A Leg To Stand On: A reading of new work, Thursday December 15, 2005: Donna Stonecipher, Kathleen Flenniken and Adriana Grant Donna Stonecipher is a Seattle native now living in Berlin, Germany. Her first book, The Reservoir, was published by U. Georgia Press in 2002. Kathleen Flenniken's first collection, Famous, won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry and will be released next fall. Her poems have appeared in Iowa Review, Poetry, and Poetry Daily. Adriana Grant collects lines, sometimes stealing them, from her friends and family. Her poetry won 3rd prize in the 3rd Bed magazine first annual prize for poetry, and will appear in a forthcoming issue. She's the co-curator of the Dec. exhibit at the SOIL gallery.

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Sarah Mangold, Kreg Hasegawa and K Grossman A Leg To Stand On: A reading of new work, Thurday June 16, 2005 Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues), which was selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her other books include Blood Substitute (Potes and Poets) and Boxer Rebellion (gong). She's the publisher and editor of Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art. Recent work of hers appears in Traverse, Colorado Review, and Chicago Review. Kreg Hasegawa co-edited (with Daniel Comiskey) the magazine Monkey Puzzle. He has been a guest curator of the Subtext Reading Series and the director of the 1506 Projects Reading Series. Recent stories of his appear in Sal Mimeo and The News. K Grossman spent her "formative" years in New Jersey, and then lived in Massachusettes, New York, and Vermont, where she published occasionally and gave frequent readings. She edits Traverse magazine with Drew Kunz.

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Alejandro de Acosta: Tonight I read my work in progress, "(In Which) Anything Goes: An Anarchist Pedagogy." It is a manuscript of prose poems and short essays about what it feels like to be an anarchist professor of philosophy.

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Ketty Loeb: "Contentious Politics: Among China's Ethnic Minorities" A doctoral student of political science at the University of Washington. Her research interests include Chinese politics, comparative revolutionary history and theory, social movement theory and ethnic politics. SRI sponsored.

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Robert speaks of the contemporary popular culture and music scene he is deeply fascinated with in My Demographic: The Madonna, Britney war. Charles speaks of his new film that has sprouted from the Police Beat files he keeps for the The Stranger here in Seattle. SRI sponsored.

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"Driving the House Around the Block: Writing a Book-Length Poem" A poet, activist and social provocateur who lives in Seattle. He was a co-author of the Seattle Monorail Initiative which passed in 1997.

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Release of Shoot the Buffalo: A novel by Matt Briggs, Sunday September 18, 2005 Matt Briggs is the author of three collections of short stories, including The Remains of River Names and The Moss Gatherers. Shoot the Buffalo, his first novel, has just been released by Clear Cut Press. Of the book Publishers Weekly wrote, "Briggs offers an earnest, muscular indictment of the dropout counterculture." Violin played by Neil Bacon. Clear Cut Press, as a business and artistic venture, is inspired by early 20th-century subscription presses Hours Press and Contact Editions, and by the mid-century paperbacks of New Directions and City Lights. These historical models seem well-suited to the independent economies that emerge every generation or so around the cultural movements and new demands of global youth, whether punk, grunge, hip-hop, hippie, beatnik or flapper.

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