From Cindy Hutch: On Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7:00 p.m., Auburn Striped Water Poets and Northwest Renaissance Poets will celebrate the second anniversary of their jointly-sponsored monthly open mic reading series at the Auburn Station Bistro, 110 Second Street Southwest, Auburn WA, with performances by Christopher Jarmick and Robinson Bolkum, the craziest, funniest pair of contemporary poets around. And, of course, the traditional open mic will follow. Northwest writer-poet Christopher J. Jarmick, one of the Puget Sound region’s most ubiquitous, most effective poetry ambassadors, has been organizing and hosting readings for more than 14 years, including the long-running Second Wednesday Reading at Park Place Books in Kirkland. Former member of the PEN USA board, past PEN president, and vice president of the Washington Poets Association, Jarmick’s most recent poetry collection, IGNITION: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements and Double Dog Dares, was published in 2010. With Pulitzer-nominated poet Michael C. Ford, he also recorded a spoken word cd, Radio Pictures: Aural Anxieties, released in 2009. Jarmick’s written work is widely published: poems, articles, interviews, web postings, and book reviews that appear in Randomly Accessed Poetics: Heart Splatters into Significance (2014), Here There and Everywhere (RASP-2013), Many Trails to the Summit (Rose Alley Press, 2011), and in such literary magazines as Rattle, Raven Chronicles, and Senses of Cinema. Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Jarmick moved to Los Angeles, where his television production credits included award-winning PBS documentaries, and segments for Entertainment Tonight, Hard Copy, and other popular shows. He also co-authored a mystery suspense thriller, The Glass Cocoon. He moved to Seattle in 1994, and now lives in Kenmore with his wife Teresa. Together, they have eight kids. Perennial ‘Wild Card’ poet Robinson Bolkum was born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Seattle, where he earned Bachelor of Science, Master of Divinity and Master of Arts Degrees. Until recently, he was employed by a glass factory in Everett; since the factory’s closure, he works closer to his home in Marysville. The elusive Bolkum, who draws and randomly hands out his droll Robinson Bolkum Dollars, has been sharing his unique cycle of rhymed poems with Northwest audiences for several years. He hopes soon to publish his unique multi-part poem, and, meantime, continues to delight and confound his listeners. Bolkum’s work appears in Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range and Many Trails to the Summit, both anthologies of work by Northwest poets published by Rose Alley Press.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:27:18 +0000
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