Salem Poetry Project Featuring Shaun T. Griffin

Shaun T. Griffin co-founded and directed Community Chest, a rural social justice agency for twenty-seven years.  His new book of poems, No Charity in the Wilderness, is out from the University of Nevada Press.  Southern Utah University Press just released River Ask Me Why—Into the West on Two Wheels, a memoir.  For over thirty years he has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center.  In 2014 he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

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].