#435: 36th Year Launch w/Priscilla Long & Jed Myers

Name: #435: 36th Year Launch w/Priscilla Long & Jed Myers
Start: 2026-01-08T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-01-08T19:45:00-08:00
Location: Ballard Branch of The Seattle Public Library

Schedule

Thu Jan 08 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:45 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Ballard Branch of The Seattle Public Library | Seattle, WA

Priscilla Long & Jed Myers launch the 36th year of It's About Time. Three minute open mic opportunities.
Priscilla Long is author of nine books to date, including three books of poems, Cartographies of Home (MoonPath), Holy Magic (MoonPath) and Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). More than 100 of her poems have appeared in literary journals such as The Hudson Review, The Seattle Review, and Catamaran Literary Reader. A book of essays, Chambers of Being: Essays on Spaces and Colors is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2026. She is author of Dancing with the Muse in Old Age (Coffeetown, 2022). Her how-to-write book is The Writer's Portable Mentor (University of New Mexico Press). Her guide for creators of all kinds is Minding the Muse (Coffeetown). Her book of memoirist essays is Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press). Her first book was a history of coalmining in the United States: Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry. Her awards include a National Magazine Award. As well, ten of her essays have been honored as “notable” in various editions of the Best American Essays. She wrote a science column for The American Scholar online that ran for 92 weeks and may still be viewed. She has an MFA from the University of Washington and grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Jed Myers’ fourth book of poetry, Can’t Be Far, was a finalist for MoonPath Press’s Sally Albiso Award, and is due out in March. His previous collection, Learning to Hold, won the Wandering Aengus Press Editors’ Award. Recent honors include the Northwest Review Poetry Prize and the River Heron Poetry Prize. Poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Southern Indiana Review, The Southeast Review, The Greensboro Review, and many other journals and anthologies. Jed lives in Seattle, where he edits the journal Bracken and walks in the wetlands along Lake Washington.