Month: February 2016

by Andrew Moreno It’s that time of the month again! That’s right, VoiceOver, the MFA program at EWU’s student-run reading series is back at nYne Bar & Bistro tonight, 6-8 pm, and it looks like it’s gonna be another good one. EWU MFA students Derek Annis, Rajah Bose, Lauren Hohle, Anne Kilfoyle, Virginia Thomas, and … Read more

by Makayla Wamboldt To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga presents a special exhibition: Fifty Masterworks from the Print Collection. The display not only features expert print technicians like Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and John Taylor Arms, but also works by important art history giants such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, and Andy … Read more

by Makayla Wamboldt The Spark Center is offering a workshop on writing long and linked poems February 27th and March 5th from 4:00-7:00 pm, entitled “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” While this line from one of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” may elicit fear at the thought of writing your … Read more

by Alex Baker “I am different, not less.” – Temple Grandin Dr. Temple Grandin has proven this quote again and again, using her influence and wit to become one of the most well-known and accomplished adults with autism in the world. Unable to speak until she was three, Grandin was diagnosed with autism in the … Read more

by Andrew Moreno Sam Quinones, LA Times Journalist and author of three acclaimed books of nonfiction, will be reading and signing books at Showalter Auditorium on the EWU Cheney campus this Thursday (2/11) from 3-5 pm. to close the EWU Colloquium on Mexico. The San Francisco Chronicle has called Quinones “the most original writer on … Read more

by Erin Leigh Local novelist and anti-censorship advocate Chris Crutcher will be the first speaker in the Spark Center’s Taproot Speaker Series. The series, designed in the style of TED Talks, features Spokane artists and leaders who will share inspiring stories of the self. As the first featured speaker, Crutcher will take the stage using … Read more

by Tony Payne The Bartlett was standing-room-only Wednesday night, as over a hundred people gathered to watch eleven students from high schools around eastern Washington compete in this year’s Poetry Out Loud Regional Competition. The finalists from the evening, Wesley Thomas of Quincy High School and Lillian Cooley of Liberty Bell High School, will move … Read more

by Alex Baker On Thursday February 25 from 7:00pm-8:30pm at the Spark Center, INK Art Space will be hosting their Scablands Lit Reading Series with author Richard Fifield, who will read from his debut novel The Flood Girls. That’s a lot of information, so let’s break this down. First… What in the world are Scablands? … Read more

by Andrew Moreno Portland author Lidia Yuknavitch— award-winning memoirist, novelist, editor, short-story writer, critic and more— will be visiting Spokane and reading at Auntie’s Bookstore on February 26th at 7:30. You should go. I’m going. But enough about me. In an interview the Rumpus, Yuknavitch said “the membrane between fiction and nonfiction is thin as … Read more