Third Man Books will be present at the 2014 AWP Bookfair in Seattle, WA this weekend. The bookfair is open to registered conference attendees from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from Thursday, February 27 through Saturday, March 1. It is open FREE to the PUBLIC on Saturday, March 1. A limited number of advanced copies of Third Man Book's first book titled Language Lessons: Volume I (an anthology of poetry, prose, art, and music) will be available for purchase months ahead of its official release in April for National Poetry Month. Our bookfair table is R2. The bookfair's address is Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Place. We are also throwing a release party with Black Ocean and Mission Creek for the anthology tonight. The event will feature a great lineup of short readings, music by Stickers and a DJ set by Ben Swank, and will be held at Barboza, 925 E. Pike St. at 8pm. Tickets to the event are $5 with an AWP badge and $10 without. We hope to see you there!
Thursday:
Gaylord Brewer, 1-2pm
Nickole Brown, 2-3pm
Brian Barker, 3-4pm
Friday:
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, 1-2pm
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, 2-3pm
Russell Brakefield, 2-3pm
Spencer Connell, 2-3pm
Nicky Beer, 3-4pm
Pamela Johnson Parker, 3-4pm
Sheila Anderson, 3-4pm
Saturday: (FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!)
Sampson Starkweather, 1-2pm
Adrian Matejka, 1-2pm
Janaka Stucky, 1:30-2:30pm
Dale Ray Phillips, 2-3pm
Any plans for an event for this book in NYC?
Roja, Thanks for the compliments. This new book thing with TMR is great. My favorite books are picture books. Besides poetry books I would love to see TMR put out picture books.
Congrats TMR. Now you have 2 of my favorite things: books and music. I’m also curious…tell us more about the book.
CINCI: good recommendation about the sister cities’ festivals, and I gotta say I like your phrase “Pot helped me to dream big dreams but quitting pot helped me make bigger dreams come true”. As always it’s great to read you.
Quizze, I don’t know but I keep making recommendations to them. I’ve got a pot (as in bucket list) full of ideas but I’m all against the legal pot/marijuana thing in Washington State and in Colorado. That shit is addicting, I know from smoking it back in the 1970s. I’m glad I joined the army and had to take piss tests which put the fear of getting caught in ya and losing your job. I can say life without pot is a better way to go but lots of young people will never know that now. Pot helped me to dream big dreams but quitting pot helped me make bigger dreams come true. I never want to be a “pot smoking airhead” again…so if I never make it back to Washington, or Colorado it ain’t going to be a real problem for me my friend. I hope they ain’t getting Swank all doped up out there. He seems to be high enough on life already…plus he has to come back home to TN and help take care of his kid.
I’m all in favor of the idea of Third Man producing books, but, gumballs aside, what can you tell us about the actual contents of the book? Wanna slip us a free stanza or stray drawing, just so we’ll get SOME idea of what we’ll be buying? (Not to mention, many of us have a ready-made constituency we could encourage to buy it, if we had some idea what was in it!)
“Third Man Book’s first book titled Language Lessons: Volume I (an anthology of poetry, prose, art, and music) will be available for purchase months ahead of its official release in April” I love the part about “months ahead of its official release in April.” Really? Months ahead? Like what, maybe a month? Or a month and a half? Let’s say the official release is the end of April, so, 2 months ahead of its official release. All Right! :)
What will they think of next?
PS: Have a great time Swank & company!
Heck, I just remembered that Nashville, TN and Belfast Ireland are sister cities…it’s a songwriter connection. For the past 10 years, and again this year, Belfast hosts a festival called Belfast-Nashville with a bunch of songwriters and Nashville has a show with American and Irish songwriters. I went to the Belfast-Nashville show in March of 2010 held at the Belcourt Theater (same folks that show movies at TMR) and the mayor of Belfast and the mayor of Nashville were there and both spoke. The BBC was also there recording the show for future airing in Europe. I think it would be great to have Nashville declare it is a sister city to Seattle with rock music being the binding theme. Then both cities can have Seattle-Nashville and Nashville-Seattle festivals. I used to like to say all my friends live in Nashville but I would like to say all my friends live in Nashville and Seattle.
Sounds like a really great event and in a great town. Seattle is a really fun city. Ben Swank DJing is an added bonus. I am still thinking Jack needs to put Swank onto David Letterman’s “Stupid Human Tricks” with his Third Man Gumball trick. I think if he could shove the 11 gumballs into his mouth while DJing – he stands a great chance of winning.