The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Featuring John Morrison and Michele Glazer

John Morrison’s first book, Heaven of the Moment, won the Rhea & Seymour Gorsline poetry competition and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His most recent book Monkey Island was published by redbat books. He has received the C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship from Literary Arts. Numerous journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rhino, have published his work. Also, he has worked in various capacities for several journals, including the Black Warrior Review, Poetry Northwest, and Phantom Drift. He teaches as an Associate Fellow for the Attic Institute and is a discussion group leader for Soapstone.

Michele Glazer’s books are fretwork (2021) and On Tact, & the Made Up World (2010), both published in the Kuhl House Poetry Series by the U. of Iowa Press; Aggregate of Disturbances. Iowa Poetry Prize, U. of Iowa Press, 2004; It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See. Donald Hall Prize in Poetry: U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. She has published poems widely, including in The New Yorker, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Lo-Ball, and American Letters & Commentary. Glazer’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the Oregon Arts Commission. She was recently a director’s guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.

The Open Mic is open to all audience members. Participants can sign up before the start of the reading or during the break. In the interest of time, Open Mic readers are asked to limit their readings to three minutes.

Did you know you can view clips of featured poets reading on our Facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/groups/1281329966139780/

The Ross Island Grocery and Café is a cozy space with capacity for 40 or so people. Tables are available, so people who arrive early can enjoy a light supper (i.e., a sandwich, salad or burger) while waiting for the reading to begin. If we run out of table space, folding chairs are available. A mic will enhance the readings. There is plenty of unrestricted parking on the streets around the Café.

Questions? Please contact host Leah Stenson at [email protected].