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Free Range Poetry with dan raphael, Benjamin Schmitt, and Kelly Terwilliger
March 11, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeOpen mic poetry readings the first 30 minutes, followed by Oregon poets reading from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Formerly Verse in Person, now curated by volunteers Diane Corson, John Miller and Dan Encarnacion.
Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45 pm at the library.
From the Facebook event page:
Free Range Poetry presents
dan raphael, Benjamin Schmitt, Kelly Terwilliger
*** SPECIAL DATE: second Monday of March***
Monday, March 11, 2019
Northwest Library
2300 NW Thurman Street
Portland
An open mic will precede featured poets.
Open mic readers limited to two pages of material.
Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm.
Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm.
DAN RAPHAEL has been active on the Portland poetry scene for over 3 decades as poet, performer, editor and reading arranger (including a monthly series that ran 13 years downtown, and Poetland—80 poets in 8 venues over an 8 hour span.) His most recent books are Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid (Last Word), The State I’m In (nine muses) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon) which includes work from his first 13 collections. Recent poems have appeared Caliban, Unlikely Stories, Basalt, Otoliths, Curly Mind, Harbinger Asylum, Stealing the Light and I Wagered Deep on the Run of Six Rats. He has performed at places like Bumbershoot, Wordstock, Powell’s Books, Reed College, Cascadia Poetry Festival, Writer’s on the Edge, Eastern Oregon U and the Portland Jazz Festival.
BENJAMIN SCHMITT is the Best Book Award and Pushcart nominated author of three books, most recently Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Hobart, Worcester Review, Columbia Review, Roanoke Review, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At The Inkwell. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.
KELLY TERWILLIGER grew up on the Oregon Coast, a fact reflected in many of her poems. She is the author of a chapbook, A Glimpse of Oranges, as well as a full-length collection of poems, Riddle, Fish Hook, Thorn, Key. She currently lives in Eugene, where she works as an oral storyteller and poet/artist in residence in public schools.