This month's featured poets are Emily Ransdell, Brian Stephen Ellis, and your host, dan raphael. dan will probably read another poet or two.
Emily Ransdell is the author of One Finch Singing, winner of the 2022 Lewis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her work has appeared in Rattle, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, CAYLX, and elsewhere. Emily divides her time between Camas, Washington and Manzanita, Oregon, where she teaches poetry classes. Learn more about Emily at http://emilyransdell.com.
Brian Stephen Ellis is the author of five collections of poetry and one collection of short fiction, most recently, Against Common Sense (2023) from Limit Zero Publications. He lives in Portland.
Dan raphael is the author of 26 poetry collections. Including In the Wordshed, Manything, and Everybody in This Movie Gets Paid. He has performed his poetry at around 133- different places in Portland, and had pizza in 97 different Portland places. Most Wednesdays For over 7 years dan has been writing and recording a current events poem for the KBOO Evening News.