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POETRY CRAWL: A mob of angry and not-so-angry poets descends
on downtown like a happy-go-lucky scourge with this weekend's
second-annual Tucson Poetry Crawl. All manner of shouting,
wailing, stomping, laughing and singing will ensue.
Participating poets include Tucson's first Poet Laureate William Pitt Root, Rita Magdaleno (who reads at Aroma Café), Will Inman, Jessica Jaramillo, David Mitchell, Simon Ortiz, Pam Uschuk and Tom Collins (of former Drunken Poets renown at the Club Congress), among more than 30 others.
The festivities kick off with Delta blues by Nervous Duane at 6:30 p.m., followed by poetry readings at 7 p.m., on Saturday, May 16, at Mutt's, 424 N. Fourth Ave. Crawling progresses roughly on the half-hour, starting at 7:30 p.m., to the Third Stone, then on to Aroma Café, the Hotel Congress lobby, the Ronstadt Transit Center (Sixth Avenue and Congress Street), Café Magritte, Central Arts Collective and the Youth Store Front. All events are free.
DIE LAUGHING: A man named Herb Bowie has authored a book called Why Die?: A Beginner's Guide to Living Forever. The burning question on our minds is, "Why a beginner's guide?" We figure with life after death, you've got basically one shot to get it right. So for our buck, we're holding out for the advanced guide. But you can meet the author at a signing and discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 14, at Borders Books & Music, 4235 N. Oracle Road. Call 292-1331 for more information.
The cafeteria at Amherst College, a small, private liberal arts
school, has devised a special menu in Seinfeld's honor:
For a reasonable $9.95 plus tax, students can order the "Seinfeld
Survival Sack" to go. It includes (we quote from the brochure):
"The Famous Lobster Bisque (Soup Nazi would be proud); One
Really Big Salad (Elaine's Favorite); Pasta Primavera (Poppie's
Secret Recipe); Not One, But Two Slices of Marble Rye (Schnitzer's
Eat Your Heart Out); A Big Black & White Cookie (Look to the
Cookie); and A Muffin Top (Top of the Muffin to You)."
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Event organizer Scott Stanley, editor and publisher of The
Tucson Poet, has high hopes for this year's hit-and-run fundraiser
for the Tucson Poetry Fund, a fledgling scholarship enterprise
under the wing of the Tucson Arts District Partnership.
The action culminates with a "Crawlception" at 11 p.m.
at Gateway Villas, 228 N. Fourth Ave., with music by the Annie
Hawkins Band and Evan Dain & Friends. For more
information, call 206-9244.
GET OUT! The final Seinfeld episode is a two-hour
extravaganza starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 14, if there's anyone
left on the planet who cares and isn't already aware of the details.
(God help us all, we actually heard one young woman refer to choosing
the site for the big night as being "like where you were
when JFK was shot"!) The enlightened people in the great
state of Massachusetts, where colleges outnumber convenience stores,
have come up with their own way of honoring the passing of this
era (henceforth to be referred to as "post-prime time";
with the seasons of TV-past and TV-future broken down to B.S.
and A.S., as dedicated followers cling to the syndicated summer
reruns and wait for the Second Coming, or a spin-off). But we
digress...
