Category: Poetry Readings at Washington State Libraries

Easy Link 4 Poets & Poetry in the PNW @ Green Lake Public Library with PoetsWest 2019

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New Schedule for PoetsWest Green Lake Public Library Reading, Seattle

  • Art Gomez, Poet
  • Super Man
  • Kendra Steel featuring 2019
  • Tara Hardy coming in 2019
  • There’s always an Open Mic at Green Lake Library 2nd Sat. of Every Month
  • Washington State Poet read October 2018
  • Claudia Castro Luna
  •  African American Poets & Writers Alliance..   PoetsWest Supports the AAPWA
  • PoetsWest Founders J.G. and Barbara Evans
  • Nancy Dahlberg
  • Rayn is very much into food!
  • Rayn Roberts PoetsWest Host for Green Lake Library

Poets Colin Corpe & Glenna Cooke Green Lake Library Saturday July 14 4-5:30 pm Presented by PoetsWest!

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Green Lake Branch
Seattle Public Library
7364 E Greenlake Dr. N.    4-5:30 pm

Free: Come early to sign up for the Open Mic
Host: Rayn Roberts

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Glenna Cooke

Colin Corpe will SODv1read new work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenna Cooke’s new book is “Thresholds”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Guest Melanie Reed with a new book…

 

 

 

 

 

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The Scrapbook of Dreams

 

PoetsWest @ Green Lake Public Library, Seattle May 12th 2018. 4 – 5:30pm

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Where Green Lake Branch
Room Location Mary Alice Cooley Meeting Room
Audience Adults
Language English
Summary PoetsWest Poetry Reading:  4 – 5:30 pm Second Saturday of each month. Open mic always included.
Description On Saturday, May 12th 2018 featuring  David Horowitz—Jayne Marek
Notes Library events and programs are free and everyone is welcome. Registration is not required.
Contact Info Green Lake Branch 206-684-7547 or Ask a Librarian
Room Capacity Space is limited at library events. Please come early to make sure you get a seat. Due to the fire code, we can’t exceed the maximum capacity for our rooms.

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Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library

7364 E. Green Lake Dr. N., Seattle, WA 98115

206-684-7547

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African American Writers Alliance Readings: Seattle Washington 2018

by Rayn Roberts, posted in African American Writers Association, Art Gomez, Books, Library Poetry Readings in Washington State, Open Mic Poetry Readings, Open Mic!, poetry, Poetry Readings, Poetry Readings at Washington State Libraries, PoetsWest, politics, Rayn Roberts, Resist!, Seattle, Tomas Gayton

 

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Readings Worth Witnessing by the African American’s Writers Alliance Seattle, Washington 2018.                                               (Click Above)

 

  1. Sunday, June 10th Columbia City Library 2:00 p. m.
    4864 Rainier Avenue South
    “Getting Close and Personal with Kibibi Monie”
    Open Mic
  2. ​Monday   June 11th 7:00 p. m. Third Place Books
    5041 Wilson Avenue S 98118
    Open Mic
  3. Friday     June 15th 7:00 p. m.
    Humble Vine Wine Gifts
    824 SW 152nd St. Burien, WA 98166
    Open Mic 
  4. Sunday     July 8th Columbia City Library 2:00 p. m.
    4864 Rainier Avenue South
    Open Mic
  5. Monday, July 9th Third Place Books 7:00 p. m.
    5041 Wilson Avenue S 98118
    Open Mic
  6. Friday July 20th Humble Vine Wine Gifts 7:00 p. m.
  7. Open Mic 
    NO READING AT COLUMBIA CITY LIBRARY IN AUGUST
  8. Monday, August 13th Third Place Books 7:00 p. m.
    Open Mic
  9. Friday August 17th Humble Vine Wine Gifts 7:00 p. m.
    Open Mic

MORE COMING UP. Posting those when I know.

Get the latest AAWA Anthology–Voices That Matter, at most any reading . $15.00.

African American’s Writers Alliance

 

New Schedule for PoetsWest Green Lake Public Library Reading, Seattle

Featured by Rayn Roberts, posted in Green Lake, Library Poetry Readings in Washington State, Poetry Readings, Poetry Readings at Washington State Libraries, Poets & Writers, PoetsWest, Rayn Roberts

The 2018 readings were awesome with  Sierra Golden & Shankar Narayan starting off the year.  Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate, read in October and many of the new features amazed us with fine work.  Poets Chris Buckley, who has been a regular at the reading will feature with Lola Peters from the AAWA.  Chris has a new book out.  Chad Sokolovsky (new book), Tara Hardy (new book), Ben Schmitt (new book), Bill Carty will all be featured and Sierra Golden, with her new book, will return!  In July, two San Diego poets, Jimmy Jazz and Micheal Klam will travel to Seattle to delight and enlighten us!  These two are not to be missed.  They will be something new for Seattle. 

