Salem Poetry Project featuring Carey Taylor and Connie Soper

Carey Taylor is the author of Some Aid to Navigation and The Lure of Impermanence. She is the winner of the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, runner-up for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award, and has had her poems curated both nationally and internationally. She has a Master’s Degree in School Counseling from Pacific Lutheran University. Carey has lived her entire life in the Pacific Northwest and had the rare childhood experience of living at three lighthouse stations. She lives in Portland, Oregon. https://careyleetaylor.com

Connie Soper finds inspiration while hiking or beach combing. Her poems have received recognition from the Oregon Poetry Association, Calyx, and the Neahkahnie Poetry Prize. Publications include Catamaran, Canary, Cider Press Review, One Art, Willawaw Journal, and elsewhere. Her first full-length of poetry, A Story Interrupted, published by Airlie Press in 2022, celebrates walking and witnessing her native terrain.

The Salem Poetry Project continues at the Bush Barn Annex, 600 Mission St SE, Salem. Parking for the Bush Barn and Bush House is located off of High Street and the Annex entrance is just to the left of the main entrance. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infamous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. For more information contact Marc Janssen at [email protected].