Saturday November 30th at 6:00pm A very special reading and open mic celebrating The Raven Chronicles’ Stealing Light Anthology at BookTree (609 Market St. Kirkland, Wa 98033)

Poety and prose reading from 6 writers:

Anna Bálint

Paul Hunter  (MC)

Gary Lilley

Martha McAvoy Linehan

Shankar Narayan

and

Joannie Stangeland

6pm to 8pm.  75 minutes with 6 writers followed by an open mic.  Don’t miss it.

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Stealing Light, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work 1991-1996: "To read these pages is to find missives from the frenetic and demonic to the plaintive and searching, from love under the tender lagoons of our nails to deep down secret places of memory. From Alaska to Jordan, Mexico to Hawaii via owl and whale there is plenty in these pages for everyone."

 —Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate (2018-2020)

 Author Bios

Anna Bálint is the author of Horse Thief, Curbstone Press, 2004, a collection of short fiction spanning cultures and continents that was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Two earlier books of poetry are Out of the Box and spread them crimson sleeves like wings. She co-edited Poets Against the War, poems protesting the Gulf War, in 1991, and edited Words From the Café, an anthology, Raven Chronicles Press, 2016, an anthology of writing by people in recovery. Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Calyx, Briar Cliff Review, Clackamas Review, Raven Chronicles, Caprice, Stringtown, Radiance, Emeralds in the Ash, Poetic Diversity, Riverbabble, and Sparrow Trill, Minerva Rising’s special issue on Race in America. Anna teaches adults in recovery from the traumas of homelessness, addiction, and mental illness with Seattle’s Path With Art, and is the founder and host of the weekly Safe Place Writing Circle at Recovery Café in Seattle.

 Paul Hunter’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, as well as in seven full-length books and three chapbooks. His first collection of farming poems, Breaking Ground, 2004, from Silverfish Review Press, was reviewed in The New York Times, and received the 2004 Washington State Book Award. A second volume of farming poems, Ripening, was published in 2007, a third companion volume, Come the Harvest, appeared in 2008, and the fourth, from the same publisher, Stubble Field, appeared in 2012. He has been a featured poet on The News Hour, and has a prose book on small-scale, sustainable farming, One Seed to Another: The New Small Farming, published by the Small Farmer’s Journal. His book of prose poetry, Clownery, In lieu of a life spent in harness, was published by Davila Art & Books (2017), Sisters, Oregon. His forthcoming book of eighteen contemporary cowhand stories, Sit a Tall Horse, should be out in January, 2020.

  Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman's Medicine Show, from Lost Horse Press (2017), and a chapbook, The Hog Killing, from Blue Horse Press (2018). He is originally from North Carolina and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. He has received the Washington DC Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He is published in numerous anthologies and journals, including Best American Poetry 2014, Willow Springs, The Swamp, Waxwing, the Taos International Journal of Poetry, and the African American Review. He is a Cave Canem fellow.

 Martha McAvoy Linehan is a Seattle-based poet, art maker, chemical dependency professional and Integrated Movement Therapist (IMT). She co-founded with her sister Jennie Linehan, Word UP SHOT, a photography and poetry project designed for adolescent girls in recovery. She later adapted the scope of the project to address the specific needs of young women who have been commercially sexually exploited. Martha currently works as a counselor, yoga instructor and art facilitator with the Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS)(www.seattleops.org), a social service agency and agent of change that envisions a world of gender equality, free from all forms of oppression and exploitation. She has a collection of poems, Au Revoir Georgette, Poetry Around Press, and a chapbook, SISTER, Poems & Images (2019).

 Shankar Narayan explores identity, power, mythology, and technology in a world where the body is flung across borders yet possesses unrivaled power to transcend them. Shankar is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of the 2017 Flyway Sweet Corn Poetry Prize, and has been a fellow at Kundiman and at Hugo House. He is a 4Culture grant recipient for Claiming Space, a project to lift the voices of writers of color, and his chapbook, Postcards From the New World, won the Paper Nautilus Debut Series chapbook prize. Shankar draws strength from his global upbringing and from his work as a civil rights attorney for the ACLU. In Seattle, he awakens to the wonders of Cascadia every day, but his heart yearns east to his other hometown, Delhi. Connect with him at shankarnarayan.net.   

 Joannie Stangeland is the author of The Scene You See (most recently), In Both Hands, and Into the Rumored Spring, all from Ravenna Press, as well as three chapbooks. In 2019, she received the Crosswinds Poetry Journal grand prize Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, The Southern Review, and other journals. Joannie holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop.