SPREAD was a monthly journal of poetry distributed for free around Seattle from October, 2000 to July, 2003. You may remember it. You may have just moved to Seattle. Spankstra Press, a Seattle-based small press, has bound all the issues into a book for the oldsters as well as the newbies and will celebrate its

Commissioned by Richard Hugo House as part of the 2011-2012 Hugo Literary Series, Charles Johnson, author of the National Book Award-winning “Middle Passage”; queer spoken word luminary Tara Hardy; and Fantagraphics’ cartoonist Megan Kelso debut new writing that answers the question, “Does having it all ever equal happiness?”, with new music by David Nixon of

Show & Tell—the pre-school game we all played where our storytelling skills were first tested by sharing personal anecdotes about objects that were near and dear to our hearts, from our favorite dolls and trucks to pet rocks and stamp collections.Tonight, comedian Emmett Montgomery, illustrator Derek Erdman, essayist Wilson Diehl and solo performer Jennifer Jasper