Poets be warned. Only in Romania is there a poetry reading series known as the slaughterhouse. It's called Thoreau's Nephew (Nepotu´ Lui Thoreau) and takes place in a brightly painted, very smoky (well, smoky until mid-March, when the legislation changes) bar called Insomnia--sounds like a literary purgatory, doesn't it? I was invited to read there in 2013 while in Romania for the first time. In Sibiu the night before my 5-hour bus trip through Transylvania, a friend called out to me across Pia...
Poets be warned. Only in Romania is there a poetry reading series known as the slaughterhouse. It's called Thoreau's Nephew (Nepotu´ Lui Thoreau) and takes place in a brightly painted, very smoky (well, smoky until mid-March, when the legislation changes) bar called Insomnia--sounds like a literary purgatory, doesn't it? I was invited to read there in 2013 while in Romania for the first time. In Sibiu the night before my 5-hour bus trip through Transylvania, a friend called out to me across Pia...
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