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#440 with Laura E. Garrard, Sandra Yannone, Carolyne Wright & Erica Miner. Three minute open mic opportunities as time allows. Pushcart Prize nominee Laura E. Garrard is a CranioSacral Therapist on the Olympic Peninsula. Her poetry has appeared in journals like Bellevue Literary Review (Finalist), Pangyrus, Amethyst Review, The Madrona Project, The Journal of Expressive Writing, Silver Birch, Tidepools, and TulipTree Review (Merit Prize). Her chapbook, Paddling the Sweet Spot Between Life and Death,
was published by Finishing Line Press. She writes a cancer poetry series, Poetry That Fits, on Penn Medicine’s OncoLink.org and holds a master’s in journalism with literary and women’s
studies focuses. She worked for Country Music Foundation Press/Vanderbilt University Press, Thomas Nelson, and Rutledge Hill. LauraEGarrard.com
Sandy Yannone (she/they)
Poet Laureate of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA
The Glass Studio & Boats for Women (Salmon Poetry, 2024 & 2019) Fire at the Big Top forthcoming nowQ June, 2026 host of Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, Sundays via Zoom
co-host of West-East Bicoastal Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond, co-host of Olympia Poetry Network's Last Tuesdays with Sandy & Thomas, co-editor, Unsinkable: Poems Inspired by the Titanic, launching spring 2026, series editor, A.V. Christie Chapbook Series, Seven Kitchens Press, Poetry by the Sea, Advisory Committee, 2025-26. www.sandrayannone.com
Carolyne Wright. Carolyne Wright's most recent books are Masquerade: A Memoir in Poetry (Lost Horse Press, 2021) and This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse, 2017), whose title poem received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in The Best American Poetry. A Contributing Editor for the Pushcart Prizes, Carolyne has published 16 earlier books and anthologies of poetry, essays, and poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali. Forthcoming in the University of Michigan’s Poets on Poetry Series is a volume of essays and interviews, Trajectories: Crossing the Map of Poetry, in which Carolyne maps her poetic trajectory in the crossing of boundaries—cultural and linguistic as well as national—to understand and communicate with individuals, cultures and languages on their own terms.
Erica Miner is Former Metropolitan Opera Violinist
Award winning Author, Screenwriter, Lecturer, Journalist
Author of the Julia Kogan Opera Mystery series
Member: Mystery Writers of America
Music Critics Association of N. America
Sisters in Crime
https://www.ericaminer.com
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Ballard Branch of The Seattle Public Library, 5614 22nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107-3119, United States
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