Sunday, Feb. 28 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Mia’s Cafe
— from Jennifer Brennock —
Rose Swartz
Mia’s Cafe in Eastsound will host a Drop Out poetry reading and open mic on Sunday, Feb. 28 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Featured artist Rose Swartz will be coming from Portland to share her most recent letterpress chapbook, “Panhandle.” Swartz is a writer and visual artist from Kalamazoo, Michigan who will be on Orcas taking part in Drop Out, a tech-free refuge for artists. Swartz is the author of “All Along the California Coast,” a crown of sonnets (2014) and “All The Old Things,” a collection of photographs and prose poems (2016).
Swartz will be joined by another Drop Out writer, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke of Seattle. Werner-Jatzke is the author of two chapbooks, “Thunder Lizard” (2016) and the forthcoming “Adventures in Property Management” (2017). Werner-Jatzke is managing fiction editor at Pacifica Literary Review, editorial director at Conium Review, and co-founder of Till, an annual writing retreat.
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
Featured poets will be followed by a “five-minute mic.” Everyone is welcome to read their own original creative writing with a five-minute courtesy limit. Mia’s will be open for business and the event is free. More information: www.dropoutonorcas.com .
