letter.
Sara Kolp writes bold fiction and nonfiction, parents fantastically, raises chickens, and generally jazzes up North Portland.
Musician Reid Trevarthen lived in Italy at one point in time. At other points in time he played “Weather Watchers” with his grade school friends, learned how to speak some German and alternated between wearing and not wearing glasses. Now he is playing music and starting to learn to do the things that grown-ups do.
Karl Lind is a filmmaker, cameraman, director, editor, and video artist living in Portland, Oregon. He has been contemplating adopting a cat for quite awhile. See his work at www.inthecanllc.com.
Curator/Host Mel Favara has helmed 1,000 Words for nearly three years, wrote the zine teen sleuth through the 90’s and 00s, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, and makes a mean marinara from scratch.
7PM sharp-9PM, Thursday, OCTOBER 7 AT THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. WILLIAMS AVE., PORTLAND (503-367-3182)
FREE
ALL-AGES VENUE; FOOD, BEER, AND WINE AVAILABLE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: four exemplary local writers, one musician, and a filmmaker responded to the theme FLIGHT, penning 250 words per week (or making 250 seconds of film) for four weeks in response to the theme and prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how six participants employed the phrase, “In the course of that particular malady” and the words “savor, sooty, artifice, administer, and wheels” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative writing and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Dan Kaplan is the author of Bill's Formal Complaint (The National Poetry Review Press, 2008) and the bilingual chapbook SKIN (Red Hydra Press, 2005). His work has appeared in many publications, including Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, diode, Meridian, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Verse Daily, and the anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.). His website is www.dan-kaplan.com.
Lucie Bonvalet teaches French at the Alliance Française, writes for the French art and culture zine Globulot, and studies dance, Japanese and tai chi.
Wendy Noonan’s poems have been published in Permafrost, Diner, Bolts of Silk, Prick of the Spindle, and Painted Bride. She was the 2008 recipient of the Shelley Reece award for poetry, and has a permanent gig with the Noonan family Christmas letter.
Sara Kolp writes bold fiction and nonfiction, parents fantastically, raises chickens, and generally jazzes up North Portland.
Musician Reid Trevarthen lived in Italy at one point in time. At other points in time he played “Weather Watchers” with his grade school friends, learned how to speak some German and alternated between wearing and not wearing glasses. Now he is playing music and starting to learn to do the things that grown-ups do.
Karl Lind is a filmmaker, cameraman, director, editor, and video artist living in Portland, Oregon. He has been contemplating adopting a cat for quite awhile. See his work at www.inthecanllc.com.
Curator/Host Mel Favara has helmed 1,000 Words for nearly three years, wrote the zine teen sleuth through the 90’s and 00s, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, and makes a mean marinara from scratch.
Hooray! October Reading!
We are excited to announce the October reading--which leads up to our 3rd anniversary reading in December!
On October 7 a great Brain Trust of readers and one filmmaker will respond to prompts on the theme FLIGHT.
They will be Lucie Bonvalet, Wendy Noonan, Sara Kolp, Dan Kaplan, and Karl Lind. Look for details soon.
We love our new venue at the Waypost!
XO,
Mel
On October 7 a great Brain Trust of readers and one filmmaker will respond to prompts on the theme FLIGHT.
They will be Lucie Bonvalet, Wendy Noonan, Sara Kolp, Dan Kaplan, and Karl Lind. Look for details soon.
We love our new venue at the Waypost!
XO,
Mel
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Oh, boy!
The first Waypost reading was so lovely! The next will be the same. Thanks to the great crowd who welcomed us to our new venue! 1K Words goes forth. Thanks for coming along.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
1,000 Words Returns August 5 at the Waypost
1,000 WORDS READING MOVES TO THE WAYPOST FOR ITS NEXT INSTALLMENT: EXCESS
7 p.m. sharp-9 p.m., THURSDAY, August 5 at THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. Williams Avenue – Portland, (503) 367- 3182
FREE, ALL-AGES VENUE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
1,000 Words returns Thursday, August 5 for our inaugural reading at the Waypost. We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: five exemplary local writers wrote on the theme EXCESS, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how five different authors employed the phrase, “It looked like an exit wound” and the words “frame, nail, prognosticate, key, and typeface” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative work and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp, members of Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Nora Robertson writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, which have appeared in such publications as Plazm, Redactions, Alimentum, Monkeybicycle, and Portland Monthly, and was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. She is the producer of the New Oregon Interview Series, which explores Portland’s evolving creative culture. She is currently at work with video artist Jason Bahling on a short poetic film The Body Show to be released in November.
