Our July writing workshop, PIE* reading and open mic happens this month on Saturday July 11th and features Patrick Dixon and Michael Daley
Free writing workshop at 4:24 pm
Reading and Open Mic at 6:15 pm
Don't miss it!!!
Bios
Patrick Dixon is a writer/photographer retired from careers as an educator and commercial fisherman. A member of the Board of Directors of the Olympia Poetry Network, his poetry collection - Mending Holes has been published by Moonpath Press. His work has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including Cirque, Claudius Speaks, Linden Avenue, Mom Egg Review, Oberon, Panoplyzine, The Raven Chronicles, Soul-Lit, The Tishman Review and World enough Writers among others. His work appeared in the anthologies Examined Life, Madrona
Project #7, FISH 2015 and WA129. He was included Washington State Book Award-winning Anthologies Take a Stand: Art Against Hate (Raven Chronicles, 2020) and I Sing the Salmon Home (Empty Bowl, 2024).
Mr. Dixon is a past poetry editor of National Fisherman magazine’s quarterly, North Pacific Focus. A member of the FisherPoets Gathering organizing committee, he received an Artist Trust Grant to edit Anchored in Deep Water: The FisherPoets Anthology (2014).
Mr. Dixon spent his childhood in Logansport, Indiana, but grew up when he moved to Kenai, Alaska in 1975, where he lived and fished for over 20 years. Mending Holes is his first full-length collection of poetry.
Michael Daley, poet, novelist, translator, and essayist who lives in Anacortes, Washington, is the author of eight full-length poetry collections: The Straits, To Curve, Moonlight in the Redemptive Forest, Of a Feather, Born With, Reinhabited: New & Selected Poems, True Heresies, and Ground Work released from Ravenna Press in 2025. His first novel, Telemachus, appeared in 2022, and his essay collection Way Out There was published by Aequitas. He has translated Italian poet Lucia Gazzino (Alter Mundus, Pleasure Boat Studio, 2010) and selections from Horace (Eleven Odes, Brooding Heron, 2001). Daley’s poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and many publications online and in print. A founding editor of Empty Bowl Press and editor of The Madrona Project, he has served as poet-in-residence for Washington State Arts Commission, Skagit River Poetry Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His honors include support from Fulbright, Seattle Arts Commission, The Fessenden Foundation, Artist Trust, the National Endowment of the Humanities, and the Washington State Arts Commission.