Poetry at the Rainbow Café welcomes Schmeltzer, Daley
Published 2:00 pm Friday, January 29, 2016
For the Reporter
Poetry at the Rainbow Café presents the works of Michael Schmeltzer and Michael Daley on Monday, Feb. 1.
The program is from 7 to 9 p.m. at the café, 112 E. Main St.
Coffee and conversation follow readings. It is an open mic opportunity. The public is invited.
About the poets
Schmeltzer is the author of “Elegy/Elk River” (Floating Bridge Press). He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. He has been a finalist for the Four Way Books Intro and Levis Prizes, Zone 3 Press First Book Prize, and the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. He helps edit A River & Sound Review and has been published in numerous journals.
Born in Boston, Daley is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and has an masters of fine arts from the University of Washington. In 1976 he was the founding editor of Empty Bowl press in Port Townsend. In 1983 Gary Snyder called his first collection of poetry, “The Straits”, “superb, elegant poetically and fresh with the Northwest world.”
His chapbooks include: Horace: Eleven Odes, translations published by Sam & Sally Green at Brooding Heron Press, and Rosehip Plum Cherry published by Paul Hunter of Woodworks in Seattle. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Raven Chronicles, Seattle Review, and on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac.
He has received several grants and awards, but his favorite was a Fulbright teacher exchange that allowed him and his family to spend a year living in Hungary.
Special Thanks to the Rainbow Café, Striped Water Poets, the NorthWest Renaissance, the Auburn Arts Commission, City of Auburn, and King County 4Culture.
