Open Mic & Reading featuring Jim Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle

Date: March 27, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center (ORSCC) Rm. 206
This event is free!

Please join us! Come early to sign up for open mic.

About the featured readers:
James Bertolino taught literature and creative writing for 36 years at schools ranging from Washington State University to Cornell University. He spent 14 years at Western Washington University and retired from Willamette University as Writer-in-Residence in 2006. He has received a number of national awards for his poetry, and his 12 volumes include Ravenous Bliss: New and Selected Love Poems, MoonPath Press, 2014. Bertolino has served as an editor for Abraxas, Epoch, Cincinnati Poetry Review, and Stone-Marrow Press. He lives with his wife, artist and poet Anita Boyle, on five acres near Bellingham, Washington. His website is http://jamesbertolino.com/

Anita K. Boyle is a poet, artist, and graphic designer, and the author of three books of poetry: The Drenched, What the Alder Told Me, and Bamboo Equals Loon. She recently received a Poet Publisher Peace Award from the World Peace Poets. Anita lives near an inspiring pond outside Bellingham, Washington with her husband, the poet James Bertolino. Her website is http://egressstudiopress.com/