Poet Carolyne Wright

Women workers’ advocate Carolyne Wright will be the featured poet for theOlympia Poetry Network.

Wright’s new book is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017).  Her ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse, 2015), received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in the Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards.  Other honors include Fulbright, NEA and Instituto Sacatar (Brazil) fellowships. A Seattle native, she teaches for Hugo House, Antioch University Los Angeles MFA Program, the Whidbey Writers Workshop for its entire 2005-2016 existence, and for universities, conferences, and festivals throughout the U.S. She will be available to autograph copies of her books. An Open Mic will precede the reading.