Lost Horse Press, a nonprofit and independent press, will be hosting a reading during the Get Lit! Festival on Friday, April 13 at 3:00 p.m. at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
The poets include:
Carlos Reyes is a poet and translator that lives in Portland, Oregon. He was honored with the Heinrich Boll Fellowship in 2007, which allowed him to write on Achill Island in Ireland. In 2009, he was poet-in-resident at the Lost Horse Ranger Station in Joshua Tree National Park. He recently was a writer-in-residence at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. He is known for his simplistic poems that distract from the complexity of subject matter.
The Book of Shadows, his latest collection, is comprised of poems that he has written over the past thirty years.
David Axelrod is a poet of five collections, one of which won the Spokane Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Also, he has published a collection of cultural and environmental essays about the rural northwest. His poems and essays have appeared in
New Letters, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Tampa Review, Willow Springs Review, The Prose Poem, among others. He is an editor for
Basalt: a Journal of Fine and Literary Arts and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Eastern Oregon University. His most recent collection is
How to Apologize.
Carolyne Wright has been a poet and translator for over forty years. She has published eight books and chapbooks, including a
memoir about her experience in Chile, and contributed to three
anthologies. Her most recent book,
A Change of Maps, was nominated for the LA Times Book Awards. She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, Seattle Arts Commission, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Maya Jewell Zeller is an Eastern alumni. Her book of poetry
Rust Fish evokes memories and bonds with the poems that readers will remember for years. Her poetry has
won awards from
The Florida Review and
Crab Orchard Review, and appears widely. She currently lives in Spokane with her husband, daughter, and newest child on the way, while she teaches at Gonzaga University.
J.T. Ledbetter has a B.A. in English from California State University, and a M.A. and Ph.D in English from the University of Nebraska. His poetry can be found in many journals including
Poetry, The New York Quarterly, Louisville Review, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry, among others. His newest collection of poems,
Old and Lost Rivers, will be launched at the Get Lit! festival.
D.S. Butterworth, a Seattle native, currently teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Gonzaga University. Author Jess Walter noted that Butterworth's book, T
he Radium Watch Dial Painters is "a book of sheer power and range, poems
that burn in brilliant flashes and with searing luminescence. There are
great stories in here, flurries of fresh images and graceful turns of
music and wit. Above all, you find Dan Butterworth’s pitch-perfect gift
for language, his acrobatic intelligence, his fierce decency. I loved
this book.”
Melissa Kwasny often draws her inspiration from the natural world.
She has written four books of poetry, two novels, and edited an anthology
of poets on the art of poetry.
The Nine Senses, her latest collection, is comprised entirely of prose poems.
What: Lost Horse Press Reading
Where: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (2316 W. First Ave., Spokane)
When: Friday, April 13 2012 3:00 PM
Cost: FREE!
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