Ric Vrana & Kassten Alonso
The Lit at the Library series hosts Kassten Alonso, author of CORE,
an Oregon Book Award finalist, and writer Ric Vrana.
7pm Tonite @ Hollywood Library
4040 NE Tilamook
fun to visit the hollywood neighborhood tonite for ric vrana's reading at this new, every-other-month reading series at the hollywood library, which looks like a corporate penitentiary from the outside. strolling around the main drag there reminds me how tickled i am to see the hollywood theater marquee & its majestic spire poking the dark lamb underbelly of the kneeling overcast sky. tonite they're playing a "hicksploitation" double feature there...
ric vrana read from a group of older poems intended to be a chapbook about what led him to leave ohio for the west coast. i've really enjoyed those readings he does when he uses a bunch of poems to tell a story about a particular life experience, such as his costa rica series. it's an interesting way to present poetry, kind of cinematic in a way, because the narrative isn't totally linear but tells a story the way movies do, stringing a series of relevant moments together with, hopefully, just enough explanation to keep them connected and coherent. i'd like to hear more readings like that from people. i think it could be a much better way to invite the general public in to hear local writers whom they've never heard before, rather than posting some names that no one's ever heard of in the various local rags that will have you.
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