calendar:
UPCOMING READINGS & EVENTS:
May 13, 2024: Zoom Poetry Reading
May 21: Jackleg Poetry Reading with Melissa Studdard
June 11: Generating New Work with Susan Rich
Where I'm Teaching or Coaching:
Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse: A new tool for poets sent to you every Sunday morning includes 2 poetry prompts a week, where to send your work, and so much more! Plus an private Facebook page where Two Sylvias editors pop in to respond to your poems & questions.
Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA Program, Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW)
Past Events:
April 18-20, 2024: Reading and Panel at the New Orleans Poetry Festival
April 12 & 13, 2024: ASU Distinguished Writers Series with Sati Mookerjee
October 19, 2023 (Thursday): Bainbridge Island Reading Reading
October 7, 2023 (Saturday) via Zoom: Keynote Speaker for the Oregon Poetry Association, "Getting Past the Mask"
June 23 or 24, 2023: Pop-Up Zoom Class on Generating New Work (2 hours): This class is only for paid-subscribers of Two Sylvias Press' Weekly Muse. To become a paid subscriber to attend this class, please subscribe here:
twosylviaspress.substack.com/subscribe
May 6, 2023, 11 am CST (online): Nebraska Writers Guild (details to come)
May 4, 2023, 4 pm (PST) South Carolina Reading with Jenna Le.
April 30, 2023 (Sunday): Reading with Jeannine Hall Gailey Book Launch of Flare, Corona.
April 20, 2023 (Thursday), SoulFood Books Reading with Jeannine Hall Gailey, Redmond, Washington, SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington at 6 pm https://sites.google.com/site/soulfoodpoetrynight/
April 13 - 16, 2023, Write! at Doe Bay: Learn more here: https://doebay.com/write-doe-bay/
November 16, 2022, Wednesday, 4-5:30 pm PST: Zoom Reading with Melissa Studdard for Fourth Genre. Register for a Zoom link here
January 26, 2023, Thursday, 6 - 7:30 pm PST: In-Person Hugo House Reading with Caitlin Scarano, Katerina Canyon, and EJ Koh
January 28, 2023: Zoom Class! Write New Poems for the New Year: 10 am - 2 pm with Susan Rich. Click here to register, space is limited.
October 7-9, 2022: Skagit River Poetry Festival, La Conner, WA. (in-person). Click here for tickets.
October 24, 2022 Monday Pre-Sylvia Plath's birthday): Everett Poetry Night 5 pm - 8 pm at The Sister's Restaurant, 2804 Grand Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 In-person
October 29, 2022, Plume Poetry Reading (Online)
October 30, 2022: Hosting a reading for Two Sylvias Press for Saúl Hernández.
September 8 - 9 Poets on the Coast La Conner, WA, in-person (FULL)
September 2, 2022, Friday, Vancouver, WA at Birdhouse Books: Poetry Reading with John Sibley Williams & Emmett Wheatfall:
Sept 1, 2022: Soul Bone / MIU Residency Reading with Sara Henning. 5:30 pm PST
June 23, 2022 (Thursday) with Francis Daulerio:
Details TBA!
June 30, 2022 Bainbridge Island (in-person!) 7pm with Suzanne Edison & Michael Schmeltzer, Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island, WA. Click here to learn more.
July 14, 2022 7 pm Portland Reading with John Sibley Williams and Emmett Wheatfall
Hosted by Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232
April 22 (Friday), ZOOM Reading & Conversation for Longview Library.
April 23, 2022 (Saturday): Risking It!: A Generative Writing Class with Susan Rich
April 7, 2022 (Thursday) IN-PERSON at 6 pm, Elliott Bay Books, Seattle: with Susan Rich!
