Sometimes Bobble Tiki wishes writing were a spectator sport. Writing this brilliant blurb might be easier if he could sit in the middle of an arena with tens of thousands of spectators chanting “ONE ... MORE ... WORD!” Periodically, Bobble Tiki catches sight of a sign that reads “GIVE ‘EM THE VERBS!” or one that reads “WRITE ON!”

When portrait artist Chuck Close speaks with New York School poet Bob Holman regarding their collaborative work in A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close, Poems by Bob Holman, the two will no doubt receive the applause and cheers of Bobble Tiki’s dreams. The two will hold court Sunday in the Pantages Theater — the first time Close has been in the Pacific Northwest in 10 years — both superstars in their fields, as seen by said exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum.

Bobble Tiki can see it now. Local poets Daniel Blue and Lucas “Vanilla Soul” Smiraldo will provide colorful commentary from the booth, and up the street from the Pantages the vibrant reader board outside Bates Technical College will flash quotes by Emerson and Sarah Vowell in turn.

Bobble Tiki is primed. He’s cracking his knuckles and writing this thing … if only he knew what to write.

[Pantages Theater, 2 p.m., $10-$15, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.272.4258]