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PageBoy Magazine Happy Hour!
March 29, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
FreeJoin PageBoy Magazine for happy hour at Rose City Book Pub! We’ll have over seventeen glorious readers reading seventeen-word poems from our latest issue devoted entirely to that form. “Simply the newest and most exciting literary form in recent memory! We unapologetically give it 17 honks!” –The Harpo Marx Review of Brevity. Full list of performers at the PageBoy Magazine blog!
Contact: Thomas Walton
PageBoy Magazine will host a constraint based, offsite event as part of AWP. A happy hour event from 4:30-6 at Rose City Book Pub on Friday 3/29. The event will be devoted to the poetic form the Seventeen – essentially a seventeen word poem or prose work. Seventeen writers will read work in this form, two heavy metal thrashers – aka The Drop Shadows – will interpret the form in a musical way.
Readers include Aaron Anstett, Jennifer Burdette, William Camponovo, Elizabeth Cooperman, Sarah Erickson, Johnny Horton, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, Nadine Maestas, Sarah Kathryn Moore, Katie Ogle, Paul Sheprow, Sarah Shotwell, Danielle Skredsvig and Thomas Walton. Musical constraint provided by Jeanine Walker and Steve Mauer.
[see also the Facebook event page]