Poetry at the Postmark!
Poetry nights are returning to Auburn! The City of Auburn is hosting a poetry reading series on the first Wednesday of each month at Auburn's new Postmark Center for the Arts on Auburn Avenue.
We hope you can join us at the Postmark - bring a poem for the open mic!
Featured Reader Susan Landgraf:
Susan Landgraf’s Journey of Trees is forthcoming in May 2024. An Academy of American Poet Laureates award in 2020 resulted in a book of Muckleshoot Indian Tribe poetry titled A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers published by the Washington State University Press this March. Other books include Crossings, a chapbook of poems published by Ravenna Press as part of its Triple series in 2022; The Inspired Poet; What We Bury Changes the Ground; a chapbook titled Other Voices; and Student Reflection Journal for Student Success published by Prentice Hall. More than 400 poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Margie, Nimrod, Third Wednesday, Calyx, Rattle, and others. Landgraf has given more than 150 workshops and readings in the US and abroad, including the San Miguel Writers’ Conference, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, and the Marine and Science Technology Center. She is the recipient of awards that include a Theodore Morrison Scholar Poetry Award for Breadloaf, an Artist Trust, Jack Straw, and King County Arts Commission grants. A former journalist, she taught at Highline College for 30 years and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2002, 2008, 2010, and 2012. She served as Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington, from 2018 to 2020.