7:00 PM – A River & Sound Review: Variety Show
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret
A one of a kind literary entertainment variety show featuring novelist Stephanie Kallos, author of Broken for You, poet and essayist Anne McDuffie and musical guest Patrick Bradshaw.
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7:00 PM – Lindsay Hill & Nicole Sarrocco: Who’s On First? First Thursday Reading Series
Arundel Books
Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco and educated at Bard College. He has been published in many literary journals and recent works include: Sea of Hooks (Arundel 2008) and Contango (Singing Horse, 2006). Lindsay has recently completed his first novel. He lives in Portland with his wife Nita, two kids and two cats. He works, with Nita, as a consultant to not-for-profits and social enterprises.
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Nicole Sarrocco recently received her PhD. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, following Masters degrees in both English and Creative Writing. She now teaches in North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in journals, magazines, Seattle buses, gumball machines, and, reportedly, on Australian Public Radio, and have won awards including the Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival Award and the Galway Kinnell Award. Her first book of poems Karate Bride was published by Arundel Books in 2004.
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7:00 PM – Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Town Hall Seattle, Great Hall
Sandra Cisneros is touring the country to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her best-known work, The House on Mango Street, which has sold over two million copies since its initial publication in 1984. The novella tells the story of a young girl growing up in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. In 1985, it won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award and is now required reading in many schools and universities nationwide. Presented with Elliott Bay Book Company. [Source: Town Hall Seattle]
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7:00 PM – Saxon Holt: Get Gardening
UW Bookstore, U-District
Saxon Holt is a lifelong gardener and photographer whose gorgeous photography is featured in Hardy Succulents and Grasses. He is the owner of PhotoBotanic.com, where he maintains a library of more than 200,000 images from his 25 years as a garden photographer emphasizing sustainable and naturalistic American gardens. [Source: UW Bookstore]
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7:30 PM
Daniel A. Weiner – Good God: Faith for the Rest of Us
Elliott Bay Book Co.
In Good God, Rabbi Weiner sets the place of religious devotion and practice against the cacophony of much of contemporary life, as needed for the human soul to know and nourish its potential. He proposes a way of looking at faith that doesn’t fall into the boundaries of this (monotheistic) religion or that, but rather, is working on a higher plane. It is also socially and culturally connected. Rabbi Weiner is the founder of Faith Forward, an interfaith organization that works on the links between progressive values and religious principles. [Source: Elliott Bay Books]
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7:30 PM – Naomi Shihab Nye: Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
Benaroya Hall, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, $10-$35
Naomi Shihab Nye’s mixed heritage–her father is Palestinian, her mother is American–shapes the subjects of her poetry. She is the author of numerous books of poems, including You and Yours and Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, a collection of new and selected poems about the Middle East. She is also the editor of numerous anthologies for children. Nye has traveled extensively, including to the Middle East and Asia to promote goodwill through the arts. [Source: Seattle Arts & Lectures]
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7:30 PM – Walter Rusell Mead: After Fukuyama and Huntington: Prospects for American Power
UW Kane Hall, Room 220
Presented by the Luce Symposium on Global Religion and Human Security. Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations and author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. [Source: UW Bookstore]
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