George_Vlastos@ncsd.k12.wy.us
George has been a poetry-pusher for nearly two decades, finding the 'spoken word' to be as vital to his daily living as meals, mountainsides, making-up to his wife, and moderating the emotional moguls of their boys. His emcee credentials stretch as far as the island of Crete where he helped highland shepherds learn then perform in an impromptu gangsta-rap competition (the winner was chosen according to who aroused the most sheep bleatings) to inciting a packed room of Cheyenne's so-called troubled youth to calmly chant the entirety of Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road". George will emcee the poetry slam at the Metro Coffee Company, 241 South David in downtown Casper, after 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24.
9/24/2010
11:00 am to 11:45 am
Kim Barnes Reading: “Ushering in the New with the Old”
9/25/2010
9:00 am to 9:45 am
Paul Taylor: Telling Stories at the Root of It All
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Jaimee Wriston Colbert: “Stories that Bite Back: A Reading from Shark Girls”
9/24/2010
9:00 am to 9:45 am
Jeff Lockwood Craft Talk: “Tales from the Dark Side: Nature as Negative Metaphor”