Open Mic & Reading featuring Joannie Stangeland

Date: April 29, 2016
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: VALA Eastside (Redmond Town Center)
VALA is located below iPic Theaters and between the Z Gallery and Victoria Secret.

This event is free!

Please join us! Wine tasting starts at 6:00 PM, signup starts at 6:30 PM; reading/open mic starts at 7:00 PM

About the featured reader:
Joannie Stangeland is the author of In Both Hands and Into the Rumored Spring, both published by Ravenna Press, two chapbooks, and the pamphlet A Piece of Work. Joannie's poems have also appeared in Front Porch Journal, Off the Coast, Hubbub, Santa Fe Literary Review, and other publications. Joannie has been a Jack Straw Writers Program Fellow, taught writing classes at Hugo House and LiTFUSE, and served as a poetry editor for two journals. Read her blog at http://joanniestangeland.com/.

A Wine and Poetry Pairing: Not only is Joannie Stangeland a poet, she co-owns a winery with her husband, winemaker Tom Stangeland. Cloudlift Cellars http://cloudlift.net/ crafts Bordeaux-style and Rhone-style wines in Seattle's Georgetown winery—and at the April RASP reading, you can sample them. The evening will begin at 6:00 PM with wine tasting and light snacks, with another opportunity to taste during the break before the open mic.

In order to participate in the wine tasting, you need to RSVP to rsvp@raspread.com