selections from the publications of the 

read and performed by two dozen local writers and artists

Noon to 6:00 pm (or until we finish)

800 SE 10th Avenue

503-233-7996

Each winter Spare Room hosts a marathon reading, in which a booklength poem 

or series of texts is animated by a range of voices. For this year's marathon, 

we will read selections from many of the publications of the Something Else Press, 

the pioneering publishing venture of Fluxus writer, composer, performer, and theorist 

Dick Higgins, which from 1964 to 1974 issued nearly sixty books (and countless 

pamphlets, newsletters, posters, scores, and other ephemeral objects) 

by a remarkable roster of artists (see links below).

The selections to be read include poems for single and multiple readers, 

short plays, performance scores, and prose of various stripes. 

Listeners are welcome to come and go as they like, or to stay for the entire duration.

As in recent years, the marathon will be held in the cozy kitchen at Yale Union, 

and we are grateful for their generous hospitality.

Reminiscence by Barbara Moore (first Editorial Director at the press)

Quotations on books by publisher Dick Higgins

Online versions of the Great Bear pamphlet series

and of newsletters of the press

2014  Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette, and William Blake, prophetic books

2013  Mina Loy, Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, and Wm. Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell

2012  Barbara Guest, The Collected Poems

2011  Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems

2010  Clark Coolidge, The Crystal Text

2009  100 Poems by 100 Poets from the Past 100 Years

2008  H.D., Helen in Egypt

2005  Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day

2004  Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons and Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets