July 16, 2015

Peggy Barnett knows that the Northwest is beautiful, but memories of the past haunt her. The Holocaust, growing up Jewish in an Italian and Irish neighborhood in Queens, New York in the 1950s, the atomic bomb, public school, and childhood’s distant happenings arise in her poetry. Peggy graduated from The Cooper Union with a degree in fine art, opened a photography studio in 1968, and became a corporate still-life and portrait photographer. She sold the studio in 2006 and moved north of Seattle to the green fields of Maltby, Washington. Her poetic memoir, On Your Left, dwells on the specifics of unending change.

Terry Busch has been writing poetry since 1972 when he was living in Oakland, California. He has been published in such magazines as The Archer, Magic Blend, and Arts Horizons, and most recently online in Simply Haiku. He is the MC at a regular monthly poetry reading at the Creekside (PoetsWest) in Woodinville, Washington. His poetry has been in published in three Seattle-area anthologies: Gatherings and Gleanings (Northshore Poetry Group), Reflections at the Creekside (Creekside Readings), and Here, There, and Everywhere (Redmond Association of Spokenword). He has recently published a book of his poetry, Almost Forever: Selected Poetry 1972–2014.