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At Everett Poetry Night, We Trust Our Words.We Trust Our Audience to be Mature and Open-Minded Enough to Embrace the wide Range of Topics Shared.
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The Sister's Restaurant
2804 Grand Ave.
Everett, WA 98201
Located in
The Everett Public Market
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FREE // Support the venue and featured poet if you can.
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5:00 - 5:30 Arrive/order/mingle/edit.
5:30 p.m. Sign Up
5:45 p.m. The first poet brings the mic to life
7:15 p.m. Feature: Laura E. Garrard
7:45 pm. Purchase books/Chat with featured poet.
8:00 p.m. Good Night / Thank you for attending.
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Laura E. Garrard is a poet and artist living in Port Angeles, Washington. She is also a CranioSacral Therapist, an outdoors recreationist, and a citizen scientist. She grew up in an adventurous family that left the South, lived on the East Coast, and then the West. They explored beloved National Parks on vacation. Garrard’s father told his two daughters tent-time stories based on the histories of these places. On these trips, Garrard wrote nature poetry. Her first poems were published in children’s anthologies and in a local California newspaper.
In college, Garrard studied advertising and public relations (Texas Christian) and news-editorial journalism (University of Tennessee). Her master’s project utilized in-depth interviews with two women, one white and one Black, who were the first in their families to earn college degrees in 1960s South. She reported as an intern for a newspaper in Knoxville before moving to Nashville, where she pursued employment in publishing. Garrard became assistant editor for a collaborative imprint between Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, and managed an encyclopedia project published by Oxford University. She served as assistant editor, production manager, and a writer for The Journal of Country Music. For over ten years, Garrard worked as an independent proofreader for Rutledge Hill Press and Thomas Nelson Books.
Adventure called her West again, this time to Jackson, Wyoming. There she opened her own complimentary health practice and focused on time outdoors, writing, and painting. In addition to showing art, she contributed poetry and prose to local publications. During the pandemic, her bodywork practice was temporarily shut down. As she reopened it, Garrard sought aid for hip discomfort and received a jolting blood cancer diagnosis, a plasmacytoma. This eventually progressed into multiple myeloma. Her husband accepted a job on the Olympic Peninsula, and they moved to new mountains. Garrard found supportive writing groups, through which she developed her poetry, now published nationally and internationally.
Her health has been well-managed, yet her radiated hip has limited her mobility. Garrard has spoken against ableism and discrimination toward cancer patients through her poetry. Still, much of her work is inspired by Nature. Her first book, Paddling the Sweet Spot Between Life and Death, will be published by Finishing Line Press in late March 2026 with presales beginning on November 24, 2025.
Her poem, “Homage to My Radiated Hip,” was selected as a finalist in Bellevue Literary Review’s poetry prize, and “Hugging Alder” was awarded a Merit Prize and Pushcart Prize nomination by TulipTree Review. You may also read her work in The Madrona Project, Amethyst Review, Silver Birch, and her series “Poetry That Fits” on Penn Medicine’s OncoLink.org. Plus, Garrard writes a blog incorporating her poetry, art and nature photography: PoetryinTime.com.
Laura E. Garrard – Author & Artist
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Your host will be:
Duane Kirby Jensen
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We pass the Bag of Giving during the feature.
All monies gathered go to the feature.
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The Sisters Restaurant, 2804 Grand Ave,Everett,WA,United States
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