Haiku Inferno. A new book. Crêpes. Your job: watch, listen, eat, and report back.

Haiku! Crêpes! What are you waiting for? Read on.

from kevin samsell's Future Tense Book's newsletter:

Haiku Inferno (myself along with Frank D'Andrea, Elizabeth Miller, and Frayn Masters) is happy to present our first collection, now available at Powell's. We're having a book release party at Tour De Crepes on Saturday, June 30th at 8pm. Pete McCracken from Crack Press will be there to show off this awesome chapbook that he designed, printed, and sewed in his own studio. Please come by to enjoy some haiku and crepes. It's all ages but you can drink. It's a beautiful open air venue and perfect for a summer reading.

Not from Kevin's Future Tense Book's newsletter:

So how about that Tour de Crepes at NE 29th and Alberta? Doesn't that stylin' trailer look familiar? Why yes, it does. That's because when Krista Marshall Arias opened it originally, the crepe trailer was in front of her La Palabra Cafe-Press in North Portland. It had barely opened when we held the 2GQ/Enteractive Language Fest event "The Language of Print" there. The readers were fab. The installation was cool. The prints were impressive. And the crepes made me want to cry! Something about cardamom and chocolate and chiles...and then I fainted from pure joy...

Since then, the crêperie moved, got nice writeups (even in places like Bon Appetit and Saveur, if I'm not mistaken), and changed hands. Check out the unbeatable Haiku Inferno, a Heathman Hotel favourite of 2GQ's shows at EL-fest 2004 and EL-fest 2005, and see if the crêpes still work magic. You'll have to tell me how it went. I'll be out of town. Post a comment here! OK. --Tiffany