Tag: bryan coffelt
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What the Heck Am I Doing?
Well, I was planning on laying low this summer, but after updating my Events page, I realize I am actually pretty dang busy. Go check it out. I’m also hosting an event with my fellow Future Tenser Bryan Coffelt on August 3rd at Colonel Summers Park. Outdoors! In the shade of trees! BYOB! The readers…
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Summer Splash
Hi friends, Summer is officially here and I’m planning on doing some fun stuff and getting a few important things done. Here’s a quick rundown. Tomorrow night, I’ll be hosting a kick-ass outdoor reading at Colonel Summers Park. It starts at 7pm and the weather is supposed to get clear and nice by then so…
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AWP 4EVA
I had a great time at AWP this past week. There were so many people to see, meet, and say hello to that it’s really kind of an impossible mission to complete. Someone should make a video game out of it to inspire kids to become writers. It would be like: I have to make…
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A Weekend of I Remember
This weekend, over at the Future Tense Books Facebook page and also on the new I Remember fan page, you can post your own I Remember. I love the whole I Remember form and often have student do it when I teach workshops and visit classrooms. It’s a pretty great writing prompt that is easy…
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2011 is Dead. Long Live 1997.
Hey–First off, I have new little stories at Unshod Quills and Hart House Review! And since 2011 is just about over, I thought I should post a little year-end thingamajig. A few of my favorite things: Novels: Donald Ray Pollack’s The Devil All the Time and Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers were both pretty kick-ass…
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Marriage, Staples, Freaks…
Alright, 2011! It only took you two weeks to change my life! On January 15th, I got married to the beautiful B. Frayn Masters. I will put up some more wedding photos soon, I hope. Just waiting for friends to send their pics from the ceremony. You may know B. Frayn from her smash hit…
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Video Action!
Earlier this year I set up a reading for three great poets–Emily Kendal Frey, Evelyn Hampton, and Bryan Coffelt. I made a special effort to write funny intros for each person (they were recently published at Lamination Colony!). It was a beautiful time at Ampersand in Northeast Portland. And look: there’s video to prove it.…
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Return of Haiku! Plus…Laminate Me!
Hey–just a quick note to say that Haiku Inferno (me, along with B. Frayn Masters, Elizabeth Miller, and Frank D’Andrea) are performing at the Portland Rally to Restore Sanity event tomorrow. I think we go on around 2:30. Our set is pretty short (it is haiku after all), so don’t be late. We’re gonna do haiku about…
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Post-Party Regrets
Last Friday’s 20th birthday party was a great night full of drinking, cake, and friends (not to mention Mike Daily’s cool bike stunt/toast). We packed over 150 people into Disjecta and had a lot of fun showing off our history of books and artifacts on two big tables. But of course, as is sometimes the…
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Some Shenanigans
Hey folks–a couple of fun things coming up. First off, I’ll be hosting a reading on July 2nd at Ampersand. This all came about (or was INSPIRED by) Evelyn Hampton’s brain-meltingly good book of poems, “We Were Eternal and Gigantic.” I was so transfixed by the oddness of her unique world (I read a bunch…
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