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The Poetry Box LIVE (Aug 13, 2022)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – August Edition!

Aug 13, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

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ABOUT THE POETS 

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Poet and artist Cathy Cain is the author of A Shape of Sky (2021) and Bee Dance (2019), both from The Poetry Box; and Empty Space Places You (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her honors include the Kay Snow Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry; the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry; and a First Place from the Oregon Poetry Association poetry contest. Cain’s poetry has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon, Reed Magazine, Verseweavers, VoiceCatcher, and in  /pãn| dé | mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems.

Cain taught in the public schools for over thirty years. She is the lucky wife of a sweet man, and the mother of two fine sons. She lives with her husband near Portland, Oregon.

You can order Cathy’s new book HERE

 

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Annette Gagliardi is a Minnesota writer, author most recently of Proper Poems for Ladies…and a few naughty ones, too! She is a contributor and co-editor of Upon Waking. 58 Voices Speaking Out from the Shadow of Abuse, 2019.  Annette has poetry published in Motherwell, Wisconsin Review, American Diversity Report, Origami Poems Project, Amethyst Review, Door IS A Jar, Trouble Among the Stars, Poetry Quarterly, Sylvia Magazine, and many other online and in-print magazines.  Find more of her work at https://annette-gagliardi.com.

You can order Annette’s book HERE

 

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Rachel Barton grew up in the woods of northern Indiana which has greatly influenced her poetry and provided her a sense of connection to the planet. She comes from a large family which has informed her sense of community. She was able to study literature and creative writing as an undergraduate (WVU), the visual arts as a graduate student (WVU and The VAC in Anchorage), and, much later, teaching for a master’s degree (WOU). She entered the Oregon Writing Project in 2009 and co-facilitated the OWP’s poetry intensive the following summer. She used this model of “writing within a community of writers” in the classroom, the community college, at regional conferences, and in private classes. Currently, she edits her own Willawaw Journal, an online journal for poetry and art. She also serves as associate editor for Calyx and Cloudbank magazines.

Barton’s poetry has been published in the Main Street Rag, Whale Road Review, Moon City Review, VoiceCatcher, Mom Egg Review, CIRQUE, Oregon English Journal, and in many other journals. She has published short stories in BeZine, Blue Cubicle Press, Kindred Journal, and Clackamas Literary Review. More at RachelBartonWriter.com

You can order Rachel’s new book HERE

 

The Great Word Regatta (July 16, 2022)

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The Great Word Regatta with Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Michael Schein, Annie Lighthart and Matthew Brouwer

Saturday, July 16th 7pm

Rose City Book Pub
1329 NE Fremont St.
Portland, OR 97212

Come hear four restive writers bring life to hallowed Portland pub space through their wily and resplendent words. Opened by the briefest of open mics and followed by the pouring of libations. No cover, but please support your venue that so kindly hosts poets and other weirdos at no charge. Vaccination required.

Michael Schein wrote Liquid Perishable Hazardous (2019) (poetry), John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away (2015) (historical), The Killer Poet’s Guide to Immortality by AB Bard (2012) (hysterical), historical novels Bones Beneath Our Feet (2011); Just Deceits (2005). Schein edited Poets UNiTE! The LiTFUSE Anthology (2015). His poetry appears in many journals and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. Schein is the founder of LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop (litfuse.us), & has taught at Port Townsend Writers Conference, Write on the Sound, and elsewhere. Spirits inhabit earth and sky. Poetry is everywhere. Write on! michaelschein.com.

Shawn Aveningo-Sanders grew up in Missouri and after a bit of globetrotting finally landed in Portland, Oregon. Her recent chapbook, What She Was Wearing, tells her #metoo story that took 30 years to reveal. Shawn’s work has appeared worldwide in over 160 literary journals and anthologies, including Calyx, Amsterdam Quarterly, American Journal of Poetry, Timberline Review, VoiceCatcher, and Poets Reading the News. She’s a Pushcart nominee, Best of the Net nominee, co-founder of The Poetry Box press, as well as managing editor for The Poeming Pigeon. Shawn is a proud mother of three and shares the creative life with her husband, Robert. (More at RedShoePoet.com and ThePoetryBox.com)

Annie Lighthart is an Oregon writer and teacher who began writing poetry after her first visit to an Oregon old-growth forest. Poems from her books Pax and Iron String have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and in various anthologies, including How to Love the World and Poetry of Presence. Annie’s work has been turned into music, used in healing and meditation projects in Ireland, England, and New Zealand, and has traveled farther than she has.

