Featured Readers


The poets currently scheduled to be featured at PoetsWest @ The Creekside are listed below and there’s always a generously timed open mic.

10/17/2018 Kendra Francis
11/21/2018 David Post
12/19/2018 Georgia S. McDade & Benjamin Schmitt
01/16/2019 Cat Kigerl
02/20/2019 Kilam Tel Aviv
03/20/2019 Sierra Golden
04/17/2019 Michael Magee
05/15/2019 Glenna Cook
06/19/2019 Griffith Williams
07/17/2019 Oliver Amatist
08/21/2019 Bruce Taylor
09/18/2019
10/16/2019
11/20/2019
12/18/2019
 
Readings are at 7:00pm on the third Wednesday of each month at The Creekside (MBK Senior Living, 18200 Woodinville-Snohomish Rd NE, Woodinville, WA 98072).

If you would like to be a featured reader, please contact J. Glenn Evans at PoetsWest who handles bookings for The Creekside.

Please click here for books authored/edited by participants in the Creekside venue.

Welcome

Welcome to PoetsWest @ The Creekside, a site developed to promote poetry and poets in the Great Northwest.

In partnership with PoetsWest, a nonprofit membership organization based in Seattle, The Creekside, a Merrill Gardens Retirement Community, has opened its doors to offer a premier venue for poetry readings at 7:00pm on the third Wednesday of each month. The readings feature one (or occasionally two) poets plus a very generously timed open mic.

While many venues seem to have just poets-reading-to-poets, The Creekside has a general audience made up of senior citizens and their families as well as the poets in attendance.

Facilities and refreshments are provided courtesy of The Creekside, a Merrill Gardens Retirement Community, in Woodinville, Washington.

Notes for Readers

A few notes for poets reading at The Creekside:

  • Our audiences prefer family-oriented poetry. [We meet in a venue where attendees may range from youngsters (grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc.) to centenarians.]
  • Our audiences like to be entertained, enlightened, and energized by presentations which, while they may differ, do respect our individual and diverse views of politics, persuasion, and purpose.
  • Our audiences admire great poetry, whether traditional, modern, blank, free, or prose…you won’t be booed but you may be cheered!
  • And finally, a marketing table is available to display your publications as well as audio-visual and promotional materials.