Distinguished Writer Series Presented by The City of Tacoma and Puget Sound Poetry Connection

Puget Sound Poetry Connection

The goal of our readings is to bring poets of import to Tacoma to

help local poets learn and set goals for their own works.

We also provide a showcase for local poets to share their new work. All venues are free, physically accessible, and open to the public. Want more information about "What's Happening" in the poetry realm:

email pspc@pugetsoundpoetryconnection.org and ask to be put on the "Everything" list.

The City of Tacoma and Puget Sound Poetry

Presents the

Distinguished Writer Series

March 14th at 7 p.m.

at Kings Bookstore (218 St. Helens)

Featured Reader

Dennis Caswell

Dennis lives outside Woodinville and works as a software engineer in the aviation industry. His work has appeared in assorted journals and anthologies, and he was selected for the 2013 Jack Straw Writers Program. His full-length collection Phlogiston, was published by Floating Bridge Press in 2012.

Cloud Chamber

Fat clouds lie flat on their bellies,

plush butts uptrust,

staring down through a glass-bottom

air-pressure gradient

at us balls of mud who never look like

hippos or bunnies,

because our clouds are inside,

zinging and flashing

with whatever's passing through

our clouded minds

as each day's ocean evaporates into a nimbus

of fondness, regret, confusion,

or sometimes, if the weather's just right,

that puffy, diaphanous

happiness that looks like the cotton

you dab on a wound,

the candy you pull to your mouth,

a hoop, a bunny,

whatever your need.

Writers workshop

Kevin Miller, Faciltataor

April 12th, 10am to noon

Urban Grace Church

9th and Market

Limited to 15 attendees.

Cost $20. or Bring a friend for 2 for $30.

Ask about scholarships.

See tab WORKSHOP