March 29, 2022 (Wednesday), 7:30 pm PST: Reading Poetry Superhighway Reading
January 19, 2022 (Wednesday) at 6 pm PST with Maggie Smith: Third Place Books ZOOM
December 5 at 8 pm PST: Wildwood Saloon Portland, Oregon (in-person!) Poetry Reading for Dialogues with Rising Tides
November 21, 2021 at 1 pm PST: Reading for San Jose Library
November 16, 2021 at 5 pm PST via Zoom: Poetry is Normal Presents the Kells: Kelli Russell Agodon & Kelly Cressio-Moellers, supported by the Normal Public Library Foundation
September 25, 2021: 10 am - 3 pm PST: The Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealists Writing Prompts and Play. via ZOOM
Wednesday, September 15, 2021: Olympia Poetry Network.
June 30, 2021: Two Sylvias Press Zoom Book Release Reading for Gail Martin & Kelly Cressio-Moeller, 5 pm PST hosted by Diane Seuss and Kelli Russell Agodon.
July 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm PST Skylight Books with Heidi Seaborn.
June 2, 2021 (Wed.), 6:30 pm - 8 pm PST: One Page Wednesday Reading Series.
COPPER CANYON RELEASE READING:
May 5th 2021 (Wednesday), 5 pm PST: Copper Canyon Press Spring Book Release Zoom Reading. with Kayleb Ray Candrill, Arthur Sze, Nikki Wallshlaeger, Noah Warren, and me. Click Here to Sign up for Zoom link.
May 20: Northwind Reading Series with Susan Landgraf.
May 23, 2021 (Sun.): Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase Reading Kelli Russell Agodon, Diane Seuss, & Risa Denenberg.
April 25 2021 (Sunday): Presence Literary Journal Reading 1 - 2 pm PST.
April 28, 2021 (Wed.) 4:30 pm PST: Words Together, Worlds Apart Reading Series
April 30, 2021 (Friday), Third Place Books: With Deborah Bacharach
March 30, 2021: Pacific Lutheran University PLU RWW Alumni Reading
March 17, 2021, 4 pm PST: Poets on the Plaza Reading for Women's History Month with Nin Andrews and Amanda Newell
March 18, 2021: 4:30 pm PST Gulf Coast University Samuel Pepys Reading Series
Feb. 13, 2021 (Online/Zoom Class): Demystifying the Manuscript with Susan Rich and guest poets Diane Seuss & January Gill O'Neil.
Feb. 21, 2021, 4 pm PST: Lit Youngstown Online Reading with Erica Sofer Bodwell & Jennifer Jean.
Jan. 9th (my birthday!) and Whale Road Review Anniversary
Jan. 11, 2021: Online Interview/Reading: I'll be interviewing Jennifer Jean about her new book Object Lessons and she'll be reading poems.
Dec. 1: Guest Speaker 4 pm PST for Two Sylvias Press & Free Workshop with Jessica Jacobs & Nickole Brown
Dec. 3: Katerina Canyon's Poetry Reading, 7 pm PST
November 11: The Familiar Wild Anthology Reading
November 10: Book Launch for Donna Vorreyer
September 11 - 13, 2020: Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women
October 13, 2020: Word into Action (Liechtenstein/Zoom)
October 4th, 2018, 7 pm: Queen Anne Books, Seattle, WA Seattle7 Reading with Claudia Castro Luna, Frances McCue, and Michael Schmeltzer.
April 15, 2016: Port Townsend, WA. Reading 7 pm
March 31, 2016, 4:30 PM, AWP LA: On Creating Your Own Community: Gold Salon 1, JW Marriott LA, 1st Floor AWP Los Angeles
November 7, 2015, Saturday: OPEN HOUSE, Two Sylvias Press, Kingston, WA 10am- 5pm
October 28, 2015: Poetry & the Creative Progress: 7 pm with Michele Bombadier, Ronda Broatch, & Friends: Bainbridge Island Library, WA.
