Poets (speak out) Against Hate: 53 poets read on February 13, 2016, Saturday, 2-5 p.m., at The Seattle Public Library’s Central Library. 1000 Fourth Avenue. They are reading one (1) poem, 1-2 minutes max. Readings in English, Spanish, Farsi, Arabic and Russian. The reading is “family friendly” and kids of all ages are invited. This community event is co-sponsored by: The Seattle Public Library, It’s About Time Writers, Raven Chronicles, 4Culture, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
LIST OF POETS READING
Paul Hunter, The Tar Pit
Claudia Castro Luna, Who says roses don’t come from ideas?
Jorge Enrique Gonzalez Pacheco w/Katherine Wickhorst, Escritos Ineditos / Unpublished Writings
Katherine Grace Bond, Stones
Ann Teplick, The Hope That Love Will Win
Anna Balint, Grandson
Esther Altshul Helfgott, Pantoum for Northgate Mosque, for Mitra and Payam
Jose Carrillo, Checks & Balances
Phoebe Bosche, There’s Always Sarajevo
Rebecca Woods Meredith, Security
Ann Batchelor Hursey, In Afghanistan
Mare Hake, The Tripping Ground
Larry Crist, Fight Lessons
Priscilla Long, Lecture to a Girlfriend
Lydia Swartz, I married this guy when I was 18 to get it over with…
Mitra Lotfi Shemirani, I have pinned the map
Payam Fotouhiyehpour, poet-killing
Jack Remick, Daesh Slaughters the Bearded Bull
Raul Sanchez, If My Hands Could Talk
Clear, A Reading from the Book of Man
Steve Potter, Rainier Avenue South
Michael Daley, War Crimes
Marianne Weltmann, Semantic Sonnet for a Sunday Morning
Georgia S. McDade, Georgia’s Time
Carmelo Gonzalez w/Jose Carrillo, Asedio/Siege
Julene Tripp Weaver, This World Layered with Memories of Tragedy
David Tookey, Spring’s Finest Yellow
Angelica Guillen, so speaks my pain
Larry H. Ebersole, Appeal
Jorge Vilchiz, w/Jose Carrillo, Tu Rostro/Your Face
Jacqueline Ware, Driven to Distraction: The KKK Effect
Christine Clarke, Love/Hate
Lola E. Peters, Free Admission
Victor Fuentes, Mi Hogar/Where I Live
Leszek Chudzinski, I’m A Homeless Man
Robert Francis Flor, The Plagues
Bridget Yule, How?
Reneene Robertson, Creative Genius
Lawrence Matsuda, (Read by Paul Hunter) Just a Short Note to Say Something You Already Know, For Donald’s Daughter, Ivanka Trump
Kevin J. O’Conner, I have questions
Jourdan Keith, Tick Tock
Catherine Sutthoff Slaton, Unum Theoria
Claire Jackson, Past Tense
Laura Gonzalez, Desplome / Collapse
Lyn Coffin, A Weekday Dinner
David Fewster, It’s Hard To Get A Good Lunch, Anymore
Thomas Hubbard, Coffeeshop, Lower Queen Anne
Katelyn Durst, Why is the City of Flint allowed to Waste Away?
Catherine Salman, Perhaps One Should
Valeria Viniarskaia w/Leszek Chudzinski, Gratitude
M Anne Sweet, Sun Dance
Faiza Sultan, I have plenty of things
Kat Humphrey, Giddy and the Gorgeous Fruit: Post-Valentine’s-Day Shopping