Joe Pitkin teaches English at Clark College (or, depending on his mood, Cluck Collage or Cork Cleavage). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Los Angeles Review. The novel he is working on currently has the tentative title The Four Quakers of the Apocalypse, but that will probably change.
Cosimo Giovine teaches writing classes at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. His story, “Dream Book” was a Finalist in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest, and the graphic novel he edited, Vatican City, Las Vegas, received the bronze award at the 2007 Independent Publisher Magazine Awards. He’s a Leo and enjoys words that begin with the letters “r” and “s”.
Becky Kluth is a sometimes story writer, music maker and portrait painter living in Southeast Portland. Her hobbies include acquiring cheap instruments, organizing her possessions, and trying to become a real person. She spends most of her time talking to dogs.
Nick Carter is a former professional paintball player and Texas high school football defensive tackle who moved to Portland hoping to realize his creative dreams. He is currently unemployed.
Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp are both polymaths: they’ll be playing songs based on the writers’ prompts.
7 p.m. sharp-9 p.m., THURSDAY, August 5 at THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. Williams Avenue – Portland, (503) 367- 3182
FREE, ALL-AGES VENUE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
1,000 Words returns Thursday, August 5 for our inaugural reading at the Waypost. We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: five exemplary local writers wrote on the theme EXCESS, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how five different authors employed the phrase, “It looked like an exit wound” and the words “frame, nail, prognosticate, key, and typeface” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative work and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp, members of Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet, playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Nora Robertson writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, which have appeared in such publications as Plazm, Redactions, Alimentum, Monkeybicycle, and Portland Monthly, and was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. She is the producer of the New Oregon Interview Series, which explores Portland’s evolving creative culture. She is currently at work with video artist Jason Bahling on a short poetic film The Body Show to be released in November.
Joe Pitkin teaches English at Clark College (or, depending on his mood, Cluck Collage or Cork Cleavage). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Los Angeles Review. The novel he is working on currently has the tentative title The Four Quakers of the Apocalypse, but that will probably change.
Cosimo Giovine teaches writing classes at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. His story, “Dream Book” was a Finalist in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest, and the graphic novel he edited, Vatican City, Las Vegas, received the bronze award at the 2007 Independent Publisher Magazine Awards. He’s a Leo and enjoys words that begin with the letters “r” and “s”.
Becky Kluth is a sometimes story writer, music maker and portrait painter living in Southeast Portland. Her hobbies include acquiring cheap instruments, organizing her possessions, and trying to become a real person. She spends most of her time talking to dogs.
Nick Carter is a former professional paintball player and Texas high school football defensive tackle who moved to Portland hoping to realize his creative dreams. He is currently unemployed.
Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp are both polymaths: they’ll be playing songs based on the writers’ prompts.
Monday, July 26, 2010
We Live!
And we are moving to first Thursdays, for now, and to the Waypost. And we have GREAT readers! See below!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING MOVES TO THE WAYPOST FOR ITS NEXT INSTALLMENT: EXCESS
7 p.m. sharp-9 p.m., THURSDAY, August 5 at THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. Williams Avenue – Portland, (503) 367- 3182
FREE, ALL-AGES VENUE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
1,000 Words returns Thursday, August 5 for our inaugural reading at the Waypost. We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: five exemplary local writers wrote on the theme EXCESS, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how five different authors employed the phrase, “It looked like an exit wound” and the words “frame, nail, prognosticate, key, and typeface” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative writing and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp, members of Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Nora Robertson writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, which have appeared in such publications as Plazm, Redactions, Alimentum, Monkeybicycle, and Portland Monthly, and was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. She is the producer of the New Oregon Interview Series, which explores Portland’s evolving creative culture. She is currently at work with video artist Jason Bahling on a short poetic film The Body Show to be released in November.
Joe Pitkin teaches English at Clark College (or, depending on his mood, Cluck Collage or Cork Cleavage). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Los Angeles Review. The novel he is working on currently has the tentative title The Four Quakers of the Apocalypse, but that will probably change.
