Literary Mixtape
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I.e., we want them to read you a mixtape, so that you then know and love what they know and love. In our minds, this is something of a romantic gesture.
Literary Mixtape is a reading series presented by Fort Saint Davids (and by your faithful hosts, Erik Bader and Matthew Korfhage) in which we essentially ask people to DJ books instead of music, for an appreciative crowd. The idea is we’re inviting assorted stout-hearted, stand-up to people read literature of whatever stripe (poem, fiction, essay) that they’re genuinely, personally excited about,
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Hi we're not dead. We'll be back once it's warmer. In the meantime keep reading those books so you've got something to read to us.
04/16/2013
Allen Ginsberg reads America Allen Ginsberg reads America
04/16/2013
All-Poetry All-Poets Literary Mixtape, this Thursday. Please join us.
Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you" Frank O´Hara reading his poem "Having a coke with you" in his flat in New York in 1966, shortly before his accidental death. Taken from - "USA: Poetry: Frank...
09/27/2012
Awesome interview with former Literary Mixtape reader Jon Raymond at the Tin House blog. It's a great read. Also solidarity: we don't like tall bikes either.
Q and A: Jon Raymond | Tin House Rob Spillman:“The Broadway Gang”(which appears in the latest issue of Tin House)centers around Portland’s Occupy encampment. Looking at the Occupy movement now, both in Portland and nationally, are you encouraged? Hopeful?
07/30/2012
One Literary Mixtape alum interviews her co-alum for OmniVerse. Whatta world.
Lisa Wells interviews Emily Kendal Frey | OmniVerse Emily Kendal Frey is the author of The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2011), winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma F...
07/27/2012
Thanks to Lisa Wells, Emily Kendal Frey and Matt Brown for a fantastic evening of variegated readings. Thanks to Mary Robison for independently being on two of our readers' dockets. (Leonard Michaels still holds the record with three out of three.) Thanks to everyone who came for being perfect. Oh, and Cameron? Your wallet's behind the bar.
07/24/2012
BREAKING NEWS Literary Mixtape co-host Matthew Korfhage interviews Obama:
http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-28942-exclusive_interview_with_president_barack_obama.html
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with President Barack Obama Last night, in advance of his brief stopover in Portland for a fundraising event at the Oregon Convention Center at noon today, President Barack Obama did not get on the phone with Willamette Week.Ins
Got kids? Get 'em this new children's book by two-time Literary Mixtape reader Arthur Bradford, now available for pre-order from McSweeney's:
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/bennys-brigade
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