Washington Poets Association

Monday September 3rd!

cool off with a refreshing dose of Poetry!

POETRY AT THE
STATION BISTRO
in downtown Auburn

presents:
Raul Sanchez
and
Matthew Brouwer

Monday, September 3

FIRST MONDAYS, 7-9 p.m.
followed by coffee and conversation

Featured Poets
& OPEN MIC

The Station Bistro
110 Second Street SW, # 125
Auburn, WA

The Station Bistro is located one block south of West Main Street, on the east side of the Auburn Transit Center.
be sure to ask about their coffee and apple crisps or cinnamon rolls or their delicious made-from-scratch soups!
“May all who enter as guests, leave as friends.”

Matthew Brouwer is a performance poet, peer mentor, teaching artist, and organizational consultant residing in Bellingham, WA. He is a board member of Young Writers Studio, a nonprofit providing writing instruction and mentorship to students and lead poetry workshops in the schools.

Poetry:

“In my writing, I try to bridge the worlds of performance and literary poetry in order to create a style that is enlivening both at the mic and on the page.”

He has featured at venues such as poetrynight in Bellingham and Zippy’s Café in Everett, and performed at events throughout the Pacific Northwest including readings at Village Books in Bellingham and the Everett Green Festival. He has been published in local journals and has two self-published chapbooks, Cannonball Island, and Men Who Walk with Canes, and another chapbook manuscript (The Gospel According to Matthew) recently accepted by Finishing Line Press

“Poetry to me is a vehicle for personal exploration and means to express one’s unique way of being in the world. I believe poetry should play a powerful role in transforming individuals and enriching communities.”

www.matthewbrouwerpoet.com



Check out Matthew’s Kickstarter video raising support for his summer poetry tour, release of a new book, and work in the community as a teaching artist.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1363369594/the-gospel-according-to-matthew-poetry-tour


Raúl Sánchez, (www.beyondaztlan.com) is a Seattle Bio-Tech technician, eschatologist, colletic, prosody enthusiast, hamartiologist, translator, DJ and cook who conducts workshops on The Day of the Dead in Tieton WA. Featured in the program for the 2011 Burning Word Poetry Festival in Leavenworth WA. Board member of the Washington Poets Association, Los Norteños writers group and recently a moderator for the Poets Responding to SB 1070 page. His work appeared in the second Anthology by The Miracle Theatre Viva la Word!, in several Latino Newspapers, on the Latino Northwest Magazine, Latino Cultural Magazine, on bookmarks by the Seattle Public Library 2007 Poetic Art Project. Also in the 2008 Floating Bridge Review Volume 1. His work has appeared on-line in the Sylvan Echo, Flurry, Gazoobitales, Pirene's Fountain and several times in the La Bloga. His most recent work is the translation of John Burgess' "Graffito" released by Ravenna Press. Also he appears in the Occupy San Francisco Anthology by Jambu Press, in the Anthology Speaking Desde las Heridas (Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). His newest book: All Our Brown Skinned Angels was recently released from Moonpath Press.



Presented by The Station Bistro: www.auburnstationbistro.com
Northwest Renaissance,
and Auburn Striped Water Poets.
https://sites.google.com/site/stripedwaterpoets/

For more information, contact:
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Striped Water Poets

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