January 28, 2010

Note: This reading will be on the fourth Thursday of January, not our usual third Thursday of the month.

Rebecca Meredith is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and performed in such venues as the Burning Word Poetry Festival, the Seattle Moon Viewing Festival, Redmond’s Arts in the Park, and on KUOW’s The Beat. Her chapbook, Intergenerational Delta Blues, was published by Pudding House Press. She is a fellow of the Jack Straw Writers’ Program and Hedgebrook Women’s Writer’s Colony, and was recently appointed the first poet laureate of the City of Redmond.

Read about the poet laureate announcement in the Redmond Reporter.

See story in the Seattle Times.

See Channel 13 Fox News TV report.

Trisha Ready writes creative nonfiction most of the time. She has been published in a number of publications including The Stranger, Exquisite Corpse, and the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. Lately, she has been working on her dissertation that centers on psychosis and music. She also writes songs and plays guitar for the once defunct but soon-to-be -resuscitated band, The West Marginals, who will be playing a song or two at the January 28th reading.