Everett Poetry Night : Featuring Peter Ludwin
Schedule
Mon Oct 10 2022 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
The Sisters Restaurant | Everett, WA
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At Everett Poetry Night, We Trust Our Words.
We Trust Our Audience to be Mature and
Open-Minded Enough to Embrace the Range of Topics Shared.
Be prepared to encounter dark subjects.
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The Sister's Restaurant
2804 Grand Ave.
Everett, WA 98201
Located in
The Everett Public Market
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5:00 - 5:30 Arrive/order/mingle
5:15 - 5:45 Occasionally we will have music.
5:30 p.m. Sign Up
5:45 p.m. The first poet begins
7:15 p.m. Feature: Peter Ludwin
8:00 p.m. Good Night / Thanks for attending.
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Your host will be
Duane Kirby Jensen
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With COVID we have chosen to
do limited features, focusing instead on being an open Mic.
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Peter Ludwin:
Peter Ludwin is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust and
the W.D. Snodgrass Award for Endeavor and Excellence in Poetry. His first
book, A Guest in All Your Houses, was published in 2009 by Word Walker
Press. His second collection is Rumors of Fallible Gods, a two-time finalist
for the Gival Press Poetry Award that was published in 2013 by Presa Press.
His third book, Gone to Gold Mountain, was published in 2016 by Moon-
Path Press and subsequently nominated for a Washington State Book Award.
In 2017 the Before Columbus Foundation nominated it for an American
Book Award. His most recent manuscript, Medicine Crow, was a finalist in
both 2020 and 2021for the Wandering Aengus Press Book Award.
A fourteen-year participant in Mexico’s San Miguel Poetry Week, where he
has studied under such noted poets as Mark Doty, Tony Hoagland, Joseph
Stroud and Robert Wrigley, Ludwin won The Comstock Review’s 2016
Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, judged by Marge Piercy. That same
year he was the Second Place winner of the Paulann Petersen Poetry Award,
and a finalist in poetry for both the Tucson Festival of Books Literary
Awards and the Pangaea Poetry Prize. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee,
he received nominations in 2016 from MoonPath Press and Connecticut
River Review.
His work has appeared in many journals, including Atlanta Review, The
Bitter Oleander, The Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod,
North American Review and Prairie Schooner, to name a few. A world
traveler who has journeyed by canoe to visit remote Indian families in the
Amazon Basin of Ecuador, hiked in the Peruvian Andes, thumbed for rides
in Greece, bargained for goods in the markets of Marrakech and Istanbul and
survived debilitating illness in China and Tibet, he is also accomplished on
acoustic blues guitar and autoharp. He lives in Kent, Washington, where he
works in a greenhouse for a local nonprofit that helps immigrant farmers
grow organic food for themselves and the community.
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Where is it happening?
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