Join us for a Metatron Press book launch and reading at Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar. We will be celebrating the Seattle launch of Ivanna Baranova's CONFIRMATION BIAS, her debut collection of poetry.
READINGS:
☾ Ivanna Baranova ☾
☾ Sarah Galvin ☾
☾ Richard Chiem ☾
☾ Sonya Vatomsky ☾
☾ Robert Lashley ☾
Celebrate the publication of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea at Seattle's wonderful Vermillion Art Gallery & Bar. Featuring contributors and special guests Kate Berwanger, Douglas Cole, Bryn Gribben, G.G. Silverman, and Sonya Vatomsky; hosted by Jane Ormerod.
Join Kate Berwanger of Surreal Storytelling with Strange Women and local writer Ellen Meny for an evening of haunting storytelling at The Pine Box, a Capitol Hill bar inside a former mortuary. Six writers will fill the air with tales of ghosts, horror, and post-mortem themes. Pay your respects; this is a black tie affair. Masks, veils, and other disguises strongly encouraged.
This is a TICKETED EVENT. Limited tickets available: https://behindtheveil.bpt.me
A Surreal Storytelling event like no other. Surreal Storytelling with Strange Folx takes place in another world, on another plane. This event features four femme/queer/non-binary readers. This is a private storytelling session and the address will not be disclosed to the public.
Tickets available MAY 1.
Glossophonics: the study or appreciation of all sound based forms of communication, including poetry, music, noise, screams, and other nonsense. I’ll be reading poems — and perhaps some fiction! — on this Hollow Earth Radio show, which airs live from 2-4pm on Fridays.
Enjoy a special brunch menu while six local Seattle poets recite some of their words. Hosted by Kate Berwanger. Free. 21+.
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living,” Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote. Caitlin Doughty has spent her life around the dead. A mortician by trade, Doughty, in From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death travels the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead. She goes to Bolivia to see cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls; to Japan to watch relatives of the deceased use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones’ bones from cremation ashes; to Indonesia to watch a man dress his grandfather’s mummified body. Caitlin is joined in conversation with Sonya Vatomsky—Seattle-based author, journalist, and poet who writes about art and death. Together, and with a keen sense of wonder, Doughty and Vatomsky dig deep into death-care innovators who are practicing green burials and composting bodies. The life of the dead is alive, indeed.
The Satanic Temple presents: BIBLIOMANCY, a singular evening of literary spell-casting and exploration of the occult imagination. Doors at 7:30pm, event at 8pm.
Highlighting the provocative intersections between sex, feminism, and witchy women, authors Jacqueline Frances and Kristen J. Sollee are joining forces for the Sex Witch Book Tour this summer. To mark the release of Striptastic! and Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive, the Brooklyn-based duo will be hosting Sex Witch Slams and Sex Witch Talent Shows around the country, engaging local artists, witches, and sex workers to join them in celebrating sex positive, femme magic in its many incarnations through intimate readings, rituals, and one-of-a-kind performances.
This installment features Tessa Hulls, Sonya Vatomsky, DJAO, and an OPEN MIC.
