Readings

If you are interested in having me read, please send me a note at matt_d_briggs (at) hotmail.

Thanks

Audio (Streaming & Radio) Readings

• November 7, 2007, Clackamas Community College Literary Arts Center
  
  
• November 5, 2007, Tiger, Tiger in a LifeBoat(TM), Ribbit-Powered Float
  
  
• September 2006, "Earwig" at MacJams.
  
  
• July 2006, "Edgar" at Slouch Mag (here is is their podcast).
  
  
• March 2006, Clear Cut Power Hour, 3/6/2006, P.S.1. MoMA Art Radio (RealPlayer)
  
  
• September 2005, Shoot the Buffalo Book Release, 9/18/2005, OsaeO.
  
  
• Machine Handwriting: a Sound Sampler
  
  
• Readings from Misplaced Alice, PIF Magazine
  
  
• April 24th 2003, 7:00 PM, KUOW 94.4 Jack Straw Writers (Radio)
  
  

Past Readings

I have read or talked in coffee shops, bars, tents, empty fields, bookstores, airplane hangers, and prisons mostly in North Pacific America, from Bellingham to Eugene. Anacortes (Watermark Books, What the Heck? Fest 04, 05, 06), Bellingham ( Village Books, Western Washington University, Everett (Everett Public Library), Monroe (Monroe Corrections Complex), Redmond ( The Old Firehouse, Victor's Coffee House, Microsoft Artful Readings), Issaquah (Barnes & Noble), Snoqualmie (Isadora's Books and Cafe), Tacoma (42nd Western Literature Association Conference, UW Bookstore), Sea-Tac ( Pacific Northwest Writer's Assocation Conference), Seattle ( Bumbershoot 99, 02, 04 & 06, Jack Straw Writers 02, Elliott Bay Book Store, It's About Time Reading Series, McLeod Residency, Monkey Bicycle at the Lux Cafe, Noise for the Needy Fundraiser, Northwest Bookfest, ProseWest at Wit's End, Ravenna Third Place Books, Red & Black Books, Red Sky Poetry Theater at the Globe Cafe, Rendezvous Reading Series, Richard Hugo House, Titlewave Books, Watermark Reading Series at the UW), Spokane ( Auntie's Bookstore), Shelton, Olympia (Orca Books), Long Beach ( SandPiper's Books), Portland (Clackamas Community College Literary Arts Center, Looking Glass Books, Phase One, Powell's World of Books in Burnside, Wordstockfestival), Astoria ( KMUN, Lucy's Books, Catch That Beat), Seaside ( Tillamook Head Books), Salem ( Jackson's Books), Eugene ( Tsunami Books).

Beyond North Pacific America, I have read in Baltimore, Maryland ( Johns Hopkins University, The Sidewalk), Bethesda, Maryland ( The Writing Center), Chicago (Quimby's, Series A), Los Angeles (Beyond Baroque), Philadephia ( Space 1026), New York City ( KGB Bar, MoMA's P.S.1), and San Francisco (City Lights, Pegesus Books - Kitchen Sink)