Poetry Moment

Chris Coppen Reads "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats

Chris ("Cop") Coppen is a Spokane resident. He is a clinical social worker at Frontier Behavioral Health and their Clinical Internship Coordinator. He reads poetry each month at Auntie's Bookstore's "Three-Minute Mic" and writes about art, social concerns, fatherhood.

Chris Coppen Reads "Desert" by Richard Shelton

Chris ("Cop") Coppen is a Spokane resident. He is a clinical social worker at Frontier Behavioral Health and their Clinical Internship Coordinator. He reads poetry each month at Auntie's Bookstore's "Three-Minute Mic" and writes about art, social concerns, fatherhood.

Recipe Moment: Leftover Turkey Sandwich

Ingredients: 2 slices of French bread (other hearty bread would work) Cream cheese Cranberry sauce Carved turkey Stuffing

Recipe Moment: Garlic Ginger Cranberry Chutney

Ingredients: 3 (or more) cloves garlic 1-inch cube of peeled fresh ginger root 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar 4 tablespoons sugar 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper 1-pound can cranberry sauce with or without berries * 1/2 teaspoon salt (or less) ground black pepper to taste

Recipe Moment: Pumpkin Cream Puffs

Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter 1 cup water 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup flour 4 eggs 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 tablespoon powdered sugar 1/4 to 1/3 cup pureed pumpkin

Recipe Moment: Chocolate Mousse

Ingredients: 12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips & 12 oz. bittersweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup espresso coffee 1/2 cup Kahlua 4 egg yolks 2 cups heavy whipping cream [separated 1 cup for mousse, 1 cup for topping] 1/4 cup sugar 8 egg whites pinch of salt 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Recipe Moment: Mr. Schwump's Sweet Potato Souffle

Ingredients: 3 cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes 1/2 cup orange juice 1/2 cup milk 1 tsp vanila extract 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 6 tbls butter, melted cinnamon to taste 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup flour 1 cup pecans marshmallows

"Bouquets And Walmart Wreaths" by Melanie Simms

Melanie Simms is an award winning poet with over two hundred publications to her credit. Her publications include The Galway Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Blood and Thunder Literary Magazine among many others. She is the former poet laureate for Perry County, PA and her most recent book collection, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies was released by Sunbury Press. Melanie has appeared on numerous radio and television programs to share and read poetry with WITF, WVIA, WKOK, and PCN televisio...

"Miserable Shoes" By Melanie Simms

Melanie Simms is an award winning poet with over two hundred publications to her credit. Her publications include The Galway Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Blood and Thunder Literary Magazine among many others. She is the former poet laureate for Perry County, PA and her most recent book collection, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies was released by Sunbury Press. Melanie has appeared on numerous radio and television programs to share and read poetry with WITF, WVIA, WKOK, and PCN televisio...

Melanie Simms Reads "Night" By Jerry Wemple

Melanie Simms is an award winning poet with over two hundred publications to her credit. Her publications include The Galway Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Blood and Thunder Literary Magazine among many others. She is the former poet laureate for Perry County, PA and her most recent book collection, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies was released by Sunbury Press. Melanie has appeared on numerous radio and television programs to share and read poetry with WITF, WVIA, WKOK, and PCN televisio...

Melanie Simms Reads "Japanese Lullaby" By Eugene Field

Melanie Simms is an award winning poet with over two hundred publications to her credit. Her publications include The Galway Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Blood and Thunder Literary Magazine among many others. She is the former poet laureate for Perry County, PA and her most recent book collection, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies was released by Sunbury Press. Melanie has appeared on numerous radio and television programs to share and read poetry with WITF, WVIA, WKOK, and PCN televisio...

Melanie Simms Reads "Time Is A Horse" By Christine Gelineau

Melanie Simms is an award winning poet with over two hundred publications to her credit. Her publications include The Galway Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Blood and Thunder Literary Magazine among many others. She is the former poet laureate for Perry County, PA and her most recent book collection, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies was released by Sunbury Press. Melanie has appeared on numerous radio and television programs to share and read poetry with WITF, WVIA, WKOK, and PCN televisio...

"Let Autumn Come" by Mike Aleman

"Love on the Landing" by Mike Aleman

Mike Aleman Reads "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence

Mike Aleman Reads "Birches" by Robert Frost

"Goodnight Fred" by Chris Cook

Chris Cook was recently announced as the Spokane Civic Poet Laureate for 2019-2021. His first collection of poetry, The View from the Broken Mic , was published in 2012 (Gray Dog Press). Additional work has been published by Sage Hill Press, Scablands Books, and The Spokesman-Review. His children’s poetry has been published by Little, Brown Books, Meadowbrook Press, and Scholastic Press. His new collection, Damn Good Cookie , was released in 2016 by Korrektiv Press.

"That's What Hayley Did" by Chris Cook

Chris Cook was recently announced as the Spokane Civic Poet Laureate for 2019-2021. His first collection of poetry, The View from the Broken Mic , was published in 2012 (Gray Dog Press). Additional work has been published by Sage Hill Press, Scablands Books, and The Spokesman-Review. His children’s poetry has been published by Little, Brown Books, Meadowbrook Press, and Scholastic Press. His new collection, Damn Good Cookie , was released in 2016 by Korrektiv Press.

