Open Mic & Reading featuring Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano

Date: Feb. 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:

Kelli Russell Agodon is a poet, writer, and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent publications are Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014) and The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice, which she coauthored with Martha Silano. Her other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (Winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year in Poetry and a Finalist for the Washington State Book Prize), Small Knots, Geography, and Fire On Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry, which she edited with Annette Spaulding-Convy. Kelli is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press. Her website is www.agodon.com.

Martha Silano has authored four poetry collections, including The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, and Reckless Lovely (Saturnalia Books 2014). She also coedited, with Kelli Russell Agodon, The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, Orion, American Poetry Review, and North American Review, where she received the 2014 James Hearst Poetry Prize, as well as in many anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation and The Best American Poetry 2009. Martha serves as poetry editor of Crab Creek Review and teaches at Bellevue College. She blogs at bluepositive.blogspot.com.