Sketches from Paper Tiger Coffee Open Mic Poetry Reading on Thursday, November 18 (by Christopher Luna)

Here are some sketches I made of the participants

in last Thursday's open mic poetry reading

at Paper Tiger Coffee in Vancouver, WA,

hosted by Dan Nelson

and featuring Steve Williams

and Constance Hall 

Thanks to Dan, Steve, Constance, Zach,

and all of the open mic readers

for another great night of poetry in the 'Couve!

-Christopher Luna

"Mapping Your Childhood" Workshop at 100th Monkey Studios (Portland) December 13

Mapping Your Childhood


Leaders: Steve Williams and Constance Hall

How well do you remember your old neighborhood? And when was the last time you thought about what happened there during your childhood? For this Mapping Your Childhood Workshop, we will be journeying back in time to those places, people, and events that played a significant role in your development. Using maps you will draw (no prior drawing experience required), and prompts you will be given (such as “think back to a time when you couldn’t stop laughing”), you will bring the place alive again and use what you find there as fertile sources to jump start your writing. If you are suffering from blank page-itis, and no matter whether you prefer fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, poetry, young adult or children’s writing, this is the workshop for you. You will be given time for free writes based on the maps you’ve drawn and the prompts you’re given, and you will be encouraged to share what you’ve written with other workshop attendees. Please join us.

We think you will be amazed by what you will find hiding in that old tree house or down at the playground!

Sunday, December 13th from 1-4pm
Cost: $25
All proceeds to benefit 100th monkey studios.

100th Monkey Studios
110 SE 16th Ave.
Portland, OR 503-232-3457