The Poetry Box LIVE – NOVEMBER Edition!
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)
3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)
Featuring:
- Laura Ann Reed (WA) – author of Homage to Kafka
- Patricia Cannon (CA) – author of Wild Heart
- Rick Rayburn (CA) – author of Pink Tercets
- Celeste Colasurdo (for Christine) (OR) – author of There Is Always a Volcano Before You
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About the Featured Poets:
Laura Ann Reed was born in Berkeley, California, earned her B.A. from The University of California, Berkeley which included a year at l’Université Aix-Marseille in France, and lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area before relocating to the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Grant Reed, in 2004. She earned a master’s degree in the performing arts and taught dance at the University of California before earning a master’s degree in clinical psychology. Her work has been published in seven anthologies, including Poetry of Presence Volume II and has appeared in a large number of journals in the United States, Great Britain and Ireland. Homage to Kafka is her second chapbook. She is a contributing editor with the Montréal Review. Learn more at: lauraannreed.net
You can learn more about Laura Ann’s book HERE
Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. Throughout her career, she has gained experience in various areas, including cardiac critical care, neurointensive care, hematology-oncology, and school nursing. Currently, she is focused on research. Outside of her professional life, Patricia is passionate about her faith, photography, and the written word in all its forms.
You can learn more about Patricia’s book HERE
Rick Rayburn has lived most of his life in California, starting in the Los Angeles basin, then moving to Humboldt Bay, before settling in Sacramento. A fourth generation Angelino, Rayburn grew up in Altadena, and went to UCLA in the 1960s, where he met his future wife, Marianne. After two years in the Air Force in Tucson, he worked at the Coastal Commission as a redwood ecologist in Arcata, where he and Marianne had three children. After fifteen years on the North Coast, Rayburn move his family to Sacramento, turning his focus to land preservation as the Natural Resource Manager at California State Parks. For many years he helped direct the Board of Governors of Center for Natural Lands Management and Chaired Big Sur’s Santa Lucia Conservancy. Upon retiring, he began writing, becoming active in the Sacramento literary community. He has published two poetry books, Under the Overstory (2020) and Slack Tide (2023), poems in eight journals, and a Van Gogh royal crown sonnet.
You can learn more about Rick’s book HERE
Christine Colasurdo lived at Spirit Lake before the eruption at Mt. St. Helens. She is the author of Return to Spirit: Life and Landscape at Mount St. Helens, The Golden Gate Parks: a photographic journey, and poetry chapbooks Rain and Cascade Manifesto. She taught writing and calligraphy at Multnomah Art Center in Portland, Oregon. She was a founding member of The Mt. St. Helens Institute. Her poems have appeared in Terrain.org, Windfall, OnEarth, Verseweavers, Medical Literary Messenger, The University of Portland Magazine and Denver Quarterly Review among others. Christine was also a visual artist and calligrapher. She died in 2021 at the age of 59. See more of her work at christinecolasurdo.com.
You can learn more about Christine’s book HERE
