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:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170407T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170407T220000 DTSTAMP:20240328T100030 CREATED:20160804T064700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160804T064700Z UID:248338-1491593400-1491602400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Literary Series: Anis Mojgani\, Kaitlyn Greenidge\, Rick Barot & Maiah Manser [Offsite] DESCRIPTION:General admission: $25 | Hugo House member: $20 | Student: $10 \n \nThe final Lit Series event brings new work based on the theme of “Betrayal.” The night will feature poet Anis Mojgani\, a National Book Award nominee and two-time National Poetry Slam Champion; Kaitlyn Greenidge\, whose critically acclaimed debut novel\, We Love You\, Charlie Freeman\, was called “terrifically auspicious” by The New York Times; and Tacoma-based poet and former Stegner fellow Rick Barot\, whose work Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austen called “darkly beautiful.” \nMaiah Manser will provide music for the evening. Often compared to female power houses like Kate Bush\, Lana Del Rey\, Björk\, and Adele\, Maiah strives to fuse the digital and the organic in every aspect of her music. \n\nNote: This event takes place at Fred Wildlife Refuge on Capitol Hill. \n\nAbout Lit Series events and the 2016–2017 Season. \n\nAnis Mojgani is the author of The Pocketknife Bible\, Songs From Under The River\, The Feather Room\, and Over the Anvil We Stretch. He is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A TEDx Speaker and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-in-the-Schools program\, his work has appeared on HBO\, NPR\, and in such journals as Rattle\, Paper Darts\, Forklift Ohio\, and Used Furniture Review. \n\nKaitlyn Greenidge was the recipient of the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize. She was a Bread Loaf scholar\, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace artist-in-residence\, and a Johnson State College visiting emerging writer. Her work has appeared in The Believer\, The Feminist Wire\, At Length\, Fortnight Journal\, Green Mountains Review\, Afrobeat Journal\, Tottenville Review\, and American Short Fiction. \n\nRick Barot is the author of The Darker Fall; Want\, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Chord\, which received the PEN Open Book Award\, (all from Sarabande Books). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust of Washington. In 2016\, he received a poetry fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Tin House\, The Kenyon Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and The Threepenny Review. \n\nPhoto by Megumi Shauna Arai\nMaiah Manser has worked both as a solo artist as well as with a variety of projects including Mary Lambert (as a touring vocalist featured on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show\, Good Morning America\, and VH-1’s You Oughta Know)\, The Esoterics\, and Pollens. Maiah began her solo career playing for EMP’s Sound Off! competition in 2013. Her song “Hold Your Head Up” was featured in City Arts Magazine‘s Top 5 Most Attractive Singles. She is currently finishing work on her debut EP with producer Buddy Ross. www.maiahmanser.com \n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/lit-series-anis-mojgani-kaitlyn-greenidge-rick-barot/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR