Station Bistro presents poetry of Leatham, Malnack
Published 2:06 pm Thursday, July 23, 2015
For the Reporter
Poetry at The Station Bistro presents the works of Kent Leatham and Linda Malnack on Monday, Aug. 3.
The program is from 7-9 p.m. at the Bistro, 110 Second St. SW, No. 125, one block south of West Main Street, on the east side of the Auburn Transit Center.
Coffee and conversation follow readings. It is an open mic opportunity. The public is invited.
About the poets
Leatham’s poetry has appeared in more than 25 journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Fence, Poetry Quarterly, Zoland, Poets & Artists, and the “Global Poetry Anthology” (Vehicule Press, 2013). His translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Able Muse, Rowboat, InTranslation, Ezra, and Anomalous Press.
He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time recipient of the Knudsen Family Endowed Scholarship for creative writing, he has been a featured reader at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, the U35 and Breakwater reading series in Boston, at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco, and with the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium in Monterey. Currently he teaches at California State University Monterey Bay.
Malnack has published poems in many journals, including The Amherst Review, Calyx, Phoebe, the Seattle Review, and Southern Humanities Review, and is the author of a chapbook, Bone Beads (Paper Boat Press, 1997). She won the Willow Springs Poetry Award in 2000 and the William Stafford Award from the Washington Poets Association in 1998. She volunteers as a co-editor for the poetry e-zine, Switched-on Gutenberg.
Poetry at The Station Bistro is made possible with the help of the restaurant, City of Auburn, The Auburn Arts Commission, Striped Water Poets and NorthWest Renaissance.
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