Blending music, poetry, wit and wisdom from his tangled poetic journey, Matthew Brouwer weaves together a unique and unforgettable poetry experience that has been charming audiences for over a decade. Bridging the worlds of spoken word and literary poetry, he has performed throughout the US and been featured in numerous literary, visual and performance arts showcases. He has a new chapbook The Gospel According to Matthew which you should purchase before it is buried forever by the sands of obscurity and time.

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (July 9, 2022)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – July Edition!

July 9, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

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ABOUT THE POETS 

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Joann Renee Boswell is a poet, photographer, teacher, director, mystic, and mother who lives in Camas, WA with her husband (a Quaker minister) and her three young children. You can call her Jo, Jojo, Jomama, or Smookles Renee. Joann received her Choose Your Own Adventure degree (B.A. in Interdisicplinary Studies with an emphasis in Theater, Music, and Writing/Literature) from George Fox University, and later returned to earn her Master of Arts in Teaching. Joann’s first book, Cosmic Pockets (Fernwood Press, 2020), is a full-length collection of poetry and photography. She’s been working on her second full-length collection in collaboration with two illustrators; it is forthcoming from Fernwood Press late in 2022.

Joann loves rainy days filled with coffee, contradictions, dystopian fiction, justice, hand holding, forest bathing, hope, and sci-fi shows. She was her high school mascot and spent a summer working at a lumber mill. Her superpower might be whimsy. Joann is the current poetry editor for Untold Volumes and edits with a team for VoiceCatcher. She has been widely published in places such as CIRQUE, otoliths, VoiceCatcher, The Poeming Pigeon, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Denial (Not a Pipe Publishing), and Our Church Too.

You can order Joann’s new book HERE

 

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Kristin Berger is the author of the poetry collections Refugia (Persian Pony Press, 2019), Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Aldrich Press, 2016), and For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and a collaborative poetry and print book, Woman & Changing Man: A High Desert Myth (Nightjar Press, 2022), with Eugene, Oregon printmaker Diane Sandall.

Recipient of residencies from Playa, OSU’s Spring Creek Project (Shotpouch and H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest), and Starkey Experimental Forest and Range, Kristin’s work is influenced by Oregon’s High Desert, Cascades, Coastal Range and all the Pacific Northwest’s wild and interconnected landscapes. Kristin lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family.

You can order Kristin’s book HERE

 

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Elaine Nussbaum lives in Scappoose, Oregon with her partner, David, three cats, five hens and a rooster named Echinacea. When she is not working as a substitute teacher at a juvenile detention facility, infusing poetry into the curriculum, she is writing in her cabin surrounded by 3 and 1/2 acres of second growth forest. Every fall, salmon spawn in the creek which runs through her front yard. In her spare time, Ms. Nussbaum enjoys cross-country skiing and sea kayaking. Currently, she and David are restoring a 37-foot sailboat, and plan to sail the inside passage to Alaska next summer.

Ms. Nussbaum holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University (2013), and a Certificate in Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Boulder University (1986). Her work has appeared in Poetry Seattle, Bombay Gin, The Sun, Spilt Infinitive, Louisiana Literature, Silk Road, Thimbleberry, Artists and Climate Change, Persimmon Tree, Headline Poetry and Press, and Terrain. A chapbook of her work, Poems in the Key of D Flat was published by Overwrought Press, in 1992, and a collection of her poetry, Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest was published by Finishing Line Press, in September 2019. She also has a poem appearing in Support Ukraine (anthology by Moonstone Press, 2022)

You can order Elaine’s new book HERE

 

Three Poets at Annie Bloom’s Books – June 20

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Annie Bloom’s to host Ann Farley, Beth Bonness, and Vivienne Popperl

Mon, June 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm

Annie Bloom’s Bookstore
7834 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97219
503-246-0053

(masks recommended)

 

Complete Details at:

https://www.annieblooms.com/event/store-poetry-reading-ann-farley-beth-bonness-vivienne-popperl

 

 

Update: Vivenne Popperl will be unable to participate in the reading.

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (June 11, 2022)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – June Edition!

June 11, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

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ABOUT THE POETS 

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Angela Hansen was born and raised in the farmland of northeast Nebraska. She spent her childhood immersed in family and everything outside: the grove of trees, the crooked bridge down by the creek, and the surrounding countryside. Angela attended country school through 8th grade, graduated from Wayne High School, and received a bachelor’s degree in English Writing from Wayne State College. Her dream of writing and illustrating children’s books was overcome with the practicality of working steady jobs, which over the years included librarian, assistant manager of a bookstore, baker at a college coffee shop, paraoptometric, paraprofessional at an elementary school, and presently, running her own business as a house painter.

