Our first reading will be this coming Wednesday April 1 (no joke!) featuring Lola Peters and Lew Jones plus some Community Mic action. Next up on April 8th will be Paul Nelson and Mary Crane.
Lola E. Peters lives in West Seattle where she writes essays, poems, and short stories that reflect her commitment to justice. She has published two collections of poems and a book of essays. She serves as Editor-at-Large for the SouthSeattleEmerald.com and as a freelance OpEd columnist for Crosscut.com.
Lew Jones: I am an English Major and a professional musician who has always written poetry. A song is a poem put to music by definition and much of my poetry is lyrical and comes from writing music and lyrics. I have performed on stage with Ray Manzerak and Michael McClure and Michael C. Ford (Jim Morrison's college room mate) Other poets I like are Dylan Thomas, Shelley, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, W.B Yeats, ee cummings, Auden, Sylvia Beach and Emily Dickenson. I have published some of my works: 100 Poems 4 Poets Vantage Press NYC, Hour of The Poet/Thoughts Upon The Lake Of Time Goldfish Publishing Seattle, The Falling Light of Inspiration Poems Beyond Amazon Publishing. My poems are from moments where I find literature is deeper than song, possibly epic and without commercial restraint. "The falling light of inspiration beckons a woven lapidary, a vision beyond hauteur refrain, Let us place a chatelaine round these poems of ferrum."-Lewton Jones 2020
First you need to download ZOOM at www.zoom.com (The FREE version). Be sure to have a camera and mic attached to your computer unless you use your smart phone or tablet which will use its camera and mic. I suggest you download the app now and if you have any problems, I can help you trouble shoot it.
Once you have done that, all you need to do is click the link in the invitation sent to you a little before 7 PM PST next Wednesday and you will be connected. I have scheduled the meeting from 7:00 - 8:30 just to give a little extra time at the end. You shouldn't need the meeting ID or password.
Sign up for the Community Mic by emailing me (info@poetrybridge.net) and I will create a sign up sheet in the order that I receive your email. We will try to hear as many as we can until 8 PM. Each person will have a mx of 5 minutes each, strictly regulated. If you don't get in this Wednesday, we will continue with the sign-up sheet the following Wednesday.
To Join the Reading click the link sent in the email to you if you were on the PoetryBridge’s email list. If you are not on the list, email Leopoldo at info@poetrybridge.net and request being added to the email list.