Founded in September, the Artsmith salon series is wrapping up its season of weekly literary salons at Doe Bay Resort with a final salon and celebration May 24.
“We’re finishing the season with career writers—writers who pick up words and use them with practiced skill, like knife throwers use sharp blades at a circus,” volunteer Jennifer Brennock said.
On May 24, the final salon of the season will celebrate and acknowledge the Artsmith writers’ community and mission. It will also feature writer John Enders from Oregon and poet John Sangster from Lopez Island.
Enders is a writer with 30 years of journalism experience in the United States and Latin America. “The Enders Report” can be found at johnenders.com. Enders will be reading his historical fiction work.
Sangster’s poems have appeared in online magazines, “Switched-on Gutenberg” and “Shark Reef,” in “Pontoon,” an anthology of Washington State poets, and “What Have You Lost,” poems selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. His chapbook, “Island Year,” was published in 2008. Sangster is a Fishtrap Fellow and Jack Straw Writer.
Artsmith is an Orcas Island non-profit supporting writers and visual artists. The salon is free to attend. Local writers are invited to read ten minutes of their own work during writers’ open mic. More information is available at orcasartsmith.org or 376-2025.
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