Poets at Poulsbohemian

Share a Spring evening with friends and fellow poets the first Saturday, June 7th.

Enjoy a nice cold drink and a tasty treat and continue your support of our host Marianna!

Don't forget to bring a poem for Open Mic!

Need more information? Call Nancy Rekow at 206.842.4855

Kris Hotchkiss is a wife, the mother of two beautiful daughters, and has been a teacher of 5th and 6th graders for many years. She has been reading and writing poetry since 3rd grade, but poetry did not become a passion until she discovered John Willson's workshop about five years ago -- there she began to find her voice! Every poem starts with a grain, and is honed and polished with the encouragement and support of the poetry friends she has met through John's workshop. She finds her inspiration in places, animals, and the natural world--and is drawn to exploring the human connection with all of these.

Jenifer Browne Lawrence lives right here in Poulsbo, where she hosts the Jewel Box Poets Sunday Reading Series. The recipient of Soapstone and Centrum writing residencies, Jenifer's work has been published in the Potomac Review, Comstock Review, Windfall, Crab Creek Review and elsewhere. Blue Begonia Press published her poetry collection, One Hundred Steps from Shore, in 2006.

Charles Sharpe has had a love affair with words all his life and recently turned to poetry as the latest effort in a series of futile attempts to get someone to listen to him. He wrote his first poem in the third grade and has returned to it after a 40 some year hiatus when he realized while trying to write a novel and a screenplay he didn't have a clue. He grew up the third child of intellectual parents and with eight brothers and sisters became a prodigy at a tender age at the art of flying just off the radar screen, a talent that would come to serve him well later in life by learning how to disappear when it was time to practice piano, do homework or household chores. A few years back he wrote a poem and sent it to his mother for her birthday and she corrected it and sent it back. He recently completed the esteemed writer and poet David Wagoner's poetry workshop and was told by David that he would be better suited to writing catalogs. Despite the misgivings of others he's found a way to slog on and has somehow managed to have his work accepted in several literary magazines. It must have had something to do with the extraction, blackmail, bribery, and outright extortion he's worked so hard over the years to perfect as a source of self expression.