All the featured poets for 2019 are excellent, exciting and entertaining.  There is always and open mic.  If you are interested in a feature, please send samples of your poetry, mention where you’ve read and if you have books in print:  Inquire via email @  raynroberts66@gmail.com or J. Glenn Evans @ https://www.poetswest.com/contact.php 

Here’s the latest featured Poets coming to Green Lake.

All Readings start at 4pm and run until 5:30pm.  Get there early for a good seat! 

Happy New Year 2019!

Sat Jan 12, 2019—Chris Buckley—Lola Peters

Sat Feb 09, 2019—Tara Hardy—Kendra Steel 

Sat Mar 09, 2019—Mike Hickey—Bethany Reid

Sat Apr 13, 2019—Cathy Ross—Chad Sokolovsky

Sat May 11, 2019—Melanie Reed— Benjamin Schmitt

Sat Jun 08, 2019—David Post—Terry Busch

Sat Jul 13, 2019—- Jimmy Jazz & Michael Klam

Sat Aug 10, 2019—Sierra Golden  &  Gaylloyd Sisson

Sat Sep 14, 2019—Cat Kigerl & Joe Greer 

Sat Oct 2019 12th — David Horowitz &  Francine Wall

Sat Nov 9, 2019 — All PONGO Poetry (Supporting At Risk Youth & Allies)

Sat Dec 11, 2019  —  Bill Carty —  Michael Magee

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Green Lake is wonderful especially in Spring!

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April is National Poetry Month: Hear Francine Walls & Griffith H. Williams @ Green Lake Public Library, Seattle.

by Rayn Roberts, posted in Books, Green Lake, Library Poetry Readings in Washington State, Open Mic Poetry Readings, Open Mic!, poetry, Poetry Readings, Poetry Readings at Washington State Libraries, Poets & Writers, PoetsWest, Rayn Roberts, Seattle, Spring

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Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library
7364 E Greenlake Dr. N,
Seattle, WA 98115
04/14/2018
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Francine Walls: enjoys traveling & living in places as diverse as Wales & Botswana.  Her poems appear in Pontoon, Ekphrasis, damselfly press, Avocet, Strange Poetry among others, the writing text, Writing Across Cultures, & the anthology, Peace Poets (Volume 2).

cropped-7283845_orig.jpgGriffith H. Williams: Within his one-man shop, East Point West Press, Williams uses an antique letterpress and linoleum block carvings to produce limited run chapbooks of original poetry. Freedom of the press being his, he has brought out twenty-five books in as many years. A recent volume is Philosophers’ Bones, a dialogue between the bones of Voltaire and Rousseau, and his latest book is his first book-length prose work, Cosmic Conjugation, akin to an adult version of Bullfinch’s Mythology. His newest volume is Achaean Songs. From these pages spring poems of Spartan warriors, Sappho, Socrates.

cropped-7283845_orig.jpg   Hosted by Rayn Roberts for PoetsWest.  There is always an Open Mic at this reading which is very quiet, well lit, the perfect venue for poetry. 

 

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“Spring arrives to help the Ancient Mother write her best poetry.” 
Rayn Roberts

PoetsWest presents Claudia Castro Luna, Green Lake Library, Seattle.

by Rayn Roberts, posted in Claudia Castro Luna, Open Mic Poetry Readings, Poetry Readings at Washington State Libraries, Poets & Writers, PoetsWest, Rayn Roberts, Washington State Poet Laureate

Green Lake Public Library
7364 East Green Lake Dr N, Seattle, WA 98115. 
13 Oct 2018, 4pm – 5:30pm.
Free – Open Mic included.

Claudia Castro Luna served as Seattle’s Civic Poet, from 2015-2017. She is the author of Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press) and This City, (Floating Bridge Press), a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna, a 2014 Jack Straw fellow, the recipient of a King County 4Culture grant and an individual artist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. She has an MA in Urban Planning, a teaching certificate and an MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, La Bloga, City Arts and Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art, among others. Her non-fiction work can be read in the anthologies, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the US, Northwestern University Press; Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Narrative, Kalina Eds; and in This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home, Seal Press. Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children. Since 2009, Claudia maintains Cipota bajo la Luna, a blog with reflections, writing and reviews.   Host Rayn Roberts for PoetsWest

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