October 20, 2015, Tuesday: Field's End Bainbridge Island Library, Bainbridge Island, WA Ekphrastic Workshop, 7 pm - 8:30 pm
October 17, 2015, Saturday: Generating New Work Workshop in Bellingham, 1 pm - 3 pm
Saturday, June 6, 2015: Poulsbohemian, Poulsbo, WA 7 pm
Saturday, May 30, 2015: Eagle Harbor Books FILL YOUR SUMMER BOOKBAG BOOKFEST
with Seattle7 Writers. Free. All welcome 3pm - 5 pm
April 30, 2015: End of Poetry Month Reading at Queen Anne Books with Joannie Stangeland, 7 pm Seattle, WA
April 21, 2015: Ekphrastic Class: Field's End, Bainbridge Library
April 16, 2015: Emcee for Jeannine Hall Gailey's Book Release of ROBOT SCIENTIST'S DAUGHTER at Jack Straw, Seattle, WA 7 pm
April 15, 2015: WordsWest, C&P Coffee, West Seattle, WA: 7 pm Reading with January Gill O'Neil
February 27, 2015, Friday: With Martha Silano at RASP! Redmond Assn Spoken Word, 6:30pm for conversation, event begins at 7 pm.
February 10, 2015: Emcee with Two Sylvias Press for landscape/heartbreak reading by Michelle Penaloza, Hugo House, Seattle, WA 7 pm
January 24, 2015: South Lake Union, Seattle, Manuscript Workshop & Class on Generating New Work with Susan Rich
January 28, 2015: New England Review Reading, Richard Hugo House, 7 pmDecember 6, 2014 (Saturday): 10 am - 6 pm
Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA Writing Salon.
October 14th, 2014, DAR House (chapter member event) : Reading & Discussion, Seattle, WA. Noon.
October 11, 2014: Mountlake Terrace Library, Reading & Writing Class (Free to the public))
October 4, 2014: Poulsbohemian Reading, 7 pm Poulsbo, WA
September 17, 2014: Seattle Lit Fix! Jewelbox Theater in Belltown. 7 pm The Stranger recommended.
September 5-7th, 2014: Poets on the Coast, La Conner, WA.
August 3, 2014: Pacific Lutheran University Bookstore: Rainier Writer's Workshop, Tacoma, WA
July 19, 2014: Redmond, WA: Poets in the Park
July 12, 2014: Vaughn, Washington with musician Reid Jaimeson
June 22, 2014 St. Barnabus Summer Poetry Reading Series: Bainbridge Island, WA 7 pm
May 23, 2014, Friday: Generating New Work Class with Susan Rich, In Other Words Bookstore, Portland, Oregon
May 21, 2014 with Susan Rich 7:30 pm: The Mountain Writers Series Third Wednesday Press Club Reading,
Located at 2621 SE Clinton, Portland, Oregon
May 15, 2014, Cheap Wine & Poetry, 7 pm: Hugo House, Seattle, WA
May 8, 2014, It's About Time Reading Series, 6 pm: Seattle, WA with Susan Rich & Annette Spaulding-Convy
April 4th, 2014: Reading at Elliott Bay Books, 7 pm with Martha Silano
March 23, 2014: Book Release Reading at Open Books, 3 pm
AWP- Seattle Events:
FRIDAY, February 28, 2014:
Crab Creek Review 30th Anniversary Reading from 3 pm - 4:15 pm: Seattle AWP, at the Bookfair's Alice Hoffman Stage.
Readers: Molly Tenenbaum, Peter Pereira, Marjorie Manwaring, Michael Schmeltzer, & Nancy Pagh.
From Finding Your Muse to Finding Your Readers: Book Promotion in the Twenty-First Century, 4:30- 5:45 pm, Room 608, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Book Release Party for Hourglass Museum with Susan Rich & White Pine Press, 6:30-8:30 pm, Seattle Art Museum
THURSDAY, February 27, 2014
AWP Panel: Booklift: The Author Cooperative Model for Launching New Work. 10:30-11:45 am
Book signing (Hourglass Museum), White Pine Press table, 2-3 pm.
