VENUE & TIME CHANGE! See new info below.
Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by
WHIT GRIFFIN
SHANNON THARP
CHUCK STEBELTON
7:00 pm
Free admission
Word Virus Books
6518 SE Foster Road, Portland OR 97206
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Upcoming Spare Room readings
(at Passages Bookshop, except where noted)
7/7 Sue Landers, Jen Coleman, & Maryrose Larkin
7/27 Airfoil Revival Chapbook Launch:
David Abel, Sam Lohmann, & Chris Daniels
8/2 (at Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Avenue)
Moose & Squirrel: Poets' Theater
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Whit Griffin is a poet-medium and semi-professional hermit. Author of such nonlinear metaphysical epics as We Who Saw Everything (Cultural Society) and Uncanny Resonance (Lunar Chandelier Collective). With visual artist Timothy C. Ely he collaborated on the book Interior Voice /The Great Practice (Granary Books). With Michael Klausman he edits the journal Luigi Ten Co. After a decade of living in the Rocky Mountain West, Whit now resides on the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington.
Shannon Tharp is the author of The Cost of Walking (Skysill Press) and Vertigo in Spring (The Cultural Society), and she’s the co-editor of Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship (Library Juice Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Evening Will Come, Jacket2, Julebord, Luigi Ten Co, and Post45, among other places. After eleven years on the Front Range, she recently moved to Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula and started work as a librarian at the University of Washington.
Chuck Stebelton is author most recently of One Hundred Patterns & Three Heuristics (Green Gallery Press, 2023). His previous poetry collections include An Apostle Island (Oxeye Press), The Platformist (Cultural Society), and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises). He currently serves as Special Projects Manager at Woodland Pattern, a nonprofit literary arts organization in Milwaukee, and since 2018 has held an ongoing artist residency at Lynden Sculpture Garden. He prints poems, pamphlets, collaborative print objects and such under the Ben Tinterstices Editions imprint. Ted Berrigan, “interstices // bent.”
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