Featured Poets 2027

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Ginger Zyskowski

Ginger Zyskowski is a Kansas native who, at the early age of two, was enrolled in
tap dancing lessons which eventually led to a long career as a percussionist, a
performer and music educator. Ginger graduated high school from the
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI, and completed a Bachelor’s degree
and a Master’s degree in music from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Ginger’s main focus was music, but as an elementary student, she also discovered
a love for the rhythms and melodies of poetry. She has had poems published in
several anthologies, newsletters, and was chosen 1 of 20 winners for ‘Out on a
Limb: poetry in the trees’ - celebrating 60 years for the Evergreen Arboretum and
Gardens in Everett, WA. Ginger published her first chapbook, ‘Love and Lovers’, in
2021 and her second chapbook, ‘Another Think Coming! Poems and Stuff’ in 2022.
Ginger’s book of poetry and prose, ‘In a Word’, was published in 2023, has
beautiful illustrations, and offers a unique look at the alphabet that adults as well as children can enjoy.

Her most recent project was the publication and release of her memoir,
‘Shattered-One Woman’s True Story of Trauma, Coercive Control and Survival.’
“The life of a 32-year-old professional musician, university instructor and mother of 3,

is thrown into chaos when her young children are abducted and she is viciously kidnapped.

The author shares her harrowing true story here for the first time.”
Available on Amazon – Hard Copy and Kindle

Home - Ginger Z

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March 1, 2027

Jed Myers

Jed Myers serves as editor for the online journal Bracken, participates in the music-and-poetry ensemble Band of Poets, helps arrange and performs in benefits for World Central Kitchen, and plays in Easy Speak's house band known as The 52nd Street Band. Can't Be Far, Myers's fourth full-length collection, was a finalist for the MoonPath Press Sally Albiso Award. His previous collection, Learning to Hold, won the Wandering Aengus Press Editors' Award. His other books are The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), and six chapbooks. Currently retired from his therapy practice, Myers writes, makes music, and walks in the nearby wetlands along the Lake Washington shore.

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Ann Spiers

Ann Spiers lives on Vashon Island, across Puget Sound from Seattle, Washington. She was Vashon Island’s inaugural poet laureate, stewards Vashon Town’s Poetry Post, volunteers in the island’s beach survey looking for invasive green crabs.

She is a practiced presenter. She edited literary journals, produced writing festivals and reading series, judged/selected for contests and retreats, joined panels, served as a King County arts commissioner, and was awarded writing residences at UW’s Whiteley Center, Hedgebrook, and Espy Foundation.

Her poems are widely published. In 2021, Black Heron Press, Seattle, published Back Cut, and Empty Bowl published Rain Violent. Her chapbook Harpoon is from Ravenna Press. Her poetry chapbooks are What Rain Does (Egress Studio, Bellingham) and Bunker Trail (Finishing Line). Other chapbooks are The Herodotus Poems (Brooding Heron, Waldron Is.), Long Climb into Grace (FootHills, New York), and letterpress editions of Volcano Blue, Tide Turn, and A Wild Taste (May Day Press, Shelton WA). These letterpress volumes individually are included in the Cynthia Sears Collection at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Special Collections of U. of Washington, Stanford U, London’s British Library, Portland’s Multnomah County Library, U of Puget Sound, and many private collections.

She attended the University of Washington, eventually earning a MA in English Lit and Creative Writing with focus on plays and poems.

From the book cover blurb: “In the opening lines of Wild Cucumber, Ann Spiers writes, “leaving / I walk left into morning glory / no shortcuts.” In her latest full-length collection, Spiers’s poems reveal intimate human yearning, draping events with the lush and rugged backdrops she travels as girl, woman, mother, grandmother, teacher, lover, hiker, writer, outsider, insider. Interweaving distinctive imagery of natural and made landscapes with details of local, political, and women’s history, these poems explore the islands, beaches, and volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest; the canyonlands of the Southwest; and visits to Mexico and Thailand. In Wild Cucumber, Spiers invites us along on her enduring journey with no shortcuts offered or needed.”

Ann Spiers – Ann Spiers writer and inaugural poet of Vashon Island follow on Twitter @AnnSpiers

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Eric R. Kosarot

Eric is an interdisciplinary artist living on Ebey Island in Snohomish County. Besides a person of letters,

paintings, and songs, Eric also farms, gardens, and is an equestrian worker.

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June 7, 2027

Ted McMahon

Born in 1946 to second-generation Irish parents, Ted McMahon grew up in Oak Hill Park, near Boston, one of the many post-WWII planned residential developments. He graduated from Williams College and Duke University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Pediatrics at Children's Orthopedic Hospital (now Seattle Children's), and practiced outpatient pediatrics in Eugene, OR, and later Seattle, from 1976-2014. Since 1998 he has channeled his love of language into poetry. His poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, The Comstock Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. His chapbook, First Fire, was published in 1996, and his full-lengthcollection, The Uses of Imperfection, in 2003. He received a Jack Straw Fellowship in 2003, an Artist Trust GAP grant in 2004, and has served as an editor at Floating Bridge Press and the online journal Bracken. Since 1986, Ted has lived in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood with his wife Rosanne Olson-photographer, musician, and artist.

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Laura LeHew & Ro y R. Seitz

Former girl scout Laura LeHew is obsessed with the creepy, creaky underbelly of life and whatever lies beyond. She lives in the realm of possibility, where anything can happen. She is constantly thinking of new ideas and themes to convey in my work. Her intent is to create works that are formally and aesthetically engaging while conceptually connecting with the everyday; to reify the ordinary into the extraordinary; to question realities—social, political and otherwise. Poetry is a way to explore and understand those ideas which frustrate and confront her.

Poetry forms itself, as a whole, in her head—title, form, line length, line break.

Laura received her MFA from the California College of the Arts, co-hosts the reading series, Poetry for the People, received writing residencies to Hypatia-in-the-Woods, PLAYA, MAR, and Soapstone. She owns and edits Uttered Chaos, a small press. Laura knows nothing of gardens or gardening but is well versed in the cultivation of cats.

Find her here:

utteredchaos.org

lauralehew.com

ROY R SEITZ is a poet with no initials behind his name.
Catches reads now and then. Has been known to drive the meek insane and the humble to to do whatever the
humble do when driven insane. Hearing his work is mandatory in his mind.

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July 26, 2027

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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