Join us for RASP's next reading on February 27, 2026 (at 6:00 p.m.)
Celebrating literary arts in Redmond since 1997
The Redmond Association of Spokenword, also known as RASP, was founded in 1997 to promote literary arts and related activities in Redmond, Washington, and eastern King County. We meet on the last Friday of each month (early dates in November and December) for a featured presentation and an open-mic reading at Centro Cultural Mexicano. RASP also holds a monthly Zoom critique group, Poetry & Prose Circle, on the second Tuesday of each month. For many years we also staged the Poets in the Park festival in Redmond’s Anderson Park. All events are FREE and open to the public. Please join us for our next reading!
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6:00 p.m.
MCs: Darren Nordlie and Emily Young
Catherine Broadwall is the author of Aftermath (Girl Noise Press, forthcoming 2026), Water Spell (Cornerstone Press, 2025), Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She won the 2023 Paula Svonkin Creative Arts Award and the 2020 COG Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the poetry categories of the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize and 2021 Pinch Literary Awards. Her website is http://www.catherinebroadwall.com.
Tonight’s RASP gathering will also include a mini writing workshop led by our guest poet.
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