Featured Poets 2025
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January 6, 2025
Kris Hall
Kris Hall (aka Barracuda Guarisco; C.C. Hannett) is the author of several collections of poetry and hybrid works published by Spuyten Duyvil, Vegetarian Alcoholic, Really Serious Literature, Feral Dove Books, Voice Lux, Alien Buddha, and Chat Rooms. Widely published in journals, online and in print, they have also been nominated for Best Microfiction and The Elgin Award. EMBARRASSED BY EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR WHEN I PUT IT INTO POETRY (Be About It Press), is their latest book. They currently reside in Everett, WA.
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January 13, 2025
Kara Briggs
Kara Briggs is a writer and a poet who lives on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington state. She is a Sauk-Suiattle tribal citizen and a descendant of the Yakama Nation. In 2024, she completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she studied with Navajo poet Esther Belin, with Oglala poet Layli Longsoldier, and with Mvskoke poet Jennifer Elise Foerster. She previously graduated from The Evergreen State College with a Master of Public/Tribal Administration. Her bachelor's degree in English is from Whitworth College in Spokane, her hometown.
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Review
Praise for - Rivers in My Veins
With calm elegance, precise language, and the spirit of the Pacific Northwest, Kara Briggs sings her people onto the page. Rivers in My Veins is both protest and celebration, a reminder to readers that the Sauk-Suiattle, Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, and Skagit peoples are still harvesting, fishing, and remembering. Land we live on land, she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. -Deborah Taffa, Whiskey Tender
Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage that celebrates the interconnectivity of the earth and her people while confronting, through unflinching investigative addresses, the false settler-colonial narratives and power structures within these narrative's problematic etymologies and extractive practices. Kara Briggs' tenacious spirit and fierce love of the lands, waters, and stories of her Coast Salish people makes Rivers in My Veins a powerful debut collection that will become a vital contribution to our shared world's literary-and deeply alive-landscapes. -Jennifer Elise Foerster, Editor - When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
With a journalist's eye for unflinching truth, Kara Briggs's Rivers in My Veins assembles precise language, lyric verse and innovative form to produce a finely wrought blend of Native perspective poetry. Briggs compels the reader to hold onto familiar narratives of landscape and family while learning more layers of story. At the heart of this collection, a drum of knowledge beats, aiming at nothing less than uplifting the experience of American Indians who are every bit as intellectual and human as the readers of this book. I have known Kara Briggs for many years waiting for this collection to come to light. Now we will be better as a nation for reading Rivers in My Veins. -Suzan Shown Harjo, Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient, Editor - Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
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January 20, 2025
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January 27, 2025
Leah Mueller
Leah Mueller is the author of ten prose and poetry books. Her work appears in Rattle, Midway Journal, Citron Review, The Spectacle, Miracle Monocle, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. It has also been featured in trees, shop windows in Scotland, poetry subscription boxes, and literary dispensers throughout the world. Her flash piece, "Land of Eternal Thirst" will appear in the 2022 edition of Sonder Press' "Best Small Fictions" anthology. Visit her website at www.leahmueller.org.
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February 3, 2025
Scott Ferry & Douglas Cole
I grew up in Huntington Beach, CA on a steady diet of swim workouts, shredded beef tacos, and skiing. Both of my parents taught high school, so I thought I should do the same. Not a sustainable career for me. My sister became a professor, and a damn good one. I moved to Seattle, became a Licensed Acupuncturist. Barely paid for itself, even though the ancient grid of Qi still informs my body. Lifeguarded for many years. Found nursing and never regretted it. I now work for the most worthy recipients of respect, our Veterans. I married a superior being and made a brilliant female sprig. They are both the reason and the reward.
I began writing poetry in high school to mostly try to communicate a lack of meaning and a yearning for depth. After college I began frequenting Laguna Poets, and other vital readings in mid-90s Orange County. This few years fed me, taught me. I began publishing in Blue Satellite, Spillway, Inevitable Press. My father passed away during this same time and colored the air with charcoal and opened a light around people. I may have had a spiritual awakening, or I may have slid off the visual plane for a bit. When I moved to Seattle I read in local readings and published in Seattle Review, Crab Creek Review, Poetry Superhighway, Pontoon, Bitter Oleander. I wrote hundreds of poems, some were actually decent. I married, divorced. Met my present and beautiful wife and we moved back to Huntington Beach for a long five years while she became a doctor and I became a nurse.
