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2007 Seattle Poetry Festival Workshop: Sound Poetry

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA

Instructors Christine Hume and Nico Vassilakis introduce students to multiple ways of approaching the relationship between sound and poetry. We will listen to poetry as soundscapes, training our attention to acoustic and phonetic aspects of language and speech. We will indulge ourselves in the kinesthetic pleasures, the ecstatic spiraling repetition and rhyme, the alchemy of articulations and de-articulations in performed and concrete poetry. This workshop will consider how we might renovate the traditional poetry reading--and conventional notions of poetry itself--by making use of a broad range of media. The instructors will present a variety of listening experiences, followed by a sound poetry experiment.

Max Number of Participants: 15

Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica (Beacon Press 2000), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004), winner of the Green Rose Award and Small Press Traffic's 2005 Best Book of the Year Award. Currently, she is an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University.

Nico Vassilakis is co-founder of the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His most current book is Orange: A Manual. He is widely published and anthologized as a writer of experimental verse and concrete poetry.

Admission for the Seattle Poetry Festival is required in addition to your workshop ticket.

The Seattle Poetry Festival Opening Night Party and the Seattle Poetry Slam 2007 Grand Slam are seperately ticketed events:

2007 Seattle Poetry Festival

2007 Seattle Poetry Slam Opening Night Party

Seattle Poetry Slam's 2007 Grand Slam

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The Seattle Poetry Festival is supported by a grant under the Civic Partners program by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Note: You must purchase a Seattle Poetry Festival ticket in addition to your workshop ticket. Both ticket stubs must be presented to the instructor no later than 15 minutes prior to the workshop start time. After that, the workshop will be open to drop-in students for a $5 fee (plus ticket stub from Festival admission).

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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