Priscilla Long and Arleen Williams are our featured readers on Wednesday June 22, 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.
See Featured Poems to read poems they plan on reading.
Drawing by Jerry Jaz
Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, fiction, and history, and a long-time independent teacher of writing. Her most recent book is Holy Magic: Poems (MoonPath Press), for which she won the Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award. Her how-to-write guide is The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life (Second Edition, University of New Mexico Press). Her work appears widely and her books are a collection of linked creative nonfictions titled Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press); Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Poets, and Other Creators (Coffeetown Press); and Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). She is also author of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. Her awards include a National Magazine Award. Her science column, Science Frictions, ran for 92 weeks in The American Scholar. She earned an MFA from the University of Washington and serves as Founding and Consulting Editor of www.historylink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history. She grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Arleen Williams is a novelist, memoirist, and co-author of a dozen short novels in easy English for adults. She enjoys writing about cross-cultural friendships, family, and redemption while setting her stories in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When not putting pen to paper, Arleen teaches English as a Second Language at South Seattle College where she has worked with immigrants and refugees for three decades. To learn more, please visit www.arleenwilliams.comand www.notalkingdogspress.com/.