FIGURES OF SPEECH READING SERIES & OPEN MIC
Wednesday, April 21, 7:00 p.m.
100th monkey art studio at 110 S.E. 16th Ave., PDX
Come on out to enjoy the fine poetry of Eileen Davis Elliott and Henry Hughes. Plus, you are invited to participate in the open mic (two page max).
Eileen Davis Elliott recently retired from her career in counseling and psychology after 42 years. She grew up on a farm in the Midwest and knows milk does not come from a carton, having been on the business end of a cow more than once. She has traveled and lived all over the world and plans to continue to do so, learning, making art and writing about what she sees daily. Her first book, Prodigal Cowgirl, was released last summer, and her new manuscript, Miles of Pies is in the works.
Henry Hughes grew
up on Long Island, New York. After completing an MA in creative
writing at Purdue University in 1990, he spent five years working in
Japan and China. Hughes finished a Ph.D. in American literature at
Purdue in 2002 and now teaches at Western Oregon University. His poems
have appeared in Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Malahat
Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Southern Humanities
Review, Seattle Review and Poetry Northwest, and are
represented in several anthologies including Long Journey:
Contemporary Northwest Poets published by Oregon State University
Press. His first collection, Men Holding Eggs,
received the 2004 Oregon Book Award. His second collection of poems, Moist
Meridian, was published by Mammoth Books in July 2009. Hughes’
commentary on new poetry appears regularly in Harvard Review.
Learn more about the Figures of Speech Reading Series.
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