Spare Room Turns 100!

{Check back for a link to the list of poems read in this nearly seven-hour marathon!}

Spare Room's 100th Reading
The Spare Room reading series celebrates seven years of presenting experimental writing in Portland with a marathon hundredth reading. Spare Room organizers past and present (with friends) will read 100 Poems by 100 Poets from the Past 100 Years

Sunday, January 25
starting at 2:00 pm
ending when we finish (6:00? 7:00?)
Free admission

Gallery Homeland (at the Ford Building)
2505 SE 11th Avenue

From Helen Adam to Louis Zukofsky, from Futurism to Personism, from Hiroshima to Blackhawk Island, from a Polish count to a Peruvian communist, from Dada to MoMA, from prisoners of war to secret agents, from mimeographers to bloggers . . . come hear a small but representative slice of the extraordinary range of poetries practiced in the past century!

Readers will include:
David Abel  •  Meredith Blankinship  •  Joseph Bradshaw  •  Alicia Cohen  •  Gale Czerski  •  Laura Feldman  •  Patrick Hartigan  •  Lindsay Hill  •  Rodney Koeneke  •  Maryrose Larkin  •  Sam Lohmann  •  Jesse Morse  •  Mark Owens  •  Chris Piuma  •  Dan Raphael  •  James Yeary  •  Leo & Anna Daedalus  •  Tony Christy  •  Linda Austin  •  Lisa Radon  •    Neville, Molly, & Oskar  •  and more . . .

Reading poems by:
Helen Adam  •  Charles Amirkhanian  •  Guillaume Apollinaire  •  Hugo Ball  •  Ted Berrigan  •  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge  •  Robin Blaser  •  Nicole Brossard  •  Basil Bunting  •  Anne Carson  •  Constantine Cavafy  •  Joseph Ceravolo  •  Theresa Hak Kyung Cha  •  Inger Christiansen  •  Robert Creeley  •  Beverly Dahlen  •  Robert Desnos  •  H.D.  •  Francois Dufrene  •  Robert Duncan  •  Russell Edson  •  Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien  •  Kevin Goodan  •  Linda Gregg  •  Bill Griffiths  •  Barbara Guest  •  Carla Harryman  •  Dick Higgins  •  Ake Hodell  •  Fanny Howe  •  Susan Howe  •  Philip Jenks  •  Karen Kelley  •  Aleksei Kruchenyk  •  Gerrit Lansing  •  Jackson Mac Low  •  Bernadette Mayer  •  Marianne Moore  •  Christian Morgenstern  •  Harryette Mullen  •  Susan Smith Nash  •  bp nichol  •  Lorine Niedecker  •  Alice Notley  •  Frank O'Hara  •  George Oppen  •  Michael Palmer  •  Bob Perelman  •  Dennis Phillips  •  Laura Riding  •  Joan Retallack  •  Gerhard Rühm  •  Diana Saenz  •  Frank Samperi  •  Aram Saroyan  •  Kurt Schwitters  •  David Shapiro  •  Charles Sharpe  •  Ron Silliman  •  Gustaf Sobin  •  Jack Spicer  •  Gertrude Stein  •  Wallace Stevens  •  Rhett Stuart  •  Cole Swenson  •  John Taggart  •  Nathaniel Tarn  •  Alberta Turner  •  César Vallejo  •  Lew Welch  •  Hannah Weiner  •  Jonathan Williams  •  William Carlos Williams  •  C.D. Wright  •  Araki Yasusada  •  Louis Zukofsky  •  and many more