VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
ALLURI: The strangest experience I’ve had at a literary event was at a workshop wherein some participants had rebelled and complained against the non-traditional yet deeply rigorous process of their specific workshop leader, who read that night. There was a storm and, in the middle of the reading, a lightning strike / thunderclap killed the auditorium lights—he called out a chant in the dark and the lights flashed on. The rest of us had forgotten how to breathe.
Hari Alluri is a poet, educator, facilitator and co-founding editor at Locked Horn Press. His work appears in anthologies, journals, online and in the chapbook The Promise of Rust. Hari immigrated to Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory at 12 and currently writes in San Diego, Kumeyaay land.
Come see Hari read at 3rdSpace in San Diego on Thursday, June 9 at 7:30pm.
Photo by Erik Haensel