Lit Crawl Portland

Musical and verbal conversation about artistic ups and downs with cartoonist Lucy Bellwood (100 Demon Dialogues) and a quartet ensemble from the Oregon Symphony.
Members of this Oregon Symphony string quartet are Shin-young Kwon and Samuel Park (violin), Charles Noble (viola), and Trevor Fitzpatrick (cello). To learn more about these musicians go to https://www.orsymphony.org/discover/orchestra/strings/  

To celebrate the release of our latest issue and record, we get literal with our mission—to present the very best literature animated by music. See a poet traverse rangelands beneath the cry of a pedal steel. Hear an intrepid essayist duel a demented banjo. Feel the bass drop on a tale’s precipitous turn. So life is disappointing, forget it! In here, life is beautiful!

In the return of this Lit Crawl Portland favorite, celebrated poets* from Portland and beyond will judge audience poetry karaoke performances. A spin of the big, wooden wheel determines the musical style in which poems shall be read/performed. Corvallis-based band Mule on Fire will provide on-the-spot accompaniment for a range of poetic options. At the end of 45 minutes, a winner will be crowned Poetry Karaoke Champion for the year.

*Poet-judges Ada Limon, Justin Phillip Reed, Gregory Pardlo and Alicia Jo Rabins