Thanks to Jon, Jesse and all in attendance for bringing us back in style. It was a great night and we highly recommend seeing either of these guys in another capacity very soon.
In the meantime, enjoy this video by local recording legends Mudhoney. Pretty sure they wrote this song just for our reading series:
Hey kids. Sometimes getting back in the game warrants a drumroll, dance, and explanation of absence. Other times, you’re just like, hey. We’re back.
Because we are. Claustrophobia 10: Home Invasion, April 12th, 2806 S Alaska Pl.
featuring Jesse Minkert
Jon Hendrich
8pm. bring a thing to eat or drink. We may hit Columbia City afterwards, because it’s a friday night.
This will be the first Claustrophobia in a bit, and the first non-collab reading we’ve done in a bit. We look forward to seeing your handsome faces once more.
In Columbia City. Featuring Randall Templin and Jeanne Morel.
Ghost Tokens featuring Ra’anan David, Cooper Smith, Bill Carty. view the flyer, in all it’s ominous glory, here.
Mark Anderson is a poet from Spokane, WA. His life as a poet started when he wandered into a small open mic at Empyrean Coffee House. After that he started drinking coffee and went on to organize poetry slams in Spokane. Later, he started a poetry open mic (Broken Mic) which has served as a catalyst for making writing and art relevant in his home city. Oh, he has also read across the Northwest, competed in two individual World Poetry Slams, and displayed at the Spokane Museum of Arts and Culture and nearly every other venue for writing in Spokane.
Ryan Johnson used to live in Shoreline, then he lived in SIiver Firs, then he lived in La Mirada, then he lived in Bellingham, then he lived in Silver Firs, and now he lives in Shoreline.
Originally from Chattanooga, Lindsey Walker writes poetry and prose from her home in the Columbia City neighborhood. She has won beaucoup writing prizes, including two national League for Innovation Awards. Her work has appeared a little in print and a lot online, most recently in Steel Toe Review, and will be featured in the upcoming edition of The Raintown Review. When not writing, she watches awful horror movies with her gamer fiancé and her badass pitbull. She is currently working toward her bachelor’s degree in creative writing at Seattle University. Visit her at lindseywalker.wordpress.com.
Claustrophobia is proud and excited to bring the small space squeeze to one of the largest coordinated poetry events in the world. Saturday, September 29th, from 2-7pm at Richard Hugo House will see 60 of the Northwest’s finest poets and writers bringing their voices to the fray.
As part of this, Claustrophobia has gotten Mark Anderson, Ryan Johnson, and Lindsey Walker there to represent. How will we take such an expansive event and make people feel like they’re trapped in an elevator (which is part of our mission statement– still in the drafting phase)? Creative reader positioning, audience coaxing, and of course, words.
To know more than that, you’ll have to go to the official facebook event.
Our readers are more likely to be going on early on in the day, but pretty much everyone there is good, so show up for the whole thing; for the first time since The Station, there’ll be a bar, to help wash down all that coaxing.
But what gathers such a number? What could it be?
boogie, boogie, scary face.
Many thanks to Greg Bem for filming.
