Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic

Featuring Laura LeHew and R.R. Seitz

Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington of Printed Matter Vancouver

7 pm

Thursday, February 9

Open mic sign up begins at 6:30 and closes at 7

Angst Gallery

1015 Main Street

Vancouver, WA 98660

Food and libation provided by Niche Wine Bar, 1013 Main Street

Sound provided by Briz Loan & Guitar

LGBTQ-FRIENDLY, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004

Featuring Laura LeHew and R.R. Seitz

Laura LeHew’s collections include Becoming (Another New Calligraphy), Willingly Would I Burn, (MoonPath Press), It’s Always Night, It Always Rains, (Winterhawk Press) and Beauty (Tiger’s Eye Press). Laura received her MFA from CCA. She edits a small press called Uttered Chaos. Laura always thought she’d be an astronaut. For more information, visit http://www.lauralehew.com/.

R.R. Seitz writes from the place of decisions made by an eighteen-year-old that carry forward, day-by-day, to the present. His 2006 book Right Here Right Now is in its third printing and made its way to odd places outside the U.S., including Southeast Asia. He has been featured around at various readings throughout the Northwest for 15 years. And yes, it is true, he has no letters behind his name.

Symposium by Laura LeHew

He brings me poison

words tormented love separation

a withered bouquet woven

with absinth wormwood

abandonment boredom regret

starry anemones delicate asphodels prickly

burdock the seeming happy amethyst and canary carnations

screaming antipathy and disdain

an untranslatable orange lily

whispering hatred against a pale vase

vain dream-like clusters of hydrangeas

jealous lemon hyacinths lost

in the sorrow of their vivid violet sisters

and

a forsaken single blood red tulip—the perfect suitor

nestled among fragrant creamy tuberoses

insinuating dangerous

lovers.