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.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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.
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You'll be changed. May reading plus July readers & bios soon.
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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.
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