Verbal Graffiti Poetry Open Mic event is hosted every Friday evening in the Rainier Valley. Join them if you are between the ages of 13-19 and would like to perform music, poetry or DJ for a live audience. Rainier Community Center, 4600 38th Avenue S, Seattle. Phone (206) 386-1919. Email verbalgraffitipoetry@gmail.com
Want intelligent feedback on your writing, or a critique on a poem or bit of prose? Join SPLAB’s acclaimed writer’s critique circle, Living Room.
Writers of all ages and skill levels gather in the 2nd floor lounge of the Columbia City Cinema every Tuesday night in February through the end of May and again end of October through mid-December, 4816 Rainier AV S, Tuesdays at 7P to read new work, the work of someone else, or just to be in the engaging company of other writers. A suggested donation of 3-$10 helps SPLAB put on special events and expand programming.
Since April is National Poetry Month, Foodista has launchd the Food Haiku Contest.
Tweet your best food-related haikus or post to Foodista’s Facebook wall.
At the end of April, Foodista will announce their favorite composition and the winner will be recognized with a Foodista apron and a copy of Dessert Haiku: Petite Desserts for the Sweet Tooth & Poetry for the Soul.
Visit the Foodista for contest details and start composing today!
The featured readers are former “Arrested Development” writer and author of “This One Is Mine,” Maria Semple, Matthew Simmons, author of “A Jello Horse,” Midge Raymond, author of “Forgetting English,” and McSweeney’s martial arts writer Rory Douglas.
Cheap Wine and Poetry, Seattle’s biggest, coolest, hippest reading series, occurs semi-regularly at Richard Hugo House, a co-sponsor of the series, and occasionally at other venues throughout Seattle and elsewhere. With free admission and glasses of wine for a buck, “Cheap Wine and Poetry” regularly draws standing-room only audiences of poets, writers, artists, art lovers, literati, students, hipsters, cheap wine lovers, furious knitters, families, and the occasional dog.