July 18, 2019
Georgia S. McDade, a charter member of the African-American Writers’ Alliance, began reading her stories in public in 1991 and credits the group with making her write poetry. Many of her poems are inspired by artists. Georgia writes for South Seattle Emerald and Leschinews. She also does stories for KVRU (105.7) and KBCS (107.3). Outside the Cave is a set of four volumes of poetry. Observation and Revelations: Stories, Sketches, and Essays is her volume of prose.
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Carolyne Wright’s latest book is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017). Her anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse, 2015), received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in the Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards. A Seattle native, in 2018 she enjoyed a two-month writing residency in Bahia, Brazil.
This reading is supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.
