An orchard-ful of apple-flavored thank-you’s to everyone who helped make last night’s reading so warm and crackly and a little bit dangerous, like an early-Autumn fire: Matt, Amanda, Hafizah, Chris, Mary Boo, and Kim for performing your flappy lits; Alibi for your scintillating singing & gorgeous photography; Pacific Standard for your always-gracious hospitality; and all you beautiful & cultured people who came to witness the weirdness…

We hope we’ll see you all again on 10/25 for our 2nd Annual Halloween Reading!

photos by Alibi Jones 

Matt Patrick tells wonderfully bizarre tales of talking animal heads & cannibalism

Amanda Krupman shares an emotional & sensual excerpt from a work-in-progress

Hafizah Geter wows the crowd with her poignant and powerful poetry

Chris Antzoulis reads poems of heavy metal & John Wick & self-cannibalizing specters

Mary Boo Anderson tickles our funny bones with some TwitterBot poetry

Kim Coleman Foote closes the readings with her surreal, salty, and playful prose

Alibi Jones gettin’ ready to tie one on before singing “The Sound of Silence”