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Start: 7:00 pm
The featured authors on tonight's double bill are both storytellers specializing in stark, surreal, almost cinematic imagery. Austin poet Karyna McGlynn reads from her debut collection of poems, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande), selected by Lynn Emanuel as the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. "To be a reader of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is to be a time traveler. Yet, no matter which life, body, or landscape one lands in, all exist on a shared bedrock of violence and suffering, albeit one presided over by a glittering imagination." – Lynn Emanuel, from the Foreword. We're also pleased that Brandon Shimoda, marketing director of the Seattle poetry press Wave Books, will be a part of this, reading from his own work. He is the author of The Inland Sea (Tarpaulin Sky Press), and contributed to two other recent book projects, Lake M (Corollary Press) and The Alps (Film Forum Press).
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by RICHARD HUGO HOUSE. The third evening in Hugo House's four-part 2009-10 Literary Series bring together three writers and one musical group all together for an evening of new, originally composed work on the theme of "Gods and Monsters." On hand this evening: poet LINDA BIERDS, award-winning Bainbridge Island-based poet, longtime University of Washington professor, most recently author of Flight: New and Selected Poems (Putnam); Pittsburgh poet TERRANCE HAYES, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon and most recently author of the critically-praised collection Wind in a Box (Penguin); Seattle novelist and playwright GARTH STEIN, whose most recent novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain (HarperCollins), has been both a critical hit and a bestselling reader favorite; and, to bring on the tunes, BLOODHAG, a Seattle band know for doing literary-based death metal music. It should be engaging, it should be fun—as all these nights have been. For the way to tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com) and more information, please see www.hugohouse.org, or call (206) 322-7030. Richard Hugo House is at 1634 Eleventh Avenue.
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