Canadian poet Sandra Stephenson reading

By weeklyvolcano on August 17, 2006

You think you’re so cool and so cultured. You wrap up the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle over your extra-horseradish Bloody Mary by noon.  You dressed like Holly Golightly and drank wine at Rampart gallery's toilet party, and found it energizing.  You ditched your indie-show-hopping scenester friends to give your two cents at the Conversation Café event at the Mandolin Cafe. What could Tacoma possibly have to offer that you haven’t already chewed up and spit out? Probably nothing, but while you wallow in your culturally induced apathy, the Weekly Volcano will be hanging at The Seven Muses Friday while Canadian poet Sandra Stephenson reads from her latest stack of poems.  Since she's a humanities professor at John Abbott College in Quebec, a a PhD candidate in legal studies and a peace movement activist maybe the Weekly Volcano will learn someting too. Poetry should be right up your alley, if you can spare the time away from your absinthe distillery. Friday, Aug. 18, 7 p.m., free, The Seven Muses, 1127 Broadway, Tacoma, (253) 572-9998. â€" Suzy Stump