We returned to Seattle when our daughter was one. We bought a house with a sprawling yard and a view of the Olympics off our deck. I began writing again, publishing in Radius, Cobalt, Chaleur, Moon Tide, Pontoon, Slippery Elm, Cultural Weekly, among others. My chapbook Book of 24 streets was a semifinalist in the Floating Bridge contest in 2017. I was a finalist in the Write Bloody Poetry Book Contest in 2019. My collection, The only thing that makes sense is to grow is now available from Moon Tide Press. My second book, Mr. Rogers kills fruit flies, is now available from Main St. Rag. In 2020, my son was born the same day as my father, just 88 years later. I received a Pushcart nomination from Misfit in November 2020 for the poem “Dispersal.” My third book, These Hands of Myrrh, was published by Kelsay Books in Fall 2021. My minichap The Sea of Marrow came out in late 2021 and I have 2 more books upcoming for 2022: Skinless in the Cereal Aisle from Impspired and fishmirror from Alien Buddha. And I have this silly website, of course.
Douglas Cole
Douglas Cole has published eight poetry collections, including The Cabin at the End of the World, winner the Best Poetry Award in the American Book Fest, and the novel The White Field, winner of the American Fiction Award. His work has appeared in journals such as Beloit Poetry, Fiction International, Valpariaso, The Gallway Review and Two Hawks Quarterly. He contributes a regular column, “Trading Fours,” to the magazine, Jerry Jazz Musician. He also edits the American Writers section of Read Carpet, a journal of international writing produced in Columbia. In addition to the American Fiction Award, his screenplay of The White Field won Best Unproduced Screenplay award in the Elegant Film Festival. He has been awarded the Leslie Hunt Memorial prize in poetry, the Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House, First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” from Tattoo Highway, and the Editors’ Choice Award in fiction by RiverSedge. He has been nominated Six times for a Pushcart and Eight times for Best of the Net. His website is https://douglastcole.com.
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February 10, 2025
E. Grace Dager
Evelyn Grace Dager, who goes by Grace, was born in California in 1962. She has lived in numerous states across the country, choosing the PNW as her home. In 1980 she was a scholarship recipient to the University on Miami for art and writing. She has also attended classes at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington DC. Dager received her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 1989.
Dager has had many 'one man' shows and has participated in many group showings. Dager does not limit expression to painting only and works in video, set design, and performance art. She has appeared and worked in film, including working with the renowned Karl Krogstad. Grace creates recycle art and loves making 'cut up' poetry. E Grace Dager was a Board Member at Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) from 2012-2015. She has worked at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) and taught art to terminal cancer patients.
E Grace Dager was listed in the 2017: Who's Who in Visual Art.
Dager currently lives in Everett, Washington. She hosts Gold E Lofts Gallery. Gold ELofts has resumed showings during the Third Thursday Everett Art Walk. Dager currently presents her works at Gallery '33 Stares leading up to her Little Bo’Teek store inside Gold ELofts.
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February 17, 2025
Angelica Urquizo
Angelica Urquizo strives to uncover the magic in the mundane and finds a great deal of inspiration from the natural world, mythology, shadow work and the human experience. She explores her expression mainly through poetry but also through fiction, collage, mixed media and whichever craft project she’s drawn to at a given time. She is earning her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics and hopes to continue building community in the writing world.
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February 24, 2025
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March 3, 2025
Rachel Mehl
Rachel Mehl lives in Bellingham, WA where she teaches at Bellingham Technical College. She was awarded a Sundress Residency, during which she did the bulk of the work on The Monster High Files. Poems from this collection have appeared in Pink Plastic House, Gingerbread House, Freeze Ray, Crab Creek Review, and Vagabond City Review.
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March 10, 2025
Bethany Reid
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March 17, 2025
Jen Broadway
An Everett Poetry Night regular.
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March 24, 2025
Steve Sibra
Steve Sibra describes himself as a moderately motivated writer who excels at mediocrity. He grew up on a small farm of four hundred and ninety acres in North Central Montana. Nearly was a town of about a thousand people, hard working folks marching in place as the outside world passed them by.
