Salem Poetry Project featuring Paul Suter

Paul Suter’s roots are in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned an MA in English at UC Berkeley, 1970, and completed a Fellowship preparing community college English instructors at the University of Nebraska, 1971. He taught composition, American literature and environmental literature at Chemeketa CC. Today he copy-edits Oregon PeaceWorks, enjoys the arts, values political activism, and composes poems.

He was married for 46 years to Marcia Claire Hill, teacher, educator, web designer, poet, mother of their two wonderful children, Nathaniel and Cameron. Marcia lived with the unfortunate impacts of dementia beginning around 2012 and passed away in 2017. She and Paul began writing and sending a poem each to family and friends at Christmas in 2007, which started Paul on his poem-writing practice. He will never forget this shared creative process with Marcia.

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].