RAVEN CHRONICLES PRESS & JACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTER
Present: A Reading & Reception for
Stealing Light, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work from 1991-1996
October 24, 2019, Thursday, 7-9pm., Free
Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., University District, Seattle
MC Paul Hunter
Readings by:Bart Baxter
Alicia Hokanson
Anna Odessa Linzer
Carletta Carrington Wilson
The anthology includes the poems, essays, fiction, interviews, and storytelling of 92 writers, and the artwork / illustrations of 26 artists, published in Raven Chronicles Magazine from Summer 1991-Fall 1996.
“To read these pages is to find missives from the frenetic and demonic to the plaintive and searching, from love under the tender lagoons of our nails to deep down secret places of memory. From Alaska to Jordan, Mexico to Hawaii, via owl and whale, there is plenty in these pages for everyone. I invite you, dear reader, to relish their work as much as I did.” —Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate (2018-2020)
Bart Baxter retired as a pilot from Alaska Airlines in 2009. During the last decade he has lived and worked in Mumbai, India, London, England, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is now living in the desert. Baxter, award-winning poet and master of poetic form, and Seattle Poet Populist in 2001, was born in Sherman, Texas. After graduating (B.A. with honors) from the University of Texas, he did postgraduate studies at Boise State University and the University of Washington. His work has appeared in the Formalist, The Ohio Poetry Review, and Poetry, among others. His poetry collections include: A Man, Ostensibly, Egress Studio Press, Bellingham, 2004; The Man with St. Vitus’ Dance, Floating Bridge Press, Seattle, 2000 (includes CD); Sonnets from the Mare Imbrium, Floating Bridge Press, Seattle, 1999; Peace for the Arsonist, Bacchae Press, Bristolville, Ohio, 1995; Driving Wrong, Poetry Around Press, Seattle, 1992. His graphic art was recently shown and awarded at the Joshua Tree National Park Art Exposition.
Alicia Hokanson is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Washington. She recently retired from a forty-year career teaching English, writing, and drama, mostly to middle school students; twenty-seven years were spent at Lakeside School in Seattle. In 2003, she was named the River of Words Poetry Teacher of the Year. She now devotes her time to writing, reading, tutoring, and political activism in Seattle and on Waldron Island. Her first book, Mapping the Distance, was selected by Carolyn Kizer for the King County Arts Commission Publication Prize in 1988. Two chapbooks, Phosphorous and Insistent in the Skin, were published by Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island.
Paul Hunter has published fine letterpress poetry under the imprint of Wood Works Press since 1994: twenty-six books and over sixty broadsides. His poems have appeared in Alaska Fisherman’s Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bloomsbury Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Raven Chronicles, The Small Farmer’s Journal, The Southern Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Windfall, as well as in seven full-length books and three chapbooks. His first collection of farming poems, Breaking Ground, Silverfish Review Press, 2004, was reviewed in The New York Times, and received the 2004 Washington State Book Award. A second volume of farming poems, Ripening, was published in 2007, a third, Come the Harvest, in 2008, and the fourth, Stubble Field, in 2012, all from Silverfish Review Press. He has been a featured poet on The News Hour, and has a prose book on small-scale, sustainable farming, One Seed to Another: The New Small Farming, published by the Small Farmer’s Journal. His new book of prose poetry, Clownery, In lieu of a life spent in harness, was published in 2017 by Davila Art & Books, Sisters, Oregon.
Anna Odessa Linzer is the author of the award-winning novels Ghost Dancing and A River Story, that was adapted into a two-person performance piece. Anna’s home waters are the Salish Sea. Her childhood summers were spent along the beaches and her life since has been lived along these same beaches. The beaches have washed up bits of stories, and like the people she has known, they have entered into her work. Home Waters—a trilogy of three novels, Blind Virgil, Dancing On Waters, and A River Story—was published as a limited edition by Marquand Editions, Seattle, publisher of handmade art books. Her stories, poems, and essays have been published in anthologies and literary magazines. She has been the Chair of a PEN awards panel and of a Northwest Native American conference.
Carletta Carrington Wilson is a visual and literary artist. Her poems have been published in The African American Review, Calyx Journal, Make It True: Poems from Cascadia, Cimarron Review, Obsidian III, The Seattle Review, Raven Chronicles, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, The Journal: Book Club of Washington, Pilgrimage, Uncommon Waters: Women Write About Fishing, and Seattle Poets and Photographers: A Millennium Reflection, and online in Rattapallax: Innovative Northwest Poets and Torch.
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Raven Chronicles is indebted to our 2019 co-sponsors for partial funding of our programs: Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture; 4Culture / King County Lodging Tax; ARTSWA/Washington State Arts Commission with NEA project support; and all Raven subscribers and donors.
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