Typing Explosion The Typing Explosion: In the summer of 1998, three young women boarded Seattle city buses, lugging old electric typewriters, slightly uncomfortable in their pantyhose and looking like they’d stepped straight out of the typing pool in 1965. Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo, and Sierra Nelson set up their three typewriters on café tables during a busy gallery opening, posted Rules of Conduct and Rules for Participation, and waited for someone to approach them. Within minutes, a line of people trailed down the sidewalk, craning their necks to watch the prim-looking secretaries type instant poetry like furious robots. Since that day, The Typing Explosion has performed countless times up and down the West coast of the U.S., as well as New York City, receiving both national and international recognition. Part performance art and part poetry assembly line, The Typing Explosion’s poetry-performance type-ins defy categorization. Typing Explosion’s notoriety reached international proportions with feature articles in USA Today, The Washington Post, San Jose Mercury, Seattle Times, Seattle P-I; Jane, Spin, BUST, Allure, Sunset, and Resonance Magazines; and interviews on Studio 360 New York, KUOW American National Public Radio, and Canadian National Radio. On hiatus since 2004, the Typing Explosion reunited in the summer of 2006 in anticipation of the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour

September 12th, 2006