February 7 , 2014: Writing Salon, 1 pm - 4 pm with Susan Rich on Bainbridge Island, WA
February, 6, 2014: Beacon Bards, Seattle, WA 7 pm
April 12 & 13, 2024: ASU Distinguished Writers Series with Sati Mookerjee
October 19, 2023 (Thursday): Bainbridge Island Reading Reading
October 7, 2023 (Saturday) via Zoom: Keynote Speaker for the Oregon Poetry Association, "Getting Past the Mask"
June 23 or 24, 2023: Pop-Up Zoom Class on Generating New Work (2 hours): This class is only for paid-subscribers of Two Sylvias Press' Weekly Muse. To become a paid subscriber to attend this class, please subscribe here:
twosylviaspress.substack.com/subscribe
May 6, 2023, 11 am CST (online): Nebraska Writers Guild (details to come)
May 4, 2023, 4 pm (PST) South Carolina Reading with Jenna Le.
April 30, 2023 (Sunday): Reading with Jeannine Hall Gailey Book Launch of Flare, Corona.
April 20, 2023 (Thursday), SoulFood Books Reading with Jeannine Hall Gailey, Redmond, Washington, SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington at 6 pm https://sites.google.com/site/soulfoodpoetrynight/
April 13 - 16, 2023, Write! at Doe Bay: Learn more here: https://doebay.com/write-doe-bay/
November 16, 2022, Wednesday, 4-5:30 pm PST: Zoom Reading with Melissa Studdard for Fourth Genre. Register for a Zoom link here
January 26, 2023, Thursday, 6 - 7:30 pm PST: In-Person Hugo House Reading with Caitlin Scarano, Katerina Canyon, and EJ Koh
January 28, 2023: Zoom Class! Write New Poems for the New Year: 10 am - 2 pm with Susan Rich. Click here to register, space is limited.
October 7-9, 2022: Skagit River Poetry Festival, La Conner, WA. (in-person). Click here for tickets.
October 24, 2022 Monday Pre-Sylvia Plath's birthday): Everett Poetry Night 5 pm - 8 pm at The Sister's Restaurant, 2804 Grand Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 In-person
October 29, 2022, Plume Poetry Reading (Online)
October 30, 2022: Hosting a reading for Two Sylvias Press for Saúl Hernández.
September 8 - 9 Poets on the Coast La Conner, WA, in-person (FULL)
September 2, 2022, Friday, Vancouver, WA at Birdhouse Books: Poetry Reading with John Sibley Williams & Emmett Wheatfall:
Sept 1, 2022: Soul Bone / MIU Residency Reading with Sara Henning. 5:30 pm PST
June 23, 2022 (Thursday) with Francis Daulerio:
Details TBA!
June 30, 2022 Bainbridge Island (in-person!) 7pm with Suzanne Edison & Michael Schmeltzer, Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island, WA. Click here to learn more.
July 14, 2022 7 pm Portland Reading with John Sibley Williams and Emmett Wheatfall
Hosted by Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232
April 22 (Friday), ZOOM Reading & Conversation for Longview Library.
April 23, 2022 (Saturday): Risking It!: A Generative Writing Class with Susan Rich
April 7, 2022 (Thursday) IN-PERSON at 6 pm, Elliott Bay Books, Seattle: with Susan Rich!
March 29, 2022 (Wednesday), 7:30 pm PST: Reading Poetry Superhighway Reading
January 19, 2022 (Wednesday) at 6 pm PST with Maggie Smith: Third Place Books ZOOM
December 5 at 8 pm PST: Wildwood Saloon Portland, Oregon (in-person!) Poetry Reading for Dialogues with Rising Tides
November 21, 2021 at 1 pm PST: Reading for San Jose Library
November 16, 2021 at 5 pm PST via Zoom: Poetry is Normal Presents the Kells: Kelli Russell Agodon & Kelly Cressio-Moellers, supported by the Normal Public Library Foundation
September 25, 2021: 10 am - 3 pm PST: The Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealists Writing Prompts and Play. via ZOOM
Wednesday, September 15, 2021: Olympia Poetry Network.
