Reading #422: Auspicious Beginnings

Thu Dec 12 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Ballard Branch of The Seattle Public Library | Seattle

Reading #422: Auspicious Beginnings
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Reading #422 with David Post, Thomas A. Thomas & Caitlin M Andrews. Hosted by Julene T. Weaver. Three minute open mic opportunities night of the event.
David Post has been a featured reader in eleven Western Washington cities; has read in eleven others and has been a guest reader for over ten years at African American Writers Alliance venues. He was the last emcee for PoetsWest readings at Seattle’s Green Lake Library and currently hosts Tsuga Poetry Group in Bothell. He is a cofounder of Western Washington Poets Network and is an admin for its Facebook page.
Thomas A. Thomas is a poet & photographer who was born in Illinois, but has gratefully made his home in the Pacific Northwest for more than 43 years. His newest poetrycollection, “My Heart Is Not Asleep” from MoonPath Press is a sort of memoir in poems,following the journey of falling in love with, then finding resilience while losing his beloved through the slow course of many years. His poetry, photographs and videos appear online and in print, most recently in Verse Daily and MacQueen’s Quinterly, as well as the Tupelo 30/30 Project. His work may also
be found in Gyroscope Review, Cirque Journal, Blue Heron Review, Vox Populi Sphere, TheBanyanReview.org & FemAsiaMagazine.com, as well as anthologies in English andSerbian and in translation to Spanish, Serbian, and Bengali.
Great thanks are made to Cultivating Voices Live Poetry, and to the University of Michigan, where Thomas had an auspicious beginning with Donald Hall and GregoryOrr.
Caitlin M Andrews (she/they) holds a fully-funded MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami. Her words can be found in Electric Literature, Short Édition, New Square, the Waterproof Anthology, The New Limestone Review, and elsewhere, and she’s received support from GrubStreet, Hugo House, and Sancho Panza Literary Society. FIREWEED IN THE VEIL, Caitlin’s novel-in-progress, is a braided queer historical adventure set during the Irish War for Independence. Her novel is a finalist for the Marianne Russo Award and was selected as a semi-finalist for a 2021 Fulbright Scholarship in Research to Ireland. She currently works at Hugo House and DigiPen Institute of Technology in Duwamish Territory (Seattle, Washington). When not writing, Caitlin is known to get lost in the woods, seek out a cozy bookshop or art museum, and listen to silly D&D podcasts. See them fangirling about hiking, Twilight memes, and the Irish language on the ‘Gram at edgarallenbro_.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ballard Branch of The Seattle Public Library, 5614 22nd Ave NW,Seattle,WA,United States

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