Duvall Poetry is a monthly reading series launched by Katherine Bond in 2004. In 2011, thanks to the Duvall Cultural Commission (DCC), honorariums became available to featured readers. Duvall Poetry is now a program of the Duvall Cultural Commission.
Readings occur on the first Tuesday of the month. For current location, see Venue. Come to hear the featured reader and to say your piece out loud to an attentive and friendly audience.
Readings occur on the first Tuesday of the month. For current location, see Venue. Come to hear the featured reader and to say your piece out loud to an attentive and friendly audience.
Organizing Crew
We co-curate featured readers, emcee the events, and bring snacks.
JEREMY ROBKIN has dabbled in a variety of artistic pursuits over his 57 years on the planet. In music, he favors playing the vibes, in painting, watercolor, in theater, improv. With the written word, he favors poetry. He occasionally commits poetry to paper, but his first love is walking the tightrope of extemporaneous free verse. An experienced improvisational actor, he fuses his love of improv and poetry to create poems on the fly based on a single word provided by the audience. His listeners take a journey of unexpected connections and contrasts, celebrating the magic in little things, frivolous themes and precious moments. Whether the poem is remembered or forgotten, there is joy in knowing it lived once, it was heard, and it moved through us on its way to somewhere else.
PAMELA DENCHFIELD has publicized readings for Duvall Poetry since 2011 (attending since 2006). She enjoys listening to featured readers, participating in open mic, and emceeing on occasion. Knowing the importance of safe places for reading new writing, she supports gatherings that encourage new writers to express themselves. In her day job Pamela separates fiction from reality in software. She lives with her husband Chris in Duvall.
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MARY ELIZA CRANE is a long time Duvall resident, and has been a part of Duvall Poetry since its inception in 2004. A regular feature at poetry venues throughout the Puget sound region, she has read her poetry from Woodstock to LA, and with Siberian poets in Novosibirsk, Russia. Mary’s poetry collection Last Call of the Dark was published in 2024 by Cirque Press, and she has two previous collections published by Gazoobi Tales. Her work has appeared in many regional journals and anthologies, translated into Russian, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
PETER MESSINGER is a New Englander, happily transplanted to the Northwest. After graduating from MIT, he served in the Peace Corps Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) and attended graduate school in Vermont to become an ESL and French Language teacher. He retired in 2020 after 30 years teaching at the University of Washington. His poetry springs up unexpectedly and is often given as a gift to friends. He has published several individual poems and is working these days on a collection entitled "COVID Lines." He is married and has two grown children and two growing grandsons. He is a true internationalist and fly fisherman.
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