Salem Poetry Project Featuring Maxine Scates’

Maxine Scates’ most recent book, My Wilderness, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2021. She is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Undone (New Issues), Black Loam (Cherry Grove) and Toluca Street (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her poems have been widely published in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The New England Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry and have received, among other awards, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry (Oregon Book Award) and two Pushcart Prizes. She is also the co-editor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (Copper Canyon). She has taught poetry at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark, and for many years at Reed College. Currently, she teaches privately. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

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].