Karen Finneyfrock's hot new book Ceremony for the Choking Ghost is getting great reviews, check out what The Stranger has to say. What makes the review even sweeter is over the years, The Stranger has snarked everything Poetry Slam, including an almost black out on coverage when the Nationals took place in Seattle.
Here is the reviewer Paul Constant, "In Reality Hunger, David Shields claims that he has grown frustrated with novels because "you have to read seven hundred pages to get the handful of insights that were the reason the book was written." Finneyfrock's poems, then, are Shields's perfect novels: a shelf full of long, elaborate, heartfelt books that have been whittled down to their bare, sharp skeletons."
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You can catch up with Finneyfrock on her extensive tour:
March 9, Seattle Poetry Slam
March 12, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
March 18, SEATTLE BOOK RELEASE PARTY, Richard Hugo House
March 19, Youth Speaks Seattle Finals, The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
March 22, Poetry Night, Bellingham, WA
March 31, Berzerkeley Poetry Slam, CA
April 1, Tourettes Without Regrets, Oakland, CA
April 6, Wordplay, Chicago, IL
April 7, TBA
April 9, Workshop with Vox Ferus, Chicago, IL
April 11, The Green Mill, Chicago, IL
April 14, Cantab Lounge, Boston, MA
April 15, Providence Poetry Slam, RI
April 17, Kitchen Sessions, Mike McGee’s House, USA
April 19, Louder Arts at Bar 13, NYC
April 20, Urbana, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
April 22, Loser Slam, New Jersey
April 23, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC
April 24, Jack McCarthy Invitational Slam, Marysville, WA
April 25, Seattle’s Grand Slam at Town Hall, Seattle, WA
May 8, SPRUNG with Tara Hardy, Elaina Ellis, more info TBA
May 11, The Round at the Fremont Abbey with Write Bloody author Josh Boyd
May 20, SAM Word at Seattle Art Museum
June 8, 826 Seattle “Write Like I Do” Class for Adults
