Lopez Poets to read in Redmond on 10/24

We are a community of writers, readers, and lovers of the spokenword who meet once a month to share our work. Please join us! Come early to sign up for open mic.

This month, we welcome three Lopez poets from Shark Reef literary magazine: Ande Finley, Linda Barton, and Janet Yang.

What: RASP Reading Series & Open Mic
When: Friday, 10/24/2014
Time start: 7:00 pm
Time end: 9:00 pm
Where: Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, Room 206, 16600 NE 80th Street, Redmond, WA

Note: This reading is dedicated to the late John Sangster, poet and author the collection Island Year.

About the featured readers

Ande Finley is thrilled to see her long-held dream of writing manifesting in her remote Lopez Island forest. Her English major in college morphed somehow into a professional life of crunching numbers and she guiltily filed her literary life away till all her kids left home. Mainly now she composes for herself, but her work has appeared in Uncapped, Satsang, and Shark Reef.With the help of her brilliantly creative family, she produced her first chapbook, Simply Love, to commemorate her mother’s 75th and her brother’s 50th birthdays.

Linda Barton was born in 1950 and grew up in the Chicago suburbs. She has many transcripts stretching coast to coast which patch together her two BAs, one in art history, the other in psychology. She received a Master of Social Work from Berkeley. “Poetry came to me late in life,” writes Barton, “which is fortunate because I could grow into it. It represents the perfect blend of brevity, humor, and truth. For me, poetry allows a focus that no other medium can.” She lives on Lopez Island with her dog, Lydia. Visit her website atwww.lindaloubarton.com.

Janet Yang’s professional life began as a printmaker. Her work appears in the collections of the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums and other private and institutional collections in the United States, Japan, Korea, and Portugal. Currently her focus is on making art jewelry and some textile work. She also dabbles in various Asian craft techniques, woodcarving, basketry, mixed-media sculpture, and poetry.

This event is FREE and open to everyone.

More info about RASP: www.raspread.com