Jan. 7, 2021, Thursday, from 7-8:30 pm PST
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Contributors from the anthology Take A Stand, Art Against Hate will read their work and work by other authors.
With over 170 contributors, including Jericho Brown, Lucille Clifton, Marge Piercy, and Danez Smith, Take a Stand features poetry, artwork, essays, and fiction that confront past and ongoing injustices and offer visions of positive change. Co-hosted by Jack Straw Cultural Center and Raven Chronicles Press.
Readers
MC: Holly Hughes
Kathleen Alcalá
Ronda Broatch
Mike Dillon
Ed Harkness
Anna Odessa Linzer
Jed Myers
Carletta Carrington Wilson
Holly Hughes (moderator) is the author of Hold Fast, Sailing by Ravens, coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and editor of the award-winning anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease. Her fine art chapbook Passings received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2017.
Kathleen Alcalá: Both a graduate of and instructor in the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy program, her work embraces both traditional and innovative storytelling techniques. She is the author of six award-winning books that include a collection of stories, three novels, a book of essays, and, most recently, The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island, from the University of Washington Press.
Ronda Piszk Broatch, poet and photographer, is the author of Lake of Fallen Constellations (MoonPath Press, 2015). Ronda was a finalist for the Four Way Books Prize, and her poems have been nominated several times for the Pushcart prize.
Mike Dillon, retired publisher of Pacific Publishing Co., grew up on Bainbridge Island. His most recent book is Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor(Unsolicited Press, April 2019).
Ed Harkness is the author of three poetry collections, Saying the Necessary, Beautiful Passing Lives, and, most recently, The Law of the Unforeseen, from Pleasure Boat Studio Press. He lives in Shoreline, Waashington.
Anna Odessa Linzer lives on Dabob Bay, where she writes poetry and fiction, is adapting her play from her novel A River Story into a film, and where she swims year around. Her novel Ghost Dancing received an American Book Award in 1998; three of her other novels were published as a limited-edition trilogy Home Waters by Marquand Books.
Jed Myers is author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), and four chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Poetry Northwest, The American Journal of Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere.
Carletta Carrington Wilson is a visual and literary artist. The form and formation of language is integral to the work she creates by which she explores the “texts” of textiles. Her installation, letter to a laundress, was exhibited at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the University of Puget Sound’s Kittredge Gallery, and Seattle’s King Street Station.