The NorthWind Art Center Reading Tonight…
In absence of it’s usual terrific host, Bill Mawhinney , splendid and versatile writer, professor, and business man Carl Youngman welcomed us all, to this special reading…
And I deem it particularly special, because tonight, in Port Townsend, two friends from early youth, continued adding rich memories to their friendship by sharing their poem-collections with us, at NorthWind Art Center.
Peter Quinn was to start the reading…
Refreshing, interesting, and touching poetry from Peter…
Peter Quinn is a poet and business person. Businessman poets are rare, but it works for him. A graduate from Lewis and Clark College, he spent four years studying with Vern Rutsala, Tony Ostroff and William Stafford. He has published in Mississippi Mud, Foxfire, the Portland Oregonian and Northwest Magazine. Peter is also the Development Director for the Northwest Maritime Center. He continues to write poetry and lead workshops to feed his poetry passion. Peter is currently working on a book, “The Poet Creeps Out.”
Then came his friend from younger years, John Willson, to read his own collection of poems…
John Willson and Peter Quinn were classmates at Lewis and Clark College, and co-winners of the Academy of American Poets Award in 1976. John is also a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and awards from the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, the Artist Trust of Washington, and the King County Arts Commission. Blue Begonia Press published a collection of his poems, The Son We Had. His poems have appeared in many journals including Cold Mountain Review, Crab Orchard Review, Kyoto Journal, and Northwest Review; and in such anthologies as Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry and Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer. A two-time finalist in the National Poetry Series, he lives on Bainbridge Island, where he works as poetry workshop instructor for the Bainbridge Island Park District and as a bookseller at Eagle Harbor Book Company. John is a collector of aloha shirts and rubber stamps.
Always fun and interesting these Port Townsend evenings…
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