Sigrun Susan Lane and Joel Kabakov will be our featured poets for VLP #7 on Wednesday May 13 starting at 7 PM PDT. Both are first time readers at PoetryBridge and come highly recommended by Koon Woon. I am excited to hear them and look forward to hearing some live flamenco guitar. See Poems to read a poem they plan on reading.
Sigrun Susan Lane is a Seattle poet. Her poems have appeared in a number of publications including Amsterdam Quarterly, Arnazella, Albatross, Bellowing Ark, Blue Collar Review, Cascade, Chrysanthemum, Crab Creek Review, Cirque, Duckabush, Hubbub, Floating Bridge Press Vol. # 4, 5, 6, 7, JAMA, The Mom Egg, Malahat Review, Melusine, Passager, The Poeming Pigeon, Pontoon # 10, Rain City Review, Raven Chronicles, Sing Heavenly Muse, Seattle Review, Stringtown and Still Crazy.
She has received awards for poetry from the Seattle and the King County Arts Commissions. Lane has published two chapbooks, Little Bones and Salt both from Goldfish Press.
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.