John Gorski and Jill Hardin are our featured readers on Wednesday September 9th, 2020 starting at 7 PM. Read more to see their bios.
We invite all Community Micers to read for our first live reading since we took an August break.
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.
John Gorski was born in Missouri. He mostly grew up in Maryland and Cincinnati, Ohio before moving to Seattle in 1976. He has lived in Seattle since then. He attended grades 1 through 11 in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1974 with a BA in English Literature. He has taken poetry writing classes at the U.W. Extension and The Richard Hugo House.
Some of his poems have appeared in Paper Boat, Poetry-On-Buses 2014, Five Willows Literary Review and The 2020 Chrysanthemum Poetry Anthology.
See POEMS for selected poems he plans on reading.
Jill Hardin, born to musician parents in Eugene, Oregon, wandered the East Coast, England and France in the sixties, before returning to the Great Northwest. Using her BA in Music, as musician, teacher, and piano tuner, while raising her two daughters, she sang professionally with the Seattle Opera Company. She later wrote and performed Muse and Mask, for Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival. She has written poetry most of her adult life, with emphasis on songwriting in the earlier years. She fondly remembers being mentored by her brother Tim during the earliest of those years. Since the late eighties, she
has become more interested in the purity of the word alone as art, expressing Truth, Gratitude, and all the in-betweens. She is currently working on a second book of poetry … much of life having put that notion on the back burner for much too long now! She hopes to have it out within the next six months.
See POEMS for selected poems she plans on reading.