Music (and a little poetry) based on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics.

This event is in celebration of Emerald City Comicon this weekend.

Doors at 8, show at 9

At the Crocodile in Belltown

Performers include:

Evan J Peterson
Mike Votava
Aaron Zig 
David Hillman
Aaron Shay
Mark Blasco
Seattle Jazz Composers Small Ensemble
Tai Shan
MoZo
Aaron Daniel 
Peter Spencer
Perry Maybrown
Susy Sun
We Wrote the Book on Connectors
and
PopCanPipers

Facebook event is here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/300953133357448/?fref=ts

I’ve been in the thick of it lately, since Skin Job came out. Sorry for the radio silence on the website. I’ve been doing most of the publicity on Facebook, but I’m trying to be better about posting here. Maybe I should hire an intern? Someone young, handsome and nubile,    and missing a leg.

Anyway, here’s the end-of-October performance dates in Seattle & Vancouver, BC. Ciao!

Tuesday, Oct. 23: feature performance and writing workshop at Signifying series, Lucid, Seattle

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 8pm: ensemble reading w/ Bushwich Book Club: Music for Marriage Equality Event @ Volterra, Ballard, Seattle.

Sunday, Oct. 28, 8pm: ensemble reading for Naked Bunch, Burroughs-inspired burlesque (yes ma’am!) @ the Can Can, Seattle.

Wednesday, Oct. 31: feature performance on Halloween at the Vancouver, BC Slam!

Here’s the first published poem, “R. J. MacReady, The Thing” from the “Final Girls” series I’ve been working on, part of Eye to the Telescope‘s fifth issue (lgbtq sci fi & fantasy theme!). Thanks to issue editor Steven M. Wilson for choosing it.

And here’s a video of “Box Office Poison” from Friday’s wildly successful Greenwood Lit Crawl in Seattle. Many thanks to Greg Bem, Graham Isaac, and Aaron Kokorowski for organizing and asking me to perform and emcee.

Love,

EJP

The fearless and fabulous Ibtihal Mahmood just posted a new interview of yours truly at her blog, La Coquette Levantine. I’m grateful to be interviewed by this powerful emerging cultural commenter.

Things are certainly picking up momentum around here.

Love,

EJP

The ten minute poetry musical that Scott Adams and I created is now up on YouTube. We were matched by Richard Hugo House and the Seattle branch of Bushwick Book Club to adapt some of my poetry into music, but we decided to collaborate on something brand new. Here it is, for your pleasure:

Love,

EJP

The gracious Jerry Wheeler has reviewed both Secular Exorcisms and Hello Kitty Chainsaw. What a compliment! I met Jerry at the Rainbow Book Fair in New York. Now there’s a trip that was worth every red cent. More news about that as it becomes fit to admit publicly.

Love,

EJP

If you’re in Seattle, have Monday nights free, and would like to take my class, check out the following:

Six week class: Fearless Pages (Seattle) Richard Hugo House, Monday nights 7 – 9 pm, April 2 – May 7, 2012

Love and monsters,
EJP

If you need some monstrous poetry to cool your heart in this heat wave, check out the following readings:

Mini-reading: Assaracus Journal Showcase, New York City, Friday March 23, 7:30pm, The Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies, w/ lots and lots and lots of poets

Mini-reading: Rainbow Book Fair, NYC, Saturday March 24, LGBT Community Center w/ every-dang-body

Feature reading: JujoMukti Tea Lounge, NYC, Sunday March 25, 6-8pm, w/ Steve Dalachinsky & Miriam Stanley

Other good New York City news:

Hello Kitty Chainsaw is currently under review for sale at an NYC museum and at Blue Stocking books. I’ll put up links when these hit the shelves.

Also, Marie-Elizabeth + Taylor Mali look well. Still kicking ass and taking names.

Love and monsters,

EJP

The long-awaited new issue of Weird Tales is out next week, featuring my experimental prose piece “Five Films Reviewed by Dr. Frankenstein’s Creature.”

Also, my three poems that were published in specs journal have now been archived online for your pleasures. Find the link over in the Writing section of this site.

Last, but not least, Susan Slaviero of Cyborgia and blossombones has picked up the Mommy Dearest poem from the Frankenstein manuscript. Glamour is a monster…

Also, I just turned 30. Happy birthday, dear creatures, happy birthday to me. To quote Mr. David Bowie upon his 50th birthday, “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise I won’t bore you.”

Love,

EJP

I’m ecstatic to announce that “Rebirth is Always Painful” has been mentioned and excerpted in the New York Times! Read the article here, and listen to the entire poem here.

In addition, my friend and fellow FSU alum Nicholas Yanes, media scholar at large, has posted a write-up and a couple of interview questions at Sci Fi Pulse.

It’s been a good week.