Smalldoggies Readings PDX: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX016: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 2011 @ 8pm!
Permanent Location in the Southeast: 3341 SE Belmont at 34th Ave. @ The Blue Monk.
The Blue Monk on Belmont, PDX
3341 Southeast Belmont Street
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 595-0575
Click for directions.
Or Go By Bus: SE Belmont and SE 34th.
One musical guest, Three (or more) Writers performing and reading poetry, fiction and prose.
Featured readers include: writer Vanessa Veselka (PDX), writer Erin Ergenbright (PDX), poet Karen Wood Hepner (PDX). SPECIAL GUEST POET TRAVELING FROM LOS ANGELES FOR THE SHOW…
Musical Guests: Blind Bartimaeus (featuring Santi Elijah Holley and Liz Chibucos)
Hosted by Matty Byloos and Carrie Seitzinger.
Come on down for our fall show lineup: doors and drinks at 7:30, music at 8:00, writers after with intermissions.
Free Event with suggested $5 donation.
Three LIMITED EDITION CHAPBOOKS are now available: FEATURING WRITING FROM EVERY PERFORMER TO SHARE THE SMALLDOGGIES STAGE, FROM READINGS #1-#13, including the complete Anniversary show: $7 EACH.
Check out the Facebook Event page and let us know you’ll be attending!
Information on our special guests: see below for details.
VANESSA VESELKA has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother.
Her work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Bitch Magazine, Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll, and elsewhere. Zazen is her first novel.
LEARN MORE about Vanessa Veselka here, at her official blog.
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ERIN ERGENBRIGHT is a founder of The Loggernaut Reading Series and the co-author of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook, with Thisbe Nissen. Her writing has appeared in dozens of anthologies, journals, and magazines, including Tin House, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, and The Believer.
She is the former hostess of the Portland Spelling Bee, a Michener fellow from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, and a beauty school drop-out. She currently teaches writing at Portland Community College.
More information on the Loggernaut Reading Series.
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KAREN WOOD HEPNER writes songs, poems, and marketing blurbs. Mostly her poems are very short because she is always short on time. But it turns out short poems are the raddest kind!
Karen has an MFA in writing, a fascination with robots, and some publishing credits.
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Musical Guest: BLIND BARTIMAEUS
After many years performing in blues bands, country bands, and punk bands, in Portland, Oregon, as well as in his native Michigan, Santi Elijah Holley took a three-year break from playing music, to pursue
literary ambitions. He published a handful of short stories and essays, completed a novel, and worked with Tin House, a national literary magazine. In 2010, when Holley returned to writing music, he
combined his literary experience with his songwriting, composing songs with compelling narratives and memorable characters.
Holley adopted the pseudonym Blind Bartimaeus—after a cryptic figure from the Gospel of Mark, and also as homage to blind, pre-war blues musicians—and he began performing his songs in venues in Portland. Liz Chibucos, a talented multi-instrumentalist and Ohio native, soon joined Holley, revamping Blind Bartimaeus as a duo. Contributing violin and backup vocals, Chibucos adds a somber, gypsy presence to Blind Bartimaeus.
Influenced by country-blues musicians like Blind Willie McTell, Reverend Gary Davis, and Mississippi John Hurt, as well as such contemporary artists as Gillian Welch, Tom Waits, and Justin Townes Earle, Blind Bartimaeus composes songs with stripped-down melodies and elegiac lyrics, with stories of murder, love, drugs, God, and other timeless themes.
Artist’s Website: Blind Bartimaeus on Reverb Nation
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on November 29 2011. Filed under Reading Series.
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