BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T232120 CREATED:20180302T032600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180302T032600Z UID:248802-1525201200-1525208400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Anis Mojgani\, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz & Derrick C. Brown DESCRIPTION:Fred Wildlife Refuge (128 Belmont Ave East) | Doors open at 6:30 pm\nFree \nThree award-winning slam poets will read from their new collections\, all recently published by Write Bloody Publishing.\n \n\nHosted by our poet-in-residence Amber Flame and with an opening set from Buddy Wakefield. \n \n\nAnis Mojgani is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of International World Cup Poetry Slam. A Pushcart Prize nominee and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts Writer’s-In-the-Schools Program\, Anis has performed at numerous universities\, festivals\, and venues around the globe. His work has appeared on HBO\, NPR\, and in the pages of Rattle Magazine. \nIn the Pockets of Small Gods\, explores what we do with grief\, long after the initial sadness has faded from our daily lives: how we learn to carry it without holding it\, how our joy and our pain touch\, and at times need one another. In the Pockets of Small Gods touches on many kinds of sorrow\, from the suicide of a best friend to a broken marriage to the current political climate. \n“…a gale force talent\, a twirling dervish of lyric and the body’s music…”—Patricia Smith \n\nCristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is a New York Times-bestselling nonfiction writer and poet. She is the author of six books of poetry (including Dear Future Boyfriend\, Hot Teen Slut\, Working Class Represent\, Oh\, Terrible Youth\, and Everything Is Everything) as well as two nonfiction books. She is the founder and host of the three-time national poetry slam championship venue\, NYC-Urbana. Cristin’s awards include the ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania (2010-2011)\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (2011)\, and the Amy Clampitt Residency (2013). \nContinuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work\, Cristin’s seventh collection of poetry\,\nHow to Love the Empty Air\, explores what happens when the impossible becomes real―for better and for worse. \n“Aptowicz is something of a legend in NYC’s slam poetry scene. She is lively\, thoughtful\, and approachable\, looking to engage the audience with her work and deeply committed to the community that art and slam poetry can create.” — Jo Reed\, NEA \n\nDerrick C. Brown is a comedian\, poet and storyteller. He is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former Paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent poetry presses in the country”\, Write Bloody Publishing\, which has launched over 130 books of poetry. He is the author of seven books of poetry and three children’s books. He is from Los Angeles\, California. \nBrown returns with a new collection\, Hello. It Doesn’t Matter\, full of beautiful longing and his surefire blend of poetics\, humor and darkness. \n“Derrick C. Brown is our modern-day Pablo Neruda.” — Amber Tamblyn\, Dark Sparkler \n“…a rekindling of faith in the weird\, hilarious\, shocking\, beautiful power of words.” — New York Times URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/anis-mojgani-cristin-okeefe-aptowicz-derrick-c-brown/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR