Tim Gillespie, Timothy Kerlin, Kim Stafford

Free Range Poetry in conjunction with Willamette Writers presents
Tim Gillespie, Timothy Kerlin, Kim Stafford

*** SPECIAL DATE, SPECIAL TIME, SPECIAL VENUE***

TUESDAY, December 4, 2018
THE OLD CHURCH CONCERT HALL
1422 SW 11th Avenue
Portland
Reading 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

An open mic will precede featured poets.
Open mic readers limited to ONE POEM of short to moderate length.
Open mic readers may be limited to 15 people.
Sign up for open mic at 6:00 pm.

Tim Gillespie is an almost-four-decade veteran Oregon public school teacher. He was one of the three original founders of the Oregon Writing Festival, which for 35 years has been supporting young Oregon writers. For a decade, he co-directed, with Kim Stafford, the Oregon Writing Project summer institute at Lewis & Clark College. He’s the author of Doing Literary Criticism from Stenhouse Press, and recent poems have been published in Windfall, The Timberline Review, Cloudbank, The Poeming Pigeon, English Journal, and Oregon English.

Timothy Kerlin was an English composition teacher for nine years and currently works as a digital content developer with McGraw-Hill. His poems have been published in Literati Quarterly, Superficial Flesh, the Texas Observer, and the Burnside Review.

Kim Stafford founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craftand 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, and Bhutan. In May 2018 he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate by Governor Kate Brown.

[from the Facebook event page]

[see also the Willamette Writer’s website]