Striped Water Poets will hold roundtable critique circle meetings from 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays on the second floor of Auburn City Hall, 25 W. Main. All poets and friends are welcome.

The lineup of facilitators are:

• Feb. 17: Julie Courey

• Feb. 24: Lohmann Prize winner David Rizzi.

For more information, contact Gerald A. McBreen, coordinator for the Striped Water Poets, Pacific poet laureate, at 253-735-1751

ALSO: The Poets’ Arlene Hatten of Pacific recently won the Everyone Looking “Coffee News” contest. Hatten’s thread-the-needle eye spotted that tiny guy hidden in the newsletter and won the December prize.