Community Corner
RASP Reading Series featuring Jesse Minkert & Open Mic
Seattle poet, playwright, and "fictionaut" Jesse Minkert reads in Redmond on Friday, February 21, 7 pm at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center. RASP also hosts an Open Mic for local writers, readers, and spokenword artists.
The event is free and open to everyone.
About the featured reader: JESSE MINKERT has written plays for theater and radio, short stories, novels, and poems. Wood Works Press published a letterpress collection of his microstories, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms, in 2008. His work appears in Randomly Accessed Poetics,Subprimal Poetry Art, Limestone, Confrontation, Paper Nautilus, Mount Hope, Naugatuck River Review, Floating Bridge Review, Harpur Palate,Raven Chronicles, and other publications. He operates a nonprofit organization called Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences. In the summer Minkert works with visually impaired school kids to produce radio plays and public service announcements dealing with their experience. His website is www.jesse-minkert.com.