Save the date! Saturday June 1rst at Booktree another 1st Saturday free writing workshop followed by a reading (three co-features this month) and an open mic.

The workshop on metaphor will be led by Emily Ransdell. It begins at 4:24 pm to 6pm.

The PIE (PoetryIsEverything) reading will feature Emily, Allisa Cherry and Eileen Pettycrew at 6:15 pm —including Open Mic (bring something to read and share!)

I hope you can make it! Thanks for sharing and encouraging others to be part of it. Our Facebook Event Page is Here!

Thank YOU!

Bios

Emily Ransdell is the author of One Finch Singing, winner of the 2022 Lewis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her work has appeared in Rattle, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, CAYLX, and elsewhere. Emily divides her time between Camas, Washington and Manzanita, Oregon, where she teaches poetry classes at the Hoffman Center for the Arts.

Allisa Cherry grew up in a religious enclave in the irradiated high desert of Eastern Arizona, where much of her work is set. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest where she completed her MFA at Pacific University, teaches workshops for immigrants and refugees transitioning to a life in the United States, and is an associate poetry editor and book reviewer for West Trade Review. Her poetry has appeared recently in TriQuarterly, The Penn Review and The Journal. She is the 2024 recipient of the Wheelbarrow Books poetry prize awarded by the RCAH Center for Poetry and her book An Exodus of Sparks is forthcoming from Michigan State University Press.

Eileen Pettycrew’s poems have been published in CALYX Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, New Ohio Review, ONE ART, SWWIM, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. In 2022 she was a finalist for the New Letters Award for Poetry and one of two runners-up for the Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry from Press 53. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Eileen lives in Portland, Oregon, and is a current MFA poetry student at Pacific University.