Carrie Gilstrap-Nettle and Joel Kabakov are our featured readers on Wednesday June 29, 2020 starting at 7 PM. An invitation link will be sent to everyone on the PoetryBridge email list. Please email me at info@poetrybridge.net to request being added to the list.
Carrie Gilstrap-Nettle writes in many forms, but poetry is the most natural to her. Carrie teaches wreading (reading/writing) to students 2 – 102. She focuses on students with learning disabilities and actively champions for disability education, financial opportunities and protections.
Carrie also translates nerd/geek. She's won chapbook contests, published, but dislikes taking time away from writing to play the publishing game.
Joel Kabakov, PhD, was raised in Los Angeles, educated at UC Berkeley in music and Harvard Graduate School in composition where he received a Graduate Prize Fellowship which earned him a doctorate under Leon Kirchner and Leonard Bernstein.
While in Cambridge,his poetical tendencies were catalyzed by encounters with master poets Octavio Paz and Robert Lowell. But not until year 2000 and a move to Seattle did Kabakov take his writing public as a member of Poets West which presented him as featured reader at many venues in the region.
“Available Light” is Kabakov’s book of collected poems published in 2015 by Goldfish Press Glowingly reviewed by Harvard Colloquy “The poems are eloquent and well-crafted, the language ranging from fastidious and poetic to loose-limbed vernacular…JK now resides in The Dalles with his wife Antonia, is compiling his second book of poems, teaches music at Columbia Gorge Community College and leads the eclectic music ensemble Europatopia Ensemble.