Sharon Carter

December 29, 2022

Originally from the U.K., Sharon M. Carter retired from a career in healthcare. A fortunate recipient of a Hedgebrook residency, her poems have been published online and in many journals, including Pontoon, Raven Chronicles, Wild Roof Journal, Quartet, and One Art. Her book Quiver was published by Tebot Bach in 2002. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni […]

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Stephen Thomas

December 29, 2022

Stephen Thomas was born and raised in Auburn, Washington. He studied at St. Edward’s Seminary, Marquette University, Cornell and the University of Washington. He has worked in a wide variety of trades: farming, road work, carpentry, restaurants, advertising, and most recently teaching. His Cabaret Hegel was, briefly, a hotbed of performance art in the mid-’80s. […]

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Clemens Starck

December 29, 2022

Clemens Starck sailed off the West Coast as a merchant seaman in the late ’60s. He has worked at many jobs, but mostly as a carpenter and construction foreman in San Francisco, British Columbia, and in Oregon where he lives now. His first book of poems, Journeyman’s Wages, received the 1996 Oregon Book Award as […]

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James Reed

December 29, 2022

James Reed is a poet living in Seattle with a long standing involvement in the arts beginning as a teacher and performer on classic guitar. For the last many years he has worked in the design field doing residential architecture and designing and fabricating contemporary furniture emphasizing the use of mixed materials. In addition to […]

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Roberta Olson

December 29, 2022

Roberta Olson is the author of the chapbook All These Fair and Flagrant Things, published by etherdome press in Oakland, CA. Her poetry has also appeared in numerous publications including Talisman, Untitled, Facture, Bird Dog, and Monkey Puzzle. Her work has been anthologized in Cross Cut Anthology and Steaming Light, a Raven Chronicles supplementary issue. […]

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John Olson

December 29, 2022

John Olson is the author of Free Stream Velocity (2003), a collection of prose poems, and Echo Regime (2000) a collection of poetry, both from Black Square Editions; Eggs & Mirrors (1999), a chapbook of vignettes & prose poems published by local printer Paul Hunter at Woodworks Press; and Logo Lagoon (1999), a collection of […]

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Martin Marriott

December 29, 2022

Martin Marriott is a surrealist who votes for the unconscious, the unreal, the unfettered human imagination, the release of energy. Martin says, “I believe in Truth and Beauty and Love. I believe that we are capable of overthrowing capitalism.” 2004 Writers Program

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Ezra Mark

December 29, 2022

Ezra Mark is a signifying practice, as specific yet as general as the words “alone” and “bread.” He is a dedicated walker and is given to negotiating the field of language in a similar manner. A co-founder of the Subtext Reading Series, he is the author of Intention, Narthex, and Two. 2004 Writers Program

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Michael Kloss

December 29, 2022

Michael Kloss is a twenty-three year old part time college student of philosophy, classic art, literature and the Simpsons; he finds himself the most unlikely character to be found with pen and pad on the Board of Red Sky Poetry Theatre. He would write even if no one paid attention but loves that people do […]

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Donald Kentop

December 29, 2022

Don Kentop was born and raised in New York City, graduated from New York University and has a Masters Degree in the teaching of history from Columbia University. Don has returned to writing poetry after many years in business and as a certified chemical dependency counselor. Once a lyricist, and still a member of ASCAP, […]

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