Join us for a celebration of the Hood Canal! This month’s reading features four poets from around the Canal: Cathy Warner, Rebecca Holbrook, Dawn Smart, and Sterling Warner.

4-5 pm Featured Reading

5-6 pm Poetry Open Mic

Read your poetry, short prose, or fiction for a suggested 5-minute time limit. Limited reading slots are available. Show up early to sign up.

Poetry Open Mic is on the last Saturday of every month

Free/Public

Artist Biographies:

Union resident Cathy Warner is the author of three volumes of poetry and editor of three poetry anthologies which include her photography. Cathy writes and photographs landscapes and the night sky from her perch along the shores of Annas Bay on the Hood Canal.  

Dawn Smart is the author of four novels, with #5 soon to be published, and has short essays and poems in the anthologies published by the Shelton Timberland Library and her writers’ group, Hood Canal Writers. She also has had several poems included in the annual art/poetry exhibitions in galleries in Kitsap County.

An award-winning author and educator, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies such as Anti-heroin Chic, Gleam, and Synchronized Chaos. Warner’s twelve poetry/fiction collections include: Rags & Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges,  Serpent’s Tooth, Flytraps, Cracks of Light, Halcyon Days, Abraxas and Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. Warner continues writing, boating, fishing, and hosting the monthly Union of Poets “virtual” Open Mic in Union, Washington.

Rebecca Holbrook is a singer-songwriter, author and poet whose first novel, “Omie’s Well”, won the Nancy Pearl Award for Literary Fiction, 2024. She migrated from the southern US to the Pacific Northwest with her husband Gary and dog Liza Jane. Now residing at Lake Cushman, Rebecca spends her time writing and was fortunate to receive a residency at Holly House from Hypatia in the Woods. Her second novel, “The Deer Stone”, a sequel to “Omie’s Well”, will be out in the fall of this year.