Charles Potts was the driving force underneath The Temple Bookstore, The Temple magazine, and The Temple School of Poetry. He received the Distinguished Professional Achievement Award in 1994 from the Alumni Association and the College of Arts and Sciences of Idaho State University. He founded Litmus Inc. in Seattle and Berkeley which published 18 first […]
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Marika Pineda was born in the South but was raised in Oregon, with stints in San Diego, Hawaii, and rural Maryland. After traveling to Tennessee (with banjo) to get reacquainted with her father at the age of 22, she returned to Portland and began studies at community college, going on to earn a B.A. in […]
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Frances McCue, an award-winning poet, inspiring speaker and self-described literary activist has become a local arts personality in the Northwest and national leader in the promotion of literature and creative writing since she co-founded Richard Hugo House in 1997. Under her leadership, Hugo House has become the literary heart of Seattle, bringing over 15,000 people […]
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Jourdan Imani Keith, a student of Sonia Sanchez, is a poet, naturalist, educator, and storyteller. Her work blends the textures of political, personal and natural landscapes to offer voices from the margins of American lives. She is the 2007 Poet Populist of Seattle. She received a grant from the City of Seattle Mayor’s Office of […]
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Marty Campbell started in Oakland, grew in the midwest, primarily Chicago area, Evanston. Out of college stopped growing in Indianapolis for his two-year stint as Conscientious Objector doing Alternative Service during the Vietnam War. Working in the research wing of IU Med Center putting dogs to sleep instead of people, a hard choice. He eventually […]
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Molly Tenenbaum is the author of five books of poems, including The Arborists (MoonPath, 2023); Mytheria (Two Sylvias, 2017); and The Cupboard Artist (Floating Bridge, 2012). Her first chapbook, Blue Willow, was published by Floating Bridge in 1998. Besides writing poetry, she likes drawing, gardening and playing the banjo. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series: The Arborists […]
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Susan Casey is a poet and college instructor in Seattle. Her poems have appeared in local, regional, and national journals, including Many Mountains Moving, Crab Creek Review, StringTown and Bayou, as well as on Seattle’s buses. She has presented her poetry at the 2002 Washington Poets Association Conference and the 2004 Washington Technical and Community […]
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Larry Laurence was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a Navy family and grew up believing normal life meant pulling up roots and moving every two years. He began writing in his twenties, earning an M.A., English, studying poetry under Philip Levine and Peter Everwine. He worked 12 years as a construction laborer and warehouse worker […]
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Pamela Moore Dionne has published award-winning poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction in a number of publications, including Shenandoah, Pontoon, Snow Monkey, Vox Populi, Avatar Review, Author Magazine, and others. She founded the online art & literature journal Literary Salt, and served as its managing director. In 1998, Pam was awarded a Centrum residency and an […]
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Through poetry, artist books, installations, and mixed media, Carletta Carrington Wilson discovers answers to questions she did not know to ask. This artist finds each artistic endeavor to be an act of excavation and a revelation. Her work is described as “decorative with a message.” Her poems continue to appear in local and national publications. […]
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