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Marc Janssen, Carolyn Martin, James Merrill
April 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeFree Range Poetry presents
Marc Janssen, Carolyn Martin, James Merrill
Monday, April 1, 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.
Marc Janssen Marc Janssen is an internationally published poet and poetic activist. His work has appeared haphazardly in printed journals and anthologies such as Off the Coast, Cirque Journal, Penumbra, The Ottawa Arts Review and Manifest West. He also coordinates poetry events in the Willamette Valley of Oregon including the Salem Poetry Project, a weekly reading, and Salem Poetry Festival.
Carolyn Martin From Assistant Professor of English to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin has journeyed from New Jersey to Oregon to discover Douglas firs, months of rain, and dry summers. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout North America and the UK, and her fourth collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, is schedule for release in February 2019. She is currently the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly.
James Merrill James Merrill was raised in San Francisco Bay Area; witnessed the Berkeley Free Speech protest era and the hippie Summer of Love and the great rock n roll groups that originated there. During college he was a roofer, bike mechanic and veteran of the Peace movement. He studied poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder with instructors including Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs. He retired from teaching at the Chemawa Indian School in Salem in 2014. He won a New Poets prize for the poem “I Went to School Today” in the 2017 OPA Verseweavers competition.