Next Live Production:

Thursday May 17, 2007

7:00 p.m. @ The Puyallup Public Library

(Click here for address and directions)

Hosted by Jay Bates

And featuring the following artists: 

Judith Kitchen is the author of a novel, The House on Eccles Road, two collections of essays, Distance and Direction and Only the Dance, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World. She is co-editor of two collections of short essays, In Short and In Brief , and the editor of a third collection, Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction. Her awards include an NEA fellowship in poetry and a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction.  She is an Advisory and Contributing Editor for The Georgia Review where she regularly reviews poetry. In addition, she has the distinction of being called—by Newsday—the Evel Knievel of literature.

Allen Braden was the fourth and last generation to work his family farm in White Swan, Washington, where they raised cattle, hay, grain and hundreds of barn cats. He earned a B.A. from Central Washington University and M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from McNeese State University in Lake Charles , Louisiana, home of Merv Griffin’s casino riverboats, boudin sausage, Cajun zydeco music, the nutria rat and the Fur Queen.  He has published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Seneca Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. Founder of The Gallery Reading Series, he teaches poetry and interdisciplinary writing at Tacoma Community College.

Patrick Bradshaw is an independent songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Bainbridge Island, Washington. His music is characterized by its instrumentation: harmonica sweeps, glockenspiel runs, droning guitar lines; as well as its evocative lyrics concerning unrequitted love, family, and science.  As a grown-up, he resides on Capitol Hill in Seattle -- armed with a banjo, a beard, and a laptop -- peddling his hand-written music albums at coffee shops and brothels in the Northwest -- and writing epic run-on sentences.  Visit his website at thepasthood.com. 

Paul Klein is an 18 year-old high school senior, desperately waiting to get out of suburbia and change the world. He considers himself an aspiring writer and filmmaker, but mostly an activist. He will be attending American University for the next four years, where he plan on making films and lobbying Washington.  He says: "Creativity saves lives, support the arts...and also the environment, human rights, peaceful protest, curing disease..."  He also plays the voice of the Narrator in As the Publishing World Turns. 

Plus our standard favorite features:

Name That Book -- This audience-participation trivia contest will challenge your ability to name the titles and authors of three different books with only a short clue about the books history and reading of the book's first sentence. 

As the Publishing World Turns -- Follow this continuing saga of writers in crisis.  Meet our hero Heathcliff Beed, his nemesis Eustace Faulkner, and the woman they both love, Ophelia Payne, and listen to them solve the mystery of the murdered Reader's Digest editor.