Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs, published by Stockport Flats in 2013. Her poems have appeared in Weekday, LVNG, La Norda Especialo, and THE ARCADIA PROJECT. She’s also written poems for short films and installations, and co-curated APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series, with musician Gust Burns and dancers Michèle Steinwald and […]
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Peter Pereira is a family physician in South Seattle, and a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Nation, Poetry East, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Springs, and Seattle Review. He won a 1997 “Discovery”/The Nation award, and was a finalist in the 1998 National Poetry Series. […]
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Eric G. Parsons is a poet and writer of fiction. His poetry has appeared in Shots and Arnazella. He is the founder of a poetry group for Black men called I Am The Darker Brother. Collaborating with photographer Anne Keeney, Parsons co-created Black Voices: speaking—images and words of the lives of Blackpeople. The exhibit has […]
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Mercedes Lawry’s most recent book is Vestiges from Kelsay Books. She’s published three chapbooks and poems in journals such as Nimrod and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her book Small Measures is forthcoming from ELJ Editions, Ltd. in 2024. She’s also published short fiction and stories and poems for children. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series: “I […]
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Ann Hursey’s first poem, Wetland, rode the bus in 1997. Today, as a Writing the Land poet, she speaks for oak prairies, salt marshes, and riparian restoration. Her poems celebrate the resilience of our planet’s diversity during climate change. Her work appears online and in print journals as well as anthologies. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni […]
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Poet, performer, educator, literary activist. MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. In 1996, co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB), a non-profit literary arts center in Auburn, WA and acted as Executive Director until Fall of 1998. Currently Executive Director of Eleventh Hour Productions, non-profit producer of literary […]
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Mary Lou Sanelli has published seven collections of poetry and three works of non-fiction, Among Friends, Falling Awake, and A Woman Writing. The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs (Chatwin Books) is her first novel. Her newest collection of essays, Every Little Thing, has been nominated for a PNBA: Pacific Northwest Book Award and […]
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Craig Williams is a writer, performer, and choreographer. He has been writing his entire life, beginning with poetry while still in elementary school on the South Side of Chicago. In college he studied English Literature, where he came to believe that story is very important. 2002 Writers Program
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Peggy Sturdivant writes short fiction and poetry. She has been the featured writer at the New Voices reading of the After Long Silence series. Over the last two years she has been involved in an oral history project interviewing first generation immigrants and now collected in Voices of Ballard. She is a member of an […]
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John Sangster is a native of Seattle, now living on Lopez Island. His poems have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies. “I write to find out what’s inside. The trigger can be anything – an observation, something I overhear, a question that comes to mind. When it works, I’m sometimes startled by what appears […]
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