WordsWest Literary Series
presents
Catherine Barnett & Renee Simms
"Questions of Time Travel, Time Zones, Times Up"
Wed., March 20, 2019, 7pm, C & P Coffee Co., 5612 California Ave. SW
Favorite Poem and Book Sales by Open Books: A Poem Emporium
Catherine Barnett is the author of three poetry collections, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (2004),The Game of Boxes (2012), winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Human Hours, just published by Graywolf Press. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award, she is a member of the core faculty of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, a Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College, and an independent editor. She lives in New York City.
Renee Simms' writing appears in Callaloo, Oxford American, Ecotone, Literary Hub, Southwest Review, North American Review, The Rumpus, Salon and elsewhere. She’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, Kimbilio, PEN Center, and Cave Canem. She’s been a featured artist at Elliott Bay Book Company, Tempe Center for the Arts, Midnight Special Bookstore, and on the Portland book podcast, Between the Covers. She lives with one-and-a half children (her eldest is away at college) and a black and white kitty named Barack. Renee’s debut story collection is Meet Behind Mars. She is currently working on a collection of essays and a novel.
Favorite Poem & Book Sales by
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
2414 N. 45th St., Seattle
Our 500-square-foot shop is brimming with more than 10,000 new, used, and out-of-print poetry books, as well as a selection of titles about poetry. You’ll find a broad range of volumes on our shelves from publishers huge, tiny, and in between. We also purchase a wide array of used books to maintain what we hope is a continually varied and interesting stock.
Billie Swift, Owner and Events Coordinator
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Abi Pollokoff, Events
Billie Swift, Owner and Events Coordinator
Alexander Moysaenko, General Manager
Gabrielle Bates, Social Media
Abi Pollokoff, Events
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Upcoming
- April 17, 2019 - We'll celebrate National Poetry Month with poet Mark Doty and poet, critic, translator and professor Ilya Kaminsky. Favorite Poem and book sales by Open Books: A Poem Emporium.
