The Seattle Weekly June 20, 2005
pg. 46
MIXING BOOKS AND BOOZE
In Seattle, Poetry is the new rock 'n' roll
by Neal Schindler
"...The real news is that lately, Synchronicity is more the rule than the exception. At Queen Anne's Mirabeau Room, a bar that frequently hosts DJ's, performance poet Karen Finneyfrock emcees the Seattle Poetry Slam every Tuesday night. A recent edition featured Christa Bell, one of this year's candidates for Seattle's Poet Populist. Bell performed a number of sensual, musical works, including a "sound poem," a spellbinding composite of rythymic muttering and singing. Her poetry is as theatrical as it is literary, and sometimes is both sexually graphic and loud...
MIXING BOOKS AND BOOZE
In Seattle, Poetry is the new rock 'n' roll
by Neal Schindler
"...The real news is that lately, Synchronicity is more the rule than the exception. At Queen Anne's Mirabeau Room, a bar that frequently hosts DJ's, performance poet Karen Finneyfrock emcees the Seattle Poetry Slam every Tuesday night. A recent edition featured Christa Bell, one of this year's candidates for Seattle's Poet Populist. Bell performed a number of sensual, musical works, including a "sound poem," a spellbinding composite of rythymic muttering and singing. Her poetry is as theatrical as it is literary, and sometimes is both sexually graphic and loud...
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