Seattle is not just a city in love with books it regards Literacy as a right of citizenship.
As the most politically liberal city in the Pacific Northwest if not the entire county, Seattle prides itself on being literate. Folks here take their books seriously. Not only does Seattle have the two largest national retail chain bookstores in the country, but it might have arguably the biggest, Amazon.com. Seattle also has homegrown independent bookstores such as Eliot Bay books and hundreds of used book stores scattered across the city.
Looking for a book club, writing group or workshop? Or how about selling your poetry on the street corner? Seattle has it all. From Jack Straw Productions, a spoken word Arts Organization, to Richard Hugo House a home for writers, offering workshops, resident writers and a resource library for aspiring and writers, Seattle feeds the literary soul. If you don't want to pay for books there is the recently rebuilt Seattle Public Library, a spectacular example of the literary ambitions of the people of Seattle.
Town Hall. Located in the First Hill Neighborhood on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall is where the top writers, politicians and other philosophic types go to dispense wisdom, read short fiction, poetry etc. On Thursday June at 7:30PM Town Hall brings Eduardo Galeano: An Unofficial History of the World to Seattle. Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela should be credited with thrusting Eduardo Galeano into the spot light and ultimately the big time. It was Chavez who handed President Barack Obama a copy of Mr. Galeano's book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. This Thursday Seattle will gets chance to hear from Eduardo Galeano.
There should be a big crowd for Galeano's Town Hall appearance. Two of my best Friends will make the 3hour trip from the Wenatchee Valley to Seattle's Town Hall. I don't know if President Barack Obama read "Open Veins of Latin America" one hopes that he will.
As the most politically liberal city in the Pacific Northwest if not the entire county, Seattle prides itself on being literate. Folks here take their books seriously. Not only does Seattle have the two largest national retail chain bookstores in the country, but it might have arguably the biggest, Amazon.com. Seattle also has homegrown independent bookstores such as Eliot Bay books and hundreds of used book stores scattered across the city.
Looking for a book club, writing group or workshop? Or how about selling your poetry on the street corner? Seattle has it all. From Jack Straw Productions, a spoken word Arts Organization, to Richard Hugo House a home for writers, offering workshops, resident writers and a resource library for aspiring and writers, Seattle feeds the literary soul. If you don't want to pay for books there is the recently rebuilt Seattle Public Library, a spectacular example of the literary ambitions of the people of Seattle.
Town Hall. Located in the First Hill Neighborhood on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall is where the top writers, politicians and other philosophic types go to dispense wisdom, read short fiction, poetry etc. On Thursday June at 7:30PM Town Hall brings Eduardo Galeano: An Unofficial History of the World to Seattle. Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela should be credited with thrusting Eduardo Galeano into the spot light and ultimately the big time. It was Chavez who handed President Barack Obama a copy of Mr. Galeano's book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. This Thursday Seattle will gets chance to hear from Eduardo Galeano.
There should be a big crowd for Galeano's Town Hall appearance. Two of my best Friends will make the 3hour trip from the Wenatchee Valley to Seattle's Town Hall. I don't know if President Barack Obama read "Open Veins of Latin America" one hopes that he will.
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