I'll be there, and you should be too.

Really! Here are the details:

NO COMMENT
a new city theater literary series
Curator : writer rebecca brown
Producing Director: john kazanjian

Third Wednesday of the Month
next : April 16 @ 7:30 pm

WHO: Ryan Boudinot
is the author of The Littlest Hitler. His work has appeared in
McSweeney's, Hobart, Monkey Bicycle, The Best American
Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere.

WHERE: The Shoebox (new city's new performance space)
1404 18th Avenue , one block north of Union Street

HOW: Tickets purchased at the door - $4.00 cash only please
Call - 271 - 4430

NO COMMENT is a reading series in which one writer reads a substantial
portion of his/her work. No sales, no signings, no schmoozing, no Q & A
or song or dance or comment - just the work read by the author. The writer
will read for 45 minutes to an hour or so. Three living writers a season.
One dead great one read by someone living.
MAY 21 : Nate Lippens
JUNE 19 : Gertrude Stein

Poetry Contest

Here's the deal:

Announcing the 2008 Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest

Deadline May 31, 2008
Prize is $100 and publication in Crab Creek Review

Entry fee: $10 check payable to Crab Creek Review

Crab Creek Poetry Contest Submission Guidelines

Submit up to 3 poems

Unpublished poetry only

Simultaneous submissions acceptable when noted in cover letter, as long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere

Include SASE for notification

No electronic submissions

The winner to be determined by our guest judge -- Kathleen Flenniken.

Kathleen Flenniken’s first book, Famous (University of Nebraska, 2006), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was named an ALA Notable Book and a Washington State Book Award Finalist. Other awards include fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust. She is co-editor and president of Floating Bridge Press.

Please send submissions to:

Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest
c/o 7315 34th Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98117

Spin the Bottle This Friday!

Here are the details:

Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words.

If that doesn't lure you into this month's Spin the Bottle, I don't
know what could.

This Friday night, April 4, at 11 pm, come and see the glory and splendor of:

>> The high-carbohydrate deliciousness of TATER TOT TERROR!
>> Slippery bass soliloquies from EVAN FLORY-BARNES!
>> The whirling tap-clad feet of JESSIE SAWYERS!
>> The award-winning short film written by Scot Augustson, LETHAL COTILLION!
>> SCOTTO MOORE explains it all (or some detail of it) to you!
>> Ukulele eccentricity from ERIC RAY ANDERSON!
>> A long-lost love letter from LOUISE PENBORTHY!
>> Something, probably messy, from GUDE/LAURANCE!
>> Husky-throated smut from LANELL GUISTE!
>> And more, more, more!

All held together by our own patch-of-blue-through-the-clouds, BRUCE HALL!

Annex Theatre's Spin the Bottle now takes place at Annex's new
Stellner Studio, 1100 E Pike St -- which you enter on 11th Ave, just
off the corner of Pike & 11th on Capitol Hill. Only $9, and your
ticket also functions as a free raffle ticket. Good stiff drinks can
be had at the (much more spacious!) bar. Want to know more about
Annex? Go to and see dozens of pictures of our
new space, as well as pictures from past Spin the Bottles and recent
shows.

Yours, StB curator Bret Fetzer

Crysta Casey Reads Tomorrow Night!

Here are the details:

Come hear Crysta Casey read her poetry this Wednesday 7pm at ParkPlace Books in Kirkland and tell all your friends!

Open mike follows, so bring a poem of your own or one by a favorite author you'd like to share.

Wednesday, April 2 at 7 p.m.
ParkPlace Books, 348 Parkplace Center, Kirkland (6th and Central Way)
Features Seattle poet Crysta Casey. Open mike follows. Phone store for directions: 425-828—6546. Free parking.

See you there,
Lana