For our triumphant return, we bring you Hour co-creator/headhunter, Willamette Week music correspondent and frontman of the internationally touring Doom-Metal act Witch Mountain, the great Nathan Carson; the unforgettable performance Fiction of fellow Cafe Lena veteran Jennifer Robin; a classically Portland poet with whom we are lucky to share a decade, one-woman show Amy Temple Harper; Bizarro/Noir God Garrett Cook, who will command a room like a Baptist preacher when he gets going, except lots more fun... and Oral Storyteller/Folklorist Ilana Hamilton, who memorizes classic stories and tells them dramatically on the fly. Ilana is an Hour favorite, and NOT TO BE MISSED. As well, I will be warming up the stage with a few poems some of you may remember, one of which I actually wrote. Bring your friends, tell everyone you can think of, and let's pack the house and KEEP LIVE SPOKEN WORD ALIVE IN PORTLAND. We're back. Alea Iacta Est.

The Hour That Stretches was conceived by Edward Morris, Justin Montgomery, Ann S. Koi, Nathan Carson and several other members of Morris' writing workshop in August of 2013. No genre restrictions or style restrictions. No fourth wall. Performers get up to half an hour to bring their A-Game. We want rappers. Slam poets. Litfic people. Bizarros. Blues people. Electronic musicians. As long as there is spoken word somewhere in the performance. Morris, a veteran SpecFic/Horror author and poet, hosts and occasionally reads. 

More information available at https://www.facebook.com/events/164141170956874/