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Susan Rich just knocked the socks off everyone who heard her tonight at The Hibiscus Room, Just Buffalo
Literary Center, Buffalo, NY.  She moved smoothly from the ordinary to the exotic, her work both spare and full of surprise.  I was so in awe of her work, I forgot to thank her. 
So here it is.
Thank you.  This was the kind of reading that makes a person want to take another look at her own work, cut the flab and sink it deeper. . .

Martha Deed

 


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Recent Poetry Readings and Workshops

Friday, June 27th @ 7:30 PM, Harborside Inn, Port Townsend. Susan Rich reads with Sheila Bender, Meg Chiles, and Jack Heffron as part of the Writing It Real Writers Conference.

Wednesday, March 19th @ 7:15 PM Traditions Café, Olympia Poetry Network, Olympia, WA

Tuesday, April 1st @ Noon - 1:00 PM,  Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA with Hedgebrook alum, Elizabeth Austen

Thursday, April 17th @ 7:30 PM, University of Washington’s Women’s Center, Seattle. Kelli Russell Agodon, Lana Ayers, Martha Silano, and others  for the launch of Letters to the World from Wom-po, the women’s poetry list serv.

Cuirt Festival, Galway, Ireland, April 22nd - April 27th, with Donald Hall and C. K. Williams

Saturday, February 2nd Associated Writing Program Conference, New York, NY, with White Pine Press Writers

Thursday, February 7th @ 11:00 AM Highline Community College with Allison Green, Susan Landgraf, S. Hashimoto


Seattle Arts and Lectures, 5:30 PM Monday, November 19th with Diane Ackerman and Peter Pereira, Benaroya Hall

Tieton Arts and Humanities, Saturday, November 3rd, Tieton , WA with Kathleen Flenniken, Cody Walker, others...

Burlington Book Festival, Sunday, September 16th, with Susan Elmslie, Major Jackson, James Hoch, VT

Women Authoring Change, Harvest Reading, with Wendy Call, Saturday, October 27th, 2007, Hedgebrook, Langley, WA

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR with Lillias Bever, Thursday, October 11th, 2007, Knight Reading Room, U. of OR

Seattle Public Library in Ballard with Peter Pereira, Thursday, October 4th, 2007, 5614 22nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA

Gallery Reading Series, 7:00 PM, Thursday, November 8th, with Peter Pereira, Tacoma Comm. College, Tacoma WA

Queen Ann Books, 6:30 PM. Tuesday, November 13th, with Holly Hughes, Seattle, WA

Writing it Real Conference 7:00 PM, June 22, 2007 with Sheila Bender and Jack Heffron, Port Townsend WA

Telling Our Stories: Poetry as History, Poetry as Witness,  1:30 PM, Thuesday,  April 19th,
T1000, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis, MN
 
YMCA Reading Series, 7:00 PM, Friday, May 4th, 2007, with Ravi Shankar, Syracuse, NY

University of Sarajevo, Thursday, May 10th, 2007, Sarajevo, Bosnia i Herzegovinia

University of Mostar,  Thursday, May 17th, 2007 Mostar, Bosnia i Herzegovinia

Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Thursday, April 19th, 3:30 PM, T1000,  Minneapolis, MN

Wide World Books & Maps, 7:00 PM, Tuesday, April 24th with Barbara Sjoholm Seattle WA

Burning Word Poetry Festival,  Saturday, April 28th, Washington Poets Association, Green Bank, WA

University Bookstore with Martha Silano, 7:00 PM, Monday, April 9th, Seattle WA

Northwind Arts Gallery Reading, 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 12th, with Annette Spaulding Convy,  Port Townsend, WA

American Associaton of University Women, Jan 20 Nassim Afferi, Stephanie Kallos, Maria Victora, Jacci T-Dodd, Issaquah, WA

Village Books with Kathleen Flenniken, 7:30 PM, Thursday, January 18th, 2007, Bellingham, WA

Poetry X Series curated by Jim Natal. Reading with Richard Garcia, Friday, December 8th, 2006, B & N, Santa Monica, California

Poetry on Wheels,
Seattle Public Library, Sunday, December 10th 2:00 PM, sponsored by Floating Bridge Press and SPL

The Writer's Craft: "Poems, Pastries, and Politics." 7:30 PM, Thursday, November 9th, 2006, Ravena Third Place Books

