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Free Range Poetry: Amy Baskin, Nastashia Minto, Melissa Poulin
September 9, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeFree Range Poetry presents
Amy Baskin, Nastashia Minto, Melissa Poulin
The SECOND Monday of September
Monday, September 9, 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.
AMY BASKIN’S recent work has appeared in VoiceCatcher, Cirque and Friends Journal. She is a 2019 Oregon Literary Arts fellow and two-time Willamette Writers Kay Snow Poetry honorable mention recipient. When she is not writing, she matches international students at Lewis & Clark College with local volunteers to help make them feel welcome and at home during their stay.
NASTASHIA MINTO has performed at the Unchaste Readers Series, Neon Dream, Grief Rites, Incite, Tell Me a Story, and Stand Up, and Speak Out and Read. Nastashia appeared on Talking Earth, a KBOO radio program, recently hosted Minto for a reading. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in SUSAN and Unchaste Anthology Volume III. Her first book, Naked, is due out in February 2019 from Eldredge Press. A Georgia native, she currently lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.
MELISSA POULIN is a poet and writer. She is co-editor of Winged: New Writing on Bees (Poulin Publishing 2014) and author of the chapbook Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press 2019). Her most recent work appears in Coffee + Crumbs, Hip Mama, Relief Journal, Ruminate Magazine, and Writers Resist. https://melissareeserpoulin.com