Angela lived in St. Louis, MO, and LaGrange Park, IL, before moving back to Nebraska. She bought an acreage outside Carroll, where she lives with her three children, four goats, and a Ridgeback mix puppy. She enjoys baking, woodworking, gardening, creating, and finding just the right word. Her poetry has been published in Nebraska Life Magazine and shared at a few readings over the years.

Angela considers her faith in God the only reason she survived over 16 years of domestic violence and why she continues to heal, to find beauty in the world, and joy in her farmer and their kids.

You can order Angela’s new book HERE

 

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Christopher Bogart, author of 14: Anotolgia del Sonoran

Christopher Bogart is a working poet and writer who has earned an MA in Creative Writing, and is presently working on an MFA, at Monmouth University.

In 2015, Bogart was chosen as First Runner Up for Monmouth University’s inaugural Joyce Carol Oates Award for Excellence in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction. In 2017, he was chosen as one of two finalists for The Brian Turner Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2018, his chapbook about the Yuma 14, titled 14: Antología del Sonoran, was awarded third place in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize and was published in October of 2018 by The Poetry Box. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem, “Abraham Morales Hernandez.”

In April of 2020, The Poetry Box published his chapbook titled Breakpoint about America in the era of Donald Trump, and a full-length book of poetry in May about the plight of Central American migrants, titled The Eater of Dreams.

On August 1, 2005, he had presented a paper on the importance of poetry in the teaching of literature and writing to the Oxford Round Table at the Oxford Union Debate Hall at Oxford University.

He is presently working on his first novel, tentatively titled The Beast, about the plight of two Central American teenagers who flee poverty and crime in search of a better life in the United States.

You can order Christopher’s book HERE

 

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Anne Coray is the author of the novel Lost Mountain (West Margin Press) as well as three poetry collections—Bone Strings, A Measure’s Hush, and Violet Transparent. She is also the coauthor of Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment.

The recipient of fellowships from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation, she divides her time between her birthplace on remote Lake Clark (Qizhjeh Vena) and the coastal town of Homer, Alaska.

You can order Anne’s new book HERE

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (May 14, 2022)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – May Edition!

May 14, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

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ABOUT THE POETS 

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Tara L. Carnes is a musician, writer, teacher, and spiritual director. She has an MA from the University of North Texas and spent over thirty years working as a music educator and church musician.  In 2012, as part of her coursework for the Haden Institute (Niagara, Ontario) spiritual direction program, she began writing poetry.

She loves using the rhythms of words to embrace both the dark as well as the light in her work.

Besides tough issues such as domestic violence, she writes poetry about nature, spirituality, and motherhood and utilizes them in her spiritual direction practice. Brené Brown stated, “When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.”  Tara looks forward to many years of sharing her experiences, and “living a brave new ending“ through the music of poetry!

Tara’s poetry has appeared in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, SageWoman, Cholla Needles, The Poeming Pigeon, and The Very Edge Poems (Flying Ketchup Press). She lives in Texas with her daughter and their handsome, plush, tuxedo cat, Orion.

http://www.taralcarnes.com/poetry/

You can order Tara’s new book HERE

 

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Nathan Fryback was born in 1972 onto a small farm in the Rogue Valley outside Medford, Oregon. His parents were schoolteachers, his father also felled timber in the summers for extra money. By 1977 Nathan’s family had relocated 270 miles north, to Eugene, Oregon. Nathan developed an interest in creative writing around the age of 13, writing short stories and poetry. During high school he experimented with photography and acting but always found writing as a more reliable means of expressing himself.

At the age of 18, Nathan took a job as a bread baker in Eugene while attending college. That would be a fateful turn as he has dedicated himself to that profession ever since. Even though the world of academia held components of what interested him, he had developed a passion for the craft of artisan bread baking that had to be explored. Mastering the mechanics of grain fermentation had become the Golden Fleece. Nathan withdrew from college to find opportunities to hone his skill, working at several bakeries in Eugene, sometimes holding 2 jobs or moonlighting as a pastry chef.

Eventually moving to Portland, Oregon, in the mid-90s, he spent long stretches at some of the best bakeries on the west coast, where he works to this day, at a little bakery in Northwest Portland. Still very close with his family (his brother and parents all live nearby), he draws from all of them for his sense of self and outlook on life. All the while, writing, writing, writing… Along the way Nathan’s sons were born in 2000 (Beckett) and 2012 (Leroy). They are the fire in his heart. Nathan lives today in Beaverton, Oregon. with his wife Tina and son Leroy.