June 30, 2021: Two Sylvias Press Zoom Book Release Reading for Gail Martin & Kelly Cressio-Moeller, 5 pm PST hosted by Diane Seuss and Kelli Russell Agodon.
July 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm PST Skylight Books with Heidi Seaborn.
June 2, 2021 (Wed.), 6:30 pm - 8 pm PST: One Page Wednesday Reading Series.
COPPER CANYON RELEASE READING:
May 5th 2021 (Wednesday), 5 pm PST: Copper Canyon Press Spring Book Release Zoom Reading. with Kayleb Ray Candrill, Arthur Sze, Nikki Wallshlaeger, Noah Warren, and me. Click Here to Sign up for Zoom link.
May 20: Northwind Reading Series with Susan Landgraf.
May 23, 2021 (Sun.): Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase Reading Kelli Russell Agodon, Diane Seuss, & Risa Denenberg.
April 25 2021 (Sunday): Presence Literary Journal Reading 1 - 2 pm PST.
April 28, 2021 (Wed.) 4:30 pm PST: Words Together, Worlds Apart Reading Series
April 30, 2021 (Friday), Third Place Books: With Deborah Bacharach
March 30, 2021: Pacific Lutheran University PLU RWW Alumni Reading
March 17, 2021, 4 pm PST: Poets on the Plaza Reading for Women's History Month with Nin Andrews and Amanda Newell
March 18, 2021: 4:30 pm PST Gulf Coast University Samuel Pepys Reading Series
Feb. 13, 2021 (Online/Zoom Class): Demystifying the Manuscript with Susan Rich and guest poets Diane Seuss & January Gill O'Neil.
Feb. 21, 2021, 4 pm PST: Lit Youngstown Online Reading with Erica Sofer Bodwell & Jennifer Jean.
Jan. 9th (my birthday!) and Whale Road Review Anniversary
Jan. 11, 2021: Online Interview/Reading: I'll be interviewing Jennifer Jean about her new book Object Lessons and she'll be reading poems.
Dec. 1: Guest Speaker 4 pm PST for Two Sylvias Press & Free Workshop with Jessica Jacobs & Nickole Brown
Dec. 3: Katerina Canyon's Poetry Reading, 7 pm PST
November 11: The Familiar Wild Anthology Reading
November 10: Book Launch for Donna Vorreyer
September 11 - 13, 2020: Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women
October 13, 2020: Word into Action (Liechtenstein/Zoom)
October 4th, 2018, 7 pm: Queen Anne Books, Seattle, WA Seattle7 Reading with Claudia Castro Luna, Frances McCue, and Michael Schmeltzer.
April 15, 2016: Port Townsend, WA. Reading 7 pm
March 31, 2016, 4:30 PM, AWP LA: On Creating Your Own Community: Gold Salon 1, JW Marriott LA, 1st Floor AWP Los Angeles
November 7, 2015, Saturday: OPEN HOUSE, Two Sylvias Press, Kingston, WA 10am- 5pm
October 28, 2015: Poetry & the Creative Progress: 7 pm with Michele Bombadier, Ronda Broatch, & Friends: Bainbridge Island Library, WA.
