Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

September’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on September 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Erica Goss and Ed Coletti.

Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court (2014, Pushpen Press) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (2012, Finishing Line Press) Her latest poetry collection, Wild Place, won the 2016 Lyrebird Prize from Glass Lyre Press. Widely published, Erica was the host of Word to Word, a Show About Poetry, on KCAT Cable TV in Los Gatos, and wrote The Third Form, a column about video poetry, for Connotation Press. She is the co-founder of Media Poetry Studio, a poetry-and-film camp for teen girls. Erica lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches classes in poetry and video.

Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player.  Recent poems  have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, and Blueline.  Most recent poetry collection The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015).  Ed also curates the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry.” He lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California.