Riverwood Poetry Presents: Take a Stand: Art Against Hate

Online: Tuesday, October 13, 7pm EST; 4pm PST.

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Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways opens its new season with readings and conversations from the anthology Take A Stand: Art Against Hate, from Raven Chronicles Press in Seattle, Washington. New England poets and community leaders who will read poems from the collection and share their responses, include:
• Anthony Bennett – Lead Pastor at the Mt. Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport, CT
• Steven Hernandez – Director of Connecticut Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity
• Mike Keo – Photographer and Founder, IAMNOTAVIRUS Campaign
• Frederick-Douglass Knowles II—Poet, Professor of English Three Rivers Community College, and Hartford Poet Laureate
• Marilyn Nelson – Poet, University of Connecticut Professor Emeritus, and former Connecticut Poet Laureate
• Elizabeth Neptune – President, Neptune Advantage serving Passamaquoddy and other Native American tribes
• Attorney General William Tong – Connecticut Attorney General
• Taylor Bryan Turner – Assistant Regional Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, Boston, MA, and her father, Robert Bryan
• Representative Mary Jane Wallner – New Hampshire State Representative
• Elaine Zimmerman – Poet and U. S. Region 1 Administrator of Children and Families Boston, MA.

Poems will engage with legacy, presence, questions, evidence and/or resistance. There will be time for discussion with our readers following the presentation. Take a Stand: Art Against Hate can be purchased from the Raven Chronicles at https://www.ravenchronicles.org/shop/take-a-stand-art-against-hate-a-raven-chronicles-anthology/ or at local bookstores.

Thank you for joining us to forward a climate of respect, diversity and dignity. We reach out virtually for the safety and health of all.

Olympic Peninsula Take A Stand: Art Against Hate Anthology Reading 

Co-sponsored by Northwind Reading Series

Port Townsend Public Library

Raven Chronicles Press

This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers

October, 8, 2020, 7:30-9:00 pm (PST)

Moderator: Holly Hughes

Readers: Sharon Carter, Alice Derry

Patrick Dixon, Tess Gallagher,

Gary Copeland Lilley, Lawrence Matsuda

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Sharon M. Carter is a poet and visual artist. Originally from Lancashire, she earned a medical degree from Cambridge University working in both British and American non-profit healthcare systems. Her work has been published in many literary magazines, anthologies and online, including Terra Nova, Pontoon, Exhibition, Ars Medica and the American Lung Association. She was fortunate that Hedgebrook and the Jack Straw Writers program supported her early in her writing career. She is one of four poets curating the Northwind Reading Series in Port Townsend. A manuscript entitled Quiver is forthcoming.

Alice Derry is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently Hunger (MoonPath, 2018) along with three chapbooks, including translations of poems by Rainer Rilke.  She taught for thirty years at Peninsula College, where she curated the Foothills Poetry Series, holding some 12-15 readings per year. Since retirement, she has been active in helping local tribal members access poetry and has taught a number of community workshops in poetry. She has also written a number of essays and presented at professional conferences. Raymond Carver chose her first poetry manuscript, Stages of Twilight, for the King County (Seattle) Arts Prize. Strangers to their Courage was a finalist for the Washington Book Award.

Patrick Dixon is a writer/photographer, retired from careers in teaching and commercial fishing. A member of the Olympia Poetry Network Board of Directors, he has been published in several literary journals, including Cirque, Panoplyzine, Oberon, The Raven Chronicles, The Tishman Review, and the anthologies FISH 2015 and WA129. He is the poetry editor of National Fisherman magazine’s quarterly, North Pacific Focus. A member of the FisherPoets Gathering organizing committee, Mr. Dixon received an Artist Trust Grant to edit Anchored in Deep Water: The FisherPoets Anthology (2014). His chapbook Arc of Visibility won the 2015 Alabama State Poetry Morris Memorial Award. He lives in Olympia, Washington.

Tess Gallagher’s eleventh volume of poetry, Is, Is Not, was published May, 2019 by Graywolf Press. Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, also from Graywolf, is the most comprehensive offering of her poems to date. Other poetry includes Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge, and Amplitude. Gallagher’s The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories (fall, 2009) are the basis for film episodes currently under development. Barnacle Soup: Stories from the West of Ireland, a collaboration with the Sligo storyteller Josie Gray, is available in the U.S. from Carnegie Mellon. She spends time in a cottage on Lough Arrow in County Sligo, in West Ireland, where many of her new poems are set, and also lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington.

Holly Hughes 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. She’s a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program, where she served on the staff for thirteen years, in addition to teaching writing at community colleges for several decades. She currently leads writing and mindfulness workshops in Alaska and the Northwest, and consults as a writing coach.

Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman’s Medicine Show, from Lost Horse Press (2017), and a chapbook, The Hog Killing, from Blue Horse Press (2018). He is originally from North Carolina, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. He has received the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He is published in numerous anthologies and journals, including Best American Poetry 2014, Willow Springs, The Swamp, Waxwing, the Taos International Journal of Poetry, and the African American Review. He is a Cave Canem Fellow.

Lawrence Matsuda was born in the Minidoka, Idaho Concentration Camp during World War II. He and his family were among the approximately 120,000 Japanese incarcerated. In 2010, his book of poetry entitled, A Cold Wind from Idaho about the WWII forced incarceration of Japanese Americans was published by Black Lawrence Press. In 2014 his book of poetry, Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner, was published. It was a collaboration between Matsuda and artist Roger Shimomura, who contributed seventeen original sketches. In 2016, he and Tess Gallagher collaborated on Boogie Woogie CrissCross, a book of poetry developed from emails they exchanged while she was in Ireland and he was in Seattle. In 2019, he completed a novel based on his mother’s experiences entitled, My Name Is Not Viola (Endicott and Hugh publisher).