Michele Bombardier is the winner of the 2024 NORward Prize in poetry and the author of What We Do, a Washington Book Award finalist. Recent work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Atlanta Review, JAMA, Parabola, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Mineral School, Centrum, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and the Edith Wharton Residency and support from Humanities Washington. Michele is the inaugural poet laureate of Bainbridge Island and the founder of Fishplate Poetry.
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This reading is part of the Downtown Redmond Art Walk (DRAW) at SoulFood CoffeeHouse. Come early to explore other nearby activities, including a poetry reading at 4:45 pm at the Buoyant Pavilion in Redmond’s Downtown Park.
Matthew Nienow’s If Nothing (Alice James Books, 2025) has been recommended by the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book Club, and Poetry Northwest. He has also published House of Water (Alice James Books, 2016) and three chapbooks. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Lit Hub, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, and he has had fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Artist Trust. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where he works as a mental health counselor.