August 16, 2012

Sergey Feldman is a poet-engineer. He was born in Ukraine, raised in the Midwest, and lives in Seattle, where he studies applied math and meditation. He spent ten months traveling the world and wrote about it. Sergey drums and recites with the Band of Poets.

John Burgess grew up in upstate New York, worked on a survey crew in Montana, taught English in Japan, and since 1985 has lived in Seattle, where he does corporate communications for an insurance company. Ravenna Press publishes his poetry: Punk Poems (2005), A History of Guns in the Family (2008), and Graffito (2011). John was a 2006 Jack Straw writer, cofounder of the original Burning Word Festival, and the 2008 Words’ Worth curator for the Seattle City Council. He’s currently editor for the online lit journal Snow Monkey, board member at Richard Hugo House, and coconspirator with the Band of Poets.