Poetry at the Rainbow Café presents the works of Gary Copeland Lilley and Carolyne Wright on Monday, Oct. 3.

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

Lilley’s publications include three poetry collections and three chapbooks of poetry. A fourth full-length collection, The Bushman’s Medicine Show, is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press in Spring, 2017. Lilley is a Cave Canem Fellow. He is not an ordinary guitar tramp.

Wright’s co-edited anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015), received 10 Pushcart Prize nominations for 2016 and is a finalist in Foreword Review’s 2016 Book of the Year Awards.

Her nine books and chapbooks of poetry include “Mania Klepto: the Book of Eulene” (Turning Point Books); “A Change of Maps” (Lost Horse), an Alice Fay di Castagnola Award finalist; and “Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire” (Eastern Washington UP/Lynx House Books), which won the Blue Lynx Prize and American Book Award.

She also has four volumes of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali.

Wright lived in Chile and traveled in Brazil on a Fulbright Grant during the presidency of Salvador Allende, and spent four years on fellowships in India and Bangladesh, translating Bengali women poets.

She returned to her native Seattle in 2005 and has taught for the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program and for Richard Hugo House ever since.

A contributing editor for the Pushcart Prizes, Wright has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, 4Culture, and Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture. She is a Jack Straw Writing Fellow for 2016.