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:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120612T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120612T190000 DTSTAMP:20240329T010343 CREATED:20120509T143400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120509T143400Z UID:247202-1339527600-1339527600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Choose Your Own Adventure! DESCRIPTION:A raucous Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-themed evening of readings to celebrate the release of Sierra Nelson’s collaborative choose-your-own-adventure poetry and art book “I Take Back the Sponge Cake” (Rose Metal Press)\, joined by a lively crew of fellow Pacific Northwest writers riffing on the adventure theme: Arlene Kim\, Rachel Kessler\, Kevin Craft\, Jason Whitmarsh and Anonymous (author of choose-your-own-adventure-styled memoir “Love Is Not Constantly Wondering if You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life”). \nADVENTURE! CHOICES! JOIN US! \nArtists: \nSierra Nelson will be reading from her new book “I Take Back the Sponge Cake” (Rose Metal Press\, Spring 2012) made in collaboration with visual artist Loren Erdrich (www.okloren.com) and featuring poems\, artwork and a lyrical choose-your-own-adventure format. For the reading\, the audience will collectively choose how to move through the work\, to create a unique reading-journey with projections of Erdrich’s artwork from those pages for the full effect. \nAbout the book; Book glimpses; Sierra reading with the fishes \nArlene Kim was chosen as one of Poets & Writers 2012 debut poets for her collection “What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?” (Milkweed Editions). Her work appears in diode\, DIAGRAM\, Blackbird\, Cha and on NPR’s KUOW Presents\, among other places. She lives in Seattle where she reads for the DMQ Review and writes poems\, prose and bits in between. Check it: http://arlenekim.com/ \nAnonymous is Portland-based author of “Love Is Not Constantly Wondering if You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life” (Perfect Day Publishing)\, reading from his memoir styled as a Choose Your Own Adventure book about a starfighter marooned on a planet full of Space Ants\, complete with amazing mutant ant drawings true to the spirit of the 1980’s adventure classics. Read more about it here. \nRachel Kessler is a writer\, educator and performance artist. She is a founding member of the literary performance art groups The Typing Explosion and the Vis-à-Vis Society. Her collaborative poems have appeared in Tin House\, TATE\, and USA Today. She has written about eating\, hair removal and book reading for Seattle’s premier alternative weekly The Stranger and the Bay Area’s Urban View.  Awesome poems up at The Monarch Review. \nKevin Craft is editor of Poetry Northwest and author of “Solar Prominence” (Cloudbank Books). Craft has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy)\, the Camargo Foundation (France) and the Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust. His poems\, reviews and essays have appeared in such places as Poetry\, AGNI\, Verse\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Stranger\, Poetry Daily and Kenyon Review. Get to know him a little better here. \nJason Whitmarsh received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Washington. His poems have appeared in a number of journals\, including American Letters & Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Fence\, The Harvard Review\, New American Writing\, Ploughshares\, Verse and The Yale Review. He is author of “Tomorrow’s Living Room\,” winner of the 2009 May Swenson Poetry Award.  Fast forward to three histories here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/choose-your-own-adventure/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR