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Lynn Small Knapp

Lynn Small Knapp

Lynn Small Knapp Lynn Knapp is a poet, teacher, and musician. She is the author of Giving Ground (2017), a book of lyric and narrative poetry celebrating one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Pacific Northwest.  The grit, grime, and unexpected beauty of the central...
M. L. Smoker

M. L. Smoker

M. L. Smoker M.L. Smoker belongs to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. Her first collection of...
Maija Sandberg

Maija Sandberg

Maija Sandberg The rough bark of huge evergreens, cool mist of the Northwest fall, winter, spring, and summer, pulse of my mothers singing, waves like rain lapping pebbles, collaboration among sisters to enhance the public appearance of each, negotiating to meet the...
Marie Marchand

Marie Marchand

poets map about shows contact Marie Marchand Marie Marchand has been writing poetry for 35 years to find healing for herself and the world. In April 2022, she was named the first Poet Laureate of Ellensburg, WA. Her poetry has been published in Crannóg Magazine,...
Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson Mark L. Anderson is Spokane’s third Poet Laureate. He grew up ten miles outside of Spokane Valley in the small unincorporated township of Mica, Washington where he started making stories and poems before he could even write, convincing his parents...