Vancouver Public Library, Friday, November 3rd, 2006, Susan Elmslie, Miranda Pearson, Rachel Rose, Vancouver, BC

SoulFood Poetry Night with Kathleen Flenniken, 7:30 PM, Thursday, October 19th, Redmond, WA

Open Books Reading Series,  3:00 PM, Sunday, October 8th, 2006, reception to follow, Seattle, WA

Center for New Words, New Voices Award, 7:30 PM, Friday, October 13th, 2006, Cambridge, MA

Pegasus Books, Poets for Peace, 7:30 PM, Sunday, October 15th, with Ilya Kaminsky and Mark Irwin, Berkeley, CA

Elliott Bay Book Company,  Thursday, 7:30 PM,  September 7th, co-sponsored with Cottages at Hedgebrook

San Francisco Public Library
, Thursday, 6:00 PM, September 14th, with Ben Lerner and Ilya Kaminsky

Port Townsend Writing It Real Conference, Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 with Sheila Bender and Jack Heffron

Burning Word Festival, Green Bank, WA, Saturday, April 29, 2006

Jack Straw Productions, with Carlos Martinez, 7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Elliott Bay Book Co. , 7:30 PM, Wednesday, January 18th, 2006, with Allen Braden and Holly Hughes

Antioch University, Los Angeles, 7:00 PM, Friday,  December 9th, 2005  with Judith Kitchen

From Mogadishu to Istanbul: An Evening of Poetry, 7:30 PM Friday, October 14th, 2005, at Ravena 3rd Place Books, Seattle, WA with Lillias Bever author of Belini in Istanbul, Tupelo Press.

Reading at Longview Library, 7:00 PM , Tuesday, October 18th, 2005, Longview, WA

Thursday, May 12th, 2005,  7:00 PM, Jack Straw Writers Program, 4261 Roosevelt Way NW

Wednesday May 18, 2005, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

Featured Reader for William Stafford Celebration at Park Place Books, Kirkland, WA 2005.

 Whidbey Island Writers Conference 2005.

 Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2005.

Gig Harbor Writers Conference, Gig Harbor, WA 2005.

Poets in the Park, Redmond, WA 2005.

The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 2005.

 Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, reading with Judith Barrington, Annie Finch, and Rachel Rose, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2005.

Second Sunday Poetry Project at the Depot Arts Center & Gallery in Anacortes, WA. 2005.

<>South Puget Sound Community College, Opening Week speaker. 2004.

Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA 2004

Skagit River Poetry Festival, La Connor, WA 2004

Writer in Residence, Just Buffalo,  Buffalo, New York 2004

 Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA 2004

 Poetry and War Expression Workshop, Seattle Central Library 2004.

Reading at Rose Theater, Port Townsend

Tacoma Community College, "O Taste and See: Food Poems" Reading with Allen Braden, Tamara Sellman, and Martha Silano

Elliott Bay Books "O Taste and See: Food Poems"Reading with Allen Braden, Tamara Sellman, and Martha Silano

Northwest Bookfest, “Food and Poetry,” Seattle, WA October 19th, 2003

Elder Hostel Arts Programs, Claremont Hotel, Seattle, WA September 5th, 2003

Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annamaghkerrig, Ireland, July 14th, 2003

Poets Against the War, Hugo House, Seattle, WA February 12th, 2003

Richard Hugo House, featured reader. Seattle, WA October 19th, 2002

Antioch University, featured reader, Los Angeles, CA June 26, 2002

Washington State Africa Network, Douglas Younger Library, Seattle, WA, May 29, 2002

Skagit River Poetry Festival, La Conner, WA, May 17-18, 2002

Seattle’s Favorite Poems, Center For the Book, Seattle Art Museum, April 30,2002

Eastern Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, April 26, 2002

Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA February 11, 2002

Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA, December 13, 2001

It’s About Time Reading Series, Seattle Public Library, November 8, 2001

Poets for Peace, Elliott Bay Book Company, October 28, 2001

 

Recent Residencies

Tyrone Guthrie Center, County Monaghan, Ireland

Centrum, Port Townsend, WA

The Cottages at Hedgebrook, WA

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, NM

The Blue Mountain Center, NY

The Millay Colony for the Arts, NY

 

 

 

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