In time Steve left the farm behind, got an education, moved to the coast and the big city. He started an oddball business involving comic books, enjoyed some success, and once in awhile he wrote some poetry and some fiction. Eventually he got good enough to stick his face in a microphone, good enough to be published in tiny literary journals no one ever read or even heard of. In this manner he became a success of sorts.
He is here tonight to share some of the poems he has written in the recent past. He also has a book to sell you, “SHOES FOR BABY”, if you do not already have a copy. If you don’t care for what you hear tonight, pass on the book. But please give a listen in the meantime, for Steve Sibra has something to say and he thinks while you may not learn much from him, you should at least be no worse off than you were when you got here. And you will be twenty minutes older for the experience.
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March 31, 2025
Deborrah Corr
Deborrah Corr’s work has been published in two anthologies, The Madrona
Project: The Empty Bowl Cookbook, and Of Our Own Accord: Women’s Embodied
Poetry (Flying Ketchup Press). Her poem, “Night Vision” was awarded an honorable
mention in the Connecticut River Review Contest 2024. An honorable mention was
also given to her poem “The Red Onion” in the 2024 Streetlight Magazine Contest. Her
poems have appeared in several journals including The McNeese Review, Catamaran,
Kansas City Voices, The Sunlight Press, The Main Street Rag, Amethyst, Raven Chronicles and several others.
Naked Rib, Deborrah’s first chapbook, will be published by Finishing Line Press in February of 2025.
Debby came from a family of farm workers. The summers of her early years
were picking strawberries, string beans and cherries in the Yamhill Valley in Oregon.
Now she lives in Seattle with her husband and grows berries and vegetables in their backyard and on their deck.
A classroom teacher for thirty years, she decided, upon retiring, to devote her
time to writing and learning the craft of poetry. She has studied with many Hugo House
and online teachers and is a member of three groups dedicated to helping each other
grow great poems.
Blurbs for Naked Rib by Deborrah Corr
Animated by Deborrah Corr’s muscular voice, each poem in “Naked Rib” is an act of
retrieval. The book opens with the child-self claiming the primordial mother Eve (“I lifted
her out of the ink and drank her”), then arcs through a life driven by hunger for
connection and ultimately carved, as we all are, by love and its loss. These are poems
that embody the transformational power of words to keep and carry forward what we love.
-Elizabeth Austen, former Washington State Poet Laureate and author of Every Dress a Decision
Deborrah Corr’s Naked Rib is a powerful collection of lyric poems illuminating
dramatic moments in a life. Her skillful use of biblical imagery in the first poem, “I
was Eve,” announces her themes: the desire for sensual experience and freedom from
strictures, communion with the natural world, and coming into the power of the female body.
Often elegiac in tone, these poems map a journey through the ferocity of childhood
longings, the growth of sensual awareness, into the experience of motherhood,
marriage, and family. A central sequence of the book explores the loss of her
husband and daughter to cancer, (“cancer, the camera, its shutter snapping/ closed,
first on him, then on her.”) These grief-stricken meditations show her arrival at the
hard-earned understanding “to pay / attention to what I’ve been given.”
What we readers have been given here is a beautifully crafted collection of deeply moving poems.
-Alicia Hokanson, author of Perishable World and Mapping the Distance
There will be safety in the honest word. In this book a fearless girl child grows to be the woman
given to saying hard things with grace, not one to deny the rewards of temptation taken, even
when results are dire. Isn’t this life for living full, no matter what a poem has to say to help a
reader face it? Mean love, frenzied loss, cancer, epiphany—early in this book you learn, and by
end you know: I will follow this voice anywhere.
—Kim Stafford, author of As the Sky Begins to Change and former Oregon State Poet Laureate
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April 7, 2025
Marianne Mersereau
Marianne Mersereau is an award-winning poet, writer, dancer and mystic who grew up in the Southern Highlands of Appalachia and now resides in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Timbrel (2013), selected as a semi-finalist in the Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Competition. She is also the author of a children's picture book, The Green Lake Gifting Game (2014). Her first full-length poetry collection, a memoir in verse, "In the Grip of Grace" is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (Spring 2024).
Her work has appeared in The Seattle Times, Bella Grace, Entropy, The Hollins Critic, Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Deep South Magazine, The Remington Review, Seattle's Poetry on Buses and elsewhere, and has been selected for numerous anthologies. Marianne was a finalist in Artists Embassy International's Dancing Poetry Contest in 2018.
