Our First Saturday Free Writing Workshop, PIE* reading and open mic happens on December 7th. Featuring: Jill McCabe Johnson and Jed Myers! Bring a friend.

Workshop @ 4:24pm Reading & Open Mic @ 6:15pm

Jill and Jed will lead a free writing workshop (4:24 to 6pm) entitled "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," a generative writing workshop, giving voice to hope in its myriad, mysterious forms. Poetry and prose writers of all levels welcome.

At 6:15 pm Jill and Jed will read from their recently published poetry collections followed by an open mic (sign up at 6:05pm).

Yes you can purchase their latest books too (which they would happily personally sign for you too!).

*PIE = Poetry Is Everything

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Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of three poetry books, most recently Tangled in Vow & Beseech, finalist in the Sally Albiso and Wheelbarrow Books poetry prizes. Honors include an Academy of American Poets prize, the Paula Jones Gardiner Poetry Award from Floating Bridge Press, two Nautilus Book Awards, plus support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Artist Trust, and Hedgebrook. She spends her free time writing, hiking, and in close observation of the natural world. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University and her PHD in English from University of Nebraska. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest and spent her childhood digging for clams and geoducks, harvesting wild berries, and reading in poor light. Her scholarship focuses on the influence of walking on literature, and her personal life often veers toward trails, too—from hikes in her beloved Pacific Northwest, San Juan Islands to historic routes.

Jed Myers grew up in Philadelphia and studied poetry at Tufts University. While continuing to read and write poems, he studied medicine at Case Western Reserve and then trained in psychiatry at the University of Washington. He settled in Seattle, where he still maintains a private therapy practice and teaches in the UW Department of Psychiatry.

Myers' first full-length collection, Watching the Perseids, which chronicles his father’s dying of a glioblastoma, won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award. He’s authored three award winning chapbooks, and his poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, The Summerset Review, Southern Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere, including several anthologies. Two recent essays on poetry and medicine have appeared in JAMA. Jed is Poetry Editor for the journal Bracken.