Our final Castalia of the year! It went by so fast and luckily, we went out with a bang. Thanks to everyone who read and shared their work over the past season! First-year fiction writer Paul Vega began the May reading with a fiction piece about a man and his drug-addled ex-wife; second-year poet Jessica Tyson, inspired by life in the restaurant biz, empathized with the plight of an octopus dipped in marinara sauce; first-year fiction writer Jean Burnet read a nonfiction piece about her family and paid homage to her Ecuadorian roots; during the intermission, audience members worked on erasure poems based on the bios of the night's readers; poet and UW alum Jason Whitmarsh doled out the advice of "If you're going to kiss a vampire, you shouldn't kiss a vampire"; the night ended with poet Cody Walker, who informed the audience of the fate of Abbott and Costello.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
April Castalia Audio
April's Castalia began with first-year poet Katherine Eulensen who was inspired by travels across Spain; first-year nonfiction writer Piper Daniels explored the many manifestations of cannibalism; second-year poet Mia Malhotra went in search of the "spirit underneath the language" of archives from her family's history; UW alumni Bond Huberman explained why "Not Everyone Can Sing," ("among other injustices"); finally, UW poetry professor Pimone Triplett discussed and ruminated on the shifting of stories and rumors.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
May Castalia
We're closing the 2010-2011 season of Castalia with a bang! This May we're pleased to present: Jason Whitmarsh, Cody Walker, second year MFA poet Jessica Tyson Huset, and first year MFA prose writers Paul Vega and Jean Burnet. Don't miss it!
WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 8 pm
WHERE: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue
FREE
Co-Sponsored with Richard Hugo House
WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 8 pm
WHERE: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue
FREE
Co-Sponsored with Richard Hugo House
Saturday, March 26, 2011
April Castalia
Join us for the April installment of Castalia! This month we're delighted to present Pimone Triplett, Bond Huberman, Mia Malholtra, Piper Daniels, and Katherine Eulensen.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 5 at 8 pm
WHERE: Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue
FREE
Co-Sponsored with Richard Hugo House
As always, we'll have books from current and past readers available for sale. The Hugo House has a lovely cafe with a plethora of beverages, so bring some cash!
More on our readers below:
Pimone Triplett is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Washington. The author of three books of poems, Rumor (2009), The Price of Light (2005) and Ruining the Picture (1998), Pimone Triplett is also coeditor of the essay anthology, Poet's Work, Poet's Play (2008). She has been the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and the Hazel Hall Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared many literary journals, including Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, Yale Review, Triquarterly and New England Review. Frequently appearing in anthologies, her work has been featured in Legitimate Dangers, Contemporary Voices from the East, and New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology.
Bond Huberman grew up in the shadow of a Maxwell House coffee factory in the East End of Houston, Texas. She didn't become a coffee drinker until she moved to Seattle in 2005, where she would enter UW's MFA Creative Writing program as a fiction writer - and come out a journalist. (Because that totally makes sense.) An editor and reporter at City Arts magazine until recently, Bond is now making her way in the wild west of freelance writing and entrepreneurial arts production. As co-founder of the nonprofit organization, The Heroes, she helps produce compelling events that cultivate new audiences for emerging artists' work. Her current projects include reinventing Dada cabaret for modern audiences (Barnstorm), staging a 5K run that is also an art show (NEPO) and writing a comedic play about a world in which homosexual love is the "norm". When she's not procrastinating or collaborating, Bond watches TV and writes creative essays that reveal way too much personal information. Contact her via hiredgunenterprises.com.
Mia Malhotra is a second-year poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in Laos and Thailand and, like Elizabeth Bishop, sometimes feels a little "land-sick continent-sick." Unlike Bishop, however, who traveled south from Nova Scotia to Florida to Brazil, she has spent her life moving to progressively colder climates--bringing her here to Seattle for poetry, the MFA, and the company of wonderful friends.
Piper Daniels was born and bred on the outskirts of that now ghostly dystopia, Detroit, Michigan. She received her BA in creative nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. Piper has served as editorial whipping girl on such publications as Echo Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, and Nightboat Books. Currently she is an MFA candidate at the University of Washington. A passionate advocate for emerging nonfictive forms, she believes in lyricism, collage, and the Shieldsian way.
Katherine Eulensen is a fine vintage. Born in a good year, still fresh with the flushes of youth, a sensitive palate will detect the traces of various soils in her bearing, presence, and work: her native Brazil, the wilds of Oregon, where she took refuge in later years, and Spain, a place she visited. Like the wines her family has nurtured for generations, Katherine’s poetry is often spare, but always unsparing, earthy in its reflection, and far-reaching in its understanding. Whether meditating on the bonds of familial relationships or terrifying us with portraits of serial killers (a favorite topic), Katherine’s poems never rest on their laurels but delight in vining us in.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 5 at 8 pm
WHERE: Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue
FREE
Co-Sponsored with Richard Hugo House
As always, we'll have books from current and past readers available for sale. The Hugo House has a lovely cafe with a plethora of beverages, so bring some cash!
More on our readers below:
Pimone Triplett is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Washington. The author of three books of poems, Rumor (2009), The Price of Light (2005) and Ruining the Picture (1998), Pimone Triplett is also coeditor of the essay anthology, Poet's Work, Poet's Play (2008). She has been the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and the Hazel Hall Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared many literary journals, including Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, Yale Review, Triquarterly and New England Review. Frequently appearing in anthologies, her work has been featured in Legitimate Dangers, Contemporary Voices from the East, and New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology.
