Carolyne Wright and Dorothy Lemoult are our two featured readers for Virtually Live PoetryBridge #9 on Wednesday May 27, 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. Please email me by end of the day on Tuesday May 26th.
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.
Dorothy Lemoult (she/her/hers) is a French American multi disciplinary artist with a passion in utilizing expressive arts to treat trauma, promote mental health and dismantle systems of oppression.
She is the owner and founder of Seattle Drama Therapy and has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts and a Masters in Counseling and drama therapy.
Her life motto ( inspired by her son, Elliott) is that “ every challenge is an invitation to love more”.