Third Saturday Workshop and PIE reading is proud to present dan raphael and Willie Smith. BookTree (609 Market St. Kirkland, Wa. 98033).
Workshop - details soon- led by dan raphael 4:30 to 6:00pm
Poetry is Everything (PIE) reading and open mic. 6:15 to 8:06 pm
with dan raphael and Willie Smith
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Bios:
Manything is dan raphael's 21st book(Sept 2019); previous books include Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid (Last Word Press) and Impulse & Warp: the Collected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon.) Manythnig got it's name because of the wide variety of visions, voices and vocabularies in it. dan is known for the passion, humor and imagination in his work and his performances. He's read throughout the Northwest, including Bumbershoot, Powell's Books, Cascadia Poetry Fetival, Reed College and the Portland Jazz Festival. Most Wednesdays dan writes and records a current event poem for the KBOO Evening News.
Lawrence Smith, editor of Caliban, wrote:
It is appropriate that Dan Raphael’s Manything has come out in the year of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Raphael is one of the few poets since Whitman to have such a complete delight in the multiplicity of the world. His integration of the objects of man’s making with the wildness of nature is liberating. The poet’s body parts can function independently and often co-mingle freely with dirty streets, rain, bottles, squirrels, and the sun. Manything is a vision, one that moves us beyond our complacency, making us less sure that the world we navigate daily is what we think it is. Like Louis Aragon in Paysan de Paris, Raphael awakens us to the ecstatic possibility that we might fall right through the sidewalk.
Beacon Hill resident Willie Smith is deeply ashamed of being human. His work celebrates this horror. He has prowled the inner Seattle streets daily since 1976. He was born in a hospital outside Greenbelt, Maryland, and grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. In the late sixties he worked as a logger in the same woods D. B. Cooper later jumped into. He received a B.A. in English or creative writing or something from Reed College in 1972. He was part of the 2007 Jack Straw Writers. He’s published online, in anthologies, literary journals and a few books including Nothing Doing. He is addicted to classical music, self-pity, stargazing, whole grain, lean meat and fresh produce. His religion is walking; the world is his church.