Join us for a special, long overdue reading dedicated to our dear friend, poet, publisher, teacher... Thomas Hubbard. Saturday August 2nd at a special time - 5:24 pm (no workshop). Lenora Rain - Lee Good 's book Remembering Thomas will be available. (Royalties from the book sale go to ALS and End of Life Wa. (Death with Dignity). We will tell some stories, read some poems about and for Thomas and then have an Open mic. We may even share some unpublished rarely heard Thomas H. poems!
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Mary, Paul, Raul, Sherrill, Chris, and others are planning to be here…Join us.
Note about the book from Lenora -- “I will be holding a book launch at The Book Tree, in Kirkland WA the afternoon/evening of 2 August 2025, starting at 5:15pm. This was Thomas’s favorite indie bookstore. If you’re in Kirkland area, come on by!! There will be other poets there, who knew Thomas, so it will be a Thomas night superb.
Speaking of Indie publishers and bookstores—support them when possible. Buy books from the publisher, buy books from the indie bookstore in your town.
Remember, I make NO money from this book. ALL royalties received will be divided between the ALS Association and Death With Dignity. Incidentally, DWD is not suicide, it is a hastening of certain death, usually slow, painful, and robbed of personal dignity, that will happen within the next six months or less.
Bio: Lenora Rain-Lee Good is a native of the Pacific Northwest, born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She now resides in the steppes, or high desert, of Washington State. She writes short memoir, fiction, radio plays, and poetry. She shares her house with a plethora of books, both paper and electronic, an old Chihuahua.
Thomas Hubbard (June 15, 1938-May 30, 2023) : a mixed-blood descendant of Cherokee, Irish, Miami and English ancestry, Hubbard grew up among factory workers and went to work in a glass factory, making bottles and jars. After six years in factories around the country, hitch-hiking for months on end during layoffs, he quit the trade and earned a teaching degree in English and Sociology, graduating Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, in 1969. Because of his anti-war involvement with SDS and underground newspapers, he was employable only in very needy schools. His teaching career began in Gary, Indiana. Over the next thirty years he was in and out of teaching mostly in ghetto schools, working also as a carpenter, blues musician, and freelance writer, and attended various graduate schools. During these years he fathered four sons. He arrived in Seattle in 1991, newly-divorced and broke.
After his father’s death in 1994, Hubbard began a memorial project. Over the next five years he compiled, edited and, in 2000, published Children Remember Their Fathers, an anthology of works by performance poets from around the country. Many of the poems in the anthology were gathered from slam poets during his appearance at the National Poetry Slam in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1995, as winner of the Seattle Grand Slam. Two years later, Hubbard retired from teaching written expression in Tulalip Reservation’s Heritage School to focus on his Gazoobi Tales imprint—publishing works of merit that might not get a reading elsewhere. Hubbard authored Nail and other hardworking poems, Year of the Dragon Press, 1994; Junkyard Dogz (also available on audio CD); and Injunz, a chapbook. His book reviews have appeared in Square Lake, Raven Chronicles, New Pages and The Cartier Street Review. Publication credits include poems in Yellow Medicine Review, I Was Indian, editor Susan Deer Cloud (Foothills Publishing, 2010), and Florida Review; and short stories in Red Ink, Raven Chronicles and Yellow Medicine Review.