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4 CULTURE 2012 artist grant

Thank you to 4 Culture for the support of a 2012 Individual Artist Grant

to assist me to share Rustling Wrens,

my new poetry collection,

with the visitors and residents of King County.

The primary goal is to provide poetry readings and writing workshops

at local libraries, community centers and classrooms over the next 18 months. 

please check this site for a schedule of readings and workshops



from the Poetry Garden at Seattle Center

Last Wednesday afternoon, August 15, I had the delightful opportunity to read my poetry with poet Michael Dylan Welch as we read our poems together in the shade of the Seattle Center Poetry Garden. 

Our poetry reading was one of a series of "Unexpected Art" sponsored by Jack Straw Productions in partnership with the Seattle Center.  Part of the fifty year celebration of the opening of the Seattle World's Fair, "Unexpected Art" intends to surprise as visitors stroll the grounds enjoying summer and fall.    

ARTIST TRUST / A Celebration of Washington Artists: Reception / Seattle

You are invited to attend: 

Artist Trust / A Celebration of Washington Artists:  Reception / Seattle

Friday evening, September 7th,

at the Washington State Convention Center

for more information please visit the Artist Trust website: 

http://artisttrust.org/index.php/events/event/artist_trust_edge_artists_celebration

signed copies of Rustling Wrens will be available

Rustling Wrens @ ARTS CRUSH--poetry reading & workshop @ Seattle Center in the fall

Rustling Wrens is a family-centered, hands-on workshp geared to all ages to foster poetry and the written word as an important literary art to reflect on family and culture.  Participants will leave with samples of poems from the writer's new collection, have time to begin new work, mess about with art materials and share with others in a positive, welcoming envirnment.  Date:  Sunday, October 28, 1:30-3:00 P.M.

Scheduled Readings, Workshops & Exhibits by Denise Calvetti Michaels:

View book cover to Rustling Wrens on display at the Artist Trust juried art exhibit entitled, "Celebration," July 20 - October 20th at the Washington State Convention Center.

Denise will read from new book with poet Michael Dylan Welch for a Jack Straw Pocket Concert in the Seattle Center Poetry Garden on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 5:30 pm.

Denise will read from new collection during Artist Trust's gala celebration of 25 years of support to visual and literary artists in Washington State on September 7th, 7 pm, at Washington State Convention Center.

Arts Crush--Rustling Wrens workshop and reading focused on family and culture in October--date and location forthcoming.

About the Author:

About the Author:

Denise Calvetti Michaels’ poems and lyric essays are published in Paterson Literary Review, City Works Press, Yours Truly, Crosscurrents and other journals and anthologies including The Milk of Almonds, Feminist Press; Beyond Forgetting, Kent State University Press; In Praise of Farmlands, Whit Press and between sleeps, en theos press; and the 2012 Redmond Centennial Poetry Project.  In 2008 she was awarded the Crosscurrents Prize for her prose poem, “Notes from New Orleans” by the Washington Community College Humanities Association.  A 2010 fellow of the Jack Straw Writers Program and graduate of Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program for Writers, she works as Associate Faculty of Psychology at Cascadia Community College in Bothell, Washington, and lives in Kirkland with her husband, Kirk, near their children and grandchildren.