April 7, 2019
Jen Coleman, Jefferson Hansen & Christopher Luna
Sunday, April 7
7:00 p.m.
1223 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland
$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away)
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Jefferson Hansen is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection 100 Hybrids (Post-Asemic Press). He has also authored Cruelty, a book of short stories, and and Beefheart saved Craig, a novel, both published by BlazeVox. He lives in Minneapolis.
Christopher Luna served as the first Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA from 2013-2017. His first full-length collection of poetry, Message from the Vessel in a Dream, was published by Flowstone Press in 2018. Luna has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and is the co-founder, with Toni Lumbrazo Luna, of Printed Matter Vancouver, a small press for Northwest writers which also provides writing coaching, editing, and manuscript review. He has hosted the popular Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic in Vancouver, WA since 2004. Luna's books include Brutal Glints of Moonlight and The Flame Is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961-1978. In 2019 Uttered Chaos Press in Eugene, OR will release a revised and expanded edition of Christopher's Ghost Town, USA, a decade-long investigative poem about Vancouver, WA.
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"Write me a poem,"
says Mom,
"that
I would like."
"About death."
says Mom,
"that
I would like."
"About death."
Jen Coleman
this poem is under surveillance
this poem will be "read"
by more algorithms than people
this poem was written
while Spotify "played"
Spotify has more data
on this poem than I do
can Spotify "interpret" this poem
this poem was published
in a different form on Facebook
this poem is part of my
Facebook security download
this poem was emailed to the
publisher of this Print on Demand book
yet this poem exists most securely
in the Cloud
Jefferson Hansen
suddenly static in my own time in your own time beware a tear can
appear a rip a slash through the static in a moment and suddenly too
suddenly you are not wherever you are but then again and there may
be no reason why but there you are in the lavender shorts the garment
that stuck around not wanting to miss a moment of this crisis this chaos
this crisis of faith this fundamental fissure in the unseen scripture you
rarely regarded as worth your time that time static that age static in my
attic laughs in a darkened kitchen and you did not then and you do not
now believe do not believe do not believe in anything but love
Christopher Luna