October 15, 2009

Bob Redmond’s recent writing projects include a haibun memoir and “SLUG,” which places haiku about food in grocery stores. In the past, Bob edited Real Change newspaper, performed regularly at the Seattle Poetry Slam and other venues, and published a series of chapbooks. Publishing credits include participation in the anthologies Will Work for Peace (Bret Axel, ed.) and Poetry Nation (Todd Swift and Regie Cabico, eds.). Bob was also a writer-in-residence for the Richard Hugo House in 2005–2006.

Arthur Tulee was born and raised on the Yakama Indian Reservation and graduated from Washington State University in 1990, receiving a B.A. in English. Currently living and working in the Seattle metropolitan area, Arthur is working on his first manuscript of poetry. He has been published in Zyzzyva, The Raven Chronicles, Ergo! The Bumbershoot Literary Anthology, Upstream, The Salmon Bay Review, and the Seattle Arts Commission newsletter.

Additional special guest reader this evening:

Penny Harter’s many poetry books include The Night Marsh (WordTech Editions, 2008), Buried in the Sky (La Alameda Press, 2001), Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth (Sherman Asher, 1998), Stages and Views (Katydid Books, 1994), and Shadow Play (Simon & Schuster, 1994), among others. Her illustrated alphabestiary for children, The Beastie Book, will be out early in 2010, from Shenanigan Books. She also cowrote, with William J. Higginson, The Haiku Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1985, coming out in a 25th anniversary edition from Kodansha in 2010). Widely published, she has won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mary Carolyn Davies Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also won an award from the Dodge Foundation for teaching poetry, and the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award. She lives in southern New Jersey, and visits schools as a teaching-poet. For more information, please visit her website at http://www.2hweb.net, or her blog at http://penhart.wordpress.com.