Chris Cook Reads "Mother Talks Back to the Monster" by Carrie Shipers

Chris Cook was recently announced as the Spokane Civic Poet Laureate for 2019-2021. His first collection of poetry, The View from the Broken Mic , was published in 2012 (Gray Dog Press). Additional work has been published by Sage Hill Press, Scablands Books, and The Spokesman-Review. His children’s poetry has been published by Little, Brown Books, Meadowbrook Press, and Scholastic Press. His new collection, Damn Good Cookie , was released in 2016 by Korrektiv Press.

Chris Cook Reads "On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness" by Arthur Guiterman

Chris Cook was recently announced as the Spokane Civic Poet Laureate for 2019-2021. His first collection of poetry, The View from the Broken Mic , was published in 2012 (Gray Dog Press). Additional work has been published by Sage Hill Press, Scablands Books, and The Spokesman-Review. His children’s poetry has been published by Little, Brown Books, Meadowbrook Press, and Scholastic Press. His new collection, Damn Good Cookie , was released in 2016 by Korrektiv Press.

Chris Cook Reads "Long Feud" by Louis Untermeyer

Chris Cook was recently announced as the Spokane Civic Poet Laureate for 2019-2021. His first collection of poetry, The View from the Broken Mic , was published in 2012 (Gray Dog Press). Additional work has been published by Sage Hill Press, Scablands Books, and The Spokesman-Review. His children’s poetry has been published by Little, Brown Books, Meadowbrook Press, and Scholastic Press. His new collection, Damn Good Cookie , was released in 2016 by Korrektiv Press.

Cynthia Schulz Reads "The Tyger" by William Blake

Cynthia Schulz taught in the public schools for nearly 30 years. She loves poetry and literature and promotes them as often as she can. She has shared poems with people near the base of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona and keeps her eyes open for ways to include poetry in the flow and fabric of daily life.

Cynthia Schulz Reads Hamlet's Soliloquy by William Shakespeare

Cynthia Schulz taught in the public schools for nearly 30 years. She loves poetry and literature and promotes them as often as she can. She has shared poems with people near the base of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona and keeps her eyes open for ways to include poetry in the flow and fabric of daily life.

Cynthia Schulz Reads "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth

Cynthia Schulz taught in the public schools for nearly 30 years. She loves poetry and literature and promotes them as often as she can. She has shared poems with people near the base of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona and keeps her eyes open for ways to include poetry in the flow and fabric of daily life.

Cynthia Schulz Reads "When the Ripe Fruit Falls" by D.H. Lawrence

Cynthia Schulz taught in the public schools for nearly 30 years. She loves poetry and literature and promotes them as often as she can. She has shared poems with people near the base of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona and keeps her eyes open for ways to include poetry in the flow and fabric of daily life.

Cynthia Schulz Reads from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

Cynthia Schulz taught in the public schools for nearly 30 years. She loves poetry and literature and promotes them as often as she can. She has shared poems with people near the base of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona and keeps her eyes open for ways to include poetry in the flow and fabric of daily life.

"Baba Yaga Rides It's a Small World" by Alexandra Teague

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019). Her prior books include The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography , winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry, and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation , as well as the co-edited anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former Stegner and NEA fellow, Alexandra was recently awarded a residency at Civitella Ranieri. ...

Alexandra Teague Reads "Ad Hominem" by Nicky Beer

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019). Her prior books include The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography , winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry, and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation , as well as the co-edited anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former Stegner and NEA fellow, Alexandra was recently awarded a residency at Civitella Ranieri. ...

Alexandra Teague Reads from "Alphabet" by Aibhe Darcy

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019). Her prior books include The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography , winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry, and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation , as well as the co-edited anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former Stegner and NEA fellow, Alexandra was recently awarded a residency at Civitella Ranieri. ...

Alexandra Teague Reads "Philosophically Immune" by Evie Shockley

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019). Her prior books include The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography , winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry, and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation , as well as the co-edited anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former Stegner and NEA fellow, Alexandra was recently awarded a residency at Civitella Ranieri. ...

Alexandra Teague Reads "Cindy Comes to Hear Me Read" by Jill McDonough

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019). Her prior books include The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography , winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry, and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation , as well as the co-edited anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former Stegner and NEA fellow, Alexandra was recently awarded a residency at Civitella Ranieri. ...

"Ribcage" by Ben Read

Ben Read is a junior at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he studies comparative literature. He works as an editor for the Reed College Quest and he coordinates the Visiting Writers Series as an assistant to the English department. Outside of his work as a student, he writes poetry, plays basketball, and dances tango.

"Ars Poetica" by Laura Read

Laura Read is a poet and educator living in Spokane. She is the author of Dresses from the Old Country (BOA Editions, 2018); Instructions for my Mother’s Funeral (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Dorianne Laux), and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You (winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, 2011). Her poems appear widely. Recipient of a Washington State Artists Trust Grant, a Florida Review Prize ...

"The One Night The Dog Was Good" by Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel's most recent collection of poems, which won the Pacific Coast Poetry Award, is Our Foreigner (Beyond Baroque Books, 2016). Other collections of poems include Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington Press, 2013), No Starling (U. of Washington Press, 2007), Beside Ourselves (Miami U. Press, 2000), After a Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998), The Dirt (Miami U. Press, 1994), and Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois, 1988). She is also the author of five books of fiction, most recently Ever ...