It's our First Saturday reading on the Second Saturday - August 12th --so that visiting poet -theatre director- educator- Daniel aka D.J. Hamilton can be our featured reader. He will be joined by writer/poet/editor Paul Hunter and poet/MC David Post and there will be an open mic. It will be memorable!!!! Thanks for letting others know about this FREE reading at BookTree in Kirkland!!!
No writing workshop this time... the reading begins at 6:04 pm..... (Next month First Saturday Sept. 2nd writing workshop and reading resumes). Come to listen and support independent bookstores, poetry, spoken word, open mics and/or bring something to read on the open mic!!!!
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D.J. (Daniel) Hamilton
D.J. Hamilton’s recent book of poems, The Hummingbird Sometimes Flies Backwards, won the Proverse Prize. Hamilton grew up in a small farming village near Madison, Wisconsin. Public school teachers first encouraged his creativity and his passions for theatre and literature. He began to study and write poetry seriously during his university years in Seattle, Washington. He then lived for ten years in Port Townsend, Washington, where the writers and publishers of Empty Bowl and Copper Canyon Press became friends and mentors. For three years he wrote and performed as one of the Bosconi Brothers, a juggling comedy act. In Seattle, he founded and served as Artistic Director of Theatre Babylon, a small alternative theatre company focused on new plays. He wrote, acted in, and/or directed plays in Canada, Europe, Mexico, New York and other US cities.
His poems have appeared in Voice & Verse, The Madrona Project, Tentacle, Ofi Press; Repentino; Dalmoma, Firecrackers, Bumbershoot Anthology, Compages, Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology and other publications. He has won awards in Washington State for his poems and plays, and a New York Fringe Festival award for his theatre directing. Since 2004 he has worked as a teacher in International Schools. He has lived seven years in Hong Kong after 12 years in Mexico and 1 very long year in mainland China.
Paul Hunter -
Paul Hunter’s first collection of farming poems, Breaking Ground (2004, Silverfish Review Press) was reviewed in The New York Times and received the 2004 Washington State Book Award. A second farming volume, Ripening, appeared in 2007, a third volume, Come the Harvest, followed in 2008, and the fourth, from the same publisher, Stubble Field, appeared in 2012. An autobiography in prose poetry, Clownery, appeared in 2017, and two western novels, Sit a Tall Horse and Mr. Brick & the Boys, were published in 2020 and 2022, from Davila Art & Books, in Sisters, Oregon.
David Post-
David Post has been a featured reader at Duvall Poetry in Duvall, WA and at PoetsWest venues in Seattle, Bothell, and Woodinville, WA; a guest reader at various African American Writers Alliance venues in Seattle and Burien, WA and has also read in Tacoma and Kenmore, WA. He was MC for PoetsWest events at Green Lake Library in Seattle and is co MC for PoetsWest readings in Bothell, WA. His poem "Brown Shoes" was published in the anthology "Poetic Impressions" by East Point West Press in 2021. He has a son and grandson in Ballard, WA.