October 20, 2015, Tuesday: Field's End Bainbridge Island Library, Bainbridge Island, WA Ekphrastic Workshop, 7 pm - 8:30 pm
October 17, 2015, Saturday: Generating New Work Workshop in Bellingham, 1 pm - 3 pm
Saturday, June 6, 2015: Poulsbohemian, Poulsbo, WA 7 pm
Saturday, May 30, 2015: Eagle Harbor Books FILL YOUR SUMMER BOOKBAG BOOKFEST
with Seattle7 Writers. Free. All welcome 3pm - 5 pm
April 30, 2015: End of Poetry Month Reading at Queen Anne Books with Joannie Stangeland, 7 pm Seattle, WA
April 21, 2015: Ekphrastic Class: Field's End, Bainbridge Library
April 16, 2015: Emcee for Jeannine Hall Gailey's Book Release of ROBOT SCIENTIST'S DAUGHTER at Jack Straw, Seattle, WA 7 pm
April 15, 2015: WordsWest, C&P Coffee, West Seattle, WA: 7 pm Reading with January Gill O'Neil
February 27, 2015, Friday: With Martha Silano at RASP! Redmond Assn Spoken Word, 6:30pm for conversation, event begins at 7 pm.
February 10, 2015: Emcee with Two Sylvias Press for landscape/heartbreak reading by Michelle Penaloza, Hugo House, Seattle, WA 7 pm
January 24, 2015: South Lake Union, Seattle, Manuscript Workshop & Class on Generating New Work with Susan Rich
January 28, 2015: New England Review Reading, Richard Hugo House, 7 pmDecember 6, 2014 (Saturday): 10 am - 6 pm
Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA Writing Salon.
October 14th, 2014, DAR House (chapter member event) : Reading & Discussion, Seattle, WA. Noon.
October 11, 2014: Mountlake Terrace Library, Reading & Writing Class (Free to the public))
October 4, 2014: Poulsbohemian Reading, 7 pm Poulsbo, WA
September 17, 2014: Seattle Lit Fix! Jewelbox Theater in Belltown. 7 pm The Stranger recommended.
September 5-7th, 2014: Poets on the Coast, La Conner, WA.
August 3, 2014: Pacific Lutheran University Bookstore: Rainier Writer's Workshop, Tacoma, WA
July 19, 2014: Redmond, WA: Poets in the Park
July 12, 2014: Vaughn, Washington with musician Reid Jaimeson
June 22, 2014 St. Barnabus Summer Poetry Reading Series: Bainbridge Island, WA 7 pm
May 23, 2014, Friday: Generating New Work Class with Susan Rich, In Other Words Bookstore, Portland, Oregon
May 21, 2014 with Susan Rich 7:30 pm: The Mountain Writers Series Third Wednesday Press Club Reading,
Located at 2621 SE Clinton, Portland, Oregon
May 15, 2014, Cheap Wine & Poetry, 7 pm: Hugo House, Seattle, WA
May 8, 2014, It's About Time Reading Series, 6 pm: Seattle, WA with Susan Rich & Annette Spaulding-Convy
April 4th, 2014: Reading at Elliott Bay Books, 7 pm with Martha Silano
March 23, 2014: Book Release Reading at Open Books, 3 pm
AWP- Seattle Events:
FRIDAY, February 28, 2014:
Crab Creek Review 30th Anniversary Reading from 3 pm - 4:15 pm: Seattle AWP, at the Bookfair's Alice Hoffman Stage.
Readers: Molly Tenenbaum, Peter Pereira, Marjorie Manwaring, Michael Schmeltzer, & Nancy Pagh.
From Finding Your Muse to Finding Your Readers: Book Promotion in the Twenty-First Century, 4:30- 5:45 pm, Room 608, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Book Release Party for Hourglass Museum with Susan Rich & White Pine Press, 6:30-8:30 pm, Seattle Art Museum
THURSDAY, February 27, 2014
AWP Panel: Booklift: The Author Cooperative Model for Launching New Work. 10:30-11:45 am
Book signing (Hourglass Museum), White Pine Press table, 2-3 pm.
February 7 , 2014: Writing Salon, 1 pm - 4 pm with Susan Rich on Bainbridge Island, WA
February, 6, 2014: Beacon Bards, Seattle, WA 7 pm
