Milepost 5 Presents Award-winning Poets, Kirstin Roedell and Wayne Lee

Thursday, September 03, 2015

Nada Sewidan, GoLocalPDX Contributor

Poet, Wayne Lee

Milepost 5, Portland’s artist community in North East, will be hosting two award-winning poets, Kirstin Roedell and Wayne Lee, as part of their literary reading series.

Wayne Lee has been published in several literary journals and anthologies, including Pontoon, The New Guard, Nimrod and Slipstream. He has been previously awarded the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and the SICA Poems for Peace Award. Lee will be reading excerpts from his most recent published collection, Googling a Present Participle: Poems, Prose Poems, Bogus Monologues & Fraudulent Artifacts, as well as poems from his previous collections.

Poet Kristen Roedell has been published in over fifty journals and anthologies and has had several award nominations, including a nomination for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Roedell has previously been awarded NISA’s 11th Annual Brainstorm Poetry Contest.

The literary reading series will be located on 850 NE 81st Ave. (entrance on Oregon St.) on Tuesday, Sept. 15 starting at 7:30 p.m. There will also be an open mic following the readings. The event is free and open to the public.

A complete listing of the season’s literary reading line-up at Milepost 5 is as follows:

September 15 - Kristin Roedell, Wayne Lee
October 20th - Brittney Corrigan, Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
November 17th - A. Molotkov, Dena Rash Guzman, Penelope Scambly Schott, Ger Killeen, Patricia J. McLean, Duane Poncy
December 15th - Amelia Diaz Ettinger, Dawn Tefft,
January 19th - TBA
February 16th - Darlene Pagán, Deb Akers
March 15th - Tim Shaner, Karen McPherson
April 19th - Jeff Fearnside, Jamie Duclos-Yourdon
May 17th - Margaret Chula, Dan Raphael
June 20th - The Women of VoiceCatcher
July 19th - Judith Arcana

Milepost 5 is a local art community home to musicians, writers, painters and many other artists alike. It’s part of Art Haus and Artists’ Milepost 5 and contains several gallery spaces dedicated to the arts.

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