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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