PORT TOWNSEND — The music of internationally known performer Wayne Horvitz, the words of Richard Hugo (1923-82) and the voices of Northwest writers will come together in an unusual production at Fort Worden State Park this coming Wednesday.
The Centrum foundation and Copper Canyon Press are collaborating on the 7:30 p.m. performance, titled “Some Places Are Forever Afternoon,” after a bit of Hugo’s poetry.
Tickets to Wednesday’s concert — part of Horvitz’s national tour — are $18.
It features Horvitz’s septet and its progressive jazz sound at the Wheeler Theater, just inside the entrance of Fort Worden at 200 Battery Way.
“Some Places Are Forever Afternoon” is made up of 11 compositions, all inspired by Hugo’s writing.
While Horvitz and his band bring the music, a diverse bunch of readers, many of them from Port Townsend, will bring the verse.
They include Joseph Bednarik, co-publisher of Copper Canyon Press; Quimper Unitarian Universalist minister Bruce Bode; Carl Youngmann of the Northwind Arts Center; Ellie Mathews of the North Press letterpress studio; poets Bill Ransom, Tom Aslin and Amy Johnson; musician-poet Deborah Hammond; and former KCTS-TV executive director Walter Parsons.
Frances McCue, co-founder of the Richard Hugo House, a nonprofit writing center in Seattle, and its current executive director, Tree Swenson, also will read.
For tickets, see www.centrum.org or call 800-746-1982.