Cosimo Giovine teaches writing classes at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. His story, “Dream Book” was a Finalist in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest, and the graphic novel he edited, Vatican City, Las Vegas, received the bronze award at the 2007 Independent Publisher Magazine Awards. He’s a Leo and enjoys words that begin with the letters “r” and “s”.
Becky Kluth is a sometimes story writer, music maker and portrait painter living in Southeast Portland. Her hobbies include acquiring cheap instruments, organizing her possessions, and trying to become a real person. She spends most of her time talking to dogs.
Nick Carter is a former professional paintball player and Texas high school football defensive tackle who moved to Portland hoping to realize his creative dreams. He is currently unemployed.
Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp are both polymaths: they’ll be playing songs based on the writers’ prompts.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING MOVES TO THE WAYPOST FOR ITS NEXT INSTALLMENT: EXCESS
7 p.m. sharp-9 p.m., THURSDAY, August 5 at THE WAYPOST, 3120 N. Williams Avenue – Portland, (503) 367- 3182
FREE, ALL-AGES VENUE
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
1,000 Words returns Thursday, August 5 for our inaugural reading at the Waypost. We’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: five exemplary local writers wrote on the theme EXCESS, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how five different authors employed the phrase, “It looked like an exit wound” and the words “frame, nail, prognosticate, key, and typeface” in one 250 word piece? Join us Thursday at the Waypost to hear the writer’s innovative writing and also witness the 1,000 Words house band, Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp, members of Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet playing songs based on the prompts at the intermission.
Nora Robertson writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, which have appeared in such publications as Plazm, Redactions, Alimentum, Monkeybicycle, and Portland Monthly, and was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. She is the producer of the New Oregon Interview Series, which explores Portland’s evolving creative culture. She is currently at work with video artist Jason Bahling on a short poetic film The Body Show to be released in November.
Joe Pitkin teaches English at Clark College (or, depending on his mood, Cluck Collage or Cork Cleavage). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Los Angeles Review. The novel he is working on currently has the tentative title The Four Quakers of the Apocalypse, but that will probably change.
Cosimo Giovine teaches writing classes at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. His story, “Dream Book” was a Finalist in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest, and the graphic novel he edited, Vatican City, Las Vegas, received the bronze award at the 2007 Independent Publisher Magazine Awards. He’s a Leo and enjoys words that begin with the letters “r” and “s”.
Becky Kluth is a sometimes story writer, music maker and portrait painter living in Southeast Portland. Her hobbies include acquiring cheap instruments, organizing her possessions, and trying to become a real person. She spends most of her time talking to dogs.
Nick Carter is a former professional paintball player and Texas high school football defensive tackle who moved to Portland hoping to realize his creative dreams. He is currently unemployed.
Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp are both polymaths: they’ll be playing songs based on the writers’ prompts.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
1,000 Words "Quitting" Monday, May 3
1,000 Words convenes once again for another Monday night of literary revelry. As per usual, four writers agreed to write 250 words per week for the month leading up to the reading, this time on the theme "Quitting". The writers also agreed, wisely or not, to include a handful of challenging prompts in each week's effort. The results are, well, pretty fascinating. Join us Monday, May 3 at 7 pm at the Maiden (the corner of SE Morrison and 7th) for a free all ages show that may leave your socks intact, but will blow your mind. Here's a sample prompt and a who's who of the excellent readers. Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp will favor us with a short set of songs based on the prompts during intermission.
Prompt 1
Phrase:
the thing that changed everything, but failed
Words:
brink
bank
wheel
tar
and plume.
Readers:
B. Frayn Masters is co-host and co-producer of Back Fence PDX Productions. Samplers of her writing can be found in MonkeyBicycle 6, Hobart, Spork, and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. Masters is one half of the funny and brainy sketch comedy duo Eastland Academy, and is a member of rapid-fire performance group Haiku Inferno. She is a freelance scriptwriter, copywriter, and director.
Lisa Hoashi is a writer and humanitarian who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has appeared in Willamette Week and The Missouri Review, among other publications. Short stories are her current focus, as well as the various types of writing she does in her position at Mercy Corps, which is sending her to Haiti this year to tell the stories of earthquake survivors.
Spencer Newlin-Cushing is an Editor and Marketing partner for the readinglocal.com website as well as a Marketing Coordinator for Wordstock Book Festival. He loves to nest parenthesis. His stories can’t be found anywhere yet, but he hopes to change that soon.
