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Check out the Indie Lit Roadshow

The Illustrious Pilot Books along with Axe Handler Jeff Diteman and others will be at a place called PLACE, at pioneer Courthouse square this Saturday, (2 – 6 pm)  there will be readings, musical performances and I bet some hawking of wares. Including:

 

READERS:
Matty Byloos [PDX]
Zac Fulton [SEA]
Cate McGehee [SEA]
Sarah Galvin [SEA]
Riley Michael Parker [PDX]
Leon Baham [SEA]
Tom Debeauchamp [SEA]
Jeff Diteman [PDX]

MUSIC BY:
The Harvey Girls (www.theharveygirls.com)
Rachel Hays (http://www.rachelhays.com/)
Rob Gray (http://www.sillyrobchildish.com/)

TABLING & POP-UP SHOP BY:
Pilot Books (http://www.pilotbooksseattle.com/)
Poor Claudia (http://www.poorclaudia.com/)
Sparkplug Comics (http://www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com/)
Circle Into Square (http://www.circleintosquare.com/)

(And a limited edition zine from REDEFINE, featuring works by hydEON, pee gee!, Christopher Davison, Tessa Hulls, Rachel Hays, Eat Cho, and Andrew Wheatley, Jon Owen!)

 

Do it.

Midnight Bus Stop by Robert Basilisk

Midnight Bus stop

Towards the tavern

stumble 3 clowns

with the utmost sincerity.

pageant

dog

Keys Open Doors – by Rick Delucco

Keys Open Doors totals 20 original pen and ink illustrations featuring bear heads, claws, precious stones and sweeping trees. Technical and detailed, playful and dramatic, each piece was intricately designed to give each key a purpose and an environment. It was the intention of the artist to create the keys in a way that the viewer could imagine a world beyond them, leaving only hints of what might exist.

The series will now be compiled into the first of an annual publication of work by Rick S. DeLucco called Collected Works. Keys Open Doors, due to release on December 3rd at Catalyst Gallery in Seattle, features all 20 illustrations in a pamphlet style book. A limited run of 100, hand bound, signed and numbered books will be available for purchase during the artist reception at Catalyst at 7pm. All keys will be on display during the show as well as a sneak peak at the next Collected Works due out next Fall.

For more information about the show, the book and the series

visit www.rsdelucco.com.

Also visit www.straightcrushing.wordpress.com and www.catalystgallery.com for show info.

Writing Poems by Robert Basilisk

Writing Poems

the ants are back

with the rain drip

poetry is a flighty bird

my attention hovers

a wet sponge in hand

to wipe them off the kitchen

counter tops again

again the little rain drops

drops what was I ?

and the ants are back

intention is a weighty

word little anvils

hammer black and

white lines into order

filigreed meaning or

a fleeing armada

a storm at sea, or

meaningless sounds

tossed adrift down the drain

holding an empty hand

some flighty meaning

escapes back into me

albina

from Keys Open Doors – by Rick Delucco

The Twins by Robert Basilisk

The Twins

a week before the fair came

to town the ghosts of light came too

religious folks call it possession, and skeptics

claim they can only drive you mad

foaming like a dog with eyes rolled back

31 villagers lost their heads, it

started with the children , who whispered

of them all white with blurry faces.

coming down the path from the fair

and turning the corner you hope

the torch to reveal that shape

as only a couple necking, or the drunk

who does not fear them one bit

he shouts “I’ll dance their asses off!”

But he is too blind to feel as

they rush through town with

trembling wings and lightning blood

kisses of epilepsy plummeting

endless corridors of mirrors.