SAL/ON

A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures

Category: Writers on Writing

Introductions: Ben Fountain

April 4, 2017

On March 1 at Benaroya Hall, Ben Fountain—National Book Critics Circle Award-winner and author of the novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (now a film by Ang Lee)—floored us with his well-crafted lecture on what compels us to participate in the (somewhat crazy) act of writing, despite all the economic, social, and political odds stacked against […]

The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance

March 31, 2017

By Sierra Nelson, WITS Writer-in-Residence I first encountered Alice Notley’s work seeing her read in Seattle for the Rendezvous Reading Series cosponsored by Subtext. It was 1999. It was Hugo House, which had just barely hatched. I was in my mid-20’s, not even hatched, in my first larval year of an MFA, second year performing […]

SAL on Twitter

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Congratulations to upcoming SAL speakers Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, and Richard Powers--and all the nominees--who have been named to the Longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction! See the full list at: http://ow.ly/UjUZ50Gc3bG

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On Tuesday 9/21 SAL & @CaseyGrants co-present a night with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta). Taylor will discuss her book "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" and how the cost of policing underfunds us all. Register (FREE): http://ow.ly/WXTa50FUq5x

16 Sep

Hooray--NBA day! Special shout-out to @WavePoetry and #DouglasKearney for "Sho." We were honored to present Douglas last year for a talk with the @BWLectures. Which of these poets should we bring next year?