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 email message to either Michael Dylan Welch (WelchM@aol.com) or Tanya McDonald (tanyamcdonald1375@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 (this is one of the unique aspects of our reading series, in the spirit of building community and connections). 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 the café is happy to provide you with a free beverages as our guests. You can also sell copies of your books (the store doesn’t ask for a commission).
Most of our readings are also streamed live on the Internet. If you wish for your reading not to be broadcast, please let us know.
We hope to see you at one of our readings soon. Please come and join our thriving poetry community! Click here for directions or for information about our next reading.
 Peter Pereira reads on July 19, 2007. |