Poetry Readings with Ted McMahon, Jed Myers, & T. Clear

Join us for a special poetry reading from three Seattle Poets, Ted McMahon, Jed Myers, and T. Clear! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEATS! Visitations: Ted McMahon, a recovering physician/scientist, invites us on a poetic journey grounded in Buddhist thought and incorporating the dream-work and mythic archetypes of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. These poems arise from great suffering and arrive at great compassion. About the author:Ted McMahon was born in 1946 to second-generation Irish parents. He grew up near Boston, in one of many post-WW II residential developments intended for returning veterans. He graduated from Williams College and Duke University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Orthopedic Hospital (now Seattle Children’s) , and practiced outpatient pediatrics in Eugene, OR, and later Seattle, from 1976-2014. His poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, The Comstock Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. His chapbook, First Fire was published in 1996 and his full-length collection, The Uses of Imperfection, in 2003. He has served as an editor at Floating Bridge Press and currently at the on-line journal, Bracken. His full-length manuscript, Keeping Watch, is currently in search of a publisher. Can't Be Far: In Can’t Be Far, his newly published fourth full-length poetry collection, Jed Myers invites the reader/listener on an upriver search for one’s own deep and durable courage. The book’s title poem honors the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (called, in the poem, “one of us”) as exemplary of such courage. We, most of us not martyrs like Navalny, are nonetheless challenged daily to acknowledge unwelcome truths—to say what we see though it will be opposed, to confess our own betrayals of the truth, and to decline participation in the degradations of our fellows. Myers’ poems intimate that it indeed can’t be far, at any moment in one’s life, to the source of this personal courage in one’s own heart. About the author:Jed Myers has been a writer, musician, psychiatrist with a therapy practice, teacher, essayist, photographer, literary editor, and father of three. He walks the wetlands near his home in Seattle and participates in many joint ventures bringing music and poetry together. He is married to the writer and theater-maker Alina Rios. Egg Money: Seattle poet T. Clear releases her second book of poetry from MoonPath Press: Egg Money, a lyrical and unsentimental collection that traces the small, stubborn acts that keep a life—and a world—going. Look below the chicken-coop surface of this collection and you’ll discover metaphors—for racism, poverty, food insecurity, and ecological collapse, as well as a stark glimpse into the caste system of modern society, borne out by chickens, rats, household pets, and humans. In poems that move between domestic labor and ecological decline, Clear maps a landscape where hen-tending is both currency and calling. These poems ask how we measure value when the stakes are survival—of animals, of land, of love, and of self. About the author:T. Clear, a founder of Floating Bridge Press, an Associate Editor at Bracken Magazine, and a facilitator of Easy Speak Seattle, has published her work widely. Her first full-length book, A House, Undone, was the 2022 winner of the Sally Albiso Award from MoonPath Press. She can be found at tclearpoet.com