Short Bios
Leopoldo Seguel has hosted monthly readings at PoetryBridge at C&P Coffee in West Seattle for ten years featuring poets, storytellers and a community mic. His creative interest includes poetry, piano, collages, mobiles, small sculptures and co-creating artistic spaces. Leopoldo embraces art as a creative gateway to building robust and healthy communities.
Judy Pigott - I’m a mom, grandmother, author, activist, educator, and community member. Sometimes, for periods of time I don’t understand, I’ve written poems. Those periods seem to come and go. I’ve lived in nine cities and three countries. West Seattle is home.
Tito Titus: Empty Bowl Press published I can still smile like Errol Flynn by Tito Titus in 2015. Many of the poems in that book were first performed at C&P Coffee as a part of this Poetrybridge series. His new poem compilation will be called So Far, So Good.
Katherine Grace Bond writes to seek new conversations about the rifts in our psyches and culture. She is the author of The Summer of No Regrets (Sourcebooks) and six other books of poetry and prose. Katherine offers an intensive year-long coaching program to novelists, memoirists and poets.
Theresa McCormick, West Seattle writer, artist, and retired professor of multicultural education, has published a memoir, A Far Cry From Here -- Growing Up and Out of Fundamentalism and exhibited her art in a variety of venues. Currently, she is working on a book, I Was There When ... (combines history and memoir).
Michael Hickey received a BA in creative writing from the University of Arizona, 1987, and an MFA from the University of Washington, 1992. He has volunteered as a poetry instructor in prisons, juvenile detention centers, and he is a tenured writing instructor at South Seattle College where he started teaching in 1994. n. He was elected as Seattle's eighth "Poet Populist" in 2009 and has written several books including A Dress Walked by with a Woman Inside.
Benjamin Schmitt is the author of three books, most recently Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Hobart, Worcester Review, Columbia Review, Roanoke Review, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At The Inkwell. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.
Kerry Cox is a Seattle poet who spent 7 years in New Orleans writing and performing poetry. Her poems have been published in Journeys, online whispers & [Shouts], origami condom, On the Cusp and received Honorable Mention in Anthology magazine's annual poetry contest. An aspiring poetry therapist, she facilitates workshops and writing groups using poetry as a healing tool.
John Burgess grew up in upstate New York, worked on a survey crew in Montana, taught English in Japan, and since 1985 has lived and worked in Seattle. He has five books of poetry, some with maps and drawings, from Ravenna Press, most recently 1977, a punk history.
Cheryl Latif: After attending a now defunct poetry convention in Seattle in 2000, Cheryl left San Diego for the Pacific Northwest, arriving in 2001. Her poems have been seen in various public arts exhibits and published in journals and anthologies. A copywriter by trade, she relishes fooling with words.
Scot Bastian, a retired scientist, haunting local Seattle stages and podiums for twenty years, has published a collection of short plays, “Do Ya Think: Science, Science Fiction and Skepticism” available from Amazon. He also published a thesis entitled “Concerted Stimulation of Transcription by the Hormone Responsive Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Transcriptional Enhancer and Heterologous Promoter Elements.” But, no one in their right mind would want to read that. For the last two decades
Roberto Ascalon has taught poetry across Seattle. His poem “The Fire This Time, or, How Come Some Brown Boys Get Blazed Right Before Class And Other Questions Without Marks” won the 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize and a Pushcart nomination. He currently serves as the acting station chief for the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas at Yesler Terrace.
Julene Tripp Weaver is a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle. Her book, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and won the Bisexual Book Award. She co-hosts Word Chaser at Cafe Racer, a new Seattle reading series.
Koon Woon is all about home. Home for his three-dimensional body and home for his four-dimensional poetry. For him, home is where he likes to be and they are glad he is there. An itinerant from China originally, Koon finds acceptance of his visions and acceptance of his poetic works, right now, right here, with all you folks at the C & P.
