10:00 AM – WPA Spring Festival: Workshops in poetry & translation
Richard Hugo House Cabaret, $60-$100
Workshops with poet laureate Sam Green, literary translator Andrea Lingenfelter and Beat poets David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg.
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10:00 AM – Writer’s Block Literary Festival: Student-run literary festival
UW Seattle
Workshops, readings, open mic
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11:00 AM – Dr. Sam L. Sebesta: Response to Readers’ Theater
Barnes & Noble, University Village
Reading literacy interactive conversation group and choral reading.
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2:00 PM – Knute Berger, Steve Scher, et al: Political Spin: A conversation about Frost/Nixon and the role of media in politics
SPL Central Branch
Seattle Theatre Group and Seattle Public Library host a lively conversation on the role of media in politics from Frost/Nixon to Couric/Palin.
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4:00 PM – Food & Culture: Poetry Reading
SPL University Branch Library
Sharon M. Carter, Susan J. Erickson, Marion Kimes
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4:30 PM – Brenda Miller: Blessing of the Animals
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The editor-in-chief of the Bellingham Review will read from her new book of essays. Elliott Bay calls them “luminous.”
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7:00 PM – WPA Spring Festival: Around the World in Poetry
Richard Hugo House Theater, $10
Keely Isaak Meehan, Linden Ontjes and Christian Swenson will perform one poem in multiple mediums; then you’ll be asked to translate it back into a poem.
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