Salem Poetry Project featuring Charles Goodrich and Pepper Trail

Charles Goodrich’s most recent book is Knot House: New & Selected Poems, just out from Empty Bowl Press. He’s also the author of a book of narrative essays, The Practice of Home, and a novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket. He writes and gardens near the confluence of the Marys and Willamette Rivers in the traditional homeland of the Ampinefu Band of the Kalapuya in Corvallis, Oregon.  FMI: charlesgoodrich.com

Pepper Trail is a naturalist and writer from Ashland, Oregon. His poems have appeared in Rattle, Terrain.org, Catamaran, Ascent and several anthologies, including Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry and The Nature of Our Times. His collection, Cascade-Siskiyou: Poems, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and he has recently completed a new collection, Wild / Flower: Poems of the Oregon Flora.

April 30 through June 11 the Salem Poetry Project will be temporarily housed at the First Presbyterian Church Chapel near the Oregon State Capitol, 770 Chemeketa St NE. Their parking lot is one-way, with the entrance on Chemeketa St and the exit on Court St. There is also a fair amount of street parking. Enter through the west entrance, the one that faces the parking lot and YMCA. If the doors are locked to your right is a door bell button. Press it and someone will let you in. 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].