June 3, 2024: Alison Peacock
Alison Peacock, a Seattle-based visual and literary artist, has been chasing the poetry of the every day since she was old enough to hold a pen. Peacock honed her observation skills in the magazine industry for 17 years before returning to her true loves, poetry and prose. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry on Buses and seven anthologies, including Examined Life (a Western Washington Poets Network publication), Bards West, and Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows.
Emcee: Mary Crane July 1, 2025: Christian Wright
Christian Wright is an Australian poet and musician who has published seven books of poetry, fiction, a graphic novel and photography as part of his founded collective of artists named Sea&itsHorses. Christian's written poetry and storytelling often originates from dynamic interactions with audiences and is intended in spirit, to be read aloud. While performing in and with several rock bands across the East Coast of Australia, Christian previously held a Sydney residency as a spoken word artist, and performed and exhibited his works across Sydney and Melbourne Pubs and Clubs. Christian is also a qualified Emergency and Disaster Nurse and Midwife. He has worked across a range of urban and rural contexts of care including in culturally sacred birthing spaces in remote Australian Indigenous Lands and more recently in natural disaster affected remote villages of Papua New Guinea. With the experience of helping hundreds of strong birthing women bring their babies into the world, in November 2024 he finally got to deliver his own son, River, with his powerful wife, Caroline.
Emcee: Pamela Denchfield Aug. 5, 2025: Tito Titus
Tito Titus, author of I can still smile like Errol Flynn (2015), Bones in the Shallows (2024), and When the Mekong Ran Red (2024), appeared on Garrison Keillor’s "The Writer’s Almanac" in 2020. Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest included his poem “Salmon of a Man” in her 2023 anthology I Sing the Salmon Home. Puget Soundings, Argus, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer published his satire. Various journals and anthologies have published his poetry. In 2003 he received the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from King County, Washington, for his service to elderly homeless people.
Tito worked on farms and ranches, fought range fires, barked in a carnival, went to war overseas, earned a master's in urban planning, ran for public office, joined a theater troupe, created art, worked as an environmental public hearings officer, and served two terms on the Seattle Design Commission. Originally from Snake River’s Hells Canyon, North America’s deepest gorge, he now lives in Seattle’s Capitol Hill community with his wife Kate. They’re in their eighties and have been married forty years. Emcee: Pamela Denchfield Sept. 2, 2025: Griffith H. Williams
Griffith H. Williams, of East Point West Press, known to the Welsh community by his bardic name of Gruffydd Hirwallt, operates an antique letterpress in Kenmore, Washington. Over a lifetime of printing, he has published 35 chapbooks of his own verse. Williams has also published over fifty regional poets in chapbooks, anthologies, broadsides and Tag-Lines.
Emcee: Mary Crane |
Oct. 7, 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 Nov. 4, 2025: Emily Young
Emily Young was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She is a full-time health care provider and a board member of the Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP). Her work explores themes of motherhood, gender roles, the COVID-19 pandemic, grief, and love. She is currently working on her first poetry collection, and is happiest when writing with her pup Rowan on her lap.
Emcee: Ivey Dec. 2, 2025: C.A. Coffing
C.A. Coffing holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University. A self-published novelist, playwright and poet, work is published in Flash Fiction Magazine, Does It Have Pockets, Ginosko Literary Journal, SPREAD, Half and One, and elsewhere. A 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Finalist, 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, and 2023 Best Micro-Fiction nominee, written work has appeared in live theatre showings throughout the Pacific Northwest, including Bumbershoot, Cold Reader’s Theater, and Northwest New Works. She currently writes, teaches dance and waits tables in a small river town. She is a self-professed eavesdropper because after all, observation is key. We are the observers of the world.
Emcee: Jeremy Robkin |
