Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Seattle poet, novelist, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a "Legend" at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (write bloody publications). Seattle Magazine chose her as one of their 2009 Spotlight Award winners, naming her "Queen of the Spoken Word." She is also the author of Queen of the Butterfly House.