Jeff Schmitt wrote a book and then sat on it, which was probably for
the best. He lives in a knowable world, makes the bed sometimes and
doesn’t speak a word of French.
Prompt 1
Phrase:
the thing that changed everything, but failed
Words:
brink
bank
wheel
tar
and plume.
Readers:
B. Frayn Masters is co-host and co-producer of Back Fence PDX Productions. Samplers of her writing can be found in MonkeyBicycle 6, Hobart, Spork, and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. Masters is one half of the funny and brainy sketch comedy duo Eastland Academy, and is a member of rapid-fire performance group Haiku Inferno. She is a freelance scriptwriter, copywriter, and director.
Lisa Hoashi is a writer and humanitarian who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has appeared in Willamette Week and The Missouri Review, among other publications. Short stories are her current focus, as well as the various types of writing she does in her position at Mercy Corps, which is sending her to Haiti this year to tell the stories of earthquake survivors.
Spencer Newlin-Cushing is an Editor and Marketing partner for the readinglocal.com website as well as a Marketing Coordinator for Wordstock Book Festival. He loves to nest parenthesis. His stories can’t be found anywhere yet, but he hopes to change that soon.
Jeff Schmitt wrote a book and then sat on it, which was probably for
the best. He lives in a knowable world, makes the bed sometimes and
doesn’t speak a word of French.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Away Too Long
As Laura Moulton's narrator might say in her upcoming novel, "Oh my heck!"
Despite the lag here, 1000 Words has been rocking forward into the new decade with readings themed "Lies" and "Resolve" and others. And we have another reading coming up the first Monday in May, themed "Quitting," and starring the great Frayn Masters. Stay tuned for details.
In the interim, I've been teaching like crazy, and I just MC-ed the terrific Read to Rebuild Haiti benefit hosted by Portland Reading Local and the Writer's Dojo at their beautiful space in St. Johns. We raised over $1,000 for Mercy Corps, and Tom Spanbauer, Ariel Gore, Kevin Sampsell, Margaret Malone, Ben Parzybok, and Laura Moulton all read incredible work, which the friendly crowd appreciated.
In other news, after an absence, our house band, We Play Quiet, has returned--frontman Ethan Camp decided that Hampshire College was "the place rich people with no vision dump their weird kids," and came back west to study English at Western Washington University. Atta boy, Ethan.
We're still shopping for one more reader for May--hit me up if you know a genius.
Love,
Mel
Despite the lag here, 1000 Words has been rocking forward into the new decade with readings themed "Lies" and "Resolve" and others. And we have another reading coming up the first Monday in May, themed "Quitting," and starring the great Frayn Masters. Stay tuned for details.
In the interim, I've been teaching like crazy, and I just MC-ed the terrific Read to Rebuild Haiti benefit hosted by Portland Reading Local and the Writer's Dojo at their beautiful space in St. Johns. We raised over $1,000 for Mercy Corps, and Tom Spanbauer, Ariel Gore, Kevin Sampsell, Margaret Malone, Ben Parzybok, and Laura Moulton all read incredible work, which the friendly crowd appreciated.
In other news, after an absence, our house band, We Play Quiet, has returned--frontman Ethan Camp decided that Hampshire College was "the place rich people with no vision dump their weird kids," and came back west to study English at Western Washington University. Atta boy, Ethan.
We're still shopping for one more reader for May--hit me up if you know a genius.
Love,
Mel
Monday, November 2, 2009
Back, not so much in Black
Tonight's 2nd anniversary reading was amazing. Thanks to the writers and audience for a great show. Look for the text soon!
XO,
Mel
XO,
Mel
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
1,000 Words one year anniversary! And Farewell My Lovely Hein
Well, with teaching and writing and more teaching and more writing and more parenting, man I've been away awhile. But welcome to our upcoming reading! We're celebrating a year of fastidious writing and reading while drinking wine, etc. Here's the press release for our reading on Monday, November 3--come out and take your mind off of the election the next day!
XO,
Mel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY READING AND MATTHEW HATTIE HEIN BON VOYAGE PARTY
7PM, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT THE MAIDEN, 639 SE MORRISON STREET (503-232-5553)
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
Please join the 1,000 Words Reading Series for our one-year anniversary and local all-around performer Matthew Hattie Hein’s bon voyage party. Four great writers—Matthew Hattie Hein, Kristy Athens, Parker Staley, and Geneva Chao, will each read four tiny pieces written for the occasion over the past month, based on a set of prompts and arbitrary rules provided by series curator Mel Favara on the theme TRANSIT. It will be fast and fancy if not furious. Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet will also play.