Marianne's love of flowers, bees and the natural world earned her the nickname, Wild Honey. In addition to creating poems and stories, she also creates floral designs and volunteered for over a decade as director of the Flower Guild at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church in Seattle. She is a performer of Appalachian clog dance, modern lyrical dance and liturgical dance and enjoys traveling with her family. She is the proud mother of two children and has enjoyed the companionship of husband, Dave, for over 30 years.
Marianne holds degrees in education from the University of Virginia at Wise and Seattle University. She spent a decade working as an elementary school teacher.
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April 14, 2025
Susan Rich
Susan Rich is the author of six books of poetry including Blue Atlas (Red Hen Press), Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry), Cloud Pharmacy (White Pine Press), shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, named a Finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, winner of the PEN USA Award.
Rich has also co-edited two prose anthologies: The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders (McSweeney’s) with Catherine Barnett, Ilya Kaminsky and Brian Turner, and more recently, Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for Creating a Book of Poems (Two Sylvias Press), co-edited with Kelli Russell Agodon.
Her writing has received fellowships from Artists Trust, Seattle/King County, 4Culture, the Fulbright Foundation, and Peace Corps Writers.
She has worked as a staff person for Amnesty International, an electoral supervisor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a human rights trainer in Gaza and the West Bank. Rich lived in the Republic of Niger, West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, later moving to South Africa to teach at the University of Cape Town.
Rich’s international awards include: the Times Literary Supplement Award (London,UK), a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland) and a residency at Fundacion Valparaiso, (Spain). Other poetry honors include an GAP Awards and a featured poet in the Cuirt Literary Festival in Galway, Ireland.
Her poems have been published in the Academy of American Poets: Poem-a-Day, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, O Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Slowdown, among other places.
Rich’s anthologized poems and essays are included in The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy; Best Essays of the Northwest, Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID, Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium and Poets of the American West. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net Awards.
Susan is an alumna of the Blue Mountain Center, Hedgebrook, the Helen Whiteley Center, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. She has served on the boards of Crab Creek Review, Floating Bridge Press and Whit Press.
Educated at Harvard University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Massachusetts, Susan Rich lives in Seattle and teaches at Highline College where she chairs the National Poetry Month Committee. She is co-founder and executive director of Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women and writes Blue Atlas on Substack.
Susan Rich (poetsusanrich.com)
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April 21, 2025
Bren Rorack
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April 28, 2025
Dion O’Reilly
Dion O'Reilly is the author of three poetry collections: Sadness of the Apex Predator (University of Wisconsin's Cornerstone Press 2024), Ghost Dogs (Terrapin Books 2020), and Limerence, a finalist for the John Pierce Chapbook Competition, forthcoming from Floating Bridge Press. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, The Slowdown, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is a podcaster at The Hive Poetry Collective, leads poetry workshops, and is a reader for Catamaran Literary Quarterly. She splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington.
Home | Dion O'Reilly Award-Winning Poetry (dionoreilly.com)
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May 5, 2025
Susan Landgraff
Susan Landgraf was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate award in 2020. Recent books include Journey of Trees published this year and Crossings from Ravenna Press in its Triple Series last fall. Other books include The Inspired Poet from Two Sylvias Press, What We Bury Changes the Ground, and Other Voices. More than 400 poems
have been published, most recently in Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Calyx, The Meadow, and Tar River. Her full-length manuscript Out of a Land of Alkali and Chromate will be published next March by Moon Path Press.
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May 12, 2035
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May 19, 2025
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May 26, 2025
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June 2, 2025
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June 9, 2025
Sandy Yannone
Sandra (Sandy) Yannone grew up near the edge of the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island Sound in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Throughout her pre-teen to college years, she worked as a laborer and sales clerk at ViJon Studios, her parents’ stained glass art studio and supply center.
Her poems and book reviews have appeared in both print and digital anthologies and literary journals, including Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, Women’s Review of Books, and The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. Her work has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Intro Award, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award. She earned her BA in writing and literature from Wheaton College (MA); an MFA from Emerson College; and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She is co-founder and host of Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, an international, intersectional, intergenerational poetry group and reading series. In addition, Sandy hosts Last Tuesdays with Sandy, a special monthly online reading event for Olympia Poetry Network subscribers, and co-hosts the West-East Bicoastal Poets of the Pandemic & Beyond online reading series. Previous hosting and co-hosting appearances include The Collectibles Lesbian Trading Card Reading Series with Headmistress Press, and as the featured poet and collaborator on the Little Oracles: Divinations podcast miniseries.
