Our goal with monthly SoulFood Poetry Night readings is to nurture a vibrant poetry community in the greater Redmond and eastside area. By featuring accomplished poets, we hope to inspire our community with variety and quality. If you’re interested in being a featured reader, send an e-mail message to either Michael Dylan Welch (WelchM@aol.com) or Lana Hechtman Ayers (lana.ayers@yahoo.com). Please include a brief bio and/or links to a selection of your poetry online. Our featured readers tend to be established poets, often with books or chapbooks in addition to numerous journal or magazine publications of their poems. We may invite you to visit SoulFood to try reading in our open-mic reading before being a featured reader.

If you are selected as a featured reader, we will ask you to choose a coreader. We will also ask you and your coreader to bring one poem that you designate as your “soulfood” poem (however you want to interpret that). We’d like you to include this poem in your reading, and also bring a print-out so we can add it to the SoulFood Poetry Notebook kept in the store. We are not able to pay our featured readers, but you can sell copies of your books (the store doesn’t ask for a commission).

 

Peter Pereira reads on July 19, 2007.