Reader Bios
Geneva Chao's work has appeared in Satellite Telephone, Boxkite, Aught, Transfer, Diagram, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, and a host of other magazines you may not have heard of. Her chapbook National, Anthem is forthcoming from Oakland's Taxt Press. She is hoping for a Bay Bridge series in 2009 and agrees with Marianne Moore about baseball: "Studded with stars in belt and crown,/the Stadium is an adastrium./O flashing Orion,/your stars are muscled like the lion."
Kristy Athens is a freelance writer and editor who writes short fiction from a small farm near Husum, Washington. She coordinates the Columbia Center for the Arts Plein Air Writing Exhibition and serves on the board of the Hood River County Cultural Trust. From 1999 to 2006, she ran the Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships programs of Literary Arts. Her work has been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals, including Poor Mojo’s Alamanc(k), 2 Gyrlz Quarterly apt and forthcoming in Greenbeard.
Parker Staley was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a descendant of British Lieutenant Robert Maynard, who struck the first of the blows that felled Blackbeard. Also, he (not Maynard) almost drowned in the Deschutes once, as a child, some time ago. He has an MFA from New Mexico State University.
Matthew Hattie Hein bikes to and from PSU, where he teaches English.
He contributes to the PDX Writer Daily (www.pdxwriting.blogspot.com),
and recently published musings on Portland hipster houses in Oregon
Humanities magazine. His thoughts on the parlor game Psychic
Dictionary appeared in the last issue of Verb, and he occasionally
sings on 7" records.
We Play Quiet: August, 2006 saw the birth of a fantastic thing. I'll give you a hint: it wasn't babies. We Play Quiet is the trio of Zachary Holcomb, Reid Trevarthen, and Ethan Camp playing their own blend of the 80's, the 90's, the Weakerthans, and Weezer. This will be their fourth installment of 1000 Words; as usual, they have written a song that includes all of the prompts, in order.
XO,
Mel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY READING AND MATTHEW HATTIE HEIN BON VOYAGE PARTY
7PM, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT THE MAIDEN, 639 SE MORRISON STREET (503-232-5553)
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com
Please join the 1,000 Words Reading Series for our one-year anniversary and local all-around performer Matthew Hattie Hein’s bon voyage party. Four great writers—Matthew Hattie Hein, Kristy Athens, Parker Staley, and Geneva Chao, will each read four tiny pieces written for the occasion over the past month, based on a set of prompts and arbitrary rules provided by series curator Mel Favara on the theme TRANSIT. It will be fast and fancy if not furious. Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet will also play.
Reader Bios
Geneva Chao's work has appeared in Satellite Telephone, Boxkite, Aught, Transfer, Diagram, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, and a host of other magazines you may not have heard of. Her chapbook National, Anthem is forthcoming from Oakland's Taxt Press. She is hoping for a Bay Bridge series in 2009 and agrees with Marianne Moore about baseball: "Studded with stars in belt and crown,/the Stadium is an adastrium./O flashing Orion,/your stars are muscled like the lion."
Kristy Athens is a freelance writer and editor who writes short fiction from a small farm near Husum, Washington. She coordinates the Columbia Center for the Arts Plein Air Writing Exhibition and serves on the board of the Hood River County Cultural Trust. From 1999 to 2006, she ran the Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships programs of Literary Arts. Her work has been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals, including Poor Mojo’s Alamanc(k), 2 Gyrlz Quarterly apt and forthcoming in Greenbeard.
Parker Staley was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a descendant of British Lieutenant Robert Maynard, who struck the first of the blows that felled Blackbeard. Also, he (not Maynard) almost drowned in the Deschutes once, as a child, some time ago. He has an MFA from New Mexico State University.
Matthew Hattie Hein bikes to and from PSU, where he teaches English.
He contributes to the PDX Writer Daily (www.pdxwriting.blogspot.com),
and recently published musings on Portland hipster houses in Oregon
Humanities magazine. His thoughts on the parlor game Psychic
Dictionary appeared in the last issue of Verb, and he occasionally
sings on 7" records.
