Margin Shift Presents: Noel, Fomon, Gallo-Brown, Baker

August 17, 2017, 6:30pm - August 17, 2017, 11:30pm

Global warming may be the cause of all the smoke in the Seattle air of late, but we've got the poetic fire this month at Margin Shift, so join us down at CAM in Belltown for more 3rd Thursday (August 17) magic. As always, doors and wine open at 6:30; poetry starts around 7-ish. Margin Shift is free to attend, though CAM does accept donations to help with food and wine costs. Check out this month's fantastic readers: Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013). Her poems have also appeared in Thermos, Spiral Orb, Weekday, The Seattle Review of Books, and The Arcadia Project. More recently she created new work for the installations Try Me, a Swanful, at The Alice gallery, and at INCA for Matthew Offenbacher's beautiful installation, The Lion Side of Under the Porch. She was a co-curator of the dance, music and poetry series APOSTROPHE, and curated Impala, a reading series that took place in her grandmother’s car. Originally from Iowa City, Josh Fomon is a political operative in Seattle. His poems appear in alice blue review, Caketrain, Deluge, Dreginald, Handsome, jubilat, pallaksch. Yalobusha Review, and others. His first book, THOUGH WE BLED METICULOUSLY, is out from Black Ocean. Alex Gallo-Brown is a writer from Seattle. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Stranger, The Rumpus, and Vice. He is the author of The Language of Grief, a self-published collection of poems dedicated to his father, the journalist Nick Gallo. His poems have also appeared in Tahoma Literary Review (which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize), Pacifica Literary Review online, City Arts, Seattle Review of Books, Everyday Genius, and Gramma. He is currently a teaching artist with Seattle Arts and Lectures' Writers in the Schools. Quenton Baker is a poet and educator from Seattle. His current focus is the fact of blackness in American society. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Pinwheel, Poetry Northwest, The James Franco Review, and Cura and in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He was a 2015-2016 Made at Hugo House fellow and is the recipient of the James W. Ray Venture Project award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016).​