This Thursday at 7:00pm we will be having Sharon Cumberland,a poet from Seattle, come for a reading in the store! Here's a bit about her:

After a career in New York as an arts manager, working for the Lincoln Center Theater Company and the Metropolitan Opera, she became an educator, teaching in the New York City public school system before earning a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York. She has lived in Seattle since 1994. Has been writing poetry since 1983, and has published in a wide variety of magazines and journals, including Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Verse. Her poems have been nominated three times for Pushcart Prizes, and her full-length manuscript, Peculiar Honors, has been a finalist in several publication competitions, coming in second for the Whitman Award in 1995. In 1998 she was awarded the Sue Saniel Elkind Award by Kalliope: a Journal of Women's Arts for her poem "Before," and in 2005 her poem “Runaway” won first prize in the Writer’s Haven Bright Side competition. Her first chapbook, The Arithmetic of Mourning, was published in 1998 by Green Rock Press, and her second chapbook, Sharon Cumberland: Greatest Hits 1985-2000, was published by Pudding House Press in 2002. She had recently completed her first novel. She is now an Associate Professor of American Literature and Poetry at Seattle University.

Check out her website for more information.