DISCOVERY 3RD THURSDAY WRITTEN WORD OPEN MIC

Written word open mic, hosted by poet and teaching artist Gary Copeland Lilley. 5pm-7pm

Gary Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman’s Medicine Show, and a chapbook, The Hog Killing. He is originally from North Carolina and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. He has received the DC Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and is published in numerous anthologies and journals, including: The Best American Poetry 2014, Willow Springs, The Swamp, Waxwing, Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, and African American Review. He is a Cave Canem Fellow.

Gary Lilley is currently the artistic curator of Centrum‘s Port Townsend Writers Conference.