March 20, 2008

Seattle poet Michael Schein has poetry and stories in such euphonious journals as Slow Trains, Chrysanthemum, The Ledge, Pontoon, American Drivel Review, Elysian Fields, RockSaltPlum, Runes, and Lilies & Cannonballs. His poetry has won a few awards, including a Pushcart nomination. Michael is also executive director of Tieton Arts & Humanities, and on the board of the Washington Poets Association. Michael has written two novels, and will buy beers for agents or editors.

The work of Seattle poet Marion Kimes appears in broadsides, anthologies, magazines, and small press books, starting with Machines, published by Trudy Mercer. A Stretch of Poets with Tom Hunley and Robin Schultz followed. Then came Whirled, a performance quartet, from Paul Hunter’s Wood Works Press (1996). In 1997 Crow’s Eyes: Of Multiplication & Light appeared from Nine Muses Books (Oregon). She’s read at Bumbershoot, The Weathered Wall, Elliott Bay Book Store, and the Seattle Poetry Festival. Recent publications include Namoratung’a (place of the oldest bones) and Choosing the Next Stone. In 2007 she published a small edition of poems with Girlies Press: Pommes: Latterly Poems, and soon Nine Muses will publish Last Year’s Horse.