Remember Pie & Scones from 6:30-7:00. Readings start at 7:00
Bios
Lola E. Peters lives in West Seattle where she writes essays, poems, and short stories that reflect her commitment to justice. She has published two collections of poems and a book of essays. She serves as Editor-at-Large for the SouthSeattleEmerald.com and as a freelance OpEd columnist for Crosscut.com.
Christopher J. Jarmick was once an L.A. based TV producer/screenwriter. He’s curated/hosted monthly poetry readings and special events since 2001. In 2016, he became the owner of BookTree, Kirkland, Washington’s only new and gently-used independentookstore. http://www.booktreekirkland.com/ His latest poetry collection, Not Aloud (2015) is from MoonPath Press.
Mary Eliza Crane resides in the Cascade foothills. A regular feature throughout Puget Sound, she has read her poetry from Woodstock to L.A. She has two poetry volumes published by Gazoobi Tales, as well as work in several poetry anthologies and print journals. Mary is co-curator and co-host of Duvall Poetry.
John Olson’s work in prose, poetry, and prose poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Echo Regime, Dada Budapest, Larynx Galaxy, and Backscatter: New and Selected Poems. He has also authored four novels, including Souls of Wind (shortlisted for a Believer Magazine Book Award in 2008), The Seeing Machine, The Nothing That Is, and In Advance of the Broken Justy. A new collection of prose poetry titled Weave of the Dream King is forthcoming in 2020 from Black Widow Press.
David Fewster is a poet, humorist and musician living in Tacoma. His current book is "The Seattle-Tacoma Express: Selected Prose and Poetry 1989-2016" (Couth Buzzard Press, 2016.) Or, as he refers to it, "My posthumous collection before I actually die." His previous book, "Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic Suicidal Maniac & Other Picture Postcards" was paid for by an Artists Initiative Project Grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission in 2003.
Tobin Marsh lives in South Seattle with wife, son, house and a contracting business. He complains about a heavy workload, long hours, and not spending more time in wild places with his son. He complains about not having time to write. He’s working on trying to remember to complain less.
Sierra Golden worked as a commercial fisherman in Southeast Alaska for nearly a decade. Her book The Slow Art was a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award. She now works in nonprofit communications in Seattle.
Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) in 1993 & the Cascadia Poetry Festival in 2012, Books: American Sentences, A Time Before Slaughter, American Prophets (Interviews 1994-2012.)
Carrie Gilstrap-Nettle writes in many forms, but poetry is the most natural to her. Carrie teaches wreading (reading/writing) to students 2 – 102. She focuses on students with learning disabilities and actively champions for disability education, financial opportunities and protections. Carrie also translates nerd/geek. She's won chapbook contests, published, but dislikes taking time away from writing to play the publishing game.
Jason Kirk reads, writes, edits, hungers, thirsts, strives, plays, performs, eats, drinks, sleeps, and breathes in Seattle.
For thirty years Pamela Hobart Carter taught science, preschool, and a few other things. Now she teaches on the side, and writes poems, plays, fiction, and non-fiction. Her plays have been read or produced in Seattle (her home), Montreal (her childhood home) and Fort Worth (where she has only visited).
Lew Jones: I am an English Major and a professional musician who has always written poetry. A song is a poem put to music by definition and much of my poetry is lyrical and comes from writing music and lyrics. I have performed on stage with Ray Manzerak and Michael McClure and Michael C. Ford (Jim Morrison's college room mate) Other poets I like are Dylan Thomas, Shelley, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, W.B Yeats, ee cummings, Auden, Sylvia Beach and Emily Dickenson. I have published some of my works: 100 Poems 4 Poets Vantage Press NYC, Hour of The Poet/Thoughts Upon The Lake Of Time Goldfish Publishing Seattle, The Falling Light of Inspiration Poems Beyond Amazon Publishing. My poems are from moments where I find literature is deeper than song, possibly epic and without commercial restraint. "The falling light of inspiration beckons a woven lapidary, a vision beyond hauteur refrain, Let us place a chatelaine round these poems of ferrum."-Lewton Jones 2020
A memoirist and novelist who dabbles in poetry, Arleen Williams explores family dynamics and cross-cultural friendships. When not putting pen to paper, Arleen teaches English as a Second Language at South Seattle College where she has worked with immigrants and refugees for three decades.
Robert Lashley is a Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award. His books have been The Homeboy Songs, Up South( Small Doggies Press), and The Green River Valley( Upcoming from Blue Cactus Press, 2021).
