Poetry

Here is the Northwind Reading Series schedule for 2007:

November 8  --   Don Roberts and Barbara Bowen
December 13 --  Readers' Party (for 2007 Anthology)
 
The readings begin at 7:00 P.M. at Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.  Everyone is welcome.

On November 8th, the Northwind Reading Series will feature Barbara Bowen and Don Roberts.  The reading will start at 7:00 P.M. in the Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson Street.

Barbara Bowen’s poems have been published in print and online journals including Tidepools, Minotaur, Paper Wasp, Pulp, and Poetry at Lehani’s. They have been anthologized in the Northwind Anthology, Washington Poet’s Association’s Mute Note Earthward and Tatoos on Cedars, Night Bringing Feathers: An Anthology of Northwest Crow Poems.  Several poems have received awards from the Washington Poets Association and from Tidepools.

Barbara served on the editorial board of Literary Salt and the Board of Directors of Poets Against War.  She graduated from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  A recipient of an Artist Trust 2007 GAP Award, her reading will include poems written as part of her GAP Project.

Born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in coastal California, Don Roberts has worked a range of jobs, from moving furniture to directing summer school, from running a cider mill to copy editing.  He moved to the Olympic Peninsula at 27, and spent many years in Seattle, where he and his wife raised two daughters. Now grandparents, he and Shelley live in Port Townsend. Don has studied in workshops with John Balaban, Gregory Orr, Joseph Stroud, and Arthur Sze. He is co-originator of Northwind Reading Series.

All of the above influence his writing. His chapbook, Midden, was published in 2007. In conversation he may be distracted by a phrase or by autumn light on a crow’s wing.

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