Thursday, September 25, 2008

October 12th, 2008 - Richard Froude, Thomas Walton - 2pm

Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N Williams Ave., Portland, OR) Sunday October, 12th at 2pm for brunch and poetry. A poetry church of sorts! With the exquisite Thomas Walton and Richard Froude. Smorg returns after enjoying the summer off.

Richard Froude was born in London and raised in the Westcountry. He’s lived in the US since 2002 and is the author of Tarnished Mirrors (Muffled Cry 2004), The Margaret Thatcher Trilogy (Catfish 2007), the forthcoming On Movement from Minus House Press and The History of Zero available any day now from Candle Aria Press. Work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, most recently Hangman, The Diagram, Word for Word, Parcel and the anthology 31 Words. He edits the journal Thuggery and Grace with poets Erik Anderson and Anne Waldman, and the occasional publication Pop Séance with Anderson, Jesse Morse and Ryan Newton. He teaches creative writing at Denver’s Steele Elementary School and the University of Denver where he is working towards a PhD.


Thomas Walton is a Seattle poet from Corson's Inlet, Brest. He has been published in numerous magazines and journals including The I Want You To Do Me Too Review, Bored With Me Quarterly, and The I'm Semi-Hard Bi-Weekly. He has been writing serious poetry for about three weeks.


Hope to see you there...

3 comments:

jackie said...

Same Thomas walton as in Portland 10 years ago, really good poet, with brother in BOISE (...) ? Poem titles sound similar to social courtesies?

I'm on the other side of the country, but I'll be there anyway. THAT T. Walton was very much cool and fun...

jackie said...

hm. crystal--she I haven't seen in 15 years.
Hate computers. The Thomas Walton I knew wrote in spiral notebooks, like a sensible tribesman...
Further clarification:
I was Awfully Sorry: I was just going into (found out later) long beastly ailment of anemia and hyper (very hyper) thyroid disorder --they both impair higher thought processes (...). Maybe one sunny day in the woods, that same Thomas Walton will forgive me...Jackie (I had to move back east for a while--not moving back west for a while, so--just wanted you to know you have one more person who thinks you're a Truly Fine Poet!!! (Rara avis!) Carve that in your rifle stock...

jackie said...

...rifle stock, not body...and anyway, maybe when you rack up 3 comments rcv.'d, a bell goes off somewhere out there.................