Full of writing and art from across America and beyond from the likes
of Marya Sea Kaminski, Christopher Grimes, Cait Willis, Tracy Lang, Dan
Raphael, Wes Lang, Eddie Martinez and an interview with the Collateral
Repair Project, the organization that provides relief to Iraqi refugees.
Contributors to KNOCK # 10 - as well as advisory editors - will perform.
On-board already: Jonathan Evison (author of All About Lulu), Amy Jones,
Elizabeth Myhr, Paula Coomer, Mae Emerick, Mark Harlow, Glenn Reed, Aaron
Dietz, Tom Hansen, and Shane Noecker out of New York.
The KNOCK release party will be held at the Jewel Box Theater (in the
Rendezvous Bar) on Friday, November 14th, starting at 7:00 p.m. The Jewel
Box Theater is located at 2322 2nd Ave. (between Bell and Battery). The
event is free. 21+ with cocktail service.
past events
KNOCK READS AT THE CLMP LIT MAG MARATHON WEEKEND IN NEW YORK
June 14th and 15th
EDITORS UNLEASHED!
New York Public Library's Periodicals Room, 5th Ave. at 42nd St.
Saturday, June 14th from 4–6:30 PM
The Magathon kicks off the weekend with a celebratory “marathon”
reading. Editors representing journals of different sizes and styles
will present favorite selections from their latest issues. Readers
include editors from American Book Review, Cider Press Review, Confrontation,
Eclipse, Fairy Tale Review, The Georgia Review, Haight Ashbury Literary
Journal, KNOCK, Lapham's Quarterly, Literal Latte, Mad Hatters' Review,
n+1, Opium Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Parnassus: Poetry in
Review, Salt Hill, The Southern Review, Storyscape Journal, and Zeek.
All events are free and open to the public.
KNOCK Magazine hosts 13 Short Films on One Program
KNOCK and PepperSpray
Productions announce the premiere screening of "Disposable
Heroes" (a film featuring the 2007 protest “Fund the Wounded,
Not the War”) along with "The Leader #16." "The
Leader," an occasional compilation of short political documentaries,
examines issues of the day from the perspective of movements for social
change and justice. This collection, containing twelve short pieces,
is a multifaceted statement of the power of activism.
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Antioch University Seattle
Featuring work from filmmakers Patricia Boiko, Arianne Garden Vazquez,
Lila Kitaeff, Joe LaSac, Brian Liloia, Mahdy Maaweel, Lambert Rochfort,
Randy Rowland, and Suhki Sangera.
The program spans a variety of issues, including the struggle against
the transport of war materials in Olympia (Olympia PMR), the WASL
(SYPP’s Haunted High), immigration issues (Tacoma ICE), counter-recruitment,
Jobs With Justice, Rwandan reconciliation, the fight to save Cascade
People’s Center, equal access, the Oaxaca uprising and the role
of media (interview with film-maker Jill Freidberg), the ILWU, FCC
hearings, Reclaim theMedia, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
and Iraq Vets Against the War (IVAW). “Disposable Heroes”
focuses on the movement to “fund the wounded, not the war.”
PepperSpray Productions is an all-volunteer activist video collective
based in Seattle, Washington. The video arm of the Seattle Independent
Media Center, it gives voice to the voiceless, filling the silences
in mainstream reporting.
May 17th, 2008
KNOCK #9 Release Party - Local and national contributors to
KNOCK's Gestation Isssue. Ann Tweedy, Jonathan Evison, Aaron
Dietz, Nick Stokes, Emily Frey, Mary Coolidge, Tom Hansen, Glenn Reed,
and Mae Emerick. Also, Elizabeth Heffron's play, Foxy Populi, performed
by members of Annex Theatre.
December 11th, 2007 KNOCK #8 Release Party - Local and national contributors to KNOCK's
Hurt on Purpose Isssue. John Olson, Ann Tweedy, Jonathan Evison,
Kate Lebo, Tom Hansen, Aaron Dietz, and Charles Morrison.
Watch some performances from the KNOCK #8 release.
video: Dan Radel
July 24th, 2007
KNOCK #7 Release Party - See contributors to KNOCK's Attack
and Rescue Issue and KNOCK editors from Seattle to New York read.
Scheduled to read are John Olson, Scott Zieher, Gavin Tull-Esterbrook,
Amy Mahoney, Jack Johnston, Mark Hughes, Christin Call, Gleen Reed,
Tom Hansen, and Aaron Dietz.
July 15, 2007 KNOCK nominated Amy Mahoney for the Seatttle Poet Populist position.
She read with other Seattle poets nominated for the 2007 Poet Populist
position on Sunday, July 15th at 2:00 p.m. at the Seattle Central Library.
April 26, 2007
Steve Heller and Sheyene Foster Heller read at Antioch
April 22, 2007 Seattle Poetry Festival KNOCK presents performance poets Angela Martinez Dy, Katinka Kraft,
and Amy Mahoney.
February 17, 2007 (pro)text: An Independent Press Fair
All ideas and expressions contained herein represent the opinions of the authors whose
names appear on each contribution, not Antioch University Seattle or the staff of KNOCK.
