Thursday, September 18, 7 PM (6:30 door): Poetry, featuring Christine Lorenz, of South Eugene, and Noah Schnaubelt, former Slam Champ from Eugene, now living in San Francisco
free (books for sale)
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about Christine
“wrote my first poem at 12 and I’ve been writing ever since.
I was an English education major in college and worked for four years at Honolulu theater for youth as a costume assistant and actor.
I am so moved by what I see, here and experience in the world, that I can’t help but write about it.
Having had a full and varied life … it all was inspiration for my writing.
I’ve been an assistant calf tender on a kosher dairy farm - And I’ve been a koala keeper at Australia Zoo hospital.
I’m a massage therapist, therefore I am an empath, and it affects the lens of everything I see and do. I am also a gardener and a chef and understand how growing herbs and food and creating something fabulous with it is like writing a great poem.
The beauty of life is almost too much for words… But I try.
And I will continue to try to capture those things and write about them until I take my last breath.
A kite isn’t it amazing?”
~after 3 sold out shows in San Francisco celebrating his recently published book "A Life of Prayer & Song." Noah Schnaubelt returns to his roots for Alive Poetry here at Tsunami Books. Noah spent years rocking the Eugene Poetry slam, Featuring there in 2019. He has performed at Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle, The Ruckus Revival, weddings, yoga classes and more. Far beyond a reading, Noah's performances are soul-filled poems in vital, fluid motion. They are offerings with a deliberate cadence of depth and love. They are meditations on authenticity, vulnerability and our powers to heal. From the back of the book, "[These words] ask more of you than read-through; [they] want to live in your eyes and ears to transform your experience of life." Please sit, close your eyes and listen. Open your heart and be transformed...
