Laura Feldman was born and raised in North Portland. She serves on the Willamette River Advisory Board, and the Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board. Her work includes the chapbook: hearing Hanford (nine muses press, 2011), and more recently her memory essay, Trip to Richland, which appeared in “Beyond the Margins” an Oregon Humanities online magazine.
.Jason Kastrup says you may have heard him—on a street corner, at revolution Hall, but probably haven’t read him, A poetry slam champion and former on-air radio personality, Jason has toured the West Coast and Midwest with his poems and improv. He’s performed at national festivals like Spontaneous Combustion and organized readings like Aural Pleasures. Jason’s podcast, These Evolving Times, ran for over seven years. Jason is currently at work on a new podcast called How We Get By about coping through life’s turbulences of extreme highs and lows.
Jen Coleman is a Portland poet and author of two volumes: "Psalms for Dogs and Sorcerers" and "We Denizens" . She works as a writer for Environmental Defense Fund and plays harmonica and ukulele in the Stumptown Jug Thumpers.
Host dan raphael reads poems by recently deceased Portland poets Patrick Bocarde and Dennis McBride.