Switch No. 45 brings together two incredible performers: Anastasia-Renee from Seattle and Portland's own dan raphael
Where: Ford Food and Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland
When: Friday, March 16, 7:30 p.m. sharp
Anastacia-Renee is the current Civic Poet of Seattle, recipient
of the 2017 Artist of the Year Award, and former 2015-2017 Poet-in-Residence at
Hugo House. She is the author of five books: Forget It (Black
Radish Books), (v.), (Gramma Press) 26, (Dancing
Girl Press), Kiss Me Doll Face
(Gramma Press) and Answer(Me) (Winged City Chapbooks, Argus Press)
and has received writing fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Artist
Trust and Jack Straw, as well as a writing residency from Ragdale. Her
theatrical mixed-media project, 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show, is a
multivalent play unapologetically downward dogging its way through
class, race, culture, oppression, depression, survival and epiphany. Her
cross-genre writing has appeared in the anthologies: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Sinister Wisdom: Black
Lesbians—We Are the Revolution, Revise
the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks and literary magazines in and print and
online: Split this Rock, Painted Bride
Quarterly, Crab Creek Review, Seattle Review, Bone Bouquet, Duende,
Synaethesia, Banqueted, Torch and
many more. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Hugo House and Seattle
University and lives as a superhero in Seattle with her wife and dog.
For over three decades, dan
raphael’s been active in the Northwest as poet, performer, editor and reading
host. The Closer You Get to Nowhere,
his 20th book, will come out this fall from Last Word Press, which published Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid in
June 2016. Current poems appear in Caliban,
Otoliths, Courtship of Birds, Blackbox Manifold and In Between Hangovers. He is prose editor
of Unlikely Stories, hosts the Fo Po Poetry series, and writes & records a
news poem every Wednesday for the KBOO Evening News.
