RASP Reading Series featuring Carolyne Wright & Open Mic

Poet and translator Carolyne Wright to read in Redmond on May 30

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About the featured reader:

CAROLYNE WRIGHT has published nine

books of poetry, four volumes of poetry translations from Spanish and Bengali,

and a collection of essays. Most recent are Mania

Klepto: The Book of Eulene (Turning

Point, 2011), A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), and Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfire (Carnegie Mellon UP/EWU Books, 2nd ed.,

2005), which won the Blue Lynx Prize and the American Book Award. Wright is a contributing editor for the


Pushcart Prizes, a senior editor for Lost Horse Press, and on the faculty of


the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts’ Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program.

She received a 2013 4Culture Art Projects Award for “Mother-of-Pearl Women,” a section

of a book in progress of new and selected poems, This Dream the

World.

This reading is supported,

in part, by an award from 4Culture.