10/16/2013
Eirean Bradley is a NW writer/musician/artist who believes that like most things poetry is best done loudly and without embarrassment. He was the long-time host and organizer of the Portland Poetry Slam (the largest and most punk rock slam on the west coast) has been published in over 35 zines and small press books, and has performed in all 48 continuous U.S. states.
He’s an 8-time National Poetry Slam competitor, a two-time NPS Finalist, and has opened for: P.J. Harvey, Fiona Apple, Soul Coughing, DJ Hurricane and the John Spencer Blues Explosion. His long overdue book the I in team is “brilliant, b***y, bold, and biting, and also accurate about the state of man and the human condition.”
Leah Noble Davidson has enthusiasm up the wahoo. Trained originally as a storyteller, she’s been writing and performing poetry for well over a decade. She’s competed on a national level and gets slam poets into classrooms as the Portland Poetry Slam’s Community Coordinator. She’s been published in various magazines, journals, and small press zines including, but not limited to Alberta Street Anthologies, Blur, Night Bomb Press, Small Doggies, Harper Perennial, and Love and Car Crashes.
Her debut book Poetic Scientifica is “at once urgent and gorgeous and brutal.” Portland named her “ruthlessly charming,” and her calling card says “Asker of Questions,” call her whatever you want: she’s coming to your city.
