Sunday, December 6, 2009

Dec. 10, 2009

Please see the It's About Time Writers facebook group for schedule.

Thanks,

Esther

Thursday, November 12, 2009

November 12th reading

Thurs. Nov 12, 2009 #243 Jeremy Halinen, Carol Guess, Elizabeth J. Colen
+ Kim-An Lieberman on The Writer's Craft

Kim-An Lieberman holds a Ph.D. in Vietnamese American literature from the University of California, Berkeley and teaches English at Seattle’s Lakeside School. Her work appears in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, and other journals. Her first collection of poems, Breaking the Map, was published in 2008 by Blue Begonia Press.

Elizabeth J. Colen’s poetry has recently appeared in The Normal School, Exquisite Corpse, Rhino, and other venues. Her first book of poetry, Money for Sunsets will be released by Steel Toe Books in September 2010. Find out more at http://elizabethjcolen.blogspot.com

Jeremy Halinen is a coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine. Some of his recent poems appear in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Ganymede, New Mexico Poetry Review, Poems Against War, and White Crane. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University.

Carol Guess is the author of five books of poetry and prose, most recently Tinderbox Lawn (Rose Metal Press, 2008). She is Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches Creative Writing and Queer Studies

Monday, October 5, 2009

Thurs. Oct. 8, 2009 #242

Terry Grabstein, Julene Weaver, Susan Starbuck + Jane Alynn on The Writer's Craft

Jane Alynn’s chapbook, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, and StringTown, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she won a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. The title of Jane's craft talk is "Bright Smoke: Contradiction in Poetry"

Terry Grabstein earned a Certificate in Nonfiction Writing and a Certificate in Literary Fiction Writing from the University of Washington. She has contributed work to Writers in Performance Anthology, Mercer Island Reporter, The Leaflet, and Between the Lines. Silken Water, (Finishing Line Press, 2009), is her first poetry collection.

Julene Tripp Weaver moved to Seattle from NYC in 1989. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails her Blues, with poems inspired by her work during the past 18 years in HIV Services. Her poems are published in many journals on and off line.

Susan Starbuck, Ph.D., M.F.A., published a biography in 2002, Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. Then she turned her back on history and converted to fiction. She currently teaches writing and literature at Antioch University Seattle, and she grew two 12-inch diameter pumpkins in her garden.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Thurs. Sept. 10, 2009 #241

Sarah Vap, Todd Fredson, Susan Rich + Jeff Encke on The Writer's Craft

Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards. Jeff will be reading from his essay Unwinding the Given: On Linda Bierds originally published in Octopus magazine.

Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband and their two sons on the Olympic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner’s Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.

Todd Fredson's poems have appeared in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, Gulf Coast, First Intensity, Pistola, Puerto del Sol, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He has received several awards in support of his work. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 2007. He is the director of programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal and a writer for Read Right Systems in Shelton, WA. Todd lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their two sons.

Susan Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times (of London) Literary Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Recent poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. Susan Rich grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and now makes her home in Seattle.

August 13, 2009 #240

Joan Swift


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featured readers Joannie Stangeland & Joan Swift with Jeremy Halinen on The Writer's Craft






Jeremy Halinen,
editor of Knock Out Literary Magazine, reads from the journal


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Don Kentop, Julene Weaver, Carol kentop & Joannie Stangeland
before the reading







Joannie Stangeland & Jesse Minkert




Kristen McHenry, Bethany Reid, Julene Weaver,
Pat Hurshell, Judy Sloniker, Idore Anschell

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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?


The world would split open.
- Muriel Rukeyser


Thanks for stopping by,

Esther

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Thurs. July 9, 2009

What a great reading. Here are our stars - Jane, Arthur, Jeff and Laura (with little one)

Saturday, July 4, 2009

#239 Thurs July 9, 2009 6:00 - 7:45 pm

Authur Tulee, Jeff Encke, Jane Alynn + Laura McKee on The Writer's Craft


Laura McKee holds a B.A. in French and English from the University of Utah, and an M.F.A from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in Rhino, Mid-American Review, Campbell’s Corner, Identity Theory, Konundrum, Cutbank, and Denver Quarterly. Her book, Uttermost Paradise Place, was chosen this year by Claudia Keelan for the APR Honickman 1st Book Prize and will be published in the fall. She works at Cornish College of the Arts.

Arthur Tulee was born and raised on the Yakama Indian Reservation and graduated from Washington State University in 1990, receiving a B.A. in English. He is currently living and working in the Seattle metropolitan area. He is excited to read all brand new material for this It's About Time.

Jane Alynn is a poet and fine-art photographer. Alynn’s first collection of poems, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, Manorborn, Snowy Egret, StringTown, and Switched-on Gutenberg, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she was awarded a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and currently lives in Anacortes.

Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards.