Monday, 9 July 2018
The open mike starts at 8:00 (with sign-up prior to that). Ina Roy-Faderman, Paul Nelson, and Matt Trease will provide minifeatures throughout the evening.
INA ROY-FADERMAN is a long-time participant in the August Poetry Postcard Festival and one of the editors of the 56 Days of August anthology. Her poetry has appeared inRightHandPointing, WhatRoughBeast, Medical Literature Messenger, and Punchnel’s and awarded prize-winners in The Richmond Poetry Anthology, Writer’s Rising Up, and Writer’s Digest. Educated at Stanford (MD) and UCBerkeley (PhD), she teaches biomedical ethics for Oregon State University, works as a fiction editor for Rivet Journal, and is the librarian for a school for gifted children. Find her at www.inafelltoearth.com.
PAUL NELSON is a poet, interviewer, essayist. He founded Seattle Poetics LAB & the Cascadia Poetry Festival & wrote American Sentences (poems, 2015), A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger) Organic Poetry (essays) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (book-length-essay, Lumme Editions, Brazil, 2013). Paul was the lead editor of and driving force behind Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia. He’s interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Sam Hamill, José Kozer, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Joanne Kyger, George Bowering, Brenda Hillman and Daphne Marlatt, presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he lives in the Duwamish River watershed.
Matt Trease is a poet and artist living in Southeast Seattle. He teaches poetry at the Hugo House and co-runs the Margin Shift poetry series at Common Area Maintenance in Belltown. His poems have recently appeared in otoliths, VLAK, small po[r]tions, Vestiges, Juked, Noctua Review and Hotel Amerika. He is the author of the chapbook Later Heaven:Production Cycles (busylittle1way designs, 2013).
