Kellenb

Author's details

Name: Kellen Braddock
Date registered: February 7, 2011

Biography

Kellen Braddock's favorite hobbies involve pectin, pickling salts, words, and art—combining them occurs on the regular. This is why she asked Santa Claus for a laminator. He said maybe to next year. She also studied creative writing at the University of Michigan, and is the recipient of the Caldwell Award (thrice times), Rapaport Prize, Cowden Fellowship, and Hopwood Award for her poe-poes.

Latest posts

  1. Take Aways and Half-Truths: WSAA, Arts Advocacy Meeting 5/27/11 — May 29, 2011
  2. Take Aways and Half Truths: The “Oh Yeah” Series for Poets — May 20, 2011
  3. Take Aways and Half Truths: The “Oh Yeah” Series for Poets — May 14, 2011
  4. Catherine Cabeen’s “Highly Opinionated Tour” of Nick Cave at SAM — March 24, 2011

Author's posts listings

May 29

Take Aways and Half-Truths: WSAA, Arts Advocacy Meeting 5/27/11

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Happenings Around Town, Pop Culture/Art

by kellenb

May 29, 2011

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And Now For Something Completely Different!
The Washington State Arts Alliance, Arts Advocacy Meeting 5/27/11
I’ll start by saying…there were mimosas: SB 5834 passed with a 62/34 vote at 9:34pm on Wednesday. What a juicy win for us after all the re-writing, foot-dragging, and appeasement-searching. 10% budget cuts rather than 47%. Alright!
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May 20

Take Aways and Half Truths: The “Oh Yeah” Series for Poets

Categories:

Happenings Around Town, Pop Culture/Art

by kellenb

May 20, 2011

rae

From Rae Armantrout’s Reading:

Last Sunday, Pulitzer prize-winner Rae Armantrout gave a reading at Open Books: The Poetry Emporium (Poets, a spending limit might be in order. This is our casino, minus gold LAMÉ and cocktails).

Here are my Half-Truths and Take Aways from the reading:

Know your reading voice: what you …

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May 14

Take Aways and Half Truths: The “Oh Yeah” Series for Poets

Categories:

Creative Expressions

by kellenb

May 14, 2011

baus-droves

From Eric Baus “Tuned Droves”

NEW RULE: for every day off, one book. This way those uncelebrated library tommmeesss, neatly stacked to be forgotten, might actually go back into public circulation. The process of return date, renewal, return date, renewal, spanning the last few months is just shameful—

I strictly read to be …

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Mar 24

Catherine Cabeen’s “Highly Opinionated Tour” of Nick Cave at SAM

Categories:

Productions

by kellenb

March 24, 2011

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As part of Crystallizing Space, Catherine Cabeen, one of Seattle’s most brilliant dancer/choreographers, offered a tour of Nick Cave’s “Meet Me at the Center of the Universe,” in order to discuss kinesthetic movement, unsexing, and identity.
Nick Cave’s Soundsuits work to achieve anonymity, or rather a sense of “safety,” by fully concealing the person within it. “There’s …

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