Carolyne Wright and Mary Crane are our two featured readers for Virtually Live PoetryBridge #15 on Wednesday June 8, 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.
Carolyne Wright’s most recent books are This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017), whose title poem won a Pushcart Prize and was included in The Best American Poetry 2009; and the bilingual sequence Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces by Chilean poet Eugenia Toledo (Mayapple Press, 2017), a Finalist for the 2018 Washington State Book Award and the 2018 PEN America-Los Angeles Award in Translation.
Wright has nine other volumes of poetry (including the Blue Lynx Prize and American Book Award-winning Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfire), a collection of essays, and five award-winning volumes of poetry in translation.
A Seattle native who has taught for Hugo House since 2005, Wright has received grants from the NEA, 4Culture, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, and the Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil. Just as the pandemic was spreading around the world, she learned that she had received a 2020-2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Bahia, Brazil, which she will take up after the global COVID-19 travel advisory is lifted.
Mary Eliza Crane is a Northwest Poet who has lived in the Cascade foothills for over thirty years. A regular feature at poetry venues throughout Puget Sound, she has read her poetry from Woodstock to L.A., as well as with Siberian poets in Novosibirsk, Russia, and has been translated into Russian. She has two volumes of poetry published by Gazoobi Tales.
Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Raven Chronicles, Pudding Magazine, Cirque and Night Picnic, as well as The LitFUSE Anthology, WA 129 Poets of Washington, and most recently Bridge Above the Falls, an anthology of northwest poets from Rose Alley Press.
Mary is co-curator and part time host of the Duvall Poetry reading series, a monthly reading series which has been running continuously for over fifteen years.