Join us as we welcome Ed Harkness and Ann Spiers who have recent books from Empty Bowl Press to our First Saturday writing workshop, **PIE reading and open mic!

4:24 pm Harkness and Spiers will lead the free writing workshop reminding participants of Richard Hugo’s Triggering Town to spark some creative efforts.

6:15 pm Reading from Harkness and Spiers and Open Mic!
**PIE = Poetry Is Everything

Bios
Ed Harkness thinks often of Madeline Defrees and Richard Hugo, his beloved mentors at the University of Montana. Harkness taught English and creative writing at Shoreline College for 34 years. His most recent collection, Creek Water: New & Selected Poems, has just been published by Empty Bowl Press. Previous collections include: The Law of the Unforeseen and Avalanche: A Survival Guide. His poems have appeared in print and online journals, including Fine Madness, Great River Review, The Humanist, The Louisville Review, Midwest Quarterly, Miramar, Mudlark, Raven Chronicles, Switched-On Gutenberg, The Salt River Review, and many others. Ed grew up in Seattle and still lives not far from his childhood home in Shoreline, Washington, with his life mate and cycling partner, Linda.

Ann Spiers lives on Vashon Island, a green refuge in Puget Sound, a ferry trip from Seattle WA. Her writing includes poetry, prose, and essay. Her contract and community work focuses on the environment through enduring commitments to Vashon Audubon, Land Trust, and Park District. For twenty years she has belonged to Vashon’s haiku group. She was the island’s inaugural poet laureate.

Her recent poetry volumes include Wild Cucumber and Rain Violent (both Empty Bowl), Back Cut (Black Heron). Her fine-art chapbooks—The Herodotus Poem (Brooding Heron), Volcano Blue, Tide Turn,a nd A Wild Taste (May Day)—are in the special collections of Stanford, UW, Multnomah County Library, Bainbridge Art Museum, British Library, and others. Her poems are widely published online and in journals.