1st Annual Spider Season Reading Was Full of Monsters

The 1st Annual Spider Season was super fun last night, thank you to all who came out on a Saturday night for poetry and then some. Thank you to our host Charlie’s Queer Books, a great little Seattle space in the Fremont neighborhood to celebrate the beginning of Spider Season, facing the coming darkness, and confronting fear with vulnerability. My co-host Lev St. Valentine read from his new book Pyre House, and I read 8 poems featuring monsters of all kinds, including of course, spiders. After that we opened up the mic, and my new friend Izzy sang a song about dead animals. It was really sweet, if you can believe that. And if you can believe that, we were then treated to a bait-and-switch, as Izzy’s next piece turned out to be a business proposal that went over incredibly well in this cozy room of poetry enthusiasts. I won’t explain further. One other reader, Sam, took the opportunity to read a poem they had written that morning, transcribing a dream that was somewhat erotic and sort of about the YouTube presenter Hank Green. Among other things. It was also sweet. Thanks for reading!