You can order Nathan’s book HERE

 

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John L. Miller’s poetry was featured at the Elisabeth Jones Art Center’s 2021 Festival of Feelings.  His poetry has also appeared in West Trade Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Wingless Dreamer, Wax Poetry and Art, Third Wednesday: A Literary & Arts Journal, Not a Pipe Publishing’s anthology Shout, River Heron Review, catheXis northwest press, The Esthetic Apostle, the 9Bridges anthology Over Land and Rising, and Glass Facets of Poetry.  His short fiction has appeared in Tethered by Letters.

John is a founder of Portland Ars Poetica, a literary poetry collective serving the U.S. Pacific Northwest and when virtual, anywhere. Portland Ars Poetica’s activities include generative workshops, a book club and performance events.  More information  can be found at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Ars-Poetica/.

John has lived in Portland, Oregon since 2012, where he started to write poetry after writing almost nothing in verse for 20 years. A writer from as far back in childhood as he can remember and has files on, John was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.  He wrote his first poem at fifteen, on the New York City subway, on a bookmark that he placed in a copy of Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory, which remains on his shelves.  He has a degree in English from Amherst College.

You can order John’s new book HERE

 

The Poetry Box LIVE for KIDS! (Apr 9, 2022)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – Special Edition for KIDS!

April 9, 2022 @ 2:00 PM (Pacific) / 5:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

 

Enjoy a Video from the Show Below:

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

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When Debbie Hall was a child, she dreamed of going on safari in Africa one day.  In the past ten years, she has done just that—three times in fact. She’s also photographed wild animals in many other countries in the world.  Poetry and photography are her twin creative passions. Both her writing and photography have won awards and publication in a variety of journals and magazines.  She is the author of two previous collections of poetry for adults, including her chapbook, Falling into the River (3rd place in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2019). In the Jaguar’s House is her first book of poetry for young people.  Debbie lives with her family in Escondido, California, near a lake where red-tailed hawks soar, and coyotes sing at night.

You can order Debbie’s new book HERE

And here’s a sneak peek from the pages of
In the Jaguar’s House:

 

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Pamela R. Anderson is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees (The Poetry Box); Widow Maker (Finishing Line Press), a chronicle of her husband’s cardiac arrests/recovery; and her book of poems for children, The Galloping Garbage Truck (Kelsay Books). Formerly a public radio fundraiser, Anderson hit the jackpot when she retired and began to channel her energies into hiking with her husband, practicing yoga, writing, and reading. She has never owned a red bathing suit.

 

You can order Pam’s book HERE

 

And here’s a little sneak peek of Pam reading “Buttons”

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (March 12, 2022)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – March Edition

March 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

March Featured Poets:

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ABOUT THE POETS 

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Vivienne Popperl lives in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Timberline Review, Cirque, Rain Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, and other publications. She won second place in the 2021 Kay Snow Award for Poetry by Willamette Writers. Her dream landscape is Provence, Southern France, but she considers the Pacific Northwest her home.

You can order Vivienne’s new book HERE

 

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Ann Farley, poet and caregiver, is happiest outdoors. She loves the beach, but she’s also enjoys an early morning walk in the park with her husband and dog. Her poems have appeared in Timberline Review, Willawaw Journal, Verseweavers, The Poeming Pigeon, KOSMOS Quarterly, RAIN Magazine, Gobshite Quarterly and others. Her poems have won first and third place in Oregon Poetry Association contests, and a third place Kay Snow Award for poetry. She lives in Beaverton, Oregon. 

You can order Ann’s new chapbook HERE

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Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is an adopted son of the City of New York. The son of a teacher and a poet, his work tells the story of the joys and tragedies of a citizen of two countries, willing to face life head on.

His poems have appeared in The Worcester Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Mason Street Review, The Red Wheelbarrow Review, The Banyan Review, First Literary Review-East, New Feathers Anthology, and Spirit Fire Review, among many others.

In addition to that, one of his poems received Honorable Mention by the International Human Rights Art Festival for the Creators Justice Awards 2020, while others have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology. He has also co-written a chapbook of poems in collaboration with Madalasa Mobili, titled Three Unknown Poets, which was published by Seranam Press.

If there’s a thread to his poems, is his lifelong intention to have poetry make the world a more hospitable place.

You can order Juan’s new chapbook HERE