After living in the Pacific Northwest for over two decades directing a college writing center, she now enjoys cultivating her love of poetry and all things vintage and nautical from the comfort of her New England hometown.
https://www.sandrayannone.com.
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June 16, 2025
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June 23, 2025
Cindy Veach
Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read,’ and the chapbook, Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Salamander and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize she is poetry co-editor of MER.
Her newest book, Monster Galaxy is due out May of 2025.
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June 30, 2025
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July 7, 2025
Duncan Shields
"Duncan Shields is an animator, author, poet, burlesque performer, podcaster and spoken word artist currently living in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and daughter. A Haiku Champion, Nerd Slam Champion, Movie-by-minute co-host, flash fiction author, and former Vancouver Poetry Slam Master. A huge lover of poetry, science fiction, fantasy, comics, and movies. He enjoys the rain, burritos, and he’s happy to be here."
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July 14, 2025
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July 21, 2025
Alison Peacock
Alison Peacock, a Seattle-based visual and literary artist, has been chasing the poetry of the every day since she was old enough to hold a pen. Peacock honed her observation skills in the magazine industry for 17 years before returning to her true loves, poetry and prose. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry on Buses and seven anthologies, including Examined Life (a Western Washington Poets Network publication), Bards West, and Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows.
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July 28, 2025
Dean Anthony Brink
Dean Anthony Brink’s poetry chronicles changing cultural horizons and an impulse to overcome categories—of love, nationality, how we see and are seen. He is a poet, a painter, and a professor of literature and Japanese thought. From Tacoma, Washington, raised by an immigrant mother, he is now an immigrant father himself in Taiwan, enjoying dual nationality. Reflecting the complications of living across cultures in the shadow of geopolitics, his poetry and artwork seek to explore paths to peace by way of social and ecological justice, and the building of greater empathy in the world through a sort of traveling humor. Poems have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Ecozon@, Going Down Swinging, New Writing (UK), Nimrod, and many other venues. No Time and Other Poems, plus The Threepenny Space Opera and A Migrant Homecoming is his first collection (Goldfish Press, 2024). He also publishes speculative fiction set in Taiwan and the Pacific Northwest, and is author of several research monographs, including Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan: Configuring Change and Entitlement (Lexington Books, 2021) and Philosophy of Science and the Kyoto School: An Introduction to Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun (Bloomsbury, 2021).
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August 4, 2025
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August 11, 2025
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August 18, 2025
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August 25, 2025
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September 1, 2025
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September 8, 2025
E. Grace Dager
Grace Dager Biography
Evelyn Grace Dager, who goes by Grace, was born in California in 1962. She has lived in numerous states across the country, choosing the PNW as her home. In 1980 she was a scholarship recipient to the University on Miami for art and writing. She has also attended classes at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington DC. Dager received her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 1989.
Dager has had many 'one man' shows and has participated in many group showings. Dager does not limit expression to painting only and works in video, set design, and performance art. She has appeared and worked in film, including working with the renowned Karl Krogstad. Grace creates recycle art and loves making 'cut up' poetry. E Grace Dager was a Board Member at Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) from 2012-2015. She has worked at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) and taught art to terminal cancer patients.
E Grace Dager was listed in the 2017: Who's Who in Visual Art.
Dager currently lives in Everett, Washington. She hosts Gold E Lofts Gallery. Gold ELofts has resumed showings during the Third Thursday Everett Art Walk. Dager currently presents her works at Gallery '33 Stares leading up to her Little Bo’Teek store inside Gold ELofts.
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September 15, 2025
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September 22, 2025
Iz White
Iz White is an enrolled member of the Snoqualmie Tribe and has been writing poetry since 1996. His work blends confessional elements with social justice themes and the rhythmic, lyrical qualities of rap. Growing up homeless in Seattle, Iz learned to thrive in the city’s diverse environment. Thanks to tribal economic growth, he now enjoys financial stability, allowing him to focus on advocacy. Through his gritty storytelling, Iz White raises awareness, evokes empathy, and drives social change, humanizing homelessness while highlighting modern Indigenous identity.