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  • Date: February 27
  • Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm PT
  • Format: In Person
  • Location: Lapis Theater
    1634 11th Ave.

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It Goes On hosted by Jeanine Walker

It Goes On

hosted by Jeanine Walker

$2 wine 

poetry readings by Roberto Ascalon, Lily Baumgart, Matt Gano, and Dujie Tahat

Thursday, February 27, 7pm

doors & open mic sign up at 6pm

Hugo House is delighted to partner with poet Jeanine Walker and mixed media artist Aaron Counts to bring to the Hugo House stage a new reading series, It Goes On! It Goes On features $2 glasses of wine, $8 bottles, and invaluable words. Our third reading of the series stars local poetry legends Roberto Ascalon, Lily Baumgart, Matt Gano, and Dujie Tahat. And you! On the open mic, following the reading (limit 10 readers–sign ups start at 6). Come on out to our cozy cabaret-style theater to partake in the poetry, wine, and full-on winter fun.

NYC-born poet, Roberto Carlos Ascalon teaches across the Northwest. His work has led to residencies, commissions and multimedia poetry exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, MOHAI and The Henry Art Gallery. He was the 2013 Poet Planner for the City of Seattle, an Artist Trust, Kundiman and Jack Straw Fellow, a 2025 Hermitage Artist in Residence, two-time Seattle Slam Team member and the winner of the 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize for “The Fire This Time ,or, How Come Some Brown Boys Get Blazed Right Before Class And Other Questions Without Marks” a poem which earned him a nomination for a Pushcart and an invitation to the White House where he and his students had the honor of shaking hands with President Obama. 

By day Lily Baumgart is an environmental chemist and by night, they watch TV, knit, and occasionally write a poem or two. They are exceptionally average at circus arts as well as several ballroom dances and are an avid crossword puzzler. The author of Admitted to the Personal Ads (Penmanship Books, 2018), Baumgart was Seattle's 2017/18 youth poet laureate. Their work has also appeared in Nymphs Publication, Jeopardy, Juste Milieu and is forthcoming in Washington State Poet Laureate, Adrienne True’s, project Queer Poetry Anthology.

Matt Gano is author of Suits for the Swarm, and a recording artist releasing music under the title, Entendres. Matt's work in performance, on page, and in the classroom spans two decades in the PNW and has led to invitations as a guest instructor at the Juilliard School in NYC, resident guest artist and instructor at the Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in Hong Kong, and repeat panelist and featured poet for the Skagit River Poetry Festival (2013-2024). Matt works for the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas and is co-founder of the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate program. 

Dujie Tahat is a poet and critic living and working in Washington state. They are the author of three poetry chapbooks: Here I Am O My God, selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship; Salat, winner of the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Award and longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection; and Balikbayan, finalist for The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest and the Center for Book Arts honoree. Along with Luther Hughes and Gabrielle Bates, they cohost The Poet Salon podcast.

The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

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