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Please join us for our next reading! We gather from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the last Friday of each month (earlier dates in November and December) at Centro Cultural Mexicano in Redmond, Washington (see Where We Meet). All readings are free and include one or more featured readers, a break for snacks, and an open-mic reading for poetry or prose (usually about three or four minutes per person). We sometimes socialize at a nearby restaurant afterwards.
Please join us, and share in our open-mic reading!
Please join us, and share in our open-mic reading!
January 30, 2026 — Ricardo Ruiz (poet)
January 30, 2026 — Ricardo Ruiz (poet)
6:00 p.m. (new earlier start time)
MC: Michael Dylan Welch
Ricardo Ruiz, son of Mexican immigrants, is the author of We Had Our Reasons, which debuted at #1 on Amazon’s Hispanic American Poetry Chart and won the 2023 Washington State Book Award for poetry. He is currently an MFA candidate at UW Bothell and teaches with the Seattle Arts and Lectures Writers in the Schools program. Passionate about amplifying marginalized voices from rural communities, Ricardo takes pride in serving as a cultural connector and advocate. Visit him at www.poetruiz.com.
February 27, 2026 — Catherine Broadwall (poet)
February 27, 2026 — Catherine Broadwall (poet)
6:00 p.m.
MC: TBD
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.
March 27, 2026 — Open Book
March 27, 2026 — Open Book
Western Washington Poets Network Anthology Reading
Western Washington Poets Network Anthology Reading
6:00 p.m.
MC: TBD
Open Book is a limited-edition letterpress publication edited by Griffith H. Williams for the Western Washington Poets Network. The book will be published in March of 2026 by East Point West Press, printed on a century-old Chandler & Price 10x15 letterpress built in 1911. This reading features poets contributing to Open Book.
April 24, 2026 — Jana Harris (poet)
April 24, 2026 — Jana Harris (poet)
6:00 p.m.
MC: TBD
Jana Harris has taught creative writing at the University of Washington and at the Writer’s Workshop in Seattle among other institutions. She is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg. Her publications include You Haven’t Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore, Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier (University of Alaska Press), and the memoir, Horses Never Lie About Love (Simon & Schuster). Jana will be reading from a new manuscript: “The Girl Who Drew Horses, the Woman Who Painted Lions,” poems on the life and art of French Painter Rosa Bonheur (1822–99).
May 29, 2026 — Iz White (poet)
May 29, 2026 — Iz White (poet)
6:00 p.m.
MC: TBD
Iz White is an enrolled member of the Snoqualmie Tribe in King County. He grew up homeless in Seattle, well below the poverty line, in the 1990s. His tribe was federally recognized in 1999 and it has continued to strengthen its efficiency and stability in financial development. That has given Iz both a unique perspective and breathing room to pursue his biggest obsession in life, which has been to improve his craft of writing. He is an up-and-coming poet who speaks on social issues not only for his people, but all people affected by an ever-changing demographic in and around the greater Seattle area.
June 26, 2026 — Jack Straw Writers (poetry and fiction)
June 26, 2026 — Jack Straw Writers (poetry and fiction)
6:00 p.m.
MC: TBD
Readers to be announced.
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