Next Beacon Bards Reading Features Rebecca Hoogs & Sierra Nelson, May 8 at 7 pm

Rebecca Hoogs

Sierra Nelson Please join us at 7 pm at The Station Cafe,  2533 16th Avenue South, in Seattle's  Beacon Hill neighborhood Featured readers: Rebecca Hoogs  & Sierra Nelson May 8:  http://www.rockitspace.org/beacon-bards.html  Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, "Grenade" (GreenTower Press),  and her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse,  Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, Cincinnati  Review and others. She won the 2011 Southeast Review poetry contest.  She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony  and Artist Trust of Washington State. She is the Director of  Education Programs and the curator of the Poetry Series  for Seattle Arts & Lectures teaches for the Creative  Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington. Sierra Nelson’s lyrical choose-your-own-adventure I Take Back  the Sponge Cake, made in collaboration with visual artist  Loren Erdrich, debuted from Rose Metal Press in Spring 2012,  and her chapbook “In Case of Loss” is part of the Toadlily  Press Quartet Series (Fall 2012). Nelson is a MacDowell  Colony fellow, a 2011 Hackney Literary Award winner,  and co-founder of literary performance art groups  The Typing Explosion and the Vis-à-Vis Society.  Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest,  City Arts Magazine, Crazyhorse, Thermos, DIAGRAM,  Tin House, and Forklift Ohio, among others. Arrive early for happy hour prices & a guaranteed seat!  Bring a poem to read at the open mic that follows after  the featured readers. Support local arts & artists  through RockIt Community Arts, sponsor of this monthly series  curated by yours truly.  Please pass the word along about this reading to others who  might be interested - thanks!

The Big Poetry Giveaway 2013

It's that time very, very poetry time of year again. In the 2013 version, Susan Rich has joined forces with Kelli Russell Agodon to orchestrate the National Poetry Month Big Poetry Giveaway.

For my part in the freebee brigade, I am offering up a gratis copy of my newest collection, The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and an Academy of American Poets Notable Book of 2011, along with a copy of Katherine Larson's gorgeous Radial Symmetry, 2011 Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

All you need to do is post a comment about this blog post stating that you are "in," and on May 1 you very well may be randomly chosen to receive a free book. It's that easy.