Tonight local poets and show organizers Mike G and Melissa Sillitoe. will read poetry and share stories from various open mike and feature poetry events they have organized in the past, present, and possibly future.
Since 2007, Melissa Sillitoe has produced community arts and literary events in Portland, including a First Thursday art event in her apartment and a popular reading series at 3 Friends coffeehouse that lasted 6 years. Her newest project is a monthly working artist interview at People's Food Co-op.
The bio according to Mike G: I’ve been writing for my sanity for quite some time now. It’s the most fun, and the most serious thing I do. For me, performing is the public celebration of this sanity. Now and then I’ve read my poems on KBOO radio. Now and then my poems get published. To say it another way: I oozed from the womb in Michigan with hardly more life than a manikin, then the Muse infused me with madness, inspired my wordplay of rage and sadness, or sometimes funny, so it’s said; I’ll clown and rant until i’m dead.
After the plague of boils Job scalded his secret patience formula upon my soul. That’s me lounging on the rotting log spitting a protest melody into the unwashed harmonica. The cold sun is a kind of food. I watch the leaves eat. Eyes fierce and blue in the whiteout blizzard. That’s me, the keeper of memory, not buried yet, heart still beating.
Patrick Bocarde hosts.
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