Bond Huberman grew up in the shadow of a Maxwell House coffee factory in the East End of Houston, Texas. She didn't become a coffee drinker until she moved to Seattle in 2005, where she would enter UW's MFA Creative Writing program as a fiction writer - and come out a journalist. (Because that totally makes sense.) An editor and reporter at City Arts magazine until recently, Bond is now making her way in the wild west of freelance writing and entrepreneurial arts production. As co-founder of the nonprofit organization, The Heroes, she helps produce compelling events that cultivate new audiences for emerging artists' work. Her current projects include reinventing Dada cabaret for modern audiences (Barnstorm), staging a 5K run that is also an art show (NEPO) and writing a comedic play about a world in which homosexual love is the "norm". When she's not procrastinating or collaborating, Bond watches TV and writes creative essays that reveal way too much personal information. Contact her via hiredgunenterprises.com.
Mia Malhotra is a second-year poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in Laos and Thailand and, like Elizabeth Bishop, sometimes feels a little "land-sick continent-sick." Unlike Bishop, however, who traveled south from Nova Scotia to Florida to Brazil, she has spent her life moving to progressively colder climates--bringing her here to Seattle for poetry, the MFA, and the company of wonderful friends.
Piper Daniels was born and bred on the outskirts of that now ghostly dystopia, Detroit, Michigan. She received her BA in creative nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. Piper has served as editorial whipping girl on such publications as Echo Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, and Nightboat Books. Currently she is an MFA candidate at the University of Washington. A passionate advocate for emerging nonfictive forms, she believes in lyricism, collage, and the Shieldsian way.
Katherine Eulensen is a fine vintage. Born in a good year, still fresh with the flushes of youth, a sensitive palate will detect the traces of various soils in her bearing, presence, and work: her native Brazil, the wilds of Oregon, where she took refuge in later years, and Spain, a place she visited. Like the wines her family has nurtured for generations, Katherine’s poetry is often spare, but always unsparing, earthy in its reflection, and far-reaching in its understanding. Whether meditating on the bonds of familial relationships or terrifying us with portraits of serial killers (a favorite topic), Katherine’s poems never rest on their laurels but delight in vining us in.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
March Castalia Audio
This month we kicked off Castalia with a reading by first year prose writer Cecilia Kiely, who questioned our public bathroom symbols; second year poet Zebulon Huset continued the trend of signage with his poem "Lol No Lifeguard"; second year poet Matt Muth recalled his night on 17th with Oscar; UW alumni Peter Mountford read two passages from his forthcoming novel; and UW faculty member David Shields shared some of his newest works in progress.
February Castalia Audio
First up at this month's Castalia reading was second year poet Rachel Welty, who emulated the catalog poems of William Carlos Williams, among other artful pieces; second year fiction writer Anca Szilagyi read two short pieces, one about a tasty meal of glass; and UW alumni Johnny Horton paid homage to Charlie the Chimp.
Monday, February 14, 2011
March Castalia
We have another fabulous line up for Castalia in March: UW professor David Shields, alum Peter Mountford, first year MFA prose writer Cecilia Kiely, second year MFA poet Matt Muth, and second year MFA poet Zebulon Huset.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 1, 8 pm
WHERE: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue
FREE and open to the public.
Co-sponsored with Richard Hugo House
More on our readers below:
David Shields’s most recent book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010), was called “mind-bending” (The New York Times) and “the most provocative, brain-rewiring book of 2010” (GQ); it was also named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, the Guardian, New Statesman, and two dozen other publications. His previous book, The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), was a New York Times bestseller; Amazon, Artforum, Salon, TimeOut Chicago, and the Seattle Times named it one of the best books of 2010. He is the author of ten other books, including Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages, winner of the PEN/Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Salon, and Slate. Shields’s work has been translated into fifteen languages.
Since earning his MFA from the University of Washington in 2006, Peter Mountford's short fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Conjunctions, Michigan Quarterly Review, Phoebe, Seattle Review, and Boston Review, where he was the runner-up in the 2007 contest, judged by George Saunders. A 2010-11 writer-in-residence at Seattle Arts and Lectures, he is a two-time fellow of Yaddo and won 2010 grants from the city of Seattle and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Peter’s first novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, will be published on April 12 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Cecilia Kiely is a first-year MFA student at the UW. She is a New England transplant from the small town of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Her work frequently appears in such places as workshop classes and late-night emails. She serves as the editor of the Pacific Northwest’s premiere sailing club e-newsletter. Receiving national recognition for her work, Cecilia has been awarded several Stafford Loans.
Matt Muth is a narcissist, and often refers to himself in the 3rd person. His activities include being handsome, making Italian hand gestures, and hating on hipsters. Matt was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will lecture you freely on why you should buy American automobiles, and is a proud member of UAW Local 4121. His attempts at collective bargaining his thesis requirements have been rebuffed, and he is plotting a sit-in in the graduate lounge as a result. When not preening, he teaches Intro to Poetry at the UW, plays hockey, and wastes time on the internet like there will be no more internet in the near future. Matt's lifelong ambition is to be Mr. Halle Berry.
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