Join us for an autumn night of poetry with local poets David Horowitz and Francine E. Walls. David is the founder and publisher of Rose Alley Press and earned bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and English from the University of Washington and a masters in English from Vanderbilt University. David’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Lyric, Candelabrum, […]
Join us for an autumn night of poetry with local poets David Horowitz and Francine E. Walls. David is the founder and publisher of Rose Alley Press and earned bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and English from the University of Washington and a masters in English from Vanderbilt University. David’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Lyric, Candelabrum, Exterminating Angel, ArtWord Quarterly, and The Sporting News. His most recent books, published by Rose Alley, are Strength & Sympathy, From Notebook to Bookshelf, and the poetry collections Streetlamp, Treetop, Star; Stars Beyond the Battlesmoke; and Sky Above the Temple.
Poems by Francine E. Walls appear in the writing text, Writing Across Cultures: A Handbook on Writing Poetry and Lyrical Prose, the anthology, Peace Poets v. 2 & journals such as Pontoon, Passager, Ekphrasis, damselfly press, Avocet & Strange Poetry. Born & raised in the Pacific Northwest, she worked for years as a college librarian and teacher. Her blog of poems & photographs is at A Long Perspective. See Below.
https://wordandimageworker.com/category/poems-photographs/
Art Gomez is hosting as Rayn‘s doing a Pongo Poetry Workshop.
Lyn Coffin & Thomas Brush Readings PoetsWest @ Green Lake Public Library
09/14/2019 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm Poetry
PoetsWest’s features the best at Green Lake Public Library each second Saturday of the month. Our current features are Lyn Coffin & Thomas Brush.
Lyn Coffin has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Human Trappings (1980), The Poetry of Wickedness (1981), Crystals of the Unforeseen (1999), and Joseph Brodsky was Joseph Brodsky (2012). Her books of translation include the Anthology of Georgian Poetry (2013), edited by Dodona Kiziria; and White Picture (2011), selected poems by Jiri Orten translated from the Czech. Coffin teaches literary fiction in the Continuing and Professional Education Division of the University of Washington. She is reading at the New York Poetry Festival this year then leaves for Mexico, where a bilingual book, Verde Vida (This Green Life, Pregunta Editions) will be presented at some festivals. Her book of translations will be published in the fall by Adelaide Books in New York. Website: http://www.lyncoffin.com
Thomas Brush is an award winning poet whose work is found in Books: Last Night (Lynz Press 2011) Even Money (Seapen Press, 1988), Opening Night . (Owl Creek Press, 1981) and in the Journals: Fine Madness, Indiana Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry Review. His book “Last Night” won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize in 2011/
Seattle, WA 98115
COVER PHOTO by Gwyn Henry
