Salem Poetry Project Featuring Janice Rubin and Mike Hodges

Janice D. Rubin is an educator/ counselor with a newly minted MFA. Her poems have appeared in About Place Journal, The Timberline Review, Third Wednesday, San Pedro River Review among others. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and widely anthologized she’s the author of Crossing the Burnside Bridge & Other Poems (Cirque Press, 2023), Tin Coyote (Blue Light Press, 2018), Transcending Damnation Creek Trail (Flutter Press, 2010).

Mike Hodges is a poet based in Newberg, Oregon, where he works as an educator. In 2026, Mike was awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Oregon University, where he completed his manuscript The Silence From Waking. Mike uses varied forms to explore connection, alienation, family, and fatherhood within Pacific Northwest landscapes.

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].