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Geraldine Foote, Leanne Grabel, Gwen McNeir, and Elaine S. Nussbaum

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of spoken word with Pacific Northwest poets Elaine S. Nussbaum, Leanne Grabel, Geraldine Foote, and Gwen McNeir. All have recently published books with Finishing Line Press. Elaine S. Nussbaum is the author of Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest. She is a former special education teacher and occasionally teaches poetry and lyrics at a juvenile detention center in Portland. She holds a Certificate in Poetics from Naropa University and an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. In 1986, she walked across the USA with the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. Leanne Grabel’s graphic collection of prose poems, Gold Shoes, is her most recent published work. Grabel is a writer, illustrator, performer, and special education teacher. Currently, Grabel is…

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