Jack Straw Writers and Artists at AWP! 

The annual AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference is coming to Seattle this week, and you will have many opportunities to see and hear Jack Straw Writers reading and talking about their work, both at the conference and at countless public offsite events around the city.

Thanks to the efforts of Jack Straw Writer Pepe Montero and our friends at Seattle City of Literature, some of our poetry students from Denny and Chinook middle schools will attend the conference for free. Thank you City of Lit!

Visit our blog for the full rundown of Jack Straw folks reading and presenting at AWP!

Thursday, March 9

Friday, March 10

Saturday, March 11

Wave Books Poets at Jack Straw

March 8-12, 2023

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE 

FREE

Our friends at Wave Books have invited many of their poets to each read one of their books in its entirety to a small audience at Jack Straw. These small, recorded readings will be held Wednesday, March 8 through Sunday, March 12; you can check out the schedule and sign up to attend a reading here. While these events are free, seating is limited (less than 20 seats per reading).

EcoTheo Collective AWP Offsite reading at Jack Straw

Friday, March 10, 7:30pm

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE 

Join poets Anastacia-Renee (2014 Jack Straw Writer and 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator), Claire Wahmanholm, Janine Joseph, and Jason Myers as they celebrate the publication of their new books as part of AWP Seattle. Books will be available for signing.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Sasha Petrenko | Forest Time Water

Closes this Friday, March 10!

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

In this interactive installation, visitors can trigger sound and video to remix the story of an ecofeminist paleodendrologist expelled from her time, using tree rings, vinyl records, and radio to stop the elites from selling the future.

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

Athr | Dodeezy Trilogy

February 25-March 31, 2023

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Dodeezy Trilogy (pronounced the odyssey) is an audio-visual extended reality art exhibit created by multimedia artist Athr (pronounced ah-ther), including music produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

Jack Straw Spring Artist Showcase

Saturday, April 1, 1-5pm

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE 

In person and streaming live on YouTube and Facebook

Free

Join us in the studio at Jack Straw or via live stream for an afternoon of music from Jack Straw Artists So'le Celestial, Kaley Lane Eaton, LaVon Hardison, Vibhuti Kavishwar, and Paul Kikuchi with Stan Shikuma and Mako.

Jack Straw Writers and Bushwick Book Club Seattle 

Jack Straw and the Bushwick Book Club Seattle teamed up once again to create new music inspired by the work of the 2022 Jack Straw Writers!

The Bushwick Book Club and Jack Straw shared a new video every couple weeks featuring a reading and song. Watch and listen to the whole set YouTube or social media!

Join us on Social Media! 

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to get regular doses of writing, art, and music from Jack Straw artists of all ages.

We recently shared this poem by Genesee Hill Elementary student Micah, written with help from teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

When I'm away from you,

it feels like I'm a tree

with no water or rain.

But when I get to see you

it feels like I grow

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is a track from LaVon Hardison's new EP Brown Girls Dream, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series continues with a conversation between Jory Mickelson and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer and a recording of Jory's live reading at Jack Straw.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Chanee Choi talks with Whitney Lynn about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Remembrance: Magma. 

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

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