We Play Quiet: August, 2006 saw the birth of a fantastic thing. I'll give you a hint: it wasn't babies. We Play Quiet is the trio of Zachary Holcomb, Reid Trevarthen, and Ethan Camp playing their own blend of the 80's, the 90's, the Weakerthans, and Weezer. This will be their fourth installment of 1000 Words; as usual, they have written a song that includes all of the prompts, in order.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
We've Been Away Too Long
But are back. The next reading goes down Monday, September 8 at the Maiden. Featured readers will include Jill Stukenberg, Joe Pitkin, Kate Schwab, and Eric Stern, taking a break from fronting Vagabond Opera to write words without music. Our house band We Play Quiet has been busy--they just played on KPSU & threw us a nice shout out--listen to their music & musings here: http://archive.kpsu.org/. Our next theme is Beginnings, so get ready to begin tearing things up, I guess. My daughter turned 2 since the last reading, and I'm finding it not at all terrible.
XO,
Mel
PS:
Here is the first prompt for the next reading--write it up if you want and let me know what you make.
Rules:
Your weekly piece should be veryclose to 250 words.
You may write each piece in the genre of your choice; you may write in
a different genre for each piece; you may write entirely disconnected
pieces, or pieces that hang together in a theme or plotline--writers
have succeeded wildly doing any/all of the above.
I will provide a phrase and several words as the prompt: you must use
the phrase and all of the words, but feel free to change person,
number, tense, or grammatical role as you like. I remember "nail"
particularly as a word people had fun with.
Keep the month's theme, BEGINNING, in mind as you write. Sort of near
the front of your mind.
And so, the prompt: write 250 words this week including the phrase
It is difficult to learn that you know nothing about
and the words
pry
erase
wing
table
and flurry.
XO,
Mel
PS:
Here is the first prompt for the next reading--write it up if you want and let me know what you make.
Rules:
Your weekly piece should be veryclose to 250 words.
You may write each piece in the genre of your choice; you may write in
a different genre for each piece; you may write entirely disconnected
pieces, or pieces that hang together in a theme or plotline--writers
have succeeded wildly doing any/all of the above.
I will provide a phrase and several words as the prompt: you must use
the phrase and all of the words, but feel free to change person,
number, tense, or grammatical role as you like. I remember "nail"
particularly as a word people had fun with.
Keep the month's theme, BEGINNING, in mind as you write. Sort of near
the front of your mind.
And so, the prompt: write 250 words this week including the phrase
It is difficult to learn that you know nothing about
and the words
pry
erase
wing
table
and flurry.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Dreadfully Late
We're doing this all again tonight, Monday, July 14--many excellent readers and We Play Quiet at the intermission. Come early for good seats, and look for prompts & responses soon.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Major highlight of May Reading
Was the band's contribution at halftime. I made so bold as to ask a former student if his band might play the show and cc'ed him on the prompts as I sent them out. He and his bandmate chose to write a 6-minute epic song including all of the prompts IN ORDER to play at intermission. They've recorded a rough cut of it, which about killed the house. It was sort of like I imagine seeing the Clash when they were playing in the basement must have been. Go here to hear it! Or more easily, just click on We Play Quiet on the links to your right--it will play automatically.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=133130725
You'll be changed. May reading plus July readers & bios soon.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=133130725
You'll be changed. May reading plus July readers & bios soon.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The July reading: Regrets
Look for goods in the next few days. Also, the folks who did May were kind enough to let me publish their findings, but my old laptop crashed for good this week & I have to recreate the document from email. Soon!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Final prompt
when I thought I couldn't take any more, I found myself taking more
words
flush
crank
refill
sped
words
flush
crank
refill
sped
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Press Release for this Monday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF THE 1,000 WORDS READING SERIES: WORK
7PM MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008. FREE
THE MAIDEN, 639 SE MORRISON
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA 971-506-3340, mel.Favara@gmail.com
More info at http://1000wordspdx.blogspot.com
In this innovative reading series, five participants each present 1,000 words written for the occasion. Writers agree to produce 250 words per week for four weeks leading up to the reading; they are given a theme at the beginning (WORK, this time), and must include certain phrases and words in each weekly effort as capriciously assigned by the host. A variety of fresh works result from the writers’ wildly divergent interpretations of the prompts, and the rapid-fire presentation of short pieces really cooks. Reading:
Matthew Hattie Hein bikes to and from PSU, where he teaches English. He contributes to the PDX Writer Daily (www.pdxwriting.blogspot.com), and recently published musings on Portland hipster houses in Oregon Humanities magazine. His thoughts on the parlor game Psychic Dictionary appeared in the last issue of Verb, and he occasionally sings on 7" records.
Kate Kallal was born in the U.P. of Michigan, thought she’d teach James Joyce for the rest of her life, changed her mind about a month into grad school, went into the Peace Corps in 2004, taught English at a university in Ukraine, came home and was glad to be home, and was incredibly relieved and excited to get a job at Clark College.
Erin Ergenbright is a founder of the Loggernaut Reading Series and the co-author of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals, including The Believer Magazine, Tin House, The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work and Pulling It All Together in Your Thirties, Indiana Review and Paste Magazine. Erin lives in Portland and teaches writing.
Lucie Bonvalet is a teacher of French at the Alliance Francaise, a regular contributor to the French art and culture zine Globulot, and a student of dance, Japanese and tai chi.
Travis Brown was born in Lincoln, Illinois. He earned his M.F.A. in poetry from New Mexico State University. His poems have recently appeared in Fence, Third Coast, Burnside Review, and West Branch. New poems are soon to land in Conduit.
Series curator Mel Favara will also read. She teaches English and hosts other literary hybrid events in Portland. Her work has appeared around.
Intermission music courtesy of We Play Quiet: two teenagers named Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp, from Vancouver, WA. They’re a lo-fi, energetic punk duo with post rock leanings, a schizophrenically varied repertoire, and a healthy dose of teen angst.
FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF THE 1,000 WORDS READING SERIES: WORK
7PM MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008. FREE
THE MAIDEN, 639 SE MORRISON
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA 971-506-3340, mel.Favara@gmail.com
More info at http://1000wordspdx.blogspot.com
In this innovative reading series, five participants each present 1,000 words written for the occasion. Writers agree to produce 250 words per week for four weeks leading up to the reading; they are given a theme at the beginning (WORK, this time), and must include certain phrases and words in each weekly effort as capriciously assigned by the host. A variety of fresh works result from the writers’ wildly divergent interpretations of the prompts, and the rapid-fire presentation of short pieces really cooks. Reading:
Matthew Hattie Hein bikes to and from PSU, where he teaches English. He contributes to the PDX Writer Daily (www.pdxwriting.blogspot.com), and recently published musings on Portland hipster houses in Oregon Humanities magazine. His thoughts on the parlor game Psychic Dictionary appeared in the last issue of Verb, and he occasionally sings on 7" records.
Kate Kallal was born in the U.P. of Michigan, thought she’d teach James Joyce for the rest of her life, changed her mind about a month into grad school, went into the Peace Corps in 2004, taught English at a university in Ukraine, came home and was glad to be home, and was incredibly relieved and excited to get a job at Clark College.
Erin Ergenbright is a founder of the Loggernaut Reading Series and the co-author of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals, including The Believer Magazine, Tin House, The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work and Pulling It All Together in Your Thirties, Indiana Review and Paste Magazine. Erin lives in Portland and teaches writing.
Lucie Bonvalet is a teacher of French at the Alliance Francaise, a regular contributor to the French art and culture zine Globulot, and a student of dance, Japanese and tai chi.
Travis Brown was born in Lincoln, Illinois. He earned his M.F.A. in poetry from New Mexico State University. His poems have recently appeared in Fence, Third Coast, Burnside Review, and West Branch. New poems are soon to land in Conduit.
Series curator Mel Favara will also read. She teaches English and hosts other literary hybrid events in Portland. Her work has appeared around.
Intermission music courtesy of We Play Quiet: two teenagers named Reid Trevarthen and Ethan Camp, from Vancouver, WA. They’re a lo-fi, energetic punk duo with post rock leanings, a schizophrenically varied repertoire, and a healthy dose of teen angst.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Second prompt
The writers had to contend with this:
phrase:
something you'd only see on your hands and knees with a rag and a bucket
and words
limb
snarl
arboreal
smudge
Again, 250 words using these things. The results so far are kind of astonishing.
phrase:
something you'd only see on your hands and knees with a rag and a bucket
and words
limb
snarl
arboreal
smudge
Again, 250 words using these things. The results so far are kind of astonishing.
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