Oct. 2, 2024: Tony Beeman
Tony Beeman is a Seattle-based writer and performer who has been published in the Sycamore Review, the Oak Leaf, and even a few non-tree based publications. He is Assistant Artistic Director at Unexpected Productions in Pike Place Market, where he has directed, produced and performed several poetry-based shows including Thirteen Ways and This Is For You (co-directed with Audrey Kohler). He minored in poetry at Purdue University, studying under Marianne Boruch and the late Tom Andrews, who once accused Tony of enthusiastically presenting and then abandoning his poems like paper airplanes thrown out a third story window. Tony has not yet broken the habit, and is excited to throw a few more airplanes this Fall.
Emcee: Jeremy Robkin Nov. 6, 2024: Susan Blair
Susan Blair is a poet, writer, arts event organizer and award-winning speaker. Her full-length poetry collection, A Howling, was published in the fall of 2023 by Press 53 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Her poetry chapbook, What Remains of a Life, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018; her work has also appeared in numerous print and online publications. Susan founded and is the editor of The Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, an annual anthology representing the poets of Central Washington. She hosts the monthly “Third Thursday Poets” open mic event. She has also written five poetry-activity books for children and presents them in costume as “Perri the Poetry Fairy” to elementary school kids. Susan graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a B.A. in German and Russian and lives in Wenatchee, WA.
Emcee: Sandi Ivey Dec. 4, 2024: Julia McConnell
Julia McConnell is a poet and a librarian. Her manuscript Landlocked was selected by Thomas Lynch as the winner of the 2022 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Emerging) and was published by Michigan State University Press in 2023. Her chapbook, Against the Blue, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Julia’s publications include Whale Road Review, Shark Reef, Right Hand Pointing, Plainsongs, Lavender Review, and other journals. Originally from Oklahoma, Julia lives in Seattle with her partner, her poodle, and her Jack Russell Terrier. Learn more about Julia at www.juliamcconnell.net.
Emcee: Sandi Ivey Jan. 8, 2025: Mary Crane
Mary Eliza Crane is a long time Duvall resident and one of the co-curators of Duvall poetry. She has been a regular at Duvall Poetry since its inception in 2004, and it continues to inspire and sustain her. Mary is celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry, Last Call of the Dark, just published by Cirque Press. She has two previous collections What I Can Hold in My Hands and At First Light, both published by Gazoobi Tales, and has been published in several journals and anthologies.
Emcee: TBA Feb. 5 of 2025 - TBAWatch this space!
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March 5, 2025: Peter Ludwin
Peter Ludwin is especially drawn to physical and spiritual aspects of the natural world, different cultures, history and the quality of being alive in the moment. A world traveler who has journeyed by canoe to visit remote Indian families in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador, hiked in the Peruvian Andes, thumbed for rides in Greece, bargained for goods in the markets of Marrakech and Istanbul and survived debilitating illness in China and Tibet, he is also accomplished on acoustic blues guitar and autoharp. His poems have appeared in many journals, among which are Nimrod, North American Review and Prairie Schooner.
His new book, An Altar of Tides, inhabits various parts of his beloved Pacific Northwest. Winner of the 2024 Trail to Table Editors’ Award in Poetry, it was published by Trail to Table Books, an environmental imprint of Wandering Aengus Press. The author of three previous books of poetry and the 2016 winner of the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award for his poem 'Wolf Concerto,' Ludwin attributes the lion’s share of his success to the fourteen years he was a participant in the weeklong San Miguel Poetry Week in fabled San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he workshopped under top poets such as Mark Doty, Joseph Stroud and Robert Wrigley, Tony Hoagland, Patricia Goedecke and many others, including Scots poet Alastair Reid, whose dictum, “Listen to how it sounds on the ear!” paralleled his own reality. A resident of Kent, Washington, his website is www.peterludwin.com. Emcee: Mary Crane April 2, 2025: David Fewster
David Fewster is a poet, musician and humorist from Tacoma WA. His work has appeared in the Seattle Times (he was a regular contributor to Pacific Magazine's "Sunday Punch" column 1989-1994), LA Weekly, Writer's Digest, Free Venice Beachhead, Cirque, SPREAD, Exquisite Corpse, etc. Anthologies include "Seattle Poems by Seattle Poets" (Poetry Around Press, 1992), "Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza 94" (Manic D Press, 1994), "Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader Vol. 2" (Black Sparrow Press, 2000), Chrysanthemum 2020 (Goldfish Press) & "Dissent: an anthology to end war and capitalism" (Vagabond Press, 2024.) His full-length book of poetry, "Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic Suicidal Maniac & Other Picture Postcards" was funded by a 2003-2004 Tacoma Artists Initiative Project grant. His most recent book is "A la recherche du temps perdu, or GET OFF MY LAWN" (Couth Buzzard Press, 2021.)
Emcee: TBA May 7, 2025: J.I. (Judy) Kleinberg
J.I. (Judy) Kleinberg has lived in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Seattle, Santa Fe, Bellingham, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. Along the way she has been an artist, marketing executive, freelance copy writer, scuba instructor, poetry blogger, disaster responder, and a few other things. Her poetry (including more than 800 of her found poems) has been widely published and featured in art exhibits in Seattle, Asheville (NC), La Conner, and Bellingham. Her chapbooks The Word for Standing Alone in a Field (Bottlecap Press), How to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books), and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23) were published in 2023; She needs the river (Poem Atlas) was published in 2024 and Sleeping Lessons is forthcoming from Milk & Cake Press in December. Find out more at https://chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com/.
Emcee: TBA Jun. 4, Jul. 2, Aug. 6, & Sep. 3, 2025: TBAWatch this space!
Oct. 1, 2025: Suzanne Edison
Suzanne Edison’s book, Since the House Is Burning, by MoonPath Press, was published in 2022. Her chapbook, The Body Lives Its Undoing, was published in 2018. Poetry can be found in: The Missouri Review; SWWIM EveryDay; Solstice Literary Magazine; MER; RockPaperPoems; Whale Road Review; Lily Poetry Review; JAMA, and elsewhere. She has work included in the anthologies: The Healing Art of Writing, Vol. 1 and Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening. She is the Mental Health Coordinator at the Cure JM Foundation and teaches expressive writing to caregivers through UCSF Wellness Center for Youth with Chronic Conditions. She lives in Seattle, is an avid gardener, and cloud-watcher.
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