Presents
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2nd Wed's
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Monthly Poetry Reading
ROCKiT Community Arts sponsors Beacon Bards, a monthly poetry reading series in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. Readings will begin at 7 pm at The Station Coffee Shop, a café located at 2533 16th Avenue South, between Bayview and Lander Streets. There is no cover charge, so please enjoy a latte or a glass of wine to support our generous hosts! Subsequent readings will take place each month, the second Wednesday at 7 pm. Each reading will feature two poets, followed by an open mic. For further information, contact Martha Silano, Beacon Bards Poetry Reading Series curator, at marthasilanoATyahoo.com
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...and of course you!
Read your own or bring a favorite poets work to share at the open mic |
June 13 - Caleb Barber & Kelly DavioCaleb Barber earned a BA from Western Washington University in English/Creative
Writing, and received an MFA in poetry from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, based off of Whidbey Island. He currently lives in Bellingham, WA, where he works at an aerospace machine shop. His poems have been most recently published in Rattle, Portland Review, Los Angeles Review, Makeout Creek, and New Orleans Review, as well as a feature in Poet Lore. His first book, Beasts and Violins, is available from Red Hen Press. The title poem appeared in Best American Poetry 2009. Kelly Davio is Managing Editor of The Los Angeles Review, Associate Editor of Fifth Wednesday Journal, and a reviewer forWomen’s Review of Books. Her work has been honored in Best New Poets, and she has published poems in journals including Gargoyle, The Cincinnati Review, Bellingham Review, Pank, and others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, Whidbey Writers’ Workshop, and teaches English as a second language in the Seattle area. |
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July 10 - Anthony Warnke & Deborah Woodard
Anthony Warnke’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sentence: A Journal
of Prose Poetics, The Prose Poem Project, DMQ Review, and Hoarse. He has taught
composition and literature at Seattle University and currently teaches composition
and creative writing at Green River Community College. With Jeanne Morel, he co-
founded the Columbia City Writing Circle, which meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at
Empire Espresso.
Deborah Woodard’s first full-length collection of poetry is Plato’s Bad Horse
(Bear Star Press, 2006). Her second collection, Borrowed Tales, was published
by Stockport Flats in 2012. In collaboration with Giuseppe Leporace, she has
translated the poetry of Amelia Rosselli: The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems, 1953-
1981 (Chelsea Editions, 2009). She is currently working on a translation of Rosselli’s
Diario Ottuso (Obtuse Diary). Deborah teaches at the Richard Hugo House in Capitol
Hill, where she will be offering a class on writing alongside Emily Dickinson in the
fall. Learn more at http://www.deborahwoodard.com.
of Prose Poetics, The Prose Poem Project, DMQ Review, and Hoarse. He has taught
composition and literature at Seattle University and currently teaches composition
and creative writing at Green River Community College. With Jeanne Morel, he co-
founded the Columbia City Writing Circle, which meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at
Empire Espresso.
Deborah Woodard’s first full-length collection of poetry is Plato’s Bad Horse
(Bear Star Press, 2006). Her second collection, Borrowed Tales, was published
by Stockport Flats in 2012. In collaboration with Giuseppe Leporace, she has
translated the poetry of Amelia Rosselli: The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems, 1953-
1981 (Chelsea Editions, 2009). She is currently working on a translation of Rosselli’s
Diario Ottuso (Obtuse Diary). Deborah teaches at the Richard Hugo House in Capitol
Hill, where she will be offering a class on writing alongside Emily Dickinson in the
fall. Learn more at http://www.deborahwoodard.com.
The first ever Beacon Bards at The Station coffee house on Beacon Hill in Seattle. (thanks to the Station for the photo)
Archives
Past readers and such...
May 8Sierra Nelson’s lyrical choose-your-own-adventure I Take Back the Sponge Cake, made in collaboration with visual artist Loren Erdrich, debuted from Rose Metal Press in Spring 2012, and her chapbook “In Case of Loss” is part of the Toadlily Press Quartet Series (Fall 2012). Nelson is a MacDowell Colony fellow, a 2011 Hackney Literary Award winner, and co-founder of literary performance art groups The Typing Explosion and the Vis-à-Vis Society. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, City Arts Magazine, Crazyhorse, Thermos, DIAGRAM, Tin House, and Forklift Ohio, among others.
Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, "Grenade" (GreenTower Press), and her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, Cincinnati Review and others. She won the 2011 Southeast Review poetry contest. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Artist Trust of Washington State. She is the Director of Education Programs and the curator of the Poetry Series for Seattle Arts & Lectures teaches for the Creative Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington. |
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March 13th
Our esteemed readers will be Poets:
Molly Tenenbaum & Christine Deavel Molly Tenenbaum is the author of three poetry collections: The Cupboard Artist (Floating Bridge, 2012), Now (Bear Star Press, 2007), and By a Thread (Van West & Co, 2000). Her work appears in many journals, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry 1991, Black Warrior Review, Crab Creek Review, Cutbank, The Mississippi Review, New England Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, and others, and in webzines including Anti-, Fringe, and Snakeskin. Honors include a Hedgebrook residency and a 2009 Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship. She’s also a musician, playing Appalachian string band music; her CDs are Instead of a Pony and Goose & Gander. She lives in Seattle. Find her at http://www.mollytenenbaum.com January 2013 Readers
David D. Horowitz founded and manages Rose Alley Press. His most recent poetry collections, published by Rose Alley, are Sky Above the Temple; Stars Beyond the Battlesmoke; Wildfire, Candleflame; Resin from the Rain; and Streetlamp, Treetop, Star. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Lyric, Candelabrum, and The New Formalist, and his essays regularly appear online in Exterminating Angel. David has edited two Northwest poetry anthologies: Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range and Many Trails to the Summit. He frequently organizes and promotes poetry readings in the Puget Sound region and in 2005 received The PoetsWest Award for his contributions to Northwest literature and publishing. His website iswww.rosealleypress.com.
Joannie Stangeland’s book Into the Rumored Spring was published last fall by Ravenna Press. She’s also the author of two poetry chapbooks-- Weathered Steps and A Steady Longing for Flight. Joannie’s poems have appeared in Floating Bridge Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Fire On Her Tongue, and other publications. Joannie’s the poetry editor for the online journal The Smoking Poet and an associate poetry editor at Cascadia Review. |
Christine Deavel is co-owner of Seattle's Open Books: A Poem Emporium, one of three poetry-only bookstore's in the country. Her poetry collection Woodnote, published by Bear Star Press, received the 2012 Washington State Book Award.
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December 12, 7pm
Kary Wayson's poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Nation, Narrative, FIELD, Filter, The Best American Poetry 2007, and the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. Kary was a 2003 Discovery/The Nation award winner, and her chapbook, Dog & Me, was published in 2004 by LitRag Press. Her book, American Husband, won the Ohio State University Press/ The Journal Award in 2009. Kary lives and works in Seattle.
Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs, a book of poems forthcoming from Stockport Flats. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Weekday, The Arcadia Project and The Volta. She’s written poems for short films and installations, and was a co-curator of APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series. |
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November 14
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press, 2010), Winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Prize in Poetry and a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of Small Knots and the chapbook, Geography. Recently she co-edited the first eBook anthology of contemporary women’s poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Kelli is the editor of Seattle’s literary journal, Crab Creek Review and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. She lives in the Northwest where she is a mountain biker, stand-uppaddleboarder, and kayaker. She has recently completed her third book of poems, Hourglass Museum. Visit her at www.agodon.com or on her blog, Book of Kells at: www.ofkells.blogspot.com
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Annette Spaulding-Convy's collection In Broken Latin, published by the University of Arkansas Press (Fall 2012), is a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In The Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is co-editor of the literary journal, Crab Creek Review, and is co-founder and co-editor of Two Sylvias Press (with Kelli Russell Agodon), which has published the first eBook anthology of contemporary women's poetry, Fire On Her Tongue.
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Ronda Broach
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October 10, 7:00pm
Ronda Broach
is the author of Shedding Our Skins, (2008), and Some Other Eden, (2005). Nominated seven times for the Pushcart, recipient of a 2007 Artist Trust GAP Grant, finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Book Award, Ronda is currently Poetry Editor for the literary journal, Crab Creek Review. Ronda has received degrees in both Creative Writing and Photography from the University of Washington. When she isn't teaching Pilates, Silver Sneakers, or weight-training, she spends her time documenting the secret lives of flowers, preserving wildlife, and snapping poets and local rock bands in their natural habitats. |
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Allen Braden is the author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood (University of Georgia) and Elegy in the Passive Voice (University of Alaska/Fairbanks), winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. His poems are forthcoming in the North American Review, Conversations Across Borders and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. |
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...and of course you! Read your own or bring a favorite poets work to share at the open mic |
September 12th Readers
Laura Shoemaker lives in Columbia City with her husband and two children. Her current writing explores the intersection of poetry, creativity and motherhood. Laura has taught writing at the University of Washington and Richard Hugo House and her poems have appeared in FIELD, The Bellingham Review, and others. Her chapbook, For Want, was published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press.
Megan Snyder-Camp's first collection, The Forest of Sure Things (2010), won the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Award. She has been the recipient of grants and residencies from the 4Culture Foundation, Djerassi, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Espy Foundation, and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, and her work was recently featured on the PBS NewsHour.
Megan Snyder-Camp's first collection, The Forest of Sure Things (2010), won the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Award. She has been the recipient of grants and residencies from the 4Culture Foundation, Djerassi, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Espy Foundation, and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, and her